[AngryData]

The release of the Xbox coincided with what I viewed as a big jump in video game players. Even the biggest athletic jocks played a ton of Halo. And then not long after that saw much older people start playing games like CoD:MW as after work entertainment instead of just tv.

[bluefirebrand]

I would say the Xbox 360 is when it really started to take off, personally

Halo 2 was when many people started gaming