Xbox One backwards compatibility works by emulating the Xbox 360 operating system and then running the games through this apparently, well after having tried one of the Xbox original games on the Xbox one it would appear that they are doing the exact same thing as when you go to play the game you see the original Xbox start up screen.
Currently there are only 7 original xbox games in my country at least which are on the list of those which are currently playable via the Xbox one, and there are basically two ways to play them. One is you simply buy them on the Xbox store and the other is if you have a copy of the disc you can put that in. If you put the original disc in though you dont actually play the game of the disk, the disk simply proves that you own it, you are then allowed to download it but can only play it while the disk is in the slot, still its great that they have made it work in this way because if you have the game your not forced to pay for it again and even if you dont have the disk you can look if its cheaper to source a copy before paying for it digitally.
So far the original xbox games are Black, Ninja Gaiden Black, Crimson Skies, Fusion Frenzy, Psychonauts, Sid Meiers Pirates, and Grabbed By The Ghoulies. Now with the exception of Fusion Frenzy I think they are all darn fine games some of the best from the machine. I would argue that now you can buy Rare Replay which features Grabbed by the Ghoulies and a whole other bunch of games its a bit of a redundant purchase but I guess if you have it laying around then its free and you cant complain about free. For those of us who collect old games though this is a great thing, it might not be a lot of games now but it will be great to see which games end up on the list. I have noticed while looking up Knights of the old Republic that game is also on the xbox store and you can buy it to play on your Xbox one, I have this game on disc but I havent gotten round to trying it yet.
I have tried Crimson Skies though and it worked a treat, I enjoyed playing it again and it ran perfectly, if every single game runs like this then it will be awesome. So I guess the last thing to say is what games would I like to see on the list next right? Well I am going to do that but I am going to stick to games which already appeared on the list of Xbox original games that you could play on the Xbox 360 as well I think these are the most likly ones we will see.
- Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
- Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
- The Bard's Tale
- Blinx: The Time Sweeper
- Blinx 2: Masters of Time & Space
- Blood Omen 2
- Brute Force
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds
- Burnout
- Burnout 2
- Burnout 3: Takedown
- Conker: Live and Reloaded
- Dead or Alive 3
- Dead or Alive Ultimate
- DOOM 3
- EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 3
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick
- Evil Dead: Regeneration
- Fable
- Fatal Frame
- Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly DIRECTOR'S CUT
- Future Tactics: The Uprising
- Genma Onimusha
- Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee
- Godzilla: Save The Earth
- GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
- Grand Theft Auto: 3
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Indigo Prophecy
- Jade Empire
- JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future
- Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
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