I loved installing 360 games, I had a really scratched copy of Red Dead Redemption and the game would boot and run but eventually would freeze and lock up. I had a friend bring his clean copy over and used his disc to install it to my 360 hard drive. Made it so my copy was only needed as a boot disc which saved me from having to buy a new one.

I miss games of this generation. High quality but without all the monetization (for the most part)

15 years already?!?! Where did the time go 😔

I remember getting this when I was 11 years old after my white one broke and feeling so much excitement and joy. God I loved the 360 generation.

Had a lot of memories with my 360, Playing Skyrim while it was snowing outside, Playing GTA 4 and seeing how much of a technical leap it was from San Andreas etc.

My first experience with the Xbox 360. My cousins Elite with The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion... It sparked greatness moving on from a decade on my PS2 seeing consoles put out PC quality visuals and physics.

I remember installing a 250GB HDD to my elite. I grabbed one of the WD drives that you could flash a different firmware on instead of getting a MS drive and save a ton of money. Still works to this day.

Have to say, the 360 is probably my favourite console of all time. Grew up on the PlayStation 1 and 2 (and love them - probably spent thousands of hours playing both, especially the PS2), but I feel the leap to HD gaming was an absolute game changer. Will never forget the first time I saw 360 gameplay in a local game store. Hooked up to a HD TV….. I was blown away. Couldn’t believe the graphics. This felt like the first truly digital console to nail everything. Loved the design, interface, controller, online play. This machine had the lot (and that’s before we even mention the games)!

My white 250 gig elite 360 was the first console I bought for myself as a young adult. It still works fine, and I still use it occasionally mostly for messing around with modded Borderlands 2 and Pre Sequel save files via Gibbed. It was never subjected to being cooked alive inside a closed up entertainment center, it was never left running sitting on carpet, it was never tormented by a child or pet knocking it around, etc etc. Like all my consoles I pull it apart every couple years to blow the dust out and reapply thermal paste, its amazing how long things last when you take care of them...

I got a 360 Elite on vacation of all places. I don't know if my dad was just in a silly goofy mood or something that day, but he just bought it for me in a random Walmart near the hotel. Idea being my pre-HDMI 360 would get passed down to my little brother. It actually had an E74 error out of the box, so we had to go back and exchange it. Having that massive 120GB hard drive was a game changer. I could only really have one game installed at a time on the 20GB HDD (which was more like 13GB usable) and that was usually reserved for Oblivion because trying to move between loading areas in that game while using tray and play was a nightmare. The big selling feature of the HDMI port wasn't something I got to use right away though. At the time I was using a CRT, though it was a HD CRT so I at least got to use component cables or the VGA cable if I took my 1280x1024 LCD to a friends house. Overall 10/10. Loved that box.

Got the Mass Effect 2 version at a garage sale from a guy who bought storage units at the time. Was fairly new and he sold it to me for $150. Best gaming purchase I made at the time.

I remember getting a 360 elite for Christmas in 2009 and going to best buy on boxing day to get MW2. Those were the best days of my life.

My old 360 was a christmas present from my parents. Then it got red-ringed just outside of the warranty extension, so we had to pick up an Elite. That thing lasted me so long. The only part of it that broke was the disk drive and I ended up selling it. My Xbox One disk drive also broke... and I bought a ps3 in 2018 as a highschool graduation gift and the disk drive broke on that too... What is with breaking disk drives? I've used my PC more often than my ps3!

I remember going to Future Shop (a now defunct Canadian electronics chain) and buying the Resident Evil 5 Elite bundle that came with the red console. 13 years of heavy usage later, it still works as good as it did on day one. I bought this because the Jasper chip was reputed to be less susceptible to the RROD and I never had a problem.

I think this will always be my favourite console. Some amazing memories and just generally loved the way it looked as well.

The thing a lot of people did not know is that you could pop open the hdd case and pop whatever size hdd you wanted in there and format it via the Xbox. Worked awesome. Edit: Nevermind he covered it lmao

Got the Elite as my first big purchase when I started working as a teen. My older brother bought the original Xbox because futureshop was out of PS2s. The 120gig HD was the biggest selling point for me plus the I preferred the dark system over the white. I don't even know if I knew what HDMI was at the time. I played endless hours of Halo 3 and Gears with the squad. Ended up RROD after 2.5 years but Microsoft replaced it at no cost to me. I just couldn't game for a couple weeks. 15 yrs later, I'm playing halo 3 on it with my son and he loves it.

