Xbox is 10 year old

[emech]

Deathrow, Buffy (what sold me on getting an xbox - well Halo hype helped too), Jet Set Radio and Hulk:ultimate destruction, keep my xbox set-up. The halo experience can be had on the 360 but these titles have yet to be equaled on current-gen.

Afternoon edit: I'd conced that buffy has been bettered in the 3rd person action games stakes (but I love playing in her universe) and MAYBE hulk has been equaled somewhere. I stand by my calls for a deathrow (won't happen - it didn't sell well) and jet set radio (again unlikely casue sega is stupid) update though.
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[Fetidchimp]

i still have my original, his disc drive is stuffed, but he still plays a mean mame, was playing double dragon on it the other day...mine still has a few months before hitting 10 though

Deathrow was the first game i bought with that sucker....graphics for that are still good.....that was a hand breaker that game.

My favourite games were the two kingdom under fire games, which i would kill someone's mother for a hd remake over that garbage they released on 360.
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kill, kill, kill.....the white man. Kill the white man, kill

[jprockbelly]

I remember when the xbox came out. The first thing I did was go down to Myer and buy an N64, which they were selling at half price

Also screw what the haters say, the original Halo was outrageous. A definite highlight for me.
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[Fetidchimp]

halo alright, played it till my fingers bled...and i still remember that fucking review that told you about the flood appearing half way through....coulda moidered some cunt
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kill, kill, kill.....the white man. Kill the white man, kill

[subbastard]

^Bought it at the 5 and dime? Those were the best days of your life.
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I'd be apathetic, but I can't be arsed.

[GooberMan]

Anyone else remember the Xbox launch being an abject failure down here, and being slashed to half price a few months later which caused everyone to buy one?

Good times.

I picked mine up towards the end of its life, around the time they stopped manufacturing them methinks. Then proceeded to play the hell out of Crimson Skies.
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[Pagan's Mind]

Halo, Jet Set Radio Future and Dead or Alive 3 were the games my Xbox saw the most love from. I still regard it as one of the worst consoles software wise but the hardware was pretty darn impressive at the time especially the internal HDD.

[Exodus]

Got mine launch with Halo (obviously) and fell in love with the campaign (except for The Library) and storyline. Eventually my dad modded it and that lead to its unneeded demise (it stopped reading real game discs and eventually stopped reading all game discs altogether) three and a half years later as the 360 was approaching. I fondly remember playing Halo, MechWarrior, Dead or Alive 3, Gladius, Bloody Roar, SW: KOTOR I and II and XIII over and over again in the first two years of its lifespan.
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[IISpacebreakII]

I didn't have the xbox last generation, but I remember playing the Buffy game at K-Mart and really really enjoyed it. Along with The Hobbit, but I couldn't play that so well because the bees kept stinging me

[XtremeXfactor]

Never owned one, i came very close to due to Top Spin.... but i wound up buying the pc version instead.

[GooberMan]

I played through Halo on a housemate's Xbox to see what all the fuss was about. If it were my copy of the game, I might have thrown it across the suburb. Gorram Library level can eat my-

*ahem*

Then borrowed Knights of the Old Republic off my friend and started playing through that. Sure, I called it Neverwinter Knights of the Old, but it was still fantastic. Never finished Jade Empire.

I bought The Warriors for the Xbox, thinking it'd look best on it and be backwards compatible. Wrong. Oh well. My Xbox still works.
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[kartanym]

The Xbox will be fondly remembered for me as it was the first online experience I had, such was Halo's influence. I fell in love with the PGR franchise and Jet Set Radio Future too. I think as much as it was maligned at the time, the old Duke controller still has a place in my heart.

[Jarrod]

I remember getting a GameCube, then Microsoft buying majority shares of Rare, and that coupled with my frustrations with Nintendo had me almost jump ship. Almost succumbed to the hype of Halo, but after playing through the whole game in co-op at a friend's house (which I did enjoy) I realised it wasn't for me and stuck with the cube.

A couple of years later I ended up in a house with my GCN, a PS2 and an Xbox, so I had the pleasure of tasting the goods from everything.

I will remember the Xbox for the cultural icon that is Halo. I might not be the biggest fan, but in terms of launching a new IP Microsoft/Bungie made all the right moves, and there's only a few franchises on the same level of popularity. The people love their Master Chief, and how.

Outside of Halo, I have fond memories of Ninja Gaiden and it's brutal difficulty, and PGR. Far Cry Instincts was also rad.

I suppose outside of not being crazy over Halo, the Xbox was too much of a PC port machine for me. A lot of the games could either be found on the PS2, or computer. The archetecture being so similar to PC worked to Microsoft's advantage, getting stuff like Half-Life 2, Doom 3, and Riddick. All games that made fairly heavy use of bump mapping, a shader that really set the Xbox visually apart from your usual slew of PS2 and GCN games.

I also remember the Xbox as Microsoft's deathblow to any future relationship with Intel.

[ZNMS]

There's an Xbox Anniversary Prop for your Avatar. Get it quick, before it is gone.
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[Jellyfish]

[Island_Wolf]

[Furianshi]

Xbox was probably the toughest console ever built. One time, I had one sitting on the roof of my car, and it slid off and crashed onto a gravel driveway... kept working like a boss. The laser wasn't even knocked out of alignment.

When I think of the original Xbox though, I recall that time being pretty good. There were a lot of quality games and new IPs, and it was all done with (at the time) awesome graphics. I remember all the pre-release hype, and how it could do like 100 million polygons/second, and how the graphics would be face-melting and developers no longer have bottlenecks etc...

There were good games though.

Games like Morrowind, Splinter Cell, Halo, Dead or Alive Ultimate, KOTOR and the GTA double-pack. With racing games you had Project Gotham, Forza, Sega GT 2002 (my Xbox came with the Sega GT/Blinx bundle) and RalliSport Challenge 2*.

The console styling was large and clunky when compared to the GC and PS2. That clunky style, combined with the relative power of the hardware, that said to me "I am a games console and I'm not ****ing around". The inclusion of the hard drive was cool too. No more memory cards.

In summary, I think that the Xbox was pretty awesome.

I'd give it a solid 8/10



* It sucks that RalliSport Challenge 2 doesn't work with the 360 backward compatibility and there hasn't been a sequel - one of the fastest, most fun rally games ever, and the graphics were outstanding.

[Mike\]

Splinter Cell was the game that made me love my Xbox.

..Well, that and JSRF.

My xbox didn't last longer than about 2 years as I modded it myself and broke it (S-M-R-T .. I mean S-M-A-R-T)