Playing PS2 with your best friends in 2002

[@SCARYFALCON2]

Who remembers touching the old TV screens after turning it off, and then feeling the static 😆.

[@Bates1960]

Right here, TV's with the big backs and feeling the static when you turn it off.

[@whispersmusic6173]

I still do this today with my new crt lol

[@NostalgiCrazy]

Totally, and my sister's would see if it attracted their hair 😆

[@megaben99]

Not all the time, but sometimes me.

[@megaben99]

I wish I still had a crt tv as I have some light gun games to play.

[@wagonhound_official]

Passing the controller everytime they die, like true gentlemen.

[@jimijames6449]

That was the GTA rule

[@DBZGazettE52]

For every game that was the rule.

[@jebbroham1776]

That's what we did.

[@xLuis89x]

We also did that here haha

[@ivanroa5988]

Except if you died to fast. Then you can keep it for another while 😂

[@hijackbyejack1729]

There is at least one kid on that couch whose parents would be pissed if they knew he was playing grand theft auto at his friend's house

[@angrymobsters1599]

My guess is the kid with the glasses all the way to the right 😂

[@Matchouw]

It's Butters

[@mynameisNeo369]

My cousin and i came up with the genius idea of just putting it in an e rated game case. My dad never opened the case just looked to see what he would bring over 😂

[@DreErdna]

@@mynameisNeo369😎

[@carlosvasquez2196]

My mom wouldn't let me play them😂

[@sleepyz2z2]

Notice that they are observing and respecting the universal rule of "pass the controller when you die".

[@GabagoolGang]

There was no honor among thieves in my friend group lol

[@x.jeonkookie.x2428]

Look alike Russian Rulet

[@RelativeLYIMpatient]

"Wait no I technically didn't die!"

[@Grave_Digger606]

@@RelativeLYIMpatient”Drowning doesn’t count! I didn’t mean to drive into the water!”

[@Rexxsar101]

Zoomers today have no idea how different a few decades ago was

[@JPGamerRetroAnime]

2002, Gameboy advance, GameCube, Xbox, Ps2 those were the days.

[@enathera]

Hell yeah❤

[@Cacowninja]

Don't forget PC.

[@Cruxis_Angel]

@@Cacowninjaor Dreamcast

[@pikachu896]

Best generation of consoles.

[@NotDominic5346]

Windows XP was great in the 2000s

[@jytvreal]

"can you steal a helicopter" "nah" wait a few months

[@hardcoredoom5892]

“But how do you KNOW?”

[@jytvreal]

@алмаатинец Vice city

[@darthsidius69]

@@jytvreal Have you played Gta 3?

[@joebenson528]

@jytvreal Vice city has helicopters once you progress far enough through the story.

[@newbie6377]

​​@@joebenson528 iirc there's one above the police station in the other island

[@felldoh9271]

The mid 90s to mid 2000s is when humanity peaked.

[@djmonstrosity6971]

2001 BEFORE 9/11

[@lePurpleDragon]

No, peak was mid 00s to early 10s. After the early 10s, political correctness blew up and Gen Z started to come into the scene appropriating everything. Before the mid-late 00s, luddites and conservativism tainted society and only the privileged had the ability to live liberally and freely in private. So maybe middle-upper class suburbanites enjoyed that era, but likely no one else. Late 90s - Early 00s (give or take 1998-2004) was easily the darkest era. Look at when famous people got assaulted. Look at documentary An Open Secret. All these sick things happened and peaked during that dark and twisted era. Everything felt wrong in those days. Because everything WAS wrong. Only the privileged enjoyed that sick era. Also, 90s was garbage compared to 80s and mid-late 00s. I have no idea why people claim they liked it so much. I reviewed extensive archival video from my local school that was taken every year from around 1988 to 2001. You can literally watch society plummet after the late 80s and very early 90s. Kids become shy, uncomfortable, and timid. The sense of individuality and confidence erodes. You know bad things are happening at home. And I guarantee after 2004 if they still took video you could see the rise again briefly.

[@karinadelma]

@@lePurpleDragonthats literally every peak was around before 9/11 did this. If you live in the 90s, you probably know why It wasn’t peak by your opinion.

[@ldyb1712]

@@lePurpleDragon If you needed to watch archives then it means you weren't born yet during the 90s so you don't know what you're talking about. Ask all people who lived through that era and most of them will tell you that the 80s and the 90s were the best decades. In terms of entertainment and freedom of speech the 90s and early 2000s were the golden era. And it's around 2007/2008 when things started to crumble down until reaching the mess we are in today. So you saying that peak was mid 00s to early 10s is a joke, that period was the beginning of the end.

[@HeihachiMishima48]

*Late 90's to late 2000's. 1997-2008 to be precise.

[@Duke_of_Spook]

Playing a single player game in a room with your friends passing around the controller was the most enjoyable way to ever play games.

[@Eidlones]

One of my favorite memories is staying over at my friends place, playing RE4 on gamecube from start to finish on progessional, passing the controller off on death. We were up til like 5am

[@Duke_of_Spook]

@@Eidlones love it

[@Mandohh323]

playing vs. your friends and the loser passes the controller so they can play the winner was just as fun

[@bryant475]

Yep, and for N64 all 4 of us had controllers and played 007, Perfect Dark, Super Smash, etc. Friday afternoon/night after school fun :)

[@osamamanan2723]

That was the reason I couldn't end these games as a kid. I finished these games 15-20 years later😂

[@CrimKat.]

I miss these days. Social media has really made the world less social than it has ever been.

[@HULK-HOGAN1]

It ruined the way we communicate. Facebook replaced socialising in 2010 and now it's an advert ridden dumpster-fire, essentially leaving all the people it damaged with no social outlet.

