It's Finally Closed...My Thoughts 

What are you favorite games or memories on the Xbox 360 Marketplace?

A Call of Duty lobby full of people talking in 2009 was truly the peak. I miss it.

I’m 26, and the 360 was my first online console. I remember browsing the store just daydreaming about owning everything. New games were sorted and came in waves, it was curated so it never felt like you missed anything. A lot of things to get hyped about. So unintuitive at the same time… themes and gamerpics often didn’t have any photos, so you didn’t know what they looked like until you bought them. Can you imagine that in 2024? I remember meeting someone with an awesome Castlevania gamerpic, and I wanted it bad, so I had to try and guess which one in the store it would be. I ended up buying a random picture pack, and it was the wrong one. LOL It was a little bittersweet when I loaded up my account with $300 worth of gift cards. More money than I’d ever had on the account at once, my childhood self would have gone crazy. And yet, I didn’t know what to buy. I still wanted everything, only knowing it would all be gone forever added a really sad dynamic to it. Anyways, thanks for sharing your story Pete. Here’s to the 360

The Xbox 360 was a mighty console. Was fun watching the long streams celebrating the Xbox 360!

A very sad day for the gaming industry.😢

As a 61 year old avid gamer I have fantastic memories of my first Xbox 360 Elite I bought the day Raven's 2009 "Wolfenstein" reboot came out. It was so impressive I bought my first HD 1080p TV just to savor these incredible 7th gen games! I didn't have a positive experience trying to play online, so I was elated just immersing myself with wonderful single-player Xbox 360 games & the budget friendly Xbox Live Arcade games made owning those fun games a absolute blast! I've spent the last 2 weeks buying digital only games & a metric ton of DLC for all my favorite games, good times!

Black ops, Modern Warfare 2, Halo 3, Gears of War... Great times

The great thing about the Xbox live arcade store was how it allowed games that would normally have never been released to finally have a home because they didn't need a physical release and they were lower budget. The live arcade marketplace was a perfect spot for them. Without that those games probably would have never made it to the system

xbox 360 will always be the new 🐐 console. All the memories i had with it and thinking of it makes me sad 😢

I’ll never forget the summer of 09 I think playing 1 vs 100 nightly when it was alive with the OG RU-vid gaming community. Also memories of my Pac-Man CE leadership feud with Pete, online warlords, aegis wing, Techno Kitten Adventures, and the horribly good Avatar adventures!

I'm playing my xbox 360 slim black every day it has been fun.😊😁 😂 😀

The Xbox 360 for me personally was peak online gaming. So many great memories playing left 4 dead, call of duty zombies/multiplayer and gears of war with friends. 😢❤

I definitely miss this era of gaming. Even though I never got online as a kid, I still enjoyed messing around with the arcade games, trying out demos or stuff that looks interesting, or playing co-op with my siblings. And while it kinda does more harm then good, I do miss the "Arcade" label from this era. Nowadays every game is just kinda "a game", and while that's perfectly fine, it can make some games feel a lot less important and easy to gloss over because, well, there's so many bigger better games to look into. The Arcade label usually made it obvious this was a smaller and easier to digest game, and they felt a lot more compelling to just jump in and play. I wonder if I'm the only one that feels this way though

Your solemn intro to the video got me in the feels a bit. Such a great console.

Uno was the original chat roulette haha!

My favorite Hidden gem on xbox live was Maids with Balloons

The 360 marketplace was the best console marketplaces ever, outside of maybe the Wii. So many gamers today have no idea how great the 360 marketplace really was prior to around 2010/2011. I will always be against an all digital future, but with the XBLA, it was great to spend only a few dollars in Microsoft Points on some hugely replayable games - classic and new, and have countless hours of enjoyment with them. The 360 versions of many of those games are still, to this day, the best way to play those games outside of an actual arcade. The XBLA was such a great thing, and it still pisses me off today that games like we saw on XBLA are less common, and when they are there, you can never find them.

