I bought EVERY PlayStation 2

[@KostadinVargulev]

Well....i was expecting a lot of PS2 console...not a PS history lesson and barely 5 minutes of actual PS consoles

[@williamackley4952]

same, i was expecting him to play on them and try them out, should be called ps2 history lesson

[@YoungMrBlue]

Same I was expecting something like the Playing 7th gen consoles in 2023 videos

[@gerardomaltos2596]

😂😂lol same here I was like let’s see the playstion but 😂.nope just history lesson

[@TheHardcoreLegends]

Even I would have more to show 😂 and I'm a Xbox guy 🤣

[@Luv_Sammy]

You must be new to KZbin then

[@Spacething7474]

false, you guys didn't buy 160 million+ PlayStation 2s

[@iplayrandomgamesosendmesom7036]

They did its in the back

[@austinevans]

damn sorry

[@Spacething7474]

​@@austinevansapology NOT accepted!!!! once you buy all 160 million, then i'll forgive you...

[@maksymiliankuznik4856]

yea, I'm still surprised that my PS2 is still in its place

[@Crytkee]

real

[@Houze968]

I remember I worked at Sears in electronics at the PS2's launch.... we got SEVEN units, so naturally we did a lottery for a chance to buy one. There was a girl that worked at the Footlocker, she saw the crowds outside our entrance at the mall and jumped in line, got a ticket thinking we were giving away something. Lo and behold, her ticket was drawn and she got excited, until she found out it was for the opportunity to BUY one. This girl turned around and sold her ticket to some guy in line that offered her $600 for it.

[@arvindrueben]

Smart girl. She could then buy it later for 299 and pocket the rest. 😂

[@Houze968]

@@arvindrueben IIRC, she did end up getting one later for her bf

[@TheCommanderTaco]

Funny how history repeats since that was the situation we found ourselves in with the PS5 / XSX ( minus the outrageous scalping since the internet was still in it's infancy lol).

[@Houze968]

I distinctly remember watching eBay throughout the day and for at least a few days after... they went for like 1200-1500 at peak, so not hugely off what the PS5/XSX went for during their time (and that's not adjusted for inflation, 1200-1500 at PS2 launch is roughly 2100-2700 now)

[@Justanotherinvisible]

I also sold electronics at sears when the ps2 came out. We had a plain cardboard box that held six units. The day before ps2 was supposed to launch, I took that box onto the floor and sold all 6 to my friend in exchange for him giving me one. He then sold the others for around $1k each. My manager wasn't happy about it, but I didn't get fired. I proceeded to buy a sweet 36" jvc that had all the right connections. Last Playstation I've ever owned...because xbox is better. True story.

[@MobikSaysStuff]

Damn, clicked on the video thinking you're gonna show off every PS2 version released, didn't expect a history lesson for a time before I was born but I'll take it.

[@Alpha-Daddy]

“A time before I was born” yikes😩

[@michaeljones1763]

​@BrenKo12 oof that hurt, I feel old now lol

[@michaeljones1763]

​@@Alpha-Daddy oof that hurt, I feel old now lol

[@dylanjury4886]

That line hurt me hahah​@@Alpha-Daddy

[@wotanmituns33]

What year you were born in?

[@Denyah_]

man i can hear the CRT static in the background. that takes me back

[@alejandroc4083]

I thought my headphones were going bad

[@vanss5019]

hi denyah

[@Denyah_]

@@vanss5019 hi

[@ItsNoot3rch]

hi beat saber

[@Denyah_]

@@ItsNoot3rch beat saber

[@speedwaynutt]

The ps2 at the time was the Ultimate Dvd player that just happened to play games in a lot of homes

[@TheCommanderTaco]

I remember my family pooled our income tax together to buy the PS2 and Smackdown. My sister's friend who owned a DVD player would occasionally bring over DVD's which would make me sad because it meant the family would be using the console as a player and I couldn't play games lol.

[@Sessionsjc]

the DVD benefit was massive.

