The Xbox 360 just had it’s 20th anniversary. I’m not sure how I feel about it as a console today as most of the games are available on pc with only a few exclusives. I guess most of the nostalgia will be from playing online, which I never got the chance to do.
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I don’t need this kind of negativity.
The NES having released in North America in 1985, this means that the 360 is now roughly as old as the NES was when the 360 came out.
I remember getting my NES for Xmas…
It’s worth picking one up just to play Fable II, imo.
Way to make me feel old… I mean I am but you didn’t need to rub it in.
No, it came out a couple of years ago
I just modded mine after not playing it for years. I forgot just how insane the library is for it and how great the graphics hold up in 2025.
Its also so nice to actually own games and not have them taken away from some license BS.
How is the modding on it these days? I have a modded one from a long time ago and I did a modded firmware on the dvd drive in the 360 so it would ignore protections and another mod on a Liteon dvd burner in an old Windows XP computer for writing the games.
Definitely have nostalgia for a lot of the early games, mainly the ones coming out before PS3 support basically hit parity.
Underrated aspect that I really miss was the old interface. The Windows 8 stuff they updated it to is so inferior to the blades.
Wonder if there’s any homebrew fix to keep the old UI but be able to play all the games?
most of the nostalgia will be from playing online
It is. We’ll never get that feeling back. It was a whole vibe and now its over.
What was so different about it compared to now? I only played SFV online.
Basically everyone had a microphone because they came with the console. People actually spoke in the lobbies, party chat was rare and discord wasnt a thing yet. There was an excitement around it because its all fairly new, and pro gamer / content creator / videogame influencer etc didnt exist as career paths. Most vocal people were still racist x-phobic slur-slinging hate-jockeys, but everybody was there purely to have fun.
Lots of tiny tiny differences that by themselves are inconsequential, but added up to something big.
After a match you could press a button to play again with the same people. You’d make friends by meeting together in game and deciding to party up
Damn, that’s crazy the 360 is old enough to fuck.
The 360 is old enough to die in war but not drink alcohol in the US!
That’s funny because they did send 360s to the troops in Iraq (and later Afghanistan).
The 360 era was the only time I remember xbox being ahead. I knew nobody who bought a ps3, but spent plenty of time playing halo on various friends’ machines.
I was on PS3 :) I loved Uncharted, Motorstorm, and Little Big Planet, but I was super jealous of my friends who had 360s for a while.
I was a student during the 360s life
So much split screen Halo with my house mates
Think I went through 5 or 6 360s due to RRoD. Remember trying EVERYTHING to get those things to work when it happened. Like wrapping it in a towel and turning it on.
The towel trick worked on mine and it still works as of yesterday
I miss Xbox Live Arcade with the requirement that all games have free demos.
Remember demos? Or magazine demos? Or magazines? 😉
I remember getting CD demos in cereal boxes lol
I miss my stack of PlayStation magazine PS2 demo discs
We still have demos, on Steam anyway.
most of the games are available on pc with only a few exclusives
Let me play Lost Odyssey on PC you cowards
I miss Kaim and Sarah
Xenia does pretty well these days and keeps getting better
Just look at the Xbox section. You got this :)
360 is definitely my favorite retro console, hands down, due to nostalgia. Feels kinda weird calling it retro, but that’s neither here nor there for me. I never had xboxlive, so playing online was never a thing for me.
Out of any console out there, it’s absolutely the one I’ve played the most, by a pretty bug margin if I had to guess. Somehow I’ve played it more than my 2nd favorite retro console: PS2.
I might make some people feel old, but I was in elementary school when my family somehow got a white model with the hard drive attached to the top whatever year that was, that December. I also don’t remember how we got our black 360 with the seemingly safer internal removable hard drive, but I absolutely LOVE it all these years later.
I think I would absolutely cry if I lost the hard drive for it because of just how much memories are on it. It would be worse than the feeling I got when I realized I lost the memory card for the family PS2 because I didn’t pack it in my backpack before being forced to move.