I still remember playing Bad company 2 with Heine

Splosion Man was my favourite

Can’t forget games like Geometry Wars and Marble Blast Ultra and the Hardwood board games. That was a special time for sure

Pete if you ever want to get that Marathon achievement and need a player I would be honored to join in

7:10 It's ironic how much lonelier the world has gotten as online gaming, and just the internet, in general, has gotten much more robust. That mid 2000s era was like the sweet spot between the inaccessible nature of the internet in the 90s and the current state of online gaming and communities.

Xbox in general, has just fallen off completely. The last two generations are/were abysmal, and they just increased the game pass for no reason.And now they're closing down the marketplace for 360, Their greatest console. Thank God we still have Playstation, PC and Nintendo

In 2009 whilst playing Texas hold em poker on Xbox live a woman from a different country entered the table and we started chatting. We fell in love and I flew to Canada to be with her and we made a baby who is now 14 years old. Our daughter is also a gamer and although we got divorced a few years ago something so magical happened and it’s all because of Xbox live ❤️

🤔 back in 2006 at the end of a console’s lifetime they were deeply discounted not anymore at some point Xbox & PlayStation stopped incentivising you to buy their system & it became all about the bottom 💵 & not giving a 💩 because they had a captive audience which explains the price point of games in 2024 both current systems have very few killer apps you have to buy a console to play gone are the day’s of Morrowind, Nintendo does well you know the saying, it’s the case in 2024 my Switch collection is on par with my PS1/2 collection because it’s awash with killer apps the 360 was the last Xbox I ❤ sad but true

I was never in to Arcade, my memories of the store at the time were mostly having to take my Xbox to a friend's house to buy and download Fallout 3 dlc, because I didn't own a wireless adapter 😂 Much later I'd play Borderlands, Halo, Call of Duty etc online and pick up DLC for them but the earliest haydays of indie arcade were just something I never did.

Home run Challenge! Me and my cousins used to play this all the time trying to get the high score! I still have it downloaded and play it from time to time.

My days of playing online are pretty much behind me, but I'll always be fond of playing Battle Block Theather, the Doritos Crash Course Game, OG Doom and Peggle. Good times.

I played the pgr devs and won a limited edition xbox 360 . Such a classic machine .

I made sure to pick up a lot of games this past week-one of them being Bomberman Live. It’s so neat that 360 feels retro now. I never played it much so I have a lot to catch up on.

I wasn't keeping track of this. I knew it was coming but not this soon. Not sure if there was anything I really wanted but probably wanted it all at the same time. I spent crazy on the 3DS eshop before it closed n think that will be my last time doing anything like that. I'm much more a Nintendo, Playstation person. Big loss though. X

so u can't even download your XBox 360 games any more ? I didn't get the memo !

Fuck dude, I got high and forgot to buy some games last night, now that shit closed wtfff

The 360 was the first system I had that got me to buy digital games, Getting a 60gig hard drive to upgrade my Arcade edition 360 before hand, wild to me back then.

It's just so sad that the internet has fragmented, splintered, into these little bubbles e.g. Discord. In-game voice chat is barely even a thing any more, especially when generationally (zoomers/gen alpha) and even younger millennials can barely bring themselves to use a telephone. MMOs are fundamentally broken for a similar reason.

That´s an awesome Snowboard Kids poster you got in the background !

Boom Boom Rocket, I MAED A GAEM WITH ZOMBIES IN IT, TotalMiner and Super Meat Boy were my favourite XBLA games

monday night combat and CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars were pretty good multiplayer games Saint's row 2 and crackdown are probably my 2nd/3rd favourite games. I spent at least 100 hours with my cousin going round killing people, doing crazy stunts, completing the story etc But... Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was the ultimate multiplayer game. There has not and never will be a game better than that. Came out around the time i was in school so every night would be a rush to get home and then just sit there for 6 hours straight. That game was perfection. Great maps, great guns and a hell of a lot of fun. And when i wasn't playing seriously i was playing on rust with my mates doing 360/720/1080 no scopes and trickshots or glitching out the maps using shotgun jumps and stuff. I played that game on both 360 and ps3 cause i had mates on both systems. I have so many memories of that game, and it spawned a whole community and content creators. I mean just look many youtubers came out of that one game. hundreds of hours easily into that one game and i dont regret a damn thing. I would do it again in an instant.

hopefully exclusives get preserved somehow, Gel was a favorite

all those times are now with VR headsets. Everyone has a microphone and developers to jump in from time to time.

