Unboxing a NEW Xbox Console! 20 Years Later

Opening up a new old stock original Xbox! Microsoft released the system nearly two decades ago, and with that anniversary coming up I figured it's as good a time as any to set it up and play some games. Plus I needed to check on the clock capacitor, so yeah. OG XBOX TIME.

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00:00 Intro – I Finally Got an Xbox!
02:38 The Unboxing
13:17 Power on and setup
16:56 My Games!
18:35 Midtown Madness 3
21:30 Dead or Alive 3
23:54 Halo
26:00 The Sims Bustin' Out
28:54 Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
30:31 Forza Motorsport
33:11 Summary/Outro

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[MrJav]

I love how you could download your music CDs onto the hard drive and then listen to them during gameplay so sick

[JonSudano]

I actually got teary eyed when you first turned it on and heard the startup screen. My dad got me an Xbox for christmas when I was 11, a year before he passed at the age of 44. I remember Christmas morning him and I setting it up in the living room for the first time and we played Halo co-op together, as well as MK: Deadly Alliance and JSRF. This was 2002 when they were still sold with the original chunky controllers the size of a hamburger (we literally called them the hamburger controllers), literally the best Christmas I think I ever had. A lot of happy memories associated with this console, so I hope you cherish it and treat it well.

[darthv]

such a great system. I got mine in Dec 01 at my office xmas party. The boss gave everyone an envelope of $$ to bid on the different things he bought and some were DVD players, CD players, other electronics and only 5 xbox systems. you didnt know what was in the box you bid on but he did give out clues. After the first few gifts werent the Xbox, i took a chance that the next one was. So when he gave out the clue "plays discs" I bid every $ in my envelope (I think it was like $400 in monopoly $$) and won. sure enough it was the original Xbox. And like Rafiki in lion king, i held that xbox up over my head with a hearty

I still have it as well.

[krakrug]

The graphics and framerate are mind-blowing for a system released in 2001.

[AuntSteve]

That startup noise sent a shiver up my spine. It's like hearing the voice of a friend you thought you lost. Thank you, I needed that today.
If you ever do more with this, I'd love to see a bit on Blood Wake. I remember playing it all the time growing up when visiting family, but from what I understand neither the 360 or One are compatible with it!

[OhmegadJT]

Man playing halo for the first time was one of the greatest feelings as a kid. It was absolutely mind blowing going from N64 to this.

[BlackHerringGames]

Wow, nostalgia. I wrote most of the rendering code, as well as the animation, collision, and streaming systems on Midtown Madness 3. It was quite difficult to squeeze in the large cities into 64 MB of memory. To save memory the rendering relied heavily on instancing of small geometry building blocks which were transformed using various vertex shaders (the roads are segments being deformed by splines). The DirectX CPU overhead dispatching all these draw calls was quite high which is the the main reason the game ran at 30 FPS. The GPU could have run the game faster though probably not at a locked 60 FPS.

The absence of collision on the trees was very intentional. The big trees looked weird when they fell over and having them rigid destroyed the flow of just driving around and plowing through everything so in the end we just removed them from the collision.

Fun fact, the game is using a limited form of deferred rendering which is how we could afford all the street lights and headlights at dusk and night.

[ThunderHorsePyro]

I'll never forget the good old days of having four TVs and four Xboxes with all the LAN cables and 12 or 15 of my friends in the garage just blasting each other in Halo. Great times.

[GunsNGames]

The early 2000s was such an special era for video games, we had the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and some of the most iconic and important games of all time were from this very same era. This video brings me an amazing joy, I really love it seeing a piece of history being shown in that condition nowadays, 20 years later.

[Precisionreelworks]

I remember having a 50' ethernet cord strung across my parents house to be able to do dual consoles playing halo multi player. Each room was its own team. So much fun and so many good memories!!!

btw, editing this comment as I watch the video. 4x4 EVO 2 is a hidden gem of a game! I thoroughly enjoyed its ability to be able to customize all your 4x4 trucks

[vladevar]

Such a time capsule, and the black-and-green color scheme is still so iconic!

[aelius]

I remember the first time I picked up "The Duke", and played Halo. It was so cool. I love big chunky electronics, like something from the Alien universe. Like what people in the 70/80's thought tech would be.

[alfaholic]

I still have mine from back in 2003. My family had just moved countries and I was really struggling with the transition so even though we had almost no money my parents somehow managed to scrape together enough to get me an Xbox for my birthday it is one of my favourite memories and ill never get rid of it.

[ShortHax]

I’m not crying, my eyes are just sensitive to memories

[CFDEngCo]

This just brought be back to Christmas morning, 2001.

[smaariseth]

I still remember my unboxing with Halo and ghost recon. Best gaming experience of my life!

[CoronaMobius]

I spent so much time with this system in my teen years. I miss LAN parties for Halo 2. Moving in freshman year, my dorm's ethernet jacks actually functioned as a LAN, so everyone on my floor would just play Halo all week long before classes really got in full swing.

I have a vinyl wrap on mine, both because 2004 me thought it looked cool (it did not), and also to keep it from taking too much damage bouncing around in a duffel bag. My parents were divorced, so I'd take my games with me back and forth when it was to go to/leave my dad's place.

I need to check that clock cap...

[mrpauling]

The christmas you described was my actual christmas. I was 10 years old, I wanted nothing more than an Xbox and on Christmas Eve I slightly ripped the packaging of a huge box under our tree (seemed huge to me). Behind that little sliver was a green X. Words can barely describe how happy I felt.

Also, the first game I played was Midtown Madness 3, since the first level of Halo was too scary for me. Of course that changed quickly a few weeks in.

I still remember vividly cruising throught the cities in MM3 with a friend in Splitscreen or going at the Halo campaign in coop on legendary for the bazillionth time. I have rarely felt this dedicated or bound to games afterwards. It was a great period of time for me and the original Xbox is a huge part of it.

[jack-o-bear]

I miss my old xbox, had so many good memories with it. It was actually my introduction to one of my favorite games of all time, Morrowind... Yes, I know it's better on PC, but I didn't have a PC at the time that was able to play games. The family PC was just there for email really.

[BenKlassen]

16-player Halo LAN parties were the social events to look forward to. Lots of work getting those 4 CRT's together.