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Hope you are having a good day Renn, you are our favorite little boy.

This doesn’t get enough credit as the program that paved the way for the Indie scene to become what it is today.

Man, you always dropping banger after banger. Idk what tf the algorithm is doing but you clearly deserve so much much more than what it's giving you. I hope one day your channel massively blows up and all these videos get the attention they truly deserve

8:19 "It's a series of mini games that provide you with a mental challenge. Lucky for me, I LOVE being mentally challenged" I'm dead

As a kid who got the xbox 360 day one, the Xbox Live Arcade was a gold mine of classic games and new experiences I would have never been exposed to. I am so glad Xbox helped invigorate my love for video games at an impressionable age. And every game had demos to try out so as a broke kid I could always try a game for free before mowing lawns to make money for a purchase.

Cloning Clyde, Splosion Man, and Castle Crashers were some of my favorite games from the 360. I think they're singlehandedly the reason I enjoy indie games.

N+, Trials HD, Marble Blast Ultra, and Castle Crashers(the character unlock grind was unreal) we're all consuming in my youth.

Nostalgia overload. I had many of these games.. what a time to be a young man

I miss the 7th gen so much. I had no money for these thing as a kid, but I played a bunch of demos over and over, like Limbo and Split/Second.

I have some really good memories of playing stuff like Doritos Crash Course, Castle Crashers, 1 vs 100, and random demos with my friends growing up. I specifically remember there was a multiplayer demo for Lost Planet 2 and this game called Section 8 that we would play all the time.

Since you didn't really talk about it, its worth noting that Trials Evolution had, for a while, in my opinion, one of the most robust level editors available. Sure, you could make some pretty crazy BMX tracks with it, but I saw some absolutely baffling things, horror levels, puzzle levels, hell, there was even a first-person-shooter map that absolutely blew my mind back in the day. There's also that ARG the developers did(and I guess are doing, since there's still decades to go on solving it😂)

As the former record holder of some marble blast ultra levels back in the day, I can confirm that it's the greatest game of all time. We have the same favorite level (black diamond), but there's one big difference between us: Idk if I ever consciously realized there was only one song. But yeah, I was pretty good. I even beat the game before it came out, ik pretty impressive. No, I didn't get it early due to having connections. I was just really freaking good.

GASP! No mention of Dishwasher Dead Samurai? That game was so much fun. Amazing art, fantastic music, and very unique art style to complement its grim but also vaguely wacky setting. A true "must play" And the sequel is on Steam.

I distinctly remember my friend and I going at it, day after day, to see who could have the best times in Marble Blast Ultra. It was amazing. There were even times when we hadn't played the game for years and one of us would get on when the other wasn't. Upon seeing one of us recently played MBU, it would prompt the other to get on immediately, brush up on the game and get to work, trying to discover long lost tricks. Amazing times. Also, who remembers 1 vs. 100, with the legend himself, Chris Cashman? Absolutely epic. Looking back on it now, paying $35/year (I used to buy 4000 MS Point cards for that price) to keep XBL Gold was a scam, but, damn, do I miss it. The vast majority of my friends went their separate ways after the 360 died. Some of them moved on to the next Xbox or Sony console, some moved to PC. I moved to PC myself, but I rarely keep in touch with anyone these days. It's just not the same.

14:28 - *Marble It Up* This Game is pretty much the Sequel to Marble Blast Ultra, and I assume the entirety of Marble Blast has been remade within the Steam Workshop.

Xbla was my younger self's introduction to indie games. I lost so many hours to techno kitten adventures, I made a game with zombies in it, splosion man, n++... MAN, take me back.

this is such a cool insight. i never owned an xbox and i didn't know what i was missing. now i know what i was missing but you showed it in a way that i could be satisfied even though i will never play these games. thankyou renn.

me and all my friends would try speedrun and beat each others scores. crazy how more fun and time i got out of that game versus, halo 4, 5 , infinite. Thanks for shining a light on xbox live arcade, i miss 2009.

One my relatively obscure XBLA gaming experience was Outpost Kaloki X, a space station management game. I fear if I played it now it'd be very underwhelming. 'Splosion Man was by far my fave of the indie platformers from that time.

Wonderful transitions, hope everythings going alright with you

I play a lot of Castle Crashers back in the day

Another banger of a video! Great transitions and a fun topic

As always, great quality man, I really enjoyed this vídeo, thanks!

Great video. Good way to start off my day. Lots of memories. Hope all is well.

This video was crazy nostalgic. Thx

What do you know? You made this format work perfectly.

Awesome video as always. Hope all is well man

Erm, yep, I do remember how epic and sweet it was. Some really classic games on there.

Xbox arcade is a fundamental part of my childhood

Always love these videos!

fantastic vid as always

My fav XBLA games were Bionic Commando Rearmed and Puzzle Quest. The soundtracks these games had were killer!

Genuinely the funniest and most creative game reviewer on KZfaq. There’s always a good pun, word play, or joke that gives me a good chuckle or tickles my brain every minute! Not to mention the well informed, well thought out, and educational content. Keep doing what you’re doing! You deserve so much more from the algorithm!!! 💋

Those times were so much better man

This deserves WAY more views

Thanks Renn love you

Entire friendship in "Limbo" Smooth 😅

More of this please.

Note that there is also a replacement for marble blast ultra and its marble it up ! and if you own only a xbox 360 there is switchball , which as far as i know , its just a striped down version of marble blast

Crazy how “the act man” literally gets his videos edited by you and yet you’re still considered underground

Yo Marble Blast Ultra was rebuilt on PC by some dedicated fans of it. It's not lost forever!!

