GTR Retro - Xbox 360 Launch & Zero Hour

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Other Games, Video Games, Games, Leisure

4.2 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode of GTR Retro, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of our podcast. We take a trip back to November 21, 2005, with a comprehensive Xbox 360 launch report. GTR staff members Godfree and Nano share their firsthand experience from the Best Buy store at Dadeland Mall in Miami, Florida. Additionally, CyberAthlete joins us from the Xbox 360 Zero Hour event, featuring a Q&A session with Xbox executives Peter Moore and J Allard..

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0:00.0	Ladies and just gentlemen.
0:02.8	This is Gamer Tag Radio.
0:05.3	Welcome to GamerTag Radio episode 1392.
0:09.8	This is Danny Pena, and you're listening to the GTR Retro, where we're celebrating 20 years of Gamer Tag Radio.
0:19.4	Now, by the time you listen to this, this Friday, we're going to have an interview with
0:24.9	the CEO of Microsoft Gaming, Phil Spencer.
0:28.5	This is going to be the third time that he's joining on Gamer Tag Radio for an interview.
0:34.9	And also this year is the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Xbox 360.
0:42.1	So I decided that I'm going to release this episode of GTR Retro that came out back in November 21st, 2005.
0:54.8	This is all about the Xbox 360 launch.
0:58.9	We also have content recorded from inside of zero hour.
1:04.4	And this came out during the time of Thanksgiving around there.
1:10.3	And here's the description of the original episode.
1:13.6	This week we have a new episode with a full Xbox 360 launch report,
1:19.7	GTR staff members, Gawfrey and Nano.
1:22.2	Nano is actually my brother.
1:24.2	It gives you a full report from Best Buy and Dayland Mall in Miami, Florida.
1:30.6	Cyberathlete reports from the special event Xbox 360 Zero Hour, and he also was part of a Q&A
1:38.2	with the Xbox execs back in 2005, and that's Peter Moore and Jay Aller you're going to hear a lot of
1:45.2	other members from the committee asking questions to Jay Allard and Peter
1:52.0	Moore about different things about Xbox Live the features that we're going to get to see
1:58.5	I know they they were talking about like the gamer tag,
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