@@Tweaked818memories like that are so valuable! Thank you for sharing. I watched South Park so much on mine lol. I remember buying an episode in HD when I got my first HDTV and my mind was blown.
@@ChloeClements34 Early E models are hackable as long as they're within the 2013 to mid 2014 production date, definitely check the back of your console it might be moddable
Reminder to redeem all your unused codes that you might've gotten with games. I was looking through my collection of games and noticed my flea market copy of Gears of War 4 for Xbox One came with a code card for all the Xbox 360 Gears of War games. To my surprise all of the codes worked with no issues despite them being nearly 8 years old! Seems they didn't set an expiry date on these.
The store shutdown doesn't mean the servers will shutdown. You will still be able to claim codes and re-download your games. The bigger concern here is when the servers fully go off like on the Wii.
It's fine because the vast majority released physically and are mostly still cheap and easy to get. Not to mention how many are still available on PC and even the current Xbox store digitally.
The reason these console gaming companies want to draw a line under them, they don't create enough new revenue and if they remain live it gives no reason for users to update hardware.
@@jimmycarpenter6612 As someone who's been researching the 360 library you're about half right, a majority of games are on discs and PC but there's still hundreds that have exclusive DLC/modes that are only on console along with patches that are crucial for some of it to run, then there's the exclusive digital and physical games themselves of which only about half of those are backwards compatible with Xone/Series x consoles, the silver lining is that the vast majority of it is archived and playable but will require a modded 360 to access in the future
This hurts my feels. I remember the first day I got my 360 and one thing that always stuck with me was the ability to change your gamertag picture. Little did I know that you could also UNLOCK the profile icons by playing certain games. I played pac-man champion edition and unlocked all the ghosts as icons! that little detail made me so happy at the time. That ended up leading onto late night custom games in halo 3, actually using the netflix watch party features with friends and so much more. Wish i could go back!
I just realized that the 360 feels dead when you browse because you're not getting constant notifications of people coming online or someone's beacon activating
@@Mustafa_9628 The best reviewed single-player game Microsoft published this console generation that sold well... the studio got shut down... after they made numerous very profitable games. Ex-Box mode has been engaged.
@@terrafair3248facts if they were smart they would do what Sony did, and end up not closing, it would bring a lot of people back to the 360 store FOMO.
@@terrafair3248facts if they were smart they would do what Sony did, and end up not closing, it would bring a lot of people back to the 360 store FOMO.
I still remember the day I brought my newly purchased 360 home and used the blades dashboard. It was snappy and exciting to see live arcade versions of smash tv, street fighter 2 and geometry wars available to play in seconds.
@@Marmite101for now, as long as you “purchase” the items, whether free or paid, they are tied to your account and you will be able to redownload even after the store closes. You just won’t be able to make new purchases. How long that will last? Who knows, but it’s nice for now. I’ve been adding a ton of free stuff to my account, even DLC for games I don’t even own so I can download them later.
I bought a 2nd Xbox for my kid and had to rebuy all the games we like to play online… did it all this year and glad I did, I wishlist all the games I wanted and got emails when they went on sale lol😂😂😂 Black ops 1 and 2 … clsssics
@@Marmite101 Depends of what your friends had. My friends mostly had PS3 and Nintendo DS, so that was what I wanted ti have and played the most. XBOX's did not sell here in Portugal, or at least I never knew anyone with a 360 or a XBOX One.
@@dapperfan44 i'd say 360 won from 2005-2008, then around 2008 the PS3 exclusives like MGS4 and Killzone 2 came out, it evened out a bit, then Naughty Dog started cranking out bangers and made the PS3 the better choice. Also the 360 ports were better until 3rd parties could figure out how to best use the PS3's strange architecture.
THis makes me soo terrified for the playstation store on the PS3 there's soo many PS2 classics and PSN digital only titles what will be lost to time when the store gets shutdown
Man I remember when it seemed like everyone had a 360. The system was so cool and had so many awesome games. I remember playing GTA4 with my buddy late at night, watching but sucking at FIFA, watching friends play Red Dead, and Fallout. Xbox just isn’t the same anymore and it’s really sad.
@@ThePhil-Osopher bro it’s facts ur saying Xbox library is superior than Sonys and Nintendo ? Come on dawg You ain’t got the answers Xbox is irrelevant
@@Marmite101 Pretty much every Launch PS3 still has a working CMOS Battery. If you’re that pressed about that, just buy a high quality Duracell Battery and replace it. You should be set for another 20-30 years. At this point the capacitors & RSX/CELL are the bigger issues.
It’s such an absolute pain in the ass to buy anything on that store and theres a bunch of games that are too expensive physically to get too. Once your CMOS battery dies you’ll lose all your digital games anyway so I stopped trying to buy digital games because of this also as well.
