Video ga🐓me historians and archaeologists, have I got a treat for you today. Video gam൲e developer and designer on the original Xbox, Seamus Blackley, has decided to share concept art of the original Xbox's controllers. And if you thought a black box that formed a giant X and controllers so large they could bludgeon someone to death were weird, you ain't seen nothin' yet. 

I used to joke that if you pried open an original Xbox, you'd find a Dreamcast hiding inside. These controller concepts, with their VMU-like memory cards and odd shapes, certainly don't dissuade that feeling. Blackley ♔says there's a reason for that though.

. "Concept designers often copy what's in front of them. Xbox was its own beast," he said in . You know what though? I'll trade the VMU rip-off seen in these concepts for the break-away cords that we got. Because at the time, that was genius.

Which one of Blackley's✤ con꧋cepts is your favorite? 

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