Nerdy Gaming with Arabbidb3aver Presents: Remembering the xbox 360
On todays episode of nerdy gaming with arabbidb3aver, we take a look back and talk about the xbox 360 as the finals hours of the online store and most of the servers are laid to rest, lets talk about what made this console special to me and I hope you all come along and relive some of the great memories!
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00:00Hello, and welcome to Nerdy Gaming with Rabid Beaver.
00:05I'm your host, the elusive Rabid Beaver.
00:07Hope you guys are going to be in for the ride.
00:09We're going to be talking about something near and dear to my heart today in none other
00:14than the Xbox 360, so come along and let's have some fun.
00:21All right, guys.
00:22Hi.
00:23How are y'all doing?
00:24I'm the elusive Rabid Beaver.
00:25I'm your host here at Nerdy Gaming with Rabid Beaver.
00:26Now, we haven't done any gaming stuff in a couple weeks, and I just kind of wanted to
00:31go back and relive some nostalgia with you guys as stuff has happened, different things
00:35are going down.
00:36The Xbox 360 store is coming to a complete close today, and let's talk about the memories
00:42that we had.
00:45I bought my first Xbox 360 when I was in the Army in 2008, and it's actually this console
00:51that I've got sitting right here beside me.
00:55This is my big bad boy right here.
00:58My big bad baby.
00:59I threw the intercooler on it.
01:01I've got a Nikon intercooler while I was on post there.
01:03I got mine at Fort Jackson, South Carolina in 2008, and it is the arcade edition, but
01:11it's not the silver face.
01:13It is a white face arcade edition.
01:16It came with the arcade games, which I still have.
01:19I didn't trade those in, guys.
01:21Let me find that for you real quick.
01:23It's right here in the midst of this huge pile of games that I'm holding here, so bear
01:28with me.
01:29Just give me a second to remove the 30,000 games that I've got in front of me here to
01:35show you this one.
01:38This is the arcade game that came with it in the arcade edition.
01:44I'm telling you, man, just some great stuff.
01:46It had the original UNO with webcam at that point in time.
01:49That was before all the pervert alert happened.
01:53Everybody's showing their wiener on camera, but yeah, it had Pac-Man inside of it.
01:59It had Luxor inside of it.
02:02It had Boom Boom Rocket.
02:03If you don't know what Boom Boom Rocket is, that is the game, guys.
02:06That is so much fun, just a ton of fun on that.
02:09It did not have a manual whenever this first came out, so with the arcade game, it just
02:14came with the arcade game itself.
02:18Everything still works, everything still works properly with this, but the live functions
02:25apparently because they're not going to be live anymore, but that was the game whenever
02:30it first came out.
02:31You could invite your friends.
02:32You could have fun.
02:33Pac-Man was on it.
02:34I mean, just so much stuff was built into this when it first came out, and to be honest
02:38with you, I did not touch the arcade games that came on this for about seven years after
02:46I purchased it.
02:47It stayed on my shelf, and I did not touch not a one for seven years, so until 14, 15
02:54roughly was when I first started playing the arcade side of it and getting into that thing.
02:59My first game for this was NBA Live.
03:04I bought NBA Live right out of the box, dude, with it whenever I got it at Fort Jackson,
03:10and it did not come with this beautiful 60 gigabyte hard drive that I've got on top of
03:14it.
03:15I got it at a pawn shop here locally whenever they were like $100.
03:20I got it for 50 at a pawn shop then, and I bought it and put it on top.
03:25I slung it on top of this bad boy right here, but man, the memories that I had with this
03:31mostly come from Call of Duty.
03:35So Modern Warfare 3 was where about 90% of all my memories come from, and then there's
03:43other games that had like NBA 2K12.
03:47I bought the dual pack for 2K12 and to do the perfect game simulation on 2K12 for baseball,
03:54MLB 2K12 for baseball.
03:56My most memorable sports game though for this is Major League Baseball 2K8.
04:04They took a lot of the features that were in Madden at the time, the cards, the collections,
04:13the bobbleheads, stuff like that, and put it into a baseball game, and they actually
04:18made probably the best baseball game to date with Major League Baseball 2K8.
04:26Jose Reyes on the front, bringing back a lot of memories.