[@purwantiallan5089]

​@@TheCommanderTacoSmackdown HCTP even in 2024 still is a legendary wrestling game.

[@TheJoshuaJames]

it was the #1 reason parents paid that much for a game thingy

[@ljrouse5]

I remember i had a ps1 when i was little and it was my birthday. My 2nd to last present was a ps2 game and my mom apologized for buying the wrong game since i inly had a ps1. Next present was a brand new ps2. My parents tricked me but damn ill never forget the PS2. 007 agent under fire was my favorite game

[@TheRoughGo]

I had the same thing happened to me but my parents were split and my dad got me a gba pokemon game and I only had Gameboy color, I went to my mom's later that day she had the Gameboy advanced SP, it was the best

[@purwantiallan5089]

For me it was Gran Turismo 3 and 4 and Shadow of the Colossus.

[@Dunk716]

EBK like im Juvie JU

[@stephenstrussvideo]

I remember getting the PS2 on Christmas and I was so excited. My dad, who wasn't much of a gift giver, had no clue about anything to do with video games but he knew how excited I was to get the PS2. He found a copy one of those Game Informer / walkthrough guides at a store and gave it to me alongside the PS2, which was clearly sourced by my mom. He was so proud of his purchase and getting me something he knew I'd love, I still remember his excitement to this day.

[@michaeljones1763]

Oh that's really sweet, love this story 😊

[@purwantiallan5089]

My first PS2 games on Christmas 2000 of course are Harvest Moon 3 and GRAN TURISMO 3.

[@eveypea]

PS2 hack: when the optical drive begins to not work from aging, place the PS2 upside down in the horizontal orientation

[@CrashFan03]

feel like discs would just fall out of the tray if you did that

[@lukedavis436]

Not in the drive but when you hit eject they will. ​@@CrashFan03

[@glennphil1942]

What???? 😂

[@lukedavis436]

@@glennphil1942 something to do with the Lasers ability to "bob up and down" (I forgot the technical word for it) And as it's constantly pointed down it has to work less go focus.

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

@@CrashFan03 how it literally snaps in lol

[@OutsideDuhBox]

My Mom and Dad, what I believe bribed a gamestop employee to save them a bundle that was overpriced at 650, just to be able to give me a ps2 that christmas...best Parents ever. 😢

[@enragedbacon470]

Microsoft didn't include the licensing for DVDs with the console, so they sold the playback kit which gave a remote, and the license to play DVDs, so consumers that wanted that option could have it.

[@TheCommanderTaco]

Don't forget they also later tried to push their own format ( HD-DVD) as well ( or was that the 360 era? I don't remember anymore lol).

[@MatWilson2612]

​@@TheCommanderTaco that was the 360 :)

[@enragedbacon470]

@@TheCommanderTaco that wasn't "their own format" it was the format made by companies competing with blu-ray, Microsoft didnt push hd-dvd, they simply sold the accessory to be competitive with sony on a movie playback level. If it was pushed by microsoft they would have put it in the console instead of a movie-only addon.

[@samgao]

from what I recall, 75 million polygons/sec was unlit straight poly's. When textured, lit, and a animated, I think it came down to 5-10million? I don't know which game has the most polys in a single frame... But looking into a lot of the older forums, everybody was guessing FPS and even people diving into refresh rate (60Hz). But nobody talked about frame-time producing a byproduct of framerate!

[@Boss_Fight_Index_muki]

If memory serves, it's referring to tri-vertices (ie triangles), no lighting, textures, etc. Like t-flops, it's a pretty impractical metric.

[@devilmikey00]

@@Boss_Fight_Index_muki Yeah, it was mostly marketing fluff. All the companies do it prior to a console release. Just like how companies now brag about teraflops or how Sony made a huge stink about it's SSD.

[@Dan-Simms]

The ps2 being the cheapest DVD player on the market at the time was a huge win for them, i knew ppl who bought it just to watch DVDs, which, as a gamer, was wild to me!

