One of the most beloved and long lived game consoles.
Being a part of the Nintendo crowd growing up, this was my first foray into the competition.
I was too young to have a job, but my old man gave me an allowance.
Granted he ment for me to use that on lunch money, but I wanted a ps2 so bad I’d skip lunch one or two days a week and pocket the cash. My plan was to save up for it and hope he’d take me to the store.
I don’t remember how long it took me to save, but that day finally came. the old man got a little testy with me, it was really supposed to be lunch money, but I think he was impressed I set a goal and achieved it.
Over time I grew a small collection. The gtas up to San Andreas, twisted metal black, dynasty warriors, Spyro from PS1, ffx, and my favorite dark cloud 1.
Despite some bugs and a few translation issues, I loved the weapon building in dark cloud. I did at least one playthrough where I darn near had toan’s final sword.
The gtas was were I got comfy with swearing. Fun but sometimes tedious.
Borrowed echo night and beyond from a friend and loved the atmosphere but I never got around to snagging my own copy.
It was also my first dvd player, had the remote.
So many memories and gems on this system. I only scratched the surface of the library. Regretfully, I ended up selling it a few years later when I got into PC gaming and lan parties and I needed money to build my first rig.
I left the Sony fandom after I moved to pc and never had another playstation. I know I passed up great games on the later systems.
I’m on the fence with modern systems, but I’ll always have a fondness for the PS2.
It was so great because it was the last consul gen that did not have the internet.
PS2 had internet, tho. There’s hella online multiplayer games. Some of which were only online multiplayer like EverQuest Adventures and Final Fantasy 11.
If we don’t count the Sega Genesis or Dreamcast, it was the first console generation to seriously have internet play a decent role in console gaming.
Maybe not much online gaming but I’m fairly certain it had an Ethernet port or an addon.
There was a whole Linux for PS2 thing for awhile although I never messed with it.
True, you can even run games from a Raspi SMB share via Ethernet, in case the DVD drive fails.
You’re talking about like a raspberry pi?
That’s amazing. Years ago, a buddy had the og fat model with the infamous dvd issue.
We were close to getting it working completely but the video still had some odd artifacts.
Something like what you’re talking about would’ve been perfect.
You can also run games directly off of an IDE hard drive installed with your PS2 network adapter, although only on the original “phat” PS2 models. This makes the old phat models highly desirable to collectors nowadays, along with the network adapter addons. Dead DVD drive or not. I have to admit that I have… three… of them. And at least two updated slim PS2’s in different revisions.
It did! You are correct! I had a slim with it built in. I didn’t know what it was for. I was young and stupid and thought it was a telephone line
There was an Ethernet port if you bought the online or hard drive adapter. But I guess my point is that it was not yet wife spread and you were not expected to have it.
Games were shipped complete and online gaming was kind of “experimental” for consoles. There was a resident evil game that I had that could be played online. I think it was called outbreak.