Is Peggle worth $10 as a blind buy? Does it live up to the hype?

I wouldn't buy anything blind because the demo is available for the same amount of effort.

But, I think so, just based on the couple of days I've played the PC demo. I'm beginning to figure out the scoring mechanics.

Yeah, but that's just how I roll. Gator Deb-style.

Then I say go for it

Ugh, Crystal Defenders looks like a lazy ass port.

I still might get it.. because it's a better option than buying it for my Nano.

Then again, it's only $5 for the Nano. I haven't tried it yet, but I'll at least give the demo a shot.

Peggle is super fun and addicting!!

peggle is pretty cool, but it gets really hard towards the end...i think we started up level 9-1. Also, that 20 million points in 1 play through, and clearing every peg on every board achievements may be impossible.

I couldn't stop playing until I got all the way thru Adventure Mode

I only got around 15 million points, but I'm sure you could easily get 20 million, I just didn't have enough time. The thing is, even if you fail a level the score still adds to your total. So it seems you could get the 20 mil by playing certain levels over and over.

But yeah, getting every single peg on every level....not sure if I am ever going to be up for that one.

I got 3 achievements on the first board in the trial, so I had to unlock

I caved after playing the demo. Pretty damn fun. Only 2 cheesements for me.

well, we actually managed to get 20million on our first play through. Our score after the last level was 17 million, but a bonus of 3 million for "efficiency" put us at 20,065,000...just barely made it

Wheelman demo was more fun than it had any right to be.
It'll be worth it's first 50% price drop.

What does this have to do with XBLA?

Any idea what that bonus was for? I stopped around 9-3 last night and I think I'm roughly on pace for about 17M.

i got the 20m achievement during my first play-through (and first time ever peggling)

There's a 3rd "Arcade" title up this week. It just found its way onto the Marketplace today.

NCAA Basketball: March Madness Edition

It's 1200 points and clocks in at 2GB! So it looks like it's probably EA's full NCAA release for this year, and they just decided to go digital instead of retail disc-based release.

Looks to be just the NCAA tournament. They probably cut out the regular season and any sort of coaching career (assuming NCAA BBall had that, like FBall).

No online play either, it seems.

Not a bad idea, that NCAA download... some people only care about March Madness and might be swayed for an impulse purchase...

EA SPORTS™ presents NCAA® Basketball 09: March Madness® Edition, your chance to play through the NCAA Tournament Bracket. This Xbox® exclusive is available through Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for 1200 MS Points. Play with any of the 65 tournament teams and fight your way through each round, all the way to the Final Four. Featuring the exciting gameplay of EA SPORTS' collegiate basketball game, play to your team's ideal tempo and style of play to take your team to the title.

• 65 to One: Start with any of the 65 tournament teams and play through the brackets to reach the ultimate goal, the championship.
• Real brackets: Before March 18, the game will feature teams from last year's tournament. But on March 18, the game will update to include all 65 announced tournament teams from Selection Sunday.
• Exclusive download: The game is an exclusive to Xbox LIVE Marketplace available for only 1200 MS Points.
• Replay the tournament: If your favorite team doesn't win the actual tournament, take the helm of your team in the game and lead them to victory!

Yeah, I wasn't going to start a new thread about the game and I was gonna post it to the 360 thread, but since I downloaded it off of XBLA, I figured here'd be a good place.

BTW, it's a pretty beefy demo, with a lot to do and see - they actually give you too much to do in the demo, as it satisfied me enough where I don't really need to buy the full game...

I've never played peggle even though I got it free with Orange Box, and just watched the video on joystiq. Dammit, there goes 800 points.

That March Madness game is a pretty good idea. Very little development needed since the game is already built, and a good price point to encourage new purchases.

1200 points... lovely...

Not to be nitpicky or anything, but only Arcade games are considered XBLA games. You would've downloaded the demo from XBL, which is the overall service.