Decimation X for the XBox 360 -- just a buck and completely worth it!

[Systematic Chaos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6KcT38n1as

The company which made this, Xona Games, looks to be an up and coming powerhouse in the SHMUP genre. Their first release, Decimation X, is a Space Invaders clone which costs 80 points ($1) on XBox Live. It's worth many times that for the challenge it provides, plus the fact that it has local multi-player support for up to four people at once!

My wife and I have been playing the hell out of it since we picked it up a few days ago, along with some other Live games. My current high score is just over 1,500,000 at level 33. The record on YouTube is level 49. Anyone wanna pick this up and try to beat it? :D

[Forkboy]

1. No Xbox, but I love the idea of indy games on it.

There's some great and addictive games out there, and the XBox is hosting them more and more (enough that I'm ALMOST jealous). Glad to see people like yourself supporting these games. :)

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Sony are definitely the trendsetters with the PS3 library of exclusives.

XBox live tends to concentrate on jazzed-up new versions of retro games, and those are a lot of fun for the money to be sure.

On the PS3, though, we're now seeing ports of 25-year-old games for the PC and slightly newer ones for the Amiga which look and run great for their age. I pick up a big money title here and there, but I'm finding that the $10 and less titles available for download are often every bit as much fun, if not more so.

I don't own a Wii, so I can't vouch for it, but it does seem that many of their best titles are classic downloads and remakes as well, seeing as how their main library is just so many "party games".