Some of you may notice the bulging capacitor by the CPU- I was aware of this and ordered replacements, just didn’t arrive in time for the video. What's your favorite original Xbox title? I mean, probably Halo, but 1 or 2? And is there a different game you loved?
The most missed feature of the OG Xbox was the ability to rip your own music and make custom soundtracks for any game, or even edit that music for sports titles. It really enhanced sports and racing games.
so in theory if i was to play nba 2k3 and rip my own music i could import those tracks into NBA 2k3 🤔 ?? 👀 lol im trying to recollect for my og xbox and just picked up some games … never even knew you could do that 😮🔥🔥
The Original Xbox had so many underrated features that didn't get enough attention back in the day. The fact that it has a built-in hard drive almost completely removed the need for memory cards unless you wanted to transfer saves. Also, the fact that you could rip music to the hard drive and then play it in some games was awesome. Finally, a lot of multiplatform games ran better and/or looked better on the Xbox. It's my console of choice when playing games from that generation.
Yup. There were something for anyone. I kept to Ps2 though. Personally I think the 7'th generation, is the absolute best of all. I have the big 3 hooked up. The 8'th offers little extra for the money, and the 9'th are still too crazy expensive for my taste.
@@Kbxbigbro808 Nope, they are not. They are so different in any aspect. You did not have avatar's on gen6 and Wii stands out and fueled motion controlling on gen7. Also gen6 did not use fixed storage the way that gen7 did. And there are even more differences between gen6 and gen7 that are worth mentioning. One being HD video signal as a default. And HDMI ports as well. No. They are not the same in any way.
Thanks so much for this video. I JUST found my original Xbox the other day after thinking it had been thrown out by mistake. It’s in MINT condition. It was a 2005 model and still plays games just as well as it did 16 years ago. Very underrated system and holds up very well today. One of my favorite consoles for sure. SSX Tricky, Crimson Skies, PGR 2 and Jet Set Radio Future have all had some screen time this week! Keep up the good work buddy!
I believe mine is a 2005 too, did you do the modification thing that he was talking about in the video? my system is obv old but I don’t want to mess w it at all
Haven't watched the full vid yet but there is a way to soft mod it without opening the box up. You have buy an original copy of Splinter Cell and do something with that, don't know off the top of my head.
SSX are a good game. One of the few sports games that I like. Except for racing, if you can call that sports games. Personally I like fighting games better than other genre. Dead Or Alive 2 and 5 are my absolute favorites. DOA 3 and 4 are not as good.
I been waiting for one of this video fun fact the reason the logo is green is because everyone took all the markers and green was left so the designer went with green
I've never been a PS guy. I've been into Xbox since the first version of the 360, and I've always loved everything about Xbox. The controllers are more comfortable if you're gonna play for a few hours straight. And I just liked how the Xbox and it's "look" looked more than the PS
My fiancee' got me the OG xbox for Christmas in 2019, and the first games I got for it were Halo CE & 2 (The box for Halo 2 I got is an alternate one too actually, it had the Arbiter instead of Chief) Whenever I switch back and forth between the original games and MCC, it feels like it's much harder to see in the levels, even when it's daylight. Maybe it got brightened up in the PC ports? Anyway, I got a bunch of other games I had for ps2 back in the day too. Like Tony Hawk's Underground 1/2, Burnout 3, and Test Drive: Off Road, Wide Open. (Which I wasn't able to play. It kept reading it as a DVD for some reason)
The designers actually wanted to call it the Direct-X box. Under the hood it ran The windows 2000 kernel and was actually closer to a PC than a game console. It was easy for developers to port PC games to the Xbox because all they had to do was recompile the code. Rather than PS2 where they had to almost completely re write it.
Direct x box was a code name that was eventually replaced with the code name Xbox, they couldn’t come up with a final name so they used the current name (Xbox), Direct-X Box was never considered as a final name
When you mentioned the guide to remove the clock capacitor I already knew it was the one by MattKC. Also fun fact about the intro: Hyperkin turned the giant Xbox logo on the new Duke into a screen that shows the console's intro. They really struggled to find the video file in the firmware only to find out it's rendered in real-time.
@91 tech will you do a iPhone 4s 10 years later, what if it was a video like the 4 last year so 20 min but it’s just where you just said how slow it was 😂
@@91Tech the GameCube is my favorite console of all time. I was 9 years old when it came out. I played Resident Evil remake and 0 over and over and over.
@@mecrumbly429___4 I remember seeing this some where before indeed. Anyway, damn that would've been bad naming convention. It would've sounded like guy in his 60's in suit at corporate head would've named it before going to his retirement party 😄
As ist a "prototype" for New generation of DirectX. And the Green Xbox color came from NVIDIA GREEN that powered the console with a prototype Gpu. Fun fact XBOX directX9 is based on Xbox, so Xbox is a prototype por the 2004 graphics.
I got one of these day 1. Time goes by so fast. I feel like it was just yesterday. I actually remember the events that day leading up to when I got the Xbox.
Man, the original Xbox was like the coolest thing when it came out. I remember seeing Halo for the first time at my friend’s house, I was floored. I had to have it
This was a crazy era for gaming. Loved the old school commercials brought back memories, now I’m in my mid 30s. I was never into the original Xbox, but my friends had them we used to link up multiple TVs to play halo, than halo 2 dropped was like 🤯 Xbox did pave the way for online gaming I have to give it to them. Both Sony and Ms can learn from each other.
"Online console gaming". Online gaming was popular on PC long before console. Oh, and the Dreamcast could play online too. The original Xbox is in many ways the spiritual successor of the Dreamcast.
Important bit regarding the clock capacitor: you DO NOT need to remove the cap from 1.6 models, manufactured mostly in 2004 and late 2005. Doing so with this model will damage your system!
I have lots of good memories playing Xbox back in high school and college. I have an Xbox, PS2, and GameCube hooked up to an old CRT and love revisiting that generation. I never got a 360 or Xbox One but decided to get an XSX recently. Feels good to be playing Xbox again. Thanks for the video!
