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I hope you like it. One thing I forgot to mention that may or may not be obvious. To activate the wireless controller, hold the large center button down for a few seconds until it starts flashing. If that doesn't work, make sure that I didn't do something stupid like put the batteries in backwards.

Do feel free to post once you've given it a try. Even though I used it the same day I shipped it, I'm slightly anxious to make sure everything is working okay.

Well, at least the arcade games worked alright like I thought. Did you try making a profile so you get credit for the achievement points? Never know, you might get addicted to them. The fish game kind of hypnotized me for a while. I was going through a spell where I'd buy whatever little game came out that week.

You know, if you had decided to just leave the house and not worry about the package, then the dude would have refused to deliver without a signature. They like mentally torturing people.

Yeah, that should do it. What I do when I'm done playing is hold the controller center button down, and select turn off system from the menu that'll pop up. That should shut the system and the controller off together.

If you ever go online, let us know your Gamertag so we can see the Achievements you've got.

If it's one thing I'll miss about that system, it'll be those addictive things.

I had it in my signature for a long while before I wanted a change, and for a time I was working on a section of the site which would feature the achievements I unlocked but didn't get around to completing that.

I probably would have mentioned the achievements more, but as one of the only people on the forum with a 360, there didn't seem like there would be any real interest. When I did talk about them, I would usually only get a comment out of Tweeter who would make fun of the whole thing, anyway.

I have to say that I did get a little frustrated with them near the end because a lot of the games I was playing made you either play online for an extended time to earn the points or else do ridiculously challenging or time consuming tasks. I enjoyed them as a fun extra, not something to have to devote my life to.

Sony is coming out with a somewhat similar Trophy system for the PS3. The cool thing about the 360 setup is that 1,000 achievement points were mandatory for all games from day one, where with Sony, the games already released don't have them, and it might not be mandatory for future titles.

I could buy that stupid King Kong game and get 1,000 points right away.

That's what I thought when I rented it, but it sucks too much to go through even that minimal effort.

It'll probably be fine, though. As much negative publicity as there is, the percentage of people having problems has to be fairly small. And of course some of them are putting the console on the carpet or not giving it proper ventilation, or are using it a lot more than you and I would (like 8 hour online multiplayer sessions or something).

If I ever got another 360, I might like to get one of the black ones. And I'd want to have wireless internet by then so I could do stuff like rent movies on it without all the hassle. I probably wouldn't do that until there was at least one more major price drop after this one, and until I had full time status at a good job.