March 26, 2007
TMNT 1989 Style
Over the weekend I was playing he Xbox 360 that Wookie got for Timber and I for Christmas and I noticed on Xbox Live Arcade they just got Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 Arcade Game. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that. :-) I downloaded the demo version and checked it out. Sure enough it was exactly like the 1989 arcade game that I spent a lot of time playing with my friends. When my friends and I beat it for the first time I must have spent $20 in quarters doing so. So I went ahead and payed the $5 to get the full version of the game, and Timber and I had some fun playing it this weekend. One cool feature about the game is that you can play it over the network, so you and your friends from all over the world can play it just like you would in the arcade. It doesn't allow you to save your progress, but if you have infinite respawns it doesn't take all that long to beat the game. I think when I have friends over to play it I'll charge them a quarter per life and at the end we'll see who spent the least amount of money to beat the game. And of course they will all get their money back. So if you have an xbox 360 and you liked this game as much as I did you should definitely get it. On a side note xbox 360 live arcade has other classic games like Pacman, Castlevania, Paperboy, Ms. Pacman, Defender, Mortal Kombat, Contra, Street Fighter II, Doom, Dig Dug, Galaga, Frogger, Joust and more. Some of the games suck, but others like Pacman and Paperboy are still fun to play.