Who else spent hundreds of hours playing game demos on the Xbox 360? 😂 🖐️

Man I loved the old Blades design of the dashboard. My favorite bit, personally, being the "Open Tray" button on the homepage at 4:18. Something about it is just so late 2000s and stylish. I'd love to see a console with that *super temporary* Blue version of the Xbox Guide they were using for a bit there. Around 2007/2008 I believe, since Halo 3 was still all the rage.

The Xbox 360/PS3 Era were the best times for gaming imo. Games had a lot more passion put into them it felt like.

The Blades dashboard has to be one of the most nostalgic things to me.

As happy as I am with the last dashboard they released for the 360, I can't deny that the Blades dashboard is SO good! I question why Sony gave the PS3 PlayStation Store that slow clunky redesign when the 2008 design was so good!

LOL he was like “it’s bound to get red ring of death one day but look at this blade dash though!!” 😂

I remember the blades dashboard. I really wish that had been left in as an 'alternate option' selectable from a menu somewhere, tbh. It always felt faster to navigate for me, personally.

I still can't believe Sonic 06 was played on the first one

I really like these videos where you buy these bulk sets of consoles. There is this "treasure chest" feeling of checking out former player's profiles and seeing what former owners were doing/playing. I love this. It's a weird fascination, but the dopamine rush is real. You need to do A LOT more of these kinds of videos.

takes me back. I never needed the memory unit I had the xbox 360 "elite". I did have to send it in 4 times from red rings until they finally just stopped "repairing it" . Good times.

7:47 - From my guess, this console was likely manufactured on this dash, due to the fact that the console looks basically new This is also a really nice find considering the fact that 2858 is the third retail Blades release, the first being 1888 and the second being 2241.

There was a period where syncing gamertags to your friends' consoles for stuff like local Halo or Gears co-op runs was an absolute slog and you had to sync everytime, so we ended up investing in those memory cards to store our gamertags on, which removed the need to sync our data and just allowed us to sign in instantly. Much quicker process nowadays. I recall waiting about 20 minutes once for a gamertag to sync back then.

You say that you’re fine but you’re not really fine.

Now you have the Xbox 1080 in background. Can't wait to see the Xbox 1440!

Fun fact: The “1080” part in the background isn’t just 360 multiplied to 3 corresponding to 3 Xbox 360’s that were in this video, it also corresponds to the max video resolution 360’s output which is 1080p.

I was 11 years old the first time I tried the 360. I am 27 now. The blades dashboard is a heavy dose of nostalgia for me. Thanks for the video, this is amazing

The blades was the best dashboard imo

That 360 find in box is unreal man. Great find

I'll take the blades over any other Xbox UI, every time. Regular Xbox has too much personality, nothing after NXE has enough. As it happens, I only ever used the blades UI on a CRT. By the time I got my first HDTV set in 2008, NXE was already out and I was rocking the Battlestar Galactica theme. I had a memory card, used it to bring my profile with me to friends' houses, it was nominally easier than redownloading it.

The first 360 I got was the red RE5 one with the Jasper. I waited for all the red ring BS to be done with and I really wanted to play RE5 (which was included). I only wish it had some type of RE graphics or face plate, but the red looks cool.

I remember playing alot of demos from the 360 mostly sonic tranformed, i freaking love that game and i really wanted the full game but couldn't afford it.

11:53 Marble Blast!!!

0:01 bro just jumpscared his entire community

Watching on series X, i guess microsoft agreed that the blades sliding in when the xbox button is pressed IS, in fact, cool.

It's kind of interesting how far behind the Xbox 360 felt when compared to the PlayStation 3 in 2006. The 360 had no HDMI, used DVDs for games, you couldn't watch Blu-Rays or HD-DVDs, it had slots for memory cards, and I am pretty sure they sold consoles without hard drives included. The 360 was significantly cheaper than the PS3, though.

