Unboxing a NEW Xbox Console! 20 Years Later

Greetings and welcome to an L G R unboxing thing .

Something I've been wanting to get to for years now , this lovely looking unit .

This is the original Xbox first released on November 15th 2001 .

And yeah , with its 20th anniversary coming up here pretty soon , which I cannot believe .

I figured it would be kind of fun to do an unboxing of one that's never been used to my knowledge .

Yeah , I picked this up while rifting some time ago , like years back and , you know , I had actually never had one of these back in the day .

I didn't even know like many friends that had one , pretty much everybody I knew back then had a Playstation two and I myself was just a PC gamer through and through didn't even have any consoles when they were new until years later .

And yeah , the Xbox has always intrigued me .

I mean , ever since it came out , like I remember when it came out , it was really exciting to have this new player Microsoft in the console gaming market just on the surface , it kind of looked like a dreamcast but upgraded and it had a DVD ROM , it just looked really cool .

And the whole Direct Xbox thing was really appealing to me coming from the PC .

And that's , you know where the name comes from .

Direct X .

The Xbox API is a variant of it and the whole PC architecture underneath .

I mean , this is effectively just a computer crammed into a console case .

You know , you get a copper mine based 733 megahertz pen three processor , an NVIDIA G Force three based GP U 64 Megs of Ram has some standard desktop components in there like the DVD ROM and the 3.5 inch spinny hard disk and the direct X API A dude , it was just like computer and that appealed to me even though I never got one back then because I was 15 years old when this came out and I didn't have a job or money or , you know , whatever I had a computer , it was fine , but I've always been drawn to it as a result .

And well , now I've got one here that I've been mean to open up for a long time , kind of see what I was missing out on 20 years ago .

And I mean , you know , 20th anniversary seems as good a time as any to unbox it .

Plus I was also just going through stories recently ran across this and just posted a couple of photos on Twitter and be like , oh , hey , should I unbox this and the official Xbox account was like , oh yeah , you should do that .

So , hey , who am I to say no to some giant corporations , social media intern or whoever said that ?

So uh yeah , let's go ahead and unbox this sucker .

Oh yeah , this is nuts .

Yeah .

While the box has obviously been unsealed at some point in its past , all of the stuff inside looks to be still sealed in the way , it left the factory , which by the way was 2004 .

This is a slightly later one .

So I think March 2004 is what the manufacturing date back there says more on that in a bit .

But yeah , look at all this got the A V cable all sealed up there , composite R C A connections .

And when is this power maybe .

Yeah , just standard power cable also .

Yeah , that , I mean that's , that looks like original tape to me .

Wonderful .

But yeah , not being terribly familiar with the different versions and releases of the Xbox .

I wasn't sure if this would have like the Duke controller , obviously not .

This is like the S controller here , which makes sense being built in 2004 .

So the main event right here .

Look at this .

Oh man , like at Christmas I never had .

And last thing in the box are uh paperwork and documentation so important .

We got a warranty registration card .

Congratulations on owning the most exciting product on the planet Act .

Now to .

Ok .

It's a warranty extension or something .

Oh , I could have used that extended warranty kind of thing .

And my Xbox 3 60 my first one of those went red ring .

And what is this stop read things , uh , instructions ?

Cool .

Well , let me just take a second to admire all of this .

These things are only sealed once after all .

Look at all that man .

Just imagine getting something like this in the early two thousands .

It just , it always seemed like such a cool console .

I remember playing the demo units and just thinking that the graphics looked amazing , the frame rates and like there were uh Sequels to some of my PC gaming classics on here , like Midtown Madness three .

For instance , I was always envious that the consoles got that as an exclusive .

All right , I'll see what we got in this documentation real quick .

I genuinely never seen any of this .

I did have a friend's Xbox a few years ago that they had had but you know , it was just all , it was just a console .

It was loose second hand .

It didn't come with any of the original stuff .

So I have never seeing all the stuff that this comes with .

Oh , like a hook up thing here .

Yeah , quick start guide plug in the things .

Make sure it's powered on controller is connected and that you're not buying playstation and optional .

Go live optional .

Oh , how cute .

Whoa , free issue .

Of official Xbox magazine and a free game disc .

Wow .

I never read that magazine honestly .

Maybe a time or two in a Barnes and Noble and I was bored or something .

But , uh here we go .

Connect Xbox Live .

Uh It's pretty rad .

That was such a foreign concept .

Like an unthinkable thing to me back then .

Is having consoles on the internet ?

Are you kidding ?

I barely had reliable internet on my PC and plus like , yeah , just playing multiplayer games when it wasn't couch co-op .

