Why You Need a PS2 Right Now

The PS2 is the best selling console of all time, and heres why you need to own one.
Another reason to buy a ps2: THE GTA DEFINITIVE EDITION WAS GARBAGE GO BUY A PS2 TO EXPERIENCE THE GAME HOW THE DEVELOPER INTENDED. just a lil psa
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[@NVintage]

Silent Hill 2 is my favourite game on the PS2 and I made a video on it. Check it out kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2mWgqWiqsh5gNk

[@rescueca89]

I burnt out a couple games doing that

[@jackiefannin8616]

Nope well maybe the first like 2 or 3 days of having my first ps2 untill i got a memory card :/

[@eazyantrax213]

Nope I had memory cards for that 😆

[@satsadarkpath2094]

Silent Hill 2 was good, but I’ve always wondered why it gets so much love. It wasn’t THAT good. Silent Hill 1 gave me nightmares. 3 was cool, killing folks with your eye lasers and whatnot, and (I know I’m in the minority) but I really liked The Room 🤷‍♀️

[@T2odna]

Or just finishing the whole game in one sit I did it several times in gta sa , the most difficult in that is the parents

[@Faxy95]

Anybody else remember having to leave the console on overnight so you wouldn't lose your progress when your memory cards were full lol.

[@noxiouschocolate9644]

Omg me and my brother had to do that a few years ago so he could play kingdom hearts Edit: now that I remember we didn’t even have any memory cards so we had to try and complete the games we had all at once and leave it on for days lol

[@uhnetx42069]

yesss omg

[@hariv5664]

That's gonna kill the lens lmao, but still we all did it when we didn't know about it

[@CookieThug]

or if you didn’t have a memory card

[@JelloFluoride]

I've literally never done this. I didn't want to break my system lol.

[@jazeenharal6013]

That built-in DVD player was absolutely BONKERS for when it released. DVD players alone were like $300+. I got a PS2 that Christmas, and by complete happenstance. Here's the story, and I promise it's a good one: I actually gave my mom $200 as buffer money, to help pay for it IF she found one. (I sold my N64 and all my games, controllers, accessories, etc. to get that cash. Wish I hadn't, now that I'm a retro collector, but how else do you get big cash at 15?) She went to over a dozen stores, and at like the 15th store (Circuit City, "Where service is state of the art") she went to the customer service desk and asked if they had any PS2s. She expected another "No." The worker went back into the stock room and get this: there was ONE left. It was a layaway that had been abandoned and not paid for. Whoever had put it on layaway hadn't claimed it in time, and the layaway had just expired an hour earlier! It was such an astronomically rare thing. There was even a woman behind my mom that asked for one, and my mom got the last one. (RIP that kid's Christmas) She slapped down the cash and got it. But there's more: So Christmas morning comes and I saw nothing that looked like a PS2 under the tree. I was disappointed, but I expected it, so it wasn't like, catastrophic. I opened a bunch of games and a memory card, etc etc. (I still wanted to have all that stuff for when I finally did get a PS2.) After everything was opened, and no PS2 to be seen, my mom says, "I'm so sorry that I couldn't find one. Let me go get the $200 you gave me." I suspected nothing, she played it off like a champ. Instead of coming back out with my money, she walks out with a wrapped box the size of a PS2. And I opened it and saw the beautiful deep blue box. Omfg. There's still a picture of me, clutching the half-opened gift with a gigantic smile of amazement on my face. I WAS FLOORED. You better believe I called like 4 of my friends and told them to come over immediately hahah It was the most memorable Christmas ever. I had Eternal Ring, Summoner and Contra for my first games. All 3 games are fantastic in their own right, and the graphical jump from the PS1/N64 era to that generation was... utterly astounding to say the least. So anyway. I'm like 35 now and I will still never forget that Christmas, to my dying day! Thanks for reading. 😎

[@fururuha]

What a great mom you have

[@408hex6]

drop a link to a pic from ur reaction on xmas lol

[@HelloPersonReadingThis.]

I feel so bad for that kid’s Christmas. But that was a great story!

[@oldmanscoffe3851]

@@HelloPersonReadingThis. F that kid

[@jazeenharal6013]

@@408hex6 I actually found it, lol. But I wouldn't wanna put it all over the internet 😂 I had to find the actual physical picture because digital cameras were definitely not common then!

[@cg1548]

There were so many unique games on the ps2. Being born in 1999 I am so thankful to have grown up through these times as a kid.

[@fryloc359]

I was born in 1975, and its been an amazing ride watching the evolution of console technology.

[@davidwest9]

Same brother

[@Brain_Food-]

Today all you get are Battle royale, escape from takrov or games that rip off mechanics from another. Instead of asking for sequels or innovative IPs, they would rather want all games to be the same.

[@akiramenai4973]

You guys completely missed out on the change brought about by the integrated circuit. By the time you hit the scene, the tech world was already moving a million miles an hour. Watching it get started was the real fun.

[@ACarter87]

Wat..

[@janetcraft]

My Dad gave me his PS2 and I still have it :) He bought it second hand from a video store in January 2000 for $100 plus a Memory Card. (We also have the manual in its original bag). The storekeeper told him that the man who sold it to him said that his son wanted an XBOX for Christmas but the father knew nothing about video consoles so, he bought the XBOX for his son and traded the PS2 for XBOX games. After playing several games over the years, my PS2 wasn't loading up properly and some games even skipped. My Dad showed me how to take it apart, (we did it together) and I cleaned the laser eye and rubbed a bit of silicon paste where there is a platform made of an iron rod wrapped with a coil wire that moves the platform as the machine plays the disc. We carefully put the unit back together and ... it plays as if it just left the factory :) It's quiet. No noise except for the fan. My Dad and I visit some of the Thrift and second hand stores and video stores for PS2 games and we found quite a few good ones. I bought "Resident Evil 4" for $20, "Silent Hill 2" (no manual) for $10! (Both my ultimate faves). We managed to complete the series of "Lara Croft," "Splinter Cell," "SOCOM US Navy Seals," "Hitman," and "Syphon Filter," plus two or three other games that ran in a short series :) I don't want to play DVDs or CDs on my PS2. It's for games only. I have 72 games so far. Oh yes, had to buy a new controller. The "X" button on the old one didn't press down. New controller - $8.99. With all these great games still around and a "new" PS2 console, who would want anything else? Good video review by the way :)

[@martinlutherkingjr.5582]

People who didn’t experience it will never have any idea how mind blowing GTA 3 was at the time.

[@ThaCasualnooB]

I rememebr how crazy that game was and I also remember how disappointed I was when I came across the gta's that came out before gta 3 lmao holy fuck they were bad

[@krob8823]

For real!

[@XxchangriderXx]

Just remember people won't know how annoying it was writing down the cheats or of the game fucks u would have to buy another one

[@jordysgaming5292]

Yes I remember GTA 3 release I was so impressed with the graphics at the time 👌

[@ManAdam712]

My friend had Crazy Taxi, though 😁

[@rockabillly88]

Ahh the good old days where you could just put a disc in and play.

[@Izzy-fh8sr]

No subscription needed

[@justinbissessar]

@@Izzy-fh8sr no downloads needed to play the game

[@derickwest6996]

Lol man I gripe about this all the time to my brother. Buy a disc and have to wait 2 hours for it to download. .....or the other one that gets Irritating when you haven't played a game in a while and think oh that sounds fun it's still installed and nope their has been like 8 updates and you can't play until everything is updated. I miss just popping in a disc and playing.

