Remember back in the early days of Xbox LIVE Arcade? When Digital Eclipse went crazy with porting any and all old-school favorites to the service? And games were only five bucks? Yeah. Those were some swell times.
Midway properties made up a good portion of those Digital Eclipse ports, and now, they're gone. Cyberball, Defender, Paperboy, Rootbeer Tapper, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Robotron 2084, Joust, Gauntlet, and even Smash TV. Gone. All of them. They have been *wait for it* ... *wait for it* ... delisted!
On Twitter, Major Nelson gives out an explanation. He says it all stems from "publisher evolving rights and permissions" and it has nothing to do with Game Room. For anyone who's already bought the aforementioned games, you'll still be able to play and redownload them as usual.
I have to wonder -- what are the chances these now-discontinued Midway games will resurface in Game Room? I don't care what it takes; make it happen. "I'd buy that for a dollar," etc.
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2:40 PM on 02.17.2010
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Except, I own 2 of those games and can't re-download them now if something happens.
For example, I "own" the digital rights to a copy of Double Dragon for XBLA, but I can no longer download it since they de-listed that game.
I like my emulation fix every now and again, but honestly, today's games have spoiled me to the point where nostalgia can't compete.
Fun fact: I'm still bitter at UMK3 for leaving me with an "odd" (AKA, not ending in a 5 or a 0) gamerscore, the fucks. This is why I shouldn't buy fighting games...
You can, actually. If you go to Xbox.com, log in, and view your download history in the Marketplace, there's an option to "download again" the file.
Same applies to these, if you already bought it (ex: I bought SmashTV because it is rad). You just can't buy a new copy ever again.
Then what's up with this?
For anyone who's already bought the aforementioned games, you'll still be able to play and redownload them as usual.
I sincerely don't know since I've never had to deal with owning a delisted game.
You can from your marketplace history.
There is actually a workaround anyway, if you download a trial from elsewhere on the interwebs and burn it to a DVD (this is legit, no modding required) you can still purchase the license and then redownload.
Worked with Double Dragon anyways.
Yeah see that makes sense. Jamn I just think you're not trying hard enough.
I don't think they can permanently remove anything you PAID for, which is the difference.
Actually, I think you CAN still redownload Yaris. At least, I could (I recently switched hard drives).
Now, this leads to the obvious question: WHY THE FUCK WOULD I REDOWNLOAD YARIS???
And the answer? Because I could :)
Yaris is the best game I've ever played. I'd give it a 10, it's much better than Mass Effect 2. They clearly took it off the marketplace because it was too popular, the servers were probably overloading. Yes, everyone should play Yaris.
Man, it took a lot to type that sentence without losing my sanity.
@Xzyliac
I guess. I would think that I shouldn't have to use my computer to get at content I bought on my console. I wasn't informed via XBL that the option was there.
Also, I really don't like this delisting practice. I lament being unable to buy Double Dragon.
You can access your download history at any time via the 360's dashboard. Works the same as doing it on your computer.
@RenagadePanda
I can't remember, did/does Yaris have multiplayer? If so, we should totally organize a Dtoid event for those of us that were lucky enough to download it before its popularity forced it off the marketplace...
Hell YEAH it has multiplayer. I got 2 matches in before I ran out of people to play it with. Actually, both of those matches lagged out. I somehow still landed the achievement for finishing a match.
@ RenegadePanda
Yaris is one of the glitchiest games when it comes to achievements. I would know, as someone who got them all, for science. As far as I know, though, you can't actually redownload it, last I checked.
Although of note, several of my downloads showed up as 'Unknown Game' and 'Unknown Offer'
Not sure what those were.
Glad you could still get it. So... when do we play? Any takers?
I have a few of those "Unknowns" in my history as well (one of them happens to be the thing I downloaded right before Yaris, ironically). No idea what any of them could have been.
@Necros
I just read your blog and admire your and Conrad's sacrifice. We need more scientists like you!
Whenever I feel the urge to vomit uncontrollably, we shall play Yaris.
But seriously, whenever. Provided I don't have a good game to play.
Deal. So as soon as I'm done with Mass Effect 2, BioShock 2, Assassin's Creed 2, Uncharted 2, Bad Company 2... we'll play Yaris.
It's a date.
(Wow, I must really like sequels.)
Get 'em while they're hot!
science. ;)
I fully expected this. Is PR spin just a full time excuse for lying because of NDAs?
You removed it because midway finally wants to port these and not do a shitty job oh and hey they work in game room too.
Just be honest about it.
I fully expect MS Pac Man and Galaga to vanish too at some point.
I really hope there's an ability to effect the IC boards for the changes those tweaks made to the game. The arcade perfect Ms Pac Man on XBL is nothing like what I played as a kid and it's nothing like the combo unit paired with Galaga that came out years ago.
I knew I shouldn't have put off my purchase of Root Beer Tapper for so long. T_T
I'm more bothered by there being no 80's 90's arcade stuff in Game Room. An arcade with no SF or MK is lame. And all because MS didn't want to worry about ratings for such online games.
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