Goodbye Xbox 360

[@ModernVintageGamer]

Tell me your favorite Xbox 360 memories

[@Olls0010]

Getting my first 360 on my 7th birthday, Nothing can ever top that.

[@denis-florian_0.57]

Armstrong boss fight in Metal Gear Rising

[@liplepeoberty5815]

Idolmaster is surprisingly a good game with its unique gameplay loop and challenging to gamify idol producing process. I’ve only discovered this gem recently thx to Xenia Canary. It sucks that 360 Marketplace meet its doom day.

[@iraito8356]

Playing The Darkness on it and being impressed by pretty much everything, being able to play online on a console, visuals, seeing the fingers moving with mines thanks to the amazing triggers on the controller, achievements, etc. HD was not really that surprising since i was and still am a PC gamer and i was able to push certain resolutions for years.

[@fmdesperado6110]

Chad Warden.

[@Destroyah5000]

It's unreal that this digital storefront stayed alive longer than two generations of Nintendo shops.

[@antiquefuturistic]

Its store is still the longest than any of the 7th gen consoles yet because 360 launched a whole year ahead of PS3 and PS3 store did not launched fully until 2007

[@thingsiplay]

@@antiquefuturistic Steam is even older, 2003. And Steam will not shutdown. That's why I dont want to buy games for digital stores on consoles.

[@antiquefuturistic]

@@thingsiplay if the question is for 7th gen. systems then steam is essentially generation-less and hence will go on forever.

[@ironhell813]

Japanese only believe in transcendence not permanence. Between that and the obvious racism I don’t think I’ll be living there anytime soon.

[@SuperCartoonist]

@@antiquefuturistic The only problem with the games on Steam is when they go de-listed. I mean I'm glad steam will always be around, but I would hate it if the games I bought go missing and if I can't reinstall them anymore.

[@Davitron_87]

And let’s not forget that Microsoft really wanted you to be online chatting with your friends. They bundled a headset with every console. The entire package was just incredible. So much fondness for the 360.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Yeah man, Xbox Live Parties, your group moving from game to game and it _just works_ Absolute revelation at the time

[@lukemorgan6166]

Didn't have to worry about snowflakes reporting you for mean words either

[@Nopulu]

Don't forget having to pay 60 bucks a year to be able to play with your friends. It was like having to give your ISP more money for no reason.

[@KongGig]

They really wanted to take the next step for online community gaming.

[@hanzobi1926]

Lol, that headset got thrown away and chat muted.

[@Binyotrobenski]

The phrase “you just had to be there” seems completely apt when talking about the 360. So many memories, both single player and online. RIP to an absolute legend. We never had it so good.

[@jean-pierresteenberg]

Bruh you can still buy it, no need to go full English teacher

[@Binyotrobenski]

@@jean-pierresteenberg why don’t you go play in traffic or somethin

[@vivi_75]

Peak Online community and entertainment. Made so many friends on XBL

[@alexisvillanueva1916]

@@jean-pierresteenberg The thing that made the 360 so great was the community. I made a lot of friends online back in the late 2000's and early 10's that I still talk to today. There was no shortage of multiplayer games if youre including Live Arcade or people to play with and a lot of people really enjoyed talking and making friends. The online aspect of the 360 was pillar in the history of the system.

[@ISAK.M]

My parents never got me one so I missed out completely GG nice childhood I had !!

[@acepedro12]

"Goodbye, Xbox 360..." "Guys, I'm still working." "It's almost like I could still hear his voice..."

[@AlistairBrugsch]

"bring out your dead..." "But I'm not dead yet" "Shut up, you soon will be!"

[@dinowars0078]

Atleast xbox live will remain functional on it.. it will be the only thing that still remains of some degree active..

[@cbuosi]

Its the revenge for the 3RL

[@NeverlandSystemZor]

"I'm still working"... ironic given the widespread hardware failures it had. My dad & brother combined for owning SEVEN of them b/c of the ring of death thing- they did the same for Xbox One... "I'm still working" is a badge of honor for an Xbox, imho.

[@AJayZy]

@@NeverlandSystemZorI always thought I was so lucky to only have one Xbox 360 Elite since 2010. Now it runs Aurora with 1TB storage. So my point is, either they fixed it after the Xbox 360 Arcade, or I just got really lucky.

[@JonThysell]

I moved to Seattle in 2008 for a contract job, and wasn't really into gaming that much anymore. Ran into a high school friend who was a PM at Bungie, and she raved about how good games were now. Fast forward a few months when my contract ended and my agency refused to assign me to a new job, even though they were still paying me. So I bought a 360 and a co-worker and I spent two months playing Gears all day while collecting a paycheck. Eventually someone checked the numbers and we got laid off. My next job was as a tester for Zune, and after that they hired me full-time for the new Xbox Live Studios team (Netflix app, ESPN app, etc.) which eventually got merged into the 360 software team proper. I worked for Xbox for 6 years, helped ship a half dozen 360 dashboard updates and was on the Xbox One launch team. I credit the 360 with not only getting me back into gaming, but also bootstrapping my career.

[@L.L.2045]

nice

[@returningwhisper]

Awesome story. I love the 360, it’s probably my most played console.

[@aeloh1m]

That’s an awesome story!

[@bvanstratum]

Thank you for assisting on such beautiful dashboards.

[@nathanc6516]

Good stuff.

[@legacyoftheancientsC64c]

I'm not going to lie, I'm a bit teary about the closure. I still have my Xbox 360 and most of my games on disc, many still in orange GameFly sleeves. The 360 came to me during an incredibly hard period in my life. Bedridden and in a haze of painkillers, I spent months playing through Bioshock, Fable 2, Halo 3, and more. My cousin, who spent most evenings and weekends keeping me company, came up with creative ways to help me pass the time. We "went" to the beach in Just Cause, complete with a heat lamp to simulate the sun, coconut suntan lotion, a picnic cloth, and a cooler with sodas and sandwiches. We had a beach day right in my bedroom (thankfully, she didn't bring a bag of sand) :D I have a very special fondness for the Xbox 360. It currently holds the second spot on my top three favorite consoles, right behind the SNES and above the PS4. I think I'll buy a couple of used 360s to have backup parts just in case.

[@rhythmandblues9302]

Man, that's touching.

[@wild360]

Man, yes. It's my personal favorite and I go back to Pong 😅. It came out at the perfect time. I had disposable income, no kiddos yet, and wear and tear not really letting me play sports like I wanted. Games finally met my imagination combined with rowdy online co-op and MP sessions the fellas and I still laugh about to this day. Even in 2024, I still play the 360 every few months, scooping up a non-backward compatible game off ebay that I missed back in the day. Turning the 360 on the other day and seeing that barren homescreen after the marketplace closed was dang near heartbreaking. Long live the Xbox 360. 🫡

[@legacyoftheancientsC64c]

@@wild360 I'd kill to find a working 360 with the original "Blades" UI. *sigh* such happy memories.

[@wild360]

@@legacyoftheancientsC64c I know right. I saw they added the blades as a theme for the Series X but it's just a dynamic background. Sigh...

[@legacyoftheancientsC64c]

@@wild360 You mentioned pong, I found a 2600 and TONS of games in a garbage can sometime in 1989 and I played it along with my C64c and NES. I have such an intense nostalgia for that era of 1988 to 1997. Everytime I visit my mother's house and I smell the floor cleaner she's still using nearly 40 years later I'm right back in my childhood bedroom with the itchy beige carpet and a TV the size of a microwave. :)

[@jesusmgw]

The VGA output was a saviour. As a broke student, in 2009 I bought an used 360 for 60$ and an used 19 inch LCD monitor for 20$ (which I still use as a backup to this day). That got me going for years in the videogaming department.

[@mjmanoni]

Same, I didn't have a TV in my bedroom but I DID have a computer monitor. Fantastic experience.

[@act1no]

Me too, at that time, in my room I didn't have a TV, but only a monitor with VGA output. It worked very well for me and I still have the cable.

[@omegarugal9283]

back then, vga was a cheap way to get hd

[@jonny-b4954]

To be fair, you could have always used an adapter.