@@Climbingkitten The final sale already happened and it was a huge let down. The most recent one past it was Dishwasher devs discounted their own game
@@MisfitMods Search for Xbox Live Indie Games Archive to see what is preserved. There are about 2820 or so listed there. If you have any that are not get in touch with the Video Game Preservation Collective
@@SocksFCGameArchives It looks like Avatar Warfare might be missing. (Search for Xbox Live Indie Games Archive to see what is preserved) Put them on a flash drive and get in touch with the Video Game Preservation Collective
I played the hell out of the Sleeping Dogs demo back on PS3 before it came out. The demo consisted of two missions. The first part of the demo was the mission where you had to chase down Ming in the marketplace. The second part was the middle portion of the mission where you raided Dogeyes' sweatshop and kidnapped Siu Wah.
The blades UI's sights and sounds will forever be imprinted in my memories. So much nostalgia. I've been playing video games since the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 eras but my two personal "golden eras"(so far) have been the early 90s with the SNES and the 2005-2013 period with my Xbox 360. I can't put my finger on it but the current generation feels as if its missing something essential. Edit: 1:41 Its official, Windows 8 is the Judy Winslow of operating systems. 🤣
There's also a huge Sale going on. Picked up some of the Resident Evil titles for 2 each. I think the final sale will be in Mid July. So buy them while you can. Sad there's no Sale on the DLC's... Because some of the season passes cost 30, which should be 10 at best.
The Xbox live market place has destroyed the gaming industry with its full game downloads. I hate the digital age and this was the start of it. Speaking of that, best online era of all time .
I wish more people talked about the indie games service. Where pretty much anyone could list a game for a couple of quid on the 360 store. All those games were delisted years back and I have so much nostalgia for so many of them
Yeah MS went a little Multimedia crazy with the Xbox 360. It originally supported Windows Media Center where you could store movies and music on your PC then stream them. It even supported TV Tuner Cards where you plug one into your PC then you could stream live TV content, it also had a built in DVR. I used a ton of those features during the 360 era. Along with all of that were the crazy number of apps.
This was the last console generation, that I REALLY enjoyed. Back then, even AAA still dared to try unique and crazy stuff. I truly miss that era in gaming...
My childhood console, the amount of time I spent playing on it was such a sweet memory, it’s so sad to see it end this year, thanks for the memories Xbox 360
There are 100+ non backwards compatible games that are on a permanent discount until the store closure on July 29th. More games will be announced for discount on July 16th.
I remember watching that Xbox 360 launch special on MTV. I was so hyped to get my Xbox and play next gen games. Loved the old blade system to categorize everything. I missed it when it was changed.
i believe the reason mirror's edge is top downloaded is because it was free through games with gold during the peak of the service's popularity. i knew people who only ever played CoD that checked it out and loved it when it was free.
This is definitely the reason. It was peak GwG before the shovelware. It was also early enough that a lot of people hadn't upgraded to the One. Also Mirrors Edge was a well known AAA game, but it wasn't popular enough that everyone that did want to purchase it had already done so. So there were a lot of people getting it just to try it, whereas other GwG titles were popular enough that people had already bought them physically (so not appearing on this store). Games like Halo, Gears, Fable, Assassins Creed were hugely popular, but people had played already so likely skipped the GwG version, whereas Mirrors Edge was interesting but not popular, resulting in massive downloads.
I'm so glad I started collecting 360 and PS3 games seriously a few years back before the shut downs were announced. A lot of the games I picked up for 5-10 bucks have already jumped in price. My Armored Core 4 copy has a $4.95 gamestop sticker on it that will remain there for posterity forever.
So nostalgic. Wasn't even born for the release of the Xbox 360 but I played it all the way up until like 2014-2015 when I got my xbox one. I would play so many demos on the 360.
Anything that isn't backwards compatible is technically gone in July when the store shuts down. Stuff that works on the Xbox One/Series should still be available.
4 weeks later and I'm just finding out about the 360 store closing down. Wow. The stores closing on the Wii, Wii U and 3DS were covered so much by multiple creators moaning about Nintendo, yet hardly anyone is making a fuss over the 360 store.
Gotham City Imposters servers are still online.. I sat in an empty pre game lobby the other day, the game is playable, just dead. People have uploaded gameplay a few months ago on Xbox. On PC it got delisted on Steam but never shut down, as far as I know you still can play the game on all platforms.
@@gk3coloursred Yeah a lot of games have dedicated communities to play with, like people with modded Xboxs host servers on OG Halo games whic requires a dedicated group of players to play at a certain time.
Starting around February, I would buy every Xbox Live Arcade game I was interested in and every piece of DLC for every game that I own that interested me. It took me far longer than it had any right to, but I finally finished up last month. I thankfully no longer feel like I'm missing out on anything, thank god. 😅
This would of been fine if the alternatives didn't suck so much. All the N64 games on NSO are buggy and require a subscription so you can't keep them...
