idk about American but more just raw GAMING energy. Nothing says "GAMER" like black and lime green OG xbox with mountain dew branding, like all it needs is RGB and doritos and it's basically the pinnacle of the gaming meme
8:04 Just wanna chime in, those consoles weren't 'given' to EA employees. They were sold to EA at wholesale price, afterwhich EA allowed their employees to PURCHASE for $100 over MSRP, and only during the 2001 Holiday Season. Unsold units were then sent back to Microsoft, who then had them destroyed. Same story for the "Launch Team" units which were sold to Microsoft employees. Not sure about the other partner units, though.
Sold to EA for wholesale and EA sells them to employees over MSRP, in hindsight... this doesn't seem surprising... After seeing the microtransaction hell they've become just hearing that is just "Yeah... that's the most EA thing I've heard"
I never though I'd see them again, but in 1999 I plastic molded all of the clear green executive XBOX's, there was 25 of them. There is actually a few more, because I bought some XBOX's and changed over the cases, and sold them as executive XBOX's. YOLO!
I bought a Xbox crystal from a second hand store last week for $70 and it turns out it is the limited edition model with the jewel also , I’d say that’s a good price
I currently own a Japanese Halo 2 Limited Edition Xbox. Bought it half a year ago, and it only costed around 70 dollars at most. It even came with a modchip as well. So yeah, even with those low production numbers, they dont mean shit when demand is also low.
@@KnucklesWTD it's most likely the latter, since South East Asia wasnt exactly a great market for Xbox before the 360 happened. It was AAAAAALLL PS2s for everyone here.
The Ice blue XBOX was also gifted in a promotional package deal from Bell Canada if you got internet hooked up back then, as well not sure if you received it only by switching internet providers to them or had an initial internet deal set up, heard the console referred to as the Bell XBOX lots here in Canada. Cheers!
having more RAM then the production unit does make some sense, as it's meant to run In-Development code, which was just as often an unoptimized dumpster-fire as it is today. The only difference is that Early Access didn't exist back then. It'd go on like that until riiiiiight up before they went to Gold (printed the master discs), when they'd go and get things optimized to run well. Also, as I understand it, it is possible to expand the RAM on some motherboard versions of the Xbox, but involves soldering new chips on.... Not easy to do.
I have a few modded to 128mb ram. Basically they’re setup as coinops machines. Even scored a trusty 1ghz modded board. So much good stuff can be done with these consoles.
don't you have to unsolder and replace surface mount RAM chips to upgrade the Xbox? I seem to remember that being a requirement, hence never modding mine.
@@DFX2KX no on the 1.0 - 1.4 it’s just a straight solder and a few trace connections and your good. I know there’s still guys on eBay who’ll do it for like 80 to 100 but usually you have to send it off. Sometimes you can score one already modded. Helps with certain arcade titles. Especially the Outrun arcade version and other titles based off that motherboard. The name escapes me. Keep wanting to say Churros or something close to it. Edit: Chihiro just thought of it. Japanese arcade machine that used an upgraded Xbox mobo. There is some lightgun games, outrun 2 a gundam game and others, though only a few have been ported to play on the OG Xbox.
A friend of mine had a dad that worked for Pepsi. When we were young, I traded a box full of miscellaneous Playstation 1 games and firecrackers/bottle rockets. In turn, he gave me a green hulk edition xbox. It got trashed a long time ago, because I knew nothing about it. :(
I think the most enigmatic, interesting thing about the big metal X Xbox from 1999 gdc event is the controller. I've seen the Xbox a million times but that pre Duke design has never been talked about that much and it looks awesome on every level and perfect for my monster hands and it's silver!! I really want to hold it and press its buttons more than I can express with words. If I could hunt it down it would complete me and I could die happy.
One of the more common ones which I think you may have missed is the translucent light blue halo edition. From what I've seen, its a fair bit less common than the translucent green. That's about it. Other than that, the only other one you missed was the extremely rare variant that's missing the entire top shell, covered in rust, leaking battery acid, and doesn't work. Its so rare that I've only seen one in existence at my local township's metal recycling bin.
What I'd give to get my hands on just one of those special editions. I have a crystal but here in the UK I've never seen another variation other than the base black n green.
My dad end up getting a review or beta OG Xbox (or something) that has half red ring an half green ring when turning it on. I don't know if that's considered rare or not.