I hope Xbox makes the dashboard fun and creative again, like during the Xbox 360 generation.

That Geometry Wars music immediately teleported me back in time. Damn.

Dude, love your shit. Keep doing what makes you happy

To me. Xbox 360 and Xbox Live at that time was the pinnacle of console gaming. I just generally miss those days.

Man I love the Sims 1 music in the ad.

WOOOO he mentioned Doritos crash course

Just so you know, you're my favourite little KZfaq boy in the whole wide world.

Coming out hard with that geometry wars OST!!!

The ad in the beginning killed me. my dad joke meter is off the charts.

Just somewhat recently played Ms. Splosion man. It was definitely a challenge to get the full gamerscore. Great game!

The escape game in geometry wars was the best. My frat bros used to watch me play because I was so good at it. Not sure they had it in 2 - you didn’t have a gun, could only cross through bars that exploded.

Thanks, my favorite little boy. Sending love.

Haven’t watched the video. But i already know this is one I’ve been waiting for

Man o man, I would LOVE to plat Burnout Crash again.

You should definitely give Marble it Up a look. It’s from many if the marble blast devs.

I loved XBLA on the 360. Marble Blast Ultra was probably my favorite game there. I wish I could play the multiplayer on Xbox Live now. Bomberman Live was great! Also a multiplayer game I wanna play on XBL now. XBLA was so much better than all the random games being released nowadays.

shout out to marble blast ultra. thats a wall of Nostolgia right there. I never had anything like monkey ball or even knew what that was, so marble blast was one of the few games like it that I got to experience. I don't even think I had the full version, I would just play the trial on repeat over and over again in between call of duty and gta.

What's next ? Games For Windows Live ?

8:13 this got me a good laugh

Hella fun!

Oh here's my favorite little boy Renn! Edit: awesome video man, took a little trip down memory lane

World of Keflings co-op was incredibly fun

Marble Blast Ultra was a banger of a game, really was such a shame it eventually got pulled from the store.

Yo, the algo is messed up Renny-poo. I'll admit I don't hit the bell, but I just recently re-watched some of you most recent vids, and interacted with your last community post, and this video was still not on my homepage until 17 hrs after upload. I'm no algo whisperer, but it might be worth going through your uploads and adding an "identity tag" either in the titles or thumbnails or both, that is consistent across all your videos. For example, for the titles you could do, "*video title* /// Renn's Reviews". With the thumbnails, a banner across the bottom or top that is always the same color and has "Renn's Reviews" on it, or even a corner of the thumbnail that has that consistent color with your channel pfp. I don't know bro, I just enjoy your vids and want to see you do well, love ya big boy god bless.

It's such a missed opportunity that Microsoft didn't keep the Xbox Live Arcade around for One and Series

Yes

my favourite game on xbox live arcade was Dishwasher 1 and vampire smile!

I still miss texas 'old em, learned poker with this little xbox game

I hope, that you get some clarity & understanding, to your depression & difficult thoughs and feelings (somehow, I recalling seeing a youtube community post about this, that can't seem to find now).

Doritos crash coarse and castle miner Z were so fun

My Jaw dropped with that Star is Born joke 😂

Love your content, get better bud

This bideo goes hard.

Ive never clicked faster my fav lil boi

All of the xbox avatar games are bangers, too

The Yugi oh game was soo fun online

Okay, but what about Indie games. Mount your friends, Baby maker extreme, the $1 Zombie game, avatar warfare, Castle Miner Z, Beer Pong

I don't see you bragging enough about how good of a video game player in general you are, you're badass!

I have to check out those games :o

marble blast u was awesome!

8:23 killed me man

YES 😊

i remember... tears tears

Doritos also made Harm's Way.

Hard Corps: Uprising was an excellent Contra game on XBLA/PSN.

Xbox Live Arcade was so unique and so damn good! So many amazing games came out for it. I used to get so excited for Summer of Arcade. Throughout all of August, they’d just release new games every week like Limbo, Bionic Commando Rearmed (which is really good, everyone should go play it), Monday Night Combat (ya’ll remember that?) and my favorite was Hydro Thunder Hurricane. You just can’t get any better than that. And when Banjo Kazooie came out, I ran home from school and downloaded it as fast as I could. My friends and I would obsess over it. And they brought back the mysterious stop and swap which re-emerged discussions and conspiracy theories. It was like following a cold case. I miss how fresh XBLA was. All those games had such a unique charm to them. It was like the beginning of the indie scene, Something we’ve never seen before and it was fun! All these young developers striking out for the first time and bringing cool new ideas and characters to the mix and to be there from the beginning feels special. Thanks for another great video, Renn! I hope you’re feeling a bit better today.

Love me some renn

No one ever mentions it when they talk about this, so I feel like I may be tripping, but didn't Bastion blow up because of this too? The same developer that went on to win game of the year with Hades

i think i player almost every single game on xbox arcade damn

people who deserved to make videogames - cliffy b. Look at how our idols have failed us

I bought I am Alive and State of Decay, loved em

I'm kinda sad he didn't mention castleminerz that was a certified classic game right there

You for got peggle 😂 renn!!!!

This is where gaming peaked and since then it’s been on a steady decline to where we are now.

Yaris from Toyota lol nice

Castle minor Z was top tier

OpenMBU allows you to emulate marble blast perfectly on PC

Glad I could grow up with Xbox live arcade it was awesome