04:29The signature run style, the way that you could select your jerseys.
04:33Now, if you didn't have any of the unlockables and you couldn't purchase any of the unlockables
04:37from the live store at the time, they gave you different jerseys, different things, but
04:40you could unlock them as you got cards as well built on.
04:45Of course, 2K14 was a good game.
04:49How can you have without having basketball, NCAA College Basketball 09.
04:56Great sports games.
04:57These are the games that I played on the 360.
04:59These are the ones that take you down memory lane, and some of them I still play.
05:03You know what it is to say, I'm going to move that section out of the way.
05:06But Modern Warfare 2, that was the game that actually got me really hardcore and heavy
05:12into the Modern Warfare series for the 360, and I hate that they shut down the multiplayer
05:20online player if you didn't have an account.
05:22I wish they would have kept that up running for Modern Warfare 2, Modern Warfare 3, but
05:26they didn't.
05:27They shut all that stuff down.
05:29Now, this is a game I've never opened, but I have played it on the Xbox One, but I got
05:33a copy of it for Christmas and I kept it sealed.
05:36It's a sealed copy of Titanfall, but for the Xbox One, this was the game, bro.
05:42This was an absolute, that's the very end of the run of the 362, very end of the run
05:47of it.
05:482K15, I played a lot of basketball as you guys are seeing.
05:51I actually played basketball through college, so I was playing all these games going in
05:56the Army, out of the Army, all that fun stuff going around.
06:00Now, this was the Million Dollar Challenge game, the Roy Holiday Edition right here.
06:05So these are what we played.
06:09These are what I played, man, all the time.
06:11The Jordan Edition, 2K11.
06:13Now, this case is rough.
06:14I've beaten, banged this thing up, and as you see, it has a $2 sticker on it because
06:19I got it at a yard sale for $2, bro, $2 for the Jordan Edition.
06:24Let's go figure that one out.
06:27The Arkham Origins Collection.
06:29Now, this bad boy is multi-disc on the inside with the manual.
06:37So I mean, this is just going down memory lane, you know, picking up stuff, buying stuff,
06:43and how can you have it without having All Pro Football 2K8?
06:48You know what I mean?
06:49The All Pro, the legends of football here.
06:52This is a complete collector's edition collected.
06:55So everything.
06:56Now, as you see, it had a $1.95 sticker sent on it where I bought it at McKay's a couple
07:03years ago, guys, and it still holds itself up very well.
07:08Great game.
07:09If you haven't ever played it, you definitely need to go through and play it.
07:12Of course, Black Ops, the game that changed 360 all together, changed the way that we
07:17game currently all together was Call of Duty Black Ops.
07:20This was the major one that changed multiplayer and online player gaming as we know it today.
07:27This is the one that went platinum.
07:29This is a platinum sell, Black Ops, and everybody's got it.
07:33Everybody's got a portion of this somewhere inside of them.
07:36But look, man, I mean, you can't beat this crap, guys, and I think I've got two games
07:41on the inside of this one as well.
07:43I think I've got the original Black Ops, and I got Black Ops 2 that I lost the case for
07:48somewhere along the way.
07:49But I've got both Black Ops games here, even got the instruction manual and the downloadable
07:57manual, all that good stuff inside of it.
08:00These are the games that we played that made a difference in our lives as we were going
08:04through.
08:05Now, Call of Duty Ghost, there's a lot we can say about this game.
08:10Was it a great Call of Duty game?
08:12No, but I think it was one of the best inventive games that they came out with.
08:16I think it had a lot of good features in it, but the multiplayer was broken in a lot
08:21of things.
08:22It became a sniper shooter's haven.
08:24If you're into sniping, this is your game.
08:26This is the one you want.
08:29But man, the funnest game inside of this game, this is a two-disc set as well.
08:34You had an install disc, and you actually had the actual disc for this game because
08:38it was so big at the time that you had to have it.
08:41But the game that actually this game has inside of it that everybody should play, everybody
08:49whatsoever is the aliens, dude.
08:51If you play, it's their version of zombies on the inside.
08:55If you don't play that, if you don't play Nightfall and all those, if you don't go through
09:00and do point of contact and all that crap on this, you are missing out.
09:05That's what this game was all about.
09:07And they actually should do a recall of this, especially the way that the game ended.
