Playstation 2 Launched 25 Years Ago

[iamthemilkman]

 

[DunkeyKong]

 

[PSVitaForever]

Of these titles, I've only played DOA2, later I played and loved (randomly coming to mind, probably I'm forgetting some) "YS Ark of Napishtim", "Stella Deus", "DQ8", "Odin Sphere", "Soul Calibur 3", "Atelier Iris 3".
Mine has always been a non-modded one, when it started to collect dust beacuse of newer console I sold it (also to save some space) and years later, in these last months, thanks to the emu on pc I've been able to play some more game I missed out back then, like "Dirge of Cerberus", "Shadow Hearts" and "Dawn of Mana".

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Second best console I have ever owned (just behind the groundbreaking, misunderstood Dreamcast).

 

[Ferik]

Horrendous launch lineup, atrociously ugly design imo, and the model my Dad bought as a kid kept needing to be sent out because the disc drive would go bad until Sony finally just swapped the unit for another entirely.

But goddamn did it have way too many games to not find something to love on it.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Happy 25th Anniversary! PlayStation 2 in North America for being the console that marked the before and after in the video game industry and also for bringing us hours and hours of fun and entertainment and also for being the longest-lived Sony console in history for being in almost 13 years in hardware and 13 years in software and also that this console introduced the support of USB inputs, Introduce the DVD-Rom Format, A large catalog of games and other things that made it such an iconic console.

 

[Heinzu]

It's been so long now, man I feel really old now but that was the beginning of a legend !!!! Playstation 2 forever !!!!

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

Legendary system, easily in the top 5. Look at that launch line-up as well; there literally was something for everyone here. Yeah you had your standard sports games and action games, but you had fighting games, racing games and even the more niche kind of games like Eternal Ring and Evergrace as well. You never see things like that anymore.

 

[bjork]

I had prepaid mine off in advance, as well as one for my dad. The gamestop lady told us that due to low supply, we still had to wait in line at launch or there might not be enough. She also said I couldn't pick up both, that I could get one and he could get one, and he was HOT about it. But I told him that I'd go wait, and if we couldn't get both, the one I get would be his, since his birthday is in early November.

I worked overnight at the time, so I left work early and took a little nap before heading to the mall. 10 am for a midnight launch, and some guy was there before me. But we lined up and people were cool about it, then the mall security came and said we couldn't make a line, and we'd have to just remember our numbers. Luckily, it never got too crazy and everyone was cool about it. So I stayed second the whole time.

About noon or so, my dad shows up, and he's like number 20 or 21. But he was just there between work appointments and a majority vote said they wouldn't keep his spot until he got back in the evening. So since he was mad about the whole thing already and now he hated all the people in line too, he found a guy who was filling out job applications, and paid him $10/hr to wait in line until he got back. About 6 pm, he strolls in after work and all showered off and fed, pays the guy his $60 and takes his place. It was nice because everyone else was a stranger and they were all WAY MORE INTO IT than I was, so having someone to talk to was cool.

Midnight comes, I get mine, then I wait on him to get his, and we walk out together. He got home and was like, "it's 1 am, I'm going to bed" and didn't check it out for a couple of days iirc. I didn't have money for a game, so I checked out texture smoothing on Driver 1, and then I too went to bed. There would be plenty of fun with the PS2 later, but after all that time in line? Forget it, bedtime.

 

[iamthemilkman]

atrociously ugly design

 

[Frickinfrik]

Happy 25th birthday to one of the greatest game consoles ever made and my favorite game console ever!

 

[SpcDaicon]

The PS2 was my first real contact with non-Nintendo consoles.

I've owned a Genesis III (was too young to appreciate it) and had played the PS1 in a friend's house but I always thought the Nintendo 64 was the best console out there.

Only after I had a sleepover on a friend's house after we played a ton of FFX and Atelier Iris 1 that I understood that gaming was so much more than Mario, Zelda and Pokemon.

Some time after that, I sold my Nintendo 64, saved some money and bought a PS2. FFX, Atelier Iris, DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi, KH2 and many others are still my favorites to this day

 

[Isegrim]

I don't really hate the PS2 now, I really liked the games when I finally got one but back then...

When it was near launch, all I could hear was people talking about the PS2. I even remembered one little girl singing about her wishes on TV and one of them was Playstation 2 which irritated me terribly...

I wasn't happy about PS2's launch because once it did, it would mean the death of my beloved Dreamcast was near.

And I was right...

Anyway, I did get a PS2 eventually. So no hard feelings.

 

[Blamhammer]

I have a launch model UK version (SCPH-30000) thats still going. I got one of those SD2PSX memory cards and now I can launch games straight from the memory card, man this console just keeps on surprising me. Sony's public face leaves a lot to be desired, but their engineers are total wizards!

 

[TinRattler]

Didn't get one till 2003 and still running strong
Last generation of consoles I own
PS2 Xbox GameCube and Dreamcast all magic

 

[Zerpina]

I feel that Dunkey...

Ummm....Quick!!! A GIF to distract from the fact that we are as old as dirt!

Okay, joking And bouncing big tiddy anime girls aside...

It doesn't feel like that long ago, but I know it has been. Buying a PS2 on day one was awesome.
I remember what game I got the day I bought it to, DOA2: Hardcore.

It's been 25 years. But I know the PS2 was and still is a damn good system
And was a great, cheap DVD player at the time.

 

[Tonberry]

The absolute GOAT.

 

[qw90700]

I remember it bloody well. I saved so much money just to buy a PS2 in Japan but I had no money to spend on travel expenses so believe it or not I started walking from London and I directly walked to Tokyo (¿¿¿say wat???) and waited in line for days to buy it. True story bro, believe me m8!!! I even made my PS2 journey a song!!!:

ayyy lmao

 

[Dancaster247]

I've been a Nintendo fan all my life, but the PS2 is a dear to my heart. Even though I got it around 2008-2009 (it was the Slim model), I never got around to getting FreeMcBoot on it, and I had to play the original games.

I remember getting it with NFS Carbon, then Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4, GTA 3 (but the person who sold it to me didn't realize it was an XBOX disc, so I ended up returning it and they gave me FF X, which I never finished back then), GTA Vice City, my favorite from the 3D era. That favoritism was so strong that I scratched the disc from so much use, and I also had other games.

After I gave the console to a relative, I became interested in other games thanks to emulation: Ryu ga Gotoku, OutRun 2 SP, Tekken 5, and others.

I was a bit late to the PS2 because the PS3 was already available in the US and the rest of the world. But in Latin America that console was a boom and very loved.

 

[Ferik]

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Here, have a vintage dial-up era meme.

 

[χKai]

It came out when I was 11, but I didn't get to play one until my late teens

Reminds me of how shit was back then, growing up poor and eventually coming around to trying all those things you always wanted to try out, but almost a decade after their relevancy. There's a certain nostalgia that comes with waiting for new things to drop in price, I think, and it makes it all the more worthwhile when you finally do get around to checking them out.

I remember God of War was a pretty big deal, back then. I don't remember what launch titles the PS2 had, but I always kept hearing about God of War and how revolutionary it was. I still have to go back and beat it someday; my roommate's copy was too scratched to get past one of the cutscenes, and that's where my run ended..

 

[solnK!]

I was born long after its release so I couldn´t experience the launch, damn, I don´t even have the console. All my experience with the PS2 has been via emulation, but you know what, it´s probably the best console ever made. You just can´t beat its catalogue.