[@devan_danger]

Gaming on a CRT monitor is probably head and shoulders above gaming on an LCD even today

[@RADRICH199X]

My favourite part of the 360/PS3 era is all the weird physics engines and mechanics that games tried to utilize in some way. Whether it's GTA IV and The Force Unleashed's use of Euphoria, or Far Cry 2's Dunia. Or even something like Alone in the Dark (despite it's reputation) playing around with fire and light. There were many games that tried to do interesting things with new tech in ways you don't really see often these days. RIP Xbox 360 Marketplace, you wonderful library of oddities

[@aortaplatinum]

Oh God, the days following Half Life 2's release when every developer with a budget tried to implement a shitty per-object physics engine were wacky lmao Shit was even going on in the 8th gen, though that's much more because the 7th gen introduced updates and scummy publishers started taking advantage of that and rushing out games unfinished and MAYBE patching them into playability a few months after release if they sold well enough

[@lolidestroyallofu]

Yeah, it was the last era of experimental physics games, it became a lot more profitable to make safer linear experiences - not to say a linear game is bad, but I was sad to see games like Far Cry 2 with those amazing details being put to bed in favor of generic shooters. After the shooter craze that ran from 2008-2015(?) we fell into a narrative heavy game phase definitely invoked by the major MAJOR success of 2013s Last of Us and Bioshock Infinite now we're unfortunately stuck with games as a service and battle royales, even indie game devs are chasing the roguelike trend. Makes one wish we could get a boom in better physics simulation games, even if they were jank.

[@Loundsify]

​@@aortaplatinumtbf HL2 still is one of the best games for item Physics based interaction. I enjoyed replaying it in VR over HLA.

[@wow22815]

@@RADRICH199X ps3 and xbox360 beef was the best gaming era

[@Markaroo]

Red Faction Guerrilla's building destruction physics, while not perfect, are still unmatched.

[@puma4646don]

As someone who was deep into the scene back in the day (I feel old saying that) and as someone who fixed and repaired thousands of Xbox 360's, they will always hold a very special place in my heart. Honestly it was my favorite generation of console, I learnt an incredible amount from working on them and starting out very young, to running my own business doing reballs, teaching myself high level BGA repair and buying the best equipment available and things like JTAG and RGH / Xkey installs. Hell the very first video I posted on this account was from back when I was hanging around in IRC and everyone was discussing the new "reset glitch hack" I didn't wait and got my hands on an Xilinx board and tested it for myself and was blown away. I fondly look back on memories of buying pallets of both broken and brand new consoles to repair or modify. At one point I even had every special edition boxed and sealed, but alas like you i sold most off. I miss the scene and modding and repairing, goodbye 360, you changed my life and for that you will always be special to me

[@repatch43]

Was a member of the verification team at ATI for the Xenos chip. Part of the work I was involved with was verification of the whole system, including the CPU and south bridge. Lots of very fond memories of that work. The dicey bit was we were ALSO working with Sony! One trip I was on included visiting Tokyo to support Sony, and then flying to the valley to support MS. Being part of the team meant we received launch versions of the console. Each of my colleagues hit the RROD. I've still got the OG and it never RRODed! Good times!

[@daveaussieborough9042]

What work did you do with Sony? I didn't know ATI had any part in the ps3 or ps2 :O Also, in your opinion, what causes the RROD most commonly? You seem like you might have more knowledge on the matter than the average internet goer - Was it the solder bumps melting? A hardware issue?

[@YouTubeCensors]

If your Unit never RRoD-ed , it probably means you never played it nonstop for hours, or played not very demanding gamea

[@vinyminotaur2694]

​@@daveaussieborough9042solder wasn't melting, that is impossible. Whoever says that is deranged. The main cause of RROD is faulty GPUs that had used the wrong underfill which couldn't handle the operating temperatures that the 90nm Xenos GPU ran at during normal operation and it would soften which should never happen and that caused the solder bumps underneath the silicon die to crack over time and lose connection (as the console goes through thermal cycles) because of the underfill pushing the solder bumps away from the substrate. This was fixed in consoles made after the 12th week of 2008 and any console after that is reliable as they have GPUs with the right underfill. Heck, the last 3 motherboard revisions of the original models have proved to be more reliable than the Slims and Es, the last og model revision named Tonasket is a tank and can take a lot of abuse.

[@SC-lc7tm]

@@daveaussieborough9042 i think it was covered under the xbox documentary, about the cause of RROD and how they were able to find out the cause and resolve the issue. The Story of Xbox is the name of title I believe.

[@richardwilliams877]

​@@vinyminotaur2694 Thanks for explaining this! I think people seriously underestimate thermal expansion and contraction and what it can do to devices if not properly compensated for. It might be just a tail a friend told me, but I remember someone saying they also raised the clockspeed of the CPU was raised from 2.8 to 3.2ghz late in development to be in line with PS3 which put more stress on the cooling system and may have contributed to the issue. I just Googled and can't find any information on that though, but those kinda details can be hard to find... I

[@fmdesperado6110]

I was a PS3 guy, but I can appreciate what the 360 did for the community. Good times. I'm gonna miss those days.

[@sandrinowitschM]

Same here. Back when I decided which console to get it was basically a coin toss.

[@Apollo-Computers]

I am Playstation camp too but the 360 released and I still had to wait a year for the ps3... I was close to buying a 360 lol.

[@wow22815]

Ps3 and the xbox360 beef was the best gaming era

[@WhiteJarrah]

I've always been a PlayStation man. I only bought non-PlayStation consoles for exclusives. In the case of the Xbox 360, I bought mine for _Saints Row._ I mostly never used the Xbox Live Arcade, but I was happy to purchase _Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie,_ and _Banjo Tooie_ through the digital storefront - less reliance on Nintendo hardware to play certain games, the better.

[@FermentedGrumpyGrapeSqueezit]

Me too looking back it was a great era overall the graphics jump from previous was amazing

[@braydenlykinslol]

I got my Xbox 360 when I was 6 years old, 2009. I remember when me and my friends would always play splitscreen on it. Recently, one of my best friends passed away. We grew up on that console together.

[@braydenlykinslol]

We played CoD, Halo, left 4 dead. Gears of War and so on.

[@Kino_pup]

Sucks you didn’t get to grow up in the 90s. I’m sorry you guys didn’t get the good times we had.

[@KP-48-007]

Games in the 2000s are so much better than the 90s and better than 2020s 2000s are the best era the evolution was huge ​@Kino_pup

[@tsalikaki]

I actually didn't show up to work one day in 2007 just to go buy a 360. My boss saw me on the street and I said "You know what? There are these days that you just need to dedicate to your well being. Just bought myself an xbox!" She laughed and brushed it off and never mentioned my missing work again. I owned one of the very early lcd's that didn't have an hdmi so after careful research, I bought the vga cable to go with it. I was so mind blown with the high res graphics that I sold my ps2 which through composite looked like crap. I loved my 360 till early 10's. Never bought a console since then till the pandemic, when I bought a series S. Super well priced for the casual gamer (i'm 42 now) and very reliable. Greetings from Greece!

[@unexplained_entity7514]

Haha best boss ever

[@MysticZefer]

amazing

[@MostlyPennyCat]

I just couldn't bear to go from PC gaming to PS2 gaming, the drop was just too great. But once the 360 came out, I switched and never looked back

[@prezidenttrump5171]

That never happened.

[@ghostbombl8034]

You lucky she did that.I think she did not care depends on your value of company and your attendance and personality of boss.

[@AluVixapede]

RIP to a real one. Gone but not forgotten. The 360 actually got my mom interested in gaming. She didn't play too many games, but, she liked Skyrim a lot, which was cool.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

Regarding this 360 game issue, this is the only solution: *All types of intellectual property (IP) laws must be fully abolished immediately, in any and all jurisdictions worldwide.* All IP laws are extremely unethical for humankind. Against Intellectual Monopoly is the most informative book humanity has on the subject now. Against Intellectual Property is _another_ incredible essay, but it’s written from a right-libertarian perspective so if you’re, like me, not right-libertarian you’ll have to read with an open mind and extract what’s helpful. _Only_ these two texts are the gold standard when it comes to intellectual property.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

I also have a playlist (not _my_ videos) of *the* best videos on intellectual property laws on my channel for all interested.

[@LUCKO2022]

Your mom...sucks

[@Cimone90]

Be gone bot​@@user-wl2xl5hm7k

[@emma6648]

Most women don’t tend to like games since they’re catered to men 99% of the time especially when the games female character is butt naked for male gaze

[@fcukugimmeausername]

Someone should ask Don Mattrick what options there are now for consumers who don't want a always online Xbox.

