I actually got teary eyed when you first turned it on and heard the startup screen. My dad got me an Xbox for christmas when I was 11, a year before he passed at the age of 44. I remember Christmas morning him and I setting it up in the living room for the first time and we played Halo co-op together, as well as MK: Deadly Alliance and JSRF. This was 2002 when they were still sold with the original chunky controllers the size of a hamburger (we literally called them the hamburger controllers), literally the best Christmas I think I ever had. A lot of happy memories associated with this console, so I hope you cherish it and treat it well.
Lost my dad last year and never cried at a comment in my life. 26 years old and grew up on the internet. Never got offended or got teary eyed from someone’s comment. But this. Man I felt this so hard. First gaming system my dad got me was a Nintendo 64. Sorry for your loss. Merry Christmas.
such a great system. I got mine in Dec 01 at my office xmas party. The boss gave everyone an envelope of $$ to bid on the different things he bought and some were DVD players, CD players, other electronics and only 5 xbox systems. you didnt know what was in the box you bid on but he did give out clues. After the first few gifts werent the Xbox, i took a chance that the next one was. So when he gave out the clue "plays discs" I bid every $ in my envelope (I think it was like $400 in monopoly $$) and won. sure enough it was the original Xbox. And like Rafiki in lion king, i held that xbox up over my head with a hearty "YEAHHHHH!!!!" I still have it as well.
Its an experience you don't get much anymore. The difference from N64 - Xbox is so obvious whereas the average person would not be able to tell an Xbox One game apart from a Series X/S.
I'll never forget the good old days of having four TVs and four Xboxes with all the LAN cables and 12 or 15 of my friends in the garage just blasting each other in Halo. Great times.
Hell yeah!!! we used to do that over at my buddy Shawn's house... We grew up in a huge neighborhood & his parents were never home lol... So we'd garbage pick couches and bring them on over to the garage, haul our huge ass TVs over there to set up 16 player split screen Halo matches! We'd be having kids from the neighborhood popping in and out all afternoon & throughout the night! Man, those days were freaking awesome!
Right? I remember one night we took 4 TVs, centered them down the middle of the living room, and would flip-flop how each TV was facing. That way there was no screen watching. Also, no radar! LOL! Great times.
Wow, nostalgia. I wrote most of the rendering code, as well as the animation, collision, and streaming systems on Midtown Madness 3. It was quite difficult to squeeze in the large cities into 64 MB of memory. To save memory the rendering relied heavily on instancing of small geometry building blocks which were transformed using various vertex shaders (the roads are segments being deformed by splines). The DirectX CPU overhead dispatching all these draw calls was quite high which is the the main reason the game ran at 30 FPS. The GPU could have run the game faster though probably not at a locked 60 FPS. The absence of collision on the trees was very intentional. The big trees looked weird when they fell over and having them rigid destroyed the flow of just driving around and plowing through everything so in the end we just removed them from the collision. Fun fact, the game is using a limited form of deferred rendering which is how we could afford all the street lights and headlights at dusk and night.
The early 2000s was such an special era for video games, we had the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and some of the most iconic and important games of all time were from this very same era. This video brings me an amazing joy, I really love it seeing a piece of history being shown in that condition nowadays, 20 years later.
The evolution of hardware and the possibilities that this enabled video games, was something that never failed to excite me. Remember the E3 previews for Half Life 2? My children will never know that feeling.
I didn’t care for the Xbox until my dad bought one for dirt cheap at a garage sale 3 years before the 360 came out. I really liked it I bought a 360 next.
It is sort of pitiful how much "Wow factor" of the new from hardware to games themselves is just gone. 360 to Xbone and PS3 to PS4 was "Maybe I notice a difference- Yeah there it is." Xbone to Whatever the new Xbox is even called now and PS4 to PS5 is "Alright you're just trolling me now." And Nintendo just sort of dropped out of the running of trying to be revolutionary with hardware. The gamecube was mindblowing when it was new- Metroid prime is STILL an aesthetically solid game. And PC gaming isn't faring much better... Between hardware shortages, faulty units, scalping, and nothing actually requiring the hardware so much as bad optimization offloaded to the consumer forcing their hands.
