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With all of the bailouts, the recession, and other financial worries plaguing us today, we’re always looking for cheap solutions to our game cravings. Case in point: A very simple but addictive platform game called Run Away! is on sale now on Xbox Live for the very reasonable price of $1 [via Technabob]:
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN6UQpDvaCs 425×344]A programmer named Jon Keatley created the game, which IndieGames calls an “on-rails platformer in which you scramble over and under hedges, walls, gnomes, bananas and beehives to escape your pursuers, who have decided to chase you for various reasons.”
The game may look like it was drawn on a Commodore 64, but it appears that the gameplay and fun factor are completely Xbox worthy. Game on!