Local multiplayer is weird .

And the instruction manual .

Hm .

How large , like dimension wise anyway , it doesn't look .

Yeah , not too thick .

10 pages in English .

Everything else is in Spanish and French makes sense .

I was curious if there's anything interesting in here whatsoever .

Like the in release of the cords , I always found that to be a cool idea .

So you don't yank on the console if you accidentally pull out the controller or whatever .

In a weird way .

I do have a component cables for this somewhere , but I'll have to see if I can find them out .

I'm probably not gonna do that today .

I don't know what we're gonna do today .

I just want to turn it on and like play it real quick .

Oh man .

More things to open .

So the composite video cable .

Oh , look at that , that big old chunky controller end piece .

Yeah , dude , I always admired how thick this cable was it .

Just feels like quality .

These connections nice and grippy and everything .

The gold tips .

Mm .

Smells like the mid two thousands genuinely .

Smells good .

I miss those years .

Got some power right here .

I mean , it's just a regular old power cable but it's so official .

Look at how official that is .

And the controller , I look forward to this .

The only ones I've ever used were really gross , like well used .

So , uh , you know , whether it was at friends' houses later on or the demo units and stores just terrible .

I just , I don't know , I've never played too many xboxes the originals anyway .

Well , yeah , that is wonderful .

Always enjoyed this controller .

I mean , I like the Duke as well .

Oh , that feels nice .

So fresh and so clean .

You got the two memory cards going in there and yeah , there's , that part comes apart there .

So many of these I found in thrift stores over the years .

They're just missing this aspect of it .

And then , uh , yeah , that sucks .

Yeah .

Back when everybody had their own proprietary connection instead of just USB , all the things .

Dude .

Totally playing the dick at us in Midtown Madness .

Three on this and finally , oh , my goodness excitement .

Oh , got some more plastic on top of there .

Dang .

How special .

Seriously .

Look at that .

So many of these unseen wealth drifting over the years and just never pick them up because they're always beat to hell and gross .

And scratched and all kinds of problems , man .

Some of these things really went through the wringer in terms of , uh , being well used , well loved , I suppose .

Yeah .

Isn't that nice ?

Don't open it .

Well , we might have to because here's another reason I was wanting to , uh , I was gonna unbox this no matter what , whether or not it was the 20th anniversary because see that manufacture date , March 21st 2004 and the serial number .

Well , that unfortunately puts it in a kind of an odd spot for a well known Xbox original Xbox problem .

And that is the clock capacitor dying , not only just dying but catastrophically .

So to the point where it can leak and wreak havoc on the motherboard , ruining it , destroying traces and all kinds of problems like that that you don't want .

And I really wanted to just make sure that this doesn't have that issue .

However , yeah , I was looking that up online to see which units were affected .

And because of the specific combination of those numbers there and the revisions , it might or might not be affected by the clock capacitor problem because apparently version or revision 1.6 , they fix that or use a better solution for the real time clock and such .

But 1.5 and before definitely have that issue and the clock capacitor inside will need to be addressed .

The thing is though , from what I can tell the cut off date is literally within like 30 days of when this was supposedly manufactured .

So there's just this tiny little window that it may or may not be the revision that's affected or not .

So , whatever , I'm just gonna have to , you know , look at it , I'm going to turn it on and see if it's this kernel version 5838 , if it is .

That means we have revision 1.6 , if not whatever .

I don't know , it might be a good idea to just take it apart anyway , but I do have some replacement capacitors or just , I just need one of them .

But I got a couple .

These are readily available because it's such a well known issue .

Oh , man .

So , uh , who knows what we'll find when we get this thing turned on .

Hopefully it'll turn on and we'll see .

But yeah , let's go ahead and get this other plastic taken off .

Actually .

You know what I just noticed as well that even the styrofoam is X shaped .

Oh , Microsoft .

All right .

Let's see here .

Oh , that is fresh .

Look , look at that .

Like the fact that that's not all cuffed to nonsense .

Uh It's fantastic .

This is , this is special .

So the honor of being the first person to lay a fingerprint on black glossy plastic .

Actually , it's not getting any fingerprints on there at all out there , you know , a little bit .

Yeah .

Wow .

Well , that is a new experience for me and hopefully throw back , maybe some happy memories coming back for some of you just uh you know , traveling back to the early two thousands here .

I I I am super psyched to get this thing going .

So let us get uh C RT and plug it all in and enjoy us some Xbox .

OK .

I got my two thousands , Sony Trinitron going here ready to go with some inputs around back .

So let's get it all plugged in and yeah , we're just gonna be using composite for now .