[@WiredLain_]

2020 also ruined social interactions

[@uuuultra]

the future is bleak.

[@motorbreathjz]

@@HULK-HOGAN1 oh facebook aint nothing.. its computers and the internet that was the start of the fall.. same with cell phones.. soon as we could start spam T9 texting eachother.. socializing took a massive dump..

[@YouTuberr285]

We should never have glorified technology at all. We shouldn’t miss these days because the early gaming was a slippery slope to where we are now. Gaming has always been anti social because we are starting at a screen instead of playing outside

[@Gonzas97]

No broccoli hair, no tiktok, nobody looking at their phones, no online as big as today so everybody is together. All of them together reacting at the same thing.

[@SoSikWitIt]

Are u the person on the other post talking about u see everybody with broccolis hair 😂

[@Gonzas97]

@@SoSikWitIt teens and lot of young adults, not everybody

[@Seroxm13]

Justin Timberlake had the ramen noodle hair tho lol

[@NickyD]

phones came out in 2001

[@kennerfee100]

@@NickyDFirst off there were phones way before that, 2nd off they mean smartphones.

[@JekyllHyde967]

Being 12 years old at the time, this one definitely hit me in the feels. Good times!

[@karinadelma]

Being a teenage in early 00s is much than today.

[@boebra2276]

Me to man I was 11 years old..

[@PortlandMan]

Yeah man I was 8 years old

[@beatrix7490]

I just turned 1

[@laksoysoy]

Same but these kids probably 13-14

[@BEEFTEEF4]

“Awww snap”. Forgot about this saying. Putting it back in my rotation.

[@mariposamoreno]

i had a shirt that said that 😂😂

[@regg58]

Dont bro it sounds cringe now 😭

[@mariacverdin9411]

@@regg58What are you like 10?

[@regg58]

@@mariacverdin9411 31 are u 50?

[@DDOMINICK]

I still aww snap. It’s pretty instilled in Americans lol

[@kek22219]

I would give everything I have just to live in a loop from 95 to 2010. I hate what this world has become... I miss old internet, fair rent, people actually being decent and less stress.

[@karinadelma]

@@kek22219 I highly agree. Makes me wish to experience the year 1999.

[@YouTubeUpdatesAreRuiningIt]

it does seem to have been peak society

[@iamhereblossom1588]

2000s did not have fair rent or housing lol. Rose tinted glasses dude.

[@karinadelma]

@@iamhereblossom1588 they have, you just don’t remember or hear it.

[@kek22219]

@@iamhereblossom1588 How so? I was paying $250 a week for a 3 bedroom house.. Now I'm paying $700 a week for a 2 bedroom apartment.. Same area within Australia. Renting between 89-2006 was pretty stable and likely because the cost of living was sustainable. I was earning $900 a week back in the 2000's and had plenty of "fun money left over". I now earn over $2.5k a week through my business and I'm lucky to have $200 left..

[@LunarMusicAI]

the golden era

[@lePurpleDragon]

Golden era was 2005-2010. Nothing more or less. After 2010 diminishing returns turn to negative returns. Before 2005, righty-tighties from hell ruling with an iron first everywhere.

[@ldyb1712]

@@lePurpleDragon Golden era of videogames was between 1997/98 and 2006/07. Once the PS3/360/Wii generation arrived things started to turn the wrong way.

[@ville666sora]

@@lePurpleDragon More like 1990-2012 for me

[@stigludwigsen]

Golden era was ca 1990-1995

[@HeihachiMishima48]

Golden age in everything would be 1997 to 2009. 2010 and 1996 are not bad but I have to be strict with the listing and I had to trimm them out. Even 97 and 09 are questionable.

[@RALF0691]

I love how those kids are not shy in front of the cameras and just enjoying themselves.

[@theflaxxensaxxentake1874]

I thinks its cause there's not much to be afraid of in 2002. KZbin and Facebook didn't exist yet. Who would guess that 22 years later they would be seen by thousands of people. :)

[@mizuko6132]

They’re playing PS2 who cares about a camera haha.

[@RALF0691]

@@HerreraAlonso Why are you a doofus?

[@Anthony0855]

​@@HerreraAlonso people are odd these days just ignore them lol.

[@FourFourSeven]

​@@theflaxxensaxxentake1874 _"I thinks its cause there's not much to be afraid of in 2002."_ Pretty much. Back then, being on camera was more like, "cool, I'm on camera! Look at me making funny faces!" These days, it's used to weaponize public exposure to try and burn your life to the ground.

[@ari-dynamicarchive]

The four kids are playing GTA so casually, and calmly, you would never suspect that people were trying to tell us that GTA was evil or some shit lmfao.

[@RDEnduro]

You don't recognize them? Those are the 4 killers of just kidding just kidding.. I'm sure theyre fine.

[@lilmamagc]

GTA back then vs what it is now ain't the same. plus we have stuff like rainbow as today that the actual military uses for training. Yes I can say for sure this current stuff is definitely messing people up mentally and if you can't see that then you choose not to

[@curtiswilliams5223]

Government propaganda

[@no-yj2cf]

I mean, it is evil

[@ari-dynamicarchive]

I mean... I've played since Vice City (missed the boat on GTA 3, or the prior games), and I turned out fine. Just because we all played or still play Mario games doesn't mean we all go around jumping on turtles IRL, lol.

[@user-uu8tn3fn2y]

This was literally my childhood, miss those days.

[@PesMLRyanGiggs]

There's something sad and wholesome at the same time about this.

