After 13 long years of service, the PlayStation 2′s final title will be released this September before eventually being laid to rest in peace after a long and successful career.
Agreed. One of my best friends got a PS2 at launch and he'd come up to where I worked graveyard shifts, and we'd play PS2 all night. It was fun at launch, but when GTA3 came out, we had the most laughs. A game designed for solo play, but we made it the most fun coop game. See who could kill the most hookers... see who could do the most damage... etc.
@badboy 776 13 years ago it was my 7th birthday! I still had 2 birthdays ahead of me before moving countries. I had 3 birthdays before I finished primary school. I had 8 birthdays before getting into college. 11 before getting into university. 13 birthdays before starting work for Cancer Research UK.
Its amazing that if I had bought a PS2 at launch I could have played on it from the momment I started learning long division in primary school all the way to helping cure cancer for the second biggest cancer research organisation in the world!
O.o Mindblown!
Congratulations Sony and the best of luck for the next generation!
13 years ago it was the summer before 8th grade. I remember my dad was stationed in South Korea and he came back a couple of weeks before the school year started. Bam! There it was a PS2 i was so stoked i was the only kid in the neighborhood with one being that it wasn't out in the states yet. I remember 5 of my friends and myself spent the rest of the summer in my room, it was amazing. and The best part was it had a mod chip so i could play the both the Japanese titles my dad brought back and a few months later the american titles. I played an arse load of games, but I spent many many hours on GT3 and Ace Combat 4. Man those were the days!
@douevenlift you are not alone. Lol I thought they stop making ps2 games 2 years after ps3 came out. Makes me wonder how software sales were over these past years for it.
13 years ago I was 24 and selling consoles in my shop. GameCube didn't take off and I remember getting the ps2 in stock and using one to demo GT on the shop floor. Once the customers saw that running we couldn't keep them in stock fast enough. As a small shop we only used to get 6-8 at a time. They didn't stay on the stockroom shelf very long.
And important to remember it was many people's first DVD player.
A few years later I got burgled and they took my ps2 games but oddly enough not the console ( it was an original fat).
Still have that machine in the loft with the rest of my collection. Great machine, great memories. I bet playing gt on it now would still be awesome.
Sony at their very very best, no doubt about that.
R.I.P PS2. Your place in the pantheon of greatness is eternal.
Edit: in fact I might dig it out for a retro evening :)
A very well deserved R.I.P. for a legendary console that will never be forgotten. I still have memories of the good old days when we had Madden tournaments, it was insane at parties, lol my ps2 single handedly paid for itself ten times over...ahhh the memories. [Lays flowers, wipes tears, turns away and walks slowly, with head down]
haha thats awesome, such good times I can't even remember : Was final fantasy 10 ps2? Gran turismo 1, 2 = ps2? Grand theft auto Vice City = most fun ever.
Nice 12, good to see people still try to work it out and keep it together instead of taking the easy way out.... coming up on yr 1 myself, my PS3 arrived pretty much the same time my girlfriend now wife did.....just a generation behind
13 years ago I broke up with a girl I had been with for 7 years; it was one of the toughest times of my life. I've since gotten over it and I wouldn't trade my current girl for anyone.
Hopefully I can say that about PS4 when the dust settles; as it was hard to get over PS2. :P
It's been a pleasure PS2. Truly the end of an era. This is my childhood over now. Ironic, considering I turned into an adult 3 months ago. I grew up with you and you grew up with me. Enjoy retirement pal. I'll be joining you in about 5 or 6 decades time. I'll never forget you.
Pretty sure the last 3+ years have been nothing more than Sports titles. Madden, The Show, NBA 2k... It does have me wondering, did I miss anything good? Lol...
Should I pick one up just in case my fat boy shits out. Should I rely on my fat boy years down the road when it gets hooked back up. Decisions must be made...
Well, its kind of a martyr actually. In pakistan/india/bangladesh, our great artists have experienced it, inspired from its rtistic marvels and what not. No words to describe it specifically. Me returning fniv. find my brother playing Onimusha, Virtua Quest, GTA:VC, all great stuff, all awesomeness.
Nothing, nothing can compare to it...
Will PS4 relive the 1 and 2's glory days, only possible if PS4 gets a big market share, I surely hope it does for only then a variety of marvels can happen at the same time...
"China was created on this rule, remember: 'All under Heaven' ;)".
Remember the game disc with blue backs? TimeSplitters for example?
Crazy game memories, my most epic Dark Cloud Star Ocean 3 Final Fantasy 10 Grand Theft Auto Vice City Black Street Hoops Grand Turismo A-spec Burnout 3 Midnight Club Dragonball Z Budokai
I spent hundreds of hours on all these games, I miss those days.
Yeah and the last ever Xbox original game will be soon :).. What?? They stopped making them shortly after the Xbox 360?? Well that just says it all :(.
PS2 is still dominate in some areas of the world. It's cheap, and more available than the higher priced PS3/360. My regular GameStop which opened early last year even has a small section for new PS2 games, although I don't think they are terribly new ones. Not everyone jumps into a new generation, and just want to play a game here or there, or have budget constraints.
This is actually amazing for kids in places of poverty. Not so much the USA but other places in the world, especially places where soccer is the only dream a kid can have.
this was a console you could rely on mostly because online gaming was a myth to consoles back then apart from chosen games and of course all the great games it helped create
Its also crazy as the wii had plenty of support from EA then the wiiU came out and they dropped support. As wii was no longer flgship console and the WiiU is a terribly selling console.
R.I.P. PS2
I didn't think they made PS2 games now for a couple years.
great run
Goodnight sweet prince
Wtf i thought they stopped making ps2 games a long time ago.
Well in that case R.I.P PS2