Such a amazing time in gaming. Gaming felt so much more hard-core then

I had Xbox 360 Elite and my friend told me about HDMI that makes everything crispy and I was mindblown good it looked.

I got the Elite for my 12th birthday in ‘09, and it still runs well to this day. It’s a good system.

Christmas Day 2008 I got my 360 elite, I was only 6 years old. Best times of my childhood spent with that system, waking up early to play halo before school. Only issue it ever had was the hard drive failing so had to replace it. I regret getting rid of it a few years back great memories!

I bought my brand new first Xbox 360 Elite in late 2009 the very same day the Raven Software "Wolfenstein" game came out, it was also the same day MS lower the new Elite price to $350 which was the ideal time to jump in. I bought a new copy of "GTA-4" for only $20 along with the"Wolfenstein" reboot that day. Never had any issues with it.

While I don’t have an elite, i do have the white 360 from the final fantasy xiii bundle. In 2009 for $400 it included the game, 2 wireless controllers, and a 250 gb hdd. It’s never quit on me through all of the fable 2 marathons I’ve done and still works fine to this day, except the disc drive that sticks open and closed, a little push or a tap, and she’s good to go

this was my first xbox. died after 2 years, sent it in to microsoft, then the replacement died 2 years later again out of warranty. replaced it with the xbox 360 s and that's been going strong for over 10 years now

Switched from the standard to the elite when it first released after the red ring, thing was a beast . Wish I didn't trade it in for the xbox one. Alot of the games I had in my library I wish I could go back and play. Still have the first 100 demo disc from the xbox Magazine subscription as well that includes the og xbox backwards compatible patches and the exclusive mini game building your spaceship and exploring.

I'm sitting here right now playing Tomb Raider Underworld on mine. Love this system, will never get rid of it.

I had the white 360 too, it worked great for years, one day playing bulletstorm it kept getting glitchy, then red ringed, I got a gamestop refurb, and it kept having connectivity issues with the controller, and red ringed the next day, so I just got the slim. Thank god I got it in time for the gears 3 beta! It was the only reason I even bought bulletstorm.

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I remember pre-ordering the 360 back in 2005 and getting this pack that included a controller, faceplate and PD0 & making of DVD even though it was 8 months out from launch at the time. Having been on Xbox live prior to the 360 the leap in progress that it took from a single console generation was crazy.

The 360 elite holds a special place in my heart as is the the first time i bought a console new with my own money. Still have it and it still works.

I scored a Xbox 360 elite with the Kronos motherboard for $20 at Goodwill about 2 months ago. Worked fine but I cleaned it and put thermal paste and it runs like a champ.

My mum bought me the PS3 in 07 even though she accidentally bought me a 360 leading to christmas before swapping it for the PS3 ready. Although I loved the PS3, the 360 no doubt won that generation and I later got the elite in 09. It was an incredible console, completing Halo 3 legendary with friends, 100% completing all L4D2 achievements, grinding MP on Gears 2. I miss those days so much.

11:00 I had to go back to this scene three times because the optical illusion caught me by surprise.

I remember getting the Elite as my first 360. Sadly, I had a rough go of it. The disc drive died on me, and I had to send it in to get it fixed. I did this cycle three times before settling for a slim instead. I still have that slim to this day though!

I had one guy arguing with me about a year ago that my very last revision of the Xbox 360 , my Xbox 360 E was an Xbox 360 Elite 😂. My Xbox 360 E doesn't have those two loud ass fans on the back of it and the HDD is the slot in version not the HDD that is external just like that one. I still have my Xbox 360 E for the few games that aren't backwards compatible.

I actually did a thermal paste replacement on one of these last year. I really like the look of it, but I’ll always prefer the Slim for actually functioning. Cool shelf piece though.