09:12If you played all the way through the story mode of Ghost, then you know that I know that
09:18you know about Rourke and what happened with Rourke.
09:21And they need to come out with a sequel for Ghost.
09:23That's my personal opinion.
09:24So Call of Duty Activision, Raven Games, Warhammer, all of it, Infinity Ward, if you guys are
09:31listening, come out with a second Call of Duty Ghost.
09:35We miss it.
09:36We want it to come back.
09:37I like the title.
09:38It was great.
09:41So Battlefield 3, the hardened edition, guys, the limited edition, hardened edition from
09:46Dice.
09:48That's a that's a pretty good game right there.
09:50And it's a two disker as well.
09:51So you have an install this one, this two story mode and regular mode.
09:57So as you see, I played a lot of sports games and a lot of shooter games, but it's because
10:01they were fun.
10:02And I think the best college football game that this is my personal opinion.
10:06It don't matter for anything for anybody else, but the best college football game that they
10:09came out with was NCAA 08.
10:13I think it was the game that actually changed the franchise all the way together, changed
10:18it, changed every aspect of the football game was NCAA 08.
10:23And it made college football fun again.
10:27So and 14 was the last edition that you got for the 360.
10:32You couldn't get it on the Xbox one.
10:33The entire Xbox one library was done.
10:36They finally came out for Series S and Series X with a brand new college football 25.
10:42But if we go back and we play, I have a bunch of them for regular Xbox as well over on my
10:46collection over here.
10:48But the one that really changed it and made the hit stick hittable made running different
10:56stiff arms, you know, all of it, you could do everything was 08.
11:00It was the game that started it all.
11:02It's the game that we brought back and we've had a lot of fun with throughout the years,
11:07you know.
11:08So NCAA 08 is a great now I had I have Madden downloaded to the hard drives up here.
11:16And I think Madden 12 is my favorite Madden that they came out with.
11:20So Madden 2012 was probably my favorite one that they have in that series.
11:26And then NFL 2K5.
11:29So I still play 2K5 for the original Xbox on my 360.
11:35And if it would go to my Xbox one, if they would update the titles and load it, I would
11:38do it on there too, because I think that 2K5 is the greatest NFL game that's ever been
11:43created to date.
11:46And that's saying a lot for me because they've added a lot of good features into Madden the
11:50last couple of years, but it's just not the same.
11:52Now the nostalgia that we get from the Xbox 360 when we look at it, you know, like I said,
11:57I've got an old fat white edition here from 2008 and it did have to get sent off to Microsoft
12:04for the red ring of death.
12:06I sent it off in 2014, 2013, 2013.
12:11I sent this thing off to get it fixed.
12:13It was gone eight weeks and came back to me and they fixed it.
12:17They fixed everything and it's been running solid ever since.
12:20Now it does have a little hiccup with it.
12:23That's just started.
12:24And that's when you hit the eject button.
12:26It doesn't want to open anymore because the ribbons and stuff have started to waste their
12:30way out of that.
12:32So the way that I've been getting around with it is the old slap method.
12:34I make sure nothing's inside of it and I'll slap the top of it and it'll pop right out
12:38for me.
12:39Then I try to lubricate what I can.
12:42If I can get some Vaseline or something in there to lubricate those, um, lubricate the
12:48ribbons that are on the inside of it, I do.
12:50And then it'll work for a little bit, work for about four or five months solid on me,
12:54but then it'll lock itself right back up.
12:57Now, do you remember what the 360 controller was?
13:02I think the 360 controller is the best controller ever designed and ever built in my personal
13:08opinion.
13:09The comfort, the playability, the way that the buttons are laid out, it's the way that
13:14it should be.
13:15And the Xbox one actually failed with this controller.
13:19They tried to redesign it, but the weight of this controller, everything was perfect
13:24for you holding the controller.
13:26So I've got a black one.
13:27I've got a white one somewhere, but I don't know if you can see it, but I've wore the
13:31knobs all the way down on mine from playing it using the stick so much.
13:38I've wore the controller buttons to the point to where they stick.
13:41The A button does not work on this controller anymore at all.
13:46And I've just got it as a keepsake, as a memory, because I remember when this thing was what
13:52it was supposed to be.
