Xbox Red Ring Of Death - Microsoft Xbox: The New Generation of Game Systems
Entertainment is an integral part of our lives. In fact, there are various forms of
entertainment that existed during the pre-colonial era, such as watching opera and musical
theater plays. Betting is also an active recreation during the colonial times. It is designed to
provide pleasure to individuals of varying age groups and areas of interest.
For the younger members of our society, video game console means entertainment.
Because of the animated game characters and graphics similar to real-life characters, video
game consoles became one of the hottest items in the electronic market. Since its existence
in 1972 (when Magnavox released its 1st home video game console, which is the Magnavox
Odyssey) until the continuous release of its new generation game systems, video game
consoles are now what we call the “entertainment of the 21st century and beyond”.
Xbox Red Ring Of Death was Microsoft’s first independent business enterprise in the video
game console industry, after the development of the tools for MSX (the standardized home
computer architecture of Microsoft in the 1980s) and the operating system for Windows. It
was launched on different dates: November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002
in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Europe.
The development of Xbox was initially facilitated by a small team formed by Microsoft, which
included the famous high energy physicist and game developer Seamus Blackley. The
rumors of the release of a Microsoft-developed video game console first spread in the end
of 1999 following interviews of Microsoft big boss Bill Gates, saying that the company is
developing a gaming and at the exact same time a multimedia device that is important in the
convergence of digital entertainment era. By means of a press release on the "Xbox project"
on MArch 10, 2000, the company finally confirmed such rumors.
Xbox’s design was based on the fact that there must be a game system that will take
advantage of the slowdown of saturated PC gaming market and at the same time integrate
a built-in Ethernet adapter. It was the first video game console to integrate a hard disk drive
into its program, which is used mainly to store game data compressed in a ZIP archive and
content download from Xbox Live. Thus, it eliminated the need for a separate memory card,
which is popularized by Sony’s Playstation.
Most of the Xbox Red Ring of Death games make use of the console’s hard drive as the
disk cache for quicker game loading time. There are also games that support “Custom
soundtracks”, which allows the user to rip music from standard audio CDs and add it to the
soundtrack of the game.