X B A N D W I D T H Dev Updates #5 2026.01.23 YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY HERO On this day 25 years ago, McFoxx and Madvin made the leap into the first online console RPG on day one. Well, sort of... they tried to at least. But a shipping delay at Target forced them to day two. Now here is the interesting part: If you look at most any online "source" (including Wikipedia) they will state that PSO made it's North American debut on Tuesday January 30th 2001. But this simply isn't true. I know this because the date of Tuesday January 23rd 2001 was marked on my calendar and seared into my mind as my gaming neighbor and I hitched a ride courtesy of my mother to the nearest Target where we had both pre-ordered the game. Alas, when we arrived the cashier gave us bad news that the game had been absent from their last week's delivery so they were not able to fulfill our pre-order. The cashier did tell us to come back the next day as they received their shipments very early Wednesday mornings. Sure enough, when we went after school the very next day on January 24th the game was there and we were finally able to bring it home. So why then do most online sources say the release date was January 30th? I have no idea, as it cannot be attributed to Target breaking the street date. If this were the case it would have been expected for the game servers to be empty wastelands, but when my neighbor and I logged in on January 24th the lobbies were bustling with NA players with plenty of game rooms open and lively chat in the lobbies. If interested, you can read more about this day and other events from the Golden Age of XBAND here. In other news, I have added a header banner at the top of this page to link to our Wow Guild WebPage. 2026 certainly feels like we are "Two Minutes to Midnight". - XBAND.GM