I'm going to level with you, part of my reason for writing all this is that everyone recommends some games to download. Whoever made Runic, sorry no one downloaded your game dude. The bottom three were Runic, GravArena, and FatSheep. The top three were CastleMiner Z, CastleMiner, and Deadburg. Top Downloads: Assuming this is based on actual download numbers, it should indicate which games were popular, or at least had good publicity. So I dunno what the criteria for their ordering is. But this doesn't really mean anything, since from what I could tell they simply hadn't been rated. The lowest rated are Catch a Cold, Save Them Sheeps, and Tank Negotiator. User Rating: The highest rated seems to be Avatar Era Online, I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1, and That Orange Guy 1. The last three releases were Solaroids: Prologue, Caroline's Important LifeDiary, and Survival Games Zombies. Release Date: The earliest releases still listed were Fruit Attack, Space Combat, and Being. These last two don't directly correlate, because something like The Undead Syndrome in Role Playing had comparatively few downloads, but seemingly those who did download all rated it highly. In addition to filtering by Title you can also filter by Release Date, which is self explanatory User Rating, which is based on star ratings and Top Downloads, which is presumably how many times a title was downloaded. Now just fast scroll to the end, and you can pick what you like. This will put all 3'398 games into alphabetical order. Just for a laugh, let's break down the numbers by the Alphabet (keeping in mind that Japanese titled games do not show up AT ALL when browsing through the A to Z tabs).Ī lot of the still existing Japanese games only have Japanese text, and since XBLIG only allows you to browse from A to Z and 0-9, or search using Roman letters and Arabic numerals, there is only one way to access them: You need to click the "Most Popular" or "Top Trials" tabs, and then click the filter box at the top to filter by Title. Let's break that 3'398 number down by genre, based on what the storefront tells us:Īgain though, a lot of titles have been delisted since the service started, including many of the Japanese games. (OK, sure, a lot of those were Snake clones, or Flappy Bird, but roll with me here.) Wow! So, you know that Super Nintendo Classic Mini you're getting this Friday? Yeah, that machine only had 42.5% of the games released on XBLIG. To put the enormous quantity of games in perspective, let's look at the total number of games for other systems (I randomly Googled these, they are probably wrong!): If anyone knows how to contact the author, or if it's available to buy elsewhere, let me know!īack to those 3'398 games. Even though there's 3'398 other games available, all I really, really want to play is Ginga Saikutudan. The author Kenichi Yagi has not made it available anywhere else, meaning in all likelihood, no one will ever get to play it, despite the fact it's quite excellent. By the time I got around to trying to buy it, the thing had been delisted. It's probably my favourite XBLIG title, even though I only have the demo. It featured massive jumps, with a lot of height, a great sense of speed as you raced up walls and along the underside of surfaces. This weird space rabbit run-n-jump was like Jumping Flash from the PlayStation cross with a 3D speedrunner game. The saddest casualty of Japanese developers delisting their games has to be: Ginga Saikutudan Only the normal XBLA storefront was available. In fact, while the US and European XBLIG storefronts close this Friday, the Japanese storefront closed quite a while ago! I don't know the exact date, but about two years back I tried to log on and it just wasn't there anymore. A few good ones are still available though. I downloaded a lot of demos from the Japanese XBLIG store, and the majority of them have long since been delisted and cannot be paid for (though the demos still function). This number does not represent all the XBLIG titles, since many were removed over the years. At the time of its closing there will be 3'398 games on XBLIG. It's like Microsoft are about to set fire to the Library of Alexandria, or something. While a lot of the best ended up on Steam, quite a few are exclusive to XBLIG. Now I'm scrambling through it's games trying to grab the gems before they're gone forever. Haven't had a chance to use my Amiga.I never paid as much attention to it as I feel I should have.Walkthrough – PC Player 1997-10 (Deutsch). What's New? – PC Player 1997-10 (Deutsch).Advertisement – PC Player 1997-09 (Deutsch).Views: 11797 Insider's Choices Shadow Fighter Storm Master Zombies Ate My Neighbors Sensible Golf Similar Games Alone in the Dark 2 Grim Fandango With files from Mobygames © 2000 – 2022 The Good Old Days
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