Another brilliant video, thank you. I got my Xbox at launch. It came with Halo. But I found it so frustrating. It was the first time I used ‘twin sticks’ with a first person shooter. I’m glad I persevered, for obvious reasons. I also remember, you had to buy the media remote to play DVD’s. or the wouldn’t play. I think the buttons glowed in the dark too.
Love retrospective of the og xbox, it was the one console i wanted that i never got as a kid. I had a ps2 but wanted the xbox, it had the look, the controllers felt right, the graphics looked better, the game cases looked better, my God even the black and green colors complimented each other. A few years back i finally got my hands on the og xbox and still fire it up to play what i missed out on as a kid.
I plugged my xbox in yesterday to play some....FORZA MOTORSPORT (my favourite game from back in the day). It has not aged a day. The 60fps, clear graphics, amazing car selection, and the most incredible mod-upgrade system. I easily plugged 2 hours in, and will definitely leave it hooked up to my TV for some more. I've heard good things about FM2, so I'll grab that from ebay.
When I was about 7 or 8, my friend's older sister had the original Xbox and sometimes, we were allowed to play on it. I don't remember it too much, but I remember playing kids games like nemo on it!
I still have the original and hard modded. I still enjoy play it and us it as a Retro player to play older console games. I have the xbox to HDMI adapter and what a game changer.
Nice video, man! I love the original Xbox. One small note, the controller you have is just a crystal green one. The Halo green controller that matches the Halo Edition Xbox has a “Halo” logo badge rather than the “Xbox” badge.
PLEASE make a Gamecube one next!! I have searched and haven’t found one anyway, sorry if it does exist new subscriber (found you a month or two back when iPhone 14 launched, truly enjoy this channel!)
IGN’s opinion means zero to me. The Duke controller is awesome and it was designed after the Sega Dreamcast controller, which makes it even more awesome. There is a reason, to this day, sega games feel better on xbox instead of playstation and Nintendo. The controller just feels like a continuation/evolution of the Sega Dreamcast. I have 2 hyperkin Duke controllers for my Series X, i use it to play my b.c OG Xbox games.
Still had one like 6 months ago, with Fifa 04 and other old games… but suddenly it stopped working and started to be in a startup loop, with some buttons doing what some others should do… nobody never knew what happened to it, and it went to trash… I kept the controller and the DVD remote, but I’m sooo sad !
I bought it when it first came out. Loved playing Halo with a friend in co-op mode. I loved NFL 2K5 the most of all the games, but I played the heck out of my system. It deployed with me and made for some great memories in multiplayer.
Also Sega's Dreamcast was not the first to have online capabilities, it was actually the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and they had a service as well as Xband.
If GTA iii, Vice City, San Andreas, Liberty City Stories, and Vice City Stories hadn’t first been released on the PS2 (not including the prequel/prequel stories) more than likely I would’ve purchased an Xbox. And more then likely I would’ve been a Halo fanatic in the process. Still, hats off to Microsoft with the first Xbox brand for revolutionizing and improving the games industry for the better in my opinion. This coming from a Sony guy.
It was 2002, I was 32 & I had no intention of buying another games console. I owned several older consoles & computers but I honestly hadn't even thought about gaming for years. Then, I was watching TV, when an ad came on for a new game - Splinter Cell - on the Xbox, I was stunned at how good it looked. So, on my next day off from work, I bought an XBox bundled with Splinter Cell, & everything was fantastic. A couple of years later, I was talking to a work colleague about Splinter Cell, & we disagreed about how good the game was. He was coming at it from his PS2 perspective, having never seen it on the XBox - so I drove over to his house on our day off and placed my copy into his newly purchased XBox - he was blown away by it. Then he showed me his PS2 version, & I realised why we had both initially disagreed on how good the game was, because on the PS2 it looked awful. Great console. I'm now going to pull out that pesky capacitor.
4 months late, but I had an OG Xbox. My favorite game on it wasn't Halo or Halo 2 though. It was the Chronicles of Riddick game. (If memory serves, Escape from Butcher Bay or something like that).
I came to the party a little later but I started gaming on OG XBL around May of 05. Being a twelve at the time, I was one of the few kids in my school with it. Once the 360 came out, everybody was onboard though. It kind of blows my mind that I witnessed the shift.
I still have my oXBOX from back in the day, connected. My second one as the one I got at launch eventually died. Have the most magical memories of Halo CE. Ironically, I wasn't actually interested in it because console FPS' had never been that great so I wasn't buying into the hype. All I cared about was DOA3. The only reason I ended up buying it was that back then retailers would do this bundling thing, forcing to to buy three games with the console during the launch scarcity. So I ended up getting Halo and Abe's Odyssey. Halo sat in the shelf for a couple of weeks as I was just playing DOA3. Then when I finally got to it I was blown away. Brought my wife in "you have to play this with me". And we did. That first Halo CE run is a magical, treasured memory of our early marriage for the both of us.
I still have my original Xbox since Christmas of 2002 and still play it. My favorite game on Xbox (and also my favorite game of all time) is Jet Set Radio Future. I got it for free. It came with it along with Sega GT. I also had fun playing Blinx, Fuzion Frenzy, and Splinter Cell.
It's important to note you don't need one of those HDMI adapters to get HD support. If you have a set of component cables the Xbox will natively support 480p 720p and 1080i. And of course 480i if you're using a CRT with component input. The hardware also wasn't that obscure as it was essentially an Intel Pentium 3 with less cash so it's been argued it's closer to a Celeron along with 64 MB of RAM and what is essentially G-Force 3 graphics
Actually is a Geforce 4 ti prototype equal to 4200, and the Cpu is a Mobile Pentium III not a desktop celeron, and was planned to reach 1ghz but Intel refused. The original Cpu was an AMD Athlon runing way faster but very hot, so they changed to 1ghz P3 mobile but Intel tricked MS on Last moments and made it 733 for stability reasons... Líes it run OK at 1ghz.
Gotta call you out at 27:25. Those HDMI cables are pass through meaning if the game is outputting in 480i or 480p t will still output in 480 to your tv or monitor. The Xbox and some games do support 720 and 1080i so a game like ATV unleashed will natively output in 1080i. If you want those higher resolutions for all games you need an upscaler that will line double the image
"It good to play together" That slogan was waaaaay ahead of its time 👍playing single player games was my main preference back then but now I play online exclusively and its hard to play any other way.