I love how the Arcade and Indie games were separated on the 360's dashboard. Now everything is lumped together and there is so much crap to sift through.
Question, if I purchase games in the 360 store, can I play them on my series consoles even if the game is not backwards compatible? Or is it strictly stuck in the Xbox 360 consoles?
Everyone went after Sony for wanting to shutdown the PSP, PS Vitta and PS3 store, until there was several dozen video made and lots of people complained, so Sony changed their mind and only shutdown the PSP and PS Vitta store, i wonder will people do the same thing for Xbox 360 store or just ignore it or even make excuses to justify why the Xbox 360 store needs to shutdown
I still use the X360 for some games. Old favourites and some STILL on the backlog. What a generation. Great memories. I remember looking forward to play demo discs on Xbox/ Xbox 360 from magazines. Renting physical games. Buying MLG halo tournament clips cuz TH-cam wasn’t instantly in your hand. Map packs. Xbox music. Burning cds to HDD and listening through in game radio. Split screen. Maybe best generation? Games didn’t take forever to make. Actual start middle end experiences. Like many I experienced the RROD three times but we loved it too much to go without it.
I moved on to PC gaming around 2005. My nostalgia stopped around Xbox/PS2/Gamecube, so having the following gen shutdown makes me feel really old. EDIT: Kept watching - Hard Corps: Uprising is a Contra game made by Arc System Works. At least the Switch should get a port of that ASAP.
My 2 main Xbox 360s are modded, filled with games, emulators and XBLA games. I still have my original console from 2009 which was a replacement from the 2007 Console that red-ringed, which I got at Target. That generation lasted 8 years before the PS4 was released. 2005-2013.
25:43 I wonder if Microsoft knew that a fair amount of Kinect sales was for non-gaming purposes. It turned out to be cheap camera to use in student projects. I remember seeing a bunch in university labs.
I have a lot of fond memories of playing the Xbox 360. I remember looking up which original Xbox game was compatible with the Xbox 360 and buying the games that worked. I recall playing them on the Xbox 360 and being amazed by the upscaled visuals. I rebought many of my favorite games for the original Xbox just so I could replay them with the upscaled graphics. I also bought so many DLC and Arcade games from the Xbox store. I remember being so excited and blown away playing the DLC for Star the Force Unleashed 1 and 2, Battle for Middle-Earth, Sonic Unleashed, and many other games. I remember buying and having great memories playing Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Feeding Frenzy, Geometry Wars, Sonic the Hedgehog Episodes 1 and 2, Pac-Man, and Vigilante 8 Arcade (my father's favorite). My father and I would play Villgilante 8 Arcade for hours, and we still do! And of course, I loved playing the Halo games for that generation; it was the first time I got into Halo. I even played quirky Kinect games with my family, especially Kinect Star Wars. I still play the Rancor mini-games often for my exercise, lol! I still have my R2-D2 Xbox 360, which I play often. Yeah, I have a lot of fond memories with the Xbox 360, and it's sad to see the store finally closing. It was a great era of gaming.
Gaming was so much fun during the 360 era (except for RRD... happened to me once and was devastating). Luckily, the 360 I (still)have now is still ticking and I'll never get rid of it while it functions.
@@loon1994Lmao, wtf does “soul of gaming even f*ckin mean? Red Dead 1 and 2, Elden Ring, Seikiro, TLOU 1 and 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Days Gone, Cyberpunk, Portal 2, Mass Effect 2, God of War 2018, TW3, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Bioshock trilogy, Bloodborne, Skyrim, TLOU, Fallout 3, Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3, Far Cry 3, GTA 4, COD MW2, the Gears of War games, Batman Arkham trilogy… ALL examples of games (newer and older) that released when digital storefronts are established norms within gaming. Hasn’t ruined the essence of gaming at all. Still quality games coming out with each and every year.
This feels so nostalgic I hope they bring back the avatar system that was cool and the ui system for the Xbox handheld because I think that would be cool for a sick ui system for the Xbox handheld
RIP to a real one. Nearly 20 years of games and memories. Good times
Yeah man, they keep hiding my comments
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Bought dishwasher vampire smile before it shut down, I've gotten every 360 game I need now
PS2 is way better
@@arya3966 Its not better in every way.
@@arya3966weakest console of its time fyi
Talk about the end of an era 😔
Yeah it’s beyond sad rip 360 good memories
Now's the time to grab all ya xbox freinds and send a tweet to uncle Phil to tell him to bring Xbox 360 to antstream arcade
As someone who grew up with the Xbox 360, this is super depressing.
Smh Xbox do better
1:40 Windows 8. You named them all but the right one 😂
XD
XD
As someone who loved the 360 era... this is so depressing.
Yes it's upto you to tell uncle Phil to move Microsoft owned games on 360 over to antstream arcade
Why is it depressing?
@@reithe1stif you were there you’d understand.
I was. My lil bro and I used to play gears, halo, and COD all the time. 😃
nothing depressing about it at all. It was awesome and is still awesome.