[@BirdsfromHuntingdon]

That feeling is called nostalgia

[@PesMLRyanGiggs]

@@BirdsfromHuntingdon Thank you. Hehe... You're right. Except it was slightly different for me personally, so the word didn't immediately come to my mind... Nostalgia. Indeed. 👍

[@rawillthetruth118]

Man these are the times we need back✊🏾💪🏾💯

[@Seroxm13]

They won't comeback. This was before everyone had internet and smartphones. Unless we eliminate both of those, we won't have these days back :/

[@royaltylordprinceshamiyah1229]

YOU TAKING IT TOO FAR MY BROTHA. ITS TIME FOR JACOB TO BE SAVED & GO HOME.🕎🤴🏽👸🏾🇯🇲🇨🇺🇩🇴🇧🇧🇳🇬🇭🇹🇹🇹🇵🇷🇧🇷🇲🇽🇻🇮 Baruch 3:8 “Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God.”

[@vectoralphaSec]

Back when all the clothes was extra large and baggy. I miss these days.

[@SoulGaleo1992]

And comfortable.

[@agayactornamedmichaeldougl6289]

​@@SoulGaleo1992JNCOs were not exactly comfortable

[@dinoblade8167]

To be fair, this fashion trend returned recent years, now every kid wears baggy clothes and obssesed with Y2K fashion all over again

[@laksoysoy]

​@@dinoblade8167really?

[@Galidorquest]

@@laksoysoy Kind of, but not really. Guys wore baggier denim jeans back in the 2000's, and most girls used to wear low-rise flare jeans. Guys (and especially the gangstas) used to size-up their clothes like Soulja Boy, but that went out of style in 2012. Skinny jeans, leggings and tapered pants changed the game. Fashion today is very diverse. Most kids these days aren't really into subcultures anymore either, mainly due to globalization and the decline of shopping malls.

[@amuroray9115]

Yup. This is the era I grew up in

[@magamaga1827]

stuck playing video games, feel sad for you

[@amuroray9115]

@@magamaga1827 nope. I played a lot of sports.

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

@@amuroray9115EA Sports on PS2

[@NotDominic5346]

​@@magamaga1827Bro the 2000s were a great time to be alive, like remember all the great stuff that came out back then

[@jarrygarry5316]

Early 2000's era is perfectly balanced between playing outside with friends and playing digital gadgets unlike today with just glued to phones and video games

[@Skoshtwo]

Newer generations will never understand the golden era of gaming in the latter part of the 90s and early 2000s. This is when video games were a spectacle and every single year there were insane graphical and gameplay innovations. And this magical feeling of gathering together at one of your friends' places if they got the game first and just taking turns and chilling, enjoying the experience together. There really isn't anything like it anymore. I am beyond lucky I was a young gamer in this time period.

[@agaga5886]

who knew how bad things were gonna turn out...

[@Anthonybchannel]

If youre a doomer sure

[@somenuttysquirrel]

@@Anthonybchannel Which planet do _you_ live on?

[@George_C-e4v]

@@Anthonybchannel World is completly fooked up now my friend :D Things changed a lot, mainly because of social media. it made Left Wing spread like worms around the world wich made the far right grow as well. Everything is weird nowadays, we are on the verge of civil wars everywhere. Trust me, the 80s,90s and 2000s had its problems for sure (heroin, aids), but the population was way more unified.

[@EliHank]

​@@somenuttysquirrel Na, he's right. IYKYK

[@SeraphProd]

the Online

[@snizzol]

The audio in this video is so good, what a great camera.

[@Jinars.]

For a second I thought it was a movie

[@dpthegreat4457]

That was a different world from today

[@Carlito_Brigante93]

A better world

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

No you just old

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

@@Carlito_Brigante93being a child is always more fun. Grow up

[@GoGetYourShinebox]

@@AbuHajarAlBugattiBy reading your comments I think it’s you who needs to grow up, or cheer up

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

@@GoGetYourShinebox im not the one stuck in childnostalgia and acting like anything was fine back then. One year prior 911 happened. 2002 was a fireinferno for Iraqi children. No playing halo or tekken. Yeah the world was different aka more ignorant and selfisolated

[@mollies13]

kids these days will never be a kid in this video anymore.

[@karinadelma]

@@mollies13 Yeah, kids who born early 90s are definitely had blast for that.

[@GoGetYourShinebox]

@@karinadelmaYep even those born in the 80s. I’d say being born in the 80s was the best time to be born

[@7uptendo]

Not true bruh

[@karinadelma]

@@7uptendo Oh yes It is. You just never born 80s because you are younger.

[@7uptendo]

@@karinadelma There are still kids to this day that are the same in this video but it’s people nostalgia and age that give them a delusion that kids isn’t like this no more

[@johnbasedow8973]

im 37, im the exact same age as them and I was doin the exact same thing many many weekend nights with my friends back in 02

[@chaddeez8446]

PS2 was my first DVD player back then. I still have a fat model I play older DVDs on and it plays PS1 games and the early PS2 blue discs. I was just playing GTA Vice City and The Warriors on there. Those games will never get old to me.

[@theTF2sniper]

@@chaddeez8446 Hell yeah man, i agree with you, those classic Rockstar games on 6th gen will never get old for me either

[@Eman-vp5wk]

You didn't have to text before meeting up either. You just knew where and when to be.

[@TurboMintyFresh]

cant believe how fast time has gone by and that ill never be able to go back. breaks my heart

[@laksoysoy]

These kids probably 13-14 you were 15

[@X_Omen_Z]

I love finding these kinds of videos. It truly takes me back to a better time. I miss these days so much. Society today sucks lol

[@DapsGraffiti1]

Wow! That, “ah snap” brought me back! Haha

[@desirewithinus]

no one's talking about the camera man. probably the dad. capturing the moment. I love the way he did it, the close up and all. awesome!