I use my original Xbox with the same 1702 monitor. The inputs on the back are actually s-video from before the port was standardized. I have about 10 other consoles all hooked up with an s-video input switch, it's great!
Thankfully I had some good luck finding a working Original Xbox console. I found one at a local charity shop one day, and while it was lacking controllers, it still had its power and AV cables. And for $8AU, it was a good deal. I tested it out after purchasing it, and it worked perfectly.
I own the Cystal special edition xbox, and i can say, with those stupid shields removed, this Crystal xbox looks insane on the outside! You get imac g3 vibes because you can look into the console! Eventually i would like to put some lights in the xbox, nothing fancy, just an led that cycles through colors on the front somewhere :)
fun fact: it's called the xbox because it runs a version of the windows kernel and windows' game software, directX so when they needed a codename for the device they called it the direct x box, then decided for a codename that was too long so they shortened it to X box, when it came time to come up with the actual name of the product they just kept it to xbox
Agreed, playing on a modern powerful PC makes the games feel like how I remember them looking as a kid, and honestly even the original versions on the console *Still look pretty decent today*
I have three XBox consoles. I have the original launch XBox that is now retired, and one that is currently modded. I bought a third XBox in late 2004 that is currently in used. Call me crazy, but I bought the Steel Battalion game with the massive controller as well.
Orta is a masterpiece. The graphics are still really impressive; and if you haven't played it upscaled on a series x, then you are missing something amazing to behold. Do yourself a favor and check it out.
Thank You Finally someone on RUclips Showing Xbox love on its birthday. All year there were Videos for Sony when it was their 20th last year for the PS2. This Year?? Nothing for the Xbox that I can find out of all of my subs. But this one. Thank you again.
The original Xbox is a fantastic console. I got mine on Christmas Day 2004 and I really love it. I have many games for it as of November 2021 like MechAssault 1 and 2, Project Gotham Racing 1 and 2, WWE RAW 2, Splinter Cell trilogy, Ghost Recon, Full Spectrum Warrior, ESPN NFL 2K5, NFL Street 2, Counter-Strike, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, Rainbow Six 3, Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions, Deathrow, Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive Ultimate, Max Payne duology, Metal Arms: Glitch in the System, and many, many more. The best part about the console is you can add your own custom soundtracks into selected Xbox titles with custom soundtrack support, which I did starting with WWE RAW 2 back in 2005 after getting WWE Anthology.
The Xbox and halo 1&2 were my childhood on the weekends my cousins and friends would come over and we'd play 4 player co op multiplayer all night long such good memories
Fun fact: didn't outsold PS2, but it definitely outsold the Nintendo GameCube, is the ONLY 6th Gen console that do DLCs and internet stuff in video game console, and is the most powerful 6th Gen console.
I'm not sure if this qualifies as DLC but on the PS2 you could technically unlock extra content in some games. I own 2 games that did this, Crash Tag Team Racing and WWE SVR 2006. If you owned the game on PSP and PS2 and connected them through USB, you could unlock extra content for both versions. I believe more games did this but I only ever owned 2 with this feature. Though I'm glad this didn't become a trend because not only you needed 2 consoles to do this, you had to buy the same game twice. Xbox had the right approach for this.
@@Manic_Panic , Outrun 2006: Coast2Coast on PS2 also had unlocked content via the PSP. Also, possibly as many as a couple or a few of the PS2 SOCOM titles had ~DLC / updates online and I forget others.... Oh yeah, Tony Hawk Underground had a [face uploader] that allowed you to upload your face or another image onto the wireframe of an avatar. www.ign.com/articles/2003/10/09/tony-hawk-face-scan?amp=1
Got my OG Xbox as a surprise gift from my Ex g/f in 2002. I no longer have her but I still have the console. One of the greatest consoles of them all. Happy 20th and onto the next 20.
I still have one to this very day, love to play Underground 1 & 2 on it, but the first i played was Most Wanted 2005, which is why i really got into NFS and other racing games such as Gran Turismo and Forza
The Xbox was awesome. I always saw it as a Dreamcast with alot more money behind it. My favorite game for the console is Panzer Dragoon Orta. Now I play it on my X-Bone with backward compatibility.
Wow this warms my heart. I remember my late father had a GF that saw me looking at a flyer with the xbox and she asked if I wanted it and of course I say yes. I wait for months and months and still nothing. To a 10 year old thats long. I believe what happened according to my older sister is he went out and bought it and then said it was from her. He was a good guy. Turns out I couldn't play it right away because my tv was too old lol
Good retrospective. This machine is fantastic after you've hacked it and dropped in a 160GB hard drive. If you don't have a Raspberry Pi or an old computer running Batocera, it's probably the best way to play emulators on a dedicated system. By the way, where native games are concerned, I'm fond of the fighters, particularly Capcom vs. SNK 2, Dead or Alive 3, Bloody Roar Extreme, and Wild Rings (JPN).
I saw the translucent one with the controller and about 10 games for $50, for its modding capability, I was considering picking it up, but that Xbox 360 Elite, looking to me like a better buy as it can play the OG's games and maybe do emulation too.
TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST , I REALLY GET SUCH A GREAT FEELING GAMING . I AM A PLAYSTATION PERSON AND I THINK IT IS GREAT THAT GAMERS GET THOSE SAME FEELINGS WHEN THEY ARE ON THE CONSOLE OF THEIR CHOICE. GAMING HAS HELPED ME DEAL WITH DEPRESSION.
I have and still love my original Xbox. So many fantastic games to play on that system. My only problem is that I've somehow had pretty terrible luck keeping mine in working order. I currently have 3 of them though I've owned at least five to date. The first has a FRAG condition due to a failed hard drive and is completely dead so it became a parts console, another has blown voltage capacitors so it doesn't power on and off properly, the third had a disc drive that committed harakiri, the fourth is a working spare that a friend gave me and my current one is in perfectly working order... that is, after frankensteining all the good parts from consoles one and three together just to get one working console as well as replacing the drive belt for the disc drive. My voltage capacitor princess is currently waiting for repair and will act as spare #2. Xbox's are typically very sturdy and reliable so I must be a magnet for bad ones lol.