This makes me feel so old. I have so much gratitude and nostalgia with the Xbox 360 🙏
I remember being in 5th grade and my mom allowing me to open my xmas gift early because i knew what it was and bugged her about 😢
@@Tweaked818 I was 24 when this system came out.
@@Tweaked818memories like that are so valuable! Thank you for sharing. I watched South Park so much on mine lol. I remember buying an episode in HD when I got my first HDTV and my mind was blown.
I was 11 years old when I got the xbox 360 December 2005.
@@DeadPhoenix86DPAlr unc
I miss you Xbox 360... better and simpler times in some ways
For me the Xbox 360 kinda lives on in the Switch in terms of graphical performance.
Definitely simpler times. Lots of fun was had on the 360
The biggest concern for me is are we going to lose the cover art in the games library. Its so silly these requires online to display box arts.
Not for a modded 360, well worth doing
@@modermonkula I have E model sadly
@@ChloeClements34 Pick up a slim very cheap now
@@ChloeClements34 Early E models are hackable as long as they're within the 2013 to mid 2014 production date, definitely check the back of your console it might be moddable
@@Alorso_I’m probably gonna mod mine once the store shuts down
Reminder to redeem all your unused codes that you might've gotten with games.
I was looking through my collection of games and noticed my flea market copy of Gears of War 4 for Xbox One came with a code card for all the Xbox 360 Gears of War games.
To my surprise all of the codes worked with no issues despite them being nearly 8 years old! Seems they didn't set an expiry date on these.
OMG. Thanks. Truly was not thinking about that.
Hell yea! I got a copy of Alan Wake 360 that I still haven’t redeemed in years also. Def gonna do this soon
Nice! I have yet to find one yet.
The store shutdown doesn't mean the servers will shutdown. You will still be able to claim codes and re-download your games. The bigger concern here is when the servers fully go off like on the Wii.
They often did actually have expiration dates printed on them, but very rare that they actually were unredeemable after the expiration date.
The 360, PS3, Wii era of video-games was the best era. I still play all three systems today upscaled to 4K resolution on my Roku TV. 😊
Nice
@@Frank-x1g thanks
Same
@@slapshotjack9806 yes, but not if you homebrew it and have all the proper cables and upscalers to make it look fantastic.
Yep same here I have all 3 systems 💯
The dashboard was designed to look like the windows 8 tiles system
Remember the Original Launch 360 Blades layout?
@@Marmite101the blade system quick and snappy. It got bloated over time.
And just like Windows 8, it was made for touch screens that never caught on, terribly laggy, unresponsive, and sometimes crashes.
Yeah the current dashboard is very laggy.
This is so sad, especially when everyone wants to go back to PS3/Xbox360 generations now
It's fine because the vast majority released physically and are mostly still cheap and easy to get. Not to mention how many are still available on PC and even the current Xbox store digitally.
The reason these console gaming companies want to draw a line under them, they don't create enough new revenue and if they remain live it gives no reason for users to update hardware.
Mine are hooked up rn. I play my PS3 more than my PS4 pro or PS5🥺 and i own a large stack of unplayed games taller than I am 😭
That’s why they’re doing it.
@@jimmycarpenter6612 As someone who's been researching the 360 library you're about half right, a majority of games are on discs and PC but there's still hundreds that have exclusive DLC/modes that are only on console along with patches that are crucial for some of it to run, then there's the exclusive digital and physical games themselves of which only about half of those are backwards compatible with Xone/Series x consoles, the silver lining is that the vast majority of it is archived and playable but will require a modded 360 to access in the future
I didn't even know the shop was shutting down but I randomly went back and checked it out a few days ago lol
Me too about a few weeks ago, I can’t believe it’s already being shutdown…
@@hmody360_2lol already? I'm surprised it wasn't shut down years ago.
@@jimmycarpenter6612no way it’s the same dude
Xbox 360 was 19 years ago????? WTF?????? HOW??
Welcome to the club old man
@@danyboy1477man. Life is going too fast. I’m glad I was able to witness the 360 era.
Time has elapsed
Since it's release
It is surprising how they were able to keep that around for that like, unlike that one company
This hurts my feels. I remember the first day I got my 360 and one thing that always stuck with me was the ability to change your gamertag picture. Little did I know that you could also UNLOCK the profile icons by playing certain games. I played pac-man champion edition and unlocked all the ghosts as icons! that little detail made me so happy at the time. That ended up leading onto late night custom games in halo 3, actually using the netflix watch party features with friends and so much more. Wish i could go back!
I just realized that the 360 feels dead when you browse because you're not getting constant notifications of people coming online or someone's beacon activating
Ending it before its 20th anniversary is really a dumb move
Its Microsoft they mess up all the time
@@terrafair3248
Taking Ls on daily basis it seems
@@Mustafa_9628 The best reviewed single-player game Microsoft published this console generation that sold well... the studio got shut down... after they made numerous very profitable games. Ex-Box mode has been engaged.
