This has been nagging at my mind lately so I went through and listed up every game I could find that's 400 points and not some sort of arcade or 16-bit port:
400 point XBLA game list (with most Arcade/16-bit ports excluded!):
- 3D Ultra Minigolf
- 3 on 3 NHL Arcade
- Age of Booty
- Aqua
- Assault Heroes
- Blazing Birds
- Bliss Island
- Brain Challenge
- Chime
- Cloning Clyde
- CrazyMouse
- Crystal Quest
- Dead Rising Case Zero
- Dead Space Ignition
- Droplitz
- Fatal Fury Special
- Feeding Frenzy
- Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
- Gin Rummy
- Hardwood Spaces/Backgammon/Hearts
- Haunted House
- Jet Pac Refuelled
- Minesweeper Flags
- Path of Go
- Polar Panic
- Small Arms
- Space Giraffe
- Spyglass Board Games
- The Undergarden
- Uno
- Wolfenstein 3D
- Worms
- Zuma
Anyone have recommendations from this list? A lot of these I've never even heard of.
Age of Booty, Chime (especially if you don't have PS3), Jet Pac Refuelled seem like the universally agreed must buy games from here? I don't have Jet Pac yet.
I can heartily recommend Polar Panic if you like simple old school style games at all, it's quite a steal at $5.
Space Giraffe has a bad reputation but is also probably worth the $ if you like Jeff Minter games at all. I still suck at it years later though.
I'm going through the library...literally like 90% of the games are 800 points. That's a tough price to swallow when a bunch of brand new games are coming out.
Also summarizing this thread...as far as I can tell, some of the best of the
obscure 800 and 1200 point games includes:
Aces of the Galaxy
Go go Break Steady
Lazy Raiders
Lode Runner
Poker Smash
Rocket Riot
R-Type Dimensions (1200)
Shred Nebula
Strania
Triggerheart Exelica
Zeno Clash
I have and can recommend Strania, Zeno Clash, Lode Runner. I have been salivating over R-Type for months and it seems like it will never have a price drop so I might break down and get it.
There are a lot of games I would totally jump on for 400 points...Super Puzzle Fighter, Mr Driller Online, Rainbow Islands, etc...I understand why the default price is 800 points but at least put them on sale once and a while...