Retro XBLA games must be repurchased for the Xbox Game Room
by Mike Schramm 
on Jan 26th 2010 10:20PM
Bad news for those of you who have picked up some classic arcade titles on Xbox Live and can't wait to play them in
Microsoft's new Game Room: It looks like you will have to
repurchase anything you want to play with your avatar in the 3D environment. Game Informer learned this recently from a Microsoft rep, who went on to say that it's because the Game Room titles are different from the XBLA versions -- in fact, it sounds like they're more old-school and not "revamped," as the rep puts it.
Fortunately, you will get a small price break: As previously announced, the games will sell for 400
($5) to play on Xbox 360
and PC, 240
($3) for the game on one platform or 40
($0.50) for "two quarters'" worth of playtime. But for those of us who've already shelled out 400
for the
Centipede/Millipede combo, it looks like we'll have to pull out the wallet yet again.
