Platform: Xbox
Constantine
Manhunt
Batman: Dark Tomorrow
Cars
TimeSplitters 2
X2: Wolverine's Revenge
Driv3r
Dead or Alive 3
Pocket Bike Racer
Antz Extreme Racing
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
Perfect Dark Zero
Serious Sam II
Conker: Live & Reloaded
Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure
I-Ninja
Capcom Fighting Evolution
RollerCoaster Tycoon
James Bond 007: From Russia with Love
Grabbed by the Ghoulies
Destroy All Humans! 2
Enclave
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
Loons: The Fight for Fame
Worms 3D
BloodRayne
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball
Hitman: Blood Money
Half-Life 2
Beyond Good & Evil
The Thing
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
SSX 3
Madagascar
Taz: Wanted
Call of Duty: Finest Hour
Starcraft: Ghost
Rent-A-Hero No. 1
Castle Shikigami 2
Vexx
Spyro: A Hero's Tail
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 4: Gunyip!
Dino Crisis 3
Sonic Mega Collection
Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
Just Cause
Hitman: Contracts
Dead to Rights II
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Despite being positioned as the Xbox's mascot by the gaming press, Blinx the Time Sweeper was not created to fill that role or rival the likes of Mario and Sonic. Despite an internal push from the Blinx team for the character to become the platform's mascot in Japan (of which executive producer Ed Fries claims to be "not sure how seriously [the Blinx team] took it"), as well as the desire of Bill Gates for Microsoft's gaming department to have a mascot, the character was not officially used as an Xbox mascot. The game did still get a major marketing push in Japan thanks to convenient timing during a Christmas dry spell of game releases and being a Japanese game.
subdirectory_arrow_right Gran Turismo 2 (Game), Metal Gear Solid (Game), One (Game), Tekken 3 (Game), Dreamcast (Platform), PC (Microsoft Windows) (Platform), PlayStation (Platform), Sony Interactive Entertainment (Company)
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Sony would sue Bleem! twice over alleged copyright infringement, and despite all odds, Sony lost due to Bleem!'s use of screenshots in promo material and the PS1 BIOS being protected by fair use. However, a mix of legal fees and Sony threatening retailers stocking Bleem! products with subpoenas would force Bleem! off of shelves anyway, and its website would be replaced with an image of Sonic The Hedgehog mourning at a grave with the Bleem! logo carved on it. Bleem! would countersue Sony for anti-competitive activity.
The popularity of Bleem! would lead both Sega and Microsoft to attempt to work with Bleem! officially to make PS1 games run on Dreamcast and Xbox, though these plans fell through due to Sega being afraid of Sony's litigation, while the developers of Bleem! simply felt Microsoft wasn't paying high enough for the license for Bleem! (something they had come to regret in the years since).
Video on Bleem! history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGHul1PrXCE
Source of Bleem! collection photo:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/dvf1ow/bleem_the_playstation_emulator_for_pcs_and/
Bleem! article:
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-history-of-bleem
Archived Bleem! page for One:
https://web.archive.org/web/20001109112400if_/http://bleem.com:80/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGHul1PrXCE
Source of Bleem! collection photo:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/dvf1ow/bleem_the_playstation_emulator_for_pcs_and/
Bleem! article:
https://www.eurogamer.net/the-history-of-bleem
Archived Bleem! page for One:
https://web.archive.org/web/20001109112400if_/http://bleem.com:80/
subdirectory_arrow_right Pocket Bike Racer (Game), Sneak King (Game), Big Bumpin' (Game), Xbox Series X|S (Platform), Xbox 360 (Platform)
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Sneak King box art:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/xbox360/935895-sneak-king/media
Box art for Madden NFL 09, the final licensed Xbox release, released multiple years after the Burger King games
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ds/945509-madden-nfl-09/boxes/106435
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/xbox360/935895-sneak-king/media
Box art for Madden NFL 09, the final licensed Xbox release, released multiple years after the Burger King games
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ds/945509-madden-nfl-09/boxes/106435
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According to Seamus Blackley, the creator and designer of the Xbox, there is one more Easter egg in the console that has yet to be found as of November 2021. It is related to the Xbox's boot animation and he believes that it cannot be accessed through certain controller inputs during the animation.
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Wait for the CD to finish ripping and then return to the main menu. Now going to System Info within the Settings will reveal an updated screen crediting the four programmers that made up the Xbox Dashboard Team.
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When you hit Done, the Xbox loading screen appears and will take you to a credits sequence, thanking the developers who made games for the Xbox and their playerbase before giving thanks to The DirectX Team, Microsoft Hardware, Worldwide Operations, The MSN Gaming Zone, Windows Core, and the entire Xbox Team and their families for tolerating the long work hours it took to create the console. The credits end with "XBOX 2001".
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Pressing X and Y at the same time while playing music on the Xbox's Audio CD player will display colorful visualizations to complement the music.
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After the console has been on for a while, obscured noises can be heard over the top of the normal ambient background noise. Microsoft stated that they are actually tweaked and modified public domain sounds from the Apollo days of NASA.
subdirectory_arrow_right Big Bumpin' (Game), Pocket Bike Racer (Game), Sneak King (Game), Burger King (Franchise), Xbox 360 (Platform)
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The Burger King Xbox 360 trilogy are the only Xbox 360 titles which were backwards compatible with the original Xbox; a previous console generation. This decision was made due to the original Xbox having a bigger install base than the Xbox 360 at the time, but Microsoft only wanting to promote the 360 and not original Xbox on TV.
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When the original Xbox was made, Microsoft lost $125 per unit sold. After 4 years, Microsoft had lost $4 billion.
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The original Xbox prototype was built using dismantled Dell laptops.
"In 1998, Berkes and his team ordered a few Dell laptops, took them apart and built the first prototypes of a Windows gaming console.
Ed Fries was leading Microsoft's games publishing business when the four Xbox founders pitched a "Direct X Box" based on the Windows DirectX graphics technology that was developed by Berkes' team."
Ed Fries was leading Microsoft's games publishing business when the four Xbox founders pitched a "Direct X Box" based on the Windows DirectX graphics technology that was developed by Berkes' team."