To this day, I swear the best digital version of Settlers of Catan is the one on the Xbox Live Arcade. Something about the music, emotes and how smoothly everything goes just hasn't been matched. Many great memories of online multiplayer with XBLA. Thanks for the video, Pete.

I guess I am an outlier because I never purchased or played any of the XBLA titles. I love the 360, but I only played the big games. I never cared for any sort of online multiplayer fare, so the social aspect of online gaming was lost on me.

They need to make MORE games backwards compatible, so we can use DLC. Like, we cannot use Test Drive Unlimited 2 bike DLC... really????

Xbox 360 set the standard for consoles today by mainstreaming online gaming. And it did so despite nearly every launch console bricking within a couple years 😂

Times haven't changed, man. The same delusional vision gamers had simply because Xbox 360 was first out the door. Every time I'd go in and get a PS3 game or accessory and I'd get this really odd look like I was a leper. People had no clue what the PS3 was and what it was all about, PS3 gamers were the outcasts, the rebels. So what REALLY happened that destroyed your online gaming experience? Remember, you're talking about the J. Allard days, Peter Moore coming in off of Sega giving Robbie Bach suggestions on how he can better his E3 Presentations from his own experience with Sega. Dude, the executives for Xbox changed and suits were running the show just as they are today. It's too long to explain why PlayStation presently isn't suffering from that and how Sarah Bond is a publicity stunt, but it all changed. Peter Moore left for EA and John Shappert came in. Things got more aggressive under Shappert, I think, as he really pushed Call of Duty and he managed to get Final Fantasy XIII on the 360, that was the defining PlayStation game that things would have gone significantly different had Square not ported it to the Xbox 360, but that was Shappert. All the crap everyone's giving Don Mattrick, people you got nearly every Kojima game from the hands of Mattrick. They couldn't get him to show before Mattrick and keep on mind, Phil Spencer was working with that whole design team, in fact, who was it that announced the release date and price for Xbox One? Phil Spencer was the only one stupid enough to stick around to try and clean up the mess. So, back your question, what was it? Well, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and Activision were all close buddies and they spent a lot of time, apparently, at mobile conventions and that's your answer, Those four just couldn't keep their hands out of the cookie jar and it was they who bled the mobile market and it's horrendous business practices into the console space, and all the games you were talking about they all became mobile games plagued with microtransactions, Games as a Service models, and plagued with ads. Loot Boxes that had their lawsuit turned in to card packs today but is the same idea. That's it, dude. Xbox ruined the industry. Everything you see today is what Xbox tried to push. They had to be very careful but, inevitably by the smart, they got caught. Mobile gaming bled into console gaming and console gaming bled into the (American) mobile market. The Japanese got really lucky as Japans mobile games are much different, theyre all like PSP type games, American mobile games? Argh.... Scrape my eyes out of my skull. The simplicity you speak of was replaced by that and I always remember the conversations about the second thing that killed your experience, as you said 8 year-old Halo gamers with an attitude and no respect for anyone. People couldn't stand them. So, that's your issue, bro

There really is way to many games releasing these days. I wish PSN and the eShop didn't allow sooooo many scrappy games on their storerooms. More =/= better.

I thought this meant you wouldn’t be able to buy backwards compatible games on newer gens!

I didn’t have a 360 when they came out. My friends did so I would play 360 with them. The only live arcade game I played with them was Castle Crashers. I never got into online gaming because of just the pure toxicity that people can get. I just don’t want that sort of drama.

I'm excited & scared to see what Pete thinks of the NES WC Donkey Kong champion's ladder glitch...