[@DecimationStudiosGameDev]

Looks like the 360 is really going to become an offline device.

[@weztone-l5w]

Underrated comment haha

[@Jamesssssssssssssss]

Never played a Halo game before Halo 3. So when it came out in 2007 my brother and I were on summer vacation and did as many "jobs" two 13 year olds can do. Cleaned cars, cut grass, news papers. Eventually we saved up enough for the Halo 3 360, 2 of the cool Todd McFarlane drawing controllers. It was soo worth it, Halo 3 blew us away. Then Gears, F.E.A.R , Bioshocks, Summer arcade games, ect.... Some of the best times I had were doing that time. It was a distraction from the stress of the financial crisis.

[@banguseater]

man same here, the 2009 crisis was rough and I remember halo 3 and the orange box were me and my brothers games to be distracted when we had no internet for a bit and parents stressing out from the crisis

[@dazhigh9208]

Dude thank you my friends think im mad for getting into halo so late, I also had never played a halo game until 3 then was blown away and a new love was found. cheers dude Daz

[@dazhigh9208]

@@banguseater dude im with you about the Orange box it was brill. even though i had halflife 1 & 2 on pc it was the fact i could play with my friends or just chat with them. Oh and gears was a classic 1 & 2 my fav's. Peace out dude 🙂

[@rolux4853]

The 360 brought me through the financial crisis too! I lost my job back then and I played Forza each night together with my friends. We had ours own servers and drifted for hours. It was insane how good we where at drifting with controllers!

[@MostlyPennyCat]

That first time playing Gears though... 🤤🤤🤤

[@Moravia90s]

What a console. Maybe is just nostalgia but I truly believe this was the last time I felt hype and wonder for a new console generation. The graphical leap was insane going from PS2 games to Gears Of War.

[@F1NATIK]

Hell yea I went from Socom on PS2 to GR advanced warfighter an Gears of War. What a time.

[@F1NATIK]

And OG Call of Duty 2. I remember the smoke grenades blew me away how real it was.

[@robertt9342]

Part of the problem is less leaps due to diminishing returns on computing, but I also think that there are more distractions now so there is less events to get excited about.

[@Moravia90s]

@@robertt9342 I agree with you. In fact I was discussing with a friend about how little excited I am about moving to current gen now, since there doesn't seen to be a true progression in terms of gameplay or graphics. Is like moving to PS5 or XSX feels like going from PS4 to PS4 Pro to PS4 "Pro-er". Of course nostalgia plays a role, but overall gaming seems to be a bit stale and greedy now (unless you go the PC Indie route).

[@-eMpTy-]

Until we're at true photorealism, this feeling sadly won't come back.

[@UnmatchedSkills]

VGA support on X360 was a GOATED move. A lot of people didn't have HDTVs yet in 2005-2006... but you know what almost everyone had? An HD VGA compatible flatscreen PC monitor somewhere in the house. It blew my mind when I first hooked up to my HP w2007 pc monitor. Got all of my friends picking up a VGA cable after that.

[@celeryslice]

I’m now an artist on Skate at EA, and the Xbox 360 was pivotal for me. Forza, skate, Half-Life 2, Portal 2.. all amazing 360 titles that really influenced my life today.

[@sk1zlet]

It's been a great 19 years

[@rolux4853]

My lord that stings! I preordered the 360 when it came out and I still don‘t feel much older mentally than back then at the release. I want back to those days, the world felt a lot better. Everyone had a positive outlook on the future and technology was supposed to make the world better. Nowadays AI and social media are destroying society and are used by fascist governments to destroy the free western world.

[@DixonButts-69]

Damn bro you made me feel old 😂

[@danieldavis8607]

o7

[@DecimationStudiosGameDev]

My favorite memory of the Xbox 360 would have to be when I got my first Elite model which was a Zephyr and I played Halo 3 on my 15th birthday. That model red ringed a year later, which got me to get my 2nd console, my Jasper Elite, and honestly that one stuck with me for some time and I babied it in its box after getting the slim and using that to play online with friends up until 2021 until I sold that one. I had a lot of great memories with the Xbox 360 from playing Halo 3 Matchmaking to Counter Strike GO to TF2 on the Orange Box, and of course the Call of Duty games. Party chat was a great feature, and game updates were to the point, they didn't take forever. The Xbox One wasn't the same and I don't really care for the series X/S I still own my 2nd Xbox 360, but I've gotten another phat model from 2010 and I have an RGH that's the RE5 edition and looks 100% stock on the outside. Of course, what I'm using now is my XNA Xbox 360 Development Kit. I also have a regular grey kit as my backup dev kit since that was my first one that I acquired last year, where as my XNA Final Dev Kit I managed to acquire back in april. Happy to say now that I'm using the dev kits and an old version of Unity 5 to create homebrew games for modded Xbox 360 consoles. I have a game out now that you can download for free on my blog, I have the trailer uploaded on my channel here, and I'm already working on my next project. Honestly, I couldn't ask for such a better console to exist. Even when XBL shuts down, there will be alternative networks for the Xbox 360, and I will be using my consoles and kits until they stop working for good.

[@kinglear6150]

Though I do love the 360, what I miss the most is the business practices and the overall era it lived in. When the internet gave us hopes and dreams for the future with DLC and indie games and re-releases of old games, before turining into predatory business practices and shipping unfinished products with gigantic day one patches.

[@InfernalMonsoon]

It was definitely the transitionary phase for AAA especially, starting out full of whimsy and slow morphing into something more cynical, but that definitely wasn't the 360's fault and it still gives me such positive vibes whenever I think about the system. Definitely helps that it came out at the time where the whole Frutiger Aero aesthetic was at its peak, I'll always miss that.

[@PowderedVoltage]

Many of those ugly practices began during the 360 era. That was the infancy stage. They've only worsened with each generation since.

[@thelazyworkersandwich4169]

360 had horrible business practices. Back then you would have to pay for gold just to play a free online title.companies would release a new game nearly every year and then add on map pack and DLC's. Infact Microsoft very much encouraged this, if you tried to release free DLC they would flat out force you to make it paid.

[@Qwepzy]

The original xbox 360 design with the chrome disk drive is still my favourite design

[@Fuk99999]

It’s actually just a piece of plastic clipped onto the drive lol. They made a metal white plate at some point. I think for arcade units

[@rokuterra]

I agree, I love the "fat" Xbox 360. One of my favorite console designs.

[@ironhell813]

Mine was the one with the matching tray. I got it day one and there were no premiums so I got a core system. Turns out it looks better anyways.

[@theafilmssm]

I still got mine!

[@SpeedRockStef]

This was the Xbox 360 Premium. This was the first Xbox I bought on April 1st 2008 in Game Station UK. I had saved £150 worth of pocket money and coins, my mum agreed to help pay the rest. That day I got my first 360 with a choice of a free game, Halo 3 or PGR4. I chose Halo 3 and acquired PGR 4 later on.

[@killer1one1]

"Xtremely" proud iXtreme firmware user here! Between the years of 2008 and 2011, C4E and the rest of the Xbox 360 DVD firmware scene kept me and my buddies gaming for thousands of hours over Xbox Live! I even remember playing a leaked copy of RE5 in co-op with my friend over XBL and, somehow, using the proper SS patches and burning software, have avoided a ban throughout my entire time with the Xbox 360. Thank you for talking about this part of the X360 story, it was *huge* for some of us.

[@sergiorr90]

My girlfriend wasn't really into video games, but the Xbox 360, as the last true couch multiplayer console, gave us the opportunity to play together. Initially, she thought video games were just virtual toys. However, the 360 allowed her to discover immersive stories that can't be shared through other mediums

[@divinecomedian2]

I think the Switch carries the couch multiplayer console name still

[@InfernalMonsoon]

I've been collecting a bunch of multiplayer games for it, even managed to snag some really fun ones on XBLA before it closed, because my girlfriend wants to play more multiplayer games with me whenever we meet up. It really is the last great system for that.

[@nathanc6516]

Your comment made me think of Mass Effect.

[@JonnyBoyUltra161]

Since the 360 was on the market for so long it got me through a ton of stressful life events. It was there for me when I started high school, when I graduated high school, the first time that I moved out of my parent's house, and when I joined the Army. It has had such a lasting effect on me.

