Xbox Is 20 Years Old Today! What Are Your Favourite Xbox Memories?

I was a rabid PS fanboy but after getting a Xbox One and now a Series X, I'm 100% a fan! Love the franchises, loving Forza Horizon 5...just whish there were more exclusives! But I'm happy they are working hard on it nowadays

The first and still very best memory of Xbox is getting together with 4 to 8 friends every freaking Saturday. Two Xbox consoles, two tv's, two teams.

Hours and hours of Halo Capture the Flag on Blood Gulch, 4 vs 4 via System Link. So tactical, so ever-surprising, so tense, so much fun.

Quite fitting for my first post on this site.
I got a series S yesterday purely for a gamepass machine after literally years of saying i would never own another Microsoft console. Although i still find the UI messy and confusing, overall im really happy.
For me, my most memorable moment of owning anything Microsoft was standing in line all night to get the xbox 360 then taking 2 days off sick from work to play PGR3. Met alot of good people online back then and had some great times. Now my friends list consists of 2 people 😂

My first Xbox was the original Xbox which I got in 2003, my flat mate at uni had one in 2002, so I didn't need one of my own, but after leaving and playing KoTOR, I needed to get one of my own to skip the wait for the launch of the PC version.

My favourite moments would date back to the Xbox 360 era, I used to run a website and we had regular gaming nights that are unforgettable. Gears of War 2 playing grenades only matches, or chainsaws vs shotguns stick out in mind. Playing Bad Company 2, joining a team death match with another team being half way to victory when we joined yet still winning, or all of the conquest matches in the Vietnam add on, nothing could beat a night of late gaming, a few bears and your friends on voice chat, something that nothing could do as well as Xbox in the 360 era.

@FraserG thanks man, appreciate it 🤜🤛

Happy Birthday Xbox..... I have always had a Xbox console. I'm not some one console fanboy. My favorite is the Xbox 1 my first was the OG Xbox. I remember burning through 3 Xbox 360s and i remember swaring Xbox after that and with the launch of the Xbox 1 my original decision seemed right but after my Ps3 got the Yellow Light of Death i want back to Xbox with Halo Master Chief collection Xbox 1. And i haven't looked back since. I just hope i get a Series X sooner or later because i refuse to buy a Series S

My favourite memory is rushing to the store to buy my first ever preordered launch console in Xbox Series X 🙂 After years of only sticking to Playstation. I'm happy with the change.
Also, I distinctly remember being blown away when I realised just how much MS turned things around with X360. PS3 and Sony were given a run for their money then, as PS5 and Sony are now.

The 360 was a masterclass in getting great games on the system also online, arcade/download Wednesday, Halo nights. If xbox had run with that good feeling... Who knows, but they fumbled it with, well I shan't mention it here. Back on track now tho.

My first Xbox console was the original Xbox after Halo 2 came out. Between that and the original Gears of War, I had many hours of unforgettable gaming experiences between all of the online time and some Halo 2 LAN parties.

It's too early to comment much on this generation or to be able to say it would be my favorite, so I'd probably have to go with the Xbox 360 one. Even though it ended up being the beginning of the end of them having a deep group of really good exclusives and such, there were plenty of good carry overs from the previous generation and then obviously Gears of War. That was also the generation I switched back to PlayStation with the PS3 after getting tired of/burnt out on online gaming, but still, it was a special generation regardless.

I'd still probably consider myself a PlayStation guy first, but I do own a Series X as well and Xbox is in a position they haven't been in since transitioning from the Xbox to the 360. The future is very bright for the first time in a while, and things could be very interesting at this time in a few years. Who knows, maybe then I'll be saying I'm an Xbox guy again. I truly do hope they deliver on the promises and potential.

Original Xbox owner and I've owned one from each generation including this one. The stand-out moments for me are either 1 vs 100 or playing Rock Band with friends. My fav franchise on the console is definitely Gears of War.

All the xbox consoles have provided me and my family with many fond memories. From playing Halo 1 with my mates at school, to playing Viva Pinata and Kameo with my girlfriend, to playing Forza Horizon 5 on Series X with my wife, and soon my kids will be old enough to play xbox! I have fond memories with every console and own them all, but xbox has always been my favourite place to play for 20years. Happy birthday and best wishes to everyone for the next 20

I remember flicking through a Gamestation leaflet and, not knowing too much about the 360, saw all these placeholder images that blew me away. There was placeholder boxart for things like Kameo, Blue Dragon, Oblivion. I tried my hardest to get one on Launch but had to settle for about a month later. Got the console with PD0 and unlocked my first achievement and wow, here I am almost 16 years later.

I got my 1st Xbox on summer 2002. When the 360 launched I left that home and deployed with the OG Xbox. I left that in Iraq for everyone to play and returned home to the 360. I then was at a loss without the OG Xbox, so with 360 in hand... I bought another OG. That I still have in my basement. I owned several 360s , settling on the final black model that had a smaller footprint. I could travel with it easier.

