What is your Second Sony Console? ~ Cuál es tu Segunda Consola de Sony?

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

I forget what, possibly fighting games, but something caught ahold of me with the PS3. It was years ago that I chose to trade my entire N64 library and system in order to fund a used PS3 in late 2018. Seven years later, I’m back on the 64 train, but it was worth the sacrifice because the PS3 helped shape my gaming taste as I hit my mid-teenage and adult years.

The Super Slim was my choice. I was under the false impression that all PS3’s had native PS2 support, so I felt like I could justify owning one to my family that way. However, this was not the case, but that didn’t end up mattering. Our family had always been Nintendo, and I personally had been playing with sixth Gen or older consoles for years. Owning a system with actual online functionality, a customizable OS, actually good ports of older games, and various series that had never been on Nintendo was like a godsend to me. I loved Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3. I sped through Sonic Unleashed until my fingers went numb. I got a good bit of fun out of Doctor Who and the Eternity Clock. Last year, I modded my console, and it survived that software surgery to come out the other side as an absolute powerhouse. It’s an emulation beast, has access to tons of phenomenal virtual content, acts as an HDMI PS1 when needed, and is still playing PS3 games that I discover and fall in love with like Ridge Racer 7, Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time, Flower, and Modern Warfare 2. I’ve even owned some real oddities for the console, like the fascinating RPG Time and Eternity, and I’ve really taken to the early digital games that it got like Super Rub a Dub and Super Stardust HD.

As things stand, it’s one of the most critical consoles in my horde, and I intend to use it as a crappy computer essentially until it dies. That’s basically what it is for me, and I love it to pieces for being so.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

I forget what, possibly fighting games, but something caught ahold of me with the PS3. It was years ago that I chose to trade my entire N64 library and system in order to fund a used PS3 in late 2018. Seven years later, I’m back on the 64 train, but it was worth the sacrifice because the PS3 helped shape my gaming taste as I hit my mid-teenage and adult years.
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The Super Slim was my choice. I was under the false impression that all PS3’s had native PS2 support, so I felt like I could justify owning one to my family that way. However, this was not the case, but that didn’t end up mattering. Our family had always been Nintendo, and I personally had been playing with sixth Gen or older consoles for years. Owning a system with actual online functionality, a customizable OS, actually good ports of older games, and various series that had never been on Nintendo was like a godsend to me. I loved Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3. I sped through Sonic Unleashed until my fingers went numb. I got a good bit of fun out of Doctor Who and the Eternity Clock. Last year, I modded my console, and it survived that software surgery to come out the other side as an absolute powerhouse. It’s an emulation beast, has access to tons of phenomenal virtual content, acts as an HDMI PS1 when needed, and is still playing PS3 games that I discover and fall in love with like Ridge Racer 7, Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time, Flower, and Modern Warfare 2. I’ve even owned some real oddities for the console, like the fascinating RPG Time and Eternity, and I’ve really taken to the early digital games that it got like Super Rub a Dub and Super Stardust HD.

As things stand, it’s one of the most critical consoles in my horde, and I intend to use it as a crappy computer essentially until it dies. That’s basically what it is for me, and I love it to pieces for being so.

Although the PS3 Super Slim is not one of the top models like the Fat and Slim Version, it also had its own thing and you also had a pretty good experience with that 7th Generation Sony Console .

 

[bjork]

I think I've told this story here before, but PS2 on launch day. I camped in line despite paying it off early, because they wouldn't guarantee it unless you were in line. So I got there at 10 am for a midnight launch and was second in line. They wouldn't let me get two (I had paid for mine and my dad's), so he was gonna have to wait in line too. So he showed up around noon and was maybe #20 or so, but he found a guy filling out job applications in the food court and paid him $10/hr to wait in his place until he got done working. He showed back up around 6 pm, paid the guy, and we walked out together at about 12:15 with our shiny new PS2s. Good times, even though it was long.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

I think I've told this story here before, but PS2 on launch day. I camped in line despite paying it off early, because they wouldn't guarantee it unless you were in line. So I got there at 10 am for a midnight launch and was second in line. They wouldn't let me get two (I had paid for mine and my dad's), so he was gonna have to wait in line too. So he showed up around noon and was maybe #20 or so, but he found a guy filling out job applications in the food court and paid him $10/hr to wait in his place until he got done working. He showed back up around 6 pm, paid the guy, and we walked out together at about 12:15 with our shiny new PS2s. Good times, even though it was long.

Despite the long line, You and You Dad finally got the PS2 and that was on launch day or days later but hey.

