Unboxing a PlayStation 2 Console 24 Years Later!
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Date: 2024-11-25
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GMMXX80
I'm really sorry about your house, man. I hope everything is back and up and running for you soon and I'm glad you've got coverage to keep costs down. It sucks to see bad things happen to good people when there's bad people out there good things are happening to, karma feels backwards, but I guess it's the good people that show us things are still okay when those things happen and how we should react.
All of my stuff is in a storage unit 2000 miles away while my life sucks right now too. I just can't make anything work for me to get on my own feet, and a couple months after I had to leave home I heard there was a fire at the unit and had a family member go check on it and fortunately for me, the fire was on the other side of the property so I didn't get smoke damage or anything but also, I got luckier than other people so. Yeah, brother. I hope ya get back on your feet soon. I'm always jealous. I'd love to have an old IBM 486 like when I was a kid with the CRT monitor and old-school keyboard and those crappy mice with the trackball in them you had to clean out with a paperclip. Yeah. Best to ya, brother. I'm sorry, man
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I'm really sorry about your house, man. I hope everything is back and up and running for you soon and I'm glad you've got coverage to keep costs down. It sucks to see bad things happen to good people when there's bad people out there good things are happening to, karma feels backwards, but I guess it's the good people that show us things are still okay when those things happen and how we should react.
All of my stuff is in a storage unit 2000 miles away while my life sucks right now too. I just can't make anything work for me to get on my own feet, and a couple months after I had to leave home I heard there was a fire at the unit and had a family member go check on it and fortunately for me, the fire was on the other side of the property so I didn't get smoke damage or anything but also, I got luckier than other people so. Yeah, brother. I hope ya get back on your feet soon. I'm always jealous. I'd love to have an old IBM 486 like when I was a kid with the CRT monitor and old-school keyboard and those crappy mice with the trackball in them you had to clean out with a paperclip. Yeah. Best to ya, brother. I'm sorry, man
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Vostok7
The first console I remember on the news was the N64, people fighting over them in parking lots and stuff.
My story about the PS2 is that I finally decided to buy one a couple years or so after release (I was a PC player, so after work I drove 30 minutes to our closest department store that carried games. They were sold out, so I went and had dinner (Taco Bell, another luxury I didn't have near my home) and decided to go ahead and drive 2hrs to the nearest Target to grab one. They had it in stock so I grabbed it and a couple games and drove the 2hrs back home (it was probably 11pm-12am by the time I got home. So of course I stayed up all night playing. I don't remember what games I got at first, I wish I did though I'm 98% certain one of them was Gran Turismo 3 since I was obsessed with it.
About a week later, they released the Slim and dropped the prices on the originals SIGNIFICANTLY. I was not happy
Unless I sold it, somewhere I have the limited edition Ceramic White version that came out in Japan and was released with GT3 packed in.
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The first console I remember on the news was the N64, people fighting over them in parking lots and stuff.
My story about the PS2 is that I finally decided to buy one a couple years or so after release (I was a PC player, so after work I drove 30 minutes to our closest department store that carried games. They were sold out, so I went and had dinner (Taco Bell, another luxury I didn't have near my home) and decided to go ahead and drive 2hrs to the nearest Target to grab one. They had it in stock so I grabbed it and a couple games and drove the 2hrs back home (it was probably 11pm-12am by the time I got home. So of course I stayed up all night playing. I don't remember what games I got at first, I wish I did though I'm 98% certain one of them was Gran Turismo 3 since I was obsessed with it.
About a week later, they released the Slim and dropped the prices on the originals SIGNIFICANTLY. I was not happy
Unless I sold it, somewhere I have the limited edition Ceramic White version that came out in Japan and was released with GT3 packed in.