[@yatoob]

Sometimes i wonder about younger generations most likely not having this type of experience in their core memory, and with this era of video games. Bleak

[@atlascove1810]

congratulations, you have had your first "kids these days" moment.

[@yatoob]

@@atlascove1810 yes i know

[@NewTyrone88]

I think they have those memories in a different way. For them it’s online. My memories of playing video games was like this on Super Nintendo, Xbox, then I had the Xbox 360 I had great memories playing it online. No many advance up to date games is on handheld, so I would say it has improved. What’s to stop them from bringing switch to their friends house and playing with them.

[@mrconroy4672]

@@NewTyrone88I do think they had great experiences with the switch. Let’s hope Nintendo pushes for greatness for next gen.

[@karinadelma]

@@mrconroy4672 You are Nintendo fan. Who cares even they play ps5 or XSX.

[@Julia___1]

Aww the good old days. The year I turned 21. Great times. Good memories. Being in my 40’s now I can appreciate that time in my life. 😊

[@victorc8804]

I was 21 in 2002 which makes me older than all these former kids from 2002 , I still play video games in 2024 I been playing since 1988, this is defentely a nostalgic video as it was 22 years ago

[@bryansteele832]

They look about 13 or 14 or so. Today probably 35 or 37 years old now.

[@vectoralphaSec]

@@bryansteele832 damn these kids are almost 40. Didn't realize the PS2 was that long ago. These are such nostalgic times

[@malbrojay4740]

​@@vectoralphaSecYes, man even the PS3 is considered retro now.

[@pokemonitishere202]

Wish I could go back to early 2000s😢

[@bryant475]

I was born in 88, so glad I was able to experience the late 90s/early 2000s as a young teen/teen :)

[@WhirlingMusic]

No weird lingo and meme talk used. What a time.

[@chunkymilk]

no cap.

[@somenuttysquirrel]

LIKE BRO blah blah blah BRO!

[@jimmy-rm3cl]

​Bruh be driving me nuts​@@somenuttysquirrel

[@Gonzas97]

Well, they do say bro a lot. But that's much better than having them like zombies talking like unfunny memes. That gives me bad memories of Minecraft con cringe compilations

[@fluffycuteish]

Did “oh snap” not count? Lol

[@tony.9363]

Miss these times so much.

[@TurboMintyFresh]

me too bro

[@billybassman21]

I miss when boys were like this. They were not much different that boys in the 80s and 90s. They just seemed so much more healthy minded, well adjusted, tougher, and just look like they spend a lot of time outside. They are all fully dressed and ready to go someplace, there is no issue with them having shoes on inside. No one cares that they are playing GTA. They are not looking at their phones. While they are playing video games it's clear this was only a part of their whole day. They are all mature, no one is throwing hissy fits because they are losing or because their friend won't give them the controller. They are not bouncing around on the couch, getting up every few seconds. They are just cool and laid back.

[@karinadelma]

True.

[@Argon314]

Yeah man, I feel this. Idk, some people would say every generation says this about the younger generations, and there’s truth to that. But just because times change doesn’t mean it is always for the better. I guess time will tell, not much else that can be done.

[@billybassman21]

​@@Argon314 I felt like we were kinda getting back to this a little before the pandemic. Two years of virtual learning, wearing mask and kids staying indoors all the time. Here we are 4 years later and kids are still in this homebody state. Rarely see them outside and when they are not really dressed. They are often in sleep clothes and are wearing Crocs or slides or in their socks. They are not really doing much of anything. Sure there are still boys like this, but they are becoming far and few. They say things go in cycles so hopefully things will change. Many schools are starting to ban cellphones and it seems more parents are seeing the negative effects of these electronics especially with ADHD and anxiety.

[@User_92020]

Old man 👴

[@Jcrash71]

This wasn't the 80s or 90s though, this was 2002 and why do people think 2002 is part of the 90s? Bunch of weirdos

[@Brancovtn65]

PS2 man… Came out during the best era of my life. What a magical machine.

[@AliRnBPopAndReggae]

Nostalgia🥺🫵🏾 I was born in 98😊

[@gabriel_ebk2765]

I love ps2 and ps3

[@shadowlaw809]

Man back in 2002 videos games were at it peak, movies and cartoons were good, sports and music were amazing, life was very relevant back then, what happened to our society today???...

[@karinadelma]

Society is now abomination. Society back then were simple, peacefull and better. I wish i travel in early 00s.

[@shadowlaw809]

@@karinadelma totally agree

[@jeanjacqueslundi3502]

Don't be silly. You just got older. I was 15 back then and it wasn't better. Maybe the games were better........but society? Everyone was worried about terrorism and such BS in the US, for example. Society wasn't better, you just lived somehwere where the problems oif the world didn't affect you.

[@karinadelma]

@@jeanjacqueslundi3502 nah, you were there like you just hate everything.

[@jeanjacqueslundi3502]

@@karinadelma I don't hate everything. I think you two are more likely to hate everything based on your comments.

[@war5288]

These boys would've likely went to see Spider-Man and Attack of The Clones just a few weeks before this was filmed. What a time.

[@dtxspeaks268]

Or Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets.