[@sopadesopita]

same but air force

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Same, my wife died when I was 25 and she was 23. Played a lot of Halo and Gears. _"Mics on people, mics on"_

[@winlover37]

​@@MostlyPennyCatAbout to cry on my lunch break, I'm so sorry man. I hope you're doing well these days.

[@alyxgraff9121]

I managed to get Hard Corps Uprising, Charlie Murder, most of the Ninja Bee Games catalog, Burnout Crash & a bunch of apps, themes & gamerpics before the servers died at midnight. I'm somewhat sad that I didn't knoe about the Dead Rising 2 spin-offs, the Bionic Commando remakes or the Turtles in Time/Simpsons Arcade ports until after they were delisted however. R.I.P. Xbox Live Arcade. Thanks for being a huge part of my gaming experience.

[@mostverticalproductions4808]

Same. I snagged Puzzle Fighter, Hard Corps, Harmony of Dissonance, Guwange and Fighting Vipers. The amount of arcade game ports on this thing was insane, spent so many hours playing UMK3 and 3S.

[@alyxgraff9121]

@@mostverticalproductions4808 I also just learned that the Xbox Indiecade is dead too. Over 2000 indie titles are gone now, including the popular "1 M2D3 A G2M3 W/ Z0MB13S 1N 1T" that I consider to be the predecessor to titles like Vampire Survivors & Boneriser: Minions. It truly is a sad day for game preservation... (but at least Xbox fans just finished archiving everything tonight.)

[@MrRhysReviews]

If you're talking about Dead Rising Case Zero/West and also Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 (not the first one unfortunately) then they are all BackCompat on Xbone and Xbox Series and are still up and available for purchase on those Stores.

[@alyxgraff9121]

@@MrRhysReviews Okay good. Not all of them are lost media then.

[@K808G1]

51 year old gamer here. I gotta agree, the 360 had a great library. Seeing actual gameplay of Gears of War sold me right away. I was blown away by the visuals and gameplay. The only 2 other times I remember being totally amazed was playing Super Mario 64 and seeing Quake 2 in OpenGL.

[@Xyos212]

Those were impressive milestones for me too. Gears of War really changed the game. Can't believe how fast time flies.

[@kingofcapp]

I remember how incredible gears looked, but actually playing it exceeded all my expectations. What an incredible milestone game

[@alicebonnet4607]

Unreal honorable mention.

[@periwinkle2486]

​@enrique7934oh you are just adorable. back to your fortnite now, little buddy 😊

[@Lead_Foot]

I remember being so impressed with the amount of detail in bump/normal maps in first party UE3 games

[@winlover37]

The Xbox 360 still feels simultaneously not that long ago, while also a lifetime ago. I remember as a young kid just reading about the 360 in all the gaming magazines and being enamoured by it whenever passing by a display at a store. Now here we are with the marketplace closing. While maybe a little sad symbolically, this just motivates me to finally get my Jasper RGH'd. I really need to play GoldenEye XBLA on native hardware lol. Great love letter to the 360 MVG, this was a bittersweet watch.

[@SodaPopLuna]

i still remember when i got my first xbox 360 console. one of my friends gave me his old 360 back in middle school and he had brought it with him to school to give it to me and i had to carry it around all throughout the school day and when i finally got home and played it for the first time, i was the happiest girl ever and after being stuck with the original xbox for so long, this was a dream come true. after that, i had so many memories playing it with my cousin, especially playing halo 4 and reach. i had to sell it to help pay for some stuff but i still miss it so much and i will always cherish those memories.

[@GigaChad_169]

Xbox 360 was the last "next gen" console that actually impressed me. It had the "you couldn't do this in previous generations" feel to the experience. Since then gaming has been mostly marginal improvements to existing experiences that started on the Xbox 360. The 360 was the last console that truly hooked me on games until Switch. The feeling of losing time playing a game, then looking up and realizing 4 hours went by in the blink of an eye is surreal and rare for me these days. Last time that happened was Tears of the Kingdom on Switch.

[@TRDiscordian]

I thought the Switch's motion controls were pretty cool. Solid setup that didn't require extra sensors. Other than that I mostly agree. I don't think the 360 was super special in that regard as the PS3 was more powerful than the 360 and released around the same time. The simplicity of developing for it over the Playstation I believe pushed Sony into a more simple/streamlined approach with the PS4, then we basically had 2 XBoxes with different fanclubs. Glad you got lost in the new Zeldas. As a longtime Zelda fan, I unfortunately can't seem to get captivated by them. I don't think I like the large free open-world, breakable weapons, or the FPS (...it's worse than what the N64 was?!). I still get lost for hours in arcade games though as I built a home cabinet, I don't wait for the companies to make something nice anymore, I work on maximizing what we already have :).

[@big.muscles.ohyeah]

Nah I gotta disagree. I wasn’t around for the leap between 2D to 3D but after that it was always “marginal” The biggest jump was definitely from the 360/PS3 to One/PS4. If you play next-gen games that came out right after console release and games for the previous-gen that just came out, the differences are night and day. Sometimes I wonder how I ever thought the xbox 360 was so revolutionary. He even talks about it near the beginning of the video. Those games for the last gen were always like 480p the quality was awful. Charming but visibly grainy. Next gen runs 720 to 1080p which even from 480p to 720p is a massive upgrade. Plus games went from being very short and bland, a lot of licensed shovelware crap, to being way overbaked, mmo, open world, role playing games. That wouldn’t be possible unless the hardware allowed for it. From One/4 to X/5 there is a marginal difference. But it was the same for PS1 to PS3. There’s a little more memory from the last gen but the graphics haven’t improved all that much. Right now we’re focusing on stuff like AI upscaling so they’ll probably be trying to “fix” a bunch of old games now as a showcase.

[@InfernalMonsoon]

A lot of people rail on Perfect Dark Zero but at the time I thought it looked and played amazing, like nothing before even on the OG Xbox came anywhere close to wowing me with its visuals and sheer amount of content the game offered. Until Halo 3 of course. But I still love Perfect Dark Zero even to this day.

[@chrisad1177]

The only reason I eventually upgraded to an Xbox One was to get new games, and that was only when the One S/X came out

[@kallemetsahalme5701]

it gets harder and harder. to be fair i mostly had that feel with xbox/ps2 gen, though the crowds of dead rising, the smoothness of forge mode and the detail of gta iv definitely blew me away. but most games from dead or alive to forza to dead space didnt really benefit and i would have taken ps2 versions just fine. but now thinking back it was 20 years ago and what has been released in these recent years is really underwhelming. though after games like gta iv and dead rising its hard to think what could i even expect. even if i try to imagine tes vi having super deep a.i and world where you could realistically chop trees and stuff its still "eh"

[@polarity2130]

There was one memory that will always stand out from the rest, I remember the release of Halo 3: ODST. I had been begging my parents to get a copy on release because all my friends were as well. At this point in my life I didn’t understand what pre ordering was, turns out my dad had actually pre ordered it and after he got off work, he went and picked it up to surprise me when he got home. Huge moment for me as a kid.

[@topdecktunes]

first and only time I ever want to the midnight launch of a game

[@ImDaPap]

Way to go Dad ✊

[@thetayz72]

Goated dad moment

[@raulsanmiguel4941]

I was just a child when my brother brought the 360 home. I am from Spain where PlayStation is a religion and I was doubting about that console until I connected it to my PC CRT screen at 900p with the VGA cable. That is the most impressive memory I have about playing videogames at all. I spent all night playing Gears of War and fell in love with that console forever. Great memories about another time where technology stepped so huge from one year to another. Amazing video as usual. Keep hitting it and all the best from Spain!!!

[@KarlRock]

Those were good days. RIP.

[@YorkieKilla]

Hey Karl, I know you love gaming but it's awesome to see you here! ✌️

[@Blanco8x8]

The years 2005 - 2008 were an interesting time for gaming. Kids traded their GBA for a DS or PSP. Neighbors jumped from PS2 to XB360. A Wii in every house, some as their very first console.

[@Saint-oh5ne]

and me? a dsi in 2024.

[@Retrofire-47]

@@Saint-oh5ne Why?