Hope to help you realize that the caps under the heat sink the three 3300uF caps are bulged/leaked, highly recommend to replace them or get someone to do it
Emulation of the original XBOX made some huge steps in the last months. You can play games like Blood Wake or Crimson in 4k resolutions without major problems on cxbx or xemu and they look awesome!
Dreamcast had a network card upgrade avaliable. But it shipped with dial up. I also remember that Microsoft and Sony always had issues with their online service, for a couple of years. Launch of these services seemed like a beta test, and user were test subjects, waiting for Sony and MS to get finish the product. I waited to Ps3 before I played anything online on a console.
I picked up one this year actually its a 1.6 revision but I used to have one replaced the disc drive and its working great I still have a few games that I kept over the years getting a few more games but I always loved this console and I'm so glad to have it again And honestly playing with the Duke controller I actually kind of like how it feels it's heavy and feels sturdy I just like the feeling of it lol
My grandpa got an Xbox for his birthday in the early 2000s he has the likes of Tom Clancy games crimson skies battlefront and halo 2 he has it hooked up to an old CRT and has 2 duke controllers every time we visit we play some battlefront it is very fun
Xbox was named Xbox because it's Direct X in a box. They shortened the name to the Xbox for obvious reasons and designed the chassis to make sure no one would have any doubts lol. I'm betting you know all this already, but has to be said.
I watched this video to brush up on the Xbox and this was super enjoyable! Great job. I think my fav non Halo game is Fable. Most of the great Xbox games I played on PC but I still have fond memories of it.
If you have one of these, try to score "Dragon's lair 3D". Monster of a game. And no, it has nothing to do with the original arcade QTE gameplay. It's an action game and a very tough one at that.
I had an original Xbox when I was really young, and now I got a Series X and love it, man Xbox has been amazing and I’m so glad everything went right (more or less) with the original console and we kept getting more consoles. I also removed the clock capacitor on my original Xbox (it was broken) and replaced it with a good working one and now I never get the message again 😄
I got my Xbox on launch day. I was quite lucky to get one, as a guy had just come into EB Games (now GameStop) and cancelled his pre-order. It still works great 20 years later. I've been playing it a lot lately since I missed a ton of games from the 6th Generation. My favorite game is "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic."
Some of you may notice the bulging capacitor by the CPU- I was aware of this and ordered replacements, just didn’t arrive in time for the video.
What's your favorite original Xbox title? I mean, probably Halo, but 1 or 2? And is there a different game you loved?
it’s fine
My favorite original Xbox game was definitely Halo CE, the game is the reason I am a gamer now.
I was originally gonna buy the series X, but I saw how much hype the Ps5 got and the all new exclusives so now I’m going for that one instead
I’ve played on this original Xbox 😍😌
Nice and PUFFY
The most missed feature of the OG Xbox was the ability to rip your own music and make custom soundtracks for any game, or even edit that music for sports titles. It really enhanced sports and racing games.
Definitely. It was awesome and unique feature for Xbox. It also worked flawless, which I didn't think it would when I got myself Xbox.
It was amazing on the GTA ports
so in theory if i was to play nba 2k3 and rip my own music i could import those tracks into NBA 2k3 🤔 ?? 👀
lol im trying to recollect for my og xbox and just picked up some games … never even knew you could do that 😮🔥🔥
@@retrogroovtvwell, he mightve forgot only certain games supported custom soundtracks lol, 2k3 couldve been one of em though
@@nayru1855 nfl2k5 was and it was awesome I wish they still did that
The Original Xbox had so many underrated features that didn't get enough attention back in the day. The fact that it has a built-in hard drive almost completely removed the need for memory cards unless you wanted to transfer saves. Also, the fact that you could rip music to the hard drive and then play it in some games was awesome. Finally, a lot of multiplatform games ran better and/or looked better on the Xbox. It's my console of choice when playing games from that generation.
@@haydenblackwood557 lol nope
@@haydenblackwood557 no
@@haydenblackwood557 no nintendrone lol
@@haydenblackwood557 no
This^
Crazy to think that in only 20 years gaming has evolved so rapidly. Great content.
I know right? Sure I wasn't alive at the og Xbox launch but going look back at it with an actual console, I got mad respect for the system.
@@Zombiekiller-bc7ud haha
More like devolved
@@jaimeduarte1515 de evolved because companies suck now and only care about money
Wow you little baby.
Man I miss when consoles had character, the 6th gen consoles had so much
Yup. There were something for anyone. I kept to Ps2 though. Personally I think the 7'th generation, is the absolute best of all. I have the big 3 hooked up. The 8'th offers little extra for the money, and the 9'th are still too crazy expensive for my taste.
@@brostenen 6th and 7th gen are similar tho
@@Kbxbigbro808 Nope, they are not. They are so different in any aspect. You did not have avatar's on gen6 and Wii stands out and fueled motion controlling on gen7. Also gen6 did not use fixed storage the way that gen7 did. And there are even more differences between gen6 and gen7 that are worth mentioning. One being HD video signal as a default. And HDMI ports as well.
No. They are not the same in any way.
@@brostenen moores law slowed down so If they want large power leaps price would need to increase
The original Xbox, GameCube and so many more, we didn't realize what we had...
Haha that first Xbox advert is crazy.
Ikr
Sony has Microsoft beat with crazy adverts and Sega, but dang that Xbox advert was insanely funny lol.
I've always hated it. I always cringe
That ad was banned in select countries, including the UK.
@@cody6009 that 'thumbs' one for the sony Xperia...
Thanks so much for this video. I JUST found my original Xbox the other day after thinking it had been thrown out by mistake. It’s in MINT condition. It was a 2005 model and still plays games just as well as it did 16 years ago. Very underrated system and holds up very well today. One of my favorite consoles for sure. SSX Tricky, Crimson Skies, PGR 2 and Jet Set Radio Future have all had some screen time this week! Keep up the good work buddy!