@@TommyAgramonSeth really? I think the particular machine LGR got is actually black but looking at pictures of the first model, I do see a bit of green in there
@@vlad4evar It's very subtle, only really noticeable under bright light. As LGR's box of X is the latest revision, there might've been some cost saving measures but my 1.4 (April 2003, China) is definitely green, especially next to my black monitor. (12:34 in the video seems to confirm that, it looks like it's just the lighting but the shade matches with mine)
@@TommyAgramonSeth yup I remember noticing this whenever the console or its controllers were in the sun, there’s a green shine to it when it’s lit up. When it’s darker it’s hard to notice but it is in fact a subtle dark green
20 years later and it still looks very contemporary. I really think the OG Xbox was the one that Microsoft really knocked out of the park in almost every way.
I remember my dad getting an Xbox, me getting a PS2, and my younger sister getting a PSone on Christmas 2001. This takes me back to much simpler times as a 9 year old, not having to worry about bills and debt.
I still have mine from back in 2003. My family had just moved countries and I was really struggling with the transition so even though we had almost no money my parents somehow managed to scrape together enough to get me an Xbox for my birthday it is one of my favourite memories and ill never get rid of it.
Imagine killer7 on xbox with enhanced graphics such as texture mapping on the characters and everything better controls to move freely without restrictions and a 360 degree camera high quality sound playback while keeping the midi music
I remember having a 50' ethernet cord strung across my parents house to be able to do dual consoles playing halo multi player. Each room was its own team. So much fun and so many good memories!!! btw, editing this comment as I watch the video. 4x4 EVO 2 is a hidden gem of a game! I thoroughly enjoyed its ability to be able to customize all your 4x4 trucks
I bought a remnant of a roll of Ethernet cable, a crimping tool, and RJ-45 ends to link consoles on our dorm floor. I eventually had to buy a switch to link a third in and make some standard cables instead of the crossover cables, but that was good experience in all ways!
Played XBC online with my best friend and had to run back and forth my entire basement to see if lobbies were working or kicking me, freezing, etc. lol Good old days.
Although I played that game on GameCube, and not my Xbox, I have to say it was ahead of its time and the courses were fantastic. We need a modern 4x4 EVO game.
@Dylan That's what I have as my background right now. MS needs to get back compat going again for the twentieth anniversary: would love to see stuff like Max Payne, DOA3, Jet Set Radio Future, Riddick, etc. be given that treatment.
I miss my old xbox, had so many good memories with it. It was actually my introduction to one of my favorite games of all time, Morrowind... Yes, I know it's better on PC, but I didn't have a PC at the time that was able to play games. The family PC was just there for email really.
Same. I printed out about five hundred pages of gamefaqs when me n my cousin played it. Fargoths ring in the stump and just so, so many memories. Good times.
That was a brave task tackling morrowind on xbox. It was hard enough on the PC. I just did morrowind content on elder scrolls online and you get to meet Vivec et all over again, really took me back to the original. The thing is, the content is so easy now. No more tiny text, cryptic clues and searching. Quest markers and easy fast travel everywhere. The original morrowind was a proper challenge!
One of life’s first crushing disappointments was firing up Morrowind on my family’s computer after following it’s development for years and having it stutter like a slideshow. A couple of my friends had Xbox and became obsessed with Morrowind while I withered in agony and despair. I finally played through Morrowind years later on Xbox 360 backwards compatible. A moment of silence for those who equipped unique sword Fury and had their stats and armor class permanently ruined.
The old “family PC” I love that everyone had those. Remember trying to play Half-Life 2 on ours and literally just changing the settings in the main menu completely crashed the poor thing.
Oh man, the memories of all the LAN parties and sleep overs! Eating pizza and staying up all night long. So glad this was my teens and not all the insanity now.
Being able to upload CDs and play them in the background as you play was one of the best features. I remember trading in my PS2 just because Halo was so good, and seeing how good Doom 3 looked on this thing was insane
Holy fuck just remembered me and my friends at 14 y/o saving money to buy better routers and chasing long RJ45 cables under the carpets in our houses so we could game on Xbox live together. It was that good. Those were the days.
I spent so much time with this system in my teen years. I miss LAN parties for Halo 2. Moving in freshman year, my dorm's ethernet jacks actually functioned as a LAN, so everyone on my floor would just play Halo all week long before classes really got in full swing. I have a vinyl wrap on mine, both because 2004 me thought it looked cool (it did not), and also to keep it from taking too much damage bouncing around in a duffel bag. My parents were divorced, so I'd take my games with me back and forth when it was to go to/leave my dad's place. I need to check that clock cap...