[@purwantiallan5089]

Xbox back then dont even have a DVD player unlike PS2.

[@WLGAi]

this is just a clickbanit name whole video is if you talk about story about PlayStation not you bought them

[@Lovell93]

I miss the 3 disc Final Fantasy games.😭 There was no better feeling than when the screen popped up “Insert Disc 2” and you feel that feeling of accomplishment and joy, like you’re really going far. Games are so short these days, they prioritize graphics over everything else.

[@Imyerda]

Yip same. Shenmue on dreamcast & resident evil 4 on gamecube are my favourite disc swaps.

[@cartridgechokers]

I don't even have nostalgia for the PS2 because I have consistently continued to play it since I was a kid.

[@hyperturbotechnomike]

Same here, still play it because it is the best co-op console to this day. Nowadays almost everything is online only subscription live service rubbish.

[@KetsubanSolo]

It's also super easy to mod, so having an HDD full of games you loved + games that never made the jump to modern times is great.

[@prz98]

Old consoles were pushing gaming hardware forward, nowadays consoles slow down industry and limit games as a weakest link.

[@mattnordsell9760]

I got my PS2 the very day it came out on October 26, 2000. My dad went to Electronics Boutique for me and when he picked it up for me, it was the very last one that they had left in stock for the pre-orders. I had it until it was stolen in 2006 along with a lot of other items from my bedroom. My disc drive ended up needing to be replaced and Sony did a warranty replacement of the drive and it worked great after.

[@DryRamen]

I remember when my dad brought home a PS2 for me and my sister. He got Nascar for himself and Dragonball Budokai for me. We played both games together and is a memory I hold close.

[@treedoor]

The PS2 was not my favorite system of the generation, but I would go back in time to the year 2000 if the only system I was allowed to play was the PS2. That entire generation was phenomenal.

[@eratixxleake]

Sony making the ps2 slim was such a flex. Imagine the ps5 shrinking down that much

[@Blurredlines777]

I would say the biggest graphics leap was from the ps2 to the ps3

[@Rainwen1die]

Hell no

[@watercannonscollaboration2281]

I didn’t know I needed a video on the PS2, but after watching to the end I realized I did

[@Dark_Emporium]

My fondest memory was driving for about 4 hours in Seattle to find a store that had one.

[@oldmangrumpy1634]

The fact that this is best selling console ever and it's the one generation I went Nintendo over PS, and that I still haven't gotten one, is what keeps me up at night. Feel free to send me any spare consoles you have.

[@nethalar]

PS2 was my big dive into gaming. I had systems like the SNES and 64, and my cousin had a PS1, but when I finally got a PS2 it felt like the future.

[@dylankerns8934]

When the PS2 came out I was actually grounded and not allowed to play video games. My stepdad actually got one launch day because the one we ordered hadn't arrived so he went to Best Buy and waited in line to get it. When he got home and plugged it in he sent me out of the room and i sat on the steps and listened to him play Midnight Club for what felt like hours to my 8 year old self before i was finally allowed to come into the room.

[@majinya6199]

Damn that's sad, I wouldn't be able to do that to my child if i had one

[@frozedokkanbattle]

Love this series definitely love the in depth look on these consoles, would love to see this type with the other consoles.

[@FrederickJGaming]

Playing Killzone on split screen with friends was some of the best times ever.

[@MyChemicalRipix]

Hey Austin this video was a good breath of fresh air with a very good history lesson, while I’m not a worker at overclocked media I think this type of video is very important to put in rotation like a info video then a mystery tech and another info video. Hope that you continue this content

[@vishalkalicharan7710]

You lied! You didn't buy anything!

[@TheZoenGaming]

The simple fact that they continued to make the PS2 console during the lifespan of the PS3 console, but chose to drop backwards compatibility on the PS3 for PS2 games is just plain sickening.

[@candykid5135]

ps2 is the best console because : 1- huge library of games 2- it plays ps1 games 3- it's a dvd player

[@itscarlosg233]

20:01 the ps4 is not discontinued

[@shottydd]

For online gaming, PS3 was awesome. It was free!

