Why Halo Was THE BEST Original Xbox Launch Title - My Retro Life
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- Halo: Combat Evolved was one of the four Xbox launch games Dad surprised me with on November 15th, 2001. It was also, unequivocally, my favorite. Happy 20th Birthday Halo!
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Why Halo Was THE BEST Original Xbox Launch Title
Keeping the #Xbox20 celebration going with a deeper look at that fateful XBOX launch day and specifically how Halo: Combat Evolved became my favorite launch game. Did you get Halo at launch? Let me know your memories with this legendary game!
This was a few months after graduating high school for me. I camped out at the back of a Walmart with a couple of friends who were getting the system at midnight. I was going with the Gamecube a couple of days later so I didn’t get an Xbox at launch but soon after won one from Taco Bell! The Halo LAN parties with 3 TVs and systems in one dorm room were epic!
Yes my dad did this was before I was a kid
it was my big xmas gift for that year and my mom had pre ordered it. i remember going to sam goody on launch day and picking it up. Later that night i was able to successfully sneak the console and games out of the box and played late that night until my mom found it close to xmas 🤣🤣.. anyways, halo blew me away.
I didn’t get mine till July of 2003 and then I got my copy of halo Black Friday that year at Best Buy for $10.
So thrifty!
You dad is a hero . Videotaping all these old school things before vlogs were a thing
He was always my hero. Happy to share him with others in the gaming community!
@@MyRetroLife Damn that hits my heart!
I don’t know you or your dad but every time I watch your Videos it brings a smile to my face about all the consoles that I had as a kid and as a teenager. God bless you man and your family
His Dad is in the retro memory Hall of Fame!
@@MyRetroLife he's playing all new games on all the consoles in heaven right now buddy 💙 really lovely father. Greetings from Germany
Your Dad's video recordings and the effort put in to edit on modern hardware it is really special. Even though the tech is more accessible to record video now.. no one is really recording long form simple candid moments. Instead opting for overly filtered 10 second grabs that don't feel authentic at all.
What Dad captured throughout my childhood is truly special and it means so much to share it with others like yourself. Thank you for watching and being part of what I’m doing with this channel
Facts. It sucks when I posted edits of longer video play no one watched as much but less then 30 secs and a lot more ppl watched it’s sad
Your dad loved you so much. I get choked up watching how excited he is to surprise you. Love your videos. Thanks for sharing.
Is he still alive I hope
@@enviousshade1770 no sadly
Yea its sad his dad passed but with these memories he still lives on!
What I took away from this is that you had an awesome dad.
You just can't beat an awesome father. My dad was uber strict but he was always there for us. Lost him a year ago and still think of him every day.
I’m so sorry for your loss. Thank you for your kind comment!
I am sorry for your loss 😢😢😢
I got an Xbox at Christmas in 2002 when I was 8. It was the first Christmas after my parents divorced. We unwrapped it at our house with mum and it had Blinx the Timesweeper with it. Later that day we went to where my dad was staying and got Fifa, Obiwan and Music Maker. It wasn't for another year that we got Halo though we had played the demo over and over until we got it.
blinx was absolutely OG stuff
You literally had the coolest dad ever! I try my best with my 4 kids to be what he was!!
I have one kid and I try my best to give her the things I didn't have and more.. I wanna be like this man's dad..
watching your dad record you and how excited he is to see your excitement over the new console is really emotional dude 🥺
So special to me man - Thanks for watching
Man, it blew my mind as well. I still remember vividly being in awe and just couldn’t believe this existed, it was new, addictive, and just a masterpiece. I was fucking 12 years old and now am 32. Still one of the best games of all time.
I first saw the Xbox when I was living in Japan, in 2001. It was on display with a Dead or Alive 3 trailer playing. I was amazed at the graphics! I didn't get to play it until I came back to the states in 2002, but DoA3, Jet Set Radio Future, Munch's Oddysee and Halo were the first games I was able to get. All of them blew my mind, but there was something definitely special about Halo. We were in our 20's, but I remember my friends and I all sitting in front of the TV like kids, it was so great!
It really was an incredibly special launch. One of the best I can recall from memory!
JSR ftw.