I remember the first time I picked up "The Duke", and played Halo. It was so cool. I love big chunky electronics, like something from the Alien universe. Like what people in the 70/80's thought tech would be.
So the controller connection was actually just USB shoved into a custom physical form factor. I remember back in the day using a USB extension cable to basically put a disconnect on my second controller; you could then use the controller on PC, AND (as I was jailbreaking the system to run XBMC) you could use the other end to plug in a thumb drive for media or whatever. The hard drive I believe was a whopping 8GB.
There was also the Xbox port>USB adapter you could get for Phantasy Star Online. Let you plug a variety of devices in native (aside from a keyboard, which was it's intent).
From memory the later units actually had 20GB drives but were limited to 8GB of usable space by partitioning. This was because they couldn't source 8GB HDD's anymore towards the end of the OG Xboxs production run. Installing XBMC or another mod would typically let you unlock the full drive.
@@ps2jak2 Early models had 8GB drives and later models had 10GB drives. Xbox didn't change the partition layout on the drives at all, so the 10GB drives didn't offer any extra usable space unfortunately. If you modded the system, however, you could format the drive in a way that allowed you to use the extra space, which was pretty nice.
Such are the hazards of collecting retro computers and consoles. I used to have a stack of Saturn games but never owned a Saturn, and had a Jaguar console but no games.
@@billdestroyerofworlds I'm a sucker for art books in particular. I have a ton of art books, a few photobooks, manga, and random novels I've collected throughout the years. Goodwill is a real hazard for me in terms of dirt cheap novels. XD
Jesus. You both sound like boomers! I'm 42, and while i have fond memories of the late 90s and early 2000s, the tech now is insane and i wouldn't give it up for anything.
@@RPI79 tech means nothing when life is worse. Wer are nowhere near the quality of life back then, can't count how many of my neighbors lost their jobs or stopped going on vacation.
@@RPI79 technology is ruining life, yea it helps in certain areas like medicine but ultimately technology has transformed humanity from a pride lions to a colony of ants
@@f00koff42 It's hilarious that you all assume i'm from the states. I'm not and i'm far happier now than 20 years ago. Also, i don't know a single person personally who has lost their job in the last 2 years.
The Xbox arguably made the biggest impact on the gaming industry ever since the NES. They introduced online multiplayer matchmaking and made Halo the defacto standard for FPS games going forward.
I'm very nostalgic for the Xbox, not because I had one (I had a PS2) but when I was a kid I saw my cousins playing Halo and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I always wanted one but my parents wouldn't get me another console for obvious reasons. Eventually got a 360 when I was 10 and played the hell out of it, then bought an OG Xbox off eBay one year later because I STILL wanted one and they were very cheap. (20 bucks for the whole system) No regrets, 11 years later both the 360 and OG Xbox are still running to this day.
Forza still looks great. The racing line was an innovation I first saw in Geoff Crammond's F1GP on the Amiga all the way back in, maybe 1991. It also suggested the gear you should use. So helpful when just starting out with it. Took the game from impossibly hard to actually playable.
I've played some F1 arcade games from the early 90s that really impressed me with their details, like flames coming from the exhaust and wheel spin when shifting up to 2nd and 3rd
I love how much he talked about the power cable when Microsoft actually advised people toss out their old power cables and replaced them with one that had a GFCI-like fuse on it to prevent fires/shocks.
There is actually an oversight in the design/implementation of the PSU that can cause it to spark. In short the solder points of the mains input can become cracked and lose because the power port ideally needs reinforcement to give it extra strength to cope with the forces of plugging in and unplugging the power cable. It seems that Microsoft deemed it cheaper to go down the route they did rather than replace or 'fix' the effected power supplies / consoles. I have never seen anyone actually talk about this and on the few times I looked on Google, searches turned up little to no information. I only know about this because one of the times I was inside the console having a poke around I spotted the issue myself. At which point I reflowed the solder and used the internal screw holes on the power input connector to screw the connector to the console case which gave it that extra support.
I remember opening my brand new Xbox on Christmas morning. Mine came with the Ford GT Racing/Jetset Radio Future double disk pack, and The Duke controller. I've always had big hands, even as a kid, and with the Xbox's joycon layout, it was and still is the most comfortable controller I've ever used. I fired that bad boy up, and sat cross-legged on the floor. I played it all morning to the point where mom called me for lunch, and when I tried to stand up, I fell on my face because both my feet had gone numb and i hadn't noticed. Best Christmas ever.
