Game consoles have been produced for quite some time. We used to use simple primitive (I say primitive since in comparison to today, console video games have improved much since then, in measures we can’t even grasp) TV consoles, like ATARI, SEGA and more, it started during the 1970’s. You can find some info here at this website that I discovered, on historic video game console, so see for yourself.

The Xbox has been competing against the Sony’s PS2 (Sony PlayStation 2 – which is one of the most common being used out there), Nintendo GameCube, WII and Sega. Microsoft chose to get into the TV video game consoles, since it also was developing Microsoft computer games and wanted a piece of those comfortable living room family gaming system.

The Xbox Live, enable online gaming between Xbox users, where you could use the internet connection to join forces and play the games together. When the Xbox was revealed to developers on the year 2000, its technology amazed many.

Microsoft Xbox Live – This unit was launched in November 2002, and was designated for subscribers to play against other Xbox subscribers worldwide using online connection. There was a huge amount of subscribers at first, around Quarter of a Million and at the year 2009 it reached over 20 million subscribers. The online gaming worked only with broadband internet connection. The Xbox live support has been discontinued since April 2010 and old units instead of being repaired will be replaced by the Xbox 360.

Microsoft Xbox 360 – “List of games suitable for the Xbox 360” – This video game console had a larger storage capacity, audio and video capabilities over the old Xbox and was a very usable console by many. This Xbox unit was supporting old Xbox games and had a DVD player unit.

You can find additional Xbox information on those websites:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox
2. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/
3. http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live
4. http://www.microsoft.com/xbox/
5. http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/gaming/productdetails.aspx?pid=091

You can find a list of the top 10 best Xbox Games at this link as an example of what type of quality games are out there for Microsoft Xbox: http://xbox.ign.com/articles/506/506934p1.html

Who doesn’t like to play games?

Since we where little we were playing games, and in this advanced age, the games just passed to the computer, well not completely true, there are still regular games that you can play as you used to, using your hands, moving game pieces, but computer games, well… they are something else.

You can find computer games in many different types, and on different subjects. Computer games on science, science fiction, space flying to space or fight using space ships, detective plots trying to solve unsolved crimes of sort, adventures, races, race simulations where you drive almost any type of vehicle dirt bikes, motorcycles, race cars or even top sport cars that we have today without paying the price they cost , fighting games either in the ring or on martial arts sort of fighting games, flight simulators that enable you to fly a combat jet, helicopter or just simulate that you are the pilot of a commercial airline airplane and your flying passenger around the world. There are computer games that simulate life which enables you to play a person in a family that conduct their day to day life of going to work coming home to eat dinner etc… and just learn how to date women/men or how to live with roommates.

Those kind of games enable us to simulate life, who wouldn’t want to be a fighter pilot and fly assignments, bomb cities, do dog fighting with other enemy fighter planes and all that from the comfort of your home, without getting hurt. Computer games enable that, you can just sit back, turn on your computer, run your favorite game, and enter a character of your choice, and just play, enjoy it and have fun.

Kids have computer games that enable them to study, learn languages, study mathematics or increase their knowledge in different areas, and all that while playing computer games, enjoying the popup characters that talk to them from the computer, teaching them and all that while they are having fun. Who wouldn’t want to learn new things while having fun? we probably will learn much better while we enjoy ourselves.

Computer games are being sold at stores, and you just buy them, install them on your computer and you’re in business, the fun can begin. We can also find free computer games online, there are many websites that enable us to play online games using a web browser. Those websites have so many online games, that you most likely won’t have a problem finding a computer game that you like, and with the quality and the higher speed of the internet today, we can enjoy online games that work smoothly, load faster and let us enjoy the fun and games from anywhere, when all you need is just an internet connection, and you don’t need to install anything to be able to play.