13:53And I think the best thing that they did with these removable battery packs.
13:57So if you don't know, you could put regular batteries inside of a casing that was similar
14:01to this.
14:02This held batteries on the top instead of being an actual battery, battery pack.
14:05Let me get it in front of you without dropping it.
14:09But they made it to where you could do that and keep your controller running for long
14:15periods of time.
14:16They made an extension cord that could plug in directly right here to this little gray
14:21section in the top, and it would charge your wireless controller so that you could play
14:27Xbox 360.
14:28But the problem is, after a certain amount of time with these rechargeable batteries
14:31like this, is they completely die.
14:33They completely go bad, and you can't charge them anymore.
14:37So you have to use your wire in order to turn the Xbox on and to get it to go, to get it
14:43to start.
14:44But man, the memories that I have of playing with this console, playing this console while
14:50using all this stuff just brings back stuff.
14:54Now I've got the original white one, but it's in a bin behind me over here somewhere.
14:58I'm just not digging through the bin to find it.
15:02So let's talk about the store, things that are going on with the Xbox in the store.
15:06So as we all know, they're closing the store out today.
15:09It's going to be the last day for the store, period.
15:12If you don't have any of the stuff that you're looking for, the Xbox store is going to be
15:16no longer.
15:17So they're going to be cutting off online functionality to most of the servers based
15:21on that as well.
15:23So I would encourage you, if you could buy anything or get anything, today is the cutoff,
15:27guys.
15:28I mean, you might as well get it.
15:29You might as well buy it.
15:30You might as well put it out there.
15:31You might as well do what you can for it just to keep it alive.
15:34One thing that I think that these companies are doing, Xbox, you know, Microsoft, Sony,
15:39all of them is they're cutting off their digital consoles and their sales.
15:44So these creators for the, it doesn't matter if they're selling on the Xbox store, Xbox
15:49360 store or not, you made a mistake by stop producing for the console itself.
15:54The console still works.
15:56There's people still playing it.
15:57There's people still using it.
15:59Not as many people as there was in 2008 because it was brand new or in 2014, right before
16:06you cut everything completely out for it and opened up the Xbox one, but there's people
16:11still playing this console and there's people that are still got their heart attached to
16:16this console and trying to make it work in 2024, you know, that speaks volumes for the
16:23console itself.
16:24I still play it from time to time in my NBA 2Ks.
16:28I'm still on a franchise in NBA 2K that I haven't finished yet.
16:32I've still got about another three years worth of franchise time left in my NBA 2K to finish
16:37it and I still play it.
16:39So, you know, that's something that I do as a dinosaur, as a dinosaur collector with my
16:44white, my white, my bird, as they say, you know, you get to see a lot of stuff that comes
16:50out and happens.
16:51And, you know, I was in the army, like I said, when I got this console, NBA live was still
16:57a thing at that point in time when I got this console and I bought it, I played it all the
17:02way through.
17:04I just was interested in Halo, trying to get involved in Halo whenever it first came out.
17:09It was Halo three was actually the big one for this console and reach and ODST.
17:15I got involved in all of that in this console.
17:17I got involved in some of the Gears of War, not all of them.
17:21I like Gears of War.
17:23OK, I really was involved in Call of Duty a lot.
17:27I still have those, as you've seen earlier, some of the games and stuff that I have just
17:31from that generation, just from moving that stuff, it was near and dear to my heart at
17:36that point in time and reliving that stuff, religion, that nostalgia and going back through
17:40and playing. Does the console still work?
17:42Absolutely. It still works.
17:45Like I said, the problem is, is the disc tray on this one is starting to fade out.
17:49So I'm going to have to replace.
17:50I'm going to have to open up and replace that disc tray.
17:52The good thing about these disc readers and stuff is on the early editions, they weren't
17:57married to the motherboard.
17:59So you could actually just replace the drive completely, buy a new drive and replace it
18:04completely. And it was cheaper than trying to re-solder and have somebody else go in and
18:11do the soldering to marry everything to the motherboard to keep it right, like with the
18:15Xbox One and One S.
18:17My One S, the disc drive is starting to go out.
18:19The automatic disc drive where you put it in, it sucks it in.
18:22It's starting to go out on it.
