Ultra-Rare orange Halo Edition Xbox found at a swap meet.

http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/sh...ole-discovered

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Originally Posted by DTJAAAAMJSLM

Haven't posted here in a while, but a friend of mine requested that I share his find here. He recently acquired this orange original Xbox at a swap meet of some sort and requested that I photograph it. He originally thought it was just a modded system with a custom shell, but turns out the thing actually has the official Microsoft and Halo markings on it.

He has been asking around on places like ASSEMBLERgames (Topic on it here) and apparently based off the info currently known, it seems to be the only one in existence at the moment with the Halo Edition markings. Not sure if he's going to keep it, though he did mention receiving quite a few offers already, including one that was $15K.

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http://i.minus.com/jbm4bFYLXfSa1i.jpg

That's a neat case, definitely not worth any sort of high asking price though.

It's not an after-market case. It's a case (test sample) that was made for the Halo Edition Xbox (they chose green instead) that never made it out to retail. There's only 3 or 4 in existence.

Anyone want to buy my green one?

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Originally Posted by gamevet

It's not an after-market case. It's a case (test sample) that was made for the Halo Edition Xbox (they chose green instead) that never made it out to retail. There's only 3 or 4 in existence.

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I just don't think it's worth it just for that but then again I'm not really big on collecting consoles.

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Originally Posted by Will

I just don't think it's worth it just for that but then again I'm not really big on collecting consoles.

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I'm with you on that. I won't pay $100 for a rare game, even though I might get a lot of gameplay out of it. There's some fool out there with too much money and not enough sense that will pay thousands for that console, just to say they own something rare.

Some mega-collector would drop money on it maybe, but I can't imagine anybody else wanting/caring.

Eh, I'm sure somebody with a lot of cash, that thinks Halo is his jams, would pay something for it.


I don't know why everyone is acting all clueless on how collecting works. Worth is not universal on non necessities. There are a limited and small number of people at the top of the demand curve. Basics man, basics.

So why all the "OMG THAT ISN'T WORTH A LOT BECAUSE I DON'T PERSONALLY WANT IT"?

I'm sure it is worth a lot to someone making 150k+ a year and halo is their biggest hobby. One of those 3 people will want it. Surely.

I'm going to ask a dumb question here:

why is it orange

That was my question as well.

Edit: I can't think of a single item in Halo that is orange.

That must be why it didn't get produced

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

Eh, I'm sure somebody with a lot of cash, that thinks Halo is his jams, would pay something for it.


I don't know why everyone is acting all clueless on how collecting works. Worth is not universal on non necessities. There are a limited and small number of people at the top of the demand curve. Basics man, basics.

So why all the "OMG THAT ISN'T WORTH A LOT BECAUSE I DON'T PERSONALLY WANT IT"?

I'm sure it is worth a lot to someone making 150k+ a year and halo is their biggest hobby. One of those 3 people will want it. Surely.

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It worries me that you've never danced with the devil in the pale moon light.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

Eh, I'm sure somebody with a lot of cash, that thinks Halo is his jams, would pay something for it.


I don't know why everyone is acting all clueless on how collecting works. Worth is not universal on non necessities. There are a limited and small number of people at the top of the demand curve. Basics man, basics.

So why all the "OMG THAT ISN'T WORTH A LOT BECAUSE I DON'T PERSONALLY WANT IT"?

I'm sure it is worth a lot to someone making 150k+ a year and halo is their biggest hobby. One of those 3 people will want it. Surely.

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I think you need to make a lot more than 150k to shell out 15k for this worthless thing, but your point is correct.

I'd rather have that sega Pluto the guy found last year at a flea market for $1, what ever happened with that story?

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Originally Posted by Chux

That was my question as well.

Edit: I can't think of a single item in Halo that is orange.

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It's probably a test-shot. Whatever company was producing the green ones probably knocked out a few in whatever color they had ready to go, got approval, and mixed up the green batch.

Doritos LE.

Even if you're a fucking millionaire, paying $15k for an orange Xbox is stupid beyond words. That will never change.

We make plastic forks out of dead dinosaurs then throw them away because we can.

Humans by nature are wasteful and silly

Shou has the other three.

There is not a measurement of time short enough for how fast I would sell that for $15K.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

I think you need to make a lot more than 150k to shell out 15k for this worthless thing, but your point is correct.

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Somehow the myth that $150K makes you rich is alive and well here.

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Originally Posted by Chux

That was my question as well.

Edit: I can't think of a single item in Halo that is orange.

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Master Chief's visor has an orange tint.

Gold.

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Originally Posted by Chux

Gold.

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It's like a off color of gold. It has more of a orange like gold color, like that of the rising sun.

If you look at the other pictures of the Xbox shell, it's not really orange either. It's sort of a yellowish orange.

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/i/20..._Zippy5454.jpg

It's not pink, it's lightish red.

Would Brass be a better description of the color?

This discussion puts the "ass" in "brass."

Alright. Here's the real story on the orange console.

