It's going to be a bomb isn't it?

Noodle went to buy an xbox, he came back with a fucking rosetta stone...

Holy hell what a story only the early 2000's could tell. What a strange time.

A friend of mine drank enough Dew to get one, it took them months to ship. He started hassling Mt. Dew about it, and they eventually sent him a regular black Xbox. The next week, his green one arrived.

Fun Fact: Caboose and Donut, although known as the names of Red vs Blue characters, were default names in Combat Evolved's multiplayer. While its possible the profile was named after the RVB character; it's equally likely a callback to Halo CE. Noodle was also a default name in CE.

Some day, Doug Walker will give his side of the story, and explain why he pissed all over the floor.

I feel like pissing on the floor is the least concerning accusation that Doug has gotten in awhile

I'm amazed that he could make 8 minutes of this. Each minute just gets better and better as the story progresses.

Oh my gosh. I recognize all of those profiles! I think this is one of the Xboxes that we used for our Youth Group LAN Parties. I distinctly remember thinking it was so weird that this one Xbox that our children's choir director's son brought to every party was bright green. I'm floored. I may have a profile on that exact Xbox. If HammerThyme is on it, it'll seal the deal.

Honestly I almost like these cardboard videos more, the little details you put into a real miniature set is really cool!

this is why i love taking a look at old consoles. even something as simple as a save file on a game has its own story to tell.

"It must have spent time with the Youth Group, right?" VERY likely. At the church I went to growing up, our Youth group had two Xbox's and TV's hooked up to one another, so that when Youth Group was over (kids waiting on parents) or we had like game nights, you could do system play, and the games available were pretty much only Halo: Combat Evolved, and Ghost Recon 2 (Both solid picks). I have very fond memories of playing Halo with my friends at church. Youth Pastor loved those two games, too, and would play with us sometimes.

things I learned today: - Mountain Dew Xbox was a thing - Doug Walker pissed on the floor - Noodle's parents are very concerned very educational video

if indiana jones was a gamer this is what he would find in the hidden temple

Nobody: My parents showing my friends' parents my baby pictures: 1:17

I recently booted one my older sister passed down to me when she got a 360 and it still plays like new. Credit to whoever made the thing this long lasting.

Man, just imagine all the guys who used to play with this Xbox all finding this video and reconnecting over it.

The fact that you bought it on a drunken whim because it was lime green when there are people who go out of their way to track these down is probably my favorite part of this whole story. "Oh that looks neat. Yoink." "Dude, you just got something that's worth over 2 grand." "....well I got it cause it looked neat, I didn't know that. See how green it is? That's what's neat about it."

Haha! I remember this xbox, i didn't actually bought it but i heard that it's rare, good to see you review this.

This is amazing. I have never seen someone irl go through data and learn the history of a machine. What a time to be alive.

I laughed an honestly unreasonable amount at Noodle just going "WHY GREEN?"

This will probably get lost in the comments, but back in the day, they were running another special like this for the XBOX 1, except it was many more points needed but you then get it for free. I was working in a grocery store at the time, and a coworker/friend found that he could see the cap code on certain MTN DEW bottles if he tilted it just right. So he methodically went through all MTN DEW bottles that we had in back-stock, wrote them down by hand, then submitted them online and won a free Xbox 1.

I don't know why but something about the writing in this video just makes it one of my favorites of yours

If I remember correctly, the Mountain Few point system was based on how many containers were in the pack you bought. So a 2-Liter was worth 1 point, a six pack was worth 6, a twelve pack 12, etc.

As someone who has literally never watched any of your content before, seeing you get an Adam and Eve sponsorship on a video about a Mountain Dew Xbox threw me for a loop. Can’t wait to see more

Re: acquiring Mt. Dew points - it wasn't 1 point / 2 litre, it was all bottles had caps with codes you input for points on a website. So if you work at a venue that sells bottled Mt. Dew - like an arena or stadium - clean up after the event - bag all the bottle caps - redeem codes for however many points apiece. Knew a guy who got a jet ski like that, heard about another who had enough to get the harrier jet they advertised like that.

