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XBox 360 Live Arcade and Gametap

I had a conversation with my brother over Xbox Live a week or so ago. He was playing Hexic HD from the XBox Live Arcade while we chatted.

One of the neat things about the XBox 360, and the XBox for that matter, is that you can download games from their online service to play on your console. These games don’t require a disc, and you can activate them from a button in the Live interface.

He was remarking how he really wished that Live had a vertical-scrolling space shooter. One of our favorite games of this genre is Xenon2 by the Bitmap Brothers. That was among my favorite Amiga games.

I was thinking about this idea when I saw a commercial for Gametap.