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 .