I was in college when it was released. We put the couch in the back of the truck and put it in front of the Best Buy. We camped all night with everyone else and it was quite a party. We were also the few that had one for a while.

I’m old enough to have been an engineer of a pre-PS2 system. All I’m going to say.

I remember staying up all night long with a group of friends of mine. We took turns driving by Target where one guy worked and he knew they were getting a shipment of PS2s in.

We formed battle plans based on who wanted the PS2 the most , down to me, who would buy one if there were enough, but didn’t overly care if I had to wait a few months to get one. Since I cared less, and am over 6ft I was dubbed crowd control. The guy that worked there drew the floorplan and showed us where the display was going. Our caffeine fueled plans had us developing different formations and routes to ensure as many PS2s for the group as possible and delay other people as long as possible. And contingency plans if a different customer took an alternate route around the crowd to get there first.

Once we saw the line starting to form at around 2am we all drove down and got in line and camped out till 6am when the store opened.

Our plans were dashed, but held in reserve just in case things went south when we learned the store manager was a levelheaded individual. He passed out numbers for each of us based on our position in line.

I was #12.

The line never got longer than the number of PS2s they had in stock, so our plans were doubly dashed as there was absolutly zero confrontation.

It was a fun fantasy for a while though. These were the same kids that had baseball bats and ski masks at the ready when Y2K happened. They patrolled the town at midnight looking for signs that everything crashed and were going to join in if they saw anyone looting. They wouldn’t start the looting, but were ready with a wishlist from various stores. Best Buy was high in their priorities.

That also never happened. But boy were they ready.

don’t be sad that you’re old enough to have played on a real life ps2, or even ps1-- be glad that 9/11, 2008, covid, and 2 diaperman potus terms aren’t the most significant core memories of your childhood

Who hasn’t seen a PS2? That must be a very young person.

Kid, I’m old enough to have played Playstation games in my walkman for the music.

PS2? I started gaming on an Atari and Comodore 64.

I still own a PS2.

My boyfriend is 34 years younger than me, and he asks me questions like this all the time. It doesn’t make me feel bad, quite the opposite, actually. It makes me feel like an immortal witch.

flashbacks of smacking a yakow back into the farmer’s seaside pen

Literally just walk into CeX (or any non-British equivalent) and there will be at least three on display.

I did also briefly own a PS2 Slim, but my mum got rid of it because I didn’t use it enough (I still have my Wii to this day, though).

“Are you old enough to have seen the console that had the most units produced over the longest lifetime of any other console, and which is still made in some parts of the world today?”

So you’re in your late 20s and already letting punks call you old?

880 german mark was the price back then… Was released right befor the euro came…

that boot animation still haunts me lol