@@terrafair3248facts if they were smart they would do what Sony did, and end up not closing, it would bring a lot of people back to the 360 store FOMO.
@@terrafair3248facts if they were smart they would do what Sony did, and end up not closing, it would bring a lot of people back to the 360 store FOMO.
I still remember the day I brought my newly purchased 360 home and used the blades dashboard. It was snappy and exciting to see live arcade versions of smash tv, street fighter 2 and geometry wars available to play in seconds.
Summer of arcade bro, Street fighter 2 HD remix. That made my summer.
I’ll never forget firing up my 360 and holding RB and LB because of the blades noise lol. I love the blades dashboard man. So much.
I still have my Halo Reach Xbox 360. I played the hell out of that thing. So many good times playing with friends on Halo and Gears.😊
They are back compatible so I'd guess those codes would still be valid after the store closure?
Gears of war edition for me.
I’ve bought an Xbox 360 from Facebook marketplace and filled the hard drive with all my purchased digital games and will keep it in storage
Hope it lasts - all electronics and HDD have lifecycles regardless of the running hours unfortunately.
You gotta turn it on and stare at it once a week 😂
@@Marmite101for now, as long as you “purchase” the items, whether free or paid, they are tied to your account and you will be able to redownload even after the store closes. You just won’t be able to make new purchases. How long that will last? Who knows, but it’s nice for now. I’ve been adding a ton of free stuff to my account, even DLC for games I don’t even own so I can download them later.
@@Marmite101my super nes, nes and sega genesis say otherwise
I bought a 2nd Xbox for my kid and had to rebuy all the games we like to play online… did it all this year and glad I did, I wishlist all the games I wanted and got emails when they went on sale lol😂😂😂
Black ops 1 and 2 … clsssics
Rest in peace 360. Even though I never own Xbox 360, it was a cool system from that generation.
It was the console hardware that gen to have
@@Marmite101 Depends of what your friends had. My friends mostly had PS3 and Nintendo DS, so that was what I wanted ti have and played the most.
XBOX's did not sell here in Portugal, or at least I never knew anyone with a 360 or a XBOX One.
@@Marmite101No, it was PS3. It had a slow start, but it ultimately won out.
Still, that doesn't mean 360 wasn't a good console.
@@dapperfan44 i'd say 360 won from 2005-2008, then around 2008 the PS3 exclusives like MGS4 and Killzone 2 came out, it evened out a bit, then Naughty Dog started cranking out bangers and made the PS3 the better choice. Also the 360 ports were better until 3rd parties could figure out how to best use the PS3's strange architecture.
The last time i used since 2017 from Someone Else's 360
THis makes me soo terrified for the playstation store on the PS3 there's soo many PS2 classics and PSN digital only titles what will be lost to time when the store gets shutdown
they wont be lost they are all preserved online already and extremely easy to install homebrew on ps3 and install all the digital only games.
Man I remember when it seemed like everyone had a 360. The system was so cool and had so many awesome games. I remember playing GTA4 with my buddy late at night, watching but sucking at FIFA, watching friends play Red Dead, and Fallout. Xbox just isn’t the same anymore and it’s really sad.
I remember when everyone was saying Starfield was supposed to bring Xbox back to those days... that certainly didn't happen.
I just broke out the old 360 with a 1 terabyte external drive and started downloading my old stuff at about 200 gb left 170 games
All the sound effects of navigating through the dash takes me straight back to senior year of highschool. Crazy!
You can tell John was never much of an Xbox gamer with some of the stuff he doesn't know here
Xbox is irrelevant compared to Sony and Nintendo lol
Xbox has no big history just halo and gears
@@michaelmyersplays4992 I wasn't defending Xbox so don't bother trying to draw me into a fight
@@michaelmyersplays4992you’re also just wrong but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen you console war on here before.
@@ThePhil-Osopher bro it’s facts ur saying Xbox library is superior than Sonys and Nintendo ? Come on dawg
You ain’t got the answers
Xbox is irrelevant
@@atodamadre3197 Xbox 360 was peak but come on.
Xbox history of ips don’t touch Sonys and Nintendos lol
Let's just hope the PS3 will continue having online supported.
Wait until your PS3 Bios / timekeeper battery dies...
Sony already tried to shut down PS3 and Vita once before, it's only a matter of time till it happens, start preparing while you can
@@Marmite101 Pretty much every Launch PS3 still has a working CMOS Battery. If you’re that pressed about that, just buy a high quality Duracell Battery and replace it. You should be set for another 20-30 years. At this point the capacitors & RSX/CELL are the bigger issues.
It’s such an absolute pain in the ass to buy anything on that store and theres a bunch of games that are too expensive physically to get too. Once your CMOS battery dies you’ll lose all your digital games anyway so I stopped trying to buy digital games because of this also as well.
