Earlier this week I experienced something that, up until now, I thought only other people had to go through.
Xbox hardware failure.
I plugged it in, and instead of the familiar sights and sounds of console startup, I got a loud pop and a puff of smoke.
Is it the Red Ring of Death, people ask? Am I going to get a new unit under Microsoft's new three year warranty?
Nope, I say. Because I'm not talking about my Xbox 360. It still works fine.
I'm talking about my original launch Xbox, which gave me nearly six years of mostly faithful service, from December of 2001 until now. Sure, the past three years or so there were periodic disk errors. Sometimes it refused to "recognize" a game disc in the tray. When it was Halo or Halo 2, it was comical; how could the console not recognize those?
Recent comments