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profdlp
13 Jul 2006, 6:38pm
If you have a hankering for old-school arcade games, or are young enough to have missed them the first time around, Xbox 360's Live Arcade has a retro solution heading your way.

Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade service has been surprisingly successful, and the company is hoping that success will continue with its planned release of additional versions of popular 1980s-era games like the log-hopping, traffic-dodging classic, Frogger.

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The company will offer a game every Wednesday for the next five weeks, including some retrogames with higher-end graphics and new ways to play together. The first game on offer is the log-hopping, traffic-dodging classic, Frogger.
http://www.short-media.com/images/newsimages/2006/July/Frogger.jpg

With free trials and a purchase price of $5 to $15, I would imagine that these games will prove quite popular. It may even be enough to get an old geezer such as myself to consider making my first console purchase since my daughter was a kid.

Source: TechNewsWorld (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/MEMpD2jQf1aNtd/Microsoft-Going-Retro-With-Classic-Xbox-Games.xhtml)
primesuspect
13 Jul 2006, 8:05pm
I just bought Frogger for $5. It's worth $5. More games should be released like this. I now own Frogger and Joust - two games from my childhood, which have already provided me with hours of gameplay (esp. Joust) for a grand total of $10.

Not a bad deal.
Enverex
14 Jul 2006, 9:54am
It actually sounds a bit expensive to me considering what you're getting... but erm, that game, or rather that specific version of it is from ~1998 off the Playstation.
Cyclonite
14 Jul 2006, 1:32pm
You can't even go to the movies for less than $6.50 anymore, and that's for no more than ~2.5 hours. If I play Frogger for 2 hours, I feel I've got my money's worth. Chances are, I'll play it mroe than that though.

I forgot to grab it last night. Grr!
profdlp
14 Jul 2006, 3:33pm
...but erm, that game, or rather that specific version of it is from ~1998 off the Playstation.
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