I'm just impressed by Clint's restraint. I mean, if I found an Xbox sealed brand new, I would have broken into the box before I made it out of the parking lot.
@@turnoffautoplay Yup. Halo saved the Xbox from uncertainty and obscurity, following the failure of the previous American-made console, and helped boost the console sales. Today, Halo stands out as the mascot of Xbox and the console FPS industry.
This was the most underated console of that era. I still don't know why the PS2 go so much credit. The Xbox was the coolest thing I ever got for Christmas. It was exactly 20 years ago for me now, 2002 and it still feels like yesterday.
It had all the good games and could play ps1, cds, and dvd movies, thats why it beat the xbox (that needed a remote add on to even play a dvd for whatever stupid reason)
The release of the Xbox reminds me of my mom who went to find one for my birthday, and the store manager let her know when the second shipment would arrive so she had my dad come back to pick one up. Made my 12th birthday extra special. Miss you Mom ❤️
That was insanely fun to watch. Talk about a nostalgia overload. It's such a bittersweet feeling. Amazing to have those memories, but sad that those days slip further and further away. That Halo section really hit me in the feels. That game was absolutely game changing back then. Me and all my friends bought it and we would have LAN parties and play for hours. Such great times. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I remember, very vividly, unboxing this with my dad one Christmas day (Either 2002 or 2003), and then doing co-op Halo 1 campaign with him. Really had a blast watching!
When you first opened the box and I saw the blue packaging I instantly jumped into a time machine. I remember cutting yards for weeks to save up for the original Xbox.
Having a Steamdeck Now makes me ache for the Lan Parties of old, such a portable device would be great, much moreso than renting to haul a console and TV to my friends house back in the day XD Would still play Halo 1&2 though, either via MCC or Xenia emulation... still sorely tempted to pick up a OG Xbox anyway and softmod it to play online on the new community servers
I would recommend softmodding the console and backing up the eeprom. If the hard drive dies, then you'll be able to restore it from the backed up eeprom. Without it the console is kind of dead.
Also, interesting fact. Sega made an arcade system based off of the original xbox called the Sega Chihiro. If you mod the console to have 128MB of RAM you can play Chihiro games on the xbox.
Good advice. If the EEPROM is not backed up and the drive dies, it's still possible to recover the console using a hardware mod-chip, an EEPROM reader/flasher, or a EEPROM chip swap.
@@BriFiConnections I agree with you, but the og xbox controller is still pretty interesting and unique compared to the 360 and every xbox controller that came after it.
Not to make you feel old, but I was only 6 and a half months old when the original Xbox first came out and now I am in university studying video game concept art haha. Time moves so fast! It's insane to me that there are now 14 year olds who are younger than my Wii. In recent years I've gained such a fascination with late 90s-early/mid 2000s gaming. I've built quite a PS2 collection up, recently got a dreamcast and have held onto the same Wii I had as a child all these years. There's just something different about that era compared to gaming today, it feels a lot more earnest and a lot of it still holds up super well today.
@@FelineBlue I turned 16 a little over a week after it came out. Didn't get one though. My dad got me a PS2. My first two games were MGS2 and a Gundam game.
I remember my Xbox: the first console that was purely mine. I had owned a PSOne (the mini revision one), but since my brother owned a PS2, I always felt like I was following his lead. When my mom surprised me one day with an Xbox for me and me alone, it was the beginning of a loyalty to a brand and an identity separate from my brother (who later got himself an Xbox as well due to Halo being amazing). Long nights spent staying up playing MechAssault and Rainbow Six 3 online, Halo LAN parties where we played for 8 hours straight on two TVs. God that was the height of gaming. I miss the days when consoles were different design ecosystems with permanent exclusives and devoted fanbases that led to unique gaming cultures and console specialties. Everything is multiplatform these days, even Sony's exclusives, and consoles just feel like the same thing being sold to you under a different label. Everything is freemium trash, built around making you an addict and draining you of life and money to feed corporate profits. Watching this video just makes me want to turn off my internet and go play Halo 1's campaign again (that AI is still very impressive; most games are still playing catch-up).
I also remember multi platform games used to have different features. Usually small, but they were there. Some games would have completely different soundtracks or some levels/features only available to the one console. The xbox version felt completely different than a ps2 version of the same game most of the time.