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exzisd
I hate to even mention that I watch LGR when I feel stressed out and broken down from work but it’s good to have something chill to watch when life can be so overwhelming and cold at times. I don’t want to think about anything in life, the past is much easier to understand and I think the PS2 generation (gen 6) will always be easily understood. The hardware seemed easy to understand and yet at the time it blew us away. Despite being quite a bit of a Nintendo fan I think the PS2 was the single best designed console of all time purely from aesthetics. Everything from the black box design to the startup screen sound and files filling up. I keep a file of the startup disc music on a movie file saved to my phone that I will go back to from time to time when I just need to hear something peaceful. I don’t always get stressed out but when I do retro gaming stuff hits the right buttons to make me chill tf out.
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I hate to even mention that I watch LGR when I feel stressed out and broken down from work but it’s good to have something chill to watch when life can be so overwhelming and cold at times. I don’t want to think about anything in life, the past is much easier to understand and I think the PS2 generation (gen 6) will always be easily understood. The hardware seemed easy to understand and yet at the time it blew us away. Despite being quite a bit of a Nintendo fan I think the PS2 was the single best designed console of all time purely from aesthetics. Everything from the black box design to the startup screen sound and files filling up. I keep a file of the startup disc music on a movie file saved to my phone that I will go back to from time to time when I just need to hear something peaceful. I don’t always get stressed out but when I do retro gaming stuff hits the right buttons to make me chill tf out.
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claucmgpcstuf5103
osam stuf bot bad fro tha eror hope it is fixebel! . al good. but me nvre ahd ona ca zi waz vore. yea i waz 250 $ at tha time is waz lak 3X salaris so no ro more so it waz iposbel to havea but ta waz veri sooc plai ia tha thamall lak at al arcede fro 30 minit gen nevre had ona veri luxuri item. but yea in ther tha gaming hsitori tolti! but lake yous tha consosl weil deces oneday. so 100% emutaltiosit is tha only future fro preseving tha games. ! it waz a veri cool coonsaols fro qualti andmodularti dvd plsu shh ols internet etc etc all tha good thing! amazing . yea 2 in one waz tah best ! cd dvd and ps2 gamse all in one tolti osam but it waz not acaslabel unlti lak tha roomas fo lak in 2004 got ot lak 200$ but man bay tha time wel pc war ondey out an wel yea . but fro a just play sitem. tolty ok fro 10 yars yea. ovrela all vrei good consols fro thos ho had tha jmula!
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osam stuf bot bad fro tha eror hope it is fixebel! . al good. but me nvre ahd ona ca zi waz vore. yea i waz 250 $ at tha time is waz lak 3X salaris so no ro more so it waz iposbel to havea but ta waz veri sooc plai ia tha thamall lak at al arcede fro 30 minit gen nevre had ona veri luxuri item. but yea in ther tha gaming hsitori tolti! but lake yous tha consosl weil deces oneday. so 100% emutaltiosit is tha only future fro preseving tha games. ! it waz a veri cool coonsaols fro qualti andmodularti dvd plsu shh ols internet etc etc all tha good thing! amazing . yea 2 in one waz tah best ! cd dvd and ps2 gamse all in one tolti osam but it waz not acaslabel unlti lak tha roomas fo lak in 2004 got ot lak 200$ but man bay tha time wel pc war ondey out an wel yea . but fro a just play sitem. tolty ok fro 10 yars yea. ovrela all vrei good consols fro thos ho had tha jmula!