Your old man is so cool I remember when I was young my dad would play leaderboard with me on the mega drive
Good memories
I can’t believe it’s been 20 years… was a big PlayStation fanboy at the time, played Halo at a friends house, my mind was completely blown, then went to a couple of land parties and went out and bought an Xbox! Just stumbled across your channel, what a great father you have!
Man I remember getting Halo for Christmas that year. My cousin and I played it all of Christmas break! It was so beautiful, the soundtrack was amazing, and multiplayer was so fun!
Halo was mind blowing back in the day. My brothers and I were deciding between a ps2 and Xbox around that time. We went with the ps2 but when I saw my cousins playing halo on the original Xbox, I knew we made a mistake lol. Halo still brings back so many found memories when I play it to this day. One of my goals is to play it system linked again. Great retrospective!
I'm pretty sure you all enjoyed the PS2 though, there were so many more exclusives on the PS2 and titles in general. The Xbox was hardly even a blip on my radar back then and I always saw them as the backwoods hillbilly cousins of that console generation.
Man this is making me feel old...I was 20 when the first Halo hit. I was there from the very beginning and I haven't missed an Xbox console launch since the first one dropped. This includes the Xbox Series X. I did the exact same thing for each and every Halo release and I will be in front of my GameStop for this one as well. Now, if you'll excuse me I'm running through the MCC on our Series X while cutting it with some Halo Infinite Multiplayer Beta for good measure.
Excellent video as always my friend! I always get hit with reams of nostalgia when I watch them. Especially because my dad was and is still a gamer today. We did the exact same kind of thing you and your dad did right down to being huge Sega fans. Although we didn't do the MAC stuff. My father helped me build my first gaming PC in 1994 (486DX2@66MHZ) for "homework," I mean Doom. ;)
Dude, same here! I was 20 at the time and i was kinda done with gaming. I remember seeing Halo in store and I knew I had to buy it! Me and my brother in law played this EVERY DAY!!
Same here. 41 this year 😢
@@mrfishmon5517
Where did the time go?
@@Sinn0100 too fast mate! I never even had the original XBOX. Around that time my girlfriend surprised me by getting me an imported Nintendo Gamecube for xmas. The memories 😌
i grew up without a dad, honestly i just started crying while watching this video, Thank you so much for sharing this story, your dad is awesome :).
Thank you for watching and sharing that. I’m so glad you enjoyed it
I remember queuing at midnight outside GAME (in the UK) with my fiancée (now my wife) and all the guys in the store had dyed their hair green. Like you I fell in love with Halo and I just remember staring at the textures on the rocks and trees when you first landed on Halo and being amazed at how good the graphics looked. Oh what brilliant memories....I'm now 45 years old!!
I'm soon to be 30 crazy how time flies
I remember having a few all-nighters at friends places playing Halo..some of us playing on one TV while others in another room playing us on another TV. and this was before flatscreen TVs, mmkay! I'm glad Mark documented as much as he did! much love to you
My friend got it on the day one (all about 16) and after playing halo the whole weekend I went out and bought one. (With my McDonald’s part time job money) I was addicted to halo and also splinter cell came out around the Christmas that year. Great memories. Really love these videos, I’ve been a gaming from a young age and I’ve experienced the same gaming history timeline as you. ❤
Yeah, I remember playing Halo for the first time and was totally blown away. The graphics were amazing for the time, the gameplay was top notch, and it had a great story that really pulled you in and made you want to keep going and see what happens next. I remember many nights of staying up all night playing it. Good times.
Bring back memory to 2001 when i was in the army and i see halo in a gamestop.. me and my friend stop and play for like an hour in the shop and they make us leave 😂
😂
New subscriber. It’s great that your dad captured all of this cool footage. I remember back when Halo came out and we’d have “Halo Parties” and link up multiple Xbox’s and tvs. Lots of smack talk and fun times.