18:23And they quoted me $650 at one of the places just to take the old drive off, unsolder it,
18:32solder the new drive on and screw it in and lock it.
18:35$650, guys.
18:36So think about that for a second versus buying a $100 drive, opening up the console
18:42yourself, three screws, four screws, pulling it out and putting the new one in.
18:47And there you go.
18:48You've got a brand new drive.
18:50So that's what you got to think about, $100 versus $600 to do something like that.
18:55So they were thinking about money and not efficiency involved.
19:01And it's worked for them.
19:02I mean, you got a lot of people who are brand conscious.
19:05Now, I did some things like I told you with the intercooler, like I bought this external
19:09intercooler, if I can get it off, external intercooler, and it's dirty, guys.
19:13So please bear with me because I haven't blown it out.
19:15And God knows how long, about four months, five months.
19:18So it's dirty.
19:19But I bought it from Nyko.
19:21It's a Nyko EX intercooler.
19:24And I've had this thing, God, I got it a week after I got the console.
19:32So in 2008 is when I got the console.
19:35So I've had it since 2008 and it worked just fine.
19:38It works just fine.
19:39Just has little issues here and there, but it's got three extra fans in the back.
19:42So it gives you a total of four fans across for this.
19:46And it plugs directly in.
19:47I mean, it plugs directly into the power supply and then you plug the power supply
19:53in to the back of the console directly.
19:56That's a cool little intercooler feature to try to help keep this console extra
20:00cool, extra, extra cold going forward.
20:04When I bought this, HDMI was the first thing.
20:07So this is the second set of Xboxes that came out, second set of
20:10releases that came out for this.
20:13And HDMI was not on the first set, but it was on the second set of arcade.
20:18And that's where I got it at.
20:19I got the first set of HDMI ports built into it.
20:23I had the USB port there that's made for the Kinect, which I do have a Kinect
20:29somewhere, uh, I do not know where it's at, but I do have one somewhere.
20:34And I have the audio video cords available as well for it.
20:38And the IO features as well on it made directly for it.
20:42And, um, I have a complete repair date on this console.
20:46I had everything done to it, had everything inspected and reassembled,
20:50put back together from Microsoft and, uh, Redmond, uh, after it got sent off.
20:56And I'm telling you, man, it just, just a great console overall.
21:00Now will these consoles fail?
21:02Yes, they will.
21:03They will fail.
21:04Eventually things will happen to them.
21:05Things will break down with them.
21:07Uh, lots of stuff will go on with the games.
21:11Uh, one of the things that PlayStation had that Xbox didn't was that
21:15Blu-ray player and those Blu-rays, you could not destroy the DS, these CD,
21:20DVR, DVD, RWS that they're using on these.
21:24If you slap it, the console drops.
21:26Like if you got it stationary, standing up and the console drops and there's
21:30a game inside of it, they ring those discs.
21:33And some of them you can buff out and play and others will
21:36just be completely inoperable.
21:38If you slap it while it's on, if the something hits the system while it's
21:42on, it'll do the same thing.
21:44So, you know, I have a black one, had a black one.
21:48I don't know where it's at.
21:49I don't know if I saw, I can't remember if I sold it or not.
21:51I may have sold it in some stuff, but I had an E edition, which was the last
21:56edition that they came out with, with the built-in wifi, uh, and they
21:59took some features away from it.
22:01They took the audio video port away from it.
22:03They went to just straight HDMI on the back of it.
22:06And they took, uh, the connect features away for it as well, where they only
22:10put the, the USB ports in the front for that edition on it, but nothing in the
22:16back and I had that for a long time and I liked it, I liked it very well.
22:21Um, the one thing that, that I used it a lot for was Tomb Raider on that one.
22:26I liked that one.
22:27The graphics looked better for Tomb Raider as they went on.
22:30Of course, the, this being the, the launch like, well, the second edition
22:34launch that came out with the white face in the arcade, uh, later in 2008.
22:40Um, this being that it didn't have the upgraded graphics card as they did.
22:45It didn't have that Jaguar graphics card that was put in late at a later date.
22:48And then the Vita graphics card is still inside of it.
22:51So, you know, there's, there's lots of little changes that were made over
22:54the years to try to, um, make maximum capacity with it.
22:59Now, these are great.
