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[TheTony316]

i was 12 at the time.

 

[cyberheater]

I believe. Do you?

You win the Lazarus award for bringing a thread back from the dead.

 

[Lions Gate]

i wish i could go back in 2004. really miss being a kid

 

[JohnnyFootball]

You know what? I totally approve of this Necro bump.

Let this one slide EviLore C'mon man!

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I was 20/21. Fuck.

 

[Bernkastel]

I was 9. The article in question

Codename for Next Xbox Confirmed in Screenshot: Xenon News for Xbox on GamePro.com

Fellow deadpan Eumellia enjoyer.

 

[LordBritish]

 

[PnCIa]

I was 15 back then. Time flies.

 

[Little Mac]

I’ll never learn to look at the date before getting excited and jumping into the thread …

 

[Quantum253]

i wish i could go back in 2004. really miss being a kid

Hope this helps

 

[MrMephistoX]

XDKs exist.

Was anyone in denial?

TIL Gamepro still exists…

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I vaguely remember some kid posted a picture of a prototype Xbox 360 console that his dad (MS employee) brought home. Everybody piled on him and told him how much of a dumbass he was for putting his dad’s job in jeopardy. The kid responded by saying that he was told he’s allowed to share pictures of everything except for the power brick.

Pretty sure that was some viral marketing/fake “leak” that backfired. Anybody remember what I’m talking about?

 

[Audiophile]

Pornstars at E3, we used to be a society!

 

[PSYGN]

I was 69 years old then

 

[IAmRei]

......
april mop is supposed to 27 days ago....

 

[StereoVsn]

I was 107,9 KG and 19 years old

Had no Job, no House and no Kids

Now I am 87 KG, have my own House and have 3 Kids

This Thread proofes


Man, I am a old fucker now

Yeah, I was 25, full of hope, had no cash but was thinking I was going to make it big in a startup I was working at.

Startup went under, I am now married with 2 kids, job, and feeling old. Mmm… the feels.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

This is a POWERFUL necro bump.

What a better time in gaming this was from.

 

[SkylineRKR]

I was 22 when this thread was made. In 2004 I was playing PS2.

Awesome generation. I ended up having all 3 consoles at some point, and the Dreamcast before those which I abandoned in 2002 or so. The GC had its share of games I wanted (Resident Evil), the Xbox had its share (DoA, Ninja Gaiden, PGR) and the PS2 ofcourse (Final Fantasy).

The Xbox 360 was first unveiled and I didn't think much of it yet. I wasn't interested at first. But then they launched it with PGR3, Kameo, Condemned, CoD2 etc. And DoA 4 soon afterward. I was kind of hyped by its online play and supposed HD visuals. Ended up getting one in spring 2006, played a ton of PDZ online actually (the game was trash, but playing online on console was quite novel at the time), and bought some Xbox games for 10 bucks a piece like Halo 2 and NG Black.

It was absolutely great. I still bought some magazines here and there, and video previews and reviews started to surface online. GT was my go to.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I used to love gamepro. That was my magazine in the 90's. Scary Larry for life. I wonder if he's still around?

 

[Celcius]

I was wondering why the picture in the OP wasn’t loading… then I realized this thread was 20 years old.

OP, surely you must have known what you were doing. How long did you have to spend digging to find this thread?

 

[ManaByte]

I was wondering why the picture in the OP wasn’t loading… then I realized this thread was 20 years old.

OP, surely you must have known what you were doing. How long did you have to spend digging to find this thread?

He just bumped the oldest thread in the gaming section. Not hard to find.

 

[Don Carlo]

Not sure if it was confirmed real in the other thread before GAF was dead



http://gamepro.com/microsoft/xbox/hardware/news/35917.shtml

Xbox news site Xbox-Scene.com was able to provide GamePro.com a single screenshot from an Xbox Next development kit, codenamed Xenon. Although the source is anonymous, we can confirm that this screen is authentic.

That site now redirects to PC World lol.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Fucking hell

Done like a kipper.

Shit, I can't remember being 24, well, it was probably okay

 

[Drew1440]

Here's an archive link from the OP in case anyone's interested. You need to highlight the entire page since its black on black text (archive.org hasn't fully captured the site)

 

[nush]

I couldn't say anything at the time because NDA's and not wanting to suicide my career but I was working with Xenon hardware not too long after this post. The whole seat of their pants get it out the door by any mean necessary that was touched on in the MSFT Xbox history documentary from just a few years ago was absolutely true.

They didn't give a fuck who you were, what your contract was, what your connection was, even if you were not a MSFT employee. If you had access to the hardware and provided valid "beta tester" feedback they would A) Listen B) Include that in the technical documentation, which for me meant known technical bugs.

 

[BlackTron]

Yeah, I was 25, full of hope, had no cash but was thinking I was going to make it big in a startup I was working at.

Startup went under, I am now married with 2 kids, job, and feeling old. Mmm… the feels.

 

[anothertech]

Dude. I was still doing stunts for Toby Maguire in Spiderman back then.

 

[Hudo]

I just want to say that I got two warnings for my necroing. And my necros were dope.

 

[Pagusas]

So glad to finally see a necrobump where I wasn't in the initial conversation and completely wrong.

 

[Negotiator]

I sincerely miss the good ol' Microsoft of the XBOX 360 era.

Sony had some tough competition back then...

And I strongly believe that franchises need to have a continuity in terms of leadership.

Gears of War was highly successful under CliffyB. Not so much after he left.

Nintendo gets it (Miyamoto is still behind the Mario series, Aonuma behind Zelda etc.)

 

[Griffon]

Such better times, I wish I could go back.

 

[ManaByte]

Gears of War was highly successful under CliffyB. Not so much after he left.

Yea well his next game flopped so hard no one even remembers it.

 

[LordCBH]

Yea well his next game flopped so hard no one even remembers it.

Shame. I actually enjoyed Lawbreakers, but I also understand why it flopped too.

Side note: man this thread takes me back. I didn’t own an original Xbox but I was hyped af for the 360.

 

[DGrayson]

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