Last Thursday, officials at Xbox announced that they would be celebrating their 20th anniversary., commemorating the first console launch in North America.

In 2001, fans met Master Chief and Cortana for the first time and were taken on quite the journey. However, playing on Xbox meant hooking up your console using composite video cables to a CRT TV, as well as pre-ordering games and standing in line at your favourite retail store to pick them up and playing games by yourself or at a friend’s house-sitting next to them (seems like forever ago when we could be in the same room with other people).

Twenty years has brought a lot of tremendous change, and that in and of itself requires celebration.

For more details on planned celebrations, keep an eye on xbox.com/20Years and check out the Xbox Wire post linked here.

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