23:00These still run great.
23:01The graphics still run great.
23:02They still look good, but little upgrades remained throughout the years.
23:06And especially right before the X-Box one completely came out, the, the
23:10e-consoles can actually be converted into X-Box one.
23:13So that was one of the really cool features about having an e-console is
23:18you could make it into an X-Box one and it would read the disc for the X-Box
23:24one, and you could play it with your 360 and your 360 controller.
23:27They cut that crap out.
23:29They cut the ability to do it out.
23:31Microsoft took all the software down in 2015 or 2016.
23:38Um, from the ability to do that.
23:40But if you still had one of the flash drives that you could jump it off of,
23:43you could change all the software and turn these actually into an X-Box one,
23:47which was a really cool feature for them back at that time.
23:52But Microsoft realized that they were losing, uh, the console war and
23:56losing the money war and they changed it.
23:58So X-Box three 61 on that front, it won on a lot of fronts there.
24:03It did not win the sales front.
24:05It did not win, um, the gaming front.
24:09I mean, it had a lot of games that had a lot of developers for it.
24:11It had a lot of third party developers.
24:13It had a lot of arcade developers.
24:15It had a lot of people that were actually interested in intrigued in
24:20building and working with the architecture of Microsoft and inside
24:23that architecture and doing the gaming community themselves, one of the best
24:27games, I think that they did that they continued from the original
24:30X-Box was the world series of poker.
24:32Now they cut the servers off of it somewhere after 12.
24:36Um, but that was one of the best built games for the console directly
24:41and online playing game for the console directly at that point in time.
24:45And I actually miss it.
24:46I wish they would come back out with, with, uh, the new world series of
24:49poker and do it just basically based off of the three 60 and there's a lot
24:53of games that the servers are still paid for, for this day, but the
24:57servers have been taken down off of the game cells.
25:01So there's a, um, call of duty is one of them.
25:03So modern warfare three, if you guys were not playing modern warfare
25:07three before 15, they completely cut the servers out to you.
25:10If you try to buy a copy of it, you're not able to get into it.
25:13Same thing on the PlayStation.
25:14If you weren't an original PlayStation three user, they did the same thing for
25:18you, but the servers are still up and running for those that actually
25:21had it before that date.
25:23So, you know, there's a lot of things that have gone on that
25:27should have not gone on on that front.
25:29I think that they should be open to everybody is you you've cut, you've
25:33limited your sourcing and your ability with this console based upon your
25:38sales numbers and how they're projecting.
25:41Well, if you wanted the console to be relevant, you give it games that are
25:44relevant period in the story, the console is still good.
25:48It can still run games.
25:50It can still do things.
25:51Keep it mainstream.
25:52Keep it in the eyes of the public.
25:54And that's one of the things that these companies have have yet to do is
25:57because they're wanting to push more console cells out and new console cells
26:01out because that's where their money's at.
26:03But you're losing money on hardware, whereas you're gaining money on software.
26:08So your software sales are going to be where your licensing deals are for
26:11PlayStation, Xbox, for Dreamcast.
26:15If the Dreamcast is actually going to come out, the Dreamcast two that we've
26:17been so desperately waiting for for over 20 years now.
26:23If you guys have noticed that that's where the money's at is in software and
26:27games and Dreamcast, Dreamcast had a release, a new game release just a
26:30couple of months ago, it came out for it.
26:32So they can still be building games for these consoles that can be fun, that
26:37can be multiplayer, that can be running out there just a matter of are they
26:40willing to do it?
26:41The money problem is, is the servers that were up for certain of these
26:45games are still paid for.
26:47Call of Duty is still paid for to this day, but other games did not produce
26:51the amount of money that Call of Duty was producing and their servers had to
26:54be shut down early.
26:55That's the problem with all the consoles across all the generations is once
26:59something becomes not profitable, they shut it off, they kill it, boom, it's
27:03dead, and then they have to move on to something else.
27:05Now, I remember whenever I got this, we had the Blades, uh, Blades menu that
27:11popped up.
27:12It was in different sections for those of you that don't know what we're talking
27:15about with the Xbox 360, but then they changed it to the tiles.
27:20Uh, I don't remember exactly the date when they changed it because my console
27:24was offline from 2008 until 2010.