[@lw8seven317]

no fucking massive updates

[@rockabillly88]

@@derickwest6996 and living in the country where my internet speed is 3mbps and it takes about 30 hours to update anything.

[@itsfine5818]

I don't think we'll ever experience a generational leap like we did when we jumped from PS1 to PS2. It was wild. Sure, moving to PS3 and 360 was still pretty staggering but not at all on the same level. Just the polygon count alone really gives you an idea of what were talking about, Lara Croft was made of around 230 polygons while the main character in SH3 was close to 6000.

[@jayo4739]

Ima have to disagree w you bro. The jump to 360/p3 was insane. Changed gaming forever

[@John-jc3ty]

the problem is that most of devs didnt take advantage of the potential of the PS2. just look at MGS2 and 3, those graphcis are amazing. then you have other games which have shitty graphics or very shitty performance.

[@AlchemistOfNirnroot]

I mean look at a PS2 game and then look at the end of the PS3 with games like TLofU, U3 and KZ3.

[@Jack-nj9pi]

@@jayo4739 all those did were revolutionize what the pc was already doing with online gaming but they were very similar to what the xbox and ps2 were already doing

[@Omari1125]

Can't leave out the Nintendo 64. The N64 revolutionized the gaming industry, no other console had analog control or force fead back until the N64.

[@Gyrbae]

Not only was PS2 responsible for most of my beloved gaming memories, it was also the beginning of my musical career. I was 14 or 15 when I bought MUSIC 3000 and it was infinitely better than my elementary school music teacher. The tools it provided taught me almost every trick I still use in the music I make today on FL Studio 20. I still have two PS2's at my moms house in storage, they both have a faulty controller 1 ports. I think I should get them back and repair the ports so I can play those games again. It's funny how my friend miraculously got a PS5 but almost all of his library consists of upgraded PS4 titles. It's ridiculous that we have these state of the art powerhouses but barely any games that utilizes its full potential.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

I was thinking about that music 3000 today, I go around the charity shops looking for it. I never find it.

[@Gyrbae]

@@HOLLASOUNDS I think you'd be better off buying the game from eBay, found loads of copies there if you want to give it a go.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@Gyrbae In My mind it sounded better in My memory however its sounds terrible to My ears now and that why I dont include Dance Ejay and Music 3000 as the start of Me making music or producing.

[@Gyrbae]

@@HOLLASOUNDS I still would. Ofcourse it sounds outdated by todays standards, it only had samples instead of an actual synthesis engine and had no mixer or effect section, but it's still a sequencer/arranger and the fun starts when you venture outside the presets. Yeah it's primitive but it helped me to get my musical ideas out before we could afford a computer in my family. After that I transitioned to FL Studio and been using that ever since.

[@johnny5413]

This was the golden age before everything turned to remakes and microtransactions

[@ForeverMasterless]

If you think there's ever been a better time to play games than now you're crazy. Sure microtransactions are annoying but they only really effect AAA games and even then only some of them. This has been a bomb af year. It takes two, psychonauts 2, grime, outer wilds dlc, guardians of the Galaxy. Just off the top of my head.

[@johnny5413]

@@ForeverMasterless wow that blows my mind.... i don't know if you are delusional or just a gen z kid who grew up without the games we were lucky enough to grow up with but i could easily pick one game from my era that would trump all five of those games in terms of quality and creativity. For every game you think of released this year in 2021 i could pick five from a select year between 1990-2004 that are irrefutably better. Not that i need to actually do that to prove some point on the internet but I'm just saying the graphics might of sucked but in terms of quality, creativity, world building, story, art design, sound/music etc that is how big the difference is between what we had and what we have so little of now with todays video games.

[@etheveganchef3666]

@@johnny5413 killer instinct,Mortal kombat, metal gear solid, golden eye Mario kart, nfl blitz, nba street I could even go back to castlevania, mike Tyson knock out, the adventures of Zelda “ gold cartridge” and that’s off the top of my head

[@KevinGomez-fz1yg]

Like some game companies don't wanna risk their buck on making new games anymore, just milking their games for an easy money. Like Rockstar Games or EA.

[@Arguinghen]

@@ForeverMasterless Look, I get that we’re kind of in an age of accessibility for games right now, but as someone who is gen z AND has tried both old and new generation games, I have to argue that current triple AAA console games right now feel a bit uninspiring and what I would consider stale.

[@edjecollins4141]

I've said for years that the PS2 will always be the best. When consoles switched to being dependent on internet, they have built in planned obsolescence. My ps3 is almost a brick now because of updates but my ps2 works just as good as when I first got it.

[@StevenJones851]

Well said it still works when i play the Spongebob Squarepants Movie video game

[@jarredkrum9894]

None my ps3’s work they are paperweights lol my ps2 still works and games were awesome on ps2. Its all i really play nowadays

[@craigj2483]

Still have my ps2, owned since 2001

[@martinsauer9403]

I also still have my PS2 I got in 2005 Still works perfectly My PS4 already broke twice Nothing beats the PS2 games

[@MrSuperG]

I agree I will never buy one again after PS4.

[@Just_a_PokeGuy]

I've still got mine, still play it regularly, and when I have mates over we still do the split screen action. Which is missing from 95% of games now days. Love it. Play it more than my PS5.

[@Threezus17]

Why did you get a ps5? Wtf

[@JustACowThatLives]

@@Threezus17 well if he wanted to get the PS5 I don't judge him I just don't like the newer consoles though because you have to pay to play games an example is the xbox one you have to pay to play games such as fortnight or roblox it's pretty stupid of why I need to pay just to play my console that I payed like 400 dollars for

[@sspectic]

@@Threezus17 Respectfully, stop living in the past bro

[@Threezus17]

@@sspectic he said he plays it more than the ps5 and people who want the ps5 like myself can't seem to get it because people like him don't even use it just raise the price twice as much

[@sspectic]

@@Threezus17 ohhhh I get it, AND YEAH THATS ANNOYING IVE BEEN TRYING TO GET IT TOO I LITERALLY HAVE THE MONEY NEXT TO ME AS IM TYPING

[@Spo8]

Sitting here with our 5 GHz chips and 32 gigs of ram, it's crazy to think about how so many of my absolute favorite games growing up ran on such a tiny fraction of that. I'm endlessly impressed by developers who managed to get this hardware to really sing.

[@jacobmadafaka8232]

at the time that 200mhz and 32mb of ram was not that much worse than 5ghz and 32gb of ram tbh. They were doing their best in terms of graphics and gameplay, and it wasn't much harder than today

[@Rumblefan]

I can guarantee you if developers took as much advantage of todays hardware as they did back then, we’d be seeing much better graphics and performance than we currently are. Just look at 360 and ps3 games for instance, some of them run at native hd resolution and have decently detailed textures and run smooth enough, and they did all that with 500 mb of ram. On top of that, some developers didn’t take advantage of the ps3s SPEs in the early days, so a lot of the games just ran on one cpu core.

[@dnice7979]

Not only was it a low cost DVD player it was an entire gaming console. So many games was released for this 🔥🔥. This was truly a generation of great games !

