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About Justin Mellor

Justin is a writer for XBLAFans.com. By day, he is a Communications Specialist for a Pro Audio and Lighting business in the Pittsburgh area and co-hosts a sports talk show once a week. By night he is a person who sleeps, and writes about his favorite XBLA games. Twitter @ItsJustinMellor GT: Ste11ar
Latest Posts | By Justin Mellor
Snoop Dogg-themed fighting game to hit XBLA this year
11 years ago

Snoop Dogg-themed fighting game to hit XBLA this year

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Fans of fighting games and Snoop Dogg (also known as Snoop Lion) are finally going to get a game with both of their loves rolled up into one! 505 …
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Guardians of Middle-earth announces Survival Mode
11 years ago

Guardians of Middle-earth announces Survival Mode

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Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment and Monolith Productions unveiled a new game mode for Guardians of Middle-earth. Survival Mode will be available soon for …
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Runner 2 trailer revealed, to be released tomorrow on XBLA
11 years ago

Runner 2 trailer revealed, to be released tomorrow on XBLA

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[springboard type=”video” id=”674947″ player=”xbla001″ width=”640″ height=”360″ ] With over a year of delays behind it, Gaijin Games’ Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien will be hitting the Xbox Live …
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State of Decay developers offer character skills Q&A
11 years ago

State of Decay developers offer character skills Q&A

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The popular question: “What would you do in a zombie apocalypse?” was not answered by State of Decay developers Undead Labs. They are letting us figure that answer out …
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Newsbits: A free game, TV on XBLA? and more game updates!
11 years ago

Newsbits: A free game, TV on XBLA? and more game updates!

  • Doritos Crash Course 2 will be coming soon as a free-to-play game on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The game uses your Avatar to navigate through five new levels, …
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Guardians of Middle-earth adds Snaga to character list
11 years ago

Guardians of Middle-earth adds Snaga to character list

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Guardians of Middle-earth now has a third DLC character, the flesh-hungry Goblin, Snaga. It is now available for purchase for 160 MSP and is free for Season …
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Titles revealed for Capcom’s Arcade Cabinet
11 years ago

Titles revealed for Capcom’s Arcade Cabinet

Capcom Unity announced the full list of titles for its upcoming release: Capcom’s Arcade Cabinet. The 8-bit games, originally released in 1984-1988, will be grouped in five different packs and …
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Microsoft Studios deals out a new cross-platform poker game

Microsoft Studios announced today that World Series of Poker: Full House Pro will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade in Spring 2013. The game  will offer cross-platform play across XBLA …
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Meet the Minecraft XBLA Team
11 years ago

Meet the Minecraft XBLA Team

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Last week, the Minecraft XBLA Team held a Q & A session at MineCon in Paris, France. Among some of the topics discussed at the …
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The XBLA Fans staff looks back on our gaming memories
11 years ago

The XBLA Fans staff looks back on our gaming memories

OK, so we can relate to the N64 kid. The most obvious thing we at XBLA Fans have in common with him is this: we love video games. However, because our team ranges in location and age, we all have our own unique stories. Since it seems like everyone’s nostalgia bone loves to be tickled every now and then, we decided to take a look at some of our staff’s best gaming memories. Whether their first console was an Atari or an N64, it’s been chronicled here in this brief history of our gaming pasts. Join us as we relive some of our fondest childhood — and adulthood, in some cases! — memories.

Once you’ve read about us, hop into the comments and share some of your own favorite gaming memories!

My earliest memory, is me sitting with my teddy bear playing Super Mario Bros. The NES was my first console. You could nearly always find me glued to the TV playing games like Mike Tyson’s Punch Out (Mr. Dream just didn’t do it for me), Karate Kid, Double Dribble basketball, just to name a few. In fact, one of my best memories was watching my mom beat Super Mario Bros. 3. I soon beat it, because I couldn’t let my mom beat the game without me beating it too! On the other side, my dad and I would play NES Play Action Football  and WWF Wrestlemania constantly. Later in my lifetime I found out he was letting me win. Not cool, dad.

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