I was able pull together a Halo 3 LAN party last year, although the "consoles" were Linux PCs and the game was the MCC edition (60fps instead 30). Split-screen was resurrected via mods. I bought some Microsoft gamepad receiver to bring Xbox 360 original controllers under Linux. Some people insisted they get to play on the original gamepad (otherwise it was a mixed bag of PlayStation and newer Xbox/PC controllers). I also realized that Halo 3 itself would have been old enough to drink with us!

> my first home computer was a Timex 2068.

I don't know if the Altair 8800 would count as my first home computer, as I was too young to really understand what it was and mostly just liked to play with the paper tape feed on the Teletype attached to it. By the time we got the PET 2001, I was old enough to actually use it as intended.

The Xbox 360 is about as old now as the NES was when the Xbox 360 came out.

Yeah, and that is why some of us feel rather old. :)

I still remember when all that Nintendo had were Game & Watch handhelds, before NES came to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_%26_Watch_games

I still have it in a box with all its games

I still love its controller design.