I've been after this exact model for a while now, it was my first ever HD console, I remember buying it in 2008 with GTA 4 and Moto GP 08. I was browsing through Facebook Marketplace when I came across a bundle of an Elite 120gb, 2 wireless controllers, a PC wireless receiver and 17!! games for 50 euros (50 dollars give or take). I was amazed at the condition everything was in, and in that bundle of games there were games such as Bully (Complete and mind condition), Sonic Unleashed, (surprisingly an expensive 360 game?) Orange Box, amongst other titles like Unreal Tournament 3, Halo 3 and 4, Rage, Bioshock amongst others! Ironically, the day I bought it, was the day you released this video!

That elite is from 2009 and therefore does not need the additional GPU heatsink since the chip was shrunk from 90nm to 65nm in 2008. The big heatsink was only used on later revisions of the original 90nm chip from 2006-2007. In 2008 65nm became the standard for the PS3 and 360 before a complete redesign of the consoles' form factor. Remember the non-backwards compatible fat PS3 with the matte finnish instead of the chrome? That was also a 65nm redesign.

Had one since 2012, never getting rid of it since I usually end up playing my games on this more than on my xbox one since Enemy Territory Quake Wars and a few other honorable mentions will most likely never become backwards compatible with One, also big disc installs on 360 are smaller than modern day game installs so I'm never strapped for storage and I still roll with the same 120gig hard drive that it came with.

I have the Elite that's more gray than black. I think it's a Falcon. Still runs just fine, and actually quiet. Changed the thermal paste and stuff a few years ago. It actually outlived the slim I had which started getting extremely buggy and just slow for whatever reason. So I got rid of it and started using the Elite again until like 2015 until I got a xbox one. On PC now but I still boot it up now and then. Actually have a second network card just to bridge a connection between my PC and it cause i don't have the wifi adapter for it.

Still got my 360 elite to this day. Lovely console. Many memories and awesome games with this bad boy

The first model of Xbox 360 that I got was the Arcade model in 2010. I then had a Slim 360. I loved the game library on the 360. Great job on these console videos; I always love watching them!

This exact model was my first Xbox I personally owned! I got the Xbox 360 Elite that came with Halo 3: ODST and Forza Motorsports 3... Still have this Xbox today and it still works.

I got one of these after my launch console red ring’d. Still use it on occasion today

I remember I got the elite with splinter cell conviction and 2 controllers bundle and also picking up mw2, man those were some good memories

The Elite was my first 360, I bought it in July 2008 and it's still going strong, in fact I was playing Time Pilot on it this morning, the only thing that's ever gone wrong with it is the USB flap on the face plate broke

My experience was I had a original model I bought the 2nd year with Gears of War on Black Friday. It had a hard drive but no HDMI. It lasted till about April, then red ringed. I sent it to Microsoft to be fixed. I also had (still have) a launch model PS3. Although at the time Xbox was my primary system. When I got it back, I used it till the Xbox 360 Slim came out. Then traded it in for the slim because it had HDMI and a bigger Hard Drive. I still have my Slim 360, however, it is now packed in a box in my closet. After it, I moved though the PS4, PS4 Pro, to finally a PS5. I had a Xbox One at the time too but it was only for like exclusives. It wasn't until Xbox Series X and PS5 that I now play them equally. Funny thing now is like I said before the 360 is put away since most of what I like, I can play on Xbox Series X, but the launch model PS3 (now with a 1tb hard drive), still remains out and I power it up from time to time to play. I am pretty sure the only reason the PS3 still works is because I didn't play it as much during that generation. I barely turned the thing on back then. The only game that got the most play out of it was Final Fantasy 13.

I collect for all main consoles and handhelds. With a library that's on the the larger size, Its definitely safe to say, my 360 games, accessories and consoles take up the most room. I took over my best friends 360 and lib when he died 😭💔. Only use his prob like twice a year to reminisce, must keep it mint condition ❤️‍🔥. Love you too Jon 💜 w

I still have my Elite, in the original box. Haven't used it in a while, but it still works.

I had an OG 360 with it's 20gb HDD. It RRoD after 15 months or so, sent it in for repair. Heard the Elite had come out, and promised myself if my 360 broke as it did, I'd upgrade. Waited on the repair, then traded it in for an Elite. That lasted 2 1/2 years before it bit the dust, so picked up a Slim. Which still works to this day.

Still have mine after all these years. Fond memories.

