Original Microsoft Game Studios boss Ed Fries discusses his career at Xbox, including when he bought Bungie for Microsoft and more!
This interview is over an hour long and full of insight into the early days of video game consoles at Microsoft and the challenges of running the department. Highly recommended
Ultra Rare HALO XBOX DISCOVERED!:
Original XBOX BUYING GUIDE & Top Games:
Metal Jesus and Kinsey take beginning XBOX collectors through the console hardware variants, controllers and recommend some kick-ass games to get your collection started!
An entire original XBOX collection was sold to Pink Gorilla Games in Seattle and Kelsey walks us through some of the more rare and expensive games as well as just some of the BEST games for the console! While filming this video, there was a very active karaoke bar in the same building, which is what you hear in the background. Normally I would just reshoot some of that, but I thought it was kind of funny…so we rolled with it!
BTW: The owner of the XBOX collection did not give us permission to disclose how much he was paid for the entire collection. Sorry!
Metal Jesus and Kinsey take beginning XBOX collectors through the console hardware variants, controllers and recommend some kick-ass games to get your collection started!
What other Original XBOX games would you recommend to the 1st time XBOX collector to play?
Games Shown:
SSX 3
Jetset Radio Future
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
Halo 1 & 2
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Fable
Outrun 2
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Time Splitters: Future Perfect
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2
Stubbs the Zombie
Metal Jesus: Metal Jesus here, and I am back with Kinsey.
Kinsey: Hello, and today we are going to be talking about a buyer’s guide for the original Xbox. So that’s accessories, hardware and some of our favorite games.
Metal Jesus: Let’s take a look. All right so let’s start with the hardware and again this is meant to be sort of a buying guide, in case you’re out at a garage sale, or a pawn shop and you just kind of want to know what to get into if you’ve never actually owned an original Xbox.
Kinsey: And this guy, is the original Xbox.
Metal Jesus: Yes.
Kinsey: It’s one of the first consoles that has an internal hard drive.
Metal Jesus: I believe it was a 10 GB drive, but you had like 8 GBs available to you, but actually it’s funny you just reminded me, is that I was watching a podcast where they were talking, it was the original creators of the Xbox, and one of the really interesting things is that it’s because they put a hard drive in here that games like Halo were even possible.
Seattle collector Emilio found an extremely rare orange HALO original XBOX at a garage sale near Microsoft HQ in Redmond Washington.. There was only one made by a Microsoft employee and here is the story.
There were only 3 clear orange XBOXs made by Microsoft and only ONE of them had the official Halo logo on it. This Xbox is one of a kind!
Here is Part 2 of my Original Xbox Exclusive Games!
Games Shown:
Steel Battalion
Shenmue II
Nightcaster
Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball
Sega GT 2002 / JetSet Radio Future
Kung Fu Chaos
Yager
Gunvalkyrie
AMF Bowling 2004
Burnout 2: Point of Impact Developer’s Cut
Hunter: The Reckoning Redeemer
Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon
Star Wars: Obi-Wan
Fuzion Frenzy
Forza Motorsport
Tecmo Classic Arcade
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
Blood Wake
Crazy Taxi 3: High Roller
Toxic Grind
There are over 200 Original Xbox Exclusive Games released for the console and in this video I show you a bunch of them that never came out on any other game console!
** Games Shown **
Ninja Gaiden Black
Conker: Live & Reloaded
Breakdown
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Phantom Dust
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball
Outlaw Volleyball Red Hot!
Sneakers
Kakuto Chojin: Back Alley Brutal Ka-Kuto Cho-JIN
Whacked!
Kingdom under Fire Heroes & The Crusaders
Blinx: The Time Sweeper
Otogi / Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors
Quantum Redshift
The House of the Dead III
Xyanide
Galleon
Superman: The Man of Steel
Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit
Azurik: Rise of Perathia
MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf
Brute Force
Voodoo Vince
Amped 2
Deathrow
Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes
Spikeout: Battle Street
Video Transcription:
Hey guys, welcome back. I’m the Metal Jesus. And today, we’re going to be talking about the original Xbox. Specifically, we’re going to be talking about games that were exclusive to it. These are games that did not come out on any other system. You collectors are going to love this. Let’s take a look.
Before we get started, I did want to point out that there was about 200 games that came out exclusively for the original Xbox, meaning they didn’t come out on the GameCube or the PlayStation 2. Now, there is a small percentage of them that also came out on the PC. So just be aware that I’m primarily focusing on the console side of things. Although, I’ll try to point that out as I go.
Also, there are 200 games. I don’t have all of them. But I have enough to where I have to break this up into two parts. So I’m going to go really quickly through these. This would, as mentioned, just be an overview and be a little snapshot for you collectors. Let’s go. Continue reading Original Xbox Exclusive Games→
The original Xbox may not have beat the PS2 back in the day in sales, but it was home to a bunch of great games & hidden gems.
Games Mentioned: Otogi, Xyanide, Star Wars Republic Commando, Stubbs the Zombie, Gunvalkyrie, Arx Fatalis, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Call of Cthulhu, Yager, Jade Empire & MUCH MORE!
Over 1,700 games were released for the Xbox 360, so how do you come up with a Top 10 of All-Time?! Metal Jesus attempts this mammoth task to bring you his epic list.
