I've had this idea for a while for a recurring blog.  I'm sure someone else has done something similar, but I'm a whore for nostalgia, so I enjoy taking a look back at the past.  Hopefully I'm not alone in my enthusiasm for gaming history and we can garner some community participation here.  Do you remember what's important about November 9?   Feel free to add your own tales about the big day or about anything that happened in the history of gaming during the week of Nov 8-14.

Other Notable Things from November 8-14

• Disney's Aladdin released for Sega Genesis in 1993.

  

• Tekken released for PlayStation in 1995.
• Crash Bandicoot 2 released in 1997.
• Final Fantasy IX, WWF No Mercy and Shenmue released in 2000.
• The Microsoft Xbox released in 2001 along with launch titles including Halo, Dead or Alive 3, Oddworld, and Project Gotham Racing.
• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Golden Sun released in 2001.
• Beyond Good & Evil released in 2003.
• Mario Kart DS is released in 2005 (and is still being included in pack-ins with DS today).
• Assassin's Creed and Super Mario Galaxy are released in 2007.
• Modern Warfare 2 is released in 2009.    

Probably nowhere. I didn't have an Xbox because no one did. I was just in school and someone was talking about Halo but I wasn't listening because I just wasn't invested in it.

" didnt have half life 2 come out that week? "

School i guess. 

Like most people I was staunchly PS2 back in the day so I don't really have any memories of the Halo 2 launch. However, as a nostalgia whore myself, I just want to say thanks for an enjoyable read. I look forward to the next entry.

I was waiting in line outside a local Gamestop at midnight with a friend, and about 6 months later I ended up unknowingly stealing his girlfriend from him. Anyway, I got home, played the first 2 levels of the campaign, then went to sleep. The campaign was pretty weak, but the online multiplayer is still my all-time favorite.

I have not often found myself excited enough to want to get a game at launch, if it wasn't for pre-orders I probably would never do it. I've only done it for a handful of titles, so lauch dates have never really meant much to me.
 
I did find it an interesting blog though, Halo is clearly the better known franchise and it's sad that another popular title gets released almost unnoticed because of all the attention that the bigger franchise got.

Jerking off?! 
 
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November 13, 2000. It was Final Fantasy IX. I spent hours convincing my parents that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to stay home for school just this one day to play the game. They actually went for it. They probably figured that since I don't stay home from school at all that they would give me the chance.

not caring about halo

" not caring about halo "

Halo 2's release date was one of my better memories of High School even though I did not even own an Xbox myself.  What happened was I was in a Computer Engineering class and at the time we had someone doing their in class requirement's for Teacher's college working with us and he had convinced my teacher to teach us about LAN's while networking two Xbox's together.  He apparently used to work at Microsoft, so he had a couple consoles to bring in and to our surprise a brand new copy of Halo 2 to play for the entirety of the class and, subsequently, our hour plus lunch break that happened right after that period had ended.  Needless to say, none of us left the room and turned into quite easily the best day of grade 10.  So, even though I didn't have much interest in Halo 2 at the time, it still provided me with an awesome memory.

Outside the store with my buddy for the midnight release, dreading the test I had at highschool the following morning, but excited nonetheless. Also the first midnight release I ever went to.

November 9th doesn't bring pleasant memories at all.

I was sitting on a bus listening to my friend talk about how brilliant Halo 2 was going to be and how he couldn't wait to get it. A little bit later I got an Xbox mainly because of how much he talked about Halo and I loved it.

I remember my dad driving me to target. We got there before the store opened, and we waited inside the car until a line of about five people formed. When the employees unlocked the door everyone walked to the electronics section. There wasn't anyone manning the checkout. So we had to wait until this girl who had no idea what was going on walked up. There were a couple people ahead of me; none of them had a pre-order. She gave each person ahead of me a limited edition, and they had to say no they wanted the regular one. Along with the plastic master chief covered edition, they were also given a strategy guide as bonus for being there early.
 
It finally comes to my turn, I proudly hand her the pre-order slip (I was only like thirteen). She looks at it, the  image of silver limited edition contrasting with the orange of the cardboard slip. Reaching into the box, she pulled out a regular edition and hands it to me. I protested, said I put down five dollars to guarantee that I got a limited edition. She looked at me and said okay, she rung me up and asked for the next customer right after I paid. My young mind was going wild; the fuck was this bitch trying to pull? First she tried to deny me access to the experience that only a select few(tee hee) would get, and then she was trying to shunt me out of a promotional item when they had plenty left. Thankfully my Dad noticed the lack of the strategy guide in my target bag and mentioned it so I didn't have to. 
 
Pretty much the rest of the day was me sneaking glances at the game in my backpack at school. I looked at the weapon and vehicles descriptions in the strategy guide during lunch, but dared not look at the walk through lest I were spoil the story.

I don't remember anything from that far back.

I lined up at midnight along with several thousand other people.  I was shocked how popular Halo is.  I came home and was disappointed with how shitty Halo 2 was.  The end!  lol
 
Wow weird, EQ2 came out then too?  I don't remember that at all.  I remember playing a lot of Half Life 2 around then and GTA SA.
 
I must have waited a month to buy EQ2, and the game performed like shit on my old PC so I was never able to fully enjoy the game.

I was 13 at the time and only learned about the game through Gamespot. I didn't have an Xbox or know anything about Halo so it kinda went straight over my head. I did play it on the 360 some years after the original release though and loved it.

Glad to see another collectors edition copy of Everquest II. I'm lucky number 05263.........of 55,000><

" I don't remember anything from that far back. "

Crash Bandicoot 2 was godlike.

I just remember that when it arrived in the mail I ripped the shit out of that lint-lined envelope.

Christ, that was only 6 years ago? It seems like ages...of course I would have been 14 and xbox-less, so I guess that speaks more to my development than anything else.

Watching CNN with my dad and they were interviewing people in line.

Then I played a couple hours of San Andreas afterwards.

beta testing WoW and getting wasted in my dorm room instead of going to class

I was in 8th grade and I had just found out what I wanted for Christmas :).

" Glad to see another collectors edition copy of Everquest II. I'm lucky number 05263.........of 55,000>< "

" @Marino: In EQ2 I was on Unrest I believe.  On EQ1 I was on E'ci, which got merged into Tunare I think.  All this talk makes me almost wanna go check them out again.  Along with any veteran rewards I have stocked up lol. "

I was at the Halo 2 midnight launch at a local blockbuster. I played the game all night and I had a math test first thing that morning. 
I barely passed it, I think i had 52%.

" @Marino: Totally understand!  I remember way back in the day how hopping the zone of Unrest was.  Constant trains.  Always fearing for your life.  One of my fave zones (that's why we picked that server name in EQ2)  Now it's a surprise if you even see one person in there farming.  Man, and how I loved pre-Luclin. "

" I was at the Halo 2 midnight launch at a local blockbuster. I played the game all night and I had a math test first thing that morning. I barely passed it, I think i had 52%. "

i was playing halo 2 singleplayer and being very disappointed.

I was in Junior year of high school talking about Halo 2 with all my nerd friends in our physics and computer classes.