My first xbox 360 was an elite 250gb. Still works perfectly

This was my only 360 I ever had. My brother still has it. Still works. No red ring.

MGS HD collection is a game i bought new for 40 dollars, like 2 weeks ago, great to see more people talk about the only way to play MGS HD collection games on Xbox series X, or One X

Dude the wifi adapter and the wireless ear peace was super cool bro I remember playing nb2k8 group chatting and playing gears of war 2 holy shit still puts a smile on face when I see it 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

I would install my 360 games like COD and Civ just so that I could play Fullscreen coop with my friends or if we had more then 4 so we all could play together. by taking the disc out, from inside the console, after the game fully loaded and then put in it the other Xbox. It was a amazing for huge parties.

15 years and I still have mine. Now only if that disc tray could open

Just bought a fat 360 Core to relive some memories and to play some 360 games that haven’t come to backwards compatible. There are still a bunch of people playing Black ops 1, Skate 2, and so much more. Main reason I got a fat was this was the same console I had as a kid, and I know the slim is more reliable, quieter and compact, but I still wanted the same model I had as a kid. Plus I got the Falcon revision so it was less prone to the RROD. P.S if you want to get a Fat 360, Get either a Falcon: 2007 - 2008 or a Jasper: 2009 - Slim release.

Still have to tools to mod 360s. Used to flash the disc drives with a cfw, allowing burnt games to play.. good times.

My Elite is still going strong. I love how the console looks and the library is insane.

My first Xbox 360 was the pro, then my next one was the elite until I bought an Xbox One. I loved the elite so much I feel like I didn’t need to upgrade. The 120gb was big enough back then because you didn’t need to install games, but even if you did they were in the single digits for gb size. The only downside was I had to buy a Wi-Fi adapter that plugged into the USB port in the back, luckily there were slots for the thing to clip into so it wasn’t just dangling around on its own.

So many comments here of people saying they grew up playing PS2 and the 360. It makes me feel old. I grew up playing Atari, then had a Master System, after that when I was 12 my dad bought me a Mega Drive / Genesis and soon after he also bought me a Super NES and a Sega / Mega CD and those years with 16-bit consoles were the best ever in my opinion. The golden age of gaming. After that I started gaming on PC but wasn’t a hardcore gamer anymore. I was playing Doom, Heretic, Hexen and later Half-Life and the first NFS games. It was only in 2007 that I have played the Project Gotham Racing 3 demo on the 360 at a Virgin Megastore in London on an HD TV and WOW! I was amazed at the leap in graphics and that was the moment I decided to go back to consoles and the moment I became a hardcore gamer again. Fast forward all these years and here I am. 43 years old. Gaming is my favourite hobby and I love playing, watching and reading things about it. Still have my 360 which is one my favourite consoles ever and also a Series X and a Switch. I also use Retroarch to go back in time and play all those 16-bit games again. Once a gamer, always a gamer.

So there was an Arcade version that came with no storage (although memory cards were cheap by then) but was basically the same model with the HDMI port and I want to say it was $249. I got that in 2007 and I want to say it lasted me for about 4 years. I did get the RROD and the xbox repair, but ended up trading it in and buying a slim later. The slim is still kicking. Get the slim.

Halo 3, Reach, MW2 good memories

i got one like last month used and it's been a good console for me

Mann I really loved turning on my Xbox and seeing the red ring 🤣

I currently have the Xbox 360 Elite Jasper currently on RGH. Never been more happier having it and still running perfectly.

I always hated working on 360s, some models more than others, especially with those plastic clips. Though I was also like, 12 to 16 when I worked on them, but still.

I still have the original Elite. It’s the black version of the original model. It still works fine. I think they changed something inside fro the Red Ring scenario. So far so good 🤞

This is the 360 that I still use to this day. Had mine since 2009, and it's going strong

I love the 360... Bioshock, Modern warfare, Skyrim, Gears of War Trilogy, Mass Effect 2... so many great gaming memories!!

The fact that the USB door isn't broken surprises me a ton!

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Oh yeah, the 1st 360 I bought. Had a much longer time before I got the Red Ring of Death then got the one with the Kennect.

