After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'"

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Halo and Master Chief's co-creator Marcus Lehto recently went into detail about the series' earliest days, and has even spilled the tea on how Microsoft wrangled the game out of competitor Apple's hands.

Before Halo became the killer app for Microsoft's Xbox console, it was actually supposed to be a third-person shooter for Apple's Macs. CEO and company founder Steve Jobs even introduced the game to the world on stage during 1999's Macworld Conference, which still had an epic theme tune and aliens but was otherwise very different to the Halo we know now.

Kaan Serin
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.

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