[@user-ot7wb8sy1v]

@@Saint-oh5ne me a dsi in 2023

[@JoBot__]

@@user-ot7wb8sy1v With me, a DS Lite, modded Wii, modded Xbox 360, and jailbroken iPhone 3GS in 2024.

[@MrPoeGhost]

@@Retrofire-47 Why not?

[@sammyToesis]

360 defined my console experience as a teenager. I got it as a gift from my uncle, as money was tight I wasn’t able to afford the “next gen” consoles. The memories of the games I played on it…Bioshock, Dark Souls 1, Borderlands 2, hell even Golfing Games. It was a beautiful time. I’m still happy I have the exact same 360 in my room. Survived two red rings and still works.

[@themojowojo1626]

The 360 defined my teenage years and laid the foundation for my life. The guys who stood by me in my wedding played on it with me, my dad was healthy and here. I met several friends on it who are gone now. It hurts to see it go but it hurts more knowing those days are long gone and will never come back. I’m thankful for the good times though. The 360 was a cultural phenomenon and it went beyond gaming. While Xbox lives on in the modern area and gaming gets more advanced, it’s okay to look back and feel something for the days the times that have passed

[@human_brian]

My favorite memory of the X360 era were the arguments I had with former co-workers about which was better, the 360 or PS3. I eventually owned both systems but the 360 was my first of the 6th gen consoles and I loved it.

[@TheSevenBeloved]

My first experience on the Xbox 360 was Bioshock. I was blown away, and I even sat in the water a moment before I realized the cutscene was over. I met one of my best friends on Tranzit. I remember buying music videos so I could watch them on my 360 and Zune from the marketplace.

[@gdot1803]

The Xbox 360 era was such a fun time. It was all about a generation that had grown up in the 80's with NES and Atari, gone through their edgy teen phase on PS1 in the 90's, and now in their 20's on Xbox 360. Even the games journalism and online discourse was better back then The 1Up Show, 1Up Yours Podcast, the good years of both Giant Bomb and E3 in general; it was just a great time in gaming, and wasn't as politically dividing as it is today.

[@MrBonderd]

Well said as someone near 40, I will say that generation was the best. It was the right amount of technology/internet and still maintained a true gaming feel. Very little microtransactions/ physical media/huge hype around game releases. It seems like games and movies no longer do anything creative. I don’t even own a current generation system. I feel like video games have been all down hill since covid honestly.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

45 here. From my 8bit BBC Micro (the greatest composer ever made) to my Acorn A3000, to my first PC to the 360. Also owned a Megadrive, PS1, Dreamcast. Currently got a Series S and I owned a One S. Games take too much money to make now, we got four Gears games on the 360 and there's been, what, 2 since then? They haven't even vaguely wrung all the power out of the current generation and they're talking about the next one.

[@jordychinchin]

Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE from 2007-2012 was definitely the Golden Age of Xbox. Lobbies bustling with voice chat because the console included a headset. You had innovative features like cross-game Party Chat. Aside from the games, Xbox was a social experience unlike any other. If you played around time you made lasting memories and lifelong friends on this console

[@AM-og2oi]

My first Xbox 360 was an arcade version with a hacked hitachi drive. I’ll be honest at the time with how my families financial situation was I would’ve never experienced halo 3 or modern warfare as early as I did. I’m eternally grateful and always kept that in mind later on when I finally bought my own version of both games. The 360 will always have a special place in my heart.

[@tiernanmccarthy]

It's like saying goodbye to an old friend. I really miss those glory days of it. I was definitely younger, but this idea of online connectivity, community content and just the games themselves. I can't see it surpased.

[@JeffGeerling]

Xbox 360 was the last gaming console I ever bought. Peak Xbox, peak multiplayer, at least for me! I still have fond memories even though I went through 2 RROD units.

[@mattb9664]

My most cherished Xbox 360 memory was while I was playing vanilla SFIV when it was new and while my dvd drive was starting to fail, so the console was pretty unstable both with its drive along with the processor (it was a 6 mo after launch console) . I did Ken's Ultra Combo Dragon punch as a finisher- and during the animation right where it zooms in on Ken's smirk- the DVD drive spit out the disc tray while the disc was still spinning, and the screen froze on that animation. It was one of the coolest failures I'd ever witnessed on just about anything! That started me on the path of getting a new drive and copying the unique drive code to the replacement drive and modding the drive so it could play backups.

[@Raziel_Plisken]

Now, that's a cool story. Thank you for sharing. Mine was playing MK vs DC, it was Raiden vs Liu Kang, I landed a decent kombo on Liu, the screen went nuts and I got the ring of death...

[@Vice4Life]

Microsoft will never top the Xbox 360, there's literally no question. Their business model has changed so much that consoles basically don't matter to them any longer.

[@linkdude64]

Reminds me of how Bungie, in developing the netcode for Halo 2's online multiplayer, created all of the critical xbox live standards and code that Microsoft used for their 360 Matchmaking and whatnot. What an incredible history. Halo 3, ODST, and Reach...Gears...damn. Incredible time.

[@bigdaddy5303]

I miss those days of playing uno (of all games), or poker, chatting with people across the world. It just felt so online and was a massive community. No console since has captured that magic. I remember buying the webcam, going into a uno match and watching some black guy in the US copping head from a white girl in 240p, 10 fps, whilst all the players egged them on. What a time to be alive.

[@divinecomedian2]

I played Catan on it. Never used a webcam and sounds like a good idea not doing so lol

[@Momo4060i]

The 360 was Xbox at its peak hands down. Never felt like that ever again.

[@2dfx]

I remember being perplexed at the 360 not having an HDMI port at launch being an HD console and all. I saved my pennies and lo and behold - the Xbox 360 Elite was released in 2007. HDMI, black, it was a BEAUTIFUL console. Until mine red ringed 3 months outside of warranty after installing NXE. Left a sour taste in my mouth. Young me couldn't really afford a replacement at the time.

[@olympian3]

I was a bit jelly of my rich friend who had an elite, I had a core and only had a memory card (no HDD)for a long time

[@xShibux]

The last console where you bought a game, just insert the disc in the drive and could start playing right away. No hour long installation, downloads or patching required. This really felt like a console!

[@Krytern]

No thanks I do not want to be able to play right off a disc. Don't you remember the loading screens?

[@jon4715]

Exactly. I don’t really consider anything else a games console. PS3 did have installs I seem remember.

[@Krytern]

@jon4715 PS3 was optional installs. Don't see how something isn't a games console if you install the games that's an odd determining factor

[@Brownd55]

@@Krytern tbf 360 let you install any disc game to the HDD in full, which helped a lot

[@jon4715]

@@Krytern It was just a different era of gaming. PS3 definitely was one with the cell architecture. But after this generation, minus the Nintendo consoles maybe, everything was just an x86 PC.

[@kennethstark1117]

The rush to play Halo 3, Cod MW 2 and the first console version of Minecraft!!

[@oWhiteops]

Grew up on the xbox 360. Super sad to see the market place go down. Glad that people have preserved what was there. Even the most obscure games that you passed up as a younger teen are preserved and for a reason. They all were there to shape choice, and meaning in the ecosystem. Glad to see xbox one and series consoles are still embracing BC.

[@CloudyAidan]

Playing Black Ops 2 after school every day with my buddies when I didn’t have any adult responsibilities 😢

[@Equilum-o3x]

Yup even GTA v online when it wasn't toxic

[@lensboi1229]

Were getting old boys! The XB360 and PS3 era is the golden era of games. edit: golden era of games for me.

[@handsomedubbledee]

Them two and PS4 are the last great consoles. Gaming hasn't ever been the same. Triple A games are a dime a dozen and lose their flair. I haven't wanted anything new for a long time.

[@NMRH258]

*Laughing in SNES, Genesis, N64, PS1, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS2 and OG Xbox*

[@skycloud4802]

It was a decent era for games, but some will argue it was the start of the decline. I think the 360 shone fairly well up against the xbox. But was the PS3 really better than the PS1 or PS2? I'm not so sure. The library wasn't as diverse and experimental if you didn't like shooters. DLC, season passes, and mandatory updates made games on discs feel more hollow and unfinished. Game manuals were massively declining. Digital only releases were slowly becoming a thing. Consoles weren't built as rugged as before. Splitscreen local multiplayer largely died outside of call of duty titles. Cheat discs stopped being made (perhaps a good thing in case of online cheating, but that still happens anyway due to hackers).