There is also a special edition Tony Hawk Underground 2 Xbox that was apart of real life skateboarding and THUG 1 gameplay contest in which winner won an custom Xbox, marching controller and skateboard deck with the Xbox even signed by Tony Hawk himself
At 2:11 I was like "huh, why does it say XOBX? That's weird, and he does not even address it", it took me seconds to realize it was mirrored. I feel very stupid
Seattle Goodwill posted one of the orange Consoles on eBay a few years ago. Starting at 15 bucks. I bid up to 300. The consoles sold for believe 21,000.
I have a Regular Black Xbox complete in box, a US Halo Editon Xbox complete in box, a Crystal Canadian Xbox complete in box, a Blue Crystal Canadian Xbox Skeleton Black from Japan complete in box and a Launch Team Xbox with 2 clear green Duke controllers that all may be hitting ebay in the next 6mo. I'm not 100% sure yet if I want to sale yet.
I have a buddy who's dad used to work for Microsoft in the XBOX days. He says his dad still has all of his old XBOX stuff from back then, including some sort of 1 of 1 Titanfall XBOX. I should ask him if I can see some of them. I don't know much about them but I am sure his dad does .
You missed a Canadian jewel green one, bundled with crimson skies and pgr2 iirc. I think it was called the mean green or green machine edition. Anyway I bought it new and still have it
My friends step-dad was a dev for the original Xbox, I remember seeing a giant green glowing box on his coffee table and was likebwtf isbthat! That was before they even announced they were making game console.
I have owned seven of the Halo 2 blue Xbox with the black Jewel. They are not Japanese, They were actually released originally in Singapore. Pricing typically on them depends on condition. I have sold all seven of mine that were in my collection. I sold them ranging between $400 and $1200 depending on if they were new and complete or not.There was also a misprint box that was limited to roughly 50 before the misprint was discovered and fixed. If you need any more information on this particular one feel free to message me. I am very very very familiar with this particular edition
Sadly, most of these Xboxes are going to die because nobody is going to be willing to open such priceless consoles to remove the clock capacitors from them.
Rarest xbox = clear orange case, hdmi modded, cpu upgraded, extra memory, massive IDE partitioned to proper size, dual dash softmodded (avalaunch and unleashx), xbox to ps1/2 controller adapters, and wireless and wired ps2 controllers. :)
My college game sound professor worked for Microsoft during pre launch of the Xbox and has one of the launch team edition. He brought it in to show us and it was pretty cool. He said it was definitely a robo sign for bill gates signature
a video game shop i worked at let me use a modded crystal xbox and i woke up one day , turned it on , and it was bricked , couldn’t even get to the menu , i have never felt so shitty lol
I almost bought the Canadian Ice blue. Local guy had one for sale for 500 Cad. it was part of a bell Canada internet sign up bonus. I already have the Crystal and transparent Green, OG xbox
I had a crystal xbox and it just stopped working a month or 2 after I got it. Sent it back to some Microsoft approved repair place and they sent me a new standard black one instead. It still works perfectly to this day.
I'm more of a Playstation nut but I do have nostalgia for og Xbox as well, always playing Tak, Madagascar and others with my cousins. Mines just an og but would be cool to own a blue xbox since it's my fave colour & matches my scheme :P
I have a PS2 with a custom green skull skin, but I can't find it anywhere online despite having the name of the company that made it. The company has another kind of green skull skin, but it's 100% a different skin.
A Mountain Dew OG Xbox has got to be one of the most American things I’ve ever heard
Delivered by the pallet from the back of a Ford f-750 truck with heavy metal music blasting
idk about American but more just raw GAMING energy.
Nothing says "GAMER" like black and lime green OG xbox with mountain dew branding, like all it needs is RGB and doritos and it's basically the pinnacle of the gaming meme
I agree with you
Nah its most GAMER and XBOX thing.
I'm surprised they haven't tried again.
8:04
Just wanna chime in, those consoles weren't 'given' to EA employees. They were sold to EA at wholesale price, afterwhich EA allowed their employees to PURCHASE for $100 over MSRP, and only during the 2001 Holiday Season. Unsold units were then sent back to Microsoft, who then had them destroyed.
Same story for the "Launch Team" units which were sold to Microsoft employees. Not sure about the other partner units, though.
Sold to EA for wholesale and EA sells them to employees over MSRP, in hindsight... this doesn't seem surprising... After seeing the microtransaction hell they've become just hearing that is just "Yeah... that's the most EA thing I've heard"
@@RiderLeangle2 Yeah it really is very EA, I'm kinda surprised they didn't make their employees pay them for the right to buy the xbox off them.
