21yrs ago today, the PS2 was released in North America

[Sterling Archer]

Couldn’t afford this. Had to settle for a dream cast

Negged

 

[Renegade47]

 

[Koba St]

Naughty Dog have come a long way

 

[Apollo Kid]

I remember waiting on line outside of Best Buy..Played Madden 2001 for 12 hours

 

[Regular_P]

I remember being astonished at how good Madden looked and played when this came out.

Seeing Grand Theft Auto III for the first time at a friend's house.

I think this will always be the biggest generation leap in my eyes. The difference from PS1/N64 to this was unreal. Laid the foundation for everything after.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Stood outside Best Buy with my bro for like 6 hours just to get told they were sold out.

My dad got lucky and found one at EB games like a week later

Played madden, tekken, and midnight club for like 10 months before we got another game

 

[Koba St]

I remember being astonished at how good Madden looked and played when this came out.

Seeing Grand Theft Auto III for the first time at a friend's house.

I think this will always be the biggest generation leap in my eyes. The difference from PS1/N64 to this was unreal. Laid the foundation for everything after.

Absolutely. The difference between MGS1 and MGS2 was absolutely insane.

 

[Baka's Weird Case]

i just did yet another re-play a few days ago

 

[PS5 Pro]

The greatest to ever do it. I copped mine a year and a half after release bundled with GTA3 and MGS2, and the Matrix dvd.

The fun I had in my bedroom that night

Well, as I've told many times I was working at funcoland (which was later bought by GameStop) when this launched and till this day I never seen anything like it.

Imagine black Friday hysteria for months.

And, this is why I'm anti Sony. Because Sony knew of disc read error and told us they not gonna do shyt about it. My launch console only played CD and not DVD so Tekken tag wasn't played after work that day, at a friend's house 10 deep, all of us ready to get it in and that shyt happened.

Now the idea of a warranty for a console was unheard of. We didn't buy warranties for the NES, SNES, Genesis/etc. Sony introduced disc based gaming and that's why nikkaz had PS1's upside down just too work after a while.

The PS2 had disc read error and that was so widespread that our store was filled with broken systems stacked to the ceiling. Sony almost got away with it but was sued and lost class action lawsuits worldwide over it.

I BAN BET ANYBODY HERE THAT CAN PROVE ME WRONG
@GoldenGlove you have my permission to nuke my account if anyone can prove otherwise

So that's why they sold 150 million ps2s because DRE disc read error forced everyone to buy at least 2 systems if not 3. And Sony stans didn't know what was going on or why kinda like the Vax Anyways, y'all gave Sony a pass then talked shyt the next gen when Xbox finally had an issue. You only remember the red ring of death, you don't remember how Microsoft fixed every system for free for the first 4 years of the Xbox 360s existence regardless of problem. Didn't lose class action lawsuits worldwide, didn't deny there was ever a problem like Sony or their stans

And they called us battered housewives then, and gamepass is bad now. Let's celebrate Sony getting away with murder brehs

 

[Cladyclad]

I bet on sega twice. Buying a Dreamcast was the last time I ever bought console not named PlayStation.

 

[King Sun]

I loved this console so much I got it fixed 2x for the controller port issue.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I had to turn my ps2 upside down to play games by the end fo its lifecycle

 

[BlaccSunrise]

Spoiler

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition
Burnout 3
Viewtiful Joe
Okami
GTA SA
Sly 3
Ratchet UYA
Psi-Ops MIndgate Conspiracy


the list goes on and on and on Most fun I ever had with a console period.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Well, as I've told many times I was working at funcoland (which was later bought by GameStop) when this launched and till this day I never seen anything like it.

Imagine black Friday hysteria for months.

And, this is why I'm anti Sony. Because Sony knew of disc read error and told us they not gonna do shyt about it. My launch console only played CD and not DVD so Tekken tag wasn't played after work that day, at a friend's house 10 deep, all of us ready to get it in and that shyt happened.

Now the idea of a warranty for a console was unheard of. We didn't buy warranties for the NES, SNES, Genesis/etc. Sony introduced disc based gaming and that's why nikkaz had PS1's upside down just too work after a while.

The PS2 had disc read error and that was so widespread that our store was filled with broken systems stacked to the ceiling. Sony almost got away with it but was sued and lost class action lawsuits worldwide over it.

I BAN BET ANYBODY HERE THAT CAN PROVE ME WRONG
@GoldenGlove you have my permission to nuke my account if anyone can prove otherwise

So that's why they sold 150 million ps2s because DRE disc read error forced everyone to buy at least 2 systems if not 3. And Sony stans didn't know what was going on or why kinda like the Vax Anyways, y'all gave Sony a pass then talked shyt the next gen when Xbox finally had an issue. You only remember the red ring of death, you don't remember how Microsoft fixed every system for free for the first 4 years of the Xbox 360s existence regardless of problem. Didn't lose class action lawsuits worldwide, didn't deny there was ever a problem like Sony or their stans

And they called us battered housewives then, and gamepass is bad now. Let's celebrate Sony getting away with murder brehs

Have ptsd and carry a life long grudge for having to work retail brehs