Well maybe i will have to work on that 280k sometime next week.

I still play pacman also there are two achievements I don't have. If you want another easy score to beat you can add me in.
Lunchbox700

Duh, no... that'd be like reading the directions!

I actually d/l the game site unseen. I'm a Galaga slappy from way back so there was no way I wasn't going to buy this game.

Remember when we had to wait until Monday for that week's XBLA announcement? Well, not anymore. Not only do we know about Castle Crashers (1200 points, 8/27), Shred Nebula and Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball (800 points each, 9/3), but now we know what's coming 9/10 as well. Could be fun, but most PS3 owners and every Wii owner already has a bowling game, so we'll see how well this sells:

RocketBowl Blasts onto Xbox Live Arcade on September 10
Bowling with a 1950s retro-futuristic twist is coming to XBLA.
August 22, 2008 - A refreshing twist on a classic sport, RocketBowl offers a '50s style retro-futuristic vibe, out-of-this-world courses and rocket-powered bowling balls; Rocket Bowl rolls a perfect game of fun on the Xbox Live Arcade. Players will compete in tournaments, challenge their friends in multiplayer, test their bowling skills and more!

Game Features

Rocket-Powered Bowling Balls - Rocket powered balls boost, jump and turn to help players knock down the pins and earn extra points with wild shots.

10 Crazy Bowling Courses - In addition to a regular bowling alley, RocketBowl features 9 crazy courses filled with ramps, tunnels, loops, hills, curves and more to create a bowling experience like never before.

Fun and Varied Single-Player Mode – Single-player RocketBowl allows players to take on the variety of courses in Free Play mode; or challenge the course pros in Tournament and Challenge mode where they can wager and win money to upgrade their equipment.

Exciting Multiplayer Matches - Up to 4 friends can compete against each other over Xbox Live or locally on one system. Xbox Live play features Player (unranked) and Ranked matches.

Upgrade Your Equipment – Using cash earned by winning matches, players can upgrade from more than 15 unique bowling balls including Strawbally, 8-Ball, the Jupiter 5000 and the Kalamazoo Special – more powerful bowling balls feature enhanced boost and curve abilities.

Players will enjoy the robust, full game features of RocketBowl for 800 Microsoft Points. RocketBowl was developed by 21-6 Productions Inc., and is rated "E" (Everyone) by the ESRB.


Or of course you could just play it now for free

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And speaking of Castle Crashers, here's the Destructiod team playing the first few minutes of the game. They give commentary just as juvenile and lame as any you'd hear on Live (well, almost), but the game itself looks like so much fun. Especially in multi-player. 1200 points actually seems like a bargain here.

I like early announcements. Sounds interesting, but I don't know if I like bowling enough as a game to buy it.
2 comments: is it just me, or does "Shred Nebula" sound like a character from Futurama?
secondly, again, is it just me, or is anyone else entirely sick of the word "robust" being applied to videogames/gaming?

Robust is like length, upside, and wingspan for basketball draft picks... way overused.

I'm really enjoying Galaga. Would someone that has the full game mind adding me as a friend? Please? I currently don't have friends that own the game and I'd like to challenge myself. I'm not great at it but haven't spent much time playing either. My gamertag is

beesonosu

Thanks!

PS: I'm going to send invites to rsra13, pinata360, Sith Draven, rogbib, and dtcarson. If you don't accept or you are4 full that's okay. Anyone else is welcome as well - my friends list is very small.

You can add me I suck but go ahead. Lunchbox700

Thanks. I'm in a bit of a slump in my personal life right now so knowing that I'm better than you at certain games will my be medication. Thanks for being a part of my recovery!

Well now sir you threw done the gauntlet.

A game I have by the way

I added a few more people to my friends for galaga. downloading now.

Shoot me an invite guys. I have damn near 100 dvdtalkers on my list. What's a few more?
I had a near perfect run on the first area earlier. Scored 1 million. Unfortunately Area 2 fucked me up, royally, and it was wasted. Didn't even pass my own high score.

*edit - put in a few runs around 2am last night and surpassed Pixy's score. Unfortunately I added beesonosu to my friends list otherwise I'd be at the top.

I finally tried the Braid demo and instantly bought the game. I'm enjoying the heck out of it, and through worlds 2 and 3 with all the puzzle pieces. A few took a lot of starring and running back and forth, but eventually came to me. Great game. Too bad Jonathan Blow seems like a tool (after reading his calling of World of Warcraft "unethical")

Finally tried Geo. Wars 2 tonight. Played under a friends account. I'm not a fan of GW, but had to try out Pacifism and damn, I'm buying the game just for that mode. I tried all the others but none hook me. Pacifism is essentially Pac Man though, so I'm all over it.

Speaking of, what is the resident high score on that mode amongst everyone here? I thought I did pretty good, but since I was on his account I couldn't compare my scores to DVDtalkers.

I think someone has over 100m. But that's pretty low compared to the worldwide scores.

damn. I guess I have some work to do.

Last I looked, I was in 4th place on my own FL with 74m.

I'm pretty sure Troz has over 300m.

Oh that shit can't stand. I'm finally going to buy it tonight. You're going down.

Just reading your opinions...so is Galaga really good? I was thinking of picking this one up.

BTW, anyone have Bionic Commando freeze up on them?

Galaga is very good just too hard for me, and I haven't had any problems with Bionic Commando other then I suck.

i picked up Galaga Legions and GW2 recently, feel free to add me to compete for top scores

I never thought about that, but it totally is Pac Man, which is why I love it. I'm sitting on 102 million. I can't seem to break that though.

Yep. Avoid the ghosts and eat the dots. Timeless classic.

My friends that have it were sitting at 6 mil and 11 mil and were impressed at those scores. After a few tries I had 15 mil, and a few more netted me over 20 million, so I can't wait to get it later and have some real competitors.

I got 37 m in my first GW2 session (which admittedly was about 3 hours of pretty hardcore play). Unfortunately I haven't managed to improve on it since .

Well after about 20 minutes I pulled a 34mil round. I'm on my way Pinata. Wax on/Wax off only took about 3 tries. :P