Good ol' Xbox

Written by Joe Bodia

Computers - Games

The Old School X-Box still rocks...

Granted the Xbox is old and no new games will ever come out for it again, but hell, if you want to simply have a fun time buy this and a bunch of cheap games like Burnout Revenge for $5 and have a blast!

This black behemoth of a system looks and plays just like a video game machine, but just much, much better. Inside it are an 733MHz processor, DVD playback capabilities, support for high-speed networking, among other things. Evidently, the Xbox does more than just play games.

Gaming enthusiasts will appreciate the sharp, crisp images that the Xbox outputs, the fact that it supports 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound and that it delivers 256 simultaneous voice channels, previously unheard of in a game system. What does this all mean? Well, basically that you'll get the most realistic experience ever in video gaming.

Its sleek looks ensure that the Xbox will look right at home with your other home theatre accoutrements but before you throw out your DVD player, know this: to view DVD movies, you'll need to cough up for the DVD Movie Playback Kit.

Also, to get the most out of the audio-visual performance, you're best off forking out a little extra for the Advanced AV Pack which has an S-Video connector as well as optical digital jacks.  

Regardless, Xbox comes with a built-in 8GB hard drive so you don't need to buy extra memory cards to save your game progress. And the games load quickly since they cache levels on the speedy hard driver as opposed to reading the game's information from the disc. Yet another plus point is the ability to drop audio CDs into the console and copy music to the drive.

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