When my brother and i first got our xbox 360's we didn't have headsets, so when playing Left 4 Dead we would flick the characters torch on and off to let each other know when to follow or when we saw the witch. Cod lobby's where chaos with a lot of profanity and people telling me what they've done with my mum, great times.

I got the Simpsons Arcade demo and for some stupid reason didn’t buy it, then it magically became unavailable to buy and has pissed me off ever since. Lesson learned on that one, don’t sleep on a game you really want… still waiting for them to drop AVP Arcade 😢

You are 100% right about people being trapped in their inner circles. Not many people want to meet new folks anymore. The sense of community has diminished so much 😢.

I have always been a PlayStation fan but in the last 5 or 6 years I've been playing a lot of 360 and I can totally respect it. In fact right now I'm playing Mercenaries 2 World in Flames on an Xbox 360.

The brand has gotten away from the game-centric simplicity that made arcade so great...I was so proud of my million without dying in Geometry Wars lol

Geometry Wars 2, I spent most hours on that trying to top the leaderboard amongst my friends on each of the game modes , how about bank shot billiards 2? Brilliant pool game.

Black Knight Sword was one of my favorites on the Xbox 360.

The greatest games for me were Saints Row 1, Halo 3, CoD 4, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and GTA 4. All played online and offline. I still play these online but sadly SR1 and halo 3 servers have been down for years. Arcade I really loved Crazy Taxi, Geometry Wars, PAC man and bejeweled 2!

The last great era of gaming has finally come to an end. What a ride.

Man I wish Xbox Live Arcade would come back especially now that we have gamepass xbox live arcade would shine on gamepass such a missed opportunity. I remember xbox live arcade like it was yesterday I had such great memories playing TMNT 1989 Arcade & Xmen arcade with 4 players online with compete stringers like you were actually playing with strangers at an arcade in 80s & 90s. Same with ultimate MK 3 would Chat with stringers on there and fight at the same time lol

Street fighter 4 and its iterations bring back the beat memories. The rage quitters and laggers...

Great video Pete. 360 was some of the greatest gaming memories

ICYMI, the free DLC for games can still be obtained. I was concerned that secondhand copies of Dead or Alive 5 would be unplayable after patching for folks who missed the catalog DLCs, but thankfully that's not the case. I would love to play some live arcade games with you sometime!

Thank you for the commentary it has been good.🙏 🙌

I don't have my family's original Xbox 360 anymore. I was SO thankful to see Hydro Thunder Hurricane is a game you can still get on Xbox One.

Oh man. Halo 3, Gears of war, call of duty 4🫡

RIP :(

Castlevania harmony of despair multiplayer... playign with japanese people online was very cool... out run online i was in the top 10 for one of the goals...... golden axe........ sor........ sonic cd ...... new contra type game that they released forget the name... pacman dx...... all the sega vintage collection with online play...... battlefield 1943 sound pacific....... daytona usa....... virtua fighter online......... hydro thunder like you said was a good one...i used to play xbox 360 all the time......... but haven't since 2016... . never bought an xbox one..... i always wanted to return to xbox 360... virtual on online was great too

Definitely it was better times I think and games felt more fun. I never had an Xbox. I've always been a PlayStation gamer. But I do remember how excited people got and how much fun people had on the X360.

Cool vid u should do a look back at the ps3 store vid

It sucks, I went from someone who loved Xbox Live to now where as it stands I don't really ever see myself playing online on Xbox Live or PlayStation again. In their crusade to battle "toxicity" or whatever, they've completely drained the real, social, spontaneous fun, out of online gaming. Even playing games like the COD4 remaster when it was the featured PS+ game, I thought for sure there'd be tons of people talking, since it was COD4, and "free", and while it was better than normal, it still was mostly just so silent that it felt really depressing with the contrasting memories of what it was like on 360 and PS3.

Good to see you still making videos Pete.