[@greatwavefan397]

And a Linux computer.

[@kerred]

Also a good stepping stone for the future of broadband online console gaming (THPS3 as a great example on how to do lobbies, chat, and host control). THPS4 and Timesplitters were great precursors in content sharing and free user content, eventually showing the true potential in Halo's Forge. I feel free user content sharing played a big part of the golden age of gaming

[@friendlyneighbourhoodstoner]

I always say that PS2 defined a whole generation.

[@NerdToob]

Could not agree more! I miss the days when a game was released as is. I'm so suck of these lazy development messes that get released with hundreds of bugs and predatory f2p "content"

[@StevenJones851]

Yeah Playstation 2 was good 👍

[@RacingGamerJosh]

Still play PS2 to this day. Not getting rid of it, ever.

[@hectorcastro1803]

what games do u play, i have one but don't have many games.

[@RacingGamerJosh]

@@hectorcastro1803 Oh I have a lot of PS2 games. But they are mostly racing games though.

[@AquaFan1998]

Same and just getting more and more games for it, i have a fat og ps2 and a slim one as a backup incase it ever stops but i heard the fat is rewly reliable so i dont thinks thats gunna happen anytime soon

[@RacingGamerJosh]

@@AquaFan1998 I used to have a PS2 slim growing up. But now I have a PS2 fat.

[@AquaFan1998]

@@RacingGamerJosh cool :) i heard the fat is a reliable beast, but the slim is good. I have both, a fat which i use personally to play and the slim is used by my family as a dvd player to this day but its a backup incase my fat ps2 breaks in 2050 😂 but seriously its a backup :)

[@isaywhateveriwantandyougot7421]

This is without a shadow of doubt my favorite console of all time. A place and time when no matter what studio or what genre a game belonged to, it always had a place on the shelf. The social mobility is just gone.

[@KRBRR]

My dad bought one for me years ago,i still play on it and it's the only console that i have,i made so many good memories,thank you dad.

[@dreammfyre]

PS2 is the last pure mainstream console, where you didn’t need a day one patch and download a bunch of DLC to fully enjoy a game. It also has an absolute bonkers library with just an insane amount of variety. I remember people just owning one for the casual games like Buzz, Guitar Hero, Singstar etc. I definitely feel like it’s popularity will get a big resurgence the next few years or so. It’s still completely underexposed compared to the old Nintendo stuff.

[@FairbrotherStudios]

I still jump on mine from time to time for LOTR Two Towers and Return of the King, plus my guilty pleasures... Harry Potter!.

[@devonjames7999]

@@FairbrotherStudios Harry Potter is never a guilty pleasure lol

[@ekinteko]

I think the PS2 was the best in its generation, one of the best consoles in history. It was released 1-2 years sooner than its competitors in most countries. It was cheaper. And was literally the best way to watch DVDs which was the equivalent of KZbin back in the day. With that said, the next generation (as a whole) was the better console generation. Hear me out. If you owned a Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 in the same house that was great. The Wii gave you lots of child and family friendly games, and the gimmick/motion gaming with your guests. The PS3 gave you a BluRay player and some of the best exclusives ever. And the 360 was a cheaper console, great graphics, and the best online multiplayer experience. So you had three distinct experiences during that eight year 2005-2013 period. During the five year 2000-2005 period of the PS2, GameCube, and Xbox. Well it wasn't as diverse. The online multiplayer was in its infancy. The GameCube had many great games, but nothing as special as the Wii with its power to get your grandparents to play. Whilst the PS2 was a great DVD player and had some great exclusives. As a whole, this generation wasn't as diverse as it's predecessor. Things got worse later with the WiiU, XB1, and PS4. That's when slow loading times, day one patches, and microtransactions became prominent. The midcycle "Pro" refresh was rather lackluster from the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X. Whilst the Nintendo Switch made for a disappointing WiiU upgrade for TV connected use, it was a revolutionary upgrade for anyone coming from a 3DS for Portable Console. The latest generation with PS5 and XSX is exciting, for the fact that the consoles have returned to competing against PC Gaming hardware wise. So I expect this is going not going to be a short 4-year lifespan but rather a lengthy 8-year one. In terms of "handhelds" we have the Valve SteamDeck (and it is a Console) which I think is going to be great for this generation. As for Nintendo, we don't know what they will release, but it's soon. According to their history it is a 2-year window (DSi XL to 3DS, or New 3DS-XL to Switch). And since we just got a "new" OLED Switch in 2021, I think that means Nintendo is halfway working on its next-gen console which they will release in November 2023. It is possible Nintendo will keep the Switch as a budget console for handhelds, and make it's next-gen console a Home/TV unit instead. We will have to wait and see.

[@radry100]

You can still play PS5 today without internet, patch or DLC. If you have one with disc drive ;)

[@WunderwaffePrime]

I think a lot of it is underexposed because of that variety. Many people bought Nintendo's older consoles for their first party offerings and many people bought PlayStation's for their third party offerings. Most Nintendo console owners will have played a lot more games in common than PlayStation owners will have with each other due to the wider variety of third party offerings on those consoles.

[@SheNeverCared]

I remember trading my friend my Xbox for his ps2 for a month so we could play the console only exclusives, good times.

[@jessiewade9202]

Facts!

[@w0nu]

Thank you for the input sad vibes forever

[@diablocls55]

I was lucky enough to own both consoles (however I bought the Xbox used at a garage sale for like 100 bucks). Had great memories with both consoles

[@tyranmcgrath6871]

Awesome bro. I miss trading like that in school

[@zacharydetzauer3961]

Man I remember play need for speed under ground as a kid and singing get low all the time in school😂😂😂😂

[@hexagonal69]

Not only did I own one in 2021, I’m still owning one in 2022. It’s incredible how long it’s been chugging along considering how much it’s been used.

[@Niqu33n]

Im trying get a power cord. Do you think amazon has good ones??

[@ethanreddy6551]

Thats quality Something modern gaming systems dont have

[@demyxix1273]

Nothing over the good old ps2 i have the ps5 and elden ring was fun but most of the games are cashgrab AAA bullshit with a lot of patches, dlc and battle passes. It feels like a big mobile phone Game console….

[@kartiksalian5306]

@@Niqu33n yea yea you can buy yourself a power cord from amazon. Recently just a few days back, I wanted to buy myself a power cord for my ps2. Thought of buying it from amazon but then I was like what if they send the wrong one, so then I went a local store who sells electronic items, and he was selling a power cord, so yea check with a local store of yours, you should get it mostly!

[@aarepelaa1142]

I've still got a ps2 for like uhh, since 2012 or something. Don't really use it but i might sometime replay some of the games like the sly coopers, and uhh i don't have any great games on there, oh oops forgot i have need for speed underground and most wanted for it.

[@returningwhisper]

The PS2 loading screen brings back so many good feels.

[@Vibey_Nautical-119]

Ffx

[@urmumsballs69]

Yeah but also terrified feels for when you forgot your TV was turned up so loud and you turn the PS2 when your family are in bed, nightmare fuel hahaha

[@lukash.p.6631]

Its so weird how i can replay any game from the ps2 era over and over again, and never get tired of it, they are so FUN, creative and unique.