I believe mine is a 2005 too, did you do the modification thing that he was talking about in the video? my system is obv old but I don’t want to mess w it at all
Haven't watched the full vid yet but there is a way to soft mod it without opening the box up. You have buy an original copy of Splinter Cell and do something with that, don't know off the top of my head.
SSX are a good game. One of the few sports games that I like. Except for racing, if you can call that sports games. Personally I like fighting games better than other genre. Dead Or Alive 2 and 5 are my absolute favorites. DOA 3 and 4 are not as good.
@@hopeschannel 1.6 consoles have to have the clock capacitor
What a way to start the video with that Xbox intro and a throwback to my childhood playing Halo CE :3
Your whole pfp is CE FTW!
Ce is such a good game
I been waiting for one of this video fun fact the reason the logo is green is because everyone took all the markers and green was left so the designer went with green
my color.
In the military we are all green as well 🟢
I've never been a PS guy. I've been into Xbox since the first version of the 360, and I've always loved everything about Xbox. The controllers are more comfortable if you're gonna play for a few hours straight. And I just liked how the Xbox and it's "look" looked more than the PS
@@samanoski4 now you guys are all rainbow
No, the Xbox Green is the NVIDIA GREEN, as the Xbox use a Geforce 4 ti prototype, is the same exact Green as NVIDIA use.
One thing you can’t take away from the OG Xbox; that chassis had character. I think it was the coolest looking console ever made.
And some of the most legendarily beastly controllers, *The Dukes*
I still love Xbox i got a Xbox series x the best value in gaming is Xbox
Every time a wave of nostalgia hits me out of nowhere, the original Xbox is there.
Man, I miss it.
Same here just started collecting og xbox 360 and ps3 games been getting some really good ones.
My fiancee' got me the OG xbox for Christmas in 2019, and the first games I got for it were Halo CE & 2 (The box for Halo 2 I got is an alternate one too actually, it had the Arbiter instead of Chief)
Whenever I switch back and forth between the original games and MCC, it feels like it's much harder to see in the levels, even when it's daylight. Maybe it got brightened up in the PC ports?
Anyway, I got a bunch of other games I had for ps2 back in the day too. Like Tony Hawk's Underground 1/2, Burnout 3, and Test Drive: Off Road, Wide Open. (Which I wasn't able to play. It kept reading it as a DVD for some reason)
uwu
@@xTheMLPGodx ^w^
@@xTheMLPGodx god pls no
@@Crest6680 nooooooooo
You need to use component cables instead of composite or else it's going to look dark
The designers actually wanted to call it the Direct-X box. Under the hood it ran The windows 2000 kernel and was actually closer to a PC than a game console. It was easy for developers to port PC games to the Xbox because all they had to do was recompile the code. Rather than PS2 where they had to almost completely re write it.
Direct x box was a code name that was eventually replaced with the code name Xbox, they couldn’t come up with a final name so they used the current name (Xbox), Direct-X Box was never considered as a final name
If you purchased the adapter and remote, you could watch DVDs. This was my first DVD player.
This video is great; the commentary, music and imagery complemented each other so well. You have outdone yourself, man.
When i see XBOX, i instantly think of Halo. A fucking straight masterpiece.
Struck gold
Splinter cell chaos theory and pandora tomorrow. I lived on those games in high school
@@mikespence8895 said no one ever until now
@@austins.2495 cool
When you mentioned the guide to remove the clock capacitor I already knew it was the one by MattKC. Also fun fact about the intro: Hyperkin turned the giant Xbox logo on the new Duke into a screen that shows the console's intro. They really struggled to find the video file in the firmware only to find out it's rendered in real-time.
Havent watched this channel in ages, when an xbox video comes up.. i tap fast
I'm at least twice your age and really like your youthful take on the tech I grew up on
Seriously
Twice his age and you grew up with og Xbox? How? Do you think he's 10 or something?
If you’re twice his age now then you’d be an adult when the Xbox was released
This comment shows how young you are
Do an iPod Retrospective along with a Gamecube retrospective too.
Idk, you didn’t say please…
Joking aside I definitely will be doing videos on both, the GameCube hopefully soon.
@91 tech will you do a iPhone 4s 10 years later, what if it was a video like the 4 last year so 20 min but it’s just where you just said how slow it was 😂
iPod classic was amazing I had thousands of songs on that thing
@@91Tech the GameCube is my favorite console of all time. I was 9 years old when it came out. I played Resident Evil remake and 0 over and over and over.
@@91Tech do a video of Android devices please
The name Xbox was derived from a contraction of “DirectX Box,” a reference to Microsoft's graphics API, “DirectX.”
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@@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim it's valid to mention as I didn't notice this in video.
Fun fact: the Microsoft guys were actually pretty close to releasing it under that name.
not a joke, google it.
@@mecrumbly429___4 I remember seeing this some where before indeed. Anyway, damn that would've been bad naming convention. It would've sounded like guy in his 60's in suit at corporate head would've named it before going to his retirement party 😄
As ist a "prototype" for New generation of DirectX. And the Green Xbox color came from NVIDIA GREEN that powered the console with a prototype Gpu. Fun fact XBOX directX9 is based on Xbox, so Xbox is a prototype por the 2004 graphics.
I got one of these day 1. Time goes by so fast. I feel like it was just yesterday. I actually remember the events that day leading up to when I got the Xbox.
Man, the original Xbox was like the coolest thing when it came out. I remember seeing Halo for the first time at my friend’s house, I was floored. I had to have it
This was a crazy era for gaming. Loved the old school commercials brought back memories, now I’m in my mid 30s. I was never into the original Xbox, but my friends had them we used to link up multiple TVs to play halo, than halo 2 dropped was like 🤯 Xbox did pave the way for online gaming I have to give it to them. Both Sony and Ms can learn from each other.
"Online console gaming". Online gaming was popular on PC long before console.
Oh, and the Dreamcast could play online too. The original Xbox is in many ways the spiritual successor of the Dreamcast.
Installing your own music and being able to play it over certain games was insane. One of the coolest features ever on a console and it was on the OG.
My gosh, so many amazing memories. I'll never forgot playing Halo for the first time with my 2 best friends.