[@ynglingen-qd1iw]

I only have one thing to say about the PS2. "Carry on my wayward son, There'll be peace when you are done" (8)

[@DustyTheDog]

Everyone forgets about the EyeToy. PS2 was the first console to use a camera and your body as a controller.

[@Chree1s]

The PSX actually sold poorly back then, and for good reasons. It sold poorly for a multitude of reasons, it could be a bad hard drive, bad laser reader, bad ports, even a bad motherboard. While you can find them online when they pop up, theyre always listed as not working, its a neat collectors item though.

[@joeblow5214]

Price and complexity. You know how there are TVs and projectors that are tens of thousands of dollars that next to nobody buys yet in line below it you can have TVs that are a few grand and people will snap those up and then you have the TVs that are sub $1000 that will buy more then the middle tier? PSX was that premium product that may have sold okay but was absurdly complex. It may have been solidly in that middle tier.

[@kdcampo]

my ps2 is missing the top shell and the entire disk tray assembly. i got tired of having to disassemble, clean, and fix the tray so now i just set my disk on the spinner and put the magnet ring on top and play my games like that. the disk tray really was the worst part of the ps2.

[@Sod4126]

that dreamcast fish really predicted the future

[@JeffisWinning]

In later years, the PS2 was hacked wide open to do all kinds of great things.

[@marxcore]

at 5:45 you mention a beautifully remastered final fantasy 7 which is incorrect. The game your are referring to is Dirge of Cerberus which was story that takes places 3 years after final fantasy 7 and focuses the character vincent.

[@devilmikey00]

Good thing about that phat PS2 is you don't need the disc drive in 2024. 30 dollars on aliexpress for a free mcboot memory card and gamestar sata network adapter will let you load anything you want off any ol' sata HDD/SSD.

[@Magzzz971]

what a coincidence upload, i just finished my 3 day project of modding my old ps2 from the depths of the attic

[@iamjimbodini]

Colleges bought PS2s for physics work. Another nifty fact.

[@AlgoTheCarpathian]

Best part about this video was when you showed a few seconds of a bizarre, black and white PS2 commercial, and I immediately paused to Google "Playstation 2 commercial David Lynch", which confirmed my suspicions...

[@vardaankaushal8560]

You need to recreate ultimate ps2 video. Most of the accessories failed in that video

[@andrewarmstrong5266]

I thoroughly enjoyed this, and Austin kept the annoyances to a minimum only letting it out when he tried to play on the console, that was a major win lol

[@thumbtak123]

When I was younger, I always thought the PS2 wasn't really selling well as it took years before I knew someone that owned one.

[@lordcorgi6481]

I remember skipping school on Friday to spend all night at the mall being first in line and playing games until like 3am Monday before i finally went to bed 🤣

[@YoungMrBlue]

Didn’t realize this was a retrospective I thought there were gonna be random boxes thrown on a table

[@acrquino]

i have 2 fat ps2's that are hacked and just bought a PS2 slim from a coworker. Im so excited for the slim since ive always wanted a slim since they came out

[@PeptoPoops]

I remember DVDs first coming (Sorry, a back in my day moment) out and getting a bunch of VHS for 99 cents as stores shifted them out.

[@hyperturbotechnomike]

I remember similar happenings here in Europe. Only blanks kept on selling at original prices, because there weren't any DVD recorders yet and HDD recorders were overpriced. A friend of mine had a HDD recorder, which was if i remember right 1000€ and it was just a PC with a tuner card, special GUI and remote in a specialised housing. It even ran Windows.

[@joeblow5214]

DVD launched as a format in 1996.

[@Redd2879]

I love this series! Please keep going.