Fuck EA
Good to hear. I've been trying to find info on this one forever! Got one about 6 years ago.
Thank you Tyler for making these videos on stuff that nobody besides like 10 people including myself find interesting
The other 7 subscribers don't particularly enjoy the content of his videos but they like watching them anyway
Yea i really dig these. thanks
Indeed.
to be honest, everything he makes is really interesting, doesn't matter the subject
I think these kind of videos are going to hit people close to 30 and above just nicely 😆
honestly I’m loving this series, your research combined with your laid back commentary really drive it. would love to see more
I never though I'd see them again, but in 1999 I plastic molded all of the clear green executive XBOX's, there was 25 of them. There is actually a few more, because I bought some XBOX's and changed over the cases, and sold them as executive XBOX's. YOLO!
The Xbox Dev kit addition is forever the holy grail to me 🙌. Literally the foundation and history in one box
I bought a Xbox crystal from a second hand store last week for $70 and it turns out it is the limited edition model with the jewel also , I’d say that’s a good price
sureeeee
I have an Xbox that was signed by some pro beach volleyball players. So. A fancy base Xbox. Oop.
I currently own a Japanese Halo 2 Limited Edition Xbox. Bought it half a year ago, and it only costed around 70 dollars at most. It even came with a modchip as well.
So yeah, even with those low production numbers, they dont mean shit when demand is also low.
Hold on to that
You got lucky or the person didn’t know what they were selling
@@KnucklesWTD it's most likely the latter, since South East Asia wasnt exactly a great market for Xbox before the 360 happened. It was AAAAAALLL PS2s for everyone here.
Sometimes I forget Tyler and Cody are different people
The Ice blue XBOX was also gifted in a promotional package deal from Bell Canada if you got internet hooked up back then, as well not sure if you received it only by switching internet providers to them or had an initial internet deal set up, heard the console referred to as the Bell XBOX lots here in Canada. Cheers!
One of my favorites is the dev kit version, not only a unique external but it's got more ram in it which is interesting.
having more RAM then the production unit does make some sense, as it's meant to run In-Development code, which was just as often an unoptimized dumpster-fire as it is today. The only difference is that Early Access didn't exist back then. It'd go on like that until riiiiiight up before they went to Gold (printed the master discs), when they'd go and get things optimized to run well.
Also, as I understand it, it is possible to expand the RAM on some motherboard versions of the Xbox, but involves soldering new chips on.... Not easy to do.
@@DFX2KX yea no shit man.
can’t even begin to describe how interesting I find these videos. Thank you Tyler!
I have a few modded to 128mb ram. Basically they’re setup as coinops machines. Even scored a trusty 1ghz modded board. So much good stuff can be done with these consoles.
don't you have to unsolder and replace surface mount RAM chips to upgrade the Xbox? I seem to remember that being a requirement, hence never modding mine.
@@DFX2KX no on the 1.0 - 1.4 it’s just a straight solder and a few trace connections and your good. I know there’s still guys on eBay who’ll do it for like 80 to 100 but usually you have to send it off. Sometimes you can score one already modded. Helps with certain arcade titles. Especially the Outrun arcade version and other titles based off that motherboard. The name escapes me. Keep wanting to say Churros or something close to it.
Edit: Chihiro just thought of it. Japanese arcade machine that used an upgraded Xbox mobo. There is some lightgun games, outrun 2 a gundam game and others, though only a few have been ported to play on the OG Xbox.
Keep it up Tyler. Your videos are my favorite by far.
A friend of mine had a dad that worked for Pepsi. When we were young, I traded a box full of miscellaneous Playstation 1 games and firecrackers/bottle rockets. In turn, he gave me a green hulk edition xbox. It got trashed a long time ago, because I knew nothing about it. :(
Ahhhh kinda miss that orange Xbox , the new owner still has it somewhere .Nice video thanks for sharing
I think the most enigmatic, interesting thing about the big metal X Xbox from 1999 gdc event is the controller. I've seen the Xbox a million times but that pre Duke design has never been talked about that much and it looks awesome on every level and perfect for my monster hands and it's silver!! I really want to hold it and press its buttons more than I can express with words. If I could hunt it down it would complete me and I could die happy.
honestly it looked more ergonomic then the Duke turned out to be, too.
One of the more common ones which I think you may have missed is the translucent light blue halo edition. From what I've seen, its a fair bit less common than the translucent green. That's about it.