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xtremejay2000
Man the Nintendo switch is sniffing at the PS2 sales record which is AMAZING considering that overall consoles sales for the last decade are way down. I mean the PS4 sold HALF of what the PS2 did and as Popular as the PS5 is perceived to be can't even hit half the numbers the PS2 hit. If you wan't to throw the cheap dvd player excuse for the huge difference, It takes the sales number of the PS4 and PS5 combined to beat the numbers THE ORIGINAL PLAYSTATION hit. So for the switch in 2024 to be sitting at roughly 142 million units sold is VERY impressive. People always act like Nintendo isn't even in the game anymore and it DOUBLED the other consoles in it's generation. Not sure if Nintendo can squeeze another 10 millions units in before it's replacements hit. (but that will result in a significant price drop which could boost sales)
Just goes to show the MONSTER that the PlayStation 2 was
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Man the Nintendo switch is sniffing at the PS2 sales record which is AMAZING considering that overall consoles sales for the last decade are way down. I mean the PS4 sold HALF of what the PS2 did and as Popular as the PS5 is perceived to be can't even hit half the numbers the PS2 hit. If you wan't to throw the cheap dvd player excuse for the huge difference, It takes the sales number of the PS4 and PS5 combined to beat the numbers THE ORIGINAL PLAYSTATION hit. So for the switch in 2024 to be sitting at roughly 142 million units sold is VERY impressive. People always act like Nintendo isn't even in the game anymore and it DOUBLED the other consoles in it's generation. Not sure if Nintendo can squeeze another 10 millions units in before it's replacements hit. (but that will result in a significant price drop which could boost sales)
Just goes to show the MONSTER that the PlayStation 2 was
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YbborUberAlles
To answer your question Clint, when the PlayStation 2 released in North America the systems software required that you purchase the DVD remote and have its infrared reader plugged into the console for the console to unlock DVD playback. This was Regional for the US and done specifically so that parents could prevent children from watching naughty movies on their PlayStation 2. With subsequent console revisions and updates to the firmware this lockout was eventually removed but we absolutely had to buy that DVD remote in order to watch DVDs on the console and I remember getting mine that came bundled with a copy of Joe Dirt as it was a promotional that Best Buy was doing at the time, bundling single movies with the DVD remote peripheral to entice people to buy it because they obviously didn't sell very well and people were missed if they didn't have kids that they had to buy the remote.
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To answer your question Clint, when the PlayStation 2 released in North America the systems software required that you purchase the DVD remote and have its infrared reader plugged into the console for the console to unlock DVD playback. This was Regional for the US and done specifically so that parents could prevent children from watching naughty movies on their PlayStation 2. With subsequent console revisions and updates to the firmware this lockout was eventually removed but we absolutely had to buy that DVD remote in order to watch DVDs on the console and I remember getting mine that came bundled with a copy of Joe Dirt as it was a promotional that Best Buy was doing at the time, bundling single movies with the DVD remote peripheral to entice people to buy it because they obviously didn't sell very well and people were missed if they didn't have kids that they had to buy the remote.
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LGR
As mentioned in the previous video, I'm currently in a rental situation until my house can be repaired from the hurricane. Could be 6-12 months. But LGR things continue in the meantime, as normally as I possibly can!
For a bit of behind-the-scenes here, this episode was _very_ close to not happening at all. This boxed console and my entire PS2 collection was _right below_ where the trees crashed through my home during the hurricane, in the room that became a wet moldy mess. By pure chance I had moved all this PS2 stuff closer to the door for easy access since I was planning on making this video soon. and if I hadn't, then all this stuff would've been where a ton of nasty storm water leaked in through the busted ceiling. It would've been ruined. Crazy how things randomly work out sometimes.
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As mentioned in the previous video, I'm currently in a rental situation until my house can be repaired from the hurricane. Could be 6-12 months. But LGR things continue in the meantime, as normally as I possibly can!
For a bit of behind-the-scenes here, this episode was _very_ close to not happening at all. This boxed console and my entire PS2 collection was _right below_ where the trees crashed through my home during the hurricane, in the room that became a wet moldy mess. By pure chance I had moved all this PS2 stuff closer to the door for easy access since I was planning on making this video soon. and if I hadn't, then all this stuff would've been where a ton of nasty storm water leaked in through the busted ceiling. It would've been ruined. Crazy how things randomly work out sometimes.
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A2theC
That's quite an impressive collection of games! Despite there being a couple repeats, I believe you have way more than I do (including my backups from Blockbuster)
I remember Playstation Underground, I had the Hydra demo of GoW before the game released (and tons of demo discs before I could buy many games.
X-Play, man what a time. Adam Sessler & Morgan Webb, TechTV was special. I loved it before G4 took over, they had niche tech tweak/hacking shows & excellent writing.
This was another nostalgia kick as many other of your videos. I have a modded PS2 somewhere in my storage, HDD full of all my games to load faster & cheat thing built-in.
