Ikaruga headed to Live Arcade(!)
by Richard Mitchell 
{ Feb 14th 2007 at 11:30AM }
Ikaruga, one of the shining jewels in the Dreamcast's farewell tiara, is headed for Xbox Live Arcade. How could we possibly know this? CVG reports that the game has appeared on the debug version of Xbox Live. Unfortunately, upon downloading Ikaruga, CVG was greeted with a Treasure logo and not much else, as the game quickly crashed. That's why it's debug, right? Still, we've already heard that Treasure wants to make some Live Arcade games, so Ikaruga definitely makes sense. After all, it is regarded by many as one of the best -- if not the best -- shooters of all time. As much as we love multi-directional shooters, more classic shooters would be welcome on Live Arcade (speaking of, where's Raiden?)Now all we need is Gunstar Heroes and Guardian Heroes and the Treasure triumvirate will be complete.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Xanto @ Feb 14th 2007 11:36AM
As soon as I saw Treasure, I thought of Gunstar Heroes, mmmm good times
Jonah Falcon @ Feb 14th 2007 11:45AM
When I see a vertical shooter, I think, "Where's Xevious?"
Pyronite @ Feb 14th 2007 11:51AM
AWESOME
This is exactly the kind of game we need on Xbox Live
pixelate @ Feb 14th 2007 12:07PM
They should enable a rotated mode for HD displays... if you have one of those widescreen monitors that physically rotates to Portrait mode it will look gorgeous.
Modeps @ Feb 14th 2007 12:37PM
I have always wanted to play this game, now I'll get to.
JrezIN @ Feb 14th 2007 12:43PM
Gunstar Heroes and Guardian Heroes would REALLY be nice!!!
lol_internet @ Feb 14th 2007 1:00PM
Ah this is great news!!! I have it for gamecube but I will certainly buy it again! I hope they will make Radiant Silvergun too
aragorn @ Feb 14th 2007 2:25PM
hmmmm... shame there's no bangai-o.
Bungee @ Feb 15th 2007 4:21AM
Ahh!!! I was just thinking about getting this for the GameCube. Thank god it is coming out for 360 at some point as I really did not wanna drop down $70+ for a GC game. I can only hope they will release some classic windows games on XBL at some point (solitaire, freecell, pinball, jezzball, chips challenge etc) in one nice package with fully updated graphics of course. *shrugs*