[@FreddyKruegerRealEstate]

These guys are my younger brothers age (who were 12 or 13 back then)... I was several years older than them when this was filmed - I would have been around 18, just gotten my license, my first job (spending money) and wanted to see every film I could. My brother was drug along to see the things I was watching back then, so: _The Matrix, Van Hellsing, Land of the Dead, Underworld, V For Vendetta, Signs, Kill Bill, LOTR, Spider-man, Blade III, AVP, Jason vs Freddy, The Fast and Furious, The Punisher, Batman Begins (we watched that film 5 times!), Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets, Pirates of the Caribbean, I Am Legend, The X-Men trilogy, 300, The Ring, Saw, Transformers, Taken, JJ Abrams Star Trek (1), Click, Bruce Almighty, Shrek 2, Bad Santa, Resident Evil, Sin City, 28 Days Later, Tropic Thunder, and Definitely the three Star Wars Prequel films (to name some films I remember us going too)._ It was a fun time to like films, anime and videogames.

[@LukeMM95]

Spider-Man is the only one that held up :/

[@SK438]

​@@LukeMM95False

[@JonJonJonJonJonJonJonJon]

Attack of the clones was the worst film I’ve ever seen in the cinema

[@StarfighterJohansson]

I remember buying a used PS2 with some games in the summer of 2002 with the money I earned from my summer job. I sat like this in front of GTA3 with my best friend a whole day. In the evening we decided to give the other game a try. Silent Hill 2 it was called. 22 years later we still remember that night with deep fondness. Silent Hill 2 is still one of my all time favorites.

[@TheTyke]

Silent Hill 2, I remember playing that on PS2. My older brother got it for himself and one day when he was out me and my friend decided to play it as I'd seen how scary it was. We ended up hiding behind the sofa when Pyramid Head was after us lmao.

[@sirflimflam]

I was 16 years old in 2002. I would have been right there with them. This channel always blows me away.

[@michael85225]

I was 12 in 2002 and I remember how it seemed like every game released in that era was groundbreaking and innovative with concepts we had never seen before and our minds were blown with what these new consoles were capable of. It was a great time to be alive!

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

At 12 everything is new and mindblowing

[@bryant475]

Agreed, the games were great!

[@CrowDucker]

You was a bit younger than these teens in that video

[@austinl4915]

This is so wholesome. I’m so thankful to have experienced gaming like this. I guess we all live very similar childhoods.

[@enathera]

Yeah, I think the Wii's users are the last gen playing in group in a house

[@ItsameAlex]

my brother didn't let me play gta 3 so i dont have this memory.. but i have it for mario kart and diddy kong racing. And vice city at my friend's house

[@bryant475]

​@@ItsameAlexN64 for the win!

[@nygwill88]

Wow, this is my time machine, lol.

[@evanderholyfeels]

Yea we're that old too buddy looool

[@AliRnBPopAndReggae]

@@evanderholyfeels😔

[@constipatedparker5879]

These kids were the last generation to experience this kind of social gathering, including myself, before everyone goes online on their xbox live and the decline of couch coop/splitscreen games. Back then, it was fun to watch and take turns on a single player game. Horror games are the best experience to watch.

[@bryant475]

My friends and I still do this from time to time, nostalgic!

[@PaladinLarec]

in 2002 it was me and my best buddy (and eventually best man at my wedding) playing Halo on my xbox. We would co-op the game from start to finish. Good times. So many good memories. You just can't go back.

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Halo was mine too can’t replace good times I miss it

[@ChrisMusson-kv8ph]

Man we would have land parts at my friends house with 4 Xbox’s and play Halo until the sun came up.

[@bryant475]

Same here, I was best man at his wedding and we also played N64/PS1/2/Xbox, etc!

[@LoCoAde87]

I haven't read the comments. But this made more emotional than it should have. I miss these times. Big time. I was a similar age to this guys back then. Maybe a little older at 13/14 years of age. I remember introducing my friends to Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 after hyping it up so much after it came out that year. Or when Vice City came out and immediately bringing it up to my mate's house up the road to play it. Or playing Mario Party, Mario Kart, etc at my house too sometimes. Life was good. Thank you for uploading this, OP. Side note - Yakuza Stinger was my favourite car in GTA3

[@brandonsmith7787]

I remember these days as a teenager. I had flashbacks a few years ago when my neighbor invited me over to play him in a few games of Madden

[@Bates1960]

Anything without smart phones and social media was a better life. That's what ruined society. I still have my GTA III. It was my first game for my PS2 that my dad bought for me. Still have both till this day. The best moments just ready to play games out of the box and just having fun. Hanging out with your friends. No zombies staring at any phones. The simple basic times. Now look at the life we live in now.

[@karinadelma]

I agree.

[@jrt2792]

My late mother bought me GTA 3 for my new PS2. I still have the console to this day...😊

[@Bates1960]

@@jrt2792 My dad used to spoil me with the PS2 games. GTA III was my first game. Same here I still have both till this day. The good times. Just ready to play games out of the box. Inviting your friends over. Taking turns playing. I miss all that.

[@iman-2880]

i remember my life before social media. to think i used to go outside everyday even during the blackout in 2003 is mind blowing. i really wish i could go back but i cant. its too addictive. im trying to social media only for work and school rather than for fun and games

[@Bates1960]

@@iman-2880 I was back in high school 2003. Also had the best movies during that year. Like The Matrix Reloaded, Terminator 3, Kill Bill Volume 1. The best times. It's a shame social media ruined society.

[@RetroPlus]

There's nothing better in the world than this, just huddled around a couch gaming with your best friends and passing the controller around!

[@bryant475]

Yep, as well as everyone having a controller such as with N64 :)

[@PrinceoftheVioletFlame]

i never really got to experience that much since i didn't have friends growing up and no one i knew played games. But at least when i was a preteen i remember a few times playing super mario brothers with my sister. and passing the controllers. really loved that. Honestly playing video games with others really was peak gaming. Its a shame i never got to experience it much. I mostly just played single player games alone and later online games alone.