You and your dad are true gaming heroes, because you achieved something I wish I did back in elementary school when I first got introduced to Halo, to record it and relive it like in your video, although I didn't play Halo in the original Xbox, I was aware of the existence of the game franchise, I saw the commercials form the 1st and 2nd game, and my introduction to my infinite curiosity of who was Master Chief was when I got into a Blockbuster and sae the gargantuan promotion statue of Master Chief from Halo 2 as well as the large piles of game copues and the Joyride figures, for 3 years I was wondering," What is Halo?, Who is this guy with cool armor?, & most of all, What is this story about?" But then in the far 2007, back in my days of elementary school, a friend of mine invited me to.his house to play this game, and in the transcourse to his house he had in his hands a Gaming magazine and a copy of the mad magazine, he and his mom ordered a large Pepperoni pizza and while waiting he started on his Xbox 360, put in a disk, and then my life changed when finally after years of expeculation and of seeing still images for years, I heard the soundtrack, the main theme that made me say, "WHOAAAAA, Great scott, IS THIS HOW HALO SOUNDS LIKE?" From that moment on, I found myself trapped into the universe of Halo, finally a game that put together all.my love for Sci-fi videogames, mixed with all the elements of the movies I grew up with, it was Aliens, Predator, a bit of Star Trek and Star Wars, and great sense of adventure. In resume: Halo changed my life forever and even with the 343 controversail state and administration of the franchise, I will always be thankful to getting into the vast Halo universe and I regret nothing of feeling that.
As a gamer since I was 5, and now who shares this passion with my 5 year old I can’t wait for him to get a bit older for whatever the next gen release is to do this. Hell I always wanted to camp out outside a store with him, just for the experience and anticipation. He’s too young to get the concept of hey look at the PS5 no one can get I got it! But I eagerly await the next gen or maybe the next Nintendo console to do something like this. Your dad is such an amazing father, I hope my son looks at me with the respect and appreciation you have for yours
Man, this video brings back memories for me! I was in high school when we got our xbox. my brother joined the army and he got to come home for a few days and similar to your story he surprised me with it too. now that I think about it I cant believe my brother bought all that stuff when he had to turn around and leave days later...I think I'm going to call him now and thank him for it (not that I did not do it back then! haha). thank you for this video, I'm going to send my brother a link to this so he can watch it too!
Yes same man, I'm a massive halo fan still today, I remember 20 years ago when this released and I would stay up playing this till 4am on my own or with mates. I remember those days as some of the best days of my life so xbox and Halo hold a very special place in my heart.
This video of yours has made me feel very warm inside, hats off to your father :)
What's crazy is that was the game that I couldn't stop playing. Crazy too was that I got it at launch and those exact games. I did get NFL Fever 2001 too. Definitely brings back memories. It was the first console I bought on my own
“Go for it pal” , love your old man’s energy and genuine excitement for you. Such a cool father-son bond.
Man I remember playing Halo at a friend's house I had no idea what it was. I came over to hang out and my friend was already playing I was like whoa what is this?!? And he was like oh this is Halo dude and it is amazing as I watched him play through a couple levels I was just in awe the whole time and when it was finally my turn to play I was completely hooked, such an amazing time this brings back alot of great memories with halo n Halo 2 man many late nights playing haha great stuff man.
The respect you showed for your dad, even back in the day in the old videos is awesome to see. It’s cool to see you appreciate your dad, he seemed like a legendary dude.
I was at a mate’s place when he got his Xbox and a copy of Halo. We played coop all afternoon, into the night and early hours of the morning and finished the campaign in that one amazing play through. Was a special time in my life that I’ll never forget.
I remember getting GameCube on launch day a few days after you got your Xbox. Truly special how your dad preserved all this nostalgia. We grew up in the best gaming days. Great channel as always bro.
Your videos don't remind me of the memories I have. I didn't have the best childhood. I have a son and am making a point of breaking the cycle. Watching your videos brings me joy and excitement for the kind of relationship I want with him as he grows. Thanks, dude!
I think Halo for it's time, it was undeniably groundbreaking for consoles and gaming in general. I only played this one version, ever. I think the most wow factor for me was the grass, yes, the grass LOL. When Master chief was walking around, and the grass came up to view really close to him, it was so detailed, I was like, wow, I've never seen anything like this before lol. Everything else was ok, I guess it wasn't for me, I actually spent more time on Dead or Alive 3, Capcom vs Marvel 2 before my Xbox died. Your dad was/is an all star, what a tremendous father to try and document your life in video, amazing, thank you.
I agree with that ironically enough I thought the same. A couple years prior I was blown away by the footprints in the sand in Sonic Adventure.
Now every game looks the same so not much is impressive anymore.
