Arcade games on Xbox Live Marketplace cost anywhere from 200 MS points ($2.50), to 1200 MS points ($15) and beyond. Pac-man Championship Edition, Braid, Schizoid, Geometry Wars 1 and 2, and The Dishwasher Dead Samurai are all excellent titles, and the total cost of all of them is about the equivalent of a full-priced retail game. Thrifty gamers can't go wrong with these five original XBLA games.

Best of XBLA - Pac-man Championship Edition for 800 MS Points

Remade from the ground-up, Pac-man Championship Edition avoids the cheesy feel of most classic remakes by retaining the original's basic gameplay, but creates an entirely new game out of it.

While the player yet again takes control of a pizza-like circle gobbling up pellets and avoiding ghosts, now as the pellets on the left side or right side appear, the whole maze on the opposite side morphs into an entirely new maze.