Welcome back, folks! And we're about to discuss 2 things, today, that I never heard about.

The XBox Controller

First, let's talk about the XBox controller. In 2001, Microsoft unveiled XBox; the most advanced video game system that beats PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube combined. The XBox made almost 1,000 games that players could not resist. 5 years later, Microsoft revolved to the new, XBox 360! People believed the XBox was the best, but more people preferred the PlayStation than anyone else. However, Microsoft will continue to make the new XBox by the year 2013 called XBox 720!

Let's talk about the XBox controller.

The XBox controller has:

2 analog sticks

2 thumb clutch buttons: left and right

Directional pad

6 action buttons: A, B, X, Y, white, and black

2 trigger buttons

2 memory/expansion slots

Back and Start buttons

Force feedback

Let's say about 76% used the XBox controller. I was unable to get the hold to the XBox controller, but should get the hang of the original XBox games. The advantage of this controller is a nice detail of the buttons on the right side of the controller and trigger buttons on the back of the controller. The disadvantage of this controller is spinning the control sticks and pressing the trigger many times may get the hands to be stiff. For XBox fans out there, this might be a good controller to use. The durability is great, the handling is awesome, and it's worth a buy since it was released many years back. If you want to work it on your PC, you need the XBox-to-PC converter. The converter is available at eBay, Game Accy and other shopping websites and stores. Android smart phone users should recommend downloading the eBay app. And, the wireless XBox controller was also there. Take the controller to the extreme with the XBox controller!

Take a look at this!

It's a freeware game that is to look, sound, and feel like an MSX game. La-Mulana is an adventure game influenced by many Konami games for the MSX computers, including "Knightmare 2: The Maze of Galious". You play as the whip-cracking archaeologist Lemeza Kosugi as he investigates the ancient ruins of La-Mulana.

This is a huge game filled with many areas to explore and dozens of weapons and items to find. Each area has a large variety of puzzles and traps (many of them quite fiendish) and you need to solve the puzzles in each area to discover the Ankhs and Ankh Jewels, which allow you to fight the eight Guardians of the ruins. To solve the puzzles you´ll need to be able to read the tablets scattered throughout the ruins, which will require a Hand Scanner and translation software for the portable MSX that Lemeza has brought along on the adventure. Your Hand Scanner will also allow you to find items and search the bones of less fortunate adventurers.

La-Mulana is one of the longest freeware games he's played in quite some time–his first playthrough took him 26 hours, and even if you knew exactly what to do for each puzzle in advance he´d still bet the game would take at least 10-12 hours to complete, not counting the bonus dungeon. I should play this game some time.

This game is available at the Aeon Genesis Translation Project site. There's a patch available at this site as well. We heard the La-Mulana game will soon be released on DSWare for the Nintendo DS and WiiWare for the Nintendo Wii.

Well, those were 2 things that I never heard about. I should get back to work on making Retro games since 2005, so I see you later[:)]! Until then, goodbye for now!

KaBob799 12 years, 6 months ago

I'm confused, is this a joke about xbox or are you actually serious? Cause you've really exaggerated how popular/good the original xbox was.

koldmonster1 12 years, 6 months ago

The original XBox, for goodness sake.

Eva unit-01 12 years, 6 months ago

Man, the Duke was the most horrible thing I've laid my hands on since the N64 controller, though somehow, I managed to play games fine with that thing.

JID 12 years, 6 months ago