I remember the grass and also the bullet shells coming out of the minigun on the warthog. Man I was just watching them roll down the hills before disappearing thinking what a nice detail that was.
What an amazing father. Thanks for sharing.
My childhood is here so happy to play it when I was a kid at 4.
Since I played Halo CE I was Instantly a fan of the game great fun time my dad and I playing Campaign, Multiplayer Best times of my life.
Your dad was so awesome to do ll this for you, and himself as well. To bond with your dad over video games is everything. I was in 6th grade when I first played Halo lmao and when I landed on Halo for the first time, I was too freaked out to continue the second level. Took me a bit to brave it, the map was huge! Halo 1-3 is peak.
Hell yea dude....it hits me in the feels watching that footage and feeling like I'm stepping in a time machine...even with the ps1 it takes me back to those summer days of 95 and enjoying life as a kid.
Just recently discovered your channel. And you asked what does your home videos do for us. For me, it makes me wish my parents took more of an interest in my hobbies like your dad. But instead of getting hung up on what didn't happen, it makes me want to make sure I take more of an interest into my kid's hobbies like your dad. Love the channel keep up the good work!
I’ll never forget seeing Halo for the first time. My dad supported my gaming hobby but he never really seemed interested in or impressed by it. But we saw the Halo demo playable at a Best Buy and that was the first time my dad was like “woah.. this is different” I was absolutely blown away. It inhabits so much of my memories, it solidified a lifelong friendship/brotherhood with my oldest friend who I played Halo with all of high school up all night, silent cartographer to assault of the control room to the Library stoned off our asses. From Halo to Halo 2 to ODST to Halo 4.. i don’t have an Xbox anymore and I feel like I’ve had my time with Halo but it’s comforting knowing it’s always there and always will be.
I've spent a lot of time with this game.. I was a Nintendo kid and had the gamecube in 2001 but ended up getting the xbox a few years after. Got Halo with it but I couldn't remember much from it. So probably about 10 years ago I got my original Xbox out for the first time in years and played through the entire game and I just remember being so immersed in it.. then I got the Halo CE anniversary and played through that. That is an amazing remaster.
I vividly remember being introduced to halo in 2007 when the 3rd game was (being) released. But I didn’t start getting into it consistently until I saw my cousin had a copy of halo anniversary. I was unaware that it was the first game in the series just remastered. I played it, and I was sucked into the epic level designs, memorable dialogue, interesting characters, colorful graphics, bombastic music, and the various weaponry. Halo is one of those games where I can play it for decades, remember all the levels, dialogue, and still never get tired of it. That is how classic and powerful halo CE is. Since then I dug more and more into the franchise followed by halo 2, and beyond. I also remember wanting an og Xbox for years. And I eventually received one for Christmas one year with the og halo with it. I eventually worked my way up to play it on legendary, and years later I finally beat it. It was a rewarding sensation. Halo has changed my life and has showed me video games with a refreshing perspective. Long live Xbox, long live the chief!
Your Dad is the best brother.
He is the EXACT embodiment of the Dad I wish I always had. Always dreamed of playing games with father.
"Genesis the POWER EDGE!!". Love when he says that. This man had passion, that is for sure.
I remember in 2001 I was in the Marines stationed in Okinawa and we ended up linking like 10 Xboxes together in the barracks and playing multiplayer till like 4 in the morning drinking lots of beer every weekend
I was a bit older and in college when it came out. I was shocked when I came home for my birthday and my dad surprised me with an Xbox (December 2001) with Halo. I had a similar experience firing up Halo and being completely in awe. Such a great memory for me as well.
I remember getting my first xbox and I also couldn't leave halo alone,it really felt Like you were actually on another planet going deeper and deeper in to the unknown,l.
The original xbox really packed a hard punch
I was too young to get original xbox on release but I remember vividly when I got the 360 on launch day and how much that blew my mind playing original cod 4
Your Dad is amazing! The kind of dad I aspire to be when I have my own kid.
Day one buyer of Halo. Seeing the open level with spaceships flying around in the massive sky was truly jaw dropping for the time. Today I can relate to how your dad was. I am a avid gamer with my 3 boys and it is a bonding experience they will never forget. The 90s were a great time!