[@kevinnanua7670]

Love the history! Thank you! ❤

[@montywh]

there's one feature i think only existed on the phat model. long time ago before i owned one of my own, i'd visit friends who had a PS2. one night, while everyone was asleep, i popped in Rival Schools (PS1 game) into the PS2 and played on my own for a while. then surprisingly, after what felt like 30 minutes of gameplay, the graphics suddenly updated. going from standard PS1 polygons to full blown PS2 cel-shading. i've only owned a slim when i got my own, and never got it to happen there. at this point, it's starting to feel like a fever dream unless i can buy a phat and try it again

[@TheTekknician]

The PS2 TV is set to Dutch, I'm Dutch so this made me laugh and made my evening!

[@Imperatrixxy]

Yeah, I noticed as well. Not Dutch myself, but I'm currently learning the language. XD

[@CaptAxolotl]

Clicking the video thinking “cool special editions”. Leaving because its a documentary on the ps2.

[@Meowingdrengr]

either way im watching lol

[@JeskidoYT]

Yep exactly I wanted Austin reaction to every special edition of the console

[@mac3rdc]

I loved my PS2. I had a couple of them. One couldn't read white discs, one couldn't read purple discs and the last one was perfect.

[@YigitCanAydinSS]

Emulators are NOT illegal Austin 👍

[@pranavkaulgud1944]

There even was a Slim model with PSU integrated into it, eliminating the external brick, no one talks about it?

[@bensonsj98]

I just love the sheer size difference between the original PlayStation and the first PS2. 😂

[@stratuvarious8547]

Going from component video cables with the PS1, to composite video for the PS2 to HDMI for PS3, things changed pretty regularly over those 3 generations, even though the generations before followed the RF/component route for years before, and we've pretty much stuck with HDMI since.

[@SoundOfFreedom32]

I like these informing videos Austin. Thanks for making it :)

[@trentondohse1851]

My mom won an Xbox from Taco Bell back in the day. My sister and I were amazed. Few months later the Xbox came in the mail.

[@chriscroft2323]

hot tip: you don't need the fuzzy bit on your mic. that's to block wind noise outside.

[@Xmanant03_Mr03]

You gotta love emulation. It’s key to keeping these games with us.

[@threefeetoffun]

I used my first student loan check to pay for a PS2. I am probably still paying for it.

[@bgjck]

A lot of higher ups at Sony at the time didn't like that Kutaragi was going behind their backs with the development of the PlayStation but the CEO of Sony at the time, Norio Ohga was actually in support of Kutaragi and the PlayStation.

[@Cree182]

I remember when I got the PS1 and then my dad won a PS2 through his work. Even the PS2 design was cool.

[@tylergardner7260]

I got a modded ps1 for Christmas in 2001, it came with like 40 or so burned games (complete with cases and cover art) and I was ESTATIC until my friends were bragging about their PS2 and Xbox acquisitions. I felt mildly jaded by that at the time. Looking back at it though, my family did what they could with what they had and my Pawpaw really enjoyed him some Tomb Raider triangle boobs.

[@Melbester9]

Your family was poor basically. My older brother had PS2 in 2000 when it came out. Basically playing PS2 games on it. Everyone had PS2s by 2001 when the games were coming out for PS2. 2001 was a big hit for PS2 games.

[@realspider3219]

20:25 actually all game stations are Nintendo

[@Boss_Fight_Index_muki]

i got a ps2 from Best Buy on launch day and the salesperson forced me to buy a "protection plan" with it. 2 years later the rumble feature stopped (it wasn't the controller, multiples were tried), and that Best Buy attempted to weasel their way out of honoring the "protection plan" i was forced to buy, or they wouldn't sell me the ps2

[@lukahmad5683]

I love this kind of videogames history video

[@peanutheadrules]

the problem with the PS2 Slim was that it didnt have the fans so it was easily prone to overheating and the disc/lens drives would fail on these all the time.

[@TheOutsidersEdge]

My best friend had a PS1 while I was still playing N64. I didn’t get my first PS until PS3 was around and by that time it was already 2yrs old. It’s still my most nostalgic PS console even tho I have PS4 & PS5 as well.

