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Xbox Live Connects Four $10 Classic Board Games

by Chris Faylor, Mar 18, 2009 8:35am PDT

Kicking off the "Days of Arcade" promotion, EA Bright Light's downloadable board game collection Hasbro Family Game Night hit the Xbox 360's online marketplace today.

The free 237MB download packs four demos of classic Hasbro games: Connect 4, Yahtzee, Battleship, and Scrabble. The full version of each individual game runs $10, and requires players to have downloaded the Hasbro Family Game Night client.

The three other promised Hasbro titles--Boggle, Sorry! and Sorry! Sliders--are listed as "coming soon" within the selection menu of the main Family Game Night launcher.

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They should have released this as a $30-$40 disc game and maybe people would have bought it.

Or...

I would have considered paying $5 for each game, but $10 is way too little. I didn't even get to sink a ship in battleship before they told me "pay $10, this demo is over".

LAME.

Mar 20, 2009 8:09am PDT

They should have released this as a $30-$40 disc game and maybe people would have bought it. Or... ... : getlefty

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Jesus fucking Christ. This is worse than horse armor.

When I heard about this I figured it would be $10 for the entire package. I would love to see the actual sales for this bullshit.

Mar 19, 2009 12:12am PDT

Jesus fucking Christ. This is worse than horse armor. When I heard about this I figured it would be $1... : Spok

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That Mr Potato Head in nearly every screen is creeping me out.

Mar 18, 2009 11:26pm PDT

That Mr Potato Head in nearly every screen is creeping me out. : AndyGoin

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theyll put anything on XBL these days .. and the stupid thing is there are still some people who will buy the crap, especially parents buying for their kids.. i've paid for like a total of 3 XBL games ever lol.. im extremely picky. most of the crap bores me

Mar 18, 2009 8:43pm PDT

theyll put anything on XBL these days .. and the stupid thing is there are still some people who will buy... : techx4

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can you say rip-off!
omg that's insane 800 points for these games

Mar 18, 2009 7:50pm PDT

can you say rip-off! omg that's insane 800 points for these games : mdayzed

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I can't wait for Yahtzee to review Yahtzee.

Mar 18, 2009 6:05pm PDT

I can't wait for Yahtzee to review Yahtzee. : pigvomit

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<grim reaper> YOU...*sigh* SANK MY BATTLESHIP! BEST TWO OUT OF THREE! </grim reaper>

Mar 18, 2009 9:38am PDT

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<grim reaper> YOU...*sigh* SANK MY BATTLESHIP! BEST TWO OUT OF THREE! </grim reaper> : Wolfanoz
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- <grim reaper>I believe Colonel Mustard did it in the Study with the candle stick.</grim reaper> Sorry ... : k1ld0r

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Board games? I want more violence. Lack of violence makes me aggressive.

Mar 18, 2009 1:03pm PDT

Board games? I want more violence. Lack of violence makes me aggressive. : Marrbe

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connect 4 is the shittiest and most boring game ever, you play 1 or 2 rounds and you're pretty much done with it forever

Mar 18, 2009 11:31am PDT

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connect 4 is the shittiest and most boring game ever, you play 1 or 2 rounds and you're pretty much done ... : headbone
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- Play against a decent opponent and the game becomes a very enjoyable intense tactical battle. : thecray

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First Wall Street takes billions of dollars of bailout money to pay million-dollar bonuses to their shitty executives that helped cause this recession and now this?!

Mar 18, 2009 10:43am PDT

First Wall Street takes billions of dollars of bailout money to pay million-dollar bonuses to their shitt... : jtthe2nd

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i was eager to pick this up for when people came over until today. they didnt get into specifics beforehand but from the site on xbox.com it seemed liked it was going to be a 1 game pack of all the games for a reasonable price. now that i see it's 800 points per game, fuck that, i don't want any of them

Mar 18, 2009 8:49am PDT

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i was eager to pick this up for when people came over until today. they didnt get into specifics beforeh... : dantastic
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- Yeah, kinda how I feel. : Chris Faylor
- IAWTFT - makes me sad to think how many mums and dads will fall for this and pay 40-60$ for such simple g... : razorblade79
- Yeah, pretty much. : Deathlove
- Yeah...$10 USD per game is absurd. I will not buy this. : cookblaze
- i think i would suggest picking up Trivial Pursuit for 39.99 which just came out last week. Game has mor... : dantastic
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  I was willing to pay $10-$15 for the whole pack, not $10 per game. I wonder how bad this will sell becaus... : MADMikeDavis
  - i wonder how well it will sell when people buy one of the games from the demo thinking it unlocks them al... : dantastic
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  They aren't getting my $40 of mickey mouse points. : baron calamity
  - I love me some Mickey Mouse points. : ReckHavoc

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I'd pay $10 for all 4, but the thought of paying $10 for connect 4 is insane.

Mar 18, 2009 9:26am PDT

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I'd pay $10 for all 4, but the thought of paying $10 for connect 4 is insane. : hillemania
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- Agreed that 40 bucks is a little expensive for those 4 games I was looking forward to purchasing them too... : SammMoney

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you guys should start to link the marketplace link directly so people can download right away !

Mar 18, 2009 9:02am PDT

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you guys should start to link the marketplace link directly so people can download right away ! : bagelcc
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  he did. i think you have to download the demo to purchase the rest. it's probably all included in the 2... : dantastic
  - yes. : Chris Faylor

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I think this is awesome but I just cant figure out how they think that each game is going to be worth $10.

Mar 18, 2009 8:41am PDT

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I think this is awesome but I just cant figure out how they think that each game is going to be worth $10... : Degenerate
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  If they did a bundle I could see myself paying $20 for all four but yeah $10 for each means I probably wo... : Jonathan
  - ditto : dantastic
  - yeah I could see buying that. I dont know. I'll give the demos a shot but I just dont think it will be... : Degenerate
- When you can go to Walmart and buy the actual game for less than $10, this doesn't seem like a logical pr... : laurgasms

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