I've been into gaming for a long time now, ever since the Atari 2600. I don't remember asking for it and I don't think it was a birthday or Christmas present, but I do remember walking into the lounge and seeing this strange box plugged into the tv!
Leading up to the launch of the xbox 360 Console I wasn't planning on getting one until Christmas a few weeks after the launch and then everywhere started to sell out of their pre orders, so I thought I wasn't going to get one and then the night before the official uk launch I was out shopping, so I asked in a few of the shops if they had any left to sell the next day, most replied no but Toy's R Us said yes and we expect people to start queuing after midnight, but we're not going to open until 7am. I ended up not sleeping that night because I was so excited at maybe being able to get one, I got up at 3am and went and queued outside Toy's R Us from 4am, I was 17th in the queue!! I managed to get one in a very expensive bundle including a couple of DVD's that weren't even related to gaming! Unfortunately I was under strict instructions from my wife not to play it until Christmas as it was a present from her!! On getting it home I thought I'd better check to make sure it was working ;-) I was good and only tried my old xbox games, honest!
From that day on I think you can say I was hooked!
Since then I've owned a Intellivision, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga 500, Super Famicon (snes), Sega Mega Drive, Playstation, Nintendo 64, Playstation 2, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii, plus a few handhelds and PC's. Haven't brought a PS3 yet! I think it will happen at some point, just waiting for the price to come down nearer 200 pounds!! I found the receipt for my PS1 the other day and it cost me 290 pounds in 1995 the same price as a PS3 now!
Leading up to the launch of the xbox 360 Console I wasn't planning on getting one until Christmas a few weeks after the launch and then everywhere started to sell out of their pre orders, so I thought I wasn't going to get one and then the night before the official uk launch I was out shopping, so I asked in a few of the shops if they had any left to sell the next day, most replied no but Toy's R Us said yes and we expect people to start queuing after midnight, but we're not going to open until 7am. I ended up not sleeping that night because I was so excited at maybe being able to get one, I got up at 3am and went and queued outside Toy's R Us from 4am, I was 17th in the queue!! I managed to get one in a very expensive bundle including a couple of DVD's that weren't even related to gaming! Unfortunately I was under strict instructions from my wife not to play it until Christmas as it was a present from her!! On getting it home I thought I'd better check to make sure it was working ;-) I was good and only tried my old xbox games, honest!My first 360 died of the Red Ring of Death (RROD) a few years later, MS replaced it but that one was never quite right and kept freezing so that was replaced again by MS, in October 08 it stopped reading game and music disks, so my misses brought me a new 60gig 360 that's been fine so far!
After searching youtube I found a few fixes for my old machine, the first was to insert some thin but strong cardboard into the 360's dvd drive to release a small piece of metal that had got magnetised, this worked for a while.
I ended up taking the 360 and dvd drive apart and adding a drop of olive oil to the spindle, after a lot of fiddling around I got it working again and now use the machine for system link parties I host now and then! I've copied Left 4 Dead and Halo 3 to the hard drive which stops the drive from having to spin while playing, hopefully keeping the machine going for longer.
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