[@BastetFurry]

@@NMRH258 Oh my sweet summer child, you haven't lived until you had to fiddle with CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to get a game running. ❤

[@acrane3496]

@@skycloud4802ps3 was 100% not better than ps1 an ps2. The only ppl saying that are posers who pretend they played the older consoles or graphics whores. Ps3 and 360 era was definitely the beginning of the end for gaming (at least the tail end of it). Especially since last of us ruined AAA singleplayer games to this day and most gameplay on the ps5 and ps4 has a similar feel to ps3 games because they and graphic whores made gaming too expensive to make and thus less innovative and less games.

[@Brookes79]

I had both the Ps3 & 360 consoles. I also loved the hd-dvd drive that you could connect to the 360, the 1080p movies on that really did blow my mind. That era what the pinnacle of console gaming.

[@Raphael_De_La_Ghetto]

I can still remember the first time i saw Gears Of War at a friends house 🤯🤯🤯i couldn’t believe what i was seeing, graphically and gameplay wise

[@josejacobuk]

Good night sweet prince, I was working in a video game store during the launch of the 360 such a great time. I remember the store chain got permission from Microsoft so we were allowed to get our system if we had preordered 4 days early to play on it to familiarise ourselves. Just couldn't hook it up to the internet till launch. Some great memories from around those times and some absolute bangers on the 360. I've become a bit of a 360 collector in my older age 612 games and counting! Long live the 360!

[@DJVexillum]

From the last time I played couch co-op in Halo 3 with my high school buddies to when I bought my first Xbox 360 just this April, it had been 16 years since the last time I played. Missed out on a lot, but I picked up a lot of titles before the Marketplace shutdown plus some physical games, and with the state of the gaming industry today, I feel like I can still get years of enjoyment and entertainment out of Xbox 360 catching up on what I missed!

[@eugenioarpayoglou]

Going from the OG Xbox to the 360 was like, "HOLY SHIT!" Going from the 360 to the One, or even the Series X is like, "That's nice..." Also, I noticed you did not mention Kinect.

[@ViperKillerWannabe]

As a PC gamer, the VGA port was a major savior back in the day. I don't think I would have played my 360 as much as I had if it didn't have the VGA connector. I had my PC connected to my DVI port, and my 360 connected to the VGA port. If a game was available on PC and console, I'd obviously play the PC version, but if the game was 360 only, I'd change the source on my monitor and play on the same screen.

[@SLISKI_JOHNNY]

Some of my favorite games I still play on Series X are actually games that actually originate from 360: Borderlands games, Diablo 3, Gears of War games, just to name a few. There's also games that remain on 360 with no re-release or compatibility, for instance my favorite racing game of all time - Project Gotham Racing 4. X360 was indeed a special system. It combined both worlds - both old school gaming and advantages of modern gaming. And of course all the amazing couch coop moments. Simply amazing

[@nussysnake9933]

I remember playing a COD demo in Walmart when it launched. Seeing the insane graphical upgrade, especially the smoke and particle effects, absolutely blew my mind. I will miss this era of gaming so much.

[@FatManJerry]

Rip xbox 360, one of the best consoles ever made, you will not be forgotten

[@patrickbyrne5070]

Definitely. Even with the red ring (I got mine sent off and it came back surprisingly quickly and never had any probs aside that) it was an amazing console.

[@BladedEdge]

One of the worst consoles ever made, don't kid yourself. Most fragile game console I've ever owned. Frigging amazing software library though.

[@halo3odst]

People complain about the RROD but bury their heads in the sand over the YLOD. Lol

[@divinecomedian2]

@BladedEdge yes, the hardware failures should be recognized but everything else about the system was fantastic

[@darianflewellen2449]

@@halo3odst yeah it's funny up until ps5 every PlayStation I ever owned had issues, including the yLOD.

[@bartvink976]

Yo MVG. It would be nice to see you making a complete and indepth video about the OG Xbox developer kits, including the Xbox Alpha for example. I've been enjoying you video's for years, thanks!

[@КраснодарАрабаджиев]

When I was a kid, I had a black Xbox 360 that would occasionally show the Red Ring of Death (RROD), only to magically fix itself. This pattern continued over the years; even now, I still have the console, and it still works. Occasionally, if I haven't used it for a long time, it might show the RROD again, but usually by the second or third attempt of booting it, it fixes itself and works perfectly fine with no problems.

[@dahoobs17]

Probably just needs a good clean on the inside! Fans etc haha Save the old girl!

[@rundattmedia2106]

​@@dahoobs17nah it's a common problem with the solder on earlier models. The X clamp they used on the motherboard was bad and the lead free solder used to crack and the GPU connection would fail. You could reflow the solder and it would fix it but only temporarily. A quick fix was the towel trick. You would wrap the console in a towel covering the rear vents to let it overheat. This would heat the solder up enough to let it reflow itself but this would only last a very short time.

[@jsteezy80]

@@rundattmedia2106 If he had a black console it was probably the slim or newer. It could have possibly been the Xbox Elite at the very tail end of the RROD issues. It would show the E74 error code and still qualified for the free 3 year extended warranty. I used to work for xbox support and RROD had many variations, mostly not deadly. Could be corrupt or half connected hard drive, A/V cable not plugged in, faulty power supply and a few other things. It was the accompanying error code that mattered and the amount of segments lit up red. 3 red lights was what you did not want to see

[@jsteezy80]

Do you remember what error code shows up? Also when you say RROD do you see 3 of the 4 segments lit up or is it 1, 2 or the whole ring? If it's one, two or four segments red than it's not that bad. Ccould be intermittent hard drive connection, A/V cable disconnected or half plugged o

[@КраснодарАрабаджиев]

​@@jsteezy80Xbox 360 Elite 120GB console, which shows 3 red lights around the ring

[@cyberuser0]

The xbox 360 was THE biggest part of my childhood. I will never forget it.

[@Shizzmoney74]

CoD MW2, Madden 2011, FIFA 13, SFII Turbo Remix, Halo 2+3, Gears of War 1+2... so many great times I enjoyed on mine (which I still have). Also XBMC was a very well done media GUI for streaming; used it a ton for YT/ESPN. And underrated tank controllers... the dpad is meh, but mine all still work (yay batteries).

[@Solarsplash64]

Rest in peace 360, wasn’t born around the times but I play it now

[@MegaManNeo]

I still consider myself young but damn, that makes me feel old at the same time.

[@divinecomedian2]

The 360 still works just fine. Just no more marketplace.

[@Solarsplash64]

@@divinecomedian2 I know

[@Solarsplash64]

@@divinecomedian2 i have a 3DS and it works

[@YannBOYERDev]

I was born the year of the Xbox 360 launch(2005). Wow.

[@Utautchi]

My dad’s 51. I’m 16. I remember playing Kinectimals and many other games on the Xbox 360. I also remember when he showed me how to play one of the Halo games on it when I was little.

[@ThatRandomFastingGuy]

What a beautiful memory. My mother got me into gaming, parents being are a part of that experience just can't be beat.

[@Sergei-King]

Xbox 360 was & always will hold the fondest online gaming moments of my entire life. The best console era of online gaming, friends & communities on games were in abundance. Forever will be a core part of my life. I remember there being a video/theatre party option, one person would rent a movie (with MICROSOFT POINTS, a long lost currency) and everyone else was able to watch the movie with you at the same time & the party leader could pause it. Also, instead of changing the DVD drive firmware you could just hotswap while installing the game, as soon as it passed the security checks on the disc you pulled it & put the modded one in and it installed the modded one to the HDD.

[@somebody1930]

My earliest gaming memories come from the xbox 360 alongside my ps2. I remember waking up early in the morning and then waking up my parents to help me turn on and connect the xbox 360 to my CRT tv and would play games such as fifa 07, phantasy star universe, burnout revenge and many more and would even watch my dad play halo 3 and gears of war 1 on it. When my og xbox 360 started giving continuous issues like red ring of death and the dvd drive stopping to work because of the Xbox 360 being a Xenon first gen model my dad decided to send it in to a repair shop but they said it would cost nearly the price of a new xbox 360 so he decided to buy the new slim that just came out and also the kinect and some games alongside the console and bringing it home after i came back from school. I can never forget the nostalgia and living through that generation even though the early parts of that generation is quite blurry considering I was really small but seeing the store close is definitely sad considering is still feels like yesterday when new games were still coming out and I would go to gaming stores and buying the latest games

[@Railgun18]

I bought a 360 with the launch of Final Fantasy XIII, it was a huge thing for me that a non japanese console was starting to have japanese games. I didn't use it much after that, I was really into pc gaming back then.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

What was the capcom one on a frozen planet? I miss Japanese games

[@Railgun18]

@@MostlyPennyCat lost planet

[@udance4ever]

man I still have to finish FF XIII!