It’s probably one of the funniest just sheer reactions to something in a while, even if it was for the gag and not you real out-loud reaction, just “why green?!?” 0:32

"i'm gonna put a big funny bullet in my head" is one of my favorite punchlines that i've ever heard and it's from a fucking ad, still love this video

I'd like to think they're still drinking Mountain Dew to this day. Even if their kidneys hate them for it.

My friend got one back when he was in High School, His parents would not allow him to purchase an Xbox, even with his own money. So he spent his time between classes gathering the caps off of Mt. Dew Bottles in all the schools recycling bin (they had them in every classroom) Got enough points and ordered it. He had to hide the xbox from his parents for awhile, and then convince them that he really did NOT spend any money on it, and won it in a contest. Anyways, I doubt he paid more than $100 in Mt Dew for it.

My church youth group had an Xbox on a wheeled cart that lived in a storage closet, which is also where I spent a majority of the time on Wednesday and Sunday nights playing Halo CE. It also played DVDs, which was it's primary purpose. I would bring a copy of games in to play and then take them home with me, I never owned an original Xbox. Thanks for the video, noodle. Brings me back to being 13 years old again.

Channels that divide their videos into chapters and add a chapter for advertisements automatically gains my subscription. Makes the viewing experience 100x better and a 1000x better when you get to skip the ads.

"I remember being little and seeing the OG Xbox in a demo booth with stranger's wrath playing on it, holding the infamous DUKE in my tiny kid hands was unforgettable, it felt like a space station controller and since the console was full of green imagery I thought aliens made it, I think I played in that booth for like 2 hours before they ripped me away from it by force, now it feels so weird to play on series X with a controller so little. " - The green Teletubby

One of my friends had volunteered to clean out a nearby restaurant that had kept one of their rooms blocked off for years. As he was cleaning it out he came across a PS3. He told the owner about it and how they could sell it but the owner instead gave it to him. I was helping him set it up and we found old profiles on it. As we snooped through the accounts we found out it was used by dad and his kid. There were messages sent from the dad like "hey buddy, it's bedtime" and stuff like that. It was very cute.

4:52 even if I don't follow competitive Halo at all. I can very much relate to the "oh..." I feel like I say "oh" in that exact same way every day these days.

the music at the end was great. This is the first video and the first time being exposed to this channel. Who on earth would have thought little painted cut outs taped to a popsicle stick would be so entertaining? Well the story telling goes a LONG way also! great channel and I subbed.

Your regular animations are really good but your cardboard animations are next level. It makes you unique and different from the crowd. And according to you, it takes less time to make than a normal animation so I see no faults with this animation

This is really heartwarming. To realize every object on earth has a history this complicated and has touched and been touched by so many lives

you should check the motherboard on that thing, there's a capacitor that is well known to leak acid and ruin the board

Noodle. I adore your animation. You could literally talk about anything and it would be amazing! Thank You.

After seeing "Mo" and "The Bible Game" I KNEW all of the music was going to be Christian stuff, sounds like something my mom would use my console for lmao

People looking through old memory cards and consoles from the early to mid 2000's are the best. It always feels like there's story to the games played and the people who owned them (such as shown in the video). An awesome guilty pleasure of mine

I have watched "why green?" Over 10 times now. I am entertained every time.

watching this video has resulted in me just randomly whispering to myself "limited edition mountain dew xbox." whenever im doing something

Hey Noodle, you should umm, well there’s no easy way to say this. The original Xbox is very prone to a few capacitors exploding and killing the console. You should probably get that fixed, if you want a functional rare Xbox.

Mountain Dew and Xbox are pretty synonymous with each other, so I don't think it's weird at all to combine the two. I mean, it's not like a Marlboro-branded Atari Lynx, right? Imagine if something like that existed.

I love mix mediums in your videos, it gives these wacky stories and different feel and I think make it funnier

3:40 annnndd thats a clip

A Mountain Dew Xbox might sound stupid, BUT at the same time Mountain Dew flavoured Doritos existed too

We didn't accuse Doug on accident. He must face the music one day.

My first Xbox360 was entirely red because it came with Resident Evil 5. It was one of those Gen 1 Xbox360's with the big block of a memory cartridge on the side. When it inevitably crashed, the only way we knew of to keep all our old saves was to buy another Gen 1 Xbox360 (a standard white one this time) so it would be compatible with the memory block. Our second Xbox360 didn't last nearly as long. But you know what really outlived our Xbox360s? Our transparent watermelon colored Nintendo 64. I can still play it to this day.