Still grab my OG xbox out of storage when I feel like playing Halo it's the only way to play it right
Even as a PC gamer now, I still can't stop playing Halo 1 and 2 time to time
@@vulgervulcan you can play that on series x you don't ever have to go back to original Xbox all the best games can be played on series x
@@inyourgranmaass3605 not all the best
Used to play the hell out of Star Wars battlefront 2 one hell of a game for it’s time!!!
Duuuude, fluff yeah. That was such a fantastic game.
@@manuelmattz2887 it was indeed wish it was on gamepass
@@JRBowling1997 It was one of the Games With Gold games a while back.
@@Wally17. nice
@@JRBowling1997 It's not a game pass title, but you can still buy and play it on the new consols if you want. That's what I did, it's awesome
Important bit regarding the clock capacitor: you DO NOT need to remove the cap from 1.6 models, manufactured mostly in 2004 and late 2005. Doing so with this model will damage your system!
Thanks for the input. First time hearing of that.
Neighbors must think he's strange for placing electronics in tree branches and shjt
😂 I’ve had some weird looks before. Usually just say I’m in “tech media” and they awkwardly move on
@@91Tech Had to call the fire department again because my Xbox climbed up in the tree and got stuck.
@@Wally17. 😯😂😂😂
Memories of playing Midtown Madness 3 and both Incredibles games on it
I have lots of good memories playing Xbox back in high school and college. I have an Xbox, PS2, and GameCube hooked up to an old CRT and love revisiting that generation. I never got a 360 or Xbox One but decided to get an XSX recently. Feels good to be playing Xbox again. Thanks for the video!
Another brilliant video, thank you. I got my Xbox at launch. It came with Halo. But I found it so frustrating. It was the first time I used ‘twin sticks’ with a first person shooter. I’m glad I persevered, for obvious reasons. I also remember, you had to buy the media remote to play DVD’s. or the wouldn’t play. I think the buttons glowed in the dark too.
Love retrospective of the og xbox, it was the one console i wanted that i never got as a kid. I had a ps2 but wanted the xbox, it had the look, the controllers felt right, the graphics looked better, the game cases looked better, my God even the black and green colors complimented each other. A few years back i finally got my hands on the og xbox and still fire it up to play what i missed out on as a kid.
I plugged my xbox in yesterday to play some....FORZA MOTORSPORT (my favourite game from back in the day).
It has not aged a day. The 60fps, clear graphics, amazing car selection, and the most incredible mod-upgrade system. I easily plugged 2 hours in, and will definitely leave it hooked up to my TV for some more. I've heard good things about FM2, so I'll grab that from ebay.
When I was about 7 or 8, my friend's older sister had the original Xbox and sometimes, we were allowed to play on it. I don't remember it too much, but I remember playing kids games like nemo on it!
I still have the original and hard modded. I still enjoy play it and us it as a Retro player to play older console games. I have the xbox to HDMI adapter and what a game changer.
this was such a great detalied video, i loved it, hope to see more of these in the future
Nice video, man! I love the original Xbox. One small note, the controller you have is just a crystal green one. The Halo green controller that matches the Halo Edition Xbox has a “Halo” logo badge rather than the “Xbox” badge.
Awesome video man, soon were gonna see the ps3 and xbox 360 in the same way
PLEASE make a Gamecube one next!! I have searched and haven’t found one anyway, sorry if it does exist new subscriber (found you a month or two back when iPhone 14 launched, truly enjoy this channel!)
IGN’s opinion means zero to me. The Duke controller is awesome and it was designed after the Sega Dreamcast controller, which makes it even more awesome. There is a reason, to this day, sega games feel better on xbox instead of playstation and Nintendo. The controller just feels like a continuation/evolution of the Sega Dreamcast. I have 2 hyperkin Duke controllers for my Series X, i use it to play my b.c OG Xbox games.
The duke controller? That’s that big one right? I loved that controller to for some reason!!!
Still had one like 6 months ago, with Fifa 04 and other old games… but suddenly it stopped working and started to be in a startup loop, with some buttons doing what some others should do… nobody never knew what happened to it, and it went to trash… I kept the controller and the DVD remote, but I’m sooo sad !
Might have been that clock capacitor issue he talked about
I bought it when it first came out. Loved playing Halo with a friend in co-op mode. I loved NFL 2K5 the most of all the games, but I played the heck out of my system. It deployed with me and made for some great memories in multiplayer.
Aw man seeing those old commercials brought back a flood of memories :)
Also Sega's Dreamcast was not the first to have online capabilities, it was actually the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and they had a service as well as Xband.
just found this channel, really superb video man 👑👑
If GTA iii, Vice City, San Andreas, Liberty City Stories, and Vice City Stories hadn’t first been released on the PS2 (not including the prequel/prequel stories) more than likely I would’ve purchased an Xbox. And more then likely I would’ve been a Halo fanatic in the process. Still, hats off to Microsoft with the first Xbox brand for revolutionizing and improving the games industry for the better in my opinion. This coming from a Sony guy.
It was 2002, I was 32 & I had no intention of buying another games console. I owned several older consoles & computers but I honestly hadn't even thought about gaming for years. Then, I was watching TV, when an ad came on for a new game - Splinter Cell - on the Xbox, I was stunned at how good it looked. So, on my next day off from work, I bought an XBox bundled with Splinter Cell, & everything was fantastic.
A couple of years later, I was talking to a work colleague about Splinter Cell, & we disagreed about how good the game was. He was coming at it from his PS2 perspective, having never seen it on the XBox - so I drove over to his house on our day off and placed my copy into his newly purchased XBox - he was blown away by it. Then he showed me his PS2 version, & I realised why we had both initially disagreed on how good the game was, because on the PS2 it looked awful.
Great console. I'm now going to pull out that pesky capacitor.
4 months late, but I had an OG Xbox. My favorite game on it wasn't Halo or Halo 2 though. It was the Chronicles of Riddick game. (If memory serves, Escape from Butcher Bay or something like that).
I came to the party a little later but I started gaming on OG XBL around May of 05. Being a twelve at the time, I was one of the few kids in my school with it. Once the 360 came out, everybody was onboard though. It kind of blows my mind that I witnessed the shift.