Got an original Xbox around launch in March 2002 here in the UK. Some of the launch titles blew me away. Halo was incredible and something I will probably not experience again in my lifetime, also Jet Set Radio Future & Gunvalkyrie from Sega and Dead or alive 3 were fantastic showcases for the system and proved truly how powerful Xbox was at the time.
I just cried for the first time since my mam died....... didn't realize that you had a daughter and that you are giving the same joy to her as your dad gave to you..... watched the Christmas switch video
You totally reminded me of when my Dad got me the Xbox. To the moment on Christmas morning when I unwrapped it. I was 32. And although having owned most of the consoles and home computers over the years, for me, it all started to be what I'd always imagined it could be when I first played Halo. And it kept me hooked in right to this day when I'm 54.
Thanks for the magical content of your Dad's video recordings.
Wow so you saw gaming evolve since the golden age of arcades. must have been mind blowing watching each new console release and being a huge improvement from previous generations.
The memory's are coming back!!!! That time in my life was the best time in my life
I really like your videos. It definitely reminds me about my experiences with gaming. I’m playing the full halo series right now. Finished halo a few weeks ago. Still as good as 20 years ago.
Man, your vids never fail to make me smile. Pure joy.
I got my xbox a year or two later and loved it. Halo is my favorite franchise on the xbox. I just ordered a series x today!!!
All your videos.... home videos - I don't even know you... are a nostalgia trip for me. Pretty sure we're the same age. Watched the actual footage of your dad giving you the xbox and I think you said you were a sophomore on 11-15-01.... so was i. So pretty much your home videos transports me back to that exact time period. So while definitely not an "in your shoes" moment... my parents definitely didn't buy me pretty much every console under the sun once they were released... I can definitely recall those moments in time from your perspective - because i was the same age as you in your videos. Definitely makes me feel old.
I can still remember to this day when my brother and I discovered Halo. We had just got the Xbox and decided to go to Blockbuster to rent some games. We found Halo because it looked interesting and we fell in love with it! I’ll never forget we did multiplayer to beat that game. Those are great memories that I cherish. To this day my brother will get out the Xbox and boot up Halo CE. Thanks for the awesome video!
i have to say your dad is awesome he recorded all theses memories for all of us to enjoy thanks for you and dads memories for us to watch .......
I never really dove into xbox fully until this new generation. I bought a series x and wow I was missing out on xbox all these years. I'm currently playing through the MCC coop with my buddy before infinites campaign launches. Amazing memories are being made
Greetings from Portugal, i to am from this generation brings back the memories. Used to play Duck hunt with my grandfather.Thanks for sharing. Also this is a great homage for your father he can be eternally remembered here on RUclips how he was such a great Dad and gamer.
Seriously BLEW me away, I played it at Gamestop(or actually I think it was Electronics Boutique) and it was sooo incredible that I HAD to have it and got one for Christmas(thankfully) and I've loved Xbox ever since. Man I really wish you would have reacted to the Halo Anniversary event like all the other RUclipsrs because I know you have love for Xbox and that just gave me a Nostalgia overload. Your dad is awesome. Also can we just take a second to appreciate not only how great of a console the original Xbox was, but how AMAZINGLY built it was! Those consoles never broke down, they don't damage on the exterior, and there are still soo many original Xboxes that are untouched/modified that still work perfectly without changing anything. Like yeah maybe someone's hard drives could die like any HDD, but they just lasted unlike PS3s or 360s(damn Red Ring of Death).
My brother bought og xbox because a friend recommended. He also recommended to buy halo. I ow my brother and his friend, because experiencing Halo was just epic. Such a legendary game. The co-op was so much fun
I'll never forget my first experience playing Halo. I was 6 and I remember it vividly. I felt like I was in a real-life world and I couldn't believe how crisp the graphics were. I couldn't stop thinking about it at school, walking home, or playing outside.
I know exactly what you mean with halo. I saw it in a store here in the UK and I had to get an xbox. I'm almost 50 now and I am just like your dad I get my daughters the consoles on launch day.KEEP GAMING BROTHER!
I really appreciate your channel. Although this is your life, history, and family, it makes us all remember our childhoods and simple joys of our youths. Your dad was brilliant to have the forethought to record all this, most of us just have faded memories. Kudos.
