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Xbox Creator Seamus Blackley Talks 20 Years of Xbox

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Video Games, News, Tech News, Leisure

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Xbox creator Seamus Blackley joins us for a special episode commemorating the 20th anniversary of Xbox. He shares stories from the early days of building the Xbox at Microsoft, discusses what he thinks of Xbox and the gaming industry now, and much more!

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This is Steve Downs, the voice of Master Chief, Sierra 117

0:19.0

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0:25.0

Now finish this fight, Master Chief, out.

0:31.0

Welcome friends, happy 20th anniversary to the Xbox.

0:38.0

Here this is unlocked 520. It's IGN's weekly Xbox show or in this case twice weekly.

0:43.0

We have two episodes for you this week. I'm Ryan McCaffrey and I'm joined by Maranissaunches,

0:49.0

Destin Ligary, and our very special guest, old friend of the podcast,

0:54.0

Shamus Blackley, none other than the creator of the Xbox himself.

0:58.0

Shamus, it's been a while, my friend. It's great to see you.

1:01.0

It's great to see you too. It just occurred to me to ask you a really stupid question,

1:05.0

which is, is there an Xbox 420 show where we could all smoke a joint together or is that?

1:10.0

Yes. We can just, if you have anything on hand now, then you're welcome.

1:16.0

We can just, we can cross the number out and just go for 20.

1:20.0

I'm at work, dude. I don't know what you guys do at IGN, but I'm at work. This is a serious thing. Come on.

1:25.0

Hey, we're all in California. It's legal. It's fine. Don't worry about it. It's great to see all of you.

1:30.0

Thank you for having me on. Thanks for having me on.

1:32.0

It's great to see you. You're the Xbox's resident Renaissance man. You're a man of many talents,

1:39.0

which we're going to talk about. We're, I mean, I guess we'll just start here.

1:44.0

Are you known for bread more than for the Xbox at this point?

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