I don't actually know where my component cable is .

This TV does have component but I gotta find my cable .

Moment of truth .

Punk .

Good old gassing .

Yeah , I guess I'll need the controller .

All right , here goes nothing fantastic .

I haven't seen that in years .

All right .

So language selection .

We'll go with English if you connect the Xbox to the internet .

Oh , it could communicate and download updates from Xbox live .

What a crazy idea .

Uh Sure .

Sure .

Oh yeah .

So I guess we will see if indeed we have a clock going on .

OK .

Such a cool interface .

OK .

Now , what I'm really curious about system info .

Let's see which version of this because yeah , I'm looking for a version 58 38 .

Oh , it is not that .

So we have 57 13 that is revision 1.5 , which means this could very well have a clock capacitor with the capacity for going bad corroding and doing nasty things .

So I will definitely be opening this up .

Probably not in this video , but yeah , I'm going to be opening it up replacing that clock capacitor with one of these and just making sure that it's all good because yeah , if that right there said 58 38 we would probably be just fine but it doesn't .

So , uh , all right .

Sure , man .

It is so neat .

Oh , dude , I seriously have used one of these systems so very , very little that I honestly don't even know what , like , man , what all I can do , what it's like to even set up and use .

Uh I pretty much just played a couple of games at friends' houses over the years and a couple of myself when I took in my friend's old Xbox , now , I don't have any actual memory cards for this , but it does have the internal hard disk , which again , I always thought it was so cool at the time .

Just having a hard drive built in .

You don't have to get it as an add on like you did with the Playstation two .

Uh really cool 50,000 plus blocks .

I don't know how much that equates to in terms of megabytes per block , audio C DS .

And of course you can play DVD S DVD movies .

It is such a cool system .

All right .

Well , I'm gonna play some games with it .

See if the uh optical drive is working fine which hopefully it is because , uh , yeah , actually the one that I had , that was my friend's old Xbox .

The drive stopped working .

So I haven't even used that one in years and needed to repair it .

But , yeah , let's try some games .

All right .

Well , yeah , just dug out most of my collection of Xbox games .

I've never intentionally collected for this system .

It's just one of those where I picked up cheap appealing games at thrift stores over the years .

And what I've accumulated honestly , most of the games that I'm quote unquote missing from this , I have for like the Playstation two , the game Cube PC .

What ?

So , yeah , I never delved too deeply into this library .

But yeah , Midtown Madness Three .

Here we go .

This is the one that most appealed to me back in the day because it was one of my favorite series on PC .

And this one never came to the PC , which sucked .

It looked so cool .

And I have played it a little bit .

Not very much at all .

I would like to do a review on this at some point .

But anyway , yeah , I'm gonna play Midtown Manage three and four or five others that really stand out to me from , uh , kind of , I guess early on in the system's life , you know , stuff that I really remember standing out for the system back then and pressing the crap out of me and stuff .

Oh , and I also dug out one of my duke pads when I picked up rifting some years ago , it looks like for $3 at a goodwill .

Oh , yeah .

Still need to really clean this one up .

But I , I really enjoy this pad .

Like it's so beefy and , and do , it's a very dooky pad .

But yeah , it's just huge and it fits my hands quite nicely .

It's such a cool pad .

I was really intrigued that they re-released it as well , like a couple of years ago for more modern xboxes and stuff .

Anyway , I'm not gonna use it right now , but I just wanted to show like the size comparison because it's just legendarily huge .

Ok .

Midtown minus three oh , fresh disk drive , please work .

Hey , how everyone got done setting up the camera and it's already starting up .

Nice dice .

Yeah .

No longer Angel Studios here .

They moved on to making the , what was it ?

Midnight club games .

Yeah .

Which I always found those to be more of the spiritual successor to Midtown Madness .

Felt almost more like a Midtown Madness game than Midtown three does .

Ok .

I got myself a profile made .

Let's do a single race .

Good cruise mode .

You got your two cities .

Let's go to Paris .

Yeah .

Quite a different car selection in this one compared to the first two .

But a good number of returning classics and way , way more to unlock .

Let's just go with the beetle .

Yeah .

That fan noise .

What a perfect day .

For all right .

Yeah .

Midtown man is three .

Let just go straight through those trees .

Yep .

Wow .

Ok .

You could break smaller trees in midtown too .

Hm .

Yeah , this is a weird , a weird game to me being so familiar with the first two .

Fun still got a lot of its own merits .

Of course , looks pretty great for the time .

But yeah , it felt like a side grade in some ways .

Uh , it's great Only running it like 30 F P s but , hey , it's not burnout burnout , man .

