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November 21, 2005

Yak and the Xbox 360, a perfect combination

customer adventures, gaming — by TDavid @ 2:52 pm PST
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Last minute speculation continues to abound regarding whether or not there will be enough Xbox 360 units to go around on launch day starting at midnight tonight.

Xbox 360 screenshot showing Llamasoft visualizations

I read over at Joystiq that some people are already starting to line up. We’re still batting around the idea of hitting the store tonight to see if we can bag the premium pack.

Thelongtail.com has an early review of the Media Center extender capabilities:

Interestingly, you don’t need to have a PC running Windows Media Center edition to get some of this functionality. The Xbox 360 has its own music player (complete with trippy visualizations from the famed Jeff Minter) that can stream music and photos from any Windows XP PC.

Are you kidding?! Jeff “Yak” Minter on the Xbox 360?! Right on. I did a interview on my weekly radio show with Jeff Minter in June 2002 (show #101), the guy is a genius with the trippy visuals and is the brains behind the Jaguar and Nuon updates of the classic game Tempest. Now I’m going to have to go run down that interview and listen back to it to see if he laid down any clues. At the time he was releasing some games for the Pocket PC, so this hookup makes a huge amount of sense, especially to those who have ever played any of his outstanding games.

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  1. […] After spending countless hours playing Tempest 2000 on the Atari Jaguar, I was instantly transformed into a lifelong Jeff Minter / Llamasoft fan, the programmer behind the best version of the quarter chomper Tempest on any console system to date. So fanatical I was that I went out and bought every version of Tempest I could find for every system, including buying the Nuon system for Tempest 3000, also by Minter who uses the handle “Yak.” Minter was instrumental in the Xbox 360 visualizations. […]

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