I still have my oXBOX from back in the day, connected. My second one as the one I got at launch eventually died.
Have the most magical memories of Halo CE. Ironically, I wasn't actually interested in it because console FPS' had never been that great so I wasn't buying into the hype. All I cared about was DOA3. The only reason I ended up buying it was that back then retailers would do this bundling thing, forcing to to buy three games with the console during the launch scarcity. So I ended up getting Halo and Abe's Odyssey.
Halo sat in the shelf for a couple of weeks as I was just playing DOA3. Then when I finally got to it I was blown away. Brought my wife in "you have to play this with me". And we did. That first Halo CE run is a magical, treasured memory of our early marriage for the both of us.
I still have my original Xbox since Christmas of 2002 and still play it. My favorite game on Xbox (and also my favorite game of all time) is Jet Set Radio Future. I got it for free. It came with it along with Sega GT.
I also had fun playing Blinx, Fuzion Frenzy, and Splinter Cell.
Jet Set Radio is one of the best games ever made
JSRF and Fuzion Frenzy bring back memories!
It's important to note you don't need one of those HDMI adapters to get HD support. If you have a set of component cables the Xbox will natively support 480p 720p and 1080i. And of course 480i if you're using a CRT with component input. The hardware also wasn't that obscure as it was essentially an Intel Pentium 3 with less cash so it's been argued it's closer to a Celeron along with 64 MB of RAM and what is essentially G-Force 3 graphics
Actually is a Geforce 4 ti prototype equal to 4200, and the Cpu is a Mobile Pentium III not a desktop celeron, and was planned to reach 1ghz but Intel refused. The original Cpu was an AMD Athlon runing way faster but very hot, so they changed to 1ghz P3 mobile but Intel tricked MS on Last moments and made it 733 for stability reasons... Líes it run OK at 1ghz.
Gotta call you out at 27:25. Those HDMI cables are pass through meaning if the game is outputting in 480i or 480p t will still output in 480 to your tv or monitor. The Xbox and some games do support 720 and 1080i so a game like ATV unleashed will natively output in 1080i. If you want those higher resolutions for all games you need an upscaler that will line double the image
"It good to play together"
That slogan was waaaaay ahead of its time 👍playing single player games was my main preference back then but now I play online exclusively and its hard to play any other way.
Even cooperative games like Halo.
I use my original Xbox with the same 1702 monitor. The inputs on the back are actually s-video from before the port was standardized. I have about 10 other consoles all hooked up with an s-video input switch, it's great!
Bro you just hit the spot with this one the OG Xbox! Time for some popcorn! 🍿🎥🔥
My 6th generation memories come from this console, my dad bought this for Halo, and ever since then, I’ve been an Xbox fanboy.
Although I was a Sony fanboy, the original XBOX was still a well-beloved piece of hardware for me, and it's the only XBOX I've owned since.
One thing you forgot is the creepy nasa noise from the xbox
The Xbox was so powerful for its time so multi platform games looked and ran better usually.
Thankfully I had some good luck finding a working Original Xbox console. I found one at a local charity shop one day, and while it was lacking controllers, it still had its power and AV cables. And for $8AU, it was a good deal. I tested it out after purchasing it, and it worked perfectly.
I own the Cystal special edition xbox, and i can say, with those stupid shields removed, this Crystal xbox looks insane on the outside! You get imac g3 vibes because you can look into the console! Eventually i would like to put some lights in the xbox, nothing fancy, just an led that cycles through colors on the front somewhere :)
fun fact: it's called the xbox because it runs a version of the windows kernel and windows' game software, directX so when they needed a codename for the device they called it the direct x box, then decided for a codename that was too long so they shortened it to X box, when it came time to come up with the actual name of the product they just kept it to xbox
God! I can't believe it's been 20 years since I bought my first gen Xbox. Happy times, great memories
I remember playing Halo with my friend at the time, too.
It`s a huge masterpiece, and the Master Chief Collection is a great deal!
Agreed, playing on a modern powerful PC makes the games feel like how I remember them looking as a kid, and honestly even the original versions on the console *Still look pretty decent today*
I have three XBox consoles. I have the original launch XBox that is now retired, and one that is currently modded. I bought a third XBox in late 2004 that is currently in used. Call me crazy, but I bought the Steel Battalion game with the massive controller as well.
Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams was my fav. I was also a huge fan of all the Sega stuff like Panzer Dragoon Orta, and Shenmue 2.
Orta is a masterpiece. The graphics are still really impressive; and if you haven't played it upscaled on a series x, then you are missing something amazing to behold. Do yourself a favor and check it out.
Thank You Finally someone on RUclips Showing Xbox love on its birthday. All year there were Videos for Sony when it was their 20th last year for the PS2. This Year?? Nothing for the Xbox that I can find out of all of my subs. But this one. Thank you again.
Great trip down memory lane...nice vid 😃
The original Xbox is a fantastic console. I got mine on Christmas Day 2004 and I really love it. I have many games for it as of November 2021 like MechAssault 1 and 2, Project Gotham Racing 1 and 2, WWE RAW 2, Splinter Cell trilogy, Ghost Recon, Full Spectrum Warrior, ESPN NFL 2K5, NFL Street 2, Counter-Strike, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, Rainbow Six 3, Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions, Deathrow, Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive Ultimate, Max Payne duology, Metal Arms: Glitch in the System, and many, many more.
The best part about the console is you can add your own custom soundtracks into selected Xbox titles with custom soundtrack support, which I did starting with WWE RAW 2 back in 2005 after getting WWE Anthology.
Another great video, Josh! These video game console reviews are really amazing apart from the iPhone reviews.
The Xbox and halo 1&2 were my childhood on the weekends my cousins and friends would come over and we'd play 4 player co op multiplayer all night long such good memories
Fun fact: didn't outsold PS2, but it definitely outsold the Nintendo GameCube, is the ONLY 6th Gen console that do DLCs and internet stuff in video game console, and is the most powerful 6th Gen console.