I would try to dig it out but it's really hard situation for me currently, also I have a modded Phat PS3 that will suffice for most else.
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That's quite an impressive collection of games! Despite there being a couple repeats, I believe you have way more than I do (including my backups from Blockbuster)
I remember Playstation Underground, I had the Hydra demo of GoW before the game released (and tons of demo discs before I could buy many games.
X-Play, man what a time. Adam Sessler & Morgan Webb, TechTV was special. I loved it before G4 took over, they had niche tech tweak/hacking shows & excellent writing.
This was another nostalgia kick as many other of your videos. I have a modded PS2 somewhere in my storage, HDD full of all my games to load faster & cheat thing built-in.
I would try to dig it out but it's really hard situation for me currently, also I have a modded Phat PS3 that will suffice for most else.
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darcyska
I fondly remember the PS2 being the first time I felt a console was 'my' console - I had gone from a Genesis to N64 and had played other consoles with my friends, even one having a Dreamcast early on, but I felt like the PS2 just had so much to offer - especially because I could go backwards and play a whole library of games that I had missed prior. From racing to fighting to RPGs and platformers, I loved it!
I even got into the hype when the PS5 had those rumours of being a 'total backwards' console and would play PS2 from disc - I snatched up my old favourites in hopes to play them again. That never happened, but I once in a while bust out THPS3, Simpsons Road Rage, FFX, and so many others from time to time to play through emulation.
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I fondly remember the PS2 being the first time I felt a console was 'my' console - I had gone from a Genesis to N64 and had played other consoles with my friends, even one having a Dreamcast early on, but I felt like the PS2 just had so much to offer - especially because I could go backwards and play a whole library of games that I had missed prior. From racing to fighting to RPGs and platformers, I loved it!
I even got into the hype when the PS5 had those rumours of being a 'total backwards' console and would play PS2 from disc - I snatched up my old favourites in hopes to play them again. That never happened, but I once in a while bust out THPS3, Simpsons Road Rage, FFX, and so many others from time to time to play through emulation.
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pkmnmastertash
Man, my preteen/high school years right there. I always loved the fact that the PS logo turned on the disk tray. When I learned that, my mind was absolutely blown.
Me and my friends absolutely destroyed so many DDR mats during our years playing.
The swap magic disks brought me back and that clear blue controller. Such a fantastic dose of nostalgic joy. And that boot up sound, incredible.
I have such amazing memories playing Tekken 4 and Tekken Tag Tournament as well as James Bond Nightfire with my then boyfriend/now husband. He always has trouble with the swap disks as a kid
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Man, my preteen/high school years right there. I always loved the fact that the PS logo turned on the disk tray. When I learned that, my mind was absolutely blown.
Me and my friends absolutely destroyed so many DDR mats during our years playing.
The swap magic disks brought me back and that clear blue controller. Such a fantastic dose of nostalgic joy. And that boot up sound, incredible.
I have such amazing memories playing Tekken 4 and Tekken Tag Tournament as well as James Bond Nightfire with my then boyfriend/now husband. He always has trouble with the swap disks as a kid
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GigaLem
I've been slowly regrowing my ps2 collection, I had the slims growing up since the first model my family brought home was defective. the old console I have are hand me downs, one being from a late family member, and im trying to go through series I haven't played yet, or fully. Like Ratchet and Clank, and Ape Escape 2 and 3 (2 I was lucky to find without burning my wallet) I'm due to find more at some point but there are quite a few games I feel sony should add to the PSN store. I'm even thinking of importing the japanese bemani releases should I find space for a Arcade styled DDR pad.
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I've been slowly regrowing my ps2 collection, I had the slims growing up since the first model my family brought home was defective. the old console I have are hand me downs, one being from a late family member, and im trying to go through series I haven't played yet, or fully. Like Ratchet and Clank, and Ape Escape 2 and 3 (2 I was lucky to find without burning my wallet) I'm due to find more at some point but there are quite a few games I feel sony should add to the PSN store. I'm even thinking of importing the japanese bemani releases should I find space for a Arcade styled DDR pad.