LAN Parties for Halo 1, 2, and 3 are still the peak of multi-player gaming, for me at least, nothing could beat a bunch of friends dragging over CRTs and Xbox/Xbox 360 consoles to play multi-player or co-op all night long. Online multi-player, even with friends isn't quite the same
Dude I wasn't ready for that massive OG Xbox game collection. You made it sound like you only had a couple games wow. Nearly cried hearing the boot up intro again and seeing Maple Valley after all these years... Also you have The Punisher!!! That game is awesome and rare to find!
I miss those old school user interfaces, they were so creative an quite distinct from each other, now everything is the same boring minimalist patterns...
OH BOY The memories are incredible. Dad used to work for Microsoft back in the day, so we got an Xbox a few weeks early. It was such a big deal. That start up sound just brought me straight back to saturday mornings with the TV volume down trying not to wake up my parents. Brilliant.
Fk yeah trying to no wake up early with the start up sound but the fan noice was the second culprit for being cachet up in the couch playing videogames Early in the morning
I dug mine out of my parents basement and all I could think about was Morrowind and Tony Hawk Underground. I was so excited but the Morrowind disc was missing. Got to play THUG though and that was amazing
@@JayTohab yeah, it was sooo cool. Load times were horrible. But it was nice to play since only one friend of mine had a PC that could actually run it!
I remember my friend had one and saying it was a brick but after playing it I was wowed by how ahead of its time it was and blown my PlayStation away. Year later bought one and never looked back since, so many original great games back then, including midtown madness 3 such over the top racer.
Setting up my power shield in HALO Christmas morning is why I’ll always love Halo: Combat Evolved the best of the series. That was the most immersive game I had played by far at that point.
That startup noise sent a shiver up my spine. It's like hearing the voice of a friend you thought you lost. Thank you, I needed that today. If you ever do more with this, I'd love to see a bit on Blood Wake. I remember playing it all the time growing up when visiting family, but from what I understand neither the 360 or One are compatible with it!
"The first person to have the honor to put a finger print on fresh glossy plastic" ... You monster. Also, no description of the amazing smell of a new console!? That is all I could think about while you unboxed this lol
I couldn't remember opening this but I'll never forget the first time I turned it on. The Xbox carried me from beggining to end of high school, soooo many great gaming memories!!!
25:35 - Halo soaked up many hours of my life. Never owned an original Xbox, but played a lot on my Mac (those in the Mac community back then were devastated when Microsoft bought out Bungie right before Halo was going to be a Mac-first gaming release...).
When that Halo disc went in and that menu popped up with that classic Halo soundtrack i almost wanted to cry. So many good memories! Still my absolute fav console to this day.
As a long time OG Xbox aficionado I must also recommend that you look at replacing the drive belt in your DVD drive. They tend to dry out and harden over time. This leads to the drive belt slipping on the drive pulley and the drawer have trouble opening and closing. Not to mention spinning up the disc at a constant speed. There are a couple of different lengths depending on internal drive model but the cost is usually never more than a dollar. As long as you have the case open it is a worthwhile upgrade.
Everything about this system was "chonky". I loved this system soo much. I worked at Ace Hardware when I was 17, and I got myself both the ps2 and the Xbox. The Xbox was my favorite, by far. I have one word for all the Sony lovers of this time.... Morrowind. Simply groundbreaking in its genre on the console platform. I cannot say that the Xbox controller prevailed over its competitors in this generation but it also wasn't a complete dud. The controller, like everything else to do with this system was just.. "chonky " which has no place in the the controller department. But it still got the job done and doesn't change the delivery and overall feel of this system. And also to sum it all up, the new system came right on time and was a welcome addition.
There is actually an og Xbox port of the original roller coaster tycoon.. now that you have the system I’d LOVE see you take a look at that version of the game
I remember playing that. I had it for a couple years. Wasn't that great because of the controls. PC version definitely wins. You need the mouse and hotkeys in that game.
I can't describe how much I love the green on black aesthetic of the Xbox. The dashboard, Big Duke, bulky shape, love everything about it. Great video as always, Clint!