Other than that, the only other one you missed was the extremely rare variant that's missing the entire top shell, covered in rust, leaking battery acid, and doesn't work. Its so rare that I've only seen one in existence at my local township's metal recycling bin.
What I'd give to get my hands on just one of those special editions. I have a crystal but here in the UK I've never seen another variation other than the base black n green.
Just here to make sure you give hello kitty Xbox 5/5
My dad end up getting a review or beta OG Xbox (or something) that has half red ring an half green ring when turning it on.
I don't know if that's considered rare or not.
Imagine how crusty that body pillow would be if you bought a used Kasumi edition Xbox
She'd stand on her own at least? ewwwww
The Mountain Dew Xbox is like my favorite thing ever. I will get my hands on one someday.
I’d give the hello Kitty version 10 ⭐️
9:40 …one of the cleanest edits I’ve seen in a while. Shame Jared Leto. Good work my friend.
I've always wanted a themed console, but I get consoles so earlier in their life cycle my collection just consists of the boring launch versions.
There is also a special edition Tony Hawk Underground 2 Xbox that was apart of real life skateboarding and THUG 1 gameplay contest in which winner won an custom Xbox, marching controller and skateboard deck with the Xbox even signed by Tony Hawk himself
Man brushed stainless steel trophy nameplates on things used to just be the FANCIEST.
Some older Xbox models had an 8 gb hard drive, however later down the line they had 10
An old friend of mine had a Numberd Green xbox and and Transparent orange. Back in early 2000s (2000-2004)
"Canadized blue" I don't like how easy that was for you 🔫-_-
"I've already changed my mind about half of these" is the best line in this whole video lolololol
Just a correction. They produced 1000 pure white units, not 5000. They also had the number etched into the shell.
Great video!
At 2:11 I was like "huh, why does it say XOBX? That's weird, and he does not even address it", it took me seconds to realize it was mirrored. I feel very stupid
Fun fact: The Mountain Dew Xbox has its own subreddit
Seattle Goodwill posted one of the orange Consoles on eBay a few years ago. Starting at 15 bucks. I bid up to 300. The consoles sold for believe 21,000.
Can’t wait for the ps1 video lol
I have a Regular Black Xbox complete in box, a US Halo Editon Xbox complete in box, a Crystal Canadian Xbox complete in box, a Blue Crystal Canadian Xbox Skeleton Black from Japan complete in box and a Launch Team Xbox with 2 clear green Duke controllers that all may be hitting ebay in the next 6mo. I'm not 100% sure yet if I want to sale yet.
The entire video I was waiting for him to say: “Hey Peter.”
I have a buddy who's dad used to work for Microsoft in the XBOX days. He says his dad still has all of his old XBOX stuff from back then, including some sort of 1 of 1 Titanfall XBOX. I should ask him if I can see some of them. I don't know much about them but I am sure his dad does .
The og xbox really oozes of that genuine early 2000s soul that is missing from modern gaming and culture.
Reminds me of the XCM cases I used to stock and install. I wish I kept some of them. Had matching X3CP panels too.
I worked for the HIN “Hot Import Nights” car show and we had 6 green branded NAMCO we used them so people could play Ridge Racer.
I love that I have clear, halo and an extra clear for parts in the basement hacked and ready to rock
Of course, lets not forget the rarest Xbox, the oldest Xbox known to man, which doesn't have Uno.
Credits song is from his SoundCloud, "SoundtrackA2".
It was watchable 5/5
You missed a Canadian jewel green one, bundled with crimson skies and pgr2 iirc. I think it was called the mean green or green machine edition. Anyway I bought it new and still have it
“The Wacky World of Rare PS2’s” better be next, finish the cycle!
The GDC XBOX prototype still kicks butt.
I swear I've seen an orange Xbox like that one as a kid, I feel like I knew someone with one or something.
Glad I got to watch the noodle video on the Mountain Dew Xbox by both Tyler and noodle in the same week
i was today old when i found out the logo on controllers were called JEWELS.
My friends step-dad was a dev for the original Xbox, I remember seeing a giant green glowing box on his coffee table and was likebwtf isbthat! That was before they even announced they were making game console.
I have owned seven of the Halo 2 blue Xbox with the black Jewel. They are not Japanese, They were actually released originally in Singapore. Pricing typically on them depends on condition. I have sold all seven of mine that were in my collection. I sold them ranging between $400 and $1200 depending on if they were new and complete or not.There was also a misprint box that was limited to roughly 50 before the misprint was discovered and fixed. If you need any more information on this particular one feel free to message me. I am very very very familiar with this particular edition
He who controls the Dew, controls the universe.
