“Steve, do you know if Xbox Originals games give achievement points?”
Alas, gentle readers, the answer is unequivocally no.
Several of you have pinged me earlier this evening asking me about this, because Larry Hryb posted about this week’s Holiday Deal of the Week being the original Halo game.
I’m actually surprised that the question isn’t asked more often, but if you’ve been a stalwart Xbox fan and owner, you may have tried to pop in one of your Xbox titles into your Xbox 360 console to see if there was any improvement in, say, the gameplay, or maybe the graphics… and certainly you rummaged around the Dashboard to see if any achievement points popped up for your game.
And, of course, you didn’t see any.
So, you may have thought, “Well, Microsoft [MSFT] may have tweaked the Xbox Originals to have achievement points…” After all, if they went through the trouble of adjusting the games, in some cases rebuilding them extensively (although doubtfully from scratch), there’s got to be some incentive to owners of the actual original physical discs to purchasing the games all over again.
From 2007, Larry Hryb (Major Nelson, ‘natch) answers the question in his blog. And the answer is NO. 
N.B.
This Xbox Original downloadable formulation of Halo requires at least 2 GB of Xbox 360 hard disk space. Be careful, folks: check your ’6!