[@frankwest321]

Plus you save money on WiFi, game passes, the buy able dlc, and the overall cost of the games and as you rightly said the games are still great fun to play

[@Flyingsandwiches-nr1zc]

@@frankwest321 you hit the nail on the coffin. I still play NBA street till this day. I think I have the best record in the world. My points are over a million too lol. I'm looking for NBA street 2 and NFL street and a few more games.

[@RedEyedModok]

SSX Tricky!

[@ilijabosnjak76]

Memories are priceless,MOH,ATV Furry,Onimusha,GOW,Soulcalibur etc..awesome console and still rocks 🪨,remember Dance Revolution 😂 😆 😝

[@YouMadeMeLawn]

@@ilijabosnjak76 Driver, Tony Hawk, Socom, Need for speed, Madden

[@aarongedge7596]

So I watched this whole video waiting for him to tell me why I need it 20 years later, and all I got was a history lesson.

[@cyberswiper6317]

I wish I could go back to those good days of gaming…

[@nissan2829]

The absolute best part of a ps2, no constant GB game updates that takes hours to download (depending on network speeds), just to keep playing.

[@elizabeth5561]

And you dont have to download new games. Just pop it in and play it.

[@nissan2829]

@@elizabeth5561 the internet has truly ruined the gaming experience

[@krob8823]

Facts.

[@overcastskyline1747]

they need to stop messing with us and actually put the game on the physical hardware, it may be on there yes but it sure doesnt seem like it, im not looking forward to the day when they get rid of physical media, imagine everygame you buy moving forward cannot be traded in, lended and tied to an account, dark future for sure.

[@Straight_White_Fatherly_Figure]

And you don't have to pay for content. Its all there

[@atribecalledjudah5436]

Class of 2001, still doesn’t feel like 20 years have passed by.

[@Zombie_13x33]

04' here

[@B33FY2011]

Class of 01 myself, although I didn't end up finishing school. I remember when the PS2 first released and how hard it was to be able to get hold of one. I got my first PS2 in 2002. I had GTA III, Gran Turismo 3 and Metal Gear Solid 2 to start with. What a time to be alive. The PS2 was and still is to this day the best console ever made and released.

[@monkmane2345]

Class of 2017. Dont worry i feel old too

[@rougetitan6896]

sadly 2019 was my year but i had this when i first came to america ❤️

[@Sk4M_.RangeroftheNorth]

My Bruvva.💯👊🏾

[@ChicagoRetroGamer]

I definitely want to get a working PS2 this year. I have also just purchased a very similar CRT TV that you show here. Cheers and rock on!

[@hollowanimations4709]

PS2 made my teens such an amazing place. don’t get me wrong I grew up in a time when this was so new that playing outside and climbing trees was actually very fun. I’d grown up without gaming as it was a new technology. Obviously at the time it just seemed the next best thing. Now though..... I have to admit. PS2 rules. 10/10 games! 10/10 appearance and 11/10 nostalgia ✌🏼

[@hollowanimations4709]

I won’t lie GameCube is so underrated. Insane console! 🤙🏼

[@saado99]

The DVD player functionality was absolute KILLER at that time, it really was a cheap DVD player while also being a system.

[@davidpacheco2780]

It also played EVERYTHING. There were discs that didn't work on other DVD players

[@raul76603]

What are DVDs? I'm kidding

[@trentdabs5245]

Cheap ? I disagree My Ps2 would play burnt and damaged CDs & DvDs if the Ps2 wouldn't play a disc then it was Dead

[@lawrencedrozario4703]

I just exchanged a JBL Headphone nd a smartphone VR to get the PS2 90004 model today because I really like playing games in Winter with a Hot Tea nd buiscuit's.

[@martok2112]

PS2 was my first DVD player, and considering I love video games, what a bonus that functionality was. I switched from VHS to DVD immediately, and within a few short months, my DVD collection exploded.... same thing with PS4 and blu-rays. I need to get my old PS2s fixed... especially considering I still have a large library of PS2 and a few PS1 titles.

[@ghostcat5303]

Playing GTA3 for the first time in 2001 was one of the best gaming experiences of my life

[@Vagorim]

I’ll never forget when I was 8 years old I dressed up as Harry Potter and won a Halloween contest and won the PlayStation 2, my parents played the absolute hell out of it including myself when I was done with homework some of the greatest games of all time as well ps2 was a legendary system for its time

[@cxx23]

Something I never thought of until now is how amazing it is that the PS2 kicked so much ass that even amongst the Gamecube and Xbox, which were both very successful releases, it came out not only on top, but ridiculously so. Just crazy to think that the PS2s numbers were this high even with their competition seeing great success. The PS2s success was just that much higher.

[@ACarter87]

Which is why I’ve always been a PlayStation person Anyone who was actually around and playing during that time understands All the others are Xbox players lol

[@cxx23]

@@ACarter87 I mean, I am an xbox person. I never owned a Sony console after the PS2. Honestly what happened is that I grew out of the console wars mindset. It helps that these days every console is basically the same but with a different look and minor differences. Aside from exclusives of course, which only exist to create an actual pull away from their competitors. At this point I just love games. If money wasn't an issue, I'd own every single console.

[@festushaggen2563]

After having played and owned almost every new console for the last 40 years, all I have and play now is a PS2. All I want it now is an easy pop in and play experience as it used to be and multiplayer is the guy next to me on the couch as it should be. Quick, easy and fun is what it’s all about.

[@NobodyUR]

Switch is pretty much plug and play. And I agree if I buy a new game I don't want to wait to install it and large day one patches just to play the single player

[@johnmcclain2652]

The PS2 had online multiplayer…

[@bojangles6444]

Ps5 has no loading screens..

[@SilkyLew]

@@johnmcclain2652 Gaming wasn't as mainstream as it is now. Some people probably didn't know.

[@johnmcclain2652]

@@SilkyLew sure it wasn't "as" mainstream. but let's not act like it wasn't mainstream. The PS2 sold 500k on release day. And people were definitely playing online. I still remember playing Call of Duty and Resident Evil Outbreak online with no problems. This guy was just making statements and doesn't really know what he's talking about. There are still plenty of games that are couch co-op on current and last gen systems. And MANY games will let you put the disc in and play without installing. I have a huge PS4 library and majority of my games will be ready to play a few seconds after popping the disc in.

[@butteraviation2184]

My dad bought a PS2 when it was launched in 2000. He didn't use it much but had a lot of great games. A few years ago he handed it down to me an to this day the console works just like it did 20 years ago

[@hairypancake4425]

Damn, I feel old.

[@darksoulsss2618]

You'd be lucky if your ps4 didn't hard crash within the frist year of owning it...

[@hairypancake4425]

@@darksoulsss2618 All my friends are super lucky since non of our PS4 break since 2016. 😂

[@darksoulsss2618]

@@hairypancake4425 maybe am just super unlucky with modern consoles 😪😪

[@willraya1791]

similar thing happend to me i started a retro gamin collection and my dad still had his so i pilfered it and its in my room chillin till i get a monitor

[@LITTLE1994]

Thank goodness I still have my PS2. Fun memories with that console.

[@ojbeez5260]

I miss waiting outside the store for 2 months prior to release with my tent and sleeping bag in the freezing cold and driving rain, just to buy one. Ah, those were the days!! I really miss that side of things, makes you really appreciate the console when you get it not like these eBay scalpers nowadays, takes all the fun out of it. I did get pnumonia though...but is was so worth it just for the memories of queueing outside for so long!!

