And there it is. After all this time waiting. It's black, very expensive, and all of it paid for by my employer without touching my regularly scheduled paycheck. Yippee! And it doesn't really show well, but the entire back half of that case is open and it's at least two feet to the wall back there. I'm taking no chances with enclosed areas. If that guitar hero box would stop falling over there'd be nothing back there but a bajillion cords.

If you look closely at this particular image you'll be able to see all five of my regularly used consoles.... SNES, 64, Wii, PS2 and 360 (my Cube lives in a box now. Poor Cube.) That thingummy near the Wii is a system switcher doohickey, and of particular interest to Shen, that underneath the Indiana licence plate is a poster from the HP7 launch party I went to. Boy it took me a long time to get a picture of that. :roll:

I cleaned my room, just for this picture. Aren't you proud of me?

[Edit: Question Answering]

I got the Elite. *points at picture* Why? Because it's Halo 3 launch week and everything else was sold out. Honestly, I think I got one of the last consoles left in the state. By the next morning's local news half the retailers were sold out completely and Walmart was anticipating having up to a month before they could restock!

For other games, laugh if you wanna, but the first thing I ran out and bought was KOTOR I & II. I never had an XBOX, so I've been beyond itching to play those for years and I'll be damned if I was gonna wait any longer. Pretty much all my other purchases are still in the planning stage. ;) SKATE, Overlord, and Viva Pinata are tentatively planned, along with a bunch of things coming out this fall.

Going online... Probably. At least I hope so. My wireless network is about the worst I know of, and I have no possible way to connect via ethernet, so I'm gonna pick up the adapter and see how it goes. Chances are it'll be mighty laggy and I'll be mighty sad. But then again, my Wii connects alright and is pretty stable, so who knows. Gamertag's SophinaK, although I've yet to upgrade it to Gold, so don't go adding me till I know it'll work.

Shen: we will play something together when I figure out that thar network. For sure.

Zaps: I will dutifully report for my thwomping when GHIII comes out. ;)

Ko: I did forgo Halo 3.