Xbox 360 Fanboy

According to Joystiq, both games are 400 points apiece, not for both. Hopefully you guys are right though.

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another game I won't bother getting from XBLA. too many good retail games. :D

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@1: GSB says, "“Asteroids” and “Asteroids Deluxe” will be available worldwide as a joint download for 400 Microsoft Points and are rated E for Everyone by the ESRB."

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Kick ass! I loves me some Asteroids

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If this is as good as Missile Command, I'm there.

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Will it play left stick moves and right shoots/aims I wonder?

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I've played the demo and it's awesome! Brings a whole new perspective to the old Asteroids game.

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sweet, another game with which to fully utilize the Mad Catz arcade stick i got the other day ...

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@6: The original asteroids did not play like that. Moving the joystick left and right turned the ship, while pushing up fired the engines. Pushing down would warp you to a random spot on the screen. And of course, pushing the button would fire.

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Great. While I tried my best to defend Minter and Space Giraffe in a lower post, i have to disagree with him when it comes to this kind of "shovelware". I think it's awesome. As a general rule, i think the more the merrier on XBLA. More new games, more old games, more more more. I'll even welcome more advert games as long as their free and un-shitty. And just adding the basics like Live multiplayer, achievements and leaderboards to these old games can really add the 5 dollars worth of value to these things (graphic updates don't do much for me but whatevs; as long as you can turn them off I'm cool with it.). We have a MAME cabinet at my office and it sucks because the high scores reset every time you switch ROMs.

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This is set up like Centipede/Millipede was, essentially. So that's nice. I enjoyed that one despite seemingly no one else caring about it lol

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LOL Will Jeff Minter complain about this game outselling Space Giraffe?

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@9 Actually, the original arcade ateroids was all buttons but I don't see that carrying over to the 360 controller.

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I know how asteroids plays, but I think the retro way should go ahead and play that way while the new one is really something a bit more updated in the gameplay/control department.

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Does anyone have a list of cheevos for Asteroids?

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@13: I wasn't around when the original asteroids arcade game came out, only the 2600 version which I still love lots.

@14: I don't see how adding robotron 2084 controls to asteroids would make it better. It'd just be a lame copy of geometry wars then.

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can't wait to check it out! accheivement prediction-survive without moving for set time, take that GW!

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Probably will pick this up, since i always kind of liked Asteroids and the Deluxe update looks pretty fun, so I think 400 points is worth it.

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