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Originally Posted by mmm206

Orange was the branding color for Xbox Live, so we were looking into a special console to go along with Live, but we never pulled the trigger. Like I was mentioning earlier, I think I only ended making 2 of the orange full consoles for marketing folks, and I gave a 3rd to a friend (he confirmed to me that his had the Halo Special Edition printed on the front), which would have been the only known unit sent out into the public until later when the other 2 show up. There weren't many sets of orange plastics, so I don't think there could be more floating around. I either send the remainders to MS Archives (I don't think I would have done this since it was never a unit we produced) or shredded them in our recycling bin.

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That friend is an idiot.

Live Orange makes perfect sense.

I haven't played Xbox in so long that I forgot that.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Somehow the myth that $150K makes you rich is alive and well here.

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My dick. I was rich when I was making $40k. If I made 150k a year I'd retire by 45. I would, quite literally, buy the farm.

Being rich has as much to do with how much you spend as it does with how much you make.
$150K could go up your nose and out your dick pretty easily over the course of a year.

I make less than $40K a year, and it's still triple what I need.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

There is not a measurement of time short enough for how fast I would sell that for $15K.

Somehow the myth that $150K makes you rich is alive and well here.

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It doesn't really matter if you consider it rich or not. If halo is someone's jams, like their main hobby or only hobby, and they don't spend extra money on anything else, 15k, while making 150k a year, would not be that weird.

All of us could think of a dozen other things to do with that money, but halo is not our jams.

It sounds dumb, but there are people out there like that. I have a friend at work that went to school with a guy that became a day trader. Dude probably makes at least 120k with bonuses. He is a horrible human being. He pretty much is a Bro American psycho guy. He drives while drunk. He likes to abuse women. He listens to horrible 90s pop and rap music. He hates the poor. And he loves Call of Duty and Halo and Madden. Dude would probably buy this console for 15k if he knew how to use the internet well enough to know it exist.

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Originally Posted by kedawa

Being rich has as much to do with how much you spend as it does with how much you make.

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That's what I'm saying. Live your life with a little restraint and you don't need to work 1/3rd of your life away.

20 full years of your life spent working to make someone else rich.

eh, you don't have kids.

And some hobbies are expensive. Being self employed is expensive, normally.

But I mostly agree. You shouldn't go into it thinking "I need a lot of money just because and I will let whomever it takes, fuck me in the ass at work, to get it."

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

It doesn't really matter if you consider it rich or not. If halo is someone's jams, like their main hobby or only hobby, and they don't spend extra money on anything else, 15k, while making 150k a year, would not be that weird.

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Who spends 10% of their pre-tax income on their hobby? I spend less than 1% of mine on games, and that's probably still too much.

If I spent 10% I'd probably still be living at home after Steph kicked my ass out.

I might fall into 1-3%. Most of my purchases lately have been from selling old shit too, or working the gamestop contests.

I'm probably at about 1-2%, but I could spend 60% of my income on games and still be okay.
Other hobbies aren't that cheap, though.
Spending 10% of your income on something you enjoy is hardly a waste.
I know people who drop thousands of dollars a year on guitars and art supplies, and none of them make a living with any of it.

That's like how a friend of mine does it.
He has a cushy gubment job in which he travels all over the city. He stops at every thrift/pawn/what have you and fuels his gaming expenditures with profit from flipping omg rarez.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Who spends 10% of their pre-tax income on their hobby? I spend less than 1% of mine on games, and that's probably still too much.

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I would wonder why you work if you are spending less than 10% of your income on enjoying life.

He enjoys being miserable, so it works out.

Of course, the are many fine quality of life things one can spend money on and enjoy that don't fall under the "hobby" label.

like what?

eating nice food? Living in a big house? Owning a nice car and clothes?

Ok wage slave.

Does the OG Xbox Japanese LE "Bill Gates Edition" (lol) have any value? I need this thing out of my house.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

like what?

eating nice food? Living in a big house? Owning a nice car and clothes?

Ok wage slave.

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lol

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

I would wonder why you work if you are spending less than 10% of your income on enjoying life.

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I have more than one hobby, and quality of life items aren't always put into one category.

There an echo in here?

There an echo in here?

Your mom is in here.

Jeez you got a big pussy.

Big as a house.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

like what?

eating nice food? Living in a big house? Owning a nice car and clothes?

Ok wage slave.

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What's wrong with eating nice food?

Those fancy pants city slickers and their nice food, they think their shit dun stink!

Bourgeois pigs.

Hey, it's OK to eat fancy food everyday if...it's your hobby.

But you don't really need it to be happy. I'd be impressed if the best cooks on til ate fancy every meal. I would think that expensive or fancy food was just much entertainment as say a movie or game.

Who is talking about going to Per Se every night?

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Originally Posted by cigsthecat

Bourgeois pigs.

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That's the dark nature of Capitalism.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Who is talking about going to Per Se every night?

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Your mother.

Get up in your mom's Per Se.

That puke-orange console looks so. fucking. ugly.