December 2, 2005. Yup, five years ago today, Microsoft's Xbox 360 was born... in Europe, anyway. You lucky people in the US and Canada had the pleasure for a few weeks before us Brits! But now gamers can unite and send their birthday wishes to one of arguably the greatest consoles of all times.

Sure it's had its detractors - and countless reliability issues - but it's succeeded in making the seventh generation of consoles (along with stirling efforts by Sony's PS3 and Nintendo's Wii) a huge success.

The UK's Guardian website asked gamers what their favourite memories of the 360 were so far... take a look at their comments after the jump - and feel free to leave a few of your comments below too.

My favourites? Making it through the original Gears of War with a friend in co-op, speeding through GTA IV and completing the story missions in less than 30 hours (just), finally diving out of that plane to get the Mile High Club achievement in Modern Warfare, and playing Left 4 Dead over and over and over again!