Pac-Man wakka wakka wakkas XBLA
by Christopher Grant 
{ Aug 9th 2006 at 11:15AM }
The good news: it's Wednesday and there's another Xbox Live Arcade game to blow some MS bucks on. This time it's Pac-Man, part two of Namco's arcade offerings following Galaga, and he's also fetching 400 MS Points ($5 in Earth money). The bad news: Pac-Man is the last game confirmed on Microsoft's initial Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays list. We know Microsoft wants to keep up the weekly cycle, but with no announcement of future games, it makes us feel uneasy. Official Xbox Magazine listed the following titles and dates ...
- Aug. 16: Texas Hold 'em
- Aug. 23: Time Pilot
- Aug. 30: Scramble
- Sept 6: Lumines Live!
See also:
The growing list of Xbox Live Arcade titles
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
T-Bag @ Aug 9th 2006 11:22AM
PC gets F.E.A.R online for free, console gets pacman for a $10. Rofl
gameclu @ Aug 9th 2006 11:30AM
I've been sorta unhappy with some of the latest arcade ports to Xbox live. Especially frogger.
Stupidiot @ Aug 9th 2006 11:30AM
I saw Sonic the Hedgehog on the XBLA Montage video, but haven't heard anything about it since. I hope it's a planned release, because it's my most anticipated XBLA title.
Scott @ Aug 9th 2006 11:32AM
Hey T-Bag, it's $5, not $10. Reading is fundamental!
Ethan @ Aug 9th 2006 11:34AM
thats just rediculous. I mean seriously, who in their right mind would pay 5 bux, just so that they can play a game that they could go to any internet game site right now and play for free.
CheekyLee @ Aug 9th 2006 11:37AM
How about closing the Italic tag? My eyes hurt!
Watership @ Aug 9th 2006 11:46AM
First. its 5 dollars, not 10. Secondly, Its a arcade perfect version of pac-man, with achievments, and online ranking with the original cabinet art all over the screen.
Finally. 5 dollars is 20 quarters. How much would you pay to play it again, indefinitely, throughout the life of your 360?
TWENTY QUARTERS. OH MY GOD. HOW DARE THEY DO THAT TO US!
crono141 @ Aug 9th 2006 11:46AM
Last I heard, Sonic the Hedgehog was on Virtual Console.
I don't believe there is anything saying that it can't ALSO be on XBLA, since its on Gametap and a crapload of other places, I'm just sayin, I think Nintendo wouldn't want it on their competitors online thingy is its a major draw of their console.
Just sayin is all.
Ethan @ Aug 9th 2006 11:56AM
watership, to bad its not the PS3, or instead of downloading it and paying $5.00 for it, you could just go on the built in internet browser, and play it for free.
T-Bag @ Aug 9th 2006 12:00PM
Holy shit Ethan are you serious? I'm gonna trade in my shitbox for sure now!
stewis @ Aug 9th 2006 12:01PM
why o why did i show my girlfriend that she could play pacman on my 360... now ive got a gf addicted to pacman and no 360 for me to play on :( just hope she gets bored of the trial version and cant work out how to purchase the full game :)
slybri @ Aug 9th 2006 12:12PM
I bought my 360 to play next gen games, not first gen.
I might consider paying 5 bucks for it if I could just pay 5 bucks, but I can't buy just 400 points. I gotta buy 1200, which I don't need right now. Like tokens in an arcade...how apt.
The game is really damn tiny when my tv converts it to widescreen with letterbox.
Ethan @ Aug 9th 2006 12:18PM
of course Im serious T-bag. PS3 actually has an in house internet browser, that will work just as fast as your computers, and sport like 8 pages up at once. check it out. http://youtube.com/watch?v=1mq5job_en0
its towards the end.
jc @ Aug 9th 2006 12:26PM
Ethan, I think you missed the sarcasm of T-Bag's post.
If you want to wait until the PS3 comes out before you play these games... fine, but how about dropping the fanboy comments and let us have some fun while you wait.
K?
razer @ Aug 9th 2006 12:32PM
Have fun, while bashing on 360 owners? How about a big FU to U! $5 is pocket change you cheap asses! Why is it you can't have a post about 360 without some lamer PS3 loser shooting off his smart mouth. I easily dropped $5 in quarters when this game was in the arcade I don't mind paying to have it forever with leaderboards, achievements, etc. I wish Sony would get that console out already so the fanboys can see that it's not going to deliver on the hype. Case in point, so if you can play PacMan for free in the web browser, does it support FLASH? or whatever language the game is written in? Just because you have a browser doesn't mean it will play.
