Talking Point: As Xbox Celebrates 25 Years, What's Your First Ever Xbox Memory?

I've been on Xbox as my main system since I got the 360 in 2008. I bought it solely to play Lost Odyssey and haven't looked back since.

I remember my brother getting the Xbox Live kit for his Xbox. Until then I was not really into Xbox but the concept of playing games online fascinated me.

Sadly I was instantly harassed by men and quickly learned to detest online play because it was a perpetual pattern.

So, despite how much I love my Xbox, my earliest Xbox memory is not exactly a very positive one. To this day I refuse to play online with strangers.

First Xbox I owned myself was a 360 Elite model that I bought to play GTAIV.

I was mindblowed by the first pictures of Dead or Alive 3 and had the same feeling when I plugged my day one OG Xbox to play that still incredible game.

Day one with the original Xbox from Game UK, when we used it go to the shops 🤣
Have had every Xbox day one since, hence probably and not so much now, why I used to get so frustrated and passionate with some of my posts on here.

Overall it’s been a Greg time over the 25 years, of course the highlight for me was the xbox360 and less so the Xbox one x.
Anyway me and my series x and GPU are still a trio as of today and looking forward to the Xbox studio games probably coming this year.

Playing Dead or Alive Volleyball and realising I like girls.

My favourite memory is using the Xbox live code that came with Halo 2 before my brother could, but in my defence I thought we all could play online with that code. Anyways he became a PC gamer, and I’ve been on Xbox ever since. In hindsight, really should have followed him when the Xbox One came out, cause it’s been nothing but downhill since, especially recently. But whatever, I had faith in the brand and enjoyed every game I played on it. Series X maybe my last Xbox though, I am old now and the way the industry is going, Xbox just isn’t making games for me anymore.

I remember buying my Xbox in the Sega GT/JSRF bundle at Best Buy. The whole reason I got an Xbox is because Shenmue 2 was coming out on it. We didn't get a Dreamcast Shenmue 2 release in the U.S.

I picked up a second hand Xbox around 2004 with Halo 2 and Chronicles of Riddick. TBH I didn’t play it much as I couldn’t get onboard with that massive controller and I preferred the PS2 and GameCube. When the 360 released however, Xbox became my main platform for the best part of a decade.

Playing the original Forza Horizon at a kiosk in best buy for like an hour while my wife was in target lol. Wouldn't end up getting a console until FH3 came out but it's become one of my top 5 franchises. Best thing team green has made!

First an best memory, and one that sadly died the moment the 360 launched, was of how unique and different that original Xbox was. It didn’t feel like Sega, Nintendo, Sony or any of the brands that fizzled (3DO, CD-i, jaguar etc). It felt utterly unique and like it was carving out its own space. So many og Xbox games captured that feeling, I had so many great experiences.

Then the corporate console launched. The one calculated in board room meetings to target mass market consumers, to be ‘hip’ and ‘cool’ and ‘social’. It was formulaic, by the numbers, like corporate suits checking off boxes they observed from behind a two way mirror. The 360 immediately killed off that spirit of uniqueness and in its place set up a false idol of bland mass appeal, and spelled the beginning of the downward spiral for the brand. Not in sales, obviously, but in the Rocky Balboa ‘underdog’ passion that first machine brought to the fight.

Been on Xbox since December of 2001. I was 19. It was a big deal to have the money for a purchase like this at the time for me. I was so impressed with Halo and played NFL k5 like it was going out of style on it for years.

First memory below but though I would share all my memories.

OG XBOX
I remeber going to Toys R Us to get it on a Saturday night. I walked out with Halo And Max Payne. Forever changed. I spent hours putting my entire CD collection on that thang, dodging bullets, and finnally had a game to let me put Goldeneye down.

Xbox 360 was special for me becasue I could not find one. I went to Target Every Sunday (my only day off at the time) for 5 weeks and finally got one on the Fifth Sunday.

Xbox One I did not get one at Launch. I wnated it bad but My girlfriend (now wife) and I were saving to buy a house house. We moved into the house in July 2014. We had about $800ish left over after furniture etc and day after move in she said let's go get you that Xbox you have been wanting.

Xbox Series. Covid times. Got one for my Son and I (series X for me and S for him) - Just everythign avout this launch was wild.

Power ranking is tough as this brand means so much to me. I have such specail memories of they way I aquired them all.

Xbox One
360
Xbox
Xbox Series
In that order. I celebrate the entire catalog.

I got the original Xbox a little after it launched but I already had a Gamecube and PS2 at that point. I wanted an Xbox because each of the systems had exclusive games that generation that made it worth owning each one. I got Halo and Dead or Alive 3 with it and not long after Panzer Dragoon Orta and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I remember my first thoughts on the controller being that despite it's size it was really well suited to shooters but it wasn't so hot with fighting games and general action games. Although I do recall getting it from Woolworths since in the town I grew up in that was the only place that sold anything like that and the next nearest place was several miles away. There is nothing like that left in that town these days not even a CEX surprisingly.