[@adamellis8829]

The full backwards compatibility feature was the most important factor for me personally. The PS1 library was so strong, and when the PS2 came out I still had a massive backlog of amazing PS1 games to get around to.

[@walterreedjr6762]

I wish backwards compatibility was available on the ps4 going all the way back to ps2 or even 3. Evened numbered consoles with backwards compatibility. Great idea

[@samfkt]

@@walterreedjr6762 You can play PS2 games on PS4.. but digitally or if you hack the console.

[@JayFFAFAlesanaES]

I have a BC ps3 and it is just as good at playing ps2 and ps1 games as the ps2 was. So, for me, the ps2 is irrelevant nowm

[@unknowntitan5884]

I'm still working on my PS1 list and still building a back log of games

[@tacosmexicanstyle7846]

@@walterreedjr6762 sadly it would never have been possible. Previous PlayStations were only backwards compatible because they had the old physical hardware inside them. PS3 had a physical PS1 inside it, which is why you can put in almost any PS1 disc and it will work without emulation. This has totally changed with PS4 and PS5, since the hardware and machine languages are completely different. All they can do is software emulation. There is a PS2 emulator bundled in the new consoles, but it’s far from perfect and you need to jailbreak the console to get it to play games that you didn’t buy off PS Store

[@viperthedragonsamurai.001]

The PS2 was my first game console ever. I still have it and I’m replaying NFS Most Wanted 2005.

[@shadowx3432]

Nice.. I still have my PS2 slim and I'm yet to go get NFS Underground 2

[@Cyber16_]

lucky

[@viperthedragonsamurai.001]

@@shadowx3432 I’ve got NFS Underground 1 and 2 as well.

[@ezioauditoredafirenze5453]

That was the better NFS Most Wanted. That newer poorly named NFS Most Wanted was not as good.

[@DudeOfTheWeek]

First racing game, favourite racing game.

[@Eralen00]

one of my favorite games of all time is spider man 2 for the ps2. The swinging mechanics were just incredible and so satisfying. They didn't hold your hand and prevent you from crashing into buildings like the new spiderman games do. I spent hours and hours just doing the races trying to beat the "hard" times on all of them. I never managed to beat all of them before i eventually got rid of my ps2... i really wish i had kept it. We all thought games and gaming were just going to keep getting better and better as time went on. The games look prettier but overall gaming experience is getting worse. Loot-boxes, greedy companies pushing out half-assed work, etc. Unfortunately my PC is not that great so I can barely run ps2 emulators above like 20 fps

[@beast0339]

I love my PS2. I bought it back in I think it was either the spring or summer of 2012. £3.50 from a fella in a car-boot sale. and managed to find a controller for it for another £1. My uncle provided me with the cables and a memory card since he never threw them away, dug out a composite-capable television and I'd play on it for hours on end every Saturday. When the summer rolled around each year, I'd go car-boot spelunking with my nan and my sister each week. and over the course of about 4 years of doing this I accumulated some 50 games all for around £1-3 each. Good stuff too. I got a copy of Half-Life, the console exclusive Call of Duty titles, Gran Turismo 3 and 4, NFS Underground 1 and 2 along with MW and Carbon, Crash Bandicoot, Sonic Heroes, Simpsons Hit & Run, all sorts. I'm glad that Cex still carries PS2 games just for the fact that everyone and their mother in the UK had one of these things when they were new.

[@trigun442]

My dad got me a ps2 and a 20 inch TV. I was so damn hyped cuz I got my own TV. Yes it's microscopic to today's standards but obtaining your own TV without using the one in the living room or battling your siblings who gets to use one is amazing. My first 2 games were scorpion king and the almighty dark alliance (this game is freaking amazing!) I remember not having a memory card so I and some of my friends would just keep replaying the same missions over and over since we can't play for long because of curfew. Buying a memory card was EXPENSIVE. $24.99 was no joke. It took me almost 1 month to get a memory card after getting a PS2. Man those were the days!

[@lando227]

Yess Gauntlet was my childhood!

[@3um]

I never had a console, just a PC. Two years ago a friend of mine gifted me a PS2. Now that I only have an old MacBook I connected it and realized it has all the games I loved on PC like NFS Most Wanted. Also it has Gran Turismo, which I wanted to play a lot, but couldn't since I didn't have a console. Love that thing. Also makes me sad cause when I realize how old all those games are.

[@derechtem0mo]

dont be sad about, rather rock that ps2 and have an amazing time with it! Many people do these days. Im lucky that i could afford myself a really decent gaming pc that can play pretty much everything at 4k resolution. But i still find myself very often playing some Tony Hawk Underground 2 on the good old ps2 and have way more fun than with any new pc game.

[@MirrorNoise]

I love your commentaries dude keep it up! I love how you don’t edit a shit ton & you stutter here and there it seems very genuine almost like an actual conversation

[@Tygeera]

I remember I was at a Toys R Us and saw the promo poster on the window near the entrance before the Ps2 was even out. I had an N64 at the time and I remember being blown away at how the console looked. Then on the Thanksgiving it launched I was over at a house with some of my mom’s co worker friends. They had a PS2 when it launched and I was even more blown away with how the games looked. I remember they had Tekken Tag and Timesplitters. They had a son who lived there who was a few years younger than me. I was always an extremely shy kid but I ended up playing the ps2 with him. I ended up staying the night there the same day I met all of them which was extremely unlike me but I was so in awe of the ps2 and didn’t want to leave. The kid that lived there ended up being my best friend growing up and I spent many nights there playing Ps2,Xbox, GameCube, and PC games. They had it all lol. Many good times at their house and made games a passion for me. I’d kill to live a week in that time period again. Best times of my childhood.

[@Ahriman216]

This is my favorite console, my memories can't be trumped. Now, games are mostly boring and most, are cash grabs.

[@black914015678]

I though I was the only one who thought games nowadays are garbage. I'll never R get rid of my old Consoles and screw new consoles. I'm done with them

[@WeirdSmellyMan]

The games didn't get boring. You just got older. If you were a kid right now you'd like todays games.

[@derechtem0mo]

Also graphics back then didnt really matter that much. Revisiting my ps2 novdays makes me think alot when you just played on a decent gaming pc before, did it really look that shitty back then? No, because i was using a 4k tv and a hdmi adapter for my ps2 and it should look more sharp but you just notice how "bad" it looks novdays , im not sure but i guess ps2 was below 720p

[@WeirdSmellyMan]

@@derechtem0mo graphics have literally always mattered. Every system since the Atari has been toting how powerful their systems are and how much better their games look.

[@Xanderfied]

I liked PS2, but PS1 holds a special place for me.

[@SuperDuperGamimg]

The thing i love about Sony console's is the start up sound of each console.

[@kuolemanlaakso1696]

PS4 doesn't have one, does PS5?

[@MickeyMishra]

that really was one of my favorite parts of the PS2 as well I used to just leave it on and fall asleep

[@wabbajack8283]

PS2 was and is still my favorite console all of time, including its phenomenal theme. Breathing on the GTA: San Andreas disc your friend lent you and wiping off the marks, praying that it won't lead to the infamous RSoD. Blaring piano sounds as you open it, giving off mysterious and eerie feeling as you wait patiently... *NYOOM* -there it is, a sudden gush of serotonin, you are happy, it's a good day. It feels good in the summer of '06...

