{"id":9638,"date":"2022-05-01T13:53:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T12:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-original-forza-was-briefly-available-to-buy-online-yesterday\/"},"modified":"2022-05-01T13:53:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T12:53:27","slug":"the-original-forza-was-briefly-available-to-buy-online-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-original-forza-was-briefly-available-to-buy-online-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"The original Forza was briefly available to buy online yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><iframe title=\"Let&#039;s Play Forza Horizon 5 - TAKING A TEST DRIVE THROUGH MEXICO!\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a5gWKmK_cKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>YouTuber Jamie Moran was even able to play it on their Xbox Series X and share the footage, stating on Twitter: &#8220;The First Forza Horizon game popped up again in the store. Such a fun game, it still holds up really well and it\u2019s 4K on Series X &amp; One X.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The First Forza Horizon game popped up again in the store.<\/p>\n<p>Such a fun game, it still holds up really well and it\u2019s 4K on Series X &amp; One X.<\/p>\n<p>From Xbox Series X <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qJI7k1a681\">pic.twitter.com\/qJI7k1a681<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jamie Moran (@JamieMoranUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamieMoranUK\/status\/1520557268399501312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s sudden and unexpected reappearance six years after it was removed from sale has some fans speculating that it may be making a return. Without official word from the developer or Microsoft, however, we can only chalk this up to a mistake for now.\n<\/p>\n<p>The latest game in the series, Forza Horizon 5, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/forza-horizon-5-has-more-than-10-million-players\">has seen more than 10 million players since launch<\/a>. The impressive milestone means Playground&#8217;s racing game has enjoyed the biggest first week in Xbox and Game Pass history.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-11-07-800-000-people-are-playing-forza-horizon-5-and-its-not-even-out-yet\">Forza Horizon 5 looked like a hit even before it came out<\/a>, when nearly one million people were already playing via early access on PC and Xbox ahead of the 9th November street date.<\/p>\n<p>The original Forza Horizon game was briefly available to buy from the Xbox store yesterday.\n<\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s no official word on whether or not the game&#8217;s return to the Xbox store was intentional, the racer has already been removed again, albeit not quite before some gamers managed to buy and download it (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/the-original-forza-horizon-briefly-reappeared-for-sale-6-years-after-its-removal\/\">VGC<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-original-forza-was-briefly-available-to-buy-online-yesterday\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTuber Jamie Moran was even able to play it on their Xbox Series X and share the footage, stating on Twitter: &#8220;The First Forza Horizon game popped up again in the store. Such a fun game, it still holds up really well and it\u2019s 4K on Series X &amp; One X.&#8221; The First Forza Horizon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9639,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3595,2621,3596,30,18],"class_list":["post-9638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-xbox","tag-https-wwwyoutubecom-watchva5gwkmk_ckw-youtuber","tag-jamie","tag-moran","tag-pc","tag-xbox"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The original Forza was briefly available to buy online yesterday | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View The original Forza was briefly available to buy online yesterday for free, here on XtremeServers. Discover more great articles on our site. 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