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Like a parent showing baby pictures to guests, my Xbox museum is kind of embarrassing
Today, as part of Xbox’s ongoing 20th anniversary celebration, Microsoft released a virtual museum covering the history of the consoles themselves, as well as our own personal, individual history with them. In the browser-centric museum, you can walk the halls, taking in 3D timelines of each of Microsoft’s consoles dating back to the original Xbox, gander at models of Halo’s warthog and ships, and revisit the harrowing period of the Xbox 360's dreaded “Red Ring of Death.” And as I learned, you might find yourself confronted by the ghosts of your own gaming past, as well.
What piqued my curiosity about the museum was the ability to log in to my Xbox account and view my own personal wing of the virtual building, where my gamer genre profile, history with the console, and my most-played games would be revealed. Other game journos took to Twitter to share their 23andMe-esque profiles with little surprise at their results. My bright-eyed nostalgia led me to believe my museum would showcase Bioshock Infinite and The Witcher 3 prominently as my beginnings as a gamer. But like a house party where your loud friend spills the tea on what actually happened, Xbox threw cold water on me and revealed my gamer past didn’t play out quite how I remembered it.
My first gut punch of embarrassment at my callout post of a museum came from the revelation that DmC: Devil May Cry was one of my first Xbox 360 games. That’s right, not the goofy, “woohoo pizza” Dante we all know and love, but Ninja Theory’s Netflix-esque adaptation of the series with a Donte, a swearing, black-haired punk who knows what sex is, allegedly. What makes my shame worse is that the frame containing DmC’s box art rotated to face me even when I walked behind it, so there’s no hiding from this high art. And yes, that was my first DmC game.
Listen, I didn’t know any better. I was a high school kid who watched TheRadBrad on YouTube and thought, “Gee willikers, a game where I can use cool angel and demon weapons on maps that seem to morph with every step I make? I’m sold.” Also, who among you is willing to declare that Vergil wearing a trilby and having his own Vergilmobile isn’t the most canon thing to ever happen to him?
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