[@xWabbli]

I want to bring this back.. But it's just not the same. Even if you meet up with your friends at their house, agreeing on a "no phone" rule & playing a game passing the controller.. That won't work anymore. And that makes me so sad.

[@CharlesC520]

3:29 "that cop car is killing more people than we are" 😂

[@RALF0691]

I got a PS2 on Christmas 2001 when i was 10. It was my first Playstation console. Before that, all of my gaming consoles were Sega. My older brother's Sega Genesis and Sega Saturn were passed down to me in the 90's. Then in 1999, on Christmas, i got my first gaming console of my own with the Sega Dreamcast. The Dreamcast is still my favorite game console. I still have my Dreamcast and PS2 and they're in mint condition still. I don't play them though, they're just sitting in my closet. My last and final console was the PS3 that i got when it first hit Walmart in 2006. I stopped playing video games in 2010. I've never seen a PS4 or PS5 in person, crazy isn't it.

[@karinadelma]

Same.

[@chaddeez8446]

I still play my PS2 and Wii. I keep saying I'm going to buy a used PS3 or ps4 but never do. I'm only interested in retro games. I don't really have the time to invest in these newer games. I don't want to turn into a zombie and would rather just enjoy retro games here and there.

[@datalorian]

Hell yeah for the Dreamcast. Remember Crazy Taxi on DC? Also one of the Tony Hawk titles was pretty big on the DC as I remember, the details escape memory but those were great times. Dreamcast was born a misfit.

[@Bates1960]

My dad bought me my PS2 and GTA III way back in 2002. I got Vice City a year later. I asked my dad to buy it for me. I played both games for many hours. The good times. Young gamers of today and tomorrow won't realize the simple life we had back then.

[@Theonetruewonderfly]

"Never seen a PS4" / "still play my PS2" - wow, that's unique. I mean, I stopped playing new games for a few years (from 2006 to 2012). It was a "I got a wife, we started having babies, had to hunker down and focus on the job" thing. I never owned a PS3/Xbox 360/Wii. I still broke out my original Xbox occasionally and played it, but that was it. But when the kids started getting older, around 2013/2014, I got a Wii U and then a PS4, and now I've got a Nintendo Switch and a PS5. I don't see myself every full stopping.

[@OneTwoMark]

Even the room theyre in and envrionment outside looks super chill to playing PS2.

[@T-rexBreath]

I can't wait for the videos that will come out 20 years from now, "sitting with your friends in a public place scrolling tiktok together"

[@Carlito_Brigante93]

F that

[@SoltoWolf92]

Sounds depressing

[@LuisGustavoSO]

"Scrolling TikTok" hmmm... no bud, the content created in TikTok is what will be remembered (not that it's good either)

[@TheRastafarianStuff]

nobody misses that

[@perfectlyroundcircle]

I swear to god many people will act like it was the most wholesome thing.

[@Fredrik7le]

i was 14-15 that year. this really brings back some nostalgia when me and my friends played gta 3 and caused havoc in the city

[@PTBS_Ortega]

Good old days. Gaming was a different Experience that days.

[@anonymous_user525]

I hate that this is gone and never coming back. Being an adult in this modern hellscape collapsing society feels pretty bad. TAKE ME BACK

[@karinadelma]

@@anonymous_user525 Yeah! It sucks here now, I would to anything to travel early 00s!

[@TurboMintyFresh]

I cant believe what we have inherited. Its so bleak,Theres not a shred of optimism left

[@anonymous_user525]

@@TurboMintyFresh 100%, hopefully it changes soon because it's hard to find motivation anymore for anything

[@OG-BIG-SHEPHERD.]

Shout out for sharing this! Im a 83 baby so all vids from mid 90s to mid 2000s are my faves😎👍

[@Naturalintelligence30]

Man this take me back to 2001 2002 2003. I was a preteen during that era. I miss those days before smart phones and antisocial media 😅😊. Take me back. Life was much simpler and I felt more free and happier back then.

[@AliRnBPopAndReggae]

🥺🥺

[@CrowDucker]

Im jet a preteen

[@tennillej9601]

I was 11 myself when this was filmed and seeing the ps2 controllers with cords is so nostalgic never mind the game I loved this one

[@chaddeez8446]

I still have this same system with the corded controllers. I was just playing GTA Vice City and Tiger Woods 2003 lol they had some good songs on those games!

[@tennillej9601]

@@chaddeez8446 Vice city was the first gta I played that holds a special place in my heart can't be the originals I wonder how the new one will be I'm excited for it, the music was everything found a lot of 80's songs from it at the time

[@chaddeez8446]

@@tennillej9601 GTA 6 looks crazy for real! I was just watching a preview for it.

[@rockinrachel1670]

I was 10 when this was filmed. I still have my ps2 to this day and still play it on occasion. GTA vice city soundtrack is still so good.

[@samuraibeastwarrior2886]

@@tennillej9601 are you a tomboy also do you have PS5

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

Legit peak humanity, glad I was there, my house was the same, silly boomer mom in the background, me and my brother and friends glued to the PS2.

[@KingofAmerica97]

You’re one of the guys in the video?

[@Theonetruewonderfly]

I thought "peak humanity" was in the 90's? Or the 80's? That's okay, I'll accept up to 2005.

[@tool2158]

Peak was definitely 90‘s. The early 2000‘s were still good though overall, it spiraled downwards from there either starting in 2005 or 2007.

[@karinadelma]

@@tool2158 i very agree despite 911 in 2001.