Thank you Doug! Love getting to share these memories and moments
You are just a few years older than me buddy. I love your videos. I wish my dad was more like yours but we all can't be gamers and collectors! I was born in 90. Never owned an NES but spent half of my childhood on my SNES. Unfortunately my family never branched out past the Nintendo consoles. Until, we finally upgraded to a PS2 in the early 2000's when my brother got word of the new Microsoft console. Some of my best memories of my life were on my original Xbox. Although I didn't get one on launch day, I was introduced a few months after. My fist set of games included Halo, Return To Castle Wolfenstein, and Unreal Tournament. Halo became a regular in my rotation with my close friends but things changed when Xbox live came out. I was one of the first subscribers to their new online gaming service. Before I knew it, I was at my local gaming store (GameXcrazy) asking my mom to buy me an Xbox live microphone. There were very few people online at first. The service was $50 annually at the time (A bit expensive for some). It was normal to run into the same person multiple times in one day even being spread throughout the world at the time. I had friends in Germany, Australia, Finland, Scotland... you name it. Playing was the next best thing to traveling the world (at least to me). It opened my eyes to a world I didn't know existed outside of my NJ suburbia. Xbox live forced me out of my reclusive gaming life and made me realize that gaming could be a lot more social than I would ever imagine. Instead of going to a therapist after school, I would jump online and vent out the frustrations of the day to my online friends. They would always accept and understand whatever I was going though, and vice versa. I'm forever grateful for the friends I made online and I have to thank Microsoft for getting me though some of the hardest times in my teenage life.
My parents had divorced and my brother and i had moved across the country with my mom in early 2001. My brother got the xbox on launch as a sort of "sorry" gift. I ended up taking the xbox over and played an insane amount of this game, and absolutely was obsessed with halo for the next 10 years or so. I recently got a system with a duke controller, and playing it on the original hardware gave me flashbacks unlike anything I had experienced before. It kept me going and kept my mind of everything else that was happening around me at the time. And it still feels amazing to play even today.
Love watching your unboxing videos when you where a kid, just watched your Sonic the Hedgehog video where you got picked up from day care early and your Dad had Sonic on day one. Awesome.
Halo will always be the game that no matter how old you are, we are instantly taken back to the unreal nostalgia we felt at an earlier age. Great vids man!
This came out on my birthday and I was 20 at the time. What a time to be alive!
i just found your channel a week ago. i never knew your dad, but boy was he special i can see! all these epic old home videos he recorded, i wonder if he knew how you would come back to them and use them to shape your channel? this is my new favorite channel, and yes watching all these makes me remember my first days with my new consoles. so cool. thank you for sharing.
Thanks man! Glad you found the channel
I remember going to my dads on the weekend and he told me before I came that next weekend he had a surprise for my birthday. First weekend in January comes up and dad's got the Xbox with halo, I believe ssxtricky or some equivalent to that. We played coop every weekend on every difficulty and was prob my favorite father son experience we have together. Seeing these videos remind so much of that day much like yours. Great nostalgia
Thank you for sharing your memories with us and your awesome dad🙏🏻
Your dad was awesome and he documented everything I wish I had these moments in my life documented to look back at God bless him!
Hey I appreciate you saying that! I am beyond blessed to have this footage that he shot. He is no longer with us these tapes are a gift
@@MyRetroLife Aww my condolences 💙 I hope these special moments bring you comfort. They certainly did for me 😊
Gosh its so healing to hear some people like you, had a great childhood. Thank you for all the videos.
Only thing I get from this video is that your dad is an amazing person lol...came here because of Halo but your dad is truly special! I think that Halo was the last game that my dad and I played together when I was a kid...good times
dude your dad is amazing. wish i grew up with a dad like that. mine was always gone and never shared similiar interest with me really..
Ive been a pc gamer since about 1993, and i remember when i got my Xbox how excited i was to know that good games like Halo were now being made on more platforms, and made more accessable to people who didnt want to spend more money for a significantly better platform. Halo will always have a special place in the heart of every REAL gamer.
I visited my best friend in Corpus Christi, Texas, in the early 2000s. One of the things we did was play Halo co-op and beat it together. What a blast!
Great video!
I was 23 years old when Halo CE came out.
Id had just about every console released up until Xbox was releasing, I had PlayStation and N64 and Dreamcast. I thought I didn't need another console? My bother bought Xbox at launch with Halo and DOA3
But he always liked to watch me play. So when we powered it up he let me play 1st.
