I bought my PS2 from Toys R Us…

Crumbles into dust…

I have two in my closet and one downstairs in the TV Room, just in case one of them gives up. Plenty spare controllers as well. Made some of my best childhood/teen gaming memories with that console. Played it at the first sleepover i ever went to and at a boatload of family gatherings. It still gets use to this day for racing games when the family is here.

I made one with a hard drive and a TB of games on it as a Christmas gift for a friend and myself.

Was recently talking to a working student at $DAYJOB about LLMs and wanted to make the point that the pay-per-use model shows they’re still a relatively new/immature technology. So, I likened them to mobile phone calls, which would generally cost you per minute in the early 2000s.

Yeah, she had no idea what I was talking about.

Of course, that’s the newest console I own!

I have seen a PS2, never had one. I’ve also seen an IBM PS/2.

(I have a PS1 somewhere, too. And the first computer I ran Linux on was an IBM PS/1.)

Ps3 came out in the end of 2006, but the ps2 was such a good console that it outshined the ps3 and 4 for a long time, arguably into the early 2010s. Let’s say 2011.

To have seen a real one in real life, I’m not going to give them the benefit of the doubt, and say “seen” means seen and not owned or played. I’ll say that means “been around one in use by a friend or family member”. Kids as young as 5-7 years old can operate one of those.

So, in 2011 (yeah we’re playing with huge averages and assumptions) a kid would have to be let’s even say 6 years old, and so therefore born in 2005? Making the youngest person whoever this anklebiter accepts as relatable or human or whatever, to be now 21 years old.

Which like, yeah, that’s a fuckin weird way to guage things? But to be fair, after going over the years, from a child’s perspective, yeah it’s an old console.

The counter argument is, though, that while the graphics aren’t that great anymore, the gameplay and experiences are still top tier in the best ~100 or 50 or so ps2 games. That’s a shitload of good games that, even compared to now, with the indie games’ renaissance, have incredible value and influence.

Also, games in the past 20 years really haven’t progressed as much as the 20 years prior. Graphically, maybe, but graphical fidelity is not the game part of the game, and 99% of the time, it isn’t the experience, either.

Tell that little shit to go read a book.

I still have my first US gen PS2 (fat boy, not the slim one) and it still works fine. Doesn’t look good on modern tvs though

I’ve got a working, modded PS2 in my garage right now that I’m judging to post on eBay.

I owned a sega Genesis.

Actually I still own a Sega Genesis. The same one. It’s downstairs in a box. Now then, someone find me my walker so I can take a mid afternoon nap before my three o’clock dinner…

I still have my PS2, and my son and I just beat FFVIII on it. He will learn the old ways

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

I’m kinda glad i lived in an era when we actually owned the games we bought and i still have a PS2.

I remember when pong came out and Atari, those were the days.