The Xbox RPG Gallery

The original Xbox was an American console that Japan mostly declined, and its role-playing shelf tells that story in both directions. Bethesda proved a dense PC epic could live on a console. BioWare built the era's defining Star Wars saga and its first original world. Lionhead's satellite made morality visible. And at the far end of the shelf stand two Japanese prints with no Western editions at all: an Atlus mainline game and a FromSoftware game about America, voiced in English, that America was never sold. This gallery holds the era cover first, with the histories and the documented questions behind each name.

Read the covers as the evidence they are. Where a regional box is verified, it stands here, labeled with its territory. Where a game has only cover art verified, the tile says cover art. Where no Western box exists, because no Western release exists, the gold owl marks the gap instead of a substitute. One honest exception runs the other way: Dark Alliance was a PlayStation 2 game first, so its tile carries the North American PS2 box and says so. Nothing on this shelf implies an exclusive that was not one.