They were absolutely brand new and he had a bunch on his desk at the design department of Microsoft where they were doing hardware design for the mouse and the keyboard. One of them was this guy Horace and he had got a new set of markers that had a brush tip. Those were made literally by me and three people. As for the classic 'Xbox Green', that also came about purely by chance.īlackley recalled, 'So we had done a lot of renderings and made a logo based on the DirectX ‘X’, which we put on those big silver X’s that we made as a sort of show car. So the name stuck around as they continued to develop the console. What game do you think of when you see this logo? /CG2qbuXerN- YouTube Gaming September 18, 2023Īs Blackley told us, it was the job of Microsoft's marketing department to come up with a catchier name to replace what they already had, but the company's suggestions 'were absolute garbage'.