That had the crazy frame rate going on .

I was always impressive .

How do I get that ?

Yeah , I remember playing this as a demo console set up at a Walmart , I believe .

And , yeah , I thinking like , oh , man , what a weird game .

Familiar but strange .

It's still fun to just , like , run over the entire world though .

The physics weren't like as completely bonkers as whoops .

I thought those were stairs .

Yeah .

Not as completely bonkers as like midtown one and two , but still good times .

And it really , really made me think , man .

I got to get me an Xbox even though I never did until now .

20 years later .

Hey , better late than never .

All right .

Next up Dead or Alive .

Three .

Hm .

The disk sounds a little strange on that one or if it's because of that label .

Oh , yeah .

I don't think I've played this and I guess since it came out I only ever played the demo ?

It was uh yeah , another one of those demo units at some game store .

I think it was the software et cetera store in Hanes Mall .

In fact , I know it was that store .

I don't know if it was still software , etcetera at that time or if it had become a game stop by then .

But , wow , a little slow to load those portraits .

I guess they are 3d character models though .

So sure , I am not really familiar with these players at all .

Want a drink , I mean , sure .

Oh , he's a drunken dude quick man .

I remember this looking so incredibly good .

I mean , it still looks pretty cool for 2001 man .

Seriously , but not quite the same effect .

I seriously though remember just being absolutely wowed at the character details and like the real time shadows all the cool background effects and I mean , literally everything about it , the physics , the fluidity yet this one in particular , I remember the snow on the ground being so impressive .

Yeah , like it moves around when you go inside of it deforms and stuff .

I mean , I , yeah , I don't know .

It still looks pretty good to me .

Yeah , that snow .

It's crazy .

You move through it and it deforms .

Uh Just yeah , that right there was so impressive .

It had been like Christmas 2001 or something .

Oh , come on .

What the heck was that ?

Well , that is my cue .

To move on to the next game .

And that disk is really loud and grindy sounding .

All right .

Not screwing around .

It's halo time .

I have an X box .

We made a blind job .

How did they here ?

First ?

The covenant ships have always been fascinating .

Us all the way from reach that high speed .

Five maneuvering options were limited .

What over here , sir ?

The captain need you on the bridge .

ASAP .

Better follow me .

I could use a gun , bro .

Oh , yeah , sorry .

Those are my guys .

I mean , two guys .

I know you're back there .

A little Turd what I need today still very intuitive in terms of the control scheme .

Like it still feels rather standard .

Yeah , full disclosure .

I have not played Halo before .

At least not to any real degree or with a controller .

I have never ever played the original , I've messed around with the PC version like whenever it finally came to Windows .

But by that point I wasn't terribly interested in it .

So I was like , I just , I never continued and yeah , I just kind of never played any of the later ones too .

I think a little bit of Halo three multiplayer and that was about it .

Yeah , I should probably play through this some time .

It seems like an important game to say the least .

It looks so cool for the time .

Holy crap .

Anyway , Halo .

Uh It's still good , like really good .

No surprises there .

But uh oops , that's my guy .

Let's move on .

Die next up .

The Sims busting out .

Oh , Maxis .

I miss O G Maxis .

Wow .

It has been a long time since I have booted this up .

Yeah .

It was just so cool to have a 3d Sims game back then at all .

And I always wanted to play it so badly .

Even just the Sims on the Xbox and P S two .

It was 3d .

Yeah .

Ok .

Hm .

The three body types ?

Wonderful .

These clothes are fantastic .

Oh , man , what is that ?

There we go .

Duke Newcombe .

Barely dork .

No more like it .

Yeah , it's the early two thousands .

Hey , Duke , I never dreamed I'd meet you here .

Come here and give me a little kiss .

Ok .

So this camera just kind of follows around radical .

Oh my goodness .

What happened ?

Stop daydreaming Malcolm is taking your scooter mom .

Oh , so this is just a dream situation , I guess , huh ?

Yeah .

Like I said , I haven't played this in so long .

In fact , I remember playing the herbs a little more than this one .

So I barely remember any of this at all .

Wake up Duke .

So Duke lives at home with his mom .

That sounds about right .

I gotta get out of here .

This is embarrassing .

Oh , ok .

Here gal got all sorts of things going on .

It's going to build mode .

Ah , yes , we got some chairs .

Not as much luck as I thought .

Just a few things here and there Yeah , a bunch of classic items from the original Sims updated 3D .

It's pretty neat to see , honestly .

All right , I'm gonna take a sit over here .

I just wanna watch TV .

Here .

How do I cancel his actions , man .