When the One was announced I was not happy with their military response for remaining permanently hooked to the internet, "We have an Xbox for you... the 360." So I remained firm with the 360 until May 2015. I then finally got the One. Followed by the One S holiday 2016. I then put both of those in the basement and now have had the XSX since Day 1.

17... almost 18 years on XBox Live.

In retrospect, my favorite moment was the Xbox One E3 disaster. That was the lowest moment for them but it was the catalyst that in my opinion resulted in my favorite video game system ever.

I didn't have the original xbox and my time with the xbox one was very short and the hasn't been a year yet since I've had my series S so I graded it a C

The most I've got out of an xbox console is the 360 which I had for two years, enjoyed blue dragon and left for dead and the Lord of teh rings RTS game (forgot its name)

My roommate got OG 20 years ago and I remember playing HALO CE all night and into the next day with several friends. It was not easy going back to work on Monday.

Discovering Halo's title screen. I've told it many times, but still.

This was a real shock in my gamer's life.

20 years, geez. It surely does not make me feel younger.

I was first exposed to Xbox and Halo CE gameplay as a kid watching an old friend play the campaign. It wasn't until the Xbox 360 that I'd get to play through Halo CE and 2 myself, and they've been among my favorite games ever since.
This is why the 360 era stuck out to me the most, especially with the release of 3 and countless online matches that followed.

My first memory of Xbox goes back to the original reveal and look at some of the games - most notably for me was 'Halo' and that was what prompted me to buy an Xbox.

The 360 era was my favourite - but I am very optimistic that the Series S/X era will eclipse that by the time the generation ends. I don't think the XB1 generation was as bad as the general media portrays. I think MS had the wrong people involved and was ran very much as a separate part of Microsoft but merging it into 'Microsoft' and keeping the 'Xbox' brand name to represent MS's gaming - hence you have Xbox on Windows, Xbox Game Pass on Mobiles - basically 'Xbox' on what ever platform allows it. That change also saw a big change - we got Backwards Compatibility, the most powerful gaming console, huge investment in studio's etc. OK so now the 'console' isn't the primary focus and getting 'exclusives' as they are also on Xbox on PC/Mobiles too. Its ending strong with 'most' games looking and/or running best on XB1X (compared to other same generation platforms), more 'exclusives' and of course, the ability to play 'next' gen games too via Streaming with Xbox Game Pass. Its not over yet of course so I can't really truly assess this (and certainly not the current) generation fully yet like I can with the OG & 360 generations. Some of the 'early' days and disappointments of the XB1 era are still to prominent in memory to be fair - Kinect for example but that was effectively gone within 6months and for all that 'media' talk, that too had essentially gone too - replaced by 'games' - albeit older (BC) or 3rd Party as Exclusives were 'thin' and the potential of 'more' games by investing in Studio's that are just about to start releasing games exclusively.

Many of course were still working on multi-platform projects when they joined Xbox Studio's so its taking a few years but 2022 onwards looks like us gamers will start to see the fruits of these with Hellblade II, Avowed, Starfield, Redfall, Perfect Dark etc all on the Horizon. Therefore I think this gen could well end up being my favourite gen...

I wouldn't want to be without an Xbox and think that Xbox has been a major innovator and contributor to the gaming space. I am sure gaming would not of been the same without Xbox - the OG Xbox was the first to have a built in HDD (no memory cards needed), Online Infrastructure (friends, game updates etc) etc and the 360 gave us Achievements, XB1 gave us Game Pass...

My favorite memories are Kotor, Morrowind and Jade Empire on the OG Xbox. Those games blew my mind at the time.

I picked up a Xbox 360 back in 2007, it was my first Xbox console. My 360 came with Gears Of War and it became my favorite game of all time..

My first xbox was the Original Xbox. I moved out in 2004 and wanted to buy a console for myself. At that time the GTA double pack was released for xbox with enhanced graphics so I choose Xbox. Had a lot of fun with PGR2, Doom 3, Wolfenstein etc. A friend bought an xbox360 two years later and I followed. Played so much call of duty 3 (Eder dam, Capture the flag). Xbox one era started with huge dispappointment here in the Netherlands. It wasn’t available for a whole year, so we moved to PS4. The last two years however there was an xbox one s here for Gamepass and now we are all back here with xbox on the series x.

The first xbox console I owned was the One x Scorpio edition. I was a bit hesitant buying it, but I had a 4K tv and wanted something that played 4K. The PS4 pro was an option but it didn’t do 4K movies, my brother was also on Xbox one so I took a gamble on it. It became one of my favourite consoles I’ve owned.
I was also hesitant with the series s. It didn’t deliver the same image quality as the one x but had faster load times but that too was worth it in the end, looking forward to what playground games and obsidian are going to do with it.

Favourite OG Xbox moment was PGR2, everything about it.
Favourite 360 moment was getting 1250GS on Ninja Gaiden 2.
Favourite XBO moment was MS sacking Kinect.
Favourite Series S moment was the load times on FH4 after playing it on the VHS XBO lol.