💚 The Original Xbox — Microsoft’s Game-Changing First Console! Released in 2001, the original Xbox took on PlayStation and Nintendo with serious PC-style power under the hood. It was the first console with a built-in hard drive and Xbox Live, changing how we played forever. The controller (“The Duke”) might’ve been huge — but so was its impact. Halo: Combat Evolved, Project Gotham Racing, Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee… proper classics that defined an era. Still one of the best-looking bits of early