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Tasty Links for April 28th : Only one more day to go until Grand Theft Auto IV
I just got back from a trip to Bend Oregon with the Slaughter County Roller Vixens. We played the Lava City Roller Dolls and had a blast. I love announcing play by play for roller derby.
I just got a copy of Dean Takahashi's book Opening the Xbox, It covers the creation of the original Xbox and I am due to get his book on the making of the 360 any day now. It is going to be interesting to compare his version of events to what I was able to figure out.
Things I learned to far from the first book :
The PlayStation 2 really really freaked out Microsoft
Sega started making the Dreamcast 2
There was a proposal to make an "Xboy" hand held game player in 2002
the former executives for WebTV really hated the Xbox project, (I always thought WebTV sucked hard)
the promise of a windows powered game system was used to sell the Xbox concept to Bill Gates and once the project took off they took Windows out of the picture much to the shock of Bill.
Only one more day to go until Grand Theft Auto IV hits stores!
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Jake at April 28, 2008 
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Opening the Xbox is a nice book although the critics are right... too much talk about the Xbox ... and a little short on Xbox 360... but nonetheless interesting if you want to know more about the industry.
Posted by: Jim at April 28, 2008 2:16 PM
Yeah. It is sort of all over the place but I am still reading it and liking it. I loved the part where he sort of railed against bloggers (Like me) that break stories before newspapers like his (scooped em four times in the past six months). I am learning a lot more about the people involved.
The book was written in 2002, The 360 was still on the early design boards when the book was published. I am waiting for Powels.com to ship me the follow up book about the 360. However the 360 book went to press before the RROD problem really hit the mainstream so there is only a couple lines about it.
Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at April 28, 2008 3:20 PM
