| It wasn't so long ago that kids who got the "new" | | | | Microsoft PC with a modified Pentium III processor, |
| Nintendo 8-bit gaming console or the Sega system | | | | some powerful graphics and audio capabilities, and a |
| for Christmas were the envy of every less fortunate | | | | modified version of the Windows 2000 operating |
| and burned out Atari owning neighborhood playmate. | | | | system, all packaged in that distinctive black box. |
| As time elapsed, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, and | | | | This year Microsoft has released two versions of the |
| NES's Turbo Graphix 16 became all the rave. Anyone | | | | Xbox 360: the Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Core |
| now in their twenties can recall being impressed by | | | | System. The Xbox 360Core System is "plug and |
| the awesome advancements in playability and graphic | | | | play", that is, that in addition to the console, it |
| display of the Nintendo 64 and Sega's Dreamcast | | | | includes an integrated controller and an AV cable. The |
| system, and even more recently (only five or so | | | | Xbox 360 (not the "Core system") comes with a |
| years ago) the advent of Microsoft's Xbox, | | | | wireless controller, an HD AV cable, an Ethernet |
| Nintendo's Game Cube, and the Play Station by Sony. | | | | connectivity cable, a headset, a media remote, and a |
| The Video Gaming industry has made great strides in | | | | removable 20-GB hard drive. |
| the past twenty years: from slow-moving, barely | | | | For anyone who thought the original Xbox was a |
| recognizable forms on screen in original Atari games | | | | technological marvel, you must try this out! As |
| such as Pac-Man, Calga, and Tron, to the extremely | | | | amazing and realistic as the play on the first Xbox |
| vivid and life-like graphics of Tomb Raider, Splinter | | | | was, the Xbox 360 makes its predecessor look tired |
| Cell, and Tekken; available for the Xbox and Play | | | | and worn-out. Microsoft has rebuilt the Xbox from |
| Station. Now, just in time for Christmas 2005, | | | | the ground up. From the name to the look, from |
| Microsoft has made the next move in the continuing | | | | hardware to features, the Xbox 360 is a radically |
| race for Video Gaming Supremacy with the | | | | different and more powerful machine than the original |
| introduction of the Xbox 360. The result is truly | | | | Xbox. Far more than a video game console, the |
| phenomenal. | | | | Xbox 360 is a total media center that allows users to |
| The Xbox 360, as with all video game consoles, is | | | | play games, network with other 360 owners; rip, |
| basically just a computer with hardware and | | | | stream and download all types of media, including |
| software dedicated to the function of running video | | | | high-definition movies, music, digital pictures and game |
| games. The original Xbox was pretty much just a | | | | content, as well as play DVD movies and audio CD's. |