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Xb-ox Tribute (20-01 - 20-07)

Released in 2001 the Xbox was a success, mostly in North America and Europe. It's CPU was the Custom 733 MHz Intel Pentium III "Copper mine-based-'' processor which made games on the system look bright, realistic and fantastic. The Xbox sold 24 million units, not bad. The system can even play DVDs and CDs, and you could also burn CDs onto the system itself. The Xbox had some great titles like: Halo, Crazy Taxi 3, Grand Theft Auto: Double Pack, Grand Theft Auto: San Andre-as and more..

The Xbox was discontinued in 2007 for it's successor, the Xbox 360, to make it's way into the gaming industry.

The Xbox was an amazing system to own in my possession and it left a really nice life-span behind it. Like the Game-Cube and PlayStation 2, it's gone but not forgotten :)

PlayStation 2 (20-00 - 20-13)

In the year of 20-00, it was launch of the biggest thing in the world since TV was invented. The Sony PlayStation 2 was released to the public in North America on 8/26/20-00. With a brilliant design on the system and the attractive 64-bit "Emotion Engine-'' CPU, the PlayStation 2 worked it's way up to become the best-selling video game console of all time, selling 155 million units worldwide. It even had great titles like the "Grand Theft Aut-o'' series, The Matrix: Path of Neo, Reservoir Dogs and more..

Throughout 20-06 and 20-07, Sony continued to support it and new games continued to be published for the system.

On December 28, 20-12 the PlayStation 2 first discontinued in Japan and then on January 4th, 20-13 it was discontinued worldwide, ending not only the life-cycle of the system, but the sixth-generation of game consoles. Even though it was discontinued, my PS2 (along with my Game-Cube) was a great system to own and had nice features, like being able to play DVD movies and emulate/play Blue DVD-ROM PS2 discs. It's gone, but not forgotten. :)

A Tribute to my Nintendo Game-Cube

Before i got PlayStation, PS2 and Xb-ox. There was, the Nintendo Game-Cube :)

 

Launched in 20-01, Nintendo 's new Cube-shaped system was nicely designed and well-built in my opinion and has sold over 21.74 units, not bad. The CPU, built by IBM Power PC, was named the "Gek ko-'' which ran at 486 MHz. The Game-Cube was unappreciated by some for it's so called "Toy-is h'' design, but i didn't care what they said about it, the Game-Cube was an awesome system with great design and graphics. The Game-Cube had great titles like Sonic the Hedgehog, Rocky, Rainbow Six 3, True Crime: Streets of LA and more..

20-13, it's been 6 years since it's discontinuation. But you know what, the important thing is that while it's gone from the market, it's not forgotten.

The hardest mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andre-as - Supply Line's

While playing through mid-way already in the game i came across the 2nd mission from the guy "Zer-o'' and the mission was called "Supply Line's-''. In the mission you have to fly a toy airplane (modeled by Zer-o and named "The Red Baron-'') to shoot down 5 delivery boys that work for Berk-ley (the guy who pushes Zero around) and stop them before they make their deliveries. 2 things of what makes this an almost impossible mission is that, 1. while flying around you have to balance the toy airplane perfectly and make sure not to crash into things or else your toy airplane falls to the ground and you have to try to get back up without crashing into more things. 2. you have a gas meter which unexpectedly goes down fast by the time you finished all 5 guys and Zero tells you to bring the airplane back to his place on his building roof. Ge-ez, talk about frustration :|