Big ideas, big titles and a big controller: the curious story behind the original Xbox

If Backwards Compatibility has taught me anything, it’s that diving back into the warm waters of nostalgia is still a beautifully fulfilling endeavour. Plus, I’m clearly partial to a cheap game or two. Scrolling through the timeline, I can find many a moment in the Xbox lineage that brings a reminiscent sigh of content from within. It can be easy to forget where these happy thoughts emanated from, what with the pixel-perfect visuals and world maps twice the size of Aruba that come as standard these days.
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