All Things Chill

I played the new Contra release on Xbox Live with Byron yesterday before we supposed to hit up the Mezzanine to check out Kid Koala. LOL. We didn’t go. TOO BUSY PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. Here are the deets from Gamespot:

One of the most anticipated retro arcade games announced for Xbox Live Arcade Wednesdays is set to arrive this week. Microsoft today confirmed that Konami’s arcade edition of Contra will be available on the Xbox Live Marketplace Wednesday morning at 12 a.m. PST. The game will sell for 400 Microsoft Points ($5).

Two words: ONLINE CO-OP. WORD. The famed “30 lives code” works too! @ the Arcade title screen, press UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A. You must do this code fast, since the “B” button also exits you out to the menu screen. I did it for kicks last night, and 2 levels later, I noticed that we still had 20 lives left. LOL YAY. Konami, I <3 you!

While we were playing, I was picking and choosing tracks directly on the fly from my Xbox 360’s dashboard via .mp3’s stored on my pBook. I wrote about it on Ars a while back here:

I downloaded the software, installed it, and opened the app. Connect 360 immediately detected the 360 sitting right in front of me via Wi-Fi auto-magically. What was more surprising was that the Xbox 360 recognized my Apple laptop right away too. The entire setup took less than 5 minutes. ROFL. I’ve been trying to get my Windows XP PC to talk to my Xbox for weeks now without much success. Ridiculous!

So, good old skool games, angry tracks (I opted for a lil’ Linkin Park and Rage Against the Machine) = DOPENESS.

WOOP WOOP OLD SKOOOOOL ON THE NEW SKOOL TIP.

~Spec

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