@@Marmite101bro stop lying you fanboy
If you hate Sony that much move on lil bro
If you take one last look now you’re missing the final part of the sale in July before the shutdown 😂
When in July will that be?
@@OfficerFredPowellJuly 29, apparently.
@@Climbingkitten The final sale already happened and it was a huge let down. The most recent one past it was Dishwasher devs discounted their own game
The dishwasher: Dead Samurai needs a remake. It's sad to think that gem of a game is gonna be lost to the sands of time forever 😢
Definitely, especially since its sequel is still available today. I remember playing Dead Samurai a lot with my friend when we’d hang out
I spent so much $ in this store back in the day 😂
There are still Xbox Live Indie games that are not re download able and new preserved. If anyone has any on their 360s please look onto archiving them
I've still got Avatar Warfare, Avatar Legends, Avatar Paintball
Which ones
@leov3569 Sorry thought I replied. Put them on a flash drive and get in touch with the Video Game Preservation Collective
@@MisfitMods Search for Xbox Live Indie Games Archive to see what is preserved. There are about 2820 or so listed there. If you have any that are not get in touch with the Video Game Preservation Collective
@@SocksFCGameArchives It looks like Avatar Warfare might be missing. (Search for Xbox Live Indie Games Archive to see what is preserved) Put them on a flash drive and get in touch with the Video Game Preservation Collective
I love how there is a Smosh app
I played the hell out of the Sleeping Dogs demo back on PS3 before it came out. The demo consisted of two missions. The first part of the demo was the mission where you had to chase down Ming in the marketplace. The second part was the middle portion of the mission where you raided Dogeyes' sweatshop and kidnapped Siu Wah.
I think that interface could still hold by today's standards
So glad for backwards compatibility and remasters, to make days like these, less sad!
The blades UI's sights and sounds will forever be imprinted in my memories. So much nostalgia. I've been playing video games since the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 eras but my two personal "golden eras"(so far) have been the early 90s with the SNES and the 2005-2013 period with my Xbox 360. I can't put my finger on it but the current generation feels as if its missing something essential.
Edit: 1:41 Its official, Windows 8 is the Judy Winslow of operating systems. 🤣
There's also a huge Sale going on. Picked up some of the Resident Evil titles for 2 each.
I think the final sale will be in Mid July. So buy them while you can. Sad there's no Sale on the DLC's...
Because some of the season passes cost 30, which should be 10 at best.
Damn I got the OG 360 after saving money cutting yards because I wanted to play dead rising, time flys boys time flys.
The Xbox live market place has destroyed the gaming industry with its full game downloads. I hate the digital age and this was the start of it. Speaking of that, best online era of all time .
We need people to rage so they keep it open like Sony did with theirs
Everyone would have to cancel gamepass and nonone go on xbox series or one for them to listen
I wish more people talked about the indie games service. Where pretty much anyone could list a game for a couple of quid on the 360 store. All those games were delisted years back and I have so much nostalgia for so many of them
0:15 when it cut from elijah wood to spawn wave i was actually shocked at how much frodo had let himself go.
Yeah MS went a little Multimedia crazy with the Xbox 360. It originally supported Windows Media Center where you could store movies and music on your PC then stream them. It even supported TV Tuner Cards where you plug one into your PC then you could stream live TV content, it also had a built in DVR. I used a ton of those features during the 360 era. Along with all of that were the crazy number of apps.
I remember getting all of Sam Fishers outfit items for my Avatar when playing Conviction...THE MEMORIES!!!
Resonance Of Fate is great, but there's an HD version if you wanted an updated version.
This was the last console generation, that I REALLY enjoyed. Back then, even AAA still dared to try unique and crazy stuff.
I truly miss that era in gaming...
My childhood console, the amount of time I spent playing on it was such a sweet memory, it’s so sad to see it end this year, thanks for the memories Xbox 360
Thanks for doing this. Going through the games list reminds me of what was going on in life at that time.
There are 100+ non backwards compatible games that are on a permanent discount until the store closure on July 29th. More games will be announced for discount on July 16th.
THIS PART
I remember watching that Xbox 360 launch special on MTV. I was so hyped to get my Xbox and play next gen games. Loved the old blade system to categorize everything. I missed it when it was changed.
I was a resident firefighter during the 360 era. It got me through a lot of long nights. Most fun/ best memories I have ever made gaming
Final fantasy 13, still hold up good today.
This is why physical gaming is so important
Hated the final dash for Xbox 360 , 2011-13 360 era was garbage compared to 2006-10. That was the golden era
kinect started the dark age of xbox
i believe the reason mirror's edge is top downloaded is because it was free through games with gold during the peak of the service's popularity. i knew people who only ever played CoD that checked it out and loved it when it was free.
This is definitely the reason. It was peak GwG before the shovelware.
