Huge Like XBox (Hueg Like Xbox)

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Let's see if he notices I think I like it better. That game is b-------. Sega should pay me to play unvalkyrie. Did you order one of those new smaller controllers or something? We've secretly replaced Gabe's Xbox controller with an eight hundred pound grizzly bear.

Some people want the U.S. controller replaced Hello, I'nm Bob Bobson designer of the U.S. Xbox controller. I've received a lot of angry letters, and I'm taking a moment to set the record I mean, with the new Japanese one, whichhonestly. What's the big deal? they say "fits the human hand." They want to burn down the building that contains my controllers, and they want to pee on the smoldering ruins. straight XBOX XBOx XeOx

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Huge Like XBox, or intentionally misspelled as "Hueg Like XBox," is a phrase that is used to poke fun at the large and bulky appearance of Microsoft's video game console XBox. The joke is typically played out as visual similes in which the console is enlarged out of proportion and photoshopped into base images depicting massive objects.

Origin

On March 10th, 2000, Microsoft unveiled its first home video game console Xbox at the Game Developers Conference. While the technology of the console was widely perceived as impressive, the system quickly gained notoriety in online gaming communities for its large, bulky appearance in contrast to the relatively slim Sony PlayStation 2 and compact Nintendo GameCube. In the months leading up to its official release in November 2001, Penny Arcade published at least two comic strips mocking the awkward size of the console and controllers.

The Xbox Box is the apex of human achievement Constructed in space because it was too great, too grand This is really good. I should be writing all this down Conceived, indeed, birthedto be born on soil rivaling by man. the size of the planet that created it, and making gods of the men who fashioned it

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In the following years, the joke continued to flourish on video game-related forums and message boards such as Ars Technica^[7] and 4chan^[1]^[12], where it evolved into a photoshop meme that entails placing an exploitable image of Xbox or Xbox controllers over any oversized object in the base image.

Soon enough, XBox became synonymous with hugeness in general, as encapsulated in the grammatically incorrect phrase "Xbox is hueg." Between 2004 and 2005, at least two articles defining the phrase "lol xbox is huge" were submitted to Urban Dictionary.^[13]

Oyashio Jang Bo Go Sea Wolf Los Angeles Ohio Kilo Sierra Oscar Delta Ⅳ Typhoon XBOX 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 Feet

On September 21st, 2005, Control + Alt + Del published a comic strip making fun of the console and the large controllers.

"The X-Box controller is large MICROSOFT'S SECRET HEADQUARTERS LOCATED HIGH ATOP A MOUNTAIN MADE OF SIX X-BOX CONTROLLERS WORLD OF WARCRAFT COSTS MONEY THAT ITS PLAYERS COULD HAVE USED TO BUY OUR SHODDY, GIANT, MALFUNCTIONING PRODUCTS LET US SUE THEM AND TAKE THEIR GAME. HAIL SATAN. HEY, DO MY PADS OF MINI X-BOX CONTROLLERS LOOK TOO SMALL TO YOu? THREE MONTHS LATER... I'M SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOu OVER MY HELM OF X-BOX CONTROLLER MICRO. WHICH IS AN OOD NAME, CONSIDERING HAY, IF THESE ARE THE MINI AND THE MICRO, I'D HATE TO SEE THE REGULAR SIZED VERSIONS, BECAUSE I BET THEY ARE VERY HUGE INDEED!!! NOTE: THIS COMIC WAS PART OF A PRACTICAL JOKE WE PLAVED WHERE MY FRIEND BRIAN CLEVINGER (NUKLEARPOWER.COM) PRETENDED TO HACK INTO AND TAKE OVER MY WEBSITE. I'M ATTACHING THIS NOTE FOR EVERYONE WHO WASNT AROUND THAT DAY FOR THE JOKE. TIM WWW.CTRLALTDEL-ONLINE.COM

On July 30th, 2007, the meme was referenced in 4chan City: Craptastrophe, a flash animation tribute to the imageboard site wherein founder m00t and Desu fight atop a towering Xbox console system.