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I like to think I gave my nephew some perspective. About 10 years ago, I gave him one of those combo consoles that played NES, SNES, and Genesis games, and bought him several classic games from each. So for a couple years, he grew up playing the originals of Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart, Sonic, Mortal Kombat, etc. And every time I visited, I whooped his little butt at Mortal Kombat too. I think it made him appreciate it all the more when he eventually got a PS4 and beyond. Someone who starts with a Xbox 360 has no understanding of just how far games have come and no context for what made some of these classic IPs great from the get go, and what it was like to sit next to your friend, sibling, or cousin and play couch co-op together.
P.S. I didnt let him win in Mortal Kombat because he was a complete shit talker. He’d be on a 12 fight lose streak, and manage one KO by the skin of his teeth, and then look me straight in the face, puff up his chest and grunt out “Uh! Yea! Winners never lose!” He simply had to be punished for that arrogance.
He’d be on a 12 fight lose streak, and manage one KO by the skin of his teeth, and then look me straight in the face, puff up his chest and grunt out “Uh! Yea! Winners never lose!”
That’s awesome lol good for him.
Honestly this is exactly the sort of attitude you want if you want to play fighting games. Being able to get dumpstered 19 times in a row and not lose your will is a necessary skill.
This one dad started his son on Atari and introduced him to subsequent generations of console every month or so, then wrote an article about it. It’s from 2014 so most of the image links aren’t working anymore though
Good on you! It’ll also let them feel what gaming is like without bullshit DLC and microtransactions so they have a baseline for a good experience.
Was talking to a young adult relative the other day, and he was telling me about one of the new Call of Duty games.
I haven’t played one lately, so I mentioned something I thought was neat in World at War or Black Ops 1. And he’s like, “Wow, that’s an old one. I don’t think I was even born yet.”
💀
I teach at University and half of my students weren’t alive for Halo 3’s release.
A working Xbox 360 in 2026?
I’ve still got one. Two actually. A white and the black updated one. The white one already had the red ring of death and was sent in for repair and returned when that all went down.
My knees crack when I stand up and lately I’m getting weird joint pains in my right elbow and left thumb.
Checks out.
Vintage gaming in now a thing you need to say about 90s video games.
I started a new playthrough of Final Fantasy Legend 2 this weekend, a childhood favorite and an original Game Boy game from 1991. I can feel my bones dissolving reading this post.
21 years old what the fuck. So at the end of it’s life it’s like 2012. I’m going to be honest emulation is going to dictate the legacy of the 360. At that point I’d already moved to pc but it would be good to know the must play exclusives.
More than anything consoles deliver a couch co op experience that pc just can’t match. Like I recently played obscure for xbox with a friend and it was a blast. 2 player resident evil in a high school.
I mean…its closer in power to the nintendo 64 than you would think
i play my ps2, ps1, n64, snes, gba, gb, gc, genesis and arcade games on my pc. soon as i can take time to learn the xbox side of things, those will join the party
On xemu I’ve played amped 2 and the 007 games they run pretty well don’t know about the whole library compatibility.
cool. may have to try that. have xenia here atm but documentation is a little wonky
Oh, you want to feel old?
Today I was looking at eink readers, when I remembered I had various old PDAs, like a psion 5, palm m100 and palm 1000 sitting in the cupboard. Same same, right? Throw some epubs on there, all good? Bit of spit an polish, install some legacy apps, few rounds of Dope Wars…boom.
Well, no. Horrible viewing angles, back light not worth a shit, digitiser not calibrating…and the default calendar year?
01.01.1996.
beyond good and evil is a classic and i have a copy on there somewhere
What’s the matter? The passage of time wearing you thin?
Man, I totally forgot about that scene.
The 360 is as old today as the Nes was when it came out.
1985->2005->2026
Pretty sure the NES was brand new when it came out. That’s just how age works.
The 360 is 21 years old today.
The NES was 0 years old when it came out.
Mans over here doing the math and spitting the facts
The person who introduced me to the NES died a long time ago of old age.
Never have felt so old… 2005 still feels like 10 years ago for some reason
COVID literally stopped time, and it’s just starting to move forward again.
My body hurts
Was it really necessary to post that?
Fucking helllll
nuh-uh
Ok jump off the second step and try and walk back to comment.
.>:|
Damn right they are. Probably the last great console generation before modern monetization practices fully took hold.
“Kinect is going to be the future of gaming!” Except this is the only generation that is going to natively support it. But hey, Apple will shrink it down, put it in a phone, and use it to authenticate you. That’s not nearly as fun as using it for dancing and rafting though.
Too late.
Fifa Ultimate Team was already going strong on 360. Started all the way back in 2009, but the insane gambling player packs came a little later.
CS: GO cases technically started during Xbox 360’s life cycle (a little short of 2 years before Xbox One launched), although the game was PC only.
As others have mentioned - Oblivion horse armor DLC was already a thing.
Microsoft first introduced paywalled online functionality with Xbox 360’s Xbox Live subscription.
You could add some more to the list. By this time gaming was already going downhill. What you remember as the ‘last great console generation’ is probably just nostalgia. Although you could make a case that early Xbox 360 days were pretty great.
Xbox Live started with the original Xbox
But it wasn’t strictly paid on the original Xbox, was it? Or am I misremembering?
Only PSN was free, Xbox live was always paid. Like, this was a huge argument Playstation fanboys held over the heads of Xbox fanboys during the console wars
And you didn’t even get better service for your money, since many Xbox live games didn’t have dedicated servers and instead used P2P technology (which, to be fair, was also the case on PS3)
Xbox Live didn’t have much higher tech, no, but they (at least according to them at the time) invested the money on the community side. If you reported dingdongs, there was a chance, however remote, that a real live person read the report and applied banhammer or something. And the first party titles like Halo did have community manager folks running the bread and circuses.
One of the things that really started to make me think Xbox was becoming more bland when most of the community stuff moved away from Xbox/in-game side to the game websites and Twitch (the latter especially after Mixer died). And, yeah, the player reports? Not really much of use, unless someone is blatantly cheating or spamming.
Huh, looks like I got something mixed up then. Thanks for the correction.
I am pretty sure my parents had to pay $10/mo or whatever for me to lose all those matches in MechAssault.
I didn’t play the full generation. I moved to PC in 2009 so I dodged the worst part of the generation. I also wouldn’t say it was the best generation. The reason I would say it was the last good one is the lack of a required install. You could buy a game, then start playing it right away. If I have to sit through an install, I might as well just play on PC.
We were well into horse armor by this point
It was the start of it, but it wasn’t common practice, at least not towards the beginning of the generation.
It was the first generation for DLC to be more common, but it felt like an addition and not just restoring intentionally cut content.
I do agree that towards the end of the generation, some of the greedier companies started some of their worst practices.
360 era DLC was just more game to tide you over while you waited for the sequel. But then they realised they could cut half the game and sell it as DLC later on. But then they realised they didn’t want to wait for later on and started selling half the game over the counter and half the game from inside the game.
The last console I ever purchased.
It will be weird in 20 odd years. “Dad has given me his old PS6, it’s a great bookend/paperweight”
It’s too bad Sony revoked everyone’s game licenses in 2030
In 2030 we game through a gamespeaker, that’s a person who learned the layout of game maps and attack patterns of monsters in the before time. You game by asking them questions and describing your actions.
So… DND?
Don’t say that out loud, you’ll be sent to a work camp by the hasbro wizards.
“pa-per”?
I think a paperweight is an old term for a heavy thing. Like it has the weight of a pape. Pape is probably one of those left over partial words like “shevled” and “hap” not existing without “dis” and “less”.
