I recently acquired a second hand NTSC (American) original xbox from an American collegue and it had some original Xbox Live Arcade games on it. The Xbox Live service in Europe (the Netherlands) on the original xbox never was huge compared to the 360 xblox live implementation.

The live Arcade games that this US xbox came with are amazingly similar to the games found on the xbox 360 service. The whole user experience is similar. Perhaps these games were widely used and purchased in the US and other parts of the world but they are pretty rare on this side of the Pond and Japan.

So here is a compilation of original xbox live arcade games running on an original xbox. I wasn't able to log into the Live system due to the fact that my current Live account doesn't support the original xbox and my friends login has long since expired. The games and the acquired keys are still on the harddrive so I have access to the full games. So all the video is from off-line games.

An Achievement Symbol from Frogger 25th Anniversary on Xbox Live ArcadeWell, as part of Xbox Live Wednesday's, which will see interesting new releases on that weekday for the near future, Microsoft and Konami have released "Frogger 25th Anniversary" to Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 yesterday. I was looking forward to the enhanced visuals and the new modes, but was ultimately left a bit dissapointed.