[@Gonzas97]

2000s were a good time, but now we are in some kind of transitional era, it's just a matter of time for things to get awesome again. Theres always calm after the storm.

[@MackDaddyVic]

This was an exceptionally better time to be alive. Everything made sense. Everything was innocent and relaxed. Man, I miss being a fuckin kid.

[@cobaltbluevision]

The fact that they’re playing gta 3 in 2002 and gta 6 still hasn’t come out yet in 2024. Over 20 years!!

[@SmallEngineNut]

GTA3 - 2001 GTA4 - 2008 GTA5 - 2013 GTA6? 2025?

[@cobaltbluevision]

@@SmallEngineNut it's a huge gap between 5 and 6

[@pokemonitishere202]

Masterpieces take time. Also remember rockstar made red dead redemption like masterpieces too & not just GTA.

[@bryant475]

GTA 3/Vice City/SA were the the best!

[@cobaltbluevision]

@@pokemonitishere202 true I forgot about those games and others

[@NostalgiCrazy]

I was about their age in 2002 and also played GTA for the first time. It was at a neighbor kid's house, he had the PC version but I was so fascinated by the open world aspect. I remember not wanting to leave when my parents came to pick me up. Wish I could recapture those feelings!

[@CrowDucker]

Also your are born in 1988

[@NostalgiCrazy]

@@CrowDucker 1992 :)

[@CrowDucker]

@@NostalgiCrazy then ypur are not the same age as this teens in the video they are 14 years old but your was in 2002 only 10 years old

[@NostalgiCrazy]

@@CrowDucker I said "about" their age, and where did you see that they're 14?

[@Drawaface99]

And of course it was GTA haha. Classic

[@KevinW1985]

Boy does this bring back a lot of memories!

[@YungChaseShawty]

This video made me feel at home.

[@Geordiehere]

This was the year I was born it’s awesome seeing this. It was filmed around a month before I was born

[@rahuldahoob]

😮

[@ChaseSanity]

I was 7 in 2002 and my first console was the PS2. I had so many games for it. I remember when you could just put them in. No hours long wait for the game to be downloaded, no micro transactions, you got what you paid for. In my opinion, the golden age of gaming. Rachet&Clank, movie games like Revenge Of The Sith and King Kong The Game and games like Mortal Kombat Deception and Armageddon, Jak & Daxter, Harry Potter games..makes me wanna cry. Who else is with me 🥲 also I remember as a kid how cool I thought it was that I could play movies on my PS2 as well 🤣

[@stealthzi7465]

They have no idea how much this will shape them in 20 years and how precious the golden time of gaming was present

[@JohnDoe-yq9rt]

Kids have it so bad now. No lounge room on earth is this comfy anymore. Now everyone’s house is plain white, grey floors, just a couch and a flat screen tv, looks cold as hell.

[@kimberkan]

this is so true, i never even thought about that. funky carpet, couch and the big tv was so homey i can even smell it. now its all hardwood, white walls and hung flatscreen. very cold feeling indeed.

[@rahuldahoob]

Correct

[@mz_emmet]

different language, different faces, different room, but the closest thing to my memories. thank you.

[@rahuldahoob]

😮

[@EmmettXIV]

5:47 I like this camera shot of the old TV and their view of the game. This brings back memories. I was 12 in May 2002, my friends and I played GTA III after school and on weekends just like this. Even though it was a single player game, we were so mesmerized by this game, taking turns, exploring the map, trying to survive as long as we could. I think that's why GTA III holds a nostalgia for me because it was the first GTA I enjoyed and the memories I had playing it with friends.

[@CoffeeOn]

😢

[@rockinrachel1670]

I was 10 back in May 2002 (now currently 32) I never played GTA 3 but i remember playing Vice City & San Andreas a lot when i was about 12. Still own both those games and my ps2 to this day. 😊

[@EmmettXIV]

@@rockinrachel1670 those are great games as well.

[@angrymobsters1599]

Yeah these were still the days when you would chill with your friends and try to figure stuff out together in the game while having a good time laughing about it. Before walkthroughs were a common tool to navigate games, even though game guides were around and helpful. It was more fun playing the games with a buddy hangout with you

[@bryant475]

Agreed, we also played N64: Super Smash, 007, Perfect Dark, Mario Kart, etc. 4 player mayhem!

[@smileychess]

We're closer to 2045 than we are to 2002.

[@CrowDucker]

What

[@eadred9164]

This is me. I was this age in 2002. Gen z can never understand the greatness of this.

[@NoNeed2No]

I think they're just nostalgic for different things. Assuming that what you experienced is the be-all-and-end-all of greatness that others would kill to experience indicates an insane lack of self-awareness, and I was born in 1989 so same sort of age as these kids in the video.

[@Eman-vp5wk]

@@NoNeed2No this era we are in is objectively stupider than any era in recent history.

[@NoNeed2No]

@@Eman-vp5wk The era we're in now is, yes, but Zoomers are nostalgic for THE PAST, so a previous era. I'm nostalgic for the 90's and up to about 2006, Gen Z are nostalgic for 2010 to 2015.

[@cozycatcorner7724]

I was 9 then. Seems like kids and teens then was more calm and respectful. Now days they're bouncing off the walls.

[@billybassman21]

Yep they all have ADHD from being constantly stimulated on electronic devices. Kids that acted all ADHD got made fun of and were told to chill.

[@karinadelma]

Yeah like if they had ADHD back then...

[@mariowalker9048]

Adhd was viewed as a stigma. Now it's seen as a normal part of life.

[@accordionSWE]

Together with a bunch of former classmates we played Pro Evolution Soccer (2001) like crazy. Round Robin Tournaments all night long.

