Sunday, October 7, 2007

Xbox 360: Something Shiny, Something new

In my childhood days, I remember going to my friend’s house every weekend. Was it because he was a great friend to hang out with? No….it was because he owned the latest Super Nintendo system, while I was still playing around with my Atari 2600. The pixilated blocks on his Nintendo looked more like people, or tanks, or aero planes than the pixilated blocks on my Atari. (Which looked like…..well….blocks). Fast forward about 20 years and here we are with the latest iteration of the console war. The first contender being Microsoft’s Xbox 360. We’ve now gone from barely recognizable pixilated characters on screen to barely distinguishable from reality. The Xbox’s next-gen console is really starting to blur the line between a video game, and watching a movie View the rest of this article


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