I never had any game systems, but i always LOVED the Xbox dashboard, especially the xbox 360. That slidey dashboard on the 360 was my favorite one ever. Made for a great media center
So jazzed to see you pop in Sims Bustin Out. One of my favourite nostalgic games. So much wonderfully dated 2000’s style. The soundtrack goes insanely hard too
I remember the soul-torturing dilemma of “should I buy Xbox or PS2” back in the day. Coming from a PS1 I ended up going ps2 but always had that eye for the black and green boX. Good stuff!
Back in that time both were a great choice. My dad had a PS2 that he allowed me to play and got me an Xbox. The only real difference was the xboxs on board memory and music capabilities
I wanted a PS2 as I had a PS1 in the 90s, but my uncle got me an Xbox as he bought Microsoft stuff at employee pricing, and Halo has had me hooked ever since. I did eventually get a PS2 as I was dying to play Killzone.
Coming from the PS1 myself I chose Xbox after seeing WWF Raw on it man that game looked damn near photorealistic to me back then especially in comparison to Smackdown 2 I was absolutely blown away.
Been watching for years from Asheboro NC, now living in Holden Beach and all I can say right now, Clint thank you. Thank you for growing up with me, thank you for comforting me and binging with me. Thank you for teaching me about these things. Retro tech is a passion of mine and I’m glad I have got to experience years of your channel and I hope to see much more in the future. Loved your old store shut down sale videos especially.
I grew up playing PC games. Then for Christmas 2001, my dad got me one. I remember it came with Sega GT 2000 and Jet Set Radio Future. He also bought me Midtown Madness 3, as he knew I loved 1 and 2 all the time, and even played online over our 56k dialup internet. Ah, the memories! I didn't have very many games for it, I think I acquired (I think second hand) the first Forza Motorsport, had Halo, and a friend got me Halo 2 so we could play over the network. I grew up not thinking that Microsoft did well with it, as I didn't really know of many games. My Xbox was stolen while I was in high school, so that was the end of my console gaming (I still had my dad's Atari 2600, brother's NES, my SNES, and Sega Genesis, but none of them were really played by me). Then the 360 came out, and I was surprised. I didn't learn of the original Xbox library until I bought one second hand and did a softmod on it. I've still got it laying around in my closet, just need to get a screen to connect it.
The one i bought it was the halo: combat evolved and the midtown madness 3 bundle- it made me fall in love with Halo, but because i didn't get Xbox 360 and after the Xbox one i played after 20 years the whole halo series from reach to halo 5 on my series s!
While I've always been a Gran Turismo kinda guy myself, I also have a solid appreciation for the Forza series as well. PLEASE make a video of replacing the cap!!
The OG! This machine got me into console modding, and I still have my fully chipped and tricked out box working to this day. Amazing machine for it's time.
I had a modded Xbox with a leaked copy of Halo 2 (in French only), about a month before it came out. I didn't understand anything they were saying lol.
I have a huge soft spot for the original xbox because it was my introduction to video games. I naturally migrated to PC over time, but man that thing had some slappin' games. Halo also single handedly defined what I enjoy when it comes to single player game play. It was so well done that lots of modern games still fail to meet the complexity of that game's combat system.
Best part about your comment regarding the control of Halo feeling pretty standard. Halo CE set the foundation for what FPS controls schemes would become
I love the time capsule effect of openings like this, looking at something you had or heard of, and watching new-old stock being opened and the flashbang of core memories unlocked to the time that product came out, so good
This brings back so many memories. I remember receiving one from my father for my 10th birthday, and he got me Halo 2, and hooked me up to Xbox Live. I also remember anytime my mother received a call it would knock me offline until we got DSL. Also, I remember how nice everyone I met was in the Xbox Live community, especially given how young I was at the time. I'm sure I annoyed them, but they would never say that, and were always willing to help teach me. Very different times for sure
Mod it, its seriously one of the best modded systems in my game room, great for emulation, hold all your xbox games on the internal hdd, load times are great. it really changes the way you use it for the better. same for the ps2. great rounded out solutions to play the original games on the original hardware but not need to rely on the flakey disk drive.
Does LGR know that one of the coolest things was downloading your CDs to your internal harddrive so you could make music mixes to listen to while you played Tony Hawk or Midnight Club?
I remember playing GTA on this and was so amazed that I could play my own music on this thing. You could tell this console was setting the future for all game consoles.
I still remember being able to play this with component cables and all the games looking beautiful in 480p and widescreen! And the addition of being able to plug in Optical Out made my HiFi sound system BUMP!!!
