The 360 thread!

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:01 am 0

I'll be buying a fresh batch of MS money today. Would anyone be up for some co-op Gauntlet tonight? I promise I won't shoot the food

skweek · Post by **skweek** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:04 pm 0

HGFB wrote:I'll be buying a fresh batch of MS money today. Would anyone be up for some co-op Gauntlet tonight? I promise I won't shoot the food

Maybe, depends what time I get in from work.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:23 pm 0

skweek wrote:
HGFB wrote:I'll be buying a fresh batch of MS money today. Would anyone be up for some co-op Gauntlet tonight? I promise I won't shoot the food
Maybe, depends what time I get in from work.

Me too.

I'll be free from 6:30 in the p.m.

I shall not apologise for shooting the food, as I can't help it.

Tuur · Post by **Tuur** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:36 pm 0

Edit - just noticed this info was in Snakey's original post too.

It looks like it's going to be a regular scheduled thing...

Today's party revealed a five-game schedule with specific dates that will continue throughout the summer. But even more importantly, it shows the seriousness with which Microsoft is taking its emerging arcade platform, backing it all up with 29 more titles, to be released every Wednesday through the year's end.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/718/718175p1.html

Xstreme · Post by **Xstreme** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:45 pm 0

Just downloaded and played frogger for a couple of minutes and ermmmmm already bored with it

This is probably due to the fact that I used to be able to spin one pence pieces into the arcade machine thus played the thing to utter death when it first appeared in the arcades.

Galaga however.......like Sickboy I'm excited about that one

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:48 pm 0

Xstreme wrote:Just downloaded and played frogger for a couple of minutes and ermmmmm already bored with it

Frogger is definitely a game best kept shrouded in nostalgia.

skweek · Post by **skweek** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:50 pm 0

teamonkey wrote:
Xstreme wrote:Just downloaded and played frogger for a couple of minutes and ermmmmm already bored with it
Frogger is definitely a game best kept shrouded in nostalgia.

What about Frogger HD?

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:55 pm 0

skweek wrote:
teamonkey wrote:
Xstreme wrote:Just downloaded and played frogger for a couple of minutes and ermmmmm already bored with it
Frogger is definitely a game best kept shrouded in nostalgia.
What about Frogger HD?

Has it got dual wielding?

Been playing the Galaga series a lot on Xbox Mame recently, made me realise how much I miss Challenge/Bonus stages to rack up a few points between levels. Gyruss was great for that too. Galaga '88 is the best version, with its lovely firework style explosions and great bonus sections. That's Galactic Dancing!

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:55 pm 0

skweek wrote:What about Frogger HD?

Better in 2D.

I'm looking forward to when they release Xtreme Custer's Revenge HDLOL.

Xstreme · Post by **Xstreme** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:00 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:Galaga '88 is the best version, with its lovely firework style explosions and great bonus sections. That's Galactic Dancing!

My local arcade never got hold of Galaga 88. Suprising since the amount of coins I alone fed into Galaga must have paid for the machine or at the very least filled the owners Jag with petrol every week. I discovered Galaga 88 on Mame. I feel I missed out, denied something that for once took the original formula and improved on it

Jimaroid · Post by **Jimaroid** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:09 pm 0

Gave up after two games of Galaga. I just don't get on with the floppy controller.

mightyzim · Post by **mightyzim** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:16 pm 0

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looks like somebody didn't spend any time play testing this as Frogger in HD uses a quater of my screen

rockwaldo · Post by **rockwaldo** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:20 pm 0

mightyzim wrote:.
looks like somebody didn't spend any time play testing this as Frogger in HD uses a quater of my screen

Looks like somebody didnt go into the options menu and change the screen size

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:20 pm 0

mightyzim wrote:.
looks like somebody didn't spend any time play testing this as Frogger in HD uses a quater of my screen

You can stretch the display after starting a game and pressing the start (pause) button and going to "options". Here you can also change to the "original" arcade graphics too.

Post by **Snakey** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:31 pm 0

mightyzim wrote:.
looks like somebody didn't spend any time play testing this as Frogger in HD uses a quater of my screen

Looks like somebody didn't know that the original Frogger screen was rotated 90 degrees, and therefore, on a widescreen display, will naturally only fill a quarter of the screen