New-old gaming

I just picked up an xbox 360 from a guy in work.  £50, so a bargin.  This opened up a whole world of "previously played" games in the game stores.  I currently raid them for PS2 and original xbox games, but hey, Assassins Creed for £7.99, and Gears of War will be added to that soon.
While I do go "ooooh" and "aaaah" at the ads for the new games (Skyrim is seriously floating my boat at the moment), the great advantage with being a couple of years behind everyone else, is I've still got all these games at my disposal for a fraction of the price.

I know Ed is desperate for me to get Dead Island, so I can help him kick zombie butt, but I really want a bit of good old fashioned adventure gaming*, so Assassins Creed will see me over the holidays I reckon.

(* I actually used to LOVE the old text only adventures on the speccy waaaay back in the day, so if anyone knows of anywhere I can play text only on the pc, pleas leave a comment)

w00t

Guy in work upgraded his xbox 360 from a 20G to a 250G with kinect. Sooo, he sold me his 20G machine for £50.  Result.
There's a brand new unused xbox Live headset as well.  Now, I know what games I fancy, but I just need to use a little sense and not run out and buy a shitload at one.  The plan is to work though Assassins Creed and Gears of War, with a little zombie action on the side.  Then, who knows.
All I have to do is see which of the original xbox games I have are still playable and then probably sell the original and the remaining games as a job lot and get my £50 back.  Failing that I need to finish the games that won't work on the new machine.
Either way, w00t!!!