Original Xbox turns 9 today!

Great console with lots of awesome games! Unfortunatly very underhyped.

November 15th 2001 was the release of the first Xbox game console and the begining of the end for Sony???Tony-Baxter

November 15th 2001 was the release of the first Xbox game console and the begining of the end for Sony???Tony-Baxter

It's a shame it died right after it's 3rd birthday. :(

I bought two of those suckers and two copies of HALO 2...I had no idea a year later it would be long dead and the 360 would already be out. :cry:

November 15th 2001 was the release of the first Xbox game console and the begining of the end for Sony???Tony-Baxter

It's good to know that after death, it still can age.

You can say it's the 9th anniversary, or the 6th anniversary since death in a few months I guess. but no way "turns 9 years".

[QUOTE="Tony-Baxter"]November 15th 2001 was the release of the first Xbox game console and the begining of the end for Sony???SolidTy

It's a shame it died right after it's 3rd birthday. :(

I bought two of those suckers and two copies of HALO 2...I had no idea a year later it would be long dead and the 360 would already be out. :cry:

i bought a crystal xbox and halo 2 cause it was wow this game is awesome and online on a console was a totally new thing for me especially.A year later support dropped off and MS had the 360 on show.

Tbh can you imagine if halo 2 were a launch title for the 360, highly polished perfect for getting the 360 kicked off for being another PS2.Forza 1 could have been the same.

I missed the party yesterday, so happy belated born day XBOX :). You were the biggest baby ever born, powerful too! You've slimmed down as you've gown though. And like Michael Jackson, changed pigments. Did you have surgery too? :P (it's OK that he walked towards you, and subsequently performed a 360 and "walked" away!). But, now you're black again :o!

And the world just keeps on turning.....

I kid I kid, it was a great system and if it wasn't for it console online gaming probably wouldn't have come as far as it has. On the same note maybe console local multiplay may not have died as much.... Hard to say but worth considering.

I Still Play Mine, the other Week I was playing on San Andreas, Freedom Fighters and Timesplitters 2 :)

November 15th 2001 was the release of the first Xbox game console and the begining of the end for Sony???Tony-Baxter

Why are we celebrating the original Xbox? It's Dead. Dead stuff don't get birthdays.ZippySlappy

The NES got a birthday.

November 15th 2001 was the release of the first Xbox game console and the begining of the end for Sony???Tony-Baxter

I still play my original launch xbox. I was 1st in line at my local walmart after standing there for 9hrs..:)..matter of fact, I just bought a new controller...and fixed 2 of my other controllers...A classic system that will go down in history as one of the best.

what a shocker, people that are more into brands than games don't like the og xbox.

great system, i had a blast with so many games on that thing.

ghost recon 16 player co-op, rainbow 6, splinter cell, rallisport challenge 2, playing games in 1080i, amazing online service, jade empire, riddick, odd world, crimson skies, jet set radio, steel battalion, mechassault, ninja gaiden, elder scrolls, otagi, project gotham, deus ex, halo, panzer dragoon...

go ahead and talk some more smack about the xbox and show all of SW that you have no clue what you are talking about. go on, it's amusing to me.

Oh sorry, original Xbox is DEAD. I don't say happy birthday to the deads and stop counting their age, as they are dead.

And happy birthday to your dead grand-grand mother. She must be over 100 years old now!

I didn't know people celebrated birthdays of the dead...

what a shocker, people that are more into brands than games don't like the og xbox.

great system, i had a blast with so many games on that thing.

ghost recon 16 player co-op, rainbow 6, splinter cell, rallisport challenge 2, playing games in 1080i, amazing online service, jade empire, riddick, odd world, crimson skies, jet set radio, steel battalion, mechassault, ninja gaiden, elder scrolls, otagi, project gotham, deus ex, halo, panzer dragoon...

go ahead and talk some more smack about the xbox and show all of SW that you have no clue what you are talking about. go on, it's amusing to me.

Riverwolf007

TC - the longer this goes on, the more I'm convinced you should have posted in Legacy Platforms instead of System Wars. Though to go back to your original post - Xbox was not the "beginning of the end for Sony" it was a rebirth of a 3rd competitive company in the video gaming market. It took the place of the Sega Dreamcast but neither Xbox nor Xbox 360 have completely ended anything for Sony or PlayStation.

For all the "we don't celebrate the birthday of dead things" - why did they make the point of John Lennon's 70th birthday when he's been gone for 30 years?

If ANNIVERSARY fits more than birthday, then keep that word in mind and use it in place of the term in this topic. The fact is that MY personal original Xbox has a date of November 17th 2001 - it still works, therefore it is still a "living" system - I can still play it and it's 9 years old. My GameCube is also going to be 9 years old, I still play it, it still works. My NES was bought around March of 1988 and still works, therefore it is almost 23 years old. Anniversaries or not these are the actual ages of the systems I have.