I remember buying double dragon and having it taken away 2 weeks later i was heated

always interesting how consoles nowadays die on the release of the follow up console and then years later once the servers are killed. that era or xbox live will never peak like it again.

my rgh still has store access lol

Some of my early favorites were 1vs100, Aegis Wing, Yaris, Doritos Crash Course (all free too)! I thought the Xbox Labs was neat too. Had a ton of fun with Robotron as well. I’m still ranked in the top 30 for the coop mode. Me and my friend made it to Wave 26. Guardians of Middle Earth was awesome for its time despite the lack of Dev support. An incredible MOBA outside of LoL or Dota for the time. I played a ton of Uno, Catan, and Ticket to Ride as well. I’ll always remember making a fake account called AGG Whale and playing Hydro Thunder and Sonic All Stars Racing with you guys. Good times, such a great vibe in this video. Really sad those times can’t be replicated. A truly if you know you know experience; it was magical.

Funnest times i had on Xbox 360 Live were playing terrorist hunts in the Rainbow 6 games. Such a great time back then!

Wow!!! I entirely forgot about the Xbox live vision camera. It remember playing Uno with people and having a blast!

Castle Crashers was absolutely GOATed and had an immense influence on me during my middle school years. RIP X360 Marketplace

I was and am always playstation, but the 360 pulled me away for that generation, it was the feeling of community in the xbox 360 and also it was a mega social console for keeping up woth friends and achievements, i wish the ps5 adapted for social approuches to games played and trophies earned, modern consoles are so disconnected in that sense. Just adding a friend on the Switch is a peculiar scenerio.

My son and I watched your Maw review and we bought and played it on your recommendation. We had a great time. He even replayed it several more times after completing it. Thank you!

Really astute observations about how the industry changed; it makes me wonder what we’re going to miss 20 years from now. I didn’t have a 360 back then, but one of my neighbors made it the centerpiece of his home theater and it was always fun going over every week to see what he had downloaded. Geometry Wars and Ms Splosion Man were games that made us stay up playing until 8 am when he had to go to work 😂

Xbox Live Arcade was some of the best memories I have for the 360. It was awesome waiting to see what revamped classics they would release that I could co-op or vs my friends or strangers across the internet. It was awesome picking up a points cards at work after my shift, heading home and adding a bunch of titles to my library for cheap that I could achievement hunt in. One of my favorite games that I picked up was "Marble Blast Ultra". Amazing game. The multiplayer was awesome and the level design for the single player was wonderful. I believe it was delisted long before the store closed. I miss those days dearly, 360 absolutely killed it back then. Sad to see it come to an end but nothing lasts forever.

The Xbox 360 was the biggest thing since the N64, and there hasn't been anything that big since. So many great online gaming experiences on the 360, amazing era in gaming.

Geometry Wars was my first Xbox Live Arcade game. Great memories. Have every achievement.

Hey Pete, love your work man. You deserve way more views its a crime. I'm a massive Alan Wake fan so my first video I saw of yours was the Alan Wake 2 digital only video. Which makes sense why it was recommened to me but Im surprised I had never seen your channel before. But anyways, keep up the good work brother. My Top 10 Xbox live arcade games would be. Might and Magic Clash of Heroes Limbo Super Meat Boy Brothers a Tale of Two Sons Alan Wakes American Nightmare Trials HD Splosion Man Costume Quest Time Pilot Hydrophobia

I remember thinking that playing Hexic while streaming music from my PC to the 360 was the most amazing thing ever. There weren't many physical games in the first months of 360 but the XBLA kept me playing the console.

My favorite memory with the 360 was playing demos that had unlimited multiplayer sure It was one map but it was still amazing playing I remember playing halo reach , some of the old transformers games and split second also had a multiplayer demo it was great

Yep I loved it.

The Maw! Good memories from that era. So many good games with decent prices.

Imagine if one day Sony do a PS1 live arcade, what times that would be.

where did you get that snowboard kids poster???

I didn't even know this was happening now.

Very sad moment. On an unrelated note: new sleepin with pete?

bar da bar

Gaming was 2001-2012

Xbox 360 was awesome when it came out.

Let’s play Doom II please 😭

1 vs. 100!

UMK3 MVC2 DORITOS ROCKBAND 1 DLC 😢

You still alive?