XBOX 180

Microsoft should have named its second console n the Xbox 180 because that's kind of what it pulled off with the machine.

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Despite those infamous early technical issues, with the dreaded Red Ring Of Death causing much anxiety among gamers back in the Noughties, Microsoft turned things around in spectacular fashion.

It launched a games console that, while initially felt as stable as playing Jenga on a waterbed, and looked like a VHS player launched by Apple, went toe-to-toe with the PlayStation 3 and sold more than three times as many units of the original Xbox (according to some quick internet research). In years to come, I do think that the seventh console generation could be seen as the last 'classic console generation'. Let me explain what I mean by that...

These days everything is online and data reliant. In those generations most big games only released on physical media, in more stable states and didn't require so much faffing about.

Want to play the latest videogame these days? Sure, first, free up a third of your hard-drive space, then set the game to install overnight.

Sometimes you may even have to create an online account, check some T&Cs, and make sure you're always online for the constant updates and upselling.