Came around the the realisation that now is the prime-time to collect Xbox games. The vast majority of games coming in somewhere between 50p and 4 quid, with the most sought after barely pushing 15 in the more extreme cases.
So, spending the same amount of cash that you would on a modern 5 hour long corridor man-shoot game, I picked up the following:
America's Army: Rise of a Soldier
Amped2
Area-51
Blinx 1 / 2
Crimson Skies
Darkwatch
Fight Night 2004 / Round 2
Final Fight: Streetwise
Freedom Fighters
Full Spectrum Warrior
Galleon
Genma Onimusha
Ghost Recon 2
Men of Valo(u)r
Mercenaries
Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks
Ninja Gaiden
Project Snowblind
Project Gotham Racing
Psi-Ops
The Punisher
Rainbow Six 3
Shadow The Hedgehog
Shellshock Nam 67
SWAT: Global Operations
True Crime: Streets of LA/NY
Urban Chaos: Riot Response
Xmen Legends
On top of those, I've got these on their way to me in the post:
Gunvalkyrie
Jet Set Radio Future
Razes Hell
Project Zero
Project Zero 2
Otogi 2
Otogi - Myth Of Demons
Kingdom Under Fire - The Crusaders
Kingdom Under Fire - Heroes
Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike
Rainbow Six: Black Arrow
RalliSport Challenge
Rallisport Challenge 2
MechAssault
Mechassault 2 - Lone Wolf
X-Men Legends II: Rise Of Apocalypse
Marc Ecko's Getting Up
Metal Arms - Glitch In The System
The Thing
Pirates - The Legend Of Black Kat
Soldier of Fortune 2 - Double Helix
Headhunter Redemption
Minority Report
And just because I'm making lists, here are all the games I've had for a while, some of them the ones I bought with the Xbox back in 2003.
Beyond Good & Evil
Black
Breakdown
Close Combat: First to fight
Colin McRae Rally 04 / 05
Conker: Live & Reloaded
Crimson Sea
Doom3
Evil Dead: Fistful of Boomstick
Grabbed by the Ghoulies
Halo 1 / 2
Enter the Matrix / The Path of Neo
Midtown Madness 3
Metal Slug 4
Oddworld: Strangers Wrath
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Phantasy Star Online
Project Gotham Racing 2
Psychonauts
Red Dead Revolver
Rogue Trooper
Scrapland
Shenmue 2
Toejam & Earl 3
The Warriors
Yager
Ohh crap... that's a lot of Xbox games.

Well, while everyone else is going doolally-tap over new consoles, I know what I'll be playing.

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That said, my next thought is trying to find a way to play these though my PC monitor. Using a 360 is out as hardly any of those games are supported and less work though the VGA cables. And while I could try rigging up a scart/component to VGA setup, I imagine it would cause my eyes to bleed from the zero-up-scaling madness.
Might be total overkill, but I was thinking of something like this might be the solution:
http://retrogaming.hazard-city.de/framemeister.htmlPlug that bad-boy into my AV unit and that's pretty much every pre Gen-7 console ready to go and super crispy looking. Downside is that it's super videophile fiddly and costs near 300 smackers.
Buuuut it'll make my Mega Drive look so good.