That’s the bad boy I have paused upstairs rn while I take a break from mw2 campaign, original owner and zero issues over hundreds of hours of cod, zombies, borderlands, halo, splinter cell hell, I still play it constantly and it’s nostalgic every time

I miss my old 360 and its soul will never be missed and now I have a new one to replace it and his name is Jim 2.0, Nostalgic. Rip Xbox 360 Jim 1.0 2008 - 2017

I actually bought one when it was on sale. Solid device, had a fun time with it.

I LOVE my Xbox 360 Elite Apart from disc Drive Problems, IT ran all the years *SMOOTH*

Xbox 360 Elite is my favourite version. Also, the Jaspers are more reliable than Slims/E, Mr Spawn Wave.

These models were always someone loud IMO. I got a slim 360 later and the thing is whisper quiet in comparison.

I still have my elite I got for Christmas in 2008. In 2020 I took it apart to replace the thermal paste as it was 12 years old at that point. It has never had an issue and that is all I have done to it and I still play it here and there.

Still have my OG 360 Elite. Picked up specifically for the HDMI and bigger HDD. I opened it up and cleaned it out about 6 months ago and still runs like a champ. I love that MS still sort of supports it as i got a Firmware update about a year ago and Cloud saves still work. Currently replaying the Boarderlands series and i love i can play on Xbox One X on my main TV, then move to my second TV with the 360 elite and pick right up where i left off. The 360 Controller is still one of my favorites to hold and use.

My Elite got the RRoD quicker than my original 360. That was a big bummer, and really didn't expect to happen.

Xbox 360 dvd drives can be converted to 0800 drives, which are ripper drives, what the 360 already did with retail to hdd, 0800 allowed ripping externally, to backup isos to your pc :)

My 360 E died March 2022 R.I.P. indeed. I've had fond memories of the 360 era countless hours on those systems a great game selection and online seen love that most titles are on Gamepass with backwards compatibility and the fact Design Lab exists you can make your updated 360 controller a cool way to preserve on of XBOXs best generation it looks like the Series X/S will shape out to be the same or be even better.

And immediately, MGS HD Collection 360 jumped up in price.

I never seen that battery powered one like in the first few seconds. Amazing

One of my favourite consoles that i still play and enjoy along with my PS5

When my 2005 Xbox 360 finally red ringed, the one they sent me to replace it had a HDMI port on the back already, so I never really needed to consider getting the Elite version.

My First xbox ever! 😍 I from Brazil, my still remember, once in a business trip to Detroit, 2008, get into a Best Buy chasing a PS3 and manage to get "only" a 360 Elite bundle with HDMi cable, Halo 3: ODST & Forza Motorsport 3, Street Fighter 4 and an extra controller. It's not planned, but it became a love relationship till today, now with Series X (but I do have a PS5 also, now😅).

This was my first Xbox ever, still remember it like yesterday. Christmas 2009 I open up my last present and it's a brand new black Xbox 360 Elite with Halo 3 ODST. Thank you to my parents! I hooked it up immediately to our 60 inch HD tv and was amazed at how crisp everything looked (I came from a gamecube) and played all day, memories...

I had the 360 back in 2007. Got it for Christmas from my parents and it lasted 4 years before finally red ringing a very sad day

ths was my childhood 360, same year as as well, 2009. by 2014 i had to smack the top to get the disc drive to open and by 2018 the thing had red ringed and was pretty much dead completley. Still, good times, lots of nostalgia.

Crazy to see a Bluepoint game on an XB especially since they’re a first party Sony studio now

Had one and sent it to my cousin the thing is still running I got a arcade Jasper model since I felt like playing 360 with a 60gb hdd again and man this console is solid

I remember my mum getting me this and the guy at game lending us the cable to transfer all the stuff off of my old hard drive, what a guy

I remember buying a specific drive and flashing the proper firmware to get 500Gb for less than what the official product was. i absolutely loved how the experience was quick and quiet.

The Red Ring of Death wasn't a flaw, it was a "surprise mechanic".

360 I still my favorite console. I keep my OG white Pro with a Zero Hour face plate out on my display stand with my other consoles. I also have a slim always hooked up for actual use.

You know, I still play my Xbox 360 Slim today and it just hit me that I was very fortunate to have a lot of the delisted games on there like Marvel vs Capcom 2, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and even the first Shank game.