 

[Crashbandi]

MY second console was a Sega Genesis, got it for my birthday one year when I was 11-12. Had Golden Axe and Risk. Risk was impossible to play because I had gotten a little black and white TV with it. But golden axe was a ton of fun

(Edit: Misread title of the thread, thought it was just a general second console question. But I'm gonna leave it)

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

MY second console was a Sega Genesis, got it for my birthday one year when I was 11-12. Had Golden Axe and Risk. Risk was impossible to play because I had gotten a little black and white TV with it. But golden axe was a ton of fun

It's Okay Friend but in this thread it is related to Sony (PlayStation) and not Sega.

 

[Crashbandi]

It's Okay Friend but in this thread it is related to Sony (PlayStation) and not Sega.

Yeah I misread the title.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Yeah I misread the title.

Don't worry my friend, that happens to some.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

MY second console was a Sega Genesis, got it for my birthday one year when I was 11-12. Had Golden Axe and Risk. Risk was impossible to play because I had gotten a little black and white TV with it. But golden axe was a ton of fun

(Edit: Misread title of the thread, thought it was just a general second console question. But I'm gonna leave it)

SEGA is never too far away. No matter the thread…

I love this story, btw. I think it’s far too easy to forget how long it took for color televisions to get into every home, and stories like this really help keep the reminder alive of how things really went. I recall my Wii being black and white when connected to my oldest TV for some reason, so I just played it in Black and White for years until it stopped reading discs.

 

[_Lorenzo_]

My second Sony console was… (brace yourselves…) a fat PS2. I don’t remember the serial number, but I bought it pretty late, in 2002. I decided to sell it a few years later to get a silver slim model that came bundled with Tekken 5. It still works perfectly, but unfortunately—just as expected—the CMOS battery is dead.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

My second Sony console was… (brace yourselves…) a fat PS2. I don’t remember the serial number, but I bought it pretty late, in 2002. I decided to sell it a few years later to get a silver slim model that came bundled with Tekken 5. It still works perfectly, but unfortunately—just as expected—the CMOS battery is dead.

Although Tekken 5 is one of the best fighting games on the PS2 and at the same time is a perfect arcade port.

 

[_Lorenzo_]

I agree, although I preferred DR on PSP for pretty clear reasons... After the rather unbalanced fourth chapter, there was a big leap in quality... Do you like Tekken or do you prefer something else?

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

I agree, although I preferred DR on PSP for pretty clear reasons... After the rather unbalanced fourth chapter, there was a big leap in quality... Do you like Tekken or do you prefer something else?

I played Tekken 1 (Arcade and PS1), 2 (Arcade and PS1), 3 (Arcade and PS1), Tag Tournament (Arcade and PS2), 4 (PS2), 5 both the Vanilla and Dark Resurrection (PS2 and PSP) and 6 (PSP).

 

[MajesticSiN]

The PS2 when it came out.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

The PS2 when it came out.

And also that the launch of Sony's best-selling console was a resounding success.

 

[Spyrone]

My second was the phat PS2, if you don't count the PSOne I got as a replacement for my first PSOne (they were both the late slim models of that console) after it overheated and died because I would have to leave it on constantly if I wanted to beat a game that didn't have password saves because I never got a memory card for it.

 

[Miles Miles]

Because for me it was this:
Porque pa' mi fue esta:

Sony PlayStation 4 (Fat Model ~ Modelo Fat) (2013)
Glacier White ~ Blanco Glaciar

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My second Sony console was also a PS4 fat, but it was black instead of white.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

My second Sony console was also a PS4 fat, but it was black instead of white.

Superb my Friend!

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

My second was the phat PS2, if you don't count the PSOne I got as a replacement for my first PSOne (they were both the late slim models of that console) after it overheated and died because I would have to leave it on constantly if I wanted to beat a game that didn't have password saves because I never got a memory card for it.

Honestly, it is quite a pain to try a PS1 and PS2 game without being able to save the game and especially if you do not have the Memory Card. Because a simple restart or shutdown of the console goodbye progress and start everything again from scratch.

Although in the first PS1 games they had password systems like Doom/Final Doom for example.

 

[semyaza]

プレイステーション ツー

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

プレイステーション ツー
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That PS2 Flyer was pretty weird.

 

[semyaza]

That PS2 Flyer was pretty weird.

i have no rebuttal sir

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

i have no rebuttal sir

Don't worry my friend.

 

[Burzuru]

psp. mines one of the 2000s models.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

psp. mines one of the 2000s models.

and one of the best models of the PSP by the way.