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10th Most Popular Game on Live

Name:	Pat Wilson
Date Posted:	Feb 11, 2006
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As blogged by Major Nelson:

Quote:

Marble Blast rolls into the top Xbox Live games list
Posted: February 10, 2006 @ 9:08 pm (6 hours, 28 minutes ago) By: Major Nelson

Here are the most popular games on Xbox Live last week*

1 Halo 2
2 Call of Duty 2
3 DEAD OR ALIVE 4
4 Perfect Dark Zero
5 PGR3
6 Need for Speed Most Wanted
7 Battlefield 2: MC
8 Madden NFL 06
9 Full Auto Demo
10 Marble Blast Ultra

*Based on users logged on.

Good heavens I think I am glowing. I am gonna turn off the lights to check...

Yep...

To the extreme!

(Bonus points for picking up on the reference!)

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Phil Carlisle (Feb 11, 2006 at 11:57 GMT)

"to the extreme" sounds like the simpsons episode where they rework itchy and scratchy to include a dog..

but I dont think thats your reference.

Phil.

Zach Gipson (Feb 11, 2006 at 12:05 GMT)

Lol Phil

Aaron E (Feb 11, 2006 at 12:38 GMT)

@Pat,

Ice, Ice, Maybe?

Tom Bampton (Feb 11, 2006 at 12:42 GMT)

Congrats! :)

Thomas \"Man of Ice\" Lund (Feb 11, 2006 at 13:01 GMT)

Huge congratz!

Buzz Lightyear? ;-)

Weston (Feb 11, 2006 at 13:42 GMT)

And you were mentioned in the Eugene Weekly...this must be your week

www.eugeneweekly.com/2006/02/09/news1.html
Edited on Feb 11, 2006 13:48 GMT

Griffin Milsap (Feb 11, 2006 at 15:49 GMT)

Congratulations! If I owned an xbox 360, I'd probably download it too!

My guess is that your reference is from X-Play with Johnny Extreme

-Griff

Todd Pickens (Feb 11, 2006 at 16:50 GMT)

Congrats! that is very cool.

Harold "LabRat" Brown (Feb 11, 2006 at 17:32 GMT)

I have a friend at work who loves MarbleBlast Ultra... I keep teasing him about paying $400 for a Console to play a $19 game..

On that note though... he is a long time console player and has said he's had more fun with the XBOX Arcade games then the $50+ console games.

Prairie Games (Feb 11, 2006 at 18:19 GMT)

Great job guys! I would never have seen this coming a few years back, even with a crystal ball!

Jeff Gran (Feb 11, 2006 at 19:33 GMT)

Alright stop, collaborate and listen:
Torque is back with a brand new invention
somthing grabs a hold of you tightly,
rolls like a marble daily and nightly.
will it ever stop? I don't know,
but turn out the lights, and Pat glows.

To the extreme!

I win.

Michael Cozzolino (Feb 11, 2006 at 19:57 GMT)

Great news. Up there with some huge names there too!

Pat Wilson (Feb 11, 2006 at 20:57 GMT)

Jeff wins by far...

Aaron E (Feb 11, 2006 at 22:38 GMT)

Wow. I guess my Ice, Ice, Maybe? pun above wasn't as cool as Jeff's paraphrase. ;)

Anyway, congrats Pat and co. This is great news.

Timothy Aste (Feb 11, 2006 at 23:31 GMT)

Wow Jeff. You sound like you've been visiting the official MBU xbox forums...

"Marble it up!"

Jeff wins.

Also, PBR's all around!

Jay Moore (Feb 11, 2006 at 23:57 GMT)

DaPimpn'ator doesn't have the same blingn' rap as the Gran, but he's up to letting the whole planet know.

Made it an RSS feed on our news... www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=9776
I Digg it... right now at: www.digg.com/gaming/digg/page2 search Marble Blast Xbox ... you should digg it too

Let people know indies are running with the big boys on Live... post here where you've spread the good word...
Edited on Feb 11, 2006 23:59 GMT

Pat Wilson (Feb 12, 2006 at 01:14 GMT)

Aaron Ellis comes in a close second with a good pun. If Jeff haddn't laid down the awesome lyrics, you'd be the winner.

Aaron E (Feb 12, 2006 at 01:57 GMT)

So close, yet so far away.

:)

James Lupiani (Feb 12, 2006 at 06:30 GMT)

Please tell me you didn't just reference that song, Pat.

Congrats on hitting the top 10! This is awesome news, unofficial or otherwise!

Vashner (Feb 12, 2006 at 06:58 GMT)

Pop's the virtual champagne.

Matt Grenier (Feb 12, 2006 at 23:00 GMT)

wow, that's awesome... congrats!

Richard Van Stone (Feb 23, 2006 at 18:14 GMT)

Unless I'm mistaken it's also the only indie game up there :)

BugsBunny (Mar 06, 2006 at 07:25 GMT)

Funny how none of those games are ones that would be useful on sites like www.iwantloot.com

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