Ethan @ Aug 9th 2006 12:41PM
the PSPs web browser supports flash, so, umm, yeah, it was already announced that this will be a fully functional browser, capable of supporting flash and java. I just like pointing out to 360 owners, that after they say the PS3 is too expensive, that they end up spending more than that on $50 a year live, and arcade games that you could play on the internet for free. hence the gif attatched to the link in my name.
T-Bag @ Aug 9th 2006 12:49PM
@ Jc,
Lick my nuts bitch. I wasn't being sarcastic.
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Thanks for making me notorious Joystick
Joe A. @ Aug 9th 2006 12:57PM
umm, yeah, ethan, that's why the 360 gives you choice instead of trying to shove all that in your face for $600.
Stupidiot @ Aug 9th 2006 1:02PM
I don't hate the PS3 for it's price, but for it's complete lack of an interesting game library. All the PS3 has going for it, in terms of games, are a shitload of Japanese titles that I wouldn't touch with a barge pole (although that is just personal preferance). There are perhaps one or two announced games for the PS3 that even remotely interest me.
Ethan @ Aug 9th 2006 1:05PM
ooooooooohhhhh, look at that JC, 360 really did lose a fan. looks like I was right in the begginning, he wasnt being sarcatic.
and Joe A. its $500. mkay.
Ethan @ Aug 9th 2006 1:08PM
and, stupidiot, your name suits you well. Try resistance FOM, Warhawk, Heavenly Sword, Killzone, MGS, FF13, Assassins Creed, and just about every other 360 title except halo. And that is just in the first year.
jc @ Aug 9th 2006 1:10PM
Hey kid, enough already with the insults and rudeness.
Joystiq is a fun place for everyone to hang out and offer their opinions, but we really don't need angry children hiding behind the anonymity of their computer trying to act tough.
T-Bag @ Aug 9th 2006 1:15PM
Jc, you were the one who laid down the first attack with your comment on how he was supposedly a fanboy. Yet in truth he made a valid point. You emo'd away from the truth and attacked him with something completely irrelevant.
"Let us have some fun while you wait."
How is it fun to be jipped? lmao
Stupidiot @ Aug 9th 2006 1:22PM
It's called personal preferance...
I said there are maybe one or two games announced for the PS3 that interest me, and that does certainly not warrant the purchase of a new console.
And by the way, Assasins Creed will also be available for the Xbox 360.
jc @ Aug 9th 2006 1:31PM
Ethan, I guarantee he wasn't the first nor the last fan to be disillusioned with MS. In fact if someone can't compare their personal preferences with what corporations offer, they are likely blind fanboys (a stage of personal growth that is likely to be grown out of, once you develop a personal identity).
Play what you like, but let people "pay 5 bux, just so that they can play a game" if they want.
cringer8 @ Aug 9th 2006 1:37PM
Ethan,
SONY doesn't need you. Remember? They'll sell the first five million to people like you even if the cardboard box is empty (it just has to say PS3 on it).
Stupidiot @ Aug 9th 2006 1:39PM
"SONY doesn't need you. Remember? They'll sell the first five million to people like you even if the cardboard box is empty (it just has to say PS3 on it)."
... And fanboys like Ethan will still proclaim it to be the single greatest thing on Earth.
jc @ Aug 9th 2006 1:40PM
T-bag, if it makes you feel better to say your rudeness was justified by what I said to ethan, have at er... whatever floats your rubber ducky.
Personally I don't think telling Ethan that he made a fanboy comment is an attack, but if it helps your argument... how can it be wrong, eh?
JPRacer @ Aug 9th 2006 1:50PM
400 MSP in CAD is $6.40. This is not a micro-transaction. Like everybody said, there's tons of places where you can play Pac-Man for free. 200 points is the maximum I would pay for something I can get for free at other places.
I think all this marketplace thing is a big rip-off. PC games cost less than X360 software and with PC games there's map-packs and things like that that are generally free... I like my 360 but I can see why many people hate MS.
Loque @ Aug 9th 2006 1:53PM
Lol ethan. Have fun with your $600 browser, that will no doubt be bugged to hell due to it being a 1st gen sony product.
T-Bag @ Aug 9th 2006 1:55PM
That made perfect sense, no, really. It almost made me want to run to the nearest church and cry whilst hold a picture of Richard Simmons.
1. I insulted you because I look down on consumer whores. If Tim Allen got into the next gen war with a system that didn't suck, I'd buy it over the 360. Does that mean I'm a Tim Allen Bot? No, it means I'm a sentient consumer. My 360 has done nothing but lag, freeze, and insult my intelligence. So why shouldn't I bag on it and anyone who stands up for it?
