Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb took to Twitter today to detail the origins of the original Xbox’s menu music.
It’s surprisingly cool.
Fun Fact: When you were sitting idle on the dashboard of the Original Xbox the background sounds were actually . . (1/2)
— Larry Hryb 🏡🎮☁ (@majornelson) July 20, 2014
…public domain audio from NASA transmissions from the Apollo days that we tweaked for that sound (2/2) pic.twitter.com/gJr7HFUsnF
— Larry Hryb 🏡🎮☁ (@majornelson) July 20, 2014
Pretty neat, right?
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