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.