[@General_Kenobi_212]

Who remembers when Walmart and other retailers had game demo stations? Where you could try these games before you bought them. You'd tell your parents you'd be in the electronic section while they did their shopping lol

[@bryant475]

I remember when ToysRus had a game section, that's where I got most of my games besides Game Stop afterwards :)

[@jonofarc443]

That was absolutely me. I remember the N64 demo stations in Walmart and Blockbuster. My most fond memory of that was playing the Pokemon Snap demo in Blockbuster while my mom looked for a movie.

[@tylernich0848]

2001-2008 was peak

[@reecerife7839]

Nah dawg, everything after 2007 was so ass ong

[@GeorgiaRattlesnake]

I really miss my childhood

[@karinadelma]

Even me.

[@Eman-vp5wk]

It's reason you miss.

[@AliRnBPopAndReggae]

Do we all 90s babies out there that’s watching, missing our childhood?🥺 Even me as well😔 Born in 98😊👈🏾 And 26 yrs old :) Anybody watching in 2024?

[@joseph.christiansen]

God does this bring back memories playing gta vice city with my cousin. Same year ironically 2002.

[@TaccRaccoon]

Those were fun days Visiting my cousins and playing games I was way too young for in their basement. Good times

[@JoonwooChoi]

Sin teléfono No facebook No tiktok Solo amigos divirtiéndose un rato, eran otros tiempos sin duda.

[@jacobingram8152]

This video was excellently recorded! I also love the fact that it was recorded in the first place, mainly back then in 2002! Gotta love memories! One of the most valuable possessions you can have

[@overcastskyline1747]

kid said when the cops tell you to pull over and you do, they kill you anyway🤣, even they knew how absurd the game was

[@cun7us]

2002 feels almost like yesterday, but the craziest thing is that these kids are now grown ass men in their 30s probably with kids of their own.

[@lamb-tika-cod4934]

I'd love watch a vid of em all rewatching this and maybe replaying it on the same couch

[@rahuldahoob]

​@@lamb-tika-cod4934no. Better to leave it like this. Preserved in time

[@lamb-tika-cod4934]

@@rahuldahoob well yes. Obviously this will always be better, but a new vid and seeing how they all are now wouldn't hurt, it'd be interesting 😃👍

[@Matt_J95a]

Rofl the bit about mum cleaning the house around you is so accurate

[@claudiorobles63]

The first 10 seconds brought a big smile to me seeing them. Instead of gta 3, gta vice city would be played at my cousin's house and three of us all around the same age would be just like them. This and smash bros melee we would have a great time in 2002/03 as cousins. I miss those days and think about it time to time

[@bulletprooftiger1879]

Quality comment. Thanks for sharing

[@zeebo68]

Im proud and happy that I was part of this kids' generation

[@roberthunter7247]

Where the frozen burritos & pizza rolls? Ice cream sandwiches? Sour skittles? Pepsi blue? 😄

[@AliRnBPopAndReggae]

😂😂😂😂

[@entvids1]

My childhood! 90s & early 00s were the best times. I’m so thankful I’m not coming up as a kid in these current days

[@Jcrash71]

Not the 90s. Idk why many think 2002 is the 90s.

[@entvids1]

@@Jcrash71 I didn’t say 2002 was the 90s lol. Where did you get that from?

[@ville666sora]

@@Jcrash71 They didn't say it was lol. No one thinks 2002 was still the 90's.

[@andrewwilks5155]

Glad to see this video! Just like back back in the early 80s with the Atari games 20 years earlier when I and siblings were little.

[@Gexps]

Make sure you aren't raising ipad babies and teach them how to have fun like this.

[@karinadelma]

This is from 2002. Now we are 2024. I would rather do anything to go early 00s as much I pretty much live in hell.

[@mrconroy4672]

I concur. iPads are cancer.

[@karinadelma]

@@mrconroy4672 kids still used it a lot.

[@samuraibeastwarrior2886]

@@karinadelma same with me homeboy

[@アレン-f2x]

@@karinadelmacouldnt agree more. what we live in now really is hell. the 2000s was heaven!

[@pineappleTARDIS]

This is a really adorable time capsule.

[@irisshalurhad7901]

Kids today would never wait this patiently for their turn. 😂

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

😂 I know right

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Thank you for making this this brings me back when I was a kid I love it

[@tommygunn-cq7kp]

I like how they are all fully dressed. Today they would be in their socks and at least one would have a blanket wrapped around them. It's clear these boys were outside doing stuff.

[@zm_headhunter]

Wearing shoes inside a room, especially with a carpet in it , is disgusting but apart from that yeah i kinda get your point .

[@tommygunn-cq7kp]

@@zm_headhunter You're more likely to go out and do stuff when you have your shoes on. No one for the most part tripped about shoes back then unless wearing snow boots or something. You kind of create unintended consequences when you never wear shoes inside. When my shoes come off I want to wrap the blanket around me and go to sleep. I had a friend growing up where shoes were not allowed, we were so lazy over there.

[@GoGetYourShinebox]

@@zm_headhunterYeah fr I’d get slapped in the face for wearing shoes indoors 😂

[@Billiethekid8]

​@@zm_headhunterits not disgusting They obviously cleaned their shoes before entering house

[@user-vacgod2739]

Anyone born after 2004 will NEVER experience this.

[@jaysonfigueroa6075]

I miss these times so much, it almost feels like guilt that I got to at least experience this while my kids will only know the world of today...

[@johkonut]

Man that’s such a vibe. Really takes me back.

[@landmarkcreations1183]

Was just at a retro game store today. I don’t “live in the past” but I sure enjoy visiting once in awhile.