[@blooBerry371]

Ahhhh take me back to my childhood when I didn’t have so much worries and problems….back before adulthood showed it’s ugly head

[@Pugilis6789]

The good ol days when your mom said it’s time to sleep and you know that means playing the same campaign on big red one for three hours then going to sleep right before everyone wakes up

[@Targivod]

So people at your house only slept three hours?

[@gamerblondie28twitch58]

This Christmas I am passing down one of my PS2 models to a kid who's been asking for one. Cleaned it out and tested out some games. Also giving him a small stack of games. I really hope he likes it. I remember getting the PS2 for Christmas years ago🥰

[@jordysgaming5292]

I'm sure they will love it the ps2 has some of the best games ever made And a huge variety of games aswell PS2 is awesome even in 2021 👍

[@lawrencedrozario4703]

Well that's Christmas after all Cheers

[@gamerblondie28twitch58]

@@lawrencedrozario4703 exactly its about the kids 🥰

[@Jarmezrocks]

You're kind sole

[@gamerblondie28twitch58]

@Aram Ali lol yeah I'll get right on that...🙄 he wanted a PS2.

[@Zagy21]

Hey matey, loved the video as I recently got myself a Fat PS2. Now I wanna customize and mod my system; would you be so kind as to post some links of videos to soft mods for playing in 1080p? Thank you!❤

[@generfeld]

great production work on this video....the warbling music, lighting, slow zoom ins........the PS2 felt like pure magic coming from the N64 & Gameboy Color/Advance

[@antonydandrea]

I'll always remember fondly, being able to just pop a game disc in and instantly be able to play the game, not wait 3 hours for copying of game file plus any updates

[@Cahrub]

I was fortunate to have all the consoles, but some of my friends only had 1 and almost always it was the PS2. Definitely felt like it was the most popular, plus we were huge Tekken Tag fans back then 😄

[@JohnDoe-fe9zx]

So, about ur username, got any?😏

[@poppyzoomies1092]

Tekken bowling

[@fireball9937]

It sold 150 million copies and I think thew were still making them up until 2013

[@alfjones6377]

@@poppyzoomies1092 tekken beach ball. In Tekken 3

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

When I got the ps2 mini I was on the fence and shop owner said it's the last one He has so I'd better buy it before it's gone. I bought it and a cupple hours later when in to the shop to see another one for sale. His "this is the last one" thing was a lie lol.

[@Caffinity]

I was thinking about getting one! Do you have any great game suggestions to convince me? For the PS1 and 2?

[@the_flushjackson]

I have a modded PS2, but I remember ditching my original PS2 because of those idiotic expensive memory cards. Dumping it for an original Xbox with a hard drive was game changing. The PS2 is a great console, and these days you can get 128MB 3rd party memory cards for next to nothing, but originally they were like 8MB and cost $60+. Awful.

[@trevor19qhshe]

If i could have one system on a deserted island with its entire game library, it would probobly be the PS2. SO many gems on the PS2. And better versions of multi system games like Underground 2.

[@stillwinston3765]

Totally agree, Final Fantasy 10, Persona 3 and 4. Those games alone would keep u entertained for days

[@jayzcoverz1809]

I'd have a PC

[@vipset87]

ps2 has some GEMS that ppl dont talk about. Mortal Kombat Shaolin monks. - a MK beat em up. Simpsons Hit and Run - a gta like simpsons! The best Tony hawk games.

[@KingJay-kt3si]

Ps2 definitely had the best library, but most multiplats ran better on the og xbox

[@jayzcoverz1809]

@Just Some Guy without a Mustache no problem i got ton of games already so yeah

[@Lt.Dan210]

Me when I was a kid: Wake up eat cereal, Play game for 3 hours, go outside for 2 hours, eat lunch, play game for 5 hours, eat dinner, play games till its time for bed. I use to love the summer.

[@Ed_Assyrian]

That was the life. Wake up and play gta or timesplitters 2, or those demos with loads of games on them lol

[@CarefreeRambler]

My son is doing it too. Atta boy!

[@averagedelta]

Dude same

[@harvey_weenstain8857]

This comment made me smile.

[@LordDarthMorphine]

Remember the perfectly warm nights? Ah, the good old days.

[@ShortyMcvay517]

I still have mine and I got it the week they came out. Still runs like a champ and so many games to choose from!

[@darkprince56]

I'm sad because my PS2 has begun to occasionally fail to read the disk and so I'm in the middle of a game and then I get the message saying that the disk cannot be found. 😭 Do you think the laser is going bad?

[@ar4shihiro]

I'm 37 y now and I will never forget that time I stood in a long line waiting for my turn to buy a PS2.

[@bankruptsee]

Playing SOCOM with the broadband adapter was simply incredible at the time.

[@jwilliams5256]

Just one more round! Damn I am only going to get 3 hours sleep : D

[@Goldthius]

The memories! My first online experience on a Console ever.

[@dondotta1113]

Socom was great especially with the head set

[@Ruben-zz3ph]

Remember playing in a clan we all had super heroes real names I was Peter Parker and the password for our private matches was redfred

[@johnnycarson4729]

Socom online was amazing

[@obviousgreyman]

You could play me the ps2 intro sounds 70 years from now and it would still bring me right back. Very nostalgic console for me.

[@lordofthemound3890]

I saw a lot of these back in the day in the houses of adults. For various reasons (quality, immersion, game catalog especially), this console appealed to many adults who otherwise weren’t “gamers.” That’s how you end up moving over 100 million units, I suppose.

[@lewisgarrison860]

The first DVD player I've ever owned. And that music really brings me back. Dam.

[@gedionsamuel2256]

I remember hooking up the fiber optic cables to a Sony Receiver & watching a movie for the first time in Dolby Surround mode. I was literally thinking a chopper was flying above our house. It was shocking what was packed into the ps2. I’m glad I just picked one up.

[@kevinnix5495]

The only problem I had with my PS2 was the game disc were really sensitive to scratching and the lense hated the tiniest scratch, which sucks because they weren't cheap especially since it took a month of mowing lawns to afford one game.

[@TXFDA]

Honestly, I have mad nostalgia for most consoles and handhelds between the NES and PS2 era. I grew up with most of 'em. Outside of the Gamecube, didn't have one of those at the time. But I gotta say, PS1, PS2, and Game Boy/GBC/GBA are probably my all-time favorites. Lately, I've been playing a TON of PS2 games through emulation. I still have a PS2 in a box somewhere, but I only have a few games for it nowadays. It's just easier and more convenient to emulate. As for some games I've been playing lately. I've been playing Enter the Matrix and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Plan to start some others at some point. Final Fantasy XII, one of the GTA games, God of War, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Manhunt, Max Payne...so many others. My emulator currently has about 165 games or so to choose from, and I'm still adding more here and there as I find 'em. --- I almost feel sorry for the other companies going against the PS2 at the time. The Dreamcast could have been great, but it died pretty quick. Still had some really good games, but didn't last as long as it could. The GameCube was amazing, but it's Nintendo, they're almost always gonna do well because of their exclusive games. But even then, I imagine it lost quite a good number of sales because of the PS2. And the original Xbox...I had it, I loved the thing. But it wasn't the PS2. It was technically more powerful, had the original version of Xbox Live, had games like Halo and Jet Set Radio Future, but....it wasn't PS2, and didn't sell nearly as good as the PS2 did. There's no way any of them could have competed with it when it comes to sheer number of sales. And that's not even entirely down to the games. A huge number of sales were made because it was a DVD player, and cheaper than a lot of other actual standalone DVD players at the time. Even if people didn't just up and buy it because it was a cheap DVD player, the fact that it WAS a DVD player was used as a good argument from kids to get one, or even by parents wanting to look for an 'excuse' to buy a game console. The DVD player aspect alone blew up the sales. Add to that that people could play all of their original PS1 games, and didn't have to start entirely from scratch with nothing to play. And then add to all that, that the PS2 WAS actually a really good console with a lot of good games... And yeah, there's no way the PS2 was gonna lose.

