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This week in RetroNots it's the real MSX.

Hi everyone, welcome to RetroNots episode 416, a number that has nothing to do with what we're

talking about today, which is the Xbox's 20th anniversary.

Wow, the Xbox is 20 years old. That's startling.

I am Jerry Parrish here to tick away the moments of our mortality, and with me, both in person and

from far, far away, we have a host of talented and knowledgeable regulars, including Ray Barnhalt.

Hello. And. CapBilly. Hello. And finally, from far away.

Stuart, Jip, hello, and contrary to what you may think. I don't actually like Blinks the Timesweeper.

Wow, that's okay. This really changes the texture of our conversation. I had everything really

kind of planned around that. Was everything sort of I can get around my love of that game?

I know, yeah. I mean, you seem to know it's basically just like there's a big section that says,

Stuart talks about Blinks for an hour. Yeah, it's like 45 minutes to a side.

All right, so yes, Microsoft's Xbox is 20 years old, which means, well, what does that mean

exactly? I don't know. For me, this is kind of me approaching the episode as an outsider, because

I played some Xbox games primarily for review for OneUp.com, but I did not own an Xbox. I would just

lug that enormous brick of computer back and forth to the office by foot carrying it laboriously

up knob hill. It was a delight. It's like carrying a desktop. It would be pretty much. Yeah, it was like,

yeah, just, you know, why not why not take home my desktop computer as well? I got a good workout.

It's kept me in shape. Pitting arcade is not a funny comic, but they made a lot of hay out of the

size, out of the size of the Xbox back in the day. Like, you can see the thing from space.

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