I finally got a One from the Black Friday deals, set it up and went through the grueling long update that I had to restart twice because the console powered itself off (my guess due to inactivity) while downloading.

I also set up Cortana for headset control and got my Xfinity X1 box configured into it, and started downloading a game.

Overrall, I think Xbox 360 interface is a lot simpler and frankly better looking than Xbox One.

All this time I thought One would better since I never bothered to try at a retail store. I assumed the newer console is going to be better. I have yet to be impressed.

My only two ventures into Final Fantasy have been disasters and I will never go back to that franchise ever again.

PS2 - Final Fantasy 11

Xbox 360 - Final Fantasy 13

OP, this was how Nintendo was able to get away with the Wii for a while.

Fooled a lot of people by replacing the standard controller with an IR remote control.

Judging how the population growth is going, and ever growing growth of video games in the world, we're going to see a lot more.

I'm that guy who's been holding out on going next gen. But I saw a Black Friday deal that might make me finally make the plunge.

https://www.bfads.net/stores/dell-home/ads/black-friday/page-1#

$250 that dog will hunt.

Hillary Clinton, she's sane.

Donald Trump is insane.

I don't follow Libertarians and Green Party candidates.

@richsark: I take it that what you bought was not one of the official Xbox 360 hard disk drives. You're going to need to try to reformat that drive from your PC. But I'm not sure if you will have much success as the 360's drive have a special format that sees them as a hard drive and not a removal storage.

With the official Xbox drive, what should have happened when you attached it your 360 using the transfer cable is that it should have prompted for you to transfer date to or from your current hard drive.

Through the years. I guess this topic is geared toward older gamers (ages 28+). I personally don't.

Super Mario was my original cherished character, I used to draw him so much back in elementary, and then Sonic came out and I began drawing them both.

I loved me some Super Mario Bros, with Super Mario Bros 3 for NES being the best of the Mario games for me, and I loved me some Sonic the Hedgehog games, with Sonic 2 being the bar none game.

The cartoon series was really the driving force for me to get the Mario and Sonic games. I loved Super Mario Super Show. Do the Mario!!! with the real live Mario and Luigi and cartoon bits mixed between, and then the slap stick humor of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, with the cool breeze attitude of Sonic who I knew was voiced by everyone's favorite television nerd Steve Urkel, was my personal favorite Sonic animation.

But then Super Mario 64 comes out, and Mario sounds nothing like he did in the cartoons. Princess Toadstool is blonde and not redhead with a Jersey accent.

Sonic Adventure comes out and Sonic looks and sounds nothing like he did in the cartoons.

oh and I was also disappointed at the direction Nintendo did with Zelda. Link had dark hair, he was kind of cool, at least that's how I perceived him from the Animated series. Sure he was kind of a womanizer but hey, its what all of us guys grew up to becoming.

It's like Nintendo and SEGA took their properties in complete opposite directions when they got big enough and was getting traction.

Imagine if when you turned on Super Mario 64 and Mario face appeared with "It's me Mario!" in the voice of Captain Lou Albano.

If Zelda was less serious as the games got as the graphics in them increased with each gen. Like Link became more of a prankster, he stayed a brunette and got more perverted with his wise cracks and hitting on Zelda.

Imagine if Sonic Adventure was the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, full game. Now you had control of Sonic in Tails in the Mobious world brought by DiC.

Badniks were Scratch, Grounder and Coconuts, and the final stage meant you would finally get to see Dr. Robotnik's lair in full 3D on Dreamcast.

Sadly none of that happened, which is why I kind of grew out of Mario, Zelda, and Sonic fast.

I'd imagine if that did happen, I'd probably never grow up.

Video gaming was not a niche-concept in the 1990s. It was not even a niche concept in the 1980s.

Now the 1970s, sure . video gaming was new, and consumers didn't see the first home console until the late 70s with the Magnavox Odyssey and the Atari VCS.

In the 1990s there weren't as much movies based on games but there were plenty of games based on movies back then. I'd recon more games based on movies back then there is today. Off the top of the head of movie games I owned. Cliffhanger, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Batman Returns, Alien vs Predator, Judge Dredd, Street Fighter: The Movie, Terminator 2, Home Alone.

I think the only reason you would think women were largely non-existent is because there was no medium back in the 1990s that identified gamers by gender. Since today we have sites like Youtube and a plethora of other sites, blogs, community forums and game hosted online communities that allow you to self-identify, you finally can see there's more gamers than just who's in your local community, doesn't mean one sex was less or greater existent between decades, it may very well be the same gender ratio it was 20 years ago. And as far as I care the subject of women existing in gaming is a moot point. You're a gamer regardless if you're a male or female.

Some of this is common sense stuff that does not require that you have to be excelling in English courses to understand.

They are closed right now wisenheimer.