He's just like doing all sorts of crap on his own .

Yeah , I need to learn how to play this before I ever end up covering it .

But I really do want to cover these Sims console games at some point .

I just , and barely familiar with them .

Hm .

How about now ?

Let's not dance .

I'll answer that phone as soon as I'm done eating and watching all my favorite shows .

What a goofy game .

What did I do to the surface ?

You're telling me ?

All right .

Moving on righty time for some Crimson Skies .

High road to revenge .

This is a world .

This is the about , couldn't quite catch what he said there , but that's ok .

All right .

I did some checking .

What is the case are hiding ?

I don't like you .

I win .

Oh , well , yeah , I always like this weird alternate history of the design of the planes and the lore and the world itself of Crimson Skies .

It's just neat .

I have never played this one though .

I've only played the original , so , you know .

Ah , ok .

Oh , the Humanity ?

Nice .

Give me your crap .

Oops .

Whoops .

Whoops .

That's cool water effects though .

Did you see that ?

Like , flapping up on the screen there ?

Oh , man .

That's a cool game still played well too .

Looks awesome .

Next game , last game I guess now I wasn't gonna go with Project Gotham Racing or burn out or something .

But I got to go with , for a motor , a big fan of the , for games for a long time .

I mean , I really started with Fortune Two .

But , uh , oh man .

Good on Maple Valley .

Let's see what we got here .

Mazda R X eight .

Oh Mitsubishi eclipse G T S S 2000 Audi S four Lexus S E 4 30 .

Dodge S RT four Nissan Altima 2004 .

It just cracks me up because these are just like such uh I mean , some of them are pretty awesome cars , you know , but like you just see so many of them and they've been around for so long at this point now they're just lend into the background .

They're so average everyday kind of cheaper cars .

It's great .

I got to go that Nissan Altima .

It's just like such a basic car .

Ok .

There assists suggested line .

I guess we'll just leave it on for now because .

Sure .

Oh , look at that .

That still looks excellent .

Oh yeah , dude .

So this is this layout Autumn Valley .

Ok .

Sorry about that neon .

Well , the soundtrack is perhaps a bit dated but man game still feels great .

See if I can smack that guy off the road .

Uh Yeah , the suggested racing line right there , you know , tells you when to break and yeah , all that good stuff like that was such a fresh idea to me .

I don't remember seeing it in games before this .

I just remember being like , what is that when I saw this at a friend's house , like in 2005 , maybe something like that .

He was a big racing game fan .

Had an Xbox and I was just like , kind of blown away .

I'm like , that's such a cool idea .

It seems like so obvious .

I don't know , it's just a neat assist .

And uh yeah , this is a game that introduced me to that the raising line .

I knew the concept , but I'd never seen it visualized like this before .

Yeah , dude .

Oh man , that still holds up very well .

Like physics , feel good .

Racing feels good .

Looks great .

Anyway .

Uh Yeah , sports and Motorsport that still that , that's a lot of fun , man .

I want to keep playing that .

Yeah , man , I guess I'll just say that's about it for this video .

Even though I really could just keep on going , playing all kinds of games here .

There are dozens of exclusives and top notch titles for the platform and things that were better on this or had different content on this than other platforms .

And I can still hardly believe that it's been two decades since the Xbox platform became a thing .

Like I was really skeptical , I remember if Microsoft would be successful with this , you know , a newcomer to the console market .

Like , what's that about ?

I had my doubts .

They last up against competition from Sony and Nintendo and what not .

But , yeah , obviously they did and I'm glad for it .

You know , it's always great to have more competition , even if very few people I knew ever had one back then .

You know , it wasn't the most successful platform at the time , but I just thought it was neat regardless .

Yeah , I'm going to continue having fun with this .

I got to find my component cable and get the retro take five X going maybe and you know , maybe mess around with soft moting it .

I don't know , I've never done home brew on an Xbox and of course , there's things like the insignia project .

I don't know if that's still going , but it's like a Xbox live service revival for the original Xbox .

It would be kind of cool to try some time .

I really got to get that clock capacity replaced sooner rather than later .

And I don't want to push my luck .

I kind of ran out of time to put it in this video , but maybe I'll do it in a blurb or something in the future .

And yeah , like I said , that's about it .

So slap some of your own memories in the comments .

Let me know what you thought about the Xbox back in the day , you know , good or bad if you had one , if you didn't , if you wanted one like me or if you thought it was just redundant and unnecessary compared to the other platforms , you know , whatever thoughts they are welcome .

And if you like this kind of thing , check out my other videos , I make them and post as often as I can here on L G R and as always , thank you very much for watching .