I'm not sure if this qualifies as DLC but on the PS2 you could technically unlock extra content in some games. I own 2 games that did this, Crash Tag Team Racing and WWE SVR 2006. If you owned the game on PSP and PS2 and connected them through USB, you could unlock extra content for both versions. I believe more games did this but I only ever owned 2 with this feature. Though I'm glad this didn't become a trend because not only you needed 2 consoles to do this, you had to buy the same game twice.
Xbox had the right approach for this.
@@Manic_Panic ,
Outrun 2006: Coast2Coast on PS2 also had unlocked content via the PSP. Also, possibly as many as a couple or a few of the PS2 SOCOM titles had ~DLC / updates online and I forget others....
Oh yeah, Tony Hawk Underground had a [face uploader] that allowed you to upload your face or another image onto the wireframe of an avatar. www.ign.com/articles/2003/10/09/tony-hawk-face-scan?amp=1
Got my OG Xbox as a surprise gift from my Ex g/f in 2002. I no longer have her but I still have the console. One of the greatest consoles of them all. Happy 20th and onto the next 20.
really enjoy your video, never had or play xbox but lately really been wanting to get into it.
I still have one to this very day, love to play Underground 1 & 2 on it, but the first i played was Most Wanted 2005, which is why i really got into NFS and other racing games such as Gran Turismo and Forza
Just found an Xbox 360 at a garage sale the other day. It works great! And the cool thing is. IT WAS ONLY $10!!
The Xbox was awesome. I always saw it as a Dreamcast with alot more money behind it. My favorite game for the console is Panzer Dragoon Orta. Now I play it on my X-Bone with backward compatibility.
that first commercial basically sums up what commercials were like in the 2000s
Wow this warms my heart. I remember my late father had a GF that saw me looking at a flyer with the xbox and she asked if I wanted it and of course I say yes. I wait for months and months and still nothing. To a 10 year old thats long. I believe what happened according to my older sister is he went out and bought it and then said it was from her. He was a good guy. Turns out I couldn't play it right away because my tv was too old lol
Good retrospective. This machine is fantastic after you've hacked it and dropped in a 160GB hard drive. If you don't have a Raspberry Pi or an old computer running Batocera, it's probably the best way to play emulators on a dedicated system.
By the way, where native games are concerned, I'm fond of the fighters, particularly Capcom vs. SNK 2, Dead or Alive 3, Bloody Roar Extreme, and Wild Rings (JPN).
I saw the translucent one with the controller and about 10 games for $50, for its modding capability, I was considering picking it up, but that Xbox 360 Elite, looking to me like a better buy as it can play the OG's games and maybe do emulation too.
TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST , I REALLY GET SUCH A GREAT FEELING GAMING . I AM A PLAYSTATION PERSON AND I THINK IT IS GREAT THAT GAMERS GET THOSE SAME FEELINGS WHEN THEY ARE ON THE CONSOLE OF THEIR CHOICE. GAMING HAS HELPED ME DEAL WITH DEPRESSION.
Jet Set Radio Future Is one of my favourite games of all time and has a soundtrack that I still listen to all the time.
I have and still love my original Xbox. So many fantastic games to play on that system. My only problem is that I've somehow had pretty terrible luck keeping mine in working order. I currently have 3 of them though I've owned at least five to date. The first has a FRAG condition due to a failed hard drive and is completely dead so it became a parts console, another has blown voltage capacitors so it doesn't power on and off properly, the third had a disc drive that committed harakiri, the fourth is a working spare that a friend gave me and my current one is in perfectly working order... that is, after frankensteining all the good parts from consoles one and three together just to get one working console as well as replacing the drive belt for the disc drive. My voltage capacitor princess is currently waiting for repair and will act as spare #2. Xbox's are typically very sturdy and reliable so I must be a magnet for bad ones lol.
This is my favorite console of all time man. so many fun memories with this thing
Hope to help you realize that the caps under the heat sink the three 3300uF caps are bulged/leaked, highly recommend to replace them or get someone to do it
Emulation of the original XBOX made some huge steps in the last months. You can play games like Blood Wake or Crimson in 4k resolutions without major problems on cxbx or xemu and they look awesome!
Dreamcast had a network card upgrade avaliable. But it shipped with dial up. I also remember that Microsoft and Sony always had issues with their online service, for a couple of years. Launch of these services seemed like a beta test, and user were test subjects, waiting for Sony and MS to get finish the product. I waited to Ps3 before I played anything online on a console.
I picked up one this year actually its a 1.6 revision but I used to have one replaced the disc drive and its working great I still have a few games that I kept over the years getting a few more games but I always loved this console and I'm so glad to have it again And honestly playing with the Duke controller I actually kind of like how it feels it's heavy and feels sturdy I just like the feeling of it lol
My grandpa got an Xbox for his birthday in the early 2000s he has the likes of Tom Clancy games crimson skies battlefront and halo 2
he has it hooked up to an old CRT and has 2 duke controllers every time we visit we play some battlefront it is very fun
Xbox was named Xbox because it's Direct X in a box. They shortened the name to the Xbox for obvious reasons and designed the chassis to make sure no one would have any doubts lol. I'm betting you know all this already, but has to be said.
The final PS2 game was PES 2014, not FIFA 14 😊
Great video for a great machine btw
I watched this video to brush up on the Xbox and this was super enjoyable! Great job. I think my fav non Halo game is Fable. Most of the great Xbox games I played on PC but I still have fond memories of it.
Best console ever , from the best gaming generation ever
I still fire my OG Xbox up from time to time to play NFL Street 2. Such a phenomenal classic.
If you have one of these, try to score "Dragon's lair 3D". Monster of a game. And no, it has nothing to do with the original arcade QTE gameplay. It's an action game and a very tough one at that.
I had an original Xbox when I was really young, and now I got a Series X and love it, man Xbox has been amazing and I’m so glad everything went right (more or less) with the original console and we kept getting more consoles. I also removed the clock capacitor on my original Xbox (it was broken) and replaced it with a good working one and now I never get the message again 😄
I got my Xbox on launch day. I was quite lucky to get one, as a guy had just come into EB Games (now GameStop) and cancelled his pre-order. It still works great 20 years later. I've been playing it a lot lately since I missed a ton of games from the 6th Generation. My favorite game is "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic."
Thats my favorite game of all time