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Am 28 years old, live in Northampton, England, work as a internet administrator. Like horror films, rock music, zombie books etc etc.

My gamertag is Happyhead UK, I really really want to play online games with friendly people,as I hate playing with strangers, I really feel like I'm missing out on online games due to this fact so am envious of all the people with thier fancy 'friend lists'!

Anyway my first console was a BBC Acorn Electron, I loved it, had hundreds of games for it. My fave games were the Repton ones, as well as Crazy Rider, and a game set in a underground base that I can't recall the title of. All good things come to an end though. One day the cassette box thing broke, rather then get a new one my parents chucked the whole thing away, and sold all the games to some dodgy bloke at a car boot sale for £5.

That was the end of my console owning days I assumed. My friends all had Master Systems, so we would spend hours playing Alex Kidd and Sonic, I thought the graphics and sound were unbelivable.

One birthday I find a big present, I open it to find surrounded by a legion of angels a Megadrive, a pure virgin Megadrive, with Altered Beast and Sonic. Before that day I had not even realised such a beast of power existed.

I become the cool kid in the neighbourhood with everyone wanting to play it. A year later a bitter war erupted, a enemy appeared on the horizon - the Super NES...

It was a bitter and bloody battle over the next few years. Some of my friends got Megadrives, while other friends were torn asunder and got Super NES's, a civil war of apocalyptic proportions. Fighting in the streets, gangs armed with Game Gears and Gameboys beating each other into bloody chunks, a literal Hell on Earth.

Looking back I think this is were my dislike of Nintendo appeared. Don't get me wrong, nowadays I love Nintendo games, I own a GBA, DS, Gamecube and Wii, but at the root of my being I will always love Sega more. To this day I dislike Mario. I think the games are amazing, but he himself I detest. I refuse to believe there is such a thing as a bad Sonic game, I just turn a blind eye to the bad ones...anyway I digress.

After that I brought a NES, sold it, though liked it, brought a Super NES (my fave game of all time is the Super NES version of Batman Returns), sold it to get a Playstation, sold that when I got a Playstation 2, brought an almighty Dreamcast (RIP), and got a N64 for Goldeneye. Swallowed my pride and brought a Xbox. The rest is history.

Now I own a Dreamcast, Wii, Xbox, 360, Playstation 2, Master System, Megadrive (my pride, over 200 games), GBA, DS, NES, Super NES, and a Gamecube (which I have misplaced somewhere).
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My damn 360 Red Ringed again!!
The Rotting Zombie | 2:18 PM on 04.19.2009 16 comments


Saturday morning my damn 360 red ringed again. Just over a year ago it red ringed, sent it off to someplace in England and it come back fixed. Damn annoying, but I guess it can't be helped.

This time though it is being sent all the way to Germany to be fixed which seems a tad odd. I guess I wont be getting it back within a week like I did last time.

Luckily for me it is still covered by it's 3 year warranty so will cost me nothing but time.

This is hardly a blog post, not even 10 darn lines, but god damn it. I have at least 70 games I have not yet even played for all my other systems, so its not like i have nothing to play now. A Gamestation opening close to my house has made me so broke with all its stupidly cheap last gen games.



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ArcticFox's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/19/2009 14:45
ArcticFox
I know the feeling. I just sent my 360 out to Microsoft. The lady at the post office didnt even look at the box. When she picked it up, she yelled to her colleague in the back "ANOTHER THREE-SIXTY", as if they had a running bet going on. I asked her how she knew from just the weight. Her response? "We get a lot of them." Its a little unsettling to say the least, that they released a product as unreliable as this, and we still go out and buy it.
Tha_Meat's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/19/2009 14:53
Tha_Meat
Am I just stubborn for not buying a 360 cause I know there is a ridiculous chance of it breaking? I really don't understand why 360 fans put up with this.
de BLOO's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/19/2009 14:56
de BLOO
most fans have theirs working.

30% rate failure.

the other 70% have working ones.
Corak's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/19/2009 15:34
Corak
30% failure rate is a little crazy for a product. I'm no industry specialist but I have a hard time believing that similar products have that high of a failure rate.
Naim Master's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/19/2009 15:36
Naim Master
Buy a PS3 and hang out with the cool PS3 kids ...
Velt's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/19/2009 16:01
Velt
I somehow still find incredible that microsoft is giving so much sh** to customers with this issue, after a couple of years and two new versions of the magic gaming box they should have fixed the problem for good. They had time, thats why Im not getting one of those.
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/19/2009 16:04
Justice
Today my 360 started showing black lines and changing the colours of certain things while playing Resi 5, I looked it up and it turns out my 360 is heading towards a red ring soon too. Stupid Microsoft!
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/19/2009 16:19
Kyousuke Nanbu
The only good Xbox 360 is a dead Xbox 360.
ArcticFox's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/19/2009 17:30
ArcticFox
@ Justice
This is what happened to mine, I also got a checkerboard pattern and purple lines and freezing soon after. I got an E74 error. Good Luck.
JACK of No Trades's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/19/2009 19:12
JACK of No Trades
I don't feel sorry for people that continue to support MS after having multiple RRoD's.
Endstiem's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/19/2009 20:30
Endstiem
I got an E74 just before Christmas.... then the whole RROD about 4 weeks ago. Still waiting for my damn console to come back. I was this close to getting 1000/1000 on Crackdown, dammit!
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/20/2009 11:22
Char Aznable
Use this time to get back to your roots and check out a few games from years past. I spent most of my time on the Dreamcast while waiting for my repaired 360.
The Rotting Zombie's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/20/2009 17:10
The Rotting Zombie
My 360 randomly made odd electronic beeps randomly in the days leading up to it's demise, I thought something may have been up with it.

@Char Aznable - sound advice, and thats what i'm doing! Been on the Megadrive playing the classic Sonic games a lot over the last day or so.
shinryu's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/21/2009 04:34
shinryu
this is probably the main reason I'll never get a 360, I HATE HATE HATE when hardware fails on me. Even if they replace it for nothing, pick it up at my place and return it within five minutes. I've had some ugly experiences in the past and with what we pay for these things the least we can ask for is that they actually play games.
The Rotting Zombie's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/21/2009 18:01
The Rotting Zombie
in the end they sent me a brand spanking new 360, 2009 model, so that was cool : D
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