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!

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 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.)

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

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

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

Sears Pong, anyone?

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

I played Combat on a 2600 with the paddle controller.

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

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.

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.

Born 2005 but I had one, and I had seen plenty in my life.

I trashpicked four PS2s, so that's five different PS2s I've seen.

No, I only had a PlayStation

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.

"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?"