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GhostOfLorelei
Honestly. it was nice just hearing you chat about Katamari for a while. I have to wonder. if the internet connection at your current rental is any good, have you considered just streaming games for now Fairly low effort, but I'd happily watch you play classic games with this setup (it was actually pretty fun seeing the TV the game was one for whatever reason just. felt like when I was a kid watching my siblings play. Something to consider at least.
Regardless, happy to see you slowly getting back to normal. Hopefully you continue to recover, as does your community.
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Honestly. it was nice just hearing you chat about Katamari for a while. I have to wonder. if the internet connection at your current rental is any good, have you considered just streaming games for now Fairly low effort, but I'd happily watch you play classic games with this setup (it was actually pretty fun seeing the TV the game was one for whatever reason just. felt like when I was a kid watching my siblings play. Something to consider at least.
Regardless, happy to see you slowly getting back to normal. Hopefully you continue to recover, as does your community.
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quadruple_negative
I re-packaged my PS2. My mum bought it for my 17th birthday in 2004. I logged about 10 hours of Gran Turismo 3 gameplay before I received it as a present.
She had hidden it in her cupboard. I knew where it was. I would get home from school about an hour before she got home from work. I would get it out, play a bit, wrap it back up into the box and put it back. I don't think she knew.
I still have it. We occasionally get it out to play Buzz and Buzz Junior. I did play through The Getaway maybe 3 times but with the unlimited ammo cheat on.
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I re-packaged my PS2. My mum bought it for my 17th birthday in 2004. I logged about 10 hours of Gran Turismo 3 gameplay before I received it as a present.
She had hidden it in her cupboard. I knew where it was. I would get home from school about an hour before she got home from work. I would get it out, play a bit, wrap it back up into the box and put it back. I don't think she knew.
I still have it. We occasionally get it out to play Buzz and Buzz Junior. I did play through The Getaway maybe 3 times but with the unlimited ammo cheat on.
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mpchess1379
My first ps2 lasted 30 mins so it should not be unusual to get faulty ps2s. 42: 00 the problem with GT camera started in GT3 and got much worse in GT4, they locked the camera to the rear meaning that the car looks lifeless and you can't tell if you are sliding, gt3 camera is an improvement and a popular hack/mod for gt4. In my view the point of playing a car game has to be to see the car so I just learn to use the chase camera but the camera and the physics from GT3 onwards are the reason these games became so terrible after the first brilliant 2 games.
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My first ps2 lasted 30 mins so it should not be unusual to get faulty ps2s. 42: 00 the problem with GT camera started in GT3 and got much worse in GT4, they locked the camera to the rear meaning that the car looks lifeless and you can't tell if you are sliding, gt3 camera is an improvement and a popular hack/mod for gt4. In my view the point of playing a car game has to be to see the car so I just learn to use the chase camera but the camera and the physics from GT3 onwards are the reason these games became so terrible after the first brilliant 2 games.
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lazygamereviews
Well, at 34 years old I learned today that the logo could be rotated. There's a thing.
I never had many games for the PS2 since by that point I was fairly firmly entrenched in PC gaming, but I really did get a lot of playtime with the few games I had. I do still like the aesthetics of the PS2 and the PS controller layout seems to be the only one which ever fit me comfortably, to the point where I got a PS4 controller for driving games on PC. A lovely dark blue one. Before that I was using my original PS2 one with an adapter until it died on me.
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Well, at 34 years old I learned today that the logo could be rotated. There's a thing.
I never had many games for the PS2 since by that point I was fairly firmly entrenched in PC gaming, but I really did get a lot of playtime with the few games I had. I do still like the aesthetics of the PS2 and the PS controller layout seems to be the only one which ever fit me comfortably, to the point where I got a PS4 controller for driving games on PC. A lovely dark blue one. Before that I was using my original PS2 one with an adapter until it died on me.
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BlottaMcTablets
So, if it has never been plugged in, there's a chance that there's quite a few capacitors that have drifted out of spec.
