The PS2 Has Turned 25 Years Old Today - Share Your Favorite Memories

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Picked up the PS2 launch date 2000, and didn't know I was getting what would hands down be my most favorite system.
If the best memories of your lifetime could be tied to a gaming console/system, PS2 would be mine
 
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The PS2 was basically just a Metal Gear and JRPG machine for me. The last time I played it was when I dug out my PS2 Slim and a copy of Valkyrie Profile 2 and played it for a while back in 2018. That game had 1080i support, ON THE PS2! Unfortunately I think I lost both in a cross country move shortly after. Good times though!
 
Best birthday gift I ever had as a kid.

After that I always bought my consoles with my own money. Because of that, in a way, further consoles kind of lost a bit of it's charm.
 
Legendary console with one of the best exclusives lineup in history. Long live the king.

Its my second favorite console next to the first Playstation.
 
I bought a used one along with Metal Gear Solid 2 out of a GamePro ad. I wanted it to get delivered before Fall Break, but it came late

Regardless, I played the crap out of MGS2. I didn't give a crap I wasn't playing as Solid Snake. The game was still amazing. I particularly liked holding up enemy soldiers, getting them to give me stuff, then shooting one limb at a time until they dropped dead.

I assure you I'm more well-adjusted now.
 
My favorite memories with it are, probably, playing Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! Meteor with my brother.
I don't think I fully appreciated it until years later when I started to know its first-party catalogue. Not my favorite from Sony, but I'd rather 1 million times have people talking about stuff like TVDJ than the likes of GTA, MGS, Silent Hill. So tiring.
 
Randomly went to the store and saw FFX. To this day the cover art triggers something. Just such a fresh and original image with the water and a see through sword unlike anything I'd ever seen. Didn't hear about it coming out, didn't know it was out. Picked it up that day and went home and was blown away pretty much immediately with the crazy intro.
 
I was and still am a Sega fanboy - so even though I acknowledge PS2 as one of the greatest consoles ever, but it wasn't my favorite.

But this game (series, actually - from Winning Eleven 3 on PS1 to Winning Eleven 7), I had the most fond memories.
Me and bunch of my friends got together once a month for a get together and formed a small league amongst us with custom drafted teams, etc.
Each revision of the game, everyone was on the edge of how our players got rated, how gameplay has changed & traded with one another, discussed and played around the formations and all.

As we got older (married, children, etc) and PS3 days came by, our small league disintegrated, but with great memories.

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Gaiff said:
Maybe we get a 30th-anniversary edition PS6?
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I honestly don't even know. Sony seems to not even want our money in many cases.

I wonder if it all comes down to keeping quarterly earnings in check as to not have to explain why one quarter x number of quarters ago was so high.

We still don't have custom plates for PS5 Pro. Which tells me, that's exactly why they're doing this. They want to make sure they can get that surge in revenue in the quarter of their choosing.
 
Such a huge leap for gaming. Man, the amount of times you'd pump in a game and would go like "man, you can do this now in game?" was endless. Truly the best times to be a kid/gamer.
 
Best memories of playing GTA games, Gran Turismo 3 and 4, MGS3, NFS Underground 1 and 2, the Battlefront games, and Splinter Cell to name a few.
 
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Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution
Street Fighter EX 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Samurai Warriors 2
Metal Gear Solid 2
Katamari Damacy
These games drank my entire life away, I mean I just kept going back to them.

Honorable mention to MegaMan X8 for being the only good MegaMan game of the entire generation. It wasn't anywhere near the best in the series, but it was a serviceable entry, and was far better than the previous two entries.
 
nial said:
You didn't get a 20th anniversary edition PS4, why would you expect this?
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Quarter of a century is a big deal anniversary.

A 20th anniversary (PS2) for PS4 wouldn't have made much sense. It would have meant launching a new model in a year where people weren't really buying PS4s and with the pandemic building up would have made even less sense.
 
Played many many games of Minna no Golf 3 with a friend, he imported it because the localization for Hot Shots Golf 3 sucked so hard. Had a book where we wrote down win/loss for each course.
 
Sitting in line for 18 hours in the rain in downtown San Francisco to buy consoles for IGN because SCEA refused to send review consoles to gaming sites.
 
The strangest thing is, the only reason I owned a PS2 was because of the Gamecube.

I got Metal Gear Solid and Tales of Symphonia on the Gamecube and adored both but 2/3 and Abyss were not coming to it so had to buy the PS2 to play the follow ups. (MGS3 being something special)

No regrets in buying one, got to play Ace Combat and FF12 on it :)
 
Mibu no ookami said:
Quarter of a century is a big deal anniversary.
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Not for Sony.
Mibu no ookami said:
A 20th anniversary (PS2) for PS4 wouldn't have made much sense. It would have meant launching a new model in a year where people weren't really buying PS4s and with the pandemic building up would have made even less sense.
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I mean, would that have really mattered when it would obviously be targeting the hardcore fanbase?
I think doing ANOTHER anniversary blowout just 3 months after the previous one would made even less sense.
You would also run into the problem of doing special anniversary consoles based on each PlayStation home console. PS3-themed 20th anniversary PS5 Pro in 2026, anyone? Having one each 10 years based on the original PlayStation is much simpler and just the better approach all around.
 