I had 2 of those memory cards, they were great for bringing your save games to a friends house. I think a lot of people just used flash drives because they were bigger capacity and cheaper; but my grandma bought me a 2 pack of those memory cards for Christmas.

the 360 UI is so much better then the new xbox UI. i still haven’t adapted! the 360 minutes were so simple and easy to fine and navigate - when i got my first xbox360 it had the dark/ navy blue menus!

I still remember navigating blades to party chat and send messages in MW2. The time I'll never get back, and I'm so glad my childhood was S tier gaming

I cut myself on the like button looking at the blades dashboard lol

Blades era 360 was amazing

The red one looks pretty cool

Ah, seeing the black and red consoles brung me back.. I owned an elite console, the black one, which was stolen in a move when i was younger. Then someone in the same complex that we moved to gave me his old Resident Evil xbox, to which the disc reader kept giving out, but it hard carried me through the rougher times of my childhood. Wish I could relive those countless hours of never getting bored of MW2.

My favorite series on the Xbox 360. Sick that you found a blades!

17:08 the thing is that most of those games are trial versions/demos (hence the half controller symbol), meaning you won't see any proof of them playing it since you can't unlock achievements in trials

I had an Memory Unit back in the day. But hardly ever used it

My 360 Slim died and through tough labor it still didn't revive. I miss playing my collection

1:21 I would have been screwed if I didn’t send in that form with a check b/c I bought my system on EBay b/c of how low supply the 360 was in for almost a full year after release. I went through 5 OG systems during the XBox 360 lifetime, not paying at all for systems 2-4. OG system 5 was a new arcade purchased in fall 2009 as my extended warranty was ending. It lasted until 2012 when it was traded in for a Slim 360, which I have to this day.

Everyone hooks an Xbox 360 up to a flat screen nowadays but I know how it was back then. Your mom got you a tube tv on clearance and you liked it!

It's so weird that the first one has a memory card with it . I've never seen one in person .

Those memory cards were used in the early days. It was the only way to transfer your gamer profile and earn achievements when visiting someone offline.

I got an original Xbox, I really want to get a 360 so I can play the old dvds in more “modern” systems

At 4:34, you can see that the dashboard is pretty old because there is no 'Marketplace' option.

I didn’t grow up with Master Chief. I grew up with Rookie and Noble team.

My first ever console was the mlg edition 360, and I got it for my like 4th birthday… it’s still in my room, and works perfectly. I remember spending countless hours with my grandparents playing disney infinity 3.0 years ago… I am now 15… It is cool to have three generations of consoles in my room… (Xbox 360, Xbox 1, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch) I was lucky to have the newer console variant that bypassed the red ring of death era…

5:13 that early blades dashboard without the marketplace is the rarest Xbox 360 dashboard alongside the OG XBOX dashboard without Xbox Live. This also implies that whoever owned this console hasn't played it since 2006. I hope whoever won this console hasn't updated the EXTREMELY RARE dashboard.

Nah that version of the software was like from a few days after i was born lol

Your channel is SOOOO underrated.

bruh just the SIGHT of that stock 360 headset brought back so many core memories. and the in box xbox was manufactured on my birthday!!

9:23 Jacob: A one twenty -gigabart- gigabyte hard drive. Me: Lol

I used to play a bunch of Minecraft and black ops on my 360 back when i was little. 😅 It was very fun

great vid, miss my Xbox 360 slim and E a lot

Hello i have been watching you since you started putting random discs into random game consoles its so cool to see how much your channel has grown

4:24 it was by far the fastest dashboard to use

I used a memory card along with my hard drive from 2005 to about 2008 to double my saves. This was before cloud saving, and I was always nervous about only having my saves on the hard drive, in case it ever crapped.

The first dude played Sonic 06 and died of disappointment 💀

I never grew up playing any sort of console, but I'm interested in buying a xbox 360. Which one would yall recommend for me to buy?

