I'm a videogame fan since the old days of the Atari Pac-Man & alike, and what hooked me since the beginning was the amazing things you can do with computer graphics.
A game with a red pixel floating in the screen would be an asteroid, a white pixel controled by your hand would be your spaceship, and when you pressed that big red button, a bunch of purple pixels would go out of your spaceship and hit the red pixel making it disappear in a cloud of grey pixels. Well, You've just blown up an asteroid with your Phaser-Laser-Cannon-Torpedo gun, and you really bieleved that, for a second...
Now talking about the XBOX, I think it's the first time we are going to be teletransported into a paralel universe after we finally sit in front of a huge HDTV screen, surrounded by five or so pieces of stuff of a 5.1 dolby stereo system,and with a small controller in our nervous, sweaty hands, to play a simple videogame.
I'm on it, you betcha!
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