The Xbox 360 turns 10 years old today

 
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November 22, 2005 was when the console was released in North America and then would later get released in Europe and the rest of the world. The 360 had some really shit games at launch, the only good games in my opinion were NFS: Most Wanted and Call of Duty 2. I remember seeing the local news reporting about the system and there was people camping outside Best Buy, Circuit City(RIP in pepperonis), and other electronics store waiting to buy it. I didn't get an Xbox 360 until Christmas in 2007 when I got one with Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Forza Motorsport 2, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Best Christmas I've ever had.

I was glued to my 360 for a month until it decided to RRoD on me. I sent it in to get fixed and then ended up sending me a new one instead. That one lasted me for about a year until it finally RRoD with that infamous E 74 prompt that happened to many others as well. Instead of sending me a new one, they actually fixed this 360 and it lasted me a long time until late 2011 when it stopped reading discs. I bought my friend's 360 at the time and that one lasted me until earlier this year when that one stopped reading discs too.

Aside from all the technical bullshit I went through I had some pretty damn good times with the Xbox 360. I just wish I had gotten Xbox Live sooner than I did.


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Ah yes, I too got one for Christmas 2007. I remember seeing a news report about how Internationally People were lining up at stores for Halo 3 before it launched, speculating it would shatter the current record for Launch Day sales, and thinking I'd never be that much of a Nerd, and I'd never be that into the Halo franchise (lmao), despite a cracked copy of CE being distributed and played at my School. We got Guitar Hero 3, Forza 2 and Viva Pinata with the 360 Pro bundle (It went Core < Pro < Elite Pro, yeah?), and I routinely played Guitar Hero with my Brother to an extent that our Vision would seem like it was warping when we looked away from the Screen. It had a hate for GTA IV too. Twice when it was standing up, it fell over and scratched rings into the disc of that very game, and I seem to recall it getting the Red Ring twice over its lifespan. The current one struggles with Halo 3 and Guitar Hero 5 especially.


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I got one back in Christmas 2009, and used it basically non stop until like 2014. The poor thing was still chugging along, the disc tray wouldn't open unless there was a disc inside and it made HORRIBLE noises while reading discs, but it never died on me once. Played an impossibly large amount of Halo back then haha


 
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I got one back in Christmas 2009, and used it basically non stop until like 2014. The poor thing was still chugging along, the disc tray wouldn't open unless there was a disc inside and it made HORRIBLE noises while reading discs, but it never died on me once. Played an impossibly large amount of Halo back then haha
Lol yeah, mine wouldn't open unless there was a game inside. I always thought that was really weird for some reason. Mine also sounded like a jet engine when playing discs near the end of its life.


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I had some good times with it. Mine never broke thankfully.

 It lasted a bit too long imo. The last few years were pretty dreadful as far as how games were running/looking, but still it's a great console. I'll always remember how awesome Christmas was the year I got it.


 
 
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The angel then led the demon to heaven, where he underwent centuries of the cruelest tortures imaginable. Finally, the pain was so great that he lost consciousness - at which point his dark wings turned the promised shade of white.
My Elite is still alive and beating, nearly 9 years old


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CoD 2 ended up to be the best game of the 7th generation.


 
 
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We got ours Christmas 2009 with Halo 3 and a couple of other games, I have a lot of fond memories of my brothers and I all sat playing 4 player splitscreen on it.

Stuff like when we built a tunnel to get to the skull on Sandbox e.e

Then we all slowly got our own consoles and the original xbox RROD, which was a real shame. Then rather than sending it off to be fixed my dad tried a DIY.

So we have the maimed corpse of a 360 elite somewhere in the garage, RIP ;-;7


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Got mine in 2010, it's been a fun ride.


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Didn't get mine until Nov 2006 for a little thing called Gears of War...oh the memories. Got it Black Friday at a Circuit City with Gears thrown in for free.


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I got mine late, somewhere around 2008 after my friend showed me GTA IV. I couldn't stop shooting the assault rifle in the dark with all the lights off.

Played the shit outta W@W until I got XBL, then played the shit out of it some more. I only stopped playing after the hackers suddenly swarmed the game, and so now I try to enjoy it on PC.


 
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I got mines in '10.


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Man you had some bad luck with the 360 lol, I got mine back in 2008 I think, and it's barely starting to die now. It takes about 5-10 tries to read a brand new game disc, I don't think it can even read some of my more worn down discs anymore.


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Got the Arcade version because it was cheaper

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I got my 360 in early 2011.


 
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Never owned one.

Xbox fucking sucks.


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Never owned one.

Xbox fucking sucks.
But i thought you were a console collector


 
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But i thought you were a console collector
I am, just not with Xbox. But that has more to do with price than anything else. I wouldn't spend more than $50 on a 360.

The original Xbox I have was a gift for my dad from one of his friends.


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But i thought you were a console collector
I am, just not with Xbox. But that has more to do with price than anything else. I wouldn't spend more than $50 on a 360.

The original Xbox I have was a gift for my dad from one of his friends.
what's actually wrong with the 360 that you wouldn't spend more than $50 on one?


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I remember getting mine Christmas of 2008, with Halo 3, Gears of War, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance/Forza MotorSport 2(they were both in the same case). It died almost a year later, a few weeks short of Christmas, where we would have had a second 360 so my brother and I wouldn't have to share. I kept that one with me when I moved out for college in 2012, until the disk tray wouldn't open unless a disk was already inside, and sometimes not even then. I got it replaced that Christmas with an Elite, which is the one I have with me now.


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Never owned one.

Xbox fucking sucks.
While that is true the 360 has good exclusives.

Got mine in early 2007.


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Never owned one.

Xbox fucking sucks.
That's what a Nintendo wii-mote sucker would say.


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Got mine around 2006 along with Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter

Got Halo 3 when it came out (but still didn't have LIVE so blehhhhhh). Got the red ring probably in '10? Used my brother's I think for the time being.

 Got the Halo 4 console and it's lasted me since.


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The 360 ruined my life.


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Ah man, all the memories. I got one back in 2007 for Halo 3. It's definitely my favorite console I have.

I laugh looking back at when I got it--Circuit City was still around, and the general consensus was that the Elite wasn't worth the money. I got the last laugh as I still had hard drive space long after everyone else ran out :^)

The only problem I ever had with it was the Red Ring of Death, but thankfully it came just a few weeks before Microsoft stopped sending the box and all that jazz. I lucked out even though I didn't >.>


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i got mine for my birthday in 2008, along with halo 3 and cod 4

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But i thought you were a console collector
I am, just not with Xbox. But that has more to do with price than anything else. I wouldn't spend more than $50 on a 360.

The original Xbox I have was a gift for my dad from one of his friends.
what's actually wrong with the 360 that you wouldn't spend more than $50 on one?
No games.
RRoD.
Worst controller known to mankind.
XBL is awful and isn't free.
etc.
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