[@daydream605]

My step dad threw my psx up the wall and smashed it when I was 8 years old, the same day he went out and brought a ps2 out of guilt. Never felt so happy and sad at the same time. The reason? Mom said no to his sleepover plans. Gt3 and command and conquer were the first games I ever played on it, followed by ffx. To this day it remains on my TV stand with a see through cutout to watch the disk spin and network adapter with 500gb ide hdd... and it still works, and to my knowledge it was release day console and I'm very impressed that the laser hasn't given up yet. It's been over 20 years.

[@michaelg8642]

damn that sounds abusive lol

[@daydream605]

Boomers didn't understand that's its safer to kill people on gta than it is to go outside in the hood.

[@jumpyjolt7015]

rip that ps1

[@janewick509]

Aw man😅

[@SuperEman500]

Wawaweewa, this makes me very excite

[@EpicBongZilla]

Having a PS2 now is an excellent idea. Still the best console that was ever produced for it's time. And the numbers show. No console has sold more units at launch, and no console has ever had such an impressive game library. But you dont even scratch the surface as to why you actually need one or what its capable of. You need a PS2 because it can can do so much more then what it was capable of 15 years ago. Not only is it the best console ever made by history with the largest game library. But you can now easily "Soft Mod" these consoles with little to no effort at all. Expanding its use 10s of times. You are able to purchase memory cards commercially that instantly turn your console into an expanded version of its self. Once you've obtained one of these memory cards, which by the way are dirt cheap, not even 10 dollars. Your PS2 becomes capable of loading from HDD. You can have a massive library ready to play at a moments notice. Without having to risk damaging your discs or more importantly your laser for reading discs. Then you can have the ability to synthesize higher resolutions for your games. Like I can force any game to become native widescreen aswell as being displayed in 1080p which is far above the output the console displays, but it works fine when you have a HDMI cable connected to the console. Then we have the ability to simply burn games directly from an original PS2 disc and write it straight to the HDD you've added to your console. But that's still not all we can do. What about emulation?? We can do that too. How about having the ability to emulate any console up to PS2 on your PS2. Can be done aswell. My PS2 has a massive library of games for Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, PS1 and N64. They all run flawlessly on the console, love playing some zelda on my PS2. This is still not even half the features available at your fingertips when you have a "Soft Modded" PS2. Theres still so much you can do, but I've already written a wall. If you have interest in what I'm describing. Your first step is to acquire a "Free Mcboot" ps2 memory card.

[@tonyoverland677]

Hey bro I have a pal ps2 can you point me in right direction to mod it like you described?

[@AimForTheBushes908]

Very cool post! Thanks for sharing. Time to blow the dust of my old ps2 and put it back together

[@RodgersXLVmvp]

I literally still have the OG PS2. Not the dumb skinny one , or the 2.0 one , the big box one , got it the first Christmas it was released and still have it , with all the games. So tell me how to do this shit you talking bout lol

[@chadcmb]

I'm so glad I read in comments to fond someone also asking "why he didn't tell us why we NeED one click bate" Thank you for the info. Now my idea of needing a WII is no longer needed. Also my kids rooms have one ps2 and other has ps3. Can you also do this to ps3?? :)

[@AimForTheBushes908]

@@chadcmb I'm guessing the newer pa3 tech is even more capable of those tasks assuming the antipiracy protection is defeated.

[@supercededman]

What iterations/versions of this console are recommended? I have a PS5, but am eager to try Gran Turismo 4.

[@Doughboy842]

Good thing I bought myself a ps2 recently and a bundle of games with it. Might go back play some of my fave titles as I've felt disillusioned with the current gaming industry as of late.

[@Retku22]

I just started homebrewing my PS2 slim and found some really good games from my childhood. GTA SA, Need for speed, the Sly Trilogy, Crash games, NHL 07, WWE here comes the pain, Cabela's hunting and fishing games, some Spyro games, ATV offroad 3 and Burnout Takedown 3. Free MCBoot truly saved my ps2 because it could not read discs that well.

[@vxlkermord]

san andreas > vice city

[@Jacob-rb3vi]

Spyros the shit bruh

[@LinKueiDragon]

Crash of the Titans is still the best Crash game.

[@LinKueiDragon]

@@vxlkermord By far.

[@yusuftumanbay9087]

Sly trilogy is gold, it was my first game in the box when i got ps2

[@vinicinfodexota5083]

The fact that you could mod the og PS2 to have a built in ssd and just put thousand of games inside without having the need to buy the games, it was incredible

[@ShinryuZensen]

Fun fuct: the PS2 bus is not even fast enough to take really advantage of SSD disk speed. It's capped at fairly low speed..you are better off with a mechanical drive with much more space and maybe an IDE-SATA converter.

[@fahmiperwira]

@@ShinryuZensen thank you sir for pointing out

[@tacosmexicanstyle7846]

@@ShinryuZensen it’ll probably last longer than an SSD as well

[@ShinryuZensen]

@@fahmiperwira don't mention it. Helping each other is the best way to live.

[@ShinryuZensen]

@@tacosmexicanstyle7846 not necessarily, but the price difference par gigs might be an advantage

[@R0NThaDon]

I love this thing so much I still play socom 1,2 online. Get a free mcboot memory card and a usb thumb stick download a few patches online, pop the usb stick in the ps2, start it up, go online, and you’re back in Socom 1,2,3 and at least 10 other good games. There’s only about 30-60 people on the weekends and usually 10-30 on weekdays/nights after 5 pm. But whoever reads this you can play too. It’s pretty easy.

[@ogloc7999]

The days playing def jam fight for NY on ps2 back then ... can anyone else relate

[@LiquidTutnix]

Nostalgic bro

[@Larro256]

Yo All The Time

[@landonnice2272]

Best fighting game ever imo

[@yugendranmurugiah7705]

Yes. Just got one. Can’t wait to test it out

[@tylerp3327]

Wish I didn’t sell my copy… have you seen what they sell for? Like $200. Sold mine for half that.

[@nickgiampaolo9977]

My high school graduation gift from 2002!

[@ALI_FA17]

Nice! My graduation gift 2021 is the ps5 :) Enjoy playing!

[@dennismolina9033]

Those were the days when game consoles were just simple, straight fun gaming, without using the wifi, annoying system updates, i still have my PS2!