[@xhall0910]

Man I'm so glad I was part of 360 since day one. I was on the road for the entire day to get one. I was traveling by train between cities to find a place where it wasn't sold out on the first day. CoD4 open Beta phase was something else. It was my first own 1 room appartement and could play without anyone disturbing me. My absolute best time. Unfortunately I experienced RoD twice and I couldn't afford a third one and I was left absolutely heart broken. To this day, it was the peak of gaming feeling. Too many good memories are from that era, more than I ever experienced after that.

[@Olls0010]

This won’t effect RGH/JTAG users if you know what I mean ;)

[@psp4gamer]

Weird flex but okay

[@Olls0010]

@@psp4gamer flexing how?

[@iPlayiOS]

My man 🤜🤛 🔥

[@eneaboba4872]

Happy im one

[@Olls0010]

@@iPlayiOS 🤜🔥🤛

[@iRedMCYT]

I’m gonna be the “my daddy works for Microsoft” kid here, basically… just that.. he doesn’t anymore. Yea the layoffs got us. My dad, Norm LeMieux was on the launch team for the Xbox 360, hired in 2004, and worked on every Xbox until the Series ones. Also the text on the side of the Scorpio retail boxes with the different languages? - yea apparently that was “him” too. Not sure how true that is though lol. He was the Microsoft representative in the HDMI Forum for a while up until recently, and he served as the “chair” for a bit too. He’s been instrumental in making the Xbox being so good at being standard in some ways that it basically could BE the test for compliance. (Regarding HDMI) Not sure how the first one not having HDMI fits in there.. maybe I’ll make a video on it where I force him to explain idk XD My first video game was Doom on the 360 (classic, not 3) in 2009 (I was 6), and my first gaming “revolution” let’s call it was Minecraft on the same system in 2013. I started KZbin that same year, and am finally successful after 11 years. I feel that the Xbox 360 makes up for pretty much most of my current identity, and… way more than I think 98% of people can be correct in saying this for themselves. Look at me… I even have the Microsoft ego..

[@musty3azi634]

It’s Sad to say but Xbox 360 is the last thing we will ever witness as the greatest thing ever invented for online gaming experience!

[@LonSeidman]

I don't think we'll ever have a console release as significant as the 360 ever again... Such a substantial leap over the prior gen. The interface was awesome, the online game shop was awesome (until today of course), and the HD output was amazing on my Panasonic HD CRT. I was tracking inventory every morning when it was first released and was able to grab one from target right before Christmas. The UPS driver required a signature and of course I wasn't home. I ended up tracking him down at a McDonalds on Christmas eve!

[@vesper8450]

Over 10 years ago, I lived with 2 roommates who I was super close with. One own a 360, the other told him to get Dance Central. And the rest was history. We played so much Dance Central 1,2 and 3. It's sad to know now that any of the DLC songs can no longer be downloaded. Also downloading previous DC songs from the main games as well.

[@YorkieKilla]

@@vesper8450 if you purchased them before they can be re-downloaded

[@vesper8450]

@@YorkieKilla Was on my former roommate's Xbox. I never got one myself :(

[@therealmist14]

Was kind of late to the party but I remembered getting mine christmas of 2013. The whole reason I had wanted a 360 was to play Minecraft because my parents computer couldnt run it, later on figured out it was because it didnt have enough ram, I got Minecraft and loved it but my Mom and had gotten Red Dead Redemption on sale and thought it might be something her or my older sister would play, turns out it was something only I was going to play as I got hooked, it was my first experience of an open world game and had played nothing like it on my PS2, Wii, or DS. To me it was revolutionary and set a new standard of what a game could be in terms of graphics, environment, gameplay, and storytelling. It was one of the few games I could play and stay connected to with Hughesnet as that was the only internet offered where we lived and was not good enough to play any of the Call of Duties so I never got to experience their golden days online. Im a PC gamer now and I still miss the 360 days as I feel like in modern times we've lost some of the charm with a gaming system, alot of UI for systems now our so bland and sleek looking and trying to hard to look modern instead of looking like a game console. Im always gonna prefer the Wii and 3ds homescreen UI and music theme to the likes of Nintendo Switch which just looks tasteless for the sake of a modern look when if someone wants a modern look they should have themes on the system to customize. While I know this is not an exclusive 360 feature and the later and current Xbox still do this. Nothing will beat the achievement system Microsoft incorporated for gamerscore. As a completionist Im bothered by my time on PS4 and Steam, gamerscore based achievements were more specific values for the challenge of the achievement, while trophies on playstation didn't feel weighted correctly, some bronze trophies were harder or more grindier to get that gold trophies, and then not all bronze trophies were as hard as others despite being worth the same on your level. And then you have Steam that has neither Trophies or Gamerscore for their achievements and arguable has the worse system other than Nintendo without any achievements. I wish Steam would have gamerscore for achievements 😂 something to show their worth. This is one of the most nostalgic parts of the 360 that I wish Steam or Playstation would try to do something similar. But I miss our Xbox Avatars. I miss customizing them, they were far more intuitive and more full of life that Nintendos Mii's and my favorite part going back to the achievements was the fact you could unlock outfits and cosmetics for them from achievements in the games you played. I loved being able to wear my creeper hat and rockstar games shirt on my avatar it let people know what I was into.

[@KnoxNick]

I remember getting my first 360 in 2008. I didn’t know a thing about internet connectivity with consoles and just randomly plugged an extra long Ethernet cable into my router because it looked like a port that needed to be filled. I can’t begin to describe all the fun I had with that box. It introduced me to my favorite franchise of games (Rock Band) and is where all my friends played together on. Good times, miss you Xbox 360.

[@JagaimoNeko]

Now there's absolutely no "shame" about doing whatever you like with your 360 :)

[@randomnessnecesity9627]

Imma go and buy one just to play sea shanty2 from runescape while doing appropriate activities

[@neorebu]

Anyone remember the booths at Virgin Megastore showcasing the X360 games , everything about the marketing and presentation was so cool. I have to say though PC gaming during X360 was experiencing a renaissance because the only game I was playing in 2005 was Battlefield 2, playing with 64 players in a map was crazy. Good times.

[@MrShadow675]

I met all of my online friends playing the Xbox 360 10-15 years ago. I still keep in contact with all of them to this day. I don't really put much time into playing video games unlike how I did with the 360. I'm not quite sure how I'd have turned out if it weren't for it. Pulling all nighters back to back to back playing Call of Duty, Halo, or a random indie game off the store are memories I will never forget.

[@hops2099x]

16:48 cod 3 did not launch with Xbox 360, cod 2 was its launch title; cod3 launched with ps3 I believe the following year from my recall.

[@DMBisAwesome]

Gen-Z will never understand how good the "OG Xbox" to "Xbox 360" days were for that platform, and why the slow decline and self-sabotage since the XBone was so painful to watch. It's like seeing an old friend slowly succumb to addiction ;_; I loved my 360.

[@TaxAssessorCollector]

I’m an ‘02 gen-z player. I was able to experience these days although I was a young squeaker constantly getting trolled. 😂 Thankfully I was able to hit Commander on Halo 3 and then Inheritor on Reach by being a try hard.

[@thelazyworkersandwich4169]

Well considering most of the enjoyment of the 360 came from playing with your friends rather than the actual quality games yeah they very much will. If anything multi-player gaming is better than it ever has been.

[@monkisa7153]

Im gen z and i understand🙏 i live in a 3th world country and we were very late with gaming, first 360’s started being used here in 2011 and 2012 before that everyone used og xbox or ps2

[@kevinwheeler4061]

What do you mean? Gen Z is the generation that grew up with the xbox 360

[@jakeplayzyt5220]

Gen Z literally started in 1997 my guy.