Demos were lit. I didn't have internet back then so I would go to my friends house w my Xbox and download a bunch of demos

11:10 location:Earth😂😂😂

I love xbox 360 videos thanks jacob for a great new video

This video is underrated! Good editing mic quality keep up the work

Never even owned a 360 with blades and I have had over 10 at least.

The powder keeps them from falling apart like they always did

Such great memories come with that blade design it’s so amazing to see in the modern day

"and if every one of these xbox 360s work im giving away everything in this video" recorded in a house Give me my house

Wow the nostalgia for the blades dash is unreal right now

Super cool stuff! I was thinking of trying out the xbox 360 and getting one myself.. certainly going to sometime now that I’ve seen all the amazing stuff it can do!

Still own my 360 elite, I put that boy through the ringer back in the day.

9:24 GigaBart?

I just noticed the first console you tested was on the VERY FIRST blades dashboard because the marketplace tab/blade wasn’t showing up unless if it just doesn’t show up when you aren’t signed in but i don’t know

Give that TV a raise. I mean the one behind you.

I’m so jealous man. I bought 4 360’s from goodwill and no luck on blades.

The blades dashboard was great. Faster than the NXE, and considerably faster than the Metro UI. The later UIs put too much priority on features like avatars or adverts, which are just unnecessary bloat.

I love how this guy is just obsessed with buying 3 Xbox 360 consoles

Guy played sonic the hedgehog and took the console straight to goodwill.

I used my memory card all the time. It was much quicker to take my gamertag over on the card than download it if i was going to my friend's house to play Halo or Gears.

Man, the blade dashboard reminds me of playing Rainbow Six Vegas for hours on end every weekend back then

Meanwhile dkoldies: That would be $800, generic controllers tho. +$200 if you want the original ones chief

lmao, first dude played Sonic '06, got no achievements and then never played anything else. dude was traumatized fr

I used to play Minecraft with my brother and sometimes our grandpa came visit abd gave even sweets now my brother has his own family and our grandpa is past away. I miss the old times 2000-2012

9:23 Bart 😆 ?

Not all 360s complete and good shape will not have RROD. Someone in 2006 could have bought one, 2 days later had it get RROD, and gone “screw it, ima buy a PS3 instead and wait until the Xbox 720 comes out”

I had a 360 memory card, still do, and used it back then. I still have my 360, just dont have a controller for it anymore.

It’s amazing the first Xbox probably was never updated

that first console was manufactured the day i was born

Even though this video is 3 months old, what was the Dashboard version?

I still got my childhood 60gb hard drive :)

Honestly they should have made a way for you to use the old dashboards on any version because it wouldn't really have made a difference they could have had them be like themes

I played hours of the left 4 dead 2 demo, I remember playing that game for weeks on end not getting bored of it lmao

I have very vivid memories of playing the outfit while listening to “crazy” by ceelo green 😂😂 idk why but I often played that song while playing that game. I loved playing the old gta games on Xbox because there was a radio station that would play your music on console.

I felt the pain when the last disc drive worked. >.

I remember the blades dashboard. However i remember putting in chronicles of riddick when the update replacing the blades dashboard came out. Somehow the update was on the disc

Wow resident evil console at Goodwill??? Hell of a find

A college dorm 360 I wish I had that nostalgia

Wow that's some cool xboxs. I didn't know Goodwill sold stuff like this.

I had that same XBOX, GameCube, USB to PS2 adapter and it goes hard.

I thought that I was the only one with a bad left bumper.

i used to play so many demos on my 360. thats how i got introduced to valve games. i mainly played the l4d2 demo. good times

The 1st one looks older because it doesn’t have the marketplace

Addicted Watching All Xbox 360s 👇

It is surprising to me that the red special edition console didn’t have the special power on and power off sound or disc open and disc close tray sounds as for many of those special edition Xbox consoles and also should be that to have the NXE dashboard should be that it should have the same logo as the blades as I think that the Metro only got the updated logo.