My step-siblings have one of these. I always thought it was cool then found out how rare/nifty they were and about shat my pants - been hangin around it like it was nothing. Still there, sitting on their shelf at home, pretty sure they're fine with me just takin' it.

This is like a hand animated Christmas special. Mountain Dew, Xbox, and Halo. This really is a merry Christmas

Noodle, the tiny board men made me laugh as usual. Don’t sweat big vids, we understand (mostly because we saw your crunch video).

I can't be the only one that thinks these cardbord vids are more creative than the animated stuff I love them both

the Slapping of the Xbox on the counter yelling "LIME GREEN".... I've never subscribed to a channel faster in my life.

4:50 that sad “oh” after saying caboose hit a bit at home tbh lads/lasses. I should probably go back to finish watching his show

this animation is incredible

I literally burst out laughing at the christian music bit. Listening to the history of this Xbox's hard drive was like a trip down memory lane of an alternate universe. My family did the exact same thing. They wouldn't listen to anything but christian music and I distinctly remember my mom using the Xbox to play Third Day albums through the living room TV. This video took me back to a lot of great memories. Thank you, Sir Noodle. :)

I used to go to church where the youth group had their game room with xboxs, game cubes, playstations, etc. We would play before and after church service while we waited to get picked up. It's entirely possible that the kids and teens of a church youth group convinced each other or the youth pastor to work together to get that console for the church so that they could play it together as a novelty. A combined effort from a bunch of kids and their parents makes achieving that goal a lot more feasible. Plus the church is probably buying sodas and pizzas every week for their Sunday school get-togethers. So buying a ton of Mountain Dew is just a reallocation of their usual church spending budget.

_"Xbox is not lime green. It is black. Why green?"_ _"That's a limited Mountain Dew Xbox."_ *KFConsole:* Finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!

5:36 that’s amazing, I’m glad that those people still play to this day.

I love getting old used things like this, they always have so much history it's charming.

I think they saved these types of music: - *"pom"* -asmr -mlg meme music -classical -evil stuff -religious stuff -personal mixtapes -weird sounds -game osts -spammed copies of the same song -darude sandstorm -etc...

If the Mt Dew points were anything like Pepsi points. Then you only needed a certain percentage of points then the rest could be covered with cash. Similarly to how that law student tried to get a military jet from Pepsi points.

This guy should get in touch with all the previous owners of this thing and they all have a big union and talk about their experiences with the Mountain Dew Xbox.

7:03 Lol I used to have a church for boy scouts that had an Xbox that served the same purpose, funnily enough it was the Halo 2 special edition that also had the Bible game in the saves

Yeah it was definitely used at a church/school as a fun thing for the kids to do sometimes It also might explain why they had access to a large number of mountain dew bottle caps and points, if they bought soda for events/school stuff.

Back in the day I when this lime green console was announced as a prize for Mt Dew points I wanted one BAD. I actually got a job at a local race track cleaning bleachers after races so that I could collect bottle caps to earn points. I think it took me about a month to rack up the point needed and I was stoked to get my green Xbox. You're absolutely right that they sold out almost instantly but the website where you "bought it" never said as much. in the fine print once the green Xbox stock had depleted you would simply be sent a normal Xbox instead.... so all that work and all I ended up with was another normal Xbox console.

Let's all appreciate that Noodle just got a stupidly expensive Xbox console for a steal, explored its hard drive and history, made a video about it, and got it sponsored by a sex toy company despite the possibility that half of these viewers are kids. You're a fucking legend.

The violin rendition of Swan Lake Waltz was a very good musical choice to explain the absurdity of this

I love rewatching the videos and catching all the little easter eggs in his drawing

6:44 With just one “YEAAAH” my entire childhood came flooding through my brain.

Is noodle not screaming and arguing? This is truly a Christmas Miracle.

The funny thing is that at 6:44 that song is still used to this day in my schools preschool chapel.

3:40 the plot of Joker 2019

I bought an original XBox on ebay and the whole thing was jam packed with linkin park and other rock bands a highschooler would have listened to back then. It was a true blast from the past

One of these babies appeared at my local game store a few months back. The price on it was $500. I didn’t have that kind of money. God damn, I wish I did, though. It’s gone now, but it will forever be in my heart.

