Console Heroes: Retail Game Solutions to Expensive Arcade Games Part 1

Console Heroes writes: "You may have noticed the grumbling going around about the price of Xbox Live Arcade titles of late. We had an article about it a couple months ago, Flea and others have blogged about it, and there's even a social group here on Console Heroes now devoted to crusading against expensive games. Flea even started a petition to Microsoft pleading for a reevaluation of XBLA prices. As Flea and I have been discussing all the recent games priced at 1200 points – and a couple at 1600 – we came to a conclusion: why just complain about it? Why not come up with a better solution for our fellow heroes here on Console Heroes? I mean, if we're not paying $20 for arcade games, what should we spend that money on? And what kind of experience will we get instead?

With that in mind I'm going to examine a few of the pricier arcade titles on the marketplace today and compare them to some very similar retail games that you could pick up for the same price – or less. Today will feature part one of our short series of retail game alternatives to expensive XBLA titles..."