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The legendary PS2

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  • littletranspunk@lemmus.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    And yet I’m old enough to have seen the release of the original PlayStation and old enough to remember it

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    • osanna@lemmy.vg ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

      I’m old enough to remember the release of the nes

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I bought my PS2 from Toys R Us…

    Crumbles into dust…

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  • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Image

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  • spacegoat@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ooh, was it the Colecovision‽ It’s the height of the art for me.

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      • AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        best Christmas ever

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just rolling through here like “Do not cite the old firmware to me Witch. I was there when it was written.”

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    • crusa187@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If 3DO you are truly goated!

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      • kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Played it at my cousin’s as a kid. Some motorcycle game.

        But I’ve also got an og TurboGrafx16

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    • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      (drops to knees and bows down in engineer)

      We are not worthy! But thank you for inspiring the next generation of us.

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    • kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      o7

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    • Ertain@feddit.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Whoa, you were there when the console was forged. Amazing.

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    • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      you are my elder, I bow down to you 🙇‍♀️

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    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Have you actually used an IBM PS/2?

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  • Z745812939054@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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’s aren’t the most significant core memories of your childhood

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    • Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What? I had a PS1 and PS2, and 9/11 is one of my earliest memories. ‘08 was also childhood suckery.

      Covid + PedOTUS is a separate generation.

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      • Starchildjohn@leminal.space ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        9/11 is my first memory that still has visuals attached to it because i vividly remember the room i was in when it was on tv

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      • Z745812939054@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        my mistake

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    • protist@retrofed.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      9/11 and COVID were 20 years apart my man

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      • vaionko@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s one long childhood

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      • Z745812939054@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        yea. i made the comment with us 45+ yr old people in mind. my bad

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  • Starchildjohn@leminal.space ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    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.

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  • umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.)

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    • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      IBM… PS/2?

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  • protist@retrofed.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • that_60s_witch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Your boyfriend is 24‽

      Well actually I guess that’s consenting adult range, carry on.

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      • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Hello fellow interrobang user. Interrobanger for short :)

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Your boyfriend is at most 25 years old, and only if you are 69.

      Oooooh boy I’m glad that I already have everyone responding to you blocked.

      My wife’s ~15 years older than me, and while it generally doesn’t matter more than making restaurant servers that check ID do a double take, there are times where her pulling me up past a stage of my life has resulted in me lacking some skills people normally build up during that time.

      Just be safe and make sure you’re doing what is truly best for each of you. Good luck and enjoy yourself.

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      • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Might wanna check your math there

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Um…how old is your boyfriend?

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Image

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  • trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “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?”

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    • kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      the ps2 was discontinued worldwide on 4 january 2013

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      • Kraiden@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Which means that teenager was very likely ALSO alive when the last one was made

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    • Shindo66@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I want a brand new ps2 with all the old ps2 games. I bet it exists, eh?

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      • 5in1k@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        You can take a ps2 off Ebay, and with some pretty easy computering and a hard drive you can have a PS2 with hundreds of games built in. Downloading a terabyte of games is the longest part.

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  • switcheroo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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…

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I started on an Atari 2600.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        TI 99/A-4

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  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexus ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • 5in1k@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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

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  • NRDK@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • 5in1k@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I just found an Atari 800xl and a bunch of games in a dumpster.

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  • yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I had some friends that worked at a major retailer. When the first shipment of PS2s arrived, a few somehow ended up in a dumpster. They were taken in from the cold and found loving homes.

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      • AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sounds like you found some employee’s stash before he could get back to it.

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  • OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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  • SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sears Pong, anyone?

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  • Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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  • Ertain@feddit.online ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The only game systems my parents had were the

