Halo: Combat Evolved turns twelve years old today! I remember hearing a lot about this game leading up to the launch of the Xbox, and I finally got to play it when my uncle bought it. Then, just a few months later, one of my best friends’ parents bought him an Xbox for it. I spent the night at his house, and we stayed up all night playing cooperative. We did a straight run-through, and the thing that really sticks out to me is that I got so tired that I started punching out with a full bladder, and ended up wetting the area with my scent. My friend’s dad came down the stairs, smelled it, and had the decency to blame it on something else so as to not embarrass me! What a guy. Anyway, we proceeded to get to the emergence of the Flood, and that part was so intense to us that we couldn’t finish it. We were just kids at that point.
So that’s my oldest Halo: Combat Evolved story. Share yours! Happy birthday, Halo: Combat Evolved!