What can I do with an XBox 360

Or actually three of them to be exact, plus a box full of game discs, controllers and so on.

Mrs. Snowdoggie used to rent out rooms in her house before I moved in and took over several rooms. A prior tenant left these and doesn't want them back. I did get one to boot up but the controllers had no batteries. Now waiting for a new battery pack and wondering what I can use this for. Are games still available? I am interested in the Forza series and maybe a flight simulator or two. Is something this old worth messing with?

The older Forza games are still good, actually better than the new (5+) ones, IMHO, but still lean more arcade than sim.   I never found a flight sim for XBox that I liked.

Honestly, I've spent the last year or so playing Assetto Corsa with folks here on GRM, and it's been more fun than anything on XBox.  AC is a better driving sim, and the Forza crowd for online racing is pretty terrible.

I'd sell it all and put together a PC based rig for AC...  YMMV.

Rodan said:

The older Forza games are still good, actually better than the new (5+) ones, IMHO, but still lean more arcade than sim.   I never found a flight sim for XBox that I liked.

Honestly, I've spent the last year or so playing Assetto Corsa with folks here on GRM, and it's been more fun than anything on XBox.  AC is a better driving sim, and the Forza crowd for online racing is pretty terrible.

I'd sell it all and put together a PC based rig for AC...  YMMV.

Unfortunately, I don't think three Xbox 360s are worth enough to even buy a decent graphics car these days, much less the rest of the machine.

I'd probably keep the best one and donate the rest. 

I actually already have a PC rig with a decent graphics card that will and has run Ansetto Corsa. I was just wondering what I could do with the Xboxes.

I have one in my garage on a TV from 2004. I use it for music/media.

3x xbox 360s. 

So- they're not super valuable right now. The current gen system will run most of the Xbox discs- unlike playstation- so the older consoles aren't really that worth holding onto outside of hardcore collectors. I have a couple, but I also have....5 consoles plugged into my living room TVs right now so I think i'm an outlier. 

The bad news is, I'm guessing if you only got one of them to fire, the other two might have died due to what's known as RROD or..red ring of death. There was a huge reliability issue with the early 360's that actually killed a few million of them, and caused a massive warranty issue for m$. I lost two to it myself. 

The GOOD news is- you're in the right era to get some cheap fun. They're two generations old right now, which is when old consoles typically bottom out. The Forza series was probably its best overall on the 360. You had some excellent arcade racers in the Burnout franchise, arguably the best of the Need for Speed franchise (before EA ended up owning both of them, merging them, and subsequently killing burnout and ruining NFS in the process). You had the beginnings of the Horizon series.... tons of really great games. And most of them are extremely cheap right now. 

I'd maybe put some batteries in, and play the games they left.  Take the broken ones and you can trade them in for some used games.  I wouldn't invest any real $ into them though.  The games and interface are not unique enough to be very enticing.

And you should be able to use two AAs in the battery pack if the controller... I use a wireless 360 controller with my PC on that takes two AAs...

Old broken electronics = fun tearing down and seeing if you can remove components. Always fun to try to fix or upgrade several broken into one good/better unit. 

you could make a broach

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

you could make a broach

Three 360's, three copies of Forza, and three monitors/tv's, and you have a wraparound immersion.

@snowdoggie - do you still have these?  Would you be looking to sell any?

If you can get a game disc, Forza 4 is probably the best of the franchise. I wish they'd just stick with that worked, I think the new FM will eventually get fixed but it's kinda a mess currently. 

mine recently took a dump.  looking for a replacement if you want to offload one.