20 years ago, the homie Mario introduced me to the Xbox and Halo. I was still heartbroken with the demise of the SEGA Dreamcast and never fully made the transition to the PlayStation 2 being a little bitter on how it just came and totally killed my favorite console at the time. The Xbox ended up being everything the Dreamcast was to me and more. More powerful than any console at the time with a built in modem like the Dreamcast ready for online play right out the box, I was all over Xbox Live once it launched playing Halo 2 to NFL2K5 with a more sophisticated class of gamers. The good old days before all of the kids were able to sign on and ruin the experience ๐. The launch of the Xbox 360 had me ditching work and standing 8 hours in line at my local Wal-Mart for the first and only time Iโve ever waited that long for something and it was well worth it. The HD era had fully arrived and I definitely had to get an HD LCD to fully take advantage of those graphics. I was also Day One for the Xbox One. I actually dug the voice and TV features to go alongside my gaming, but the lack of games and overall bad branding gave it a rough start and it didnโt fully win me over until the introduction of backwards compatibility and the release of the Xbox One S and then eventually the X with true 4K gaming for the first time to once again make it the most powerful system ever made. Theyโve followed it up with the Xbox Series X and I love being able to play OG Xbox games and Xbox 360 games all over again along with playing other older games for the first time with the higher resolutions and frame rates that the Series X is able to produce that the predecessors couldnโt, making it their definitive versions. Not to mention quality of life enhancements like Quick Resume and all of the 3rd party games running better on the Xbox than any other console like back in the OG Xbox days, more exclusives coming from all of the new developers theyโve scooped up, Xbox Live more active than ever and Game Pass being the Netflix of gaming, Xbox is not going anywhere. Thank you for all of the great gaming memories these last 20 years. Hereโs to 20 more! ๐ #xbox20 #infinitebitgaming https://www.instagram.com/p/CWU0WPFrUwp/?utm_medium=tumblr