It was also early enough that a lot of people hadn't upgraded to the One.
Also Mirrors Edge was a well known AAA game, but it wasn't popular enough that everyone that did want to purchase it had already done so. So there were a lot of people getting it just to try it, whereas other GwG titles were popular enough that people had already bought them physically (so not appearing on this store). Games like Halo, Gears, Fable, Assassins Creed were hugely popular, but people had played already so likely skipped the GwG version, whereas Mirrors Edge was interesting but not popular, resulting in massive downloads.
I'm so glad I started collecting 360 and PS3 games seriously a few years back before the shut downs were announced. A lot of the games I picked up for 5-10 bucks have already jumped in price. My Armored Core 4 copy has a $4.95 gamestop sticker on it that will remain there for posterity forever.
So nostalgic. Wasn't even born for the release of the Xbox 360 but I played it all the way up until like 2014-2015 when I got my xbox one. I would play so many demos on the 360.
8:38 those were themes by the way
The current sale is for non backwards compatible games. Anything that can be played on Xbox One will be purchasable after the shutdown.
I'm confused by this does this mean you can't buy the 360 games anymore on your series/one consoles?
Anything that isn't backwards compatible is technically gone in July when the store shuts down. Stuff that works on the Xbox One/Series should still be available.
u can just wont be able to buy anything from the 360 store specifically.
@@SpawnWave I wonder how many TH-camr's will make a video about this
I know u can only buy skate 2 on 360 but it is backwards compatible. Idk what other games are like that.
@@ghost656metal8ah... the sarcasm is strong with this one 😂
4 weeks later and I'm just finding out about the 360 store closing down. Wow. The stores closing on the Wii, Wii U and 3DS were covered so much by multiple creators moaning about Nintendo, yet hardly anyone is making a fuss over the 360 store.
Gotham City Imposters servers are still online.. I sat in an empty pre game lobby the other day, the game is playable, just dead. People have uploaded gameplay a few months ago on Xbox. On PC it got delisted on Steam but never shut down, as far as I know you still can play the game on all platforms.
You just need to gather people, which pretty much requires finding people elsewhere online and planning a time. Great game though.
@@gk3coloursred Yeah a lot of games have dedicated communities to play with, like people with modded Xboxs host servers on OG Halo games whic requires a dedicated group of players to play at a certain time.
I love seeing this. It is so shocking to see how hard Xbox fumbled the bag after putting out this amazing gaming product.
Starting around February, I would buy every Xbox Live Arcade game I was interested in and every piece of DLC for every game that I own that interested me. It took me far longer than it had any right to, but I finally finished up last month. I thankfully no longer feel like I'm missing out on anything, thank god. 😅
Damn man sucks to see my childhood slowly withering away. First, wii and wii u store now 360. This mess scares me for the future of gaming.
This would of been fine if the alternatives didn't suck so much. All the N64 games on NSO are buggy and require a subscription so you can't keep them...
The end of an era. My bridging and port forwarding days on Halo will forever be remembered
I never thought I'd feel as much nostalgia for my 360 as I feel for the SNES. Damn, I'm old.
I love how the Arcade and Indie games were separated on the 360's dashboard. Now everything is lumped together and there is so much crap to sift through.
Question, if I purchase games in the 360 store, can I play them on my series consoles even if the game is not backwards compatible? Or is it strictly stuck in the Xbox 360 consoles?
If it’s not backwards compatible then yes it’s exclusive to the 360
tornado outbreak goes for 150 on ebay and much cheaper on marketplace
Everyone went after Sony for wanting to shutdown the PSP, PS Vitta and PS3 store, until there was several dozen video made and lots of people complained, so Sony changed their mind and only shutdown the PSP and PS Vitta store, i wonder will people do the same thing for Xbox 360 store or just ignore it or even make excuses to justify why the Xbox 360 store needs to shutdown
Xbox doesn't care, most anti consumer brand in existence, they shutdown the halo servers at that point it's over.
Sony library is superior in every way compared to Xbox
I see why Sony got backlash for it
Rest In Peace...The Best Era.
I wish they still let people buy stuff in the original avatar shop on other Xbox consoles
I forgot how bad the final dashboard was
MS borked it to make the XBone look and work better. They made the 360 dash slower and clunkier on purpose imo.
@@Marmite101 It's not slow....
@@fordgtguy it was fine, but when the one came out all of a sudden it became insanely slow.
I still use the X360 for some games. Old favourites and some STILL on the backlog. What a generation. Great memories. I remember looking forward to play demo discs on Xbox/ Xbox 360 from magazines. Renting physical games. Buying MLG halo tournament clips cuz TH-cam wasn’t instantly in your hand. Map packs. Xbox music. Burning cds to HDD and listening through in game radio. Split screen. Maybe best generation? Games didn’t take forever to make. Actual start middle end experiences. Like many I experienced the RROD three times but we loved it too much to go without it.
