The best games that bricked consoles | Gaming

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If you were lucky enough to have lived through the 7th console generation as a young adult with enough disposable income to buy a couple of games per month, you ate damn well. You probably have countless fond memories of each big new watercooler game that the studios of the day were firing out with alarming regularity, and you had no idea what the hell “games as a service” meant. Bliss.

What wasn’t blissful, though, was how unreliable the machines were. The Xbox 360 of course was blighted by the…