Here\u2019s a nice little tidbit of completely trivial information from the gaming industry. The original Xbox\u2019s logo was green for one simple reason: the artist in charge of designing it didn\u2019t have any other colored markers left.<\/p>\n
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Xbox Co-creator Seamus Blackley talked about this with\u00a0IGN<\/em> recently. When asked why the branding for the original Xbox was green, here\u2019s exactly what he said.<\/p>\n \u201cA guy called Horace Luke, when we had to have a logo for a meeting or something, he had one of those awesome sets of markers with the paint tips, and so everybody immediately stole all of them. The only color he had left was like the green nobody wanted, and so we made all this artist stuff with green and now it\u2019s like still green. And I find that bizarre. I mean, can you imagine? It\u2019s like Horace and the green marker and now, you know, on buses in foreign countries. What? That\u2019s crazy!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Right, so Horace (poor Horace) brings in these fancy markers that everyone around the office eyeballs for days and days. Then those coworkers start taking the markers, one by one. Horace gets called upon to make an Xbox logo, and all he has left is the color green.<\/p>\n Sure, they could have easily changed the color after those pitch meetings. It was the early 2000s, and neon puke green totally made sense.<\/p>\n