Man time flies once you hit 20. I first bought this baby to play GTA3 i think it was 2001, i've since had 3 of them and they all broke! but i love the console still, and i need to get another one soon so i can bust some Stuntman and Vice city.
Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Joined: Sep 28 2008
Location: South of Heaven
Posts: 1761
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 01:20 pm
I still remember how my jaw dropped when I first saw a PS2 in action (a reaction that was not replicated by this current generation of systems).
Like many, I bought my PS2 to play GTA3. I got it used from my GF's younger brother. I think it was an original model, and it still works. Occasionally has a hard time recognizing that a game has been put in it, but if I mess with it for a minute I'm good to go.
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 6113
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 01:25 pm
I'm such a late adapter lol...
I bought my PS2 to play FFX. I've done a pretty good job of making up for lost time since then, though.
Oh, and by the way:
William Shakespeare wrote:
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Godofhardcore
Joined: Feb 22 2010
Posts: 351
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 02:06 pm
I was a Dreamcast guy I didn't get my PS2 until 2007 or 2008. Yeah I think 2007 because I got my PS2 after I got my 360.
Thunderhorse
Title: This is DELICIOUS!
Joined: Dec 29 2009
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Posts: 1923
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 02:28 pm
Never got a PS2, but I got a backwards compatible PS3 about a year ago.I think Sony needs to bury the PS2 already. When the next gen comes out, the last gen console is supposed to die. Why does Sony insist on keeping the PS2 going? To make Wii caliber games without motion?
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Ash Burton
Title: AshRaiser
Joined: Nov 10 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1044
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 02:30 pm
I was in Japan when the PS2 hit the shelves. I was single, and lucky enough to be making enough money to be able to buy it months before it hit the US. I loved this system, a video game player and DVD in one? What a deal!
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
Posts: 1691
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 02:37 pm
I got mine in 2001 mostly to play Metal Gear Solid 2. I bought it before MGS2 came out so the first game I bought was GTA3.
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
Posts: 6544
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 02:41 pm
I have yet to own one. Mostly because I beat off to Nintendo.
Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
Posts: 5316
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 02:44 pm
I got it when Metal Gear Solid 2 came out, thought it was the best thing ever, until about 2003 where it started not reading games and then I stopped playing for quite some time because I had a Gamecube.
Godofhardcore
Joined: Feb 22 2010
Posts: 351
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 02:50 pm
Thunderhorse wrote:
Never got a PS2, but I got a backwards compatible PS3 about a year ago.I think Sony needs to bury the PS2 already. When the next gen comes out, the last gen console is supposed to die. Why does Sony insist on keeping the PS2 going? To make Wii caliber games without motion?
The NES kept going 4 years after the SNES launched.
Just sayin
jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 7091
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 02:53 pm
Actually, it was three years.
PJX
Joined: Jun 20 2008
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 408
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 03:01 pm
You have to admire it, it's the only console from that generation that's still it's own.......man?
No one cares about the original xbox anymore, the dreamcast died early although now a cult machine, the gamecube lives on the wii, the gba lives on the ds. But the ps2 is still going quite strong considering, will it ever outlive its usefullness? probably not.
Godofhardcore
Joined: Feb 22 2010
Posts: 351
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 03:05 pm
The PS2 is the new NES.
Quality wise it's the SNES
Defect wise...it's the 360 (Before the RROD there was the DRE)
Adrock4
Title: Mostly Lurks, Now
Joined: Sep 13 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 427
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 04:14 pm
The PS2 was an incredible console, in terms of games. I could kill a whole week with one of the GTA games alone. Shame mine is a dick and refuses to read DVDs.
pineapple
Joined: Nov 11 2009
Location: Cajun Country
Posts: 1511
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 04:17 pm
I never had one but happy birthday PS2.
username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
Posts: 16135
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 04:52 pm
my first game was smugglers run 2 i believe.
or was it dynasty warriors.
at any rate, i bought mine ages ago @ a gamecrazy. we got one years supply of free rentals and some other crap
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Godofhardcore
Joined: Feb 22 2010
Posts: 351
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 05:21 pm
MY PS2 forgot how to read discs and I forgot how to play Okami...so much for the 10th Birthday tribute.
sidewaydriver
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Joined: May 11 2008
Posts: 6160
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 05:44 pm
My PS2 is the first generation bought about a month after launch. DVD's don't work any more but games play just fine. Huge cake of dust completely blocking the vents, 10 years worth and never cleaned out, still runs like a champ.
Shake it, Quake it, Space Kaboom.
aherpesoutbreak
Joined: Dec 15 2008
Posts: 199
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 06:00 pm
When I first played a ps2, the first game I saw first hand on it was FFX. Going from N64 graphics to FFX completely blew my mind, and I needed to get it. I got mine on Christmas 2003.
It just doesn't seem like games have evolved as much over these last 10 years (at least on the surface).
I felt the same way, when I first saw PS3 and 360, I was very underwhelmed. PS1 to PS2 was a huge leap, PS3 just made things shinnier and glossier.
Shake it, Quake it, Space Kaboom.
V.B.D.
Joined: Dec 20 2009
Location: CA
Posts: 152
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 08:12 pm
I bought mine around christmas of 2000 (and it still works without a hitch!). I remember going to the mall with a friend every morning for a week during winter break to see if gamestop or ebgames had received a shipment (they were selling out instantly at the time). To deter people from selling systems on ebay, gamestop made you buy a 2nd controller, memory card and 2 games (I went with Tekken Tag and SSX) in addition to the system itself so it came out to nearly $600. To be honest my initial intention was selling it off on ebay for a quick buck, but once I booted up Tekken on my friend's machine and noticed how the graphics blew away the arcade version, I knew the thing was a keeper.
jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
Posts: 7091
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 08:13 pm
Andrew Man wrote:
Just think, when the NES was celebrating it's 10th anniversary, gamers were already playing N64 and the 3D generation was upon us.
The NES' tenth anniversary was in 1995; The N64 hit the market the following year.
Douche McCallister
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Title: DOO-SHAY
Joined: Jan 26 2007
Location: Private Areas
Posts: 5672
Posted:
Mar 04 2010 08:29 pm
I got my PS2 at launch when I worked at FuncoLand. I remember the first game I got was Orphan. I think Dark Cloud shortly followed. I still play PS2 from time to time that system was an RPG fans wettest dream.