[@vincentmiller7332]

The Nintendo switch is getting very close to the sales record of the PlayStation 2 surprisingly

[@moncalimarimoncalimari8964]

Its crazy how it still sold 50 million during the 7th generation

[@JustinTv27]

Austin, you should do I bought every PlayStation 3 fat versions. 😊.

[@SL4F]

21:02 - it's the thought that counts, your dad tried his best :)

[@Madboiwastaken]

This console was pure genius and perfection for its era 🔥🔥🔥

[@devilmikey00]

The SNES handily won against the genesis. Out sold it by nearly 20 million units in a console gen where neither home console sold over 50 million. That's not Nintendo "barely coming out on top", that's Sega being definitively 2nd place by large margin. Heck, the Genesis came out in 1988/89 and was out sold by the NES during the 2 years those products overlapped in relevancy.

[@SayanOfRagnarok]

Honestly, the ps2 was awesome. It had such a long lifespan because once game devs learned how to optimize for it, games looked so much better toward the end of its run it was like having a new console.

[@Mutalisk101]

The audio picked up the CRT white noise for most of the video, and it was kinda annoying lol

[@DiabloBiscuit]

Dreamcast had the BEST version of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and I will die on that hill.

[@LiquidPolarity]

100% agree.

[@CrashFan03]

idk i hear the xbox version's a strong contender

[@wiiownsps3and360]

“Xbox has dedicated servers.” 😂 it’s 2024 and this still isn’t the case.

[@Peterstarzynskitech]

8:15 that fish has more rizz than me. Lol

[@ZolinSith]

This is feeling like Icons the mini series. Man I miss Icons.

[@ammarahmed7566]

20:39 u are right i bought my PS2 literally before PS4 launch thinking nothing about production still active LOL

[@simenk.r.8237]

Just a tip, it might be smart to filter out the high frequency of the CRT TV in the background. Im not sure if that was the hi frequency sound i heard in all the talking clips but there is a really loud «CRT like» noise😂

[@NASTYcraftX]

At 13 minutes, I realized he was wearing a PS shirt lol

[@Sessionsjc]

I remember standing in line at k-mart to get one. I got there around 3am and there was already 3 people in line. At about 7:30 the handed out tickets and the store opened at 8. I only had enough money for the playstation2 and 1 game. they had a limited selection of games mostly sport, so I go X-squad (what a shitty game). since i didn't have enough for the $30 memory card I played the first few levels over and over cause I couldn't save. With my next paycheck I grabbed a memory card and Smugglers run. I don't think I ever played x-squad again even though I could now save my game.

[@lucaslarson430]

Everywhere was sold out of PS2s and my brother was able to pick one up at the local GameStop on Christmas Eve because the lady in front of him in line had her credit card declined and he got the last one in stock

[@blaisetheginger]

I still have my original PS2 and it’s still completely functional. I love breaking it out on occasion for the memories.

[@lewismackay9533]

There were shortages? Not everywhere then as where I live they were pretty damn easy to get. Without needing to queue outside a shop lol. Every one of my friends and me had one. Our parents had no issues buying one.

[@Twenteeeee]

The ps2 is such a great street fighter machine

[@AndybudGe]

My fondest moment of the PS2 was where I had Suikoden 2 that had scratches on the outside of the disc. I was up to the last boss battle and the PS1 couldn't load it because of how many scratches were on it (it was a second hand copy). When we got out PS2, the first game I put in was Suikoden 2, and ohhhh myyy friggin lord, I could finally finish the game!

[@studybugsbunny4211]

When are you going to buy every ps3 and ps4 please do it soon

[@awsomewe360]

Has anyone else noticed? Playstation 1,3,and 5 are rounded and bubbly, and 2 and 4 are very angular in design.

[@smithy2365]

I miss the Ps1 ps2 hype. Games these days don't excite me as much. Yes I'm older, yes I don't play and converse with friends about games as much. Yes I have other things go do but man, the joy of those consoles have me for life