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Root Beer Tapper xbox360 Game Reviews
Root Beer Tapper
Critic Score
Metascore: 61 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.0 out of 10
based on 11 reviews
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[Xbox Live Arcade] Get ready to serve! Rediscover the classic arcade game Root Beer Tapper on Xbox Live. Take on a room full of thirsty folks and keep their mugs full as they belly up to the bar, but don't drop the empties if you want to win. Classic gameplay: Take on a bar full of thirsty folks and see if you can keep their mugs full. Grab the empty mugs before they slide off the bar, and earn extra points by collecting tips. Bonus rounds: Locate and open the one can that has not been shaken-up and serve it up to waiting patrons in the bonus rounds. Play online in either co-op or versus modes and post scores on the Xbox Live leaderboards. The best scores are kept for the current week and for all time for both co-op and versus matches. Score 12 achievements worth 200 gamerscore points. [Midway]

PUBLISHER: Midway
DEVELOPER: Digital Eclipse
GENRE(S): Action
PLAYERS: 2
ESRB RATING: E (Everyone)
RELEASE DATE: February 7, 2007

What The Critics Said

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73
GameSpot
This is a great, cheap way to get your hands on an underappreciated arcade classic.
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71
Planet Xbox 360
For a budget (400 Microsoft points) Xbox Live Arcade title, Root Beer Tapper holds up well; if for no other reason than the amount of replay needed to grab fifty wins over Live.
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70
IGN
The co-op game is rather simplistic: it hardly feels like you're playing with anyone at all, but there are a few Achievements built into it, so at least there is that challenge.
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70
Games Radar
At only 400 MS points, it’s a great buy if you’re looking for a pick-up-and-play time killer while you wait for those gigantic files to download on Live Marketplace.
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64
Game Chronicles
This is a great, inexpensive game if you’re a fan, but it won’t hold much lasting appeal to most people for very long. Personally I need to have many drinks in me to enjoy playing Tapper for more than 10 minutes at a time. Not root beer, but real beer.
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60
360 Gamer Magazine UK
Give it five minutes and Root Beer Tapper can lead to hours of enjoyment. [Issue #23, p.72]
60
Official Xbox Magazine
Two-player action(over Live, even)is a nice modern addition, but odds are, you'll feel tapped out after just a few minutes. [Mar 2007, p.81]
60
Official Xbox Magazine UK
Quirky, funny and colorful, Root Beer Tapper is both cheeky and challenging and a cheap distraction on a Wednesday night. [Feb 2007, p.101]
54
Team Xbox
It’s one of those games that you can show to people who were alive when the original was released, and it might be fun to toy around with for an hour or so, but that’s all the life you’ll get out of the game, even with the Xbox Live support thrown in.
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50
EuroGamer
It stops being fun alarmingly quickly.
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20
X360 Magazine UK
Mind-numbingly boring. [Issue#23, p.97]

What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this game is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Super Dude gave it a9:
This game is a great classic. It takes some practice and alot of skill but once you master it, it can be alot of fun once you get to serve alien's drinks in outer space.

Andyman gave it a5:
It's a faithful port of the arcade game. Unfortunately, the arcade game wasn't terribly fun to begin with, making this nearly irrelevant. It's worth the $5 for fans of the game. Everyone else should save their MS Points for something else.

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