Oddly enough, the local launch in town was pretty sane - but, there are a few things worth touching on. I live in a non-huge town (Missoula! Any readers out there give a shout out yo), so it's not like there were a hundred people lined up. Maybe like, twenty.

Most importantly, there weren't as many memory cards as their were systems. While I suppose it varies by area, I couldn't get one at all at Software Etc. As for controllers, supplies were kind of tight on the official Nintendo ones, but I could have had quite a few if I desired (and not leave any for the suckers behind me in line ^^). Furthermore, cheaper ($20) 3rd party controllers were, um, bountiful. No particular games seemed to be in short supply.

As for getting the color I wanted, I got the last black one. ALL the people in front of me in line got black ones. Good thing I specified what color on my pre-order, or I wouldn't have gotten it. Apparently it's the opposite situation in some other areas, though. It fits in nicely in its new home between my black Dreamcast and Saturn.

Apparently not as many showed up for the XBox launch, and there are still plenty of systems left over. Eh heh.