POV: your in church and the halo theme starts playing

I have no idea how I missed this video.... for TWO YEARS.... but this takes me right back to when me and some friends at my youth group did a sleepover party in the church with our youth group and one of the things we did while we were there was play halo, split screen, on an xbox at the church through the church's projector... And that was around 2004 - 2007. So that would have put it within a three year window of when the mtn dew xbox was released. Now, I'm violently curious as to whether or not it was THIS specific xbox! XD

The level of hysterics this man's voice reaches when explaining the console are aspirational.

dont put yourself down for this style of video, its entertaining and you do a lot of creative stuff with physical props. what a magical find though, early 2000's media was just a wild time to be alive.

1:13 that's what Adam Koralik does for a living... JK, I know he goes behind the scenes and history about the things he gets.

i dont know why but the way you say the phrase "mountain dew x-box" makes my brain feel like it attempted a cartwheel with heelies on

That left me stunned. It started off as something that made me chuckle and say "That's kind of interesting". But that absolute and total fucking curveball of what lay in that system's hard drive completely floored me. I do not know why, because it really wasn't that insane, but out of all the things I expected to be saved on those soundtracks, it was not that.

I love stuff like this. A few years back, I bought an Xbox from a yard sale. On the way home, I noticed some smuged writing on the controller. It looked like a gamertag my buddy used to use. I suddenly realized what I had, ran home, and plugged it in. Sure enough, it was my buddies xbox that was stolen over 12 YEARS AGO. It even still had all our gamertags/profiles. Some of my favorite things in my collection have almost no monetary value, but are still dope to me. I have an Xbox game that has stamps from a college library, then it ended up at a military base(still has borrow/return punch card) and then I bought it at a yard sale. Another was a gift from someone's grandma, and they possibly never looked behind the manual, because there was a nice note and a $10 bill. I left the note and the bill, along with another note I wrote. I may grab it on a rainy day, but i like to think someone else might find it one day. One time i went to a yard sale, the lady told me i was welcome to go inside and look around. She said she had just bought the place and it was full of junk. I went in, there was a room that was, no kidding, a 2 ft pile of literal trash covering the whole floor. I saw in the way back a computer. So i decided yolo, and went searching. Under all the beer cans and other crap, I found an ATARI IN THE BOX. No shit. A full-blown boxed atari. And by the end, I found 8-9 BOXED games. I told her about it all. She seemed more concerned with trying to sell me the computer. I ended up getting it all for like $20. I got a gameboy that I bought from an old lady who had bought it for her grandkids when they first released and they never used it. She said she played it some, but it was like in perfect condition. Still had some games in the plastic sleeves.

this thing has lived a long and eventful life

Why is the way that noodle says the words such as "gamer", "accrue", and (most importantly) "mountain dew xbox" so funny to me

“Doug walker pissing on the floor” is definitely not a phrase I expected to hear in this vid, but I’m curious to know how the heck that happened.

That music downloads feature was so cool back then, especially for kids with little real experience of having their own computer. It's also the most obvious sign of "I'm turning 30" to say that the first memory that came to mind was playing Amped Snowboarding while listening to the Chocolate Starfish CD by Limp Bizkit. Keep on Rollin' bebe.

That 'buy more of our product to get this prize that actually cheaper if you buy it yourself!' scam is hillariously rampant in my country in 2000s. Lmao oh the nostalgia.

HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME VIBE TO CHRISTMAS MUSIC IN AUGUST

"The 2000s were fucking dumb." 2020: NFTs

Julian mentioning the Doug Walker piss incident after that story being in my favorite episode of PST made me so so happy.

God i hope the clock capacitor on this things gets swapped or removed. Really don't want this thing to die

I like the Halo Wars 1 sound effects for the Adam and Eve ad. Love you Noodle! 😁

It's too soon to give that thing away, you're sitting on a gold mine of unchecked early 2000's *gamer* nostalgia

Always great to run across old gamertags still going. Seeing people retain their love for a hobby over 20 years just feels nice.

the fact that noodle gets sponsered by sex is insane

At the start when it says "i will animate" honestly i really like this style more