[@CodyHimselfXI]

I found one at a flea market for $5 2 years ago. I had all of the cords already, the dude said it was broke so I decided to take a chance, especially considering it was in amazing condition. Just a little dusty. I opened it up and the thing looked like brand new. Plugged it in turned it on and I was surprised how quiet it was. Tested out an extremely scratched copy of FFX and it booted like new. Best $5 I ever spent. It's now hooked up with Component cables from HDRetroVision, an optical cable and I have 2 licensed controllers and memory cards in near new condition. I didn't realize they made basically every Guitar Hero/Rock Band game for this thing...needless to say I own almost all of them.

[@Mav0585]

My parents got me one for Christmas on the release year, absolutely insane how they were able to find one. I was so excited as a kid!

[@philipayers7471]

I remember how hard they were to find. I couldn't get my hands on one until mid spring.

[@christopheraustin7344]

I still have my PS2 phat model I bought new many moons ago. Still works but has some laser issues but I have the modchip and hard drive to load my games onto. Many have said to keep your PS2 since the early BC models of the PS3 had alot of thermal and YLOD issues. But I do like that loading games from the hard drive, having upgraded the network adapter to SATA the load times are much improved. So yes even the PS2 still has value even as of today.

[@nikedoesthings]

I bought the PS2 when they lowered the price to 199, I had been saving up so much but it was sold out everywhere so I patiently waited. And then I HAD to buy Budokai (and later the sequels to it), since I was a major DBZ fan. Later I played the SSX series as well and Kingdom Hearts. Those are my most prominent memories of playing on the PS2. I still have it and I shall put it back to use soon :D

[@GTMQ8]

I didn’t look up this video but last night I was talking to my cousin about how convenient the PS2 was as my first DVD player for quite a while before I finally purchased a stand-alone DVD player which were pricey at the time. I watched Batman Beyond Return of the Joker, Clerks the animated series, Powerpuff Girls, The Party and a bunch of other stuff on my PS2.

[@weldjibla6425]

I prefered the PS2 as a DVD player rather than buying a new DVD device ! The fun thing back then was watching your favorite movies AND playing your games, ya m3awad ahsan Jihaz wa Ahla ayam. :D

[@viceverse11]

This was the greatest system of all time.

[@IDontModWTFz]

Am I mistaken or could you remove the disc on CoD Big Red one and still play as long as you don't leave the mission

[@maskiert6420]

I still have my families original PS2 and PS2 lite. Funny thing is taht when christmas comes around or thanksgiving. My family get together and play Virtual fighter on the ps2 with the same nostalgia and joy we had as kids

[@Austin.D]

not only can you watch movies on the ps2 but you could also put in CD and use it as a music player

[@GoGo10170]

Glad to see somebody else still plays this! 🤣 Some games I've got are NBA 2k6, star wars battlefront 2, call of duty 2, call of duty 3, Tekken 4, call of duty WaW, star wars the force unleashed, and Socom.

[@tolkcs2229]

Bro I play COD WAW TOO On xbox but WAW is dead r.I.p

[@willywally5997]

Yo our pfps are so alike

[@dwadeisthegoat2020]

Just bought another one like 2 months ago it still holds up years later

[@caeserromero3013]

My brother had a PS1 and PS2 from new. I didn't get a PS2 until 2007 2nd hand from ebay so that I could play guitar Hero. I had a few other games like Rocky and Rally driving etc but only really played GH on it. Sold it in 2018 as I hardly used it after being kicked out of my games room which is now my daughter bedroom. Then in 2019 I discovered Clone Hero for PC...never looked back. Play it ever friday night with a few beers :)

[@koloqial]

Cool video, but one point to add wrt DualShock 2 controllers; they were different to the PS1s DS1s in that the X, circle, square and triangle buttons have pressure sensitivity. This is best exampled in MGS2 where you can hold down square to pull the trigger, but if you release the button gently, you don't fire. Same for throwing distance also.

[@XenoGuru]

The best system there ever was. Even better than next gen systems. It may not be graphically dominate; or technologically superior for current times, but it had the best game library of any system I've ever seen. PS5: Probably only about 4 games I'd play. PS2: I Had well over 100 great titles in my library and was still counting.

[@astralmindny9055]

I doubt it. Nintendo, Super NES, the Dreamcast, and the PS3/Xbox 360 we're the best consoles ever made. The Xbox 360/PS3 brought us God of War, Dragon Age, Fallout, Red Dead Redemption, Bio Shock, Gears of War, Halo, Kingdom Hearts, the Orange Box, Dead Space, Lost Odyssey, Uncharted, COD(I'm not a fan though), Shadow complex, Beyond good and evil, etc... the PS2 did have a lot of great games that weren't commercial, I'll give them that.

[@XenoGuru]

@@astralmindny9055 The PS3 was good too; it also had some great titles that you mentioned, "The Last of Us" was another one I'd add on that list. It's too bad the backwards compatible ones just wore out and stopped working after a time.

[@astralmindny9055]

@XRP Ripple yeah ur right. I can't lie, I'm an xbot to the death, but the PS2 was FIRE! believe it or not, the first game I've played was " Project Eden," and after that I think it was one of the Olympic games. When they dropped Resident Evil 4( the game that laid the groundwork for Gears of War) and kingdom hearts, it was over! The only thing I hated about the PS2 was the fact that I had a bunch of friends, so everytime we played a game you had to pass the controller when you died .

[@astralmindny9055]

@XRP Ripple Yes, halo and Ninja Gaiden. What ever happened to " Beyond good and Evil 2," are they going to make it?

[@astralmindny9055]

@XRP Ripple that's been a huge complaint about the game. It's sort of like dead Space with the stasis until I exploited an unlimited stasis glitch, well.... until I learned of it!

[@shegotass240]

I cant forget that time when my father bought that gta vc game cd when he started the game it was epic even the game intro but the most fun part is when he was doing the missions with tommy vercetti.

[@Monticello19]

Super fond memories of playing Ratchet and Clank (and the awesome commercials where they use the weapons in real life in some of the first "viral" style marketing)

[@TimDespairBear11]

PS2 is a legendary machine. I remember playing final fantasy X for the first time and the graphics looked unbelievable. My ps1 also broke so when I got my PS2 I was able to play my games again.

[@driftless7134]

Final Fantasy X's graphics were completely mindblowing at the time. Good memories.

[@cesurtheguy3807]

Damn I didn’t grow up in the PS2 era but I love the games. I really want to have a PS2 that I can play. Yes I have the emulator but there is a different feeling when you play the original thing.

[@Detz4a]

You're right. It's really different

[@pinkcat4545]

@@Detz4a remove the t from your name amd there is a secret

[@aleksanderblinn4492]

If you are in the UK how much would you be willing to pay for a brand new boxed ps2 with a bunch of games two controllers a memory card and the scart lead thing all brand new unused. Was bought in 2013 and left in a cupboard since?

[@Detz4a]

@@aleksanderblinn4492 I don't think he's going to answer

[@justdev8965]

If you like survival horror, buy the fatal frame games. The graphics direction and atmosphere are just unmatched.

[@harshmalhari5979]

As a mid 2000’s kid, I missed out on this, but this video is making me wanna go retro

[@peskyseagull]

The video is not what the title says it will be, only the last minute.

[@EmeraldPixelGamingEPG]

Amazing to see somebody with seemingly a passion to keep such a legendary console alive. Really enforces a point: Who cares about how old something is? If it works, enjoy it.

[@mrlookagain1142]

Yes indeed