Tried making some purchases today on those cheap games, but kept getting an error when adding a payment method.
this shutting down before a lot of these games have been made backwards compatible on xbone and series x/s is really frustrating
I moved on to PC gaming around 2005. My nostalgia stopped around Xbox/PS2/Gamecube, so having the following gen shutdown makes me feel really old. EDIT: Kept watching - Hard Corps: Uprising is a Contra game made by Arc System Works. At least the Switch should get a port of that ASAP.
By the time full game downloads came out they were selling bigger hard drives
Is it just for the 360 or can you still get 360 games on a series X?
Just for the 360. All 360 games backwards compatible and purchaseable on the One/SX will remain the same.
My 2 main Xbox 360s are modded, filled with games, emulators and XBLA games. I still have my original console from 2009 which was a replacement from the 2007 Console that red-ringed, which I got at Target. That generation lasted 8 years before the PS4 was released. 2005-2013.
How much u want for 1
This is the most Sunday Spawnwave video ever
25:43 I wonder if Microsoft knew that a fair amount of Kinect sales was for non-gaming purposes. It turned out to be cheap camera to use in student projects. I remember seeing a bunch in university labs.
The depth camera was used for measuring topography on scale models.
The price reduction is permanent, not a sale. 💚
You missed most of the games that has been price reduced.
26:42 RIP James McCaffery(Max Payne) we all miss you Fam
I still have an unlockable gamer pic on my profile from Final Fantasy XIII
I have a lot of fond memories of playing the Xbox 360. I remember looking up which original Xbox game was compatible with the Xbox 360 and buying the games that worked. I recall playing them on the Xbox 360 and being amazed by the upscaled visuals. I rebought many of my favorite games for the original Xbox just so I could replay them with the upscaled graphics.
I also bought so many DLC and Arcade games from the Xbox store. I remember being so excited and blown away playing the DLC for Star the Force Unleashed 1 and 2, Battle for Middle-Earth, Sonic Unleashed, and many other games. I remember buying and having great memories playing Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Feeding Frenzy, Geometry Wars, Sonic the Hedgehog Episodes 1 and 2, Pac-Man, and Vigilante 8 Arcade (my father's favorite). My father and I would play Villgilante 8 Arcade for hours, and we still do! And of course, I loved playing the Halo games for that generation; it was the first time I got into Halo.
I even played quirky Kinect games with my family, especially Kinect Star Wars. I still play the Rancor mini-games often for my exercise, lol! I still have my R2-D2 Xbox 360, which I play often.
Yeah, I have a lot of fond memories with the Xbox 360, and it's sad to see the store finally closing. It was a great era of gaming.
They did have videos, you just had to download the trailer and previews to you hard drive to watch it.
Gaming was so much fun during the 360 era (except for RRD... happened to me once and was devastating). Luckily, the 360 I (still)have now is still ticking and I'll never get rid of it while it functions.
2:20 I wanted the avatar dragon outfits and pets so bad. I wonder if that’s shutting down too
I completely forgot about getting clothes for your avatar for completing some achievements
Love/hate the market place, because that’s where full digital downloads started, which have absolutely ruined the game industry.
The internet was the thing that unlocked gaming to the masses, but simultaneously was the poison pill that slowly killed the soul of gaming
PSP GO was the first digital only
@@loon1994Lmao, wtf does “soul of gaming even f*ckin mean?
Red Dead 1 and 2, Elden Ring, Seikiro, TLOU 1 and 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Days Gone, Cyberpunk, Portal 2, Mass Effect 2, God of War 2018, TW3, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Bioshock trilogy, Bloodborne, Skyrim, TLOU, Fallout 3, Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3, Far Cry 3, GTA 4, COD MW2, the Gears of War games, Batman Arkham trilogy…
ALL examples of games (newer and older) that released when digital storefronts are established norms within gaming. Hasn’t ruined the essence of gaming at all.
Still quality games coming out with each and every year.
Never had a 360, but understand the sadness. It does make me grateful for my steam library, though. I notice a lot of them are also there.
I also remember a tab called 'Viral'.
I never knew what it meant, and it was also always empty.
I loved the 360 though, what a console.
Anybody wonder why Lollipop chainsaw isn't on the digital store on xbox360?
The 360 was a legend here on Brazil. Many still play whit it daily.
I recommend Space Channel 5 pt. 2 for anyone that likes music/rhythm games! Don’t miss out on a Sega classic!
Not backwards compatible also.
Why do they shut down anything does it bother them or something?
Don't forget to download demos! Quite a few expensive games with demos like Fatal Inertia and Spec Ops The Line
This feels so nostalgic I hope they bring back the avatar system that was cool and the ui system for the Xbox handheld because I think that would be cool for a sick ui system for the Xbox handheld
Wow! A nostalgic look at a store I almost had. I wish I had gone ahead and got the 360 instead of waiting and letting the RROD scare me.