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With the release of the Xbox One, Microsoft joins the new generation of gaming consoles alongside Sony and Nintendo. Though the Xbox 360 still has at least three years of life left in it, the Xbox One moves into the spotlight as Microsoft's chief gaming console. Partly to pay homage to this past generation of gaming and partly to bid farewell, some of the Joystiq staff have gathered to offer their favorite memories with the Xbox 360.

Of course, these are just a few of our favorites and not indicative of exactly just how many wonderful games we've been able to enjoy on the Xbox 360 (Xav said his pick would be playing Shadow Complex, for example!). Share your favorites in the comments below - that is, if you're not too busy Snapping Netflix on your Xbox One right now.

Make sure to watch our PS3 Memories video feature, and stay tuned for a look back at the Wii next week!

Joystiq remembers its favorite Xbox 360 experiences originally appeared on Joystiq on Sat, 23 Nov 2013 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Lost Art of Cassette Design by Steve Vistaunet

Hello my teen-aged tape collection.

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Even the Ivy League's big rivalry game is subject to new NCAA rules.

Harvard’s senior safety Jaron Wilson was ejected for a targeting hit in the second quarter of Saturday’s Harvard-Yale game.

Wilson was covering the deep middle of the field when Yale senior QB Henry Furman lofted a pass to sophomore WR Mathew Rubino. Wilson came from his deep safety position to knock the ball loose from Rubino, but was flagged in the process.

Wilson, playing his final career game, appeared to be leading with his shoulder, and may have hit the upper back of Rubino, not the helmet. The hit is not reviewable in the Ivy League, which has not instituted instant replay in order to review questionable calls.

The drive 54-yard drive came up fruitless for the Bulldogs when it ended in a missed 39-yard field goal by junior kicker Kyle Kazzetta.

Harvard was winning 21-0 behind three touchdowns by sophomore RB Paul Stanton Jr, two receiving and one rushing.

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You guys have no idea how much money I’d save because I just wanna see the cat all the time.

Future Drinking: Portland FINALLY Getting a Drunken Laundromat:

After years of looking longingly at the drunker peoples of the north, cozy in their Sit N Spin (R.I.P.!), it looks like the laundryless people of Portland are finally getting a drunken laundromat. Owner Morgan Gary has put through an OLCC application for Spin Laundry at 740 N. Fremont, near North Mississippi Avenue, advertised as an “Eco-Friendly Laundromat, Bar & Cafe” with washing machines that text you when you’re load’s almost done. The taplist looks sincerely minimalist: a pair of brews. But that’s two more than usual. To the future!

NOLA Bounce trans glam superstar Katey Red joins Gypsyphonic Disko for a Hanukkah classic. Gypsyphonic Disko is Ben Ellman and Quickie Mart. Download the song here.

A new rumor has "Man of Steel" writer David S. Goyer in talks to adapt "Sandman" for Warner Bros., with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the title role.

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A Medium post by Alicia Liu on Medium. Did I mention this was on Medium?

To me, it was just another marketing gimmick, like so many corporate-sponsored hackathons before it, to trick otherwise sane developers into working for free—with copious amounts of junk food and caffeine and the lure of dubious prizes—to develop apps on top of APIs and platforms they otherwise wouldn’t bother with.

Turns out her suspicions, which were published on Medium, were correct. But Salesforce’s execution was much shittier and sleazier than most people would have predicted. See the Hacker News comments as well.

While Salesforce got a bunch of free ideas out of this, they also burned the developer community badly, which is going to hurt their recruiting (and maybe retention, too). I can’t imagine this will prove worthwhile in the long run.

I wonder how Mattt Thompson feels about the company he works for now, after he spent some of his immense credibility to promote this event. I wouldn’t hold it against him — I’m sure he didn’t know this would happen — but he should sure hold it against them.

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Historical Map: The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, 1956

A simply gorgeous mid-1950s map of the AT&SF’s passenger routes, taken from a promotional brochure produced in conjunction with Disneyland, which is shown prominently to the right of the map.

The brochure was ostensibly an introduction to the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad at Disneyland, then only a year old. Understandably, the AT&SF — who had basically bankrolled construction of the 5/8th scale railroad — were keen to get some return in their investment. As a result, much of the brochure is actually given over to advertising their “new and modern” rail services.

The whole brochure opens out to display this fantastic map, where Texas and Oklahoma are represented by scratchily drawn cattle,  oil derricks and chemical plants, while the Grand Canyon becomes a large hole in the ground that a careless Native American is about to walk into. On top of these charming little drawings is a simplified route map of the AT&SF’s lines, stretching from San Francisco to Chicago.

Our rating: Gorgeous 1950s design sensibilities, although definitely more an advertisement than a practical, useful map. Four stars.

(Source: Vintage Disneyland Tickets website)

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Why dispose of military equipment in a scrapyard if you can just leave it where it is to rot?

A lot of writing has been devoted to how difficult the economic landscape is for young college graduates these days, how they are realizing that their big city dreams must give way to affordable second-tier city realities. I should not relate to these stories nearly as much as I do.

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In my latest post for Details.com, I took a look at the multitude of ways that people are using breakfast cereal in cocktails. Initially I thought I'd only find it in a few places but I think there are more than a dozen mentioned in the story and they're located everwhere from London to Bordeaux to Miami to San Diego. Some folks are serving them up in bowls with a spoon, while others are infusing cereal into milk or directly into liquor. Check it out over at Details.com.

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The logistics needed to develop a complex game like Battlefield 4 were certainly not child's play. The complete game files were as large as 50GB, and future games with more advanced graphics for the new Xbox One console are likely to be even bigger.

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