Microsoft knows its audience. They know the Xbox 360 doesn't have the young appeal of the Wii or the broad-reaching appeal of the Playstation -- not yet anyway. So they know that with the 360 being a favorite toy of the over-25 crowd, that audience would be suckers for classic arcade games. Enter Joust. Now I come from a town where from 1981 to 1986, one or maybe two video game machines would sit in the corner of a pizzeria or ice cream shop and attract the kids from the neighborhood like magnets. To this day, the only place I remember seeing Joust was next to the ice cream freezer at Isaly's on Forbes Avenue in Regent Square, Pennsylvania. And from the time that it replaced Ms. Pac Man to the day that Karate Champ replaced it, Joust got played like mad, with cigarette burns and clumps of melted ice cream to prove it. The game was stupid, really, with no real point but to evade your enemy until you were at an advantage, when you had to basically land on their head to defeat them. Joust had about as much to do with jousting as the movie Akira had to do with director Akira Kurosawa, which is to say nothing at all. So, take a tip, if you play the demo and wonder if you like this game, you probably don't.
I played the trial of this game a few times and just made fun of it with friends, and thought it was a stupid game. After a few months of joking around about buying it I finally bought it, and its awesome. Well the mul... Read Full Review
"Joust" has become a true arcade classic since its debue in 1982. Showing without question that classic arcade games never grow old. While also showing new generations that simple ideas can go a long way if executed prof... Read Full Review