OMG Within 5 to 10mins of playing the game I had to have my own Xbox and Halo.
It blew me away and flawed me. I was heavily into Music as well back then, Learning Guitar and listening to lots of Metal/Classical and orcestral music. Halo music is without a doubt the greatest game music ever made in my eyes.
I think I finished Halo over a 100 times before Halo 2 came out. I was obsessed, I already thought I was a gaming nut before I played Halo. It took my obsession to new levels...
I shit you not, It had almost same impact on my friends, To this day I am obsessed with Halo. They all went out and got a Xbox for Halo.
I had that one friend who was Playstation crazy and he said he didn't need any other console. Until he played Halo.
Then the Lan Parties began. It was a glorious time for me as a gamer!
Right now Halo Infinite is getting that same love... So much fun! Oh boy that grappling hook is a game changer for Halo
I started playing in 2002 when the Xbox was released in Europe. My dad also bought a console that came with Halo and Midtown Madness 3. I used to be a PC player, but I fell in love with the Xbox and Halo! So many good memories
Your videos are so nostalgic, and it's always wild to see you reference where you grew up considering it was only 10 minutes away from where I lived.
Wow your very lucky to have a dad like that. My best memory was getting the N64 for Xmas in 97. That blew my mind. I cut grass all summer to buy a PS2 and Xbox in 2000. I didn’t get a Xbox until 2003 when I had my first job after school.
I didn't have an Xbox at launch but my good friend did and we had a ton of fun playing Halo multiplayer with our friends. Halo had the best graphics that I had seen in a console game when it came out and the soundtrack is also part of what made the game so awesome. A few years later I downloaded the Halo PC demo and played that online a lot and that was a blast. Shortly after that, I got the Xbox on Christmas of '03 and Halo 2 wound up being the first Halo game that I purchased for the system and I played countless hours of Halo 2 multiplayer with my friends over the local network in my college dorm
I love your content man. I miss my dad so much, and it helps me to see your content of the 90's and how you tell a story.
Thanks.
I love this channel so much. I love how your dad was always just as excited to give it to you as you were to get it.
A few times a year for 2 decades I play through the first and second halo games. Never get tired of them.
I haven't watched your channel in probably about a year or so but it's awesome to see you have a whole set up and everything now!
I wish I had footage when my dad both my brother and I a PS2 on Christmas. The face I had when I saw how amazing the graphics looked for Jak and Daxter as well as the detail in Gran Turismo 3
Thank you so much for bring back to 2001 with my brother and dad when we got xbox
All the best my friend RIP pops
You had the best Dad ever 👍👍... I played Halo first on PC, it also blew me away.. Also half life 1 and 2
We used to system link from upstairs to downstairs tv's with a 100+ foot ethernet cable going out through the window, 8 of us friends. After every game everyone would run upstairs to discuss the match and laugh and smack talk the next round!
This is amazing,I was born in 84.All your videos hit home for me.
My uncle bought one for his 16th birthday in 2002. I was 7 and already had a PS2. I loved my Playstation, but was in awe over the Xbox... it took some years, but eventually I got one. Got both the Xbox 360 and PS3 the following generation
Just top quality content as always. I never had an Xbox - was outraged by the controller at the time, I was on ps2 and playing online with it which was quite rare (nobody I knew was doing it) but it got my blood pumping for competitive fps games and I jumped on the 360 when it released and have remained mainly an Xbox player since. I know your 360 was the last console your pops bought for you and for me it was the first gift my girlfriend and now wife bought for me so it holds some meaning
Same thing. The controller I couldn’t stand. Until they changed it
Whoever thumbs down these videos should be booted from RUclips. This channel is one of the best.
Well...that's not really an issue anymore :(
My dad let Me play halo 1 when I was 1 in 2001 and I've been a huge fan ever since
Dude your videos are so awesome. It literally teared me up today. Can totally relate in my own way. Your dad was such a legend. Blessings to you!
I feel ya there. Holy ish, just got the chills. I remember getting an xbox about 2months after launch and kist remember thinking "I have the future" and truly believing I had the future in my hands. Totally blew my gordon off. Bloddy amazing and brilliant