2. “Personally I don’t think telling Ethan that he made a fan boy comment is an attack.”
Well it clearly is. He updated all of us on the fact that the PS3 system will boast an IE of sorts from which you can download and play Pac Man and 100 million other ROMS for free. You can call me crazy but that's a lot better then spending $10 Canadian on the same game.
Ethan @ Aug 9th 2006 2:00PM
Im not a fanboy, Im like the progressive auto insurance commercials, "and no one likes to be wrong". Xbox 360 may be cheaper in the begginning, but you have to see if their services are worth the initial low cost. PS3 is like progressive, it is a little more expensive in the beginning, but their services (free online) make up for it. whereas microsoft is gieco, you pay a little less, but if your car gets totalled (or you want to play live or arcade games) you will end up having to pay more out of your pocket in the long run. Now I know Im not Hideo Kojima, but I can still make up some comparisons myself.
Stupidiot @ Aug 9th 2006 2:02PM
Since when has it been confirmed that PS3 online gaming will be free? Did I miss something? (serious question)
otakucode @ Aug 9th 2006 2:04PM
OPEN XBLA TO INDY DEVELOPERS! I'm talking one-guy-in-his-den developers! Listen to Peter Moore!
(Was this ever reported on Joystiq? Peter Moore Confronts the Elite 8? http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2006/08/04/536593.aspx
)
We want a YouTube of gaming. Completely open and free to offer content (arcade games, music, themes, graphic packs) and have it rated by user feedback. Disband your elitist "portfolio" council entirely, no one is interested in limiting the selection of available content to that deemed to have a favorable risk/reward ratio by corporate managers except YOU, Microsoft. We know you want to lock down your platform to make sure no one creates something compelling enough to make your movie-license games and infinite-sequels look like terrible games, but you're hurting the gamers, the community, the entire market, and YOURSELF by keeping XBLA a cronies-only affair.
I'd love to have the opportunity to make some neat games for XBLA, perhaps educational type games like are faring so well on the DS. How about some games to help people learn Japanese? A lot of people are interested in such a thing. But I'm not going to mortgage my house just so I can buy a devkit and then have you take 90% of the revenue of the game (since when does the CREATOR of things only get a FINDERS FEE?).
Wake up. Open your doors.
diskoboy @ Aug 9th 2006 2:10PM
Oh my god, Ethan - I should smack the fanboy right out of you. And let me be the first to volunteer.
Yeah - enjoy playing your $600 piece of shit, alone. Because I don't know a god damn soul who is buying one until they hit $200.
And that little PS3/360 comparison you have made me laugh so hard. I can point out all of the flaws in your comparisons. I also bet you sit at home on friday and saturday nights downloading anime porn and chroncally masturbate to FFX-2 cutscenes, because you have no god damned life.
Ethan @ Aug 9th 2006 2:13PM
yes, stupidiot, sony confirmed it a while ago.
Ethan @ Aug 9th 2006 2:17PM
wow diskoboy, that did not need to be said. I think you must have a daddy issue or something, and for that, I give you this: http://www.oldeglory.co.uk/images/shaker_boxes/ow_tissue_box.jpg I think you should solve some of your problems, before going onto an internet forum and making a complate fool of yourself.
kay @ Aug 9th 2006 2:19PM
wow. all this excitement just because microsoft released pacman on XBLA for 5 bucks.
listen, if you dont like it, skip the post. forget the thing exists.
there are many many pac man lovers out there that would love to have the game with achievments and on their TV (not a computer web browser) right now (not like the PS3 which isn't out yet). why hate on them? why hate on MS for giving them what they want? does it damage YOU in any way??
For the PS3 fanboys (yes, i said it), stop talking about the thing like its out. You guys make me want to barf. Sony has changed so many things about the PS3 that, in the end, until you have it and use it you cant tell whats going to come with that package. So, stay on target. This is about Xbox Live Arcade releasing pac man. Enjoy it. Or close your browser and STFU.
Pencil $havings @ Aug 9th 2006 2:23PM
Morons.
KR @ Aug 9th 2006 2:31PM
I like how Ethan lists a bunch of PS3 games that are nowhere near finalized and he hasn't played.
He probably also thought "The Bouncer" would be the killer app for the PS2 since the press fawned over it.
Quit being a media slave. Try thinking for yourself.
xGamerChixXx @ Aug 9th 2006 2:37PM
i just want to say first.. that if you purchase Namco Museum for $19.99 plus tax... where i'm from makes it $22... you buy it for pac-man, mrs.pac man, galaga and maybe dig dug and pole position... that makes them $4.40 each... pretty damn close to 400 MS... add HD AND achievements and leaderboards... for 60 cents more...
and finally..
