I registered just to post this. I grew up with an old crappy Mac, but I wasn't bored with it. Becuase of Bungie I wasn't bored. They were the ONLY game makers for mac..and thank god it was them. Marathon gave me everything I wanted. I grew up with Marathon. It was a great game then. But what I really loved was it's story line. Most games now have terrible or no storylines. But marathon had the best storyline I had ever seen (untill Halo). I stilled played Marathon 2 in the year 2001. I grew up with other things. Nintendo was great till they lost square soft and made the GC. GC's games are rock bottom...most of them are worse than PS2(how is that?). EA has dissapointed me with most releases excepting Battlefield 1942(not as good as Halo). So I switched to Xbox and got Halo...man....wow... . I play it almost every day...and have since I bought my Xbox. Halo is a legend to me as marathon was but more so. Im sure it is a legend to most gamers, after all it is still the best fps available. Not since the golden days of Goldeneye has an fps been so monumental...so synonamous with video games. Halo has the best GFX on Xbox, its gameplay is magnificent, its sounds are unique and I would listen to the sound track whenever I could if I wasn't so lazy. Im lazy in another since...im one of the 5 people in the world that hasn't reserved Halo 2...what a bummer...with so many copies reserved I wont get it till sometime in late 2005. But I have friends(hey thats what friends r for...halo!). Halo 2 looks so awesome. I just want to thank everyone at Bungie for all the games they have produced, all the fun they have given me and everyone else, all the lives they have touched, lol. Yup, even the the janitors so the staff won't slip on the floor. Good luck taking over the world! [Edited on 4/15/2004 7:49:36 PM]