27:28I actually put my console online in 2011 is when I first put the white console
27:34online, when it came alive to me, they updated the, the entire software had
27:40three software updates in it.
27:42So I don't know which update it was that changed it over, but I got tiles afterwards.
27:46I liked the tiles.
27:47They were pretty cool.
27:48They were pretty good.
27:49But they changed a lot of the features with it too.
27:53So, um, one of my friends had had this three 60 as well, and he used to do
27:58Netflix and he would send requests out for Netflix and while I was in the army,
28:03I was watching him use it.
28:04He was watching Netflix with his wife and they actually had him in like a theater
28:08seat.
28:08It was really cool.
28:09This is stuff that you remember that's nostalgic to the three 60.
28:12That's not there anymore.
28:14Of course, Netflix moved on and did some other things.
28:16We're drinking San Pellegrino, uh, mineral water.
28:19For those of you that are wondering,
28:27but excuse me, but, um, some of that stuff is just not there and available anymore.
28:33First console to do voice messaging, or you could message somebody directly
28:36through a voice and cinema voice message.
28:38Uh, first console to really open up the capabilities of the console directly
28:44through the kernel software where you could access everything from family
28:48features all the way through.
28:50This was the first console that did it.
28:52PlayStation copied a lot of that stuff inside of their XMB.
28:57So there was a lot of stuff that got copied.
29:00There was a lot of stuff that changed in between the console wars and overall
29:05PlayStation three may have won the war, but we're still remembering the years of
29:10and to this day, I think Xbox is a far greater console as far as graphics and
29:17gaming goes.
29:18Um, but the amount of titles that they have is less superior than PlayStation.
29:23PlayStation just has that push with titles and push with the crowd and push for
29:27people to actually own and do their stuff.
29:30But there's so much that could happen directly from this.
29:33Do you guys remember the Doritos crash course?
29:37I remember Doritos crash course is a demo and it got me hooked.
29:41You know, stuff like that.
29:42Bejeweled, you know, games like Bejeweled first came out for it.
29:45Luxor.
29:46Um, those games were, were classic games.
29:49They used to do the revolutionary casino games on side of it.
29:52I liked some of the casino games.
29:54I really liked them very well.
29:56Um, they did the bicycle casino that was inside of it at one point in time.
29:59Greg Hastings paintball.
30:00I mean, you had excellent options for games during this period, during this
30:06time in your, in your life.
30:07And it just made something nostalgic, made something happen.
30:11And I'm glad that you guys got to come along with this journey.
30:13Unfortunately, I didn't have any video footage to show you, uh, today, other
30:17than the actual console itself.
30:18I think that this was the hourglass design that they did on these was one of
30:24the sleekest and prettiest looking designs that you could do mimic directly
30:30out, out of the hourglass.
30:32And to this day, I think it holds up great.
30:35Um, and as I told you with this 60 gigabyte hard drive, just in addition
30:40to add on there, you know, just beautiful the way that this works, just snap on
30:45stuff.
30:46And that's a hard drive.
30:47It's a snap on hard drive guys, so that you could download extra extra stuff to
30:52it.
30:52Now this was four gigs originally, and I put the 60 gig in it and made it 64 gigs.
30:59So that's what we've got on that one directly.
31:02Now you could actually go up to 500 gigs later on in the console's life.
31:06One 28 was like the top of the line at one point in time for this.
31:11So, you know, that's how far technology has come.
31:14We're looking at terabyte hard drives, two terabyte hard drives, three terabyte
31:17hard drives today, four terabyte hard drives in some cases, an external four
31:22Herit terabyte hard drives.
31:23In some cases, 60 gigs was all you got back in the day.
31:27Think about that.
31:28That's, that's how far technology has come and where we're going in our future
31:32with this.
31:33But I remember the Xbox 360.
31:35I hope you do too.
31:37I hope you remember all the good games, all the good times that you had, all your
31:41friends, all the servers that you got to play on, all the people you met.
31:47And I hope that one day we'll see the Xbox 360 come back to life and breezed
31:54new life back into the console.
31:56That's for well-wishing, but until next time you guys heard it here first on
32:00nerdy gaming with a rabid beaver, y'all be safe.
32:03Have a good evening.
32:04Bye-bye.