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Jetpac coming to Live Arcade? News

Xbox Xbox 360 News by Ellie Gibson

7 June, 2006

Our old friend Internet Reports is claiming that classic ZX Spectrum game Jetpac is coming to the Xbox Live Arcade.

Jetpac, first released in 1983, saw you playing as a little man tasked with assembling a rocket and then using it to zoom about the place shooting stuff. A sequel followed, titled Lunar Jetman, and it also appeared as an unlockable mini-game in Donkey Kong 64.

Microsoft has yet to confirm that the game is coming to XBL but it doesn't seem too far-fetched - after all, old favourites Pac-Man, Street Fighter and Galaga are already on their way. Here's hoping Jetpac won't be the only other classic to join in the fun...

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Wrestlevania
07/06/06 @ 16:48
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4-way multiplayer please.
bauhaus
07/06/06 @ 16:50
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Spectrum games on my next-gen console

nice
Blerk
07/06/06 @ 16:51
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It won't be the same if you don't have to wait for it to load.
07/06/06 @ 16:59
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Enforced loading times for Live Arcade - genius. Perhaps they can release special faceplates to make the 360 look like an old console too!
lennon
07/06/06 @ 17:01
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This is awesome potential news!!

Ive been wondering ever since RARE used the Jetpac man at the start of PDZ.

Heres hoping Cookie and PSST are on the list too.
JetSetWilly
07/06/06 @ 17:04
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PSSST was the first game I ever owned.
Sko
07/06/06 @ 17:07
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"It won't be the same if you don't have to wait for it to load."

You could always just make high-pitched screeching noises while staring at a lamp and blinking rapidly for ten minutes. That said, at the end of it, you'll probably be too busy convulsing to play the game.
MJ
07/06/06 @ 17:12
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PSSST was the first game I ever owned.

me too.

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daedalus2
07/06/06 @ 18:11
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Underwurlde! Underwurlde!
tengu
07/06/06 @ 18:12
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"It won't be the same if you don't have to wait for it to load."

Get someone to squeal into your ear as you switch on the console and you'll be alright ;)

Jesus, I can actually remember playing this back when I was knee high to a grasshopper. A few more old numbers like this(Bubble Bobble!) on XBLA and I'll maybe have a rethink about my 'no thank you' stance on online.
Tyronne
07/06/06 @ 19:40
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I have this up in the attic,on my gp32 ,on my pc and I am not going to pay to have something over 23 years old on my 360...unless it was part of a rare set which cost about 2 quid...anything above that price for something you can get in a charity shop for 20p if that, is taking the pee....
old_man
07/06/06 @ 19:55
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I want to see cool games like this on Xbox live, but I want a 'spruced up modern version too' like Geometry Wars.
Chester
07/06/06 @ 19:57
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I want Lumines Live...got an email from xbox.com saying it was available on Live Arcade...updated..checked the downloads?

Nothing...nada...zip

Anyone know when thiis is out seeing as they're shafting their European audience again?
Luigi
07/06/06 @ 20:28
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The first game I've played in 1986 when my father bought me a 128K+ (the last one from Sinclair, sold briefly for 6 or 8 months till Amstrad bought the company). It was on a 20 game cassete witch included Luna Crabs, TransAM, Cookie, Hungry Horace, Frogger and other that I can't remember. Those good old days :) I don't own a Xbox. Are these games for free on that console? Greetings.
skuzzbag
07/06/06 @ 22:36
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Free? No, not while there are mugs about who will pay for this rip-off stuff.

Now if they released a collection of 30 Spectrum games for 800 credits then that might be worth it.
Xerx3s
07/06/06 @ 23:34
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Perhaps they can release special faceplates to make the 360 look like an old console too!

You mean like the 2600 woody faceplate?
IronGiant
08/06/06 @ 00:32
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More meh from MS. Great. Bring on Gears of War not ancient games that you play for 5 minutes then forget, again.
3william56
08/06/06 @ 06:26
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Keep Namco and their new fangled 3D jiggery pokery well away from this...
Pablo2k5
08/06/06 @ 08:12
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Are guys being serious? How on earth can you be excited about Jetpac? It wasn't brilliant when it first came out and (trust me) I played it recently (on a speccy emulator) and its pretty awful now...
Seriously, speccy games on a 360? lol, take off yer friggin' rose tinted glasses!
reality_cheque
08/06/06 @ 08:25
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Some old games are actually pretty fun. Sadly Joust wasn't quite as good as I remember it, and I don't think this will be any better - but I'm all for giving people the option if they want. Personally I can't be bothered to have lots of old consoles set up or emulated on the PC, it's much easier to have them in the xbox arcade :)
Blerk
08/06/06 @ 08:47
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How on earth can you be excited about Jetpac? It wasn't brilliant when it first came out

You are, of course, utterly wrong. It was the best game on the damn machine when it came out. By quite some way.

And we really got all the way through this thread without anyone mentioning Atic Atac?

/shakes head
Mr_Whacker
08/06/06 @ 09:01
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Fantastic news. Hopefully with loads of loony hi-res backgrounds.
peterfll
08/06/06 @ 09:28
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@Blerk

Atic Atac

There you go poppit.

(I always liked failing through the trap doors personally myself for the 3-d tunnel effect that followed)
JetSetWilly
08/06/06 @ 10:06
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And we really got all the way through this thread without anyone mentioning Atic Atac?

Or Knight Lore for that matter. The daddy of isometric 3D games. I remember reading an interview in Crash that said Ultimate actually had that game written before Sabre Wulf but didn't think the market was ready for it.

Ah, the halcyon days where every Ultimate release was anticipated with bated breath.
pollster
08/06/06 @ 10:10
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All you old farts, check this out. http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/

"We bought it to help you with your home work" heh heh
JetSetWilly
08/06/06 @ 10:36
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@pollster

Absolutely superb! The memories...
Blerk
08/06/06 @ 10:38
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None of those games are 16k games, man. Except Jetpac, and that's not even mentioned in the song.

/nitpicks
JetSetWilly
08/06/06 @ 10:41
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@Blerk

So you didn't notice Sir Clive Sinclair's giant head bouncing around over the JetPac screen to the lyric "nothing compares to the thrill of getting through Jetpac"?

And iirc Manic Miner was 16K.
Blerk
08/06/06 @ 10:51
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No, I meant it wasn't mentioned in the words of the song.

And Manic Miner was most definitely a 48k game. It was the title that convinced my mate to upgrade.
justMe
08/06/06 @ 11:12
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IIRC Manic Miner was 16K, Jet Set Willy was 48K.
Blerk
08/06/06 @ 11:15
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48k! Not 16k!
yorkiebar
08/06/06 @ 18:13
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I have to say Manic Miner was definitely 48k.

I think MS should give us an "Ultimate" classics pack on Live, comprising:

Jetpac
PSSST
Cookie
TransAm
Lunar Jetman
Atic Atac
Sabre Wulf
Underwurlde
Knight Lore
Alien 8
Pentagram
Gunfright
MIRE MARE (release it, yah bastards!)

you can forget the others - they were mostly crap.

I'd buy it! Retro gamin rules! (skool daze next please!)

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