[@PepeTheJonkler]

I haven't used in-game comms since Xbox 360. Party Chat was a nice reprieve for friends to chat and felt safe in comparison to game chat, which was a ruthless hellscape. Good times. I can't say "I'm gonna miss it" because _I already did._ Gaming hasn't been the same since that era. As for the VGA, they had one cable that was VGA/Component in a single cable and had a switch on the console side of the cable to swap between the two.

[@Censorshift]

I’m gonna try and get on once I finish work

[@appliedengineering4001]

I wanted to mention one thing about the DVD firmware hack. The No. 1 reason why people got banned wasn't because of Microsoft's countermeasures, it was because people DIDN'T PLAY BY THE RULES. The No. 1 rule of using the firmware hack was, DON'T EVER, EVER PLAY DOWNLOADED GAMES ONLINE. Especially games that haven't been released yet. If you wanted to play burnt games online, RENT THEM FROM THE VIDEO STORE INSTEAD. I played by that rule and never had my XBOX banned, and I never had to upgrade the firmware on my DVD to the latest version ether.

[@tweaklab]

I totally agree with so much of the points to made in this video, especially the whole shift to HD gaming - it really felt like going from 2D to 3D in the 90s all over again and I doubt we'll ever witness anything like it again. And just how much of a package the X360 was - wireless controllers, a legal way to buy/play "MAME" games and other systems, the trial versions were awesome - the entire game was in the original download so if you decided to unlock it, boom, you could keep playing from where the trial ended most of the time. I also got a VGA cable for my system early on, I remember Dead Rising had an issue with CRT screens, the font being too small to ready etc, and it blew me away on my 19" widescreen LCD (must have been 1440x900 from memory) it was like playing a high end PC at the time, and Dead Rising was a great way to see the night/day difference. I discovered Guitar Hero and Rock Band through the XBOX 360 and countless other franchises, I remember picking up a 20GB white console at launch and it had overheating issues out of the box (not quite RROD) and I was able to swap it out at EB Games and ended up paying for the extra in store warranty after that. Man, I feel I've only scratched the surface, so many XBOX 360 LAN nights with friends more than online, mostly with Gears, Call of Duty etc, Crackdown and Crackdown 2, GTA IV and V, the 2010 Perfect Dark remaster, my very first Achievement popping up playing Condemned: Criminal Origins at launch, the Perfect Dark Zero intro after waiting 5 years for a sequel, very glad to have a JTAG hanging around now ;)

[@tacticalmattress]

I remember when it launched, all I had was NFSMW, Burnout Revenge, Amped 3 and Kameo. The Burger King games, I got one and it bricked my console. Then I got the RROD again after I got a replacement. Then that one died too and I got a refund. By that time the Elite was out so I got that, and I still have that one to this day. It's more off-gray than black. The 360 is the golden days for me. I started on earlier consoles like nes, n64, gameboy, ps1/ps2/xbox/gamecube, but the 360 era was my favorite era in gaming, and definitely the golden age of gaming. Nothing compares to playing Halo 3 multiplayer on 360 for the first time. Same for games like Cod4/MW2/BO1, GTA IV, Battlefield 3, Gears, Forza, etc etc. So many games.

[@divinecomedian2]

Profile pic checks out 😊

[@Axonteer]

Man the memories! I was never much of a console gamer, i had a SNES but once my brother gifted me a 386 and later 486 that was it for me. Focussed on PC for the next years until i thought, hey that MS Console has some nice exclusives, lets buy one as i now finished my apprenticeship and earn my own money! So it was that for a long time until i bought a ps4p about 3 years before the ps5 came out ... and now i own a ps5... but there is really a huge gap between my childhood nintendo days and my present day 4090 RTX gaming pc life. And the 360 has a soft spot for me as i remember to have a window in a new way of enjoying games.

[@johncollins1969]

The 360 was the reason I went out and bought a big (at the time) 50 inch plasma TV. I loved playing Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts (and still do)! But I couldnt read the tiny writing on my CRT. I pumped so many hours into Geometry Wars (and still do). I had a modded 360 that got banned, had a legit 360 that RROD'd. I bought a heap of them and lan'd them up for Halo. I bought a RGH 360 when Bean / Goldeneye was leaked. Its currently attached to a racing sim with the Xbox 360 steering wheen and pedals with force feedback. I bought a second RGH last week so that I can try to have two racing sims running side by side with multiplayer. Best machine ever.

[@cypher1419]

I checked my 360 I saw that I still had The Simpsons Arcade game on there. I ended up buying a couple games dirt cheap, got the devil may cry collection and street fighter x tekken that I had never played before. I was 15 when the 360 first launched and i remember having my mind blown when I first played Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion. I'm not too sad for the service ending as I still have my physical collection as well as the back ups I've made from them.

[@RandomTechWZ]

Mid 2000s was such a different time in terms of how fast tech was evolving and changing. Speaking of the original 360 not having hdmi, I remember buying my first lcd HDTV around 2008 or 2009 right out of high school, a 46" Samsung 1080p model. The leap from a 4:3 CRT to the LCD was mind blowing at the time.

[@sevsimply]

I got the 360 for Christmas after having only played on a Wii and ps2 before I was absolutely stunned by how the games looked. And the best part is a didn't even use a hdmi until 4 years down the road, I didn't even know you could do that. But even without an hdmi I had the time of my life with the 360. I will always remember the fun times I had with it. One of the best consoles ever made

[@carnivol]

Tiny note and elaboration: Date for Symphony of the Night is wrong. It came out in 2007 on XBLA, not 2010. But it's correct that it was part of the first wave of games that were allowed to exceed the original 50 MB size limit imposed by the original 64mb Memory Unit Size (an XBLA game, a 4 MB Title Update, your GamerTag w/profile picture and the game save all had to fit within the 64 MB of a Memory Unit, which was why they couldn't exceed 50 MB). The new limit after SotN came was 150 MB, which was then increased to 350mb (iirc). Later down they line they removed the limits entirely, but due to some weird technical limitations XBLA and DLC packages can't exceed 2.1 GB in size (Games on Demand was not subjected to the same size limit, but the limit was cited as a reason why certain later games didn't come to XBLA, such as Stranger's Wrath HD, and why some larger DLCs had multiple files you had to download). Title Updates were later allowed to be more than 4 MB too.

[@TheLastLineLive]

And funny enough even though SoTn did exceed the 50mb limit, it still had cutscenes cut out from the ps1 version, the ps1 iso is a larger file size.

[@carnivol]

@@TheLastLineLive They were still limited to 150 MB for SotN (the new limit after the 50 MB cap was changed), so it's no wonder they had to still cut some corners. (It's a 500+ MB PS1 game with lots of streamed assets for music, voiced dialog, and a few FMVs)

[@courtlandbudd7462]

I was able to buy my first 720 PTV before I had any HD console. I had the Nintendo Wii so I bought the component cables and that blew my mind. Then I bought an Xbox 360 elite and after that I bought modern warfare and set up a 5.1 surround sound system in my room. It was an extremely cheap, probably bad quality one, but it still had 5.1 surround sound. Hearing the bullets and the noises and the explosions surrounding me in the way that it did in a crisp 720p 32-in display in my room blew my mind and it is still something I think about fondly all the time. Man do I love the Xbox 360...... I also remember putting my dad in the hot seat in my room just to show off the surround sound and the game quality. He was amazed.

[@ancientflounder]

The Xbox 360 was my first taste of next-gen gaming. I remember having to find the VGA Cable for it to use it on my monitor. This was before I owned a HDTV, but just having the option improved my experience by a lot. I wanted to play Dead Rising, but Gears of War 1 sold me on the system in a really big way. Had a blast doing co-op runs over XBL on all difficulties with a buddy of mine. The 360 was my main system until after a couple of RRODs, I finally tapped out. PS3 became my main console after that, even if it also hit the YLOD, but my PS3 Slim is still kicking to this day. I haven't made it back into the Xbox ecosystem since the 360 days, but I will remember them pretty fondly.

[@m1croN1337]

I still have the original Xenon, which still works to this day without any issues. I've always left it idling in the dashboard for 5 minutes after I was done playing to let it cool down. Maybe that's why I've never seen the red ring of death, or perhaps I was just lucky.

[@joeynebulous816]

Think you were just lucky, there was virtually no difference between the dashboard and running a game in terms of power consumption (and therefore heat)

[@AJayZy]

@@joeynebulous816Oh, how is that possible?