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    Microsoft Xbox

    It was probably inevitable that the computer software giant Microsoft would want to have its share of the video gaming market. Their first foray into this area was with the Xbox and was in direct competition with the Play Station 2 from Sony along with the Nintendo Game Cube.

    The Xbox was innovative because it was the first console to incorporate a hard disk drive used primarily for storing games compressed in Zip archives with content downloaded from Xbox Live. This eliminated the need for separate memory cards as was required with other systems.

    Most of the games also used the hard drive as a disk cache which led to faster game loading times. Some of the games would support custom soundtracks which was another particularly unusual feature allowed by the hard drive. Essentially an Xbox owner could rip music from standard audio CDs to the hard drive of the console so players can play their custom soundtrack in addition to the original soundtrack of Xbox games that support this feature.

    The Xbox console itself was much larger and heavier than its contemporaries largely due to a bulky tray-loading DVD-ROM drive along with the standard 3 ½ inch hard drive. That found the Xbox a target of mild derision from critics who would quip that the Xbox manual should include a warning that “a falling Xbox could cause serious injury to a small child or pet”.

    However, there were safety features in the Xbox that no other console system could boast themselves. These included breakaway cables for the controllers to prevent the console from being yanked from the shelf.

    Critics also did not like the game controllers. The original design was quite large making it ill-suited to those with small hands and causing severe hand cramping of other users. A smaller controller was introduced eventually as the Xbox Controller S.

    Unfortunately, while Microsoft is a giant in the computer software industry, they didn’t realize as much success in the video game console industry. As of the end of 2006, their total losses in their gaming division totaled over $4 billion.

    Again, since there are still Xbox units out there, you may be interested in some of the hunting titles that were released for this system. Here are some we found:

    Bass Pro Shops Trophy Bass 2007
    Bass Pro Shops Trophy Hunter 2007
    Cabela’s Alaskan Adventures
    Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2005 Adventures
    Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts
    Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2
    Cabela’s Deer Hunt: 2004 Season
    Cabela’s Deer Hunt: 2005 Season
    Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures
    Pro Fishing Challenge
    Rapala Pro Fishing

    So what if you don’t want to mess around with owning a video game console but you still want to play video hunting games? All you need a personal computer and an internet connection and you can play hunting games directly on your computer – often for free.

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