Who here bought an Xbox day 1?
I was a few years late to the Xbox party. Played Halo 1 on PC. I think I got an Xbox for Panzer Dragon Orta or Phantom Dust or Dead or Alive 2. Can't remember.
Day one for DOA3, Halo, and Project Gotham Racing. Got bored of PGR pretty fast but had lots of fun with DOA3 and Halo (multiplayer only...never played campaign).
Around two weeks before launch, someone came into the game shop I worked at and sold us a system and some promo games. We all played around in Halo for a few days and figured no one would buy the system (my boss marked it up to like $100-$200 more than the launch price, lol), but it didn't take much for a customer to see Halo and shell out for the console.
My top fanboy-nutso-insane-moment was when Jet Set Radio Future came out. The game was released about a week early in Japan first. I was so hyped that I almost sold off my Xbox and games towards a Japanese Xbox and JSRF. Common sense prevailed, and I was glad I didn't do this after the Xbox was revealed to be region-locked and Japan had shit support.
I started playing my XBox more than my other systems after mod chips were released. Playing games right from the HDD was awesome, as were the custom UI themes and all the emulators. Seeing Street Fighter Alpha 2 running perfectly-emulated sold me on modding my system instantly. Hours were spent playing CPS1, CPS2, Neo-Geo, and tons of other arcade games. Since I worked at a game shop, we'd get used copies of new games pretty quick and everyone would copy the games to their systems (four of us there had modded consoles), or we'd split the cost of a new game and install it on our systems. I think I was the only one still actually buying games at that point, mainly just to be able to play on XBL.
My modded Xbox currently sits boxed-up at my in-laws' house back in Japan. I had it shipped over and the mod chip was knocked loose. Never did get it fixed and the 360 came out shortly after I received it anyway.
