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Man, those Xbox 360s really just seemed to fly off the shelves. Normally, I'm not the type to pre-order a console. I like to take my chances and I hate forced retailer bundles. But this time around, I'm glad I pre-ordered a 360 back in August. I spent our four-day weekend last week playing games. Lots of games. I blasted through Condemned in one sitting (without ever using a gun, I might add), played through the first act of Amped 3 (and I really want to play more when I get some free time), finished Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (just because that game's stupid easy and I wanted the points for my profile), and dabbled in five or six others. I went on record several times leading up to the launch saying that I don't believe that the Xbox 360 is a must-own item... but that's because I was usually talking to USA Today, NBC, or some other outlet that's speaking to the mainstream game-buying crowd. If you count yourself as a person in that sector, then the advice still holds. I don't think there's any one (or two, or three) games on the 360 this year that make it a must-own item for anyone other than the die-hard game playing type that absolutely has to have it all. People just like me, as it turns out. I'm completely hooked on achievement points (2275 as of this writing, look me up under the tag "GameSpotting") and I'm blown away by the quality of the Xbox Live Arcade stuff. Smash TV? With online play? Hell yeah! I wish they'd hurry up and post Robotron: 2084 already. I also hope that other companies with stout back catalogs (like Capcom, for example) follow Midway's lead and release some of its old classics onto the 360 with added online support. Who holds the rights to Double Dragon these days? Co-op online Double Dragon would be some serious business.

As far as new releases are concerned, this year's pretty much over. There are still a few games coming out, like the latest Prince of Persia game on the Xbox, and Dead or Alive 4 on the Xbox 360. Also on the regular Xbox, Midway will have Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows in December, and SNK is currently scheduled to release Samurai Shodown V and King of Fighters '94 Re-Bout, too, but SNK's shipdates never seem to be set in stone, so I wouldn't be surprised to see those slip into 2006.