![]() ![]() I’m not sure but the first game I bought was probably Gran turismo 4 or Final fantasy X. Oh, as a retrogamer at heart (and mainly a PC player since around 99/00) I was late into the game. I still have that original launch system, (hell, I still have my Sega CD and a Vectrex). I bought SSX, (amazing), TimeSplitters, (one of my favorite series), and Fantavision, (worthless piece of crap). Since we HAD TO sell the system that night and he couldn’t purchase it, I was able to buy it as soon as the store closed it’s doors. Then, the last customer came in ten minutes before we closed to pay off and pick up his system. Each and every one we received was already spoken for with pre-orders, so I thought I wouldn’t get one for weeks. I worked in a FuncoLand at the time, and we had a limited allocation of the system. We even got a converter so I could use it on the xbox later for playing Marvel vs Capcom. One of the things I really did admire about the ps2 was the controller! Perfectly ergonomic for my hands, unlike the xbox’s, which felt like a brick in comparison. ![]() Shame about the premature death, since I always wanted to give Final Fantasy DoC a run. We also played a heck of a lot of Disgaea. I guess the first game I got for it would have been Final Fantasy X, and I never got to finish it before the console died. Unfortunately, it came from a dodgy mod-shop in Perth (since I needed to play my US psx/ps2 games) and crashed continually until biting the dust well and truly little more than a year later. I got given a slim-line one for my birthday, so it must have been in 2005. I had some bad experiences with the PSX so I doubted the PS2 would be my thing but it’s been one happy love affair. I bought a PS2 slim back in 2006 with Soul Callibur III. Pinging is currently not allowed.ħ Responses to “ PlayStation 2 at Target” You can skip to the end and leave a response. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Monday, June 6th, 2011 at 11:15 am and is filed under Gaming History, Regular Features, Retro Scan of the Week, Retrogaming. It just goes to show how closely hardware vendors and retailers must work together to make every new video game console launch a success.ĭiscussion Topic of the Week: When did you first get a PlayStation 2? What was the first game you bought for it? The early ad for the PS2 you see above was published not by Sony, but by Target to promote its availability in its stores. Games are still being made for it (one of its most recent releases, WWE All Stars, landed in March of this year), and the console hardware is still in production.ĭuring this week of E3, which will include a new console announcement, it’s interesting to look back a decade to the launch of this massively successful machine. Has it really been 11 years since the PlayStation 2 came out? Sony launched the massively successful console in Japan on March 4th, 2000, making the platform one of the longest-lived in history.
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