#11 stewis, you're an idiot.
reguy @ Aug 9th 2006 2:39PM
Another flame war started by Ethan, sir you really are a troll, this was a 360 post and you just had to start on how the ps3 is so awesome! Well you know what, it is! It does everything u say, AND MORE!, now let the rest of us play on the 360 ok? Please leave.
Ethan Thomas @ Aug 9th 2006 2:41PM
Hmmm...T-Bag and Ethan = Hirai and Kutaragi? The maturity level and abuse of the English language seems to be there. You have to love people who have nothing better to do than come into threads and talk mess. The sad thing is, you can almost see how they worked the setup for this one via MSN messenger:
Ethan - "Man..I'm bord. Wat do U wan 2 do?"
T-Bag - "I dun no. We cud watch d prevewz of d PS3 lawnch titlez agen from E3!"
Ethan - "Nah..betr Idea hav I! We cud go on Joystik n u cud act lik u don no me or wat im tlkng abot n den u cud post somthng like..uh..."XBOX 360 IS TEH SUXXORSZZ FO SHO!!1 D PS3 IZ D ROXXORZ!" n den I can com on n be all like "Yea, datz rite beotch! wat? Halo suxxorz!"
T-Bag - "Oh snaplz! Okeyz! Wait 1 sec 4 me 2 finsh diz gam of Halo 2. Deez guyz r teh Noobletz! I wuz like, "Hahaha I kild u!" den I tbag hm juz lik muh name sez!!! hahaha..okey letz go.
And thus, ensue the current BS spewing from each of your mouths. Although, you know, I'm not hating on the PS3. Me personally? Too expensive for what it is for me to be investing in it. However, that's not fair to say it's too expensive period. I mean, if I were like you guys it'd work great! It's just...well...I'd have to lose my house and move into my parent's basement....lose both my cars...not to mention my girlfriend...never have gone to college....but then, I I'd have a wicked-cool web brows...er...blu-ray play...um...game system I mean.
Seriously, think before you speak. It's better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and confirm the fact.
And jc, I thought the same thing about T-Bag's first comment as you did. Guess that's what happens when you assume someone on the internet has an I.Q. higher than their shoe size. Ah well. Sarcasm gets mistaken for stupidity often.
As for Pac-Man, I say why not? Not everyone who has Xbox Live has a computer to go play those games for free on anyway. My dad is the only person I know personally to have beaten that game all the way through. I'm not so good at it myself, but heck, I'd play it on a day when I'm feeling a bit nostalgic. (Looks over just in time to see Ethan and T-Bag glance up from playing Lumines on their PSPs upon hearing such a large, complex word) Eh..don't worry fellas. Grown up talk. Just keep playing those money pi...er...well..those "games."
Hugh Jeffner @ Aug 9th 2006 2:46PM
Pac-man is a good game and all but I would rather go to Burning Man and ride the car art then pay to play it on XBLA. Of course I don't own a 360 so it would be kind of an expensive investment, but if I did then $5 would probably be stretching my limits on what I would pay. I have to hand it to MS though, at least they are releasing stuff for it.
The ZeroCorpse @ Aug 9th 2006 2:59PM
I'd rather wait for Ms. Pac-Man. Everyone knows it's far superior to the boring, repetitive original Pac-Man.
play pacman @ Aug 9th 2006 3:13PM
I agree Ms. PacMan is far superior and way more enjoyable to play than the original. With the scoring system and artwork, this seems to be an ok deal, but there are plentry of places to play pacman for free.
Geist @ Aug 9th 2006 3:17PM
Ms. Pac Man is such a whore. She gives it up for anyone.
Anyway, it's always fun to watch a normal post about some retro stuff degenerate into an argument between fanboys. Sheesh.
poopchute @ Aug 9th 2006 4:19PM
Finally, someone says something that makes sense. Pencil $havings, I applaud thee. Virtually all of these comments since Ethan first posted have been trying to get one up on the previous one and it is pathetic. In Ethan's defence, diskoboy probably does have issues, possibly stemming from an unhappy childhood and an unhealthy fixation on cartoon breasts. I realise I am being the very moron I was just bitching about not long ago, but I don't give a flying ferret. To be honest I enjoy annoying people off because they can't do a god damned thing from behind their computers. So, in conclusion, everyone's a god damned idiot. Including me.
Screw you all =) And I didn't even use cusswords.
Ethan @ Aug 9th 2006 4:26PM
whats "The Bouncer"?
Ethan @ Aug 9th 2006 4:38PM
hey, did anyone know that the PS3 is coming out in N.A. on November 17th, Which is 360 days after the 360 came out? wierd, huh?