Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Say hello to my spiffy new Xbox Live Arcade (and Indie Games) player

Last week, Amazon.com offered shoppers a pretty sweet deal on four-gig Xbox 360 systems: Buy one and they'd give you a $50 promotional credit that could be used toward future purchases.

I've been waiting for such an opportunity for quite some time, so I jumped on it. The system arrived on Friday afternoon and shortly after I ordered a 4,000 Xbox Live Points Card with my $50 credit (which arrived on Saturday, surprisingly enough).

So far, I've used that points card to pick up a number of Xbox Live Arcade and Indie Games releases, including Arkedo Series--03 PIXEL!, Kaiten Patissier, Miner Dig Deep, Pac-Man Championship Edition, Pac-Man Championship Edition DX and Protect Me Knight.

I have my eye on a few others--like Braid, Castle Crashers, Costume Quest, Limbo, Might & Magic Clash of Heroes, Nin-2 Jump and Trouble Witches Neo--but I'm going to spend some quality time with the titles above before buying any of them.

Anyway, of the games I currently own my favorite, by far, is Pac-Man Championship Edition. I'm not very good at it, but I don't care--it's so addictive and so fun that I can't stop playing it.

10 comments:

  1. RetroKingSimon9:34 AM

    Nice job! If I got a modern console it would be a 360, and almost exclusively for retro-flavoured stuff on XBLA :) MUST PLAY GALAGA LEGIONS!

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  2. Bryan Ochalla10:36 AM

    Thanks, Simon! Honestly, I'm not sure I'll ever buy any retail games for this thing. At the moment, I'm quite content with the downloadable titles :)

    As for Galaga Legions, I'll have to give it a try! If it's even half as good as Pac-Man CE/CE DX, it'll be AMAZING!

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  3. Balloonfighter11:02 AM

    Ilomilo! If you enjoy puzzlers it's absolutely adoreable. Very kawaii but also and excellent puzzle game.

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  4. Bryan Ochalla11:57 AM

    Oh, I think I've seen pics of this game, Balloonfigher! I didn't know it was a puzzler, though. I'll definitely give it a look -- thank you for the recommendation!

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  5. Viewtiful_Justin2:05 PM

    We've lost you! Don't forget about us, please. But seriously, that WAY COOL! I'm thrilled for you, and I can't wait to hear your impressions about all of them!

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  6. Bryan Ochalla3:07 PM

    Ha! When you say "we," Justin, are you talking about the Nintendo faithful? Regardless, I'm not going anywhere! I just wanted to be able to play some of these awesome XBLA and Indie games I've been reading about.

    BTW, I probably should redo to headline of this post to say "Hello to my Pac-Man Championship Edition player," because that's all I'm playing at the moment. I'm OBSESSED!! :)

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  7. Viewtiful_Justin6:43 AM

    No, I meant the world in general. You're gonna be a zombie playing all those games! It's okay...I am too at the moment.

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  8. Bryan Ochalla8:42 AM

    Oh, no, most of the game I bought are quick little games. They won't make me any more of a zombie than I usually am, I assure you :)

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  9. Viewtiful_Justin12:18 PM

    Good. :-P I'm glad you're enjoying yourself, though. I'm envious.

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  10. Bryan Ochalla1:01 PM

    Oh, I'm definitely enjoying myself. Some of the Arcade and Indie games are really fun. You'd love one of them, I think: Aban Hawkins & the 1000 SPIKES. It's a completely masochistic platformer that looks and sounds like it could have been made back in the days of the NES. Here's a video of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeZfCd_-ok4

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