Microsoft released sales numbers of 39 million XBox 360s sold worldwide a $20 Billion product
There big players in the games market and Microsoft’s XBox 360 is one of them. Announced product sales of $20 billion world wide and growing. Steve Ballmer in his CES 2010 keynote address on Wednesday evening stressed the spring release of Games Room, a return to arcade style games. It will remind the young at heart of the 70s and 80s when games were played in arcades.
This is Robbie Bach’s explanation,
Well, Game Room in some ways is sort of a retro approach. And it’s interesting, there’s a generation of people — sort of my advanced, mature age [laughs] — who grew up with a set of games like Centipede. They look almost like casual, fun games today — at the time they were high-end, edgy games — and so Game Room is the idea of bringing that back to the market. And bringing that to a very broad audience. And I think what we’re gonna find is that when people can get 30 or more of these games, they’re gonna love it for the experience. And it’s not just you and I who are gonna love it, even the people who would call themselves “hardcore gamers” are gonna say “Oh wow this is fun!” In a retro way. It’s sort of like my daughter going to watch Journey. I’m like, this is a band that was playing when I was growing up. And she thinks it’s a cool band and I like the music. And I think you’re gonna have the same phenomenon with Game Room. We’re gonna enjoy the games and they’re gonna think it’s cool. I think that’s very powerful
It’s a virtual arcade with the old games basically. It is supposed to appeal to balding males who played those games. I’m not sure though if it would drive me to buy one. Tetras, Centipede and the rest are gone and got boring long before they disappeared.
Now if they brought back Wizard or Wor that would be a game to pay for. Wizard of Wor was an addictive arcade game that played you in 13 levels of dungeon mazes. Your regular enemies were bad enough but the Wizard could appear out of nowhere and zap you in a micro-second. The graphics were crude but the game excitement unrelenting. You can’t win. The Wizard always gets you especially in the 13th dungeon.
Wizard of Wor
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