If you leave it plugged in, the electrolytics in them have a chance to reform and come back to life. The proper thing to do would have been put it on a variac transformer, and bring up the power slowly. Since you already plugged it in, it's not going to hurt to plug it back in and leave it over night. The less that electronics are used, the faster their capacitors degrade (up to a certain point.
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So, if it has never been plugged in, there's a chance that there's quite a few capacitors that have drifted out of spec.
If you leave it plugged in, the electrolytics in them have a chance to reform and come back to life. The proper thing to do would have been put it on a variac transformer, and bring up the power slowly. Since you already plugged it in, it's not going to hurt to plug it back in and leave it over night. The less that electronics are used, the faster their capacitors degrade (up to a certain point.
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Thunderhawk51
Such a golden era of gaming and my childhood too. Too bad I didn't get into some games back in the day, such as Ratchet & Clank and Mortal Combat, God of War, etc. Who knows what I would be playing today if I did. So many games I have fond memories of, though. Dark Cloud, WRC Rally Evolved, DoA 2, Worms 3D, SSX Tricky, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4, Gran Turismo 4, NFSU 2, and so on. I had Vice City and San Andreas on PS2 too, but I played them MUCH more on PC later. Ah. The memories.
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Such a golden era of gaming and my childhood too. Too bad I didn't get into some games back in the day, such as Ratchet & Clank and Mortal Combat, God of War, etc. Who knows what I would be playing today if I did. So many games I have fond memories of, though. Dark Cloud, WRC Rally Evolved, DoA 2, Worms 3D, SSX Tricky, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4, Gran Turismo 4, NFSU 2, and so on. I had Vice City and San Andreas on PS2 too, but I played them MUCH more on PC later. Ah. The memories.
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TechHippie
One of the reasons my parents got my sister and I a PS2 is because it was able to function as a DVD player, which is exactly what Sony wanted. I have a copy of the DVD software and the remote sitting with my PS2 in the attic to this day lol. We had Dial up (literally until a year ago, I wish I was joking) so sadly the network adapter did not work for me even though it was supposed to. I sold it off, but only because I didn't know then about the hard drive adapter on it.
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One of the reasons my parents got my sister and I a PS2 is because it was able to function as a DVD player, which is exactly what Sony wanted. I have a copy of the DVD software and the remote sitting with my PS2 in the attic to this day lol. We had Dial up (literally until a year ago, I wish I was joking) so sadly the network adapter did not work for me even though it was supposed to. I sold it off, but only because I didn't know then about the hard drive adapter on it.
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RyanStanis
Worked for my uncle for a full summer to buy the PS2 in 2001. Didn't have any money left over for any games lol, but it was also one of the easiest ways to get a dvd player at the time. Eventually amassed a pretty big collection while working at a best buy a few years later, and went modestly hard on the peripherals. DVD remote, Vertical stand, composite cables, and eventually replacing it with a ps2 slim. Watching you unbox this really brought me back!
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Worked for my uncle for a full summer to buy the PS2 in 2001. Didn't have any money left over for any games lol, but it was also one of the easiest ways to get a dvd player at the time. Eventually amassed a pretty big collection while working at a best buy a few years later, and went modestly hard on the peripherals. DVD remote, Vertical stand, composite cables, and eventually replacing it with a ps2 slim. Watching you unbox this really brought me back!
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The_Laser_Channel
This is what I miss about new console launches. compare the PS2 to PS1 and it is a REAL upgrade. you saw games for PS2 on Day 1 that were NOT possible on PS1. these days, upgrading from PS4 to PS5 isn't much different than upgrading your computers RAM, GPU and CPU. to play the same games but better quality. 4 years of PS5 and how many PS5 only games are there Probably less than the number of games PS2 launched with!
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This is what I miss about new console launches. compare the PS2 to PS1 and it is a REAL upgrade. you saw games for PS2 on Day 1 that were NOT possible on PS1. these days, upgrading from PS4 to PS5 isn't much different than upgrading your computers RAM, GPU and CPU. to play the same games but better quality. 4 years of PS5 and how many PS5 only games are there Probably less than the number of games PS2 launched with!
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