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Amazing system.

Unfortunately, I was poor as fuck and still a teenager so I was never able to get one. But I did have the opportunity to play many games back then.
 
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My favorite PS2 memories are.

1. - 2003 - Playing the Demo of FFX that came with the Official PS magazine that was my first time playing a Rpg of any kind and I was blown away that was the day jrpgs become one of my 2 favorite genre.

2. - 2002 My mom paying 500$ for a PS2 we didn't know better and I wanted the system so badly so we bought it from a shop that likes to screw people over back then. :messenger_persevering:

3. Gran Tursimo 3 My second now most played GT game ever.
 
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Fantavision's color and lighting effects. That game will always be peak 2000-2001 for me.
Dynasty Warriors 4-5-6
Aggressive Inline Skating. A game so good that the world didn't deserve it.
THPS 3-4-THUG-THUG2. PEAK gaming.
FFX.
God Hand.
GTA 3/VC/SA. Mindblowing.
Katamari Damacy/We Love Katamari
Kessen/2/3
Kingdom Hearts
Metal Gear Solid 2/3
Onimusha 2/3/4
Shadow Hearts: Covenant. One of the greatest JRPGs of all time.
SOCOM all day. SOCOM all night. PSN.
SSX Tricky/3
Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain. STILL the best wrestling game ever made.

It was the GOAT of consoles. People who claim that the PS5 is 'the best Playstation has ever been' have shit for brains. The PS2 wasn't just peak Sony, it was peak gaming. What an unbelievable time it was.
 
I played not much after launch, with Devil May Cry. Still rocks my world

But the first time that I was playing something that I really wanted the PS2 was the first Guitar Hero. Holy shit, it was a product of the time and nobody will ever feel anything like that ever
 
I was 10-11yo when I got my PS2 and FFX was the first game I played.





I replaying it right now 24 years later.
 
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I still have my PS2 from launch day. Went to look for the box a few weeks ago and couldn't find it. Gutted! There was one on ebay. Exact same model on the barcode along with the foam inside.
 
The lead to launch was amazing and finally getting one was even better. I had launch titles in hand but no console for about a month or two post release.
Tekken Tag owned me. SSX and Madden were incredible. Just an incredible time as a kid.

A few amazing moments for me.
MSG2 - The Raiden reveal and all that was crazy. My fav series
Final Fantasy XI launch and the HDD expansion - One of my fav games of all time
Socom 1 and the Network Adapter/Headset combo - begging my family for cable internet to play this. This game took over

Probably my favorite console ever. Too many memories and new experiences - I can go on and on.
 
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What a fucking machine!
So many moments, impossible overstate the excitement of picking mine up with Zone of the Enders.
Obviously the sheer wealth of quality titles goes without saying.
Staying up playing tonnes of quality jrpgs sticks in my mind.
Nippon ichi's output stood out for me (Disgaea, Makai Kingdom, Phantom brave etc)
Dragon quest 8 /Final Fantasy 12.
Incredible fighters like Tekken 5 and Soul calibur 3 (Yes 3,not 2. 3 is better, fight me)
Shit tonnes of SNK fighters.

Katamari
Okami
Devil may cry
Metal gear solid 2/3
too many shit hot games to mention, you know them all I'm sure.
Playing Capcom vs Snk 2 with friends till late.

Emotion Engine was responsible for a hell of a lot of emotions.

Best. console. ever.
 
nial said:
Not for Sony.

I mean, would that have really mattered when it would obviously be targeting the hardcore fanbase?
I think doing ANOTHER anniversary blowout just 3 months after the previous one would made even less sense.
You would also run into the problem of doing special anniversary consoles based on each PlayStation home console. PS3-themed 20th anniversary PS5 Pro in 2026, anyone? Having one each 10 years based on the original PlayStation is much simpler and just the better approach all around.
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I think what's more likely is they're not going to celebrate the individual consoles at all and that they'll just focus on the anniversary of the PS1 as if it is a company launch date.

I don't think you needed a "blow out" but a black dual sense with color schemed icons would have been successful. They just launched the midnight black line, which easily could have been a PS2 anniversary line with just color added.
 
Gran Turismo 3 saw an insane amount of playtime from me as I constantly sought to improve my lap records. GTA3 and Vice City (specifically not San Andreas) were magical games that showed me the true fun of a chaotic sandbox with an appropriately arcadey feel.

I thought Final Fantasy X was the fucking future, man. As much as I love FF12, it's a shame that FF10 was the last of that style of wildly creative and experimental games in the series.
 
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