X MARKS THE SPOT

The team look back at Microsoft's Xbox 360

- DARRAN JONES NICK THORPE TIM EMPEY

With the Xbox 360 celebrating its 20th anniversary, the time felt right to personally reminisce about Microsoft's second (and arguably most successful) console.

DARRAN

So what's your first memory of the Xbox 360?

TIM

It must have been back in Highbury when the Xbox mags were starting to include 360 coverage, and of course X360 magazine was being set up.

NICK

Clips of that MTV reveal special, I think. Unless you mean in person - in that case, it was seeing a demo pod in Game. It was running Call Of Duty 2, and the manager told me I wasn't allowed to wait around to play it and had to leave the shop. Never mind that the kid playing the game wasn't old enough to legally buy it, eh?

DARRAN

That was an exciting time at Highbury. I wrote a book about Rare for X360 with Ryan King. I actually left games™ to join Retro Gamer just before the console came out. Did anyone get one at launch?

NICK

No, I actually got a Wii first when that came out in 2006, then got the 360 the following year.

TIM

Nope, I didn't get one until 2009. I'm pretty sure the first game I played on it was the Wolverine game.

DARRAN

I picked mine up on launch day with Call Of Duty 2, Project Gotham Racing 3, Perfect Dark Zero and