I wondered if the dew one was gonna show up. Need to pull mine out some day for and LAN party with my kid so they understand the good ole days
Sadly, most of these Xboxes are going to die because nobody is going to be willing to open such priceless consoles to remove the clock capacitors from them.
Holy shit that orange is beautiful! Would have made a good mountain dew crossover
Rarest xbox = clear orange case, hdmi modded, cpu upgraded, extra memory, massive IDE partitioned to proper size, dual dash softmodded (avalaunch and unleashx), xbox to ps1/2 controller adapters, and wireless and wired ps2 controllers. :)
Remember when people were excited for the ps4s boomerang shaped controllers?
1:39
I call this xbox variant another name:
The inversed xbox
8:43 it took me a couple of seconds to realize can't lie
I wish xbox would bring back the quirkiness of the original. Bring the alien noises
2:42
At first I was thinking that this would gonna be a ShreXbox.
So will you do only Xbox or is Sony and Nintendo on the table as well
It's 6 am and I came across this love your vids bro definitely had to sub
I have an Ice Blue (Canadian) a Halo, and a crystal. Great looking systems.
My college game sound professor worked for Microsoft during pre launch of the Xbox and has one of the launch team edition. He brought it in to show us and it was pretty cool. He said it was definitely a robo sign for bill gates signature
MetalJesusRocks is one of my favorite UA-camrs
There's the Atari Xbox that 'Last Gamer' has mentioned having a few times. Can be spotted at the 10 min mark on his 'worlds greatest gameroom' vid
a video game shop i worked at let me use a modded crystal xbox and i woke up one day , turned it on , and it was bricked , couldn’t even get to the menu , i have never felt so shitty lol
thanks. The regular translucent green edition looks better than the Halo, IMO
The White and the orange look amazing!
I had a custom CD drive, led lighting and 1tb of HDD space in my og xbox.
How many channels does this guy have? I swear to god months will go by and then I find another one of his.
I still own one of the original Xboxes from the kiosk that used to be in a Toys r Us has a big orange sticker on it saying not for resale
I almost bought the Canadian Ice blue. Local guy had one for sale for 500 Cad. it was part of a bell Canada internet sign up bonus. I already have the Crystal and transparent Green, OG xbox
Og Xbox was the most early 00s product of the era. You can just look at it and know when it came out lol
Honestly I love all these different variations.. thanks for the video
I had a crystal xbox and it just stopped working a month or 2 after I got it. Sent it back to some Microsoft approved repair place and they sent me a new standard black one instead. It still works perfectly to this day.
Holy shit classic game room footage. It's been a long ass time since I saw that.
I give you a 13.5 out 3.23....My Australian version of the halo xbox is still sitting in the cupboard
The 50 Cent Xbox was awesome.
“ 5 are known to exist..” like were talking about a species of rare animal
Bruh... showing Bezos when you said Bill Gates.. had me nearly dead from laughter
Yo dude which Xbox NFT variation you got?
I have a OEM halo ed. XBOX with the matching Duke controller.. not the later controller.. I still have it OEM with every thing but the box.
I'm more of a Playstation nut but I do have nostalgia for og Xbox as well, always playing Tak, Madagascar and others with my cousins. Mines just an og but would be cool to own a blue xbox since it's my fave colour & matches my scheme :P
I have the blue controller I hope it doesnt die cuz alot of the original xbox official and unofficial wired controllers break alot with their wires
funny how this was released only a day after the best day of his life
i had 2 Halo Editions & a Mountain Dew edition. all with Samsung drives too.
I have like 3 of those crystal ones lol. Just happened to keep buying them by accident randomly
8:43 Ah yes, Bill gates, Forgot he went bald and got laser eye surgery
Just got a hold of a Mountain Dew Limited Edition XBOX and it works 👍🏻
I have a PS2 with a custom green skull skin, but I can't find it anywhere online despite having the name of the company that made it. The company has another kind of green skull skin, but it's 100% a different skin.
I never knew we had that exclusive green one here in the uk
I had the Halo edition Xbox when I was a kid. Then out of no where my mom gave it away to goodwill when I stop using it. I'm still mad about it.
Nice vid ...I won a premium crystal version from a video rental store back in the day pretty sick