Oh sorry, original Xbox is DEAD. I don't say happy birthday to the deads and stop counting their age, as they are dead.

And happy birthday to your dead grand-grand mother. She must be over 100 years old now!

general_KDI

Congratulations, you're #52 on the list of people who said the exact same unwitty response.

On topic, great console. Didn't sell too well overall but was really the dominant brand where I lived, EVERYONE had an Xbox. Unfortunately everyone got a 360 and I got a PS3, so now I have few people to game with :P

Why would people that are into games like the xbox? Xbox's total library was half the size of PS2s, and comparing exclusives is even more one-sided.

ianuilliam

Well lets come up with a list out of the 1000 PS2 titles that are worth playing. I love my PS2 and still have my original launch PS2, but showing disrespect to the Xbox only shows how little you know about it. It was 10x the console out of the 3 major consoles at the time. Built in hdd,4 controller hookup,awesome online,built like a tank,better controller.."yes even the duke", HALO, plus the Splinter Cell series was started on this machine AND better on the xbox.

The only games i play on the original xbox still is conker and call of cthulu

[QUOTE="Riverwolf007"]

what a shocker, people that are more into brands than games don't like the og xbox.

great system, i had a blast with so many games on that thing.

ghost recon 16 player co-op, rainbow 6, splinter cell, rallisport challenge 2, playing games in 1080i, amazing online service, jade empire, riddick, odd world, crimson skies, jet set radio, steel battalion, mechassault, ninja gaiden, elder scrolls, otagi, project gotham, deus ex, halo, panzer dragoon...

go ahead and talk some more smack about the xbox and show all of SW that you have no clue what you are talking about. go on, it's amusing to me.

ianuilliam

it's because i'm glad you didn't like it.

it pleases me a little that you see no value in it.

seriously it does, if you didn't get to play some good games because you limited yourself it is imo is a good thing.

is that strange? yeah i think it probably is but what could be more fitting in sw than to see someone get less of a good thing because they are limited by their biases.

[QUOTE="ianuilliam"]

Why would people that are into games like the xbox? Xbox's total library was half the size of PS2s, and comparing exclusives is even more one-sided.

VanDammFan

Well lets come up with a list out of the 1000 PS2 titles that are worth playing. I love my PS2 and still have my original launch PS2, but showing disrespect to the Xbox only shows how little you know about it. It was 10x the console out of the 3 major consoles at the time. Built in hdd,4 controller hookup,awesome online,built like a tank,better controller.."yes even the duke", HALO, plus the Splinter Cell series was started on this machine AND better on the xbox.

[QUOTE="ianuilliam"]

[QUOTE="Riverwolf007"]

what a shocker, people that are more into brands than games don't like the og xbox.

great system, i had a blast with so many games on that thing.

ghost recon 16 player co-op, rainbow 6, splinter cell, rallisport challenge 2, playing games in 1080i, amazing online service, jade empire, riddick, odd world, crimson skies, jet set radio, steel battalion, mechassault, ninja gaiden, elder scrolls, otagi, project gotham, deus ex, halo, panzer dragoon...

go ahead and talk some more smack about the xbox and show all of SW that you have no clue what you are talking about. go on, it's amusing to me.

Riverwolf007

it's because i'm glad you didn't like it.

it pleases me a little that you see no value in it.

seriously it does, if you didn't get to play some good games because you limited yourself it is imo is a good thing.

is that strange? yeah i think it probably is but what could be more fitting in sw than to see someone get less of a good thing because they are limited by their biases.

Yeah and most of the kids who play the xbox are just turning 9 aswell... I saw a post a few days ago stating "I grew up with the 360 controller" Thats hilarious!!!JohnF111

Links me that thread please?

[QUOTE="Riverwolf007"]

[QUOTE="ianuilliam"]Why would people that are into games like the xbox? Xbox's total library was half the size of PS2s, and comparing exclusives is even more one-sided.

ianuilliam

it's because i'm glad you didn't like it.

it pleases me a little that you see no value in it.

seriously it does, if you didn't get to play some good games because you limited yourself it is imo is a good thing.

is that strange? yeah i think it probably is but what could be more fitting in sw than to see someone get less of a good thing because they are limited by their biases.

[QUOTE="ianuilliam"]

[QUOTE="Riverwolf007"]maybe the ps2 was better idc but see here is why this point is moot.

it's because i'm glad you didn't like it.

it pleases me a little that you see no value in it.

seriously it does, if you didn't get to play some good games because you limited yourself it is imo is a good thing.

is that strange? yeah i think it probably is but what could be more fitting in sw than to see someone get less of a good thing because they are limited by their biases.

Riverwolf007

[QUOTE="JohnF111"]Yeah and most of the kids who play the xbox are just turning 9 aswell... I saw a post a few days ago stating "I grew up with the 360 controller" Thats hilarious!!!marcogamer07

Links me that thread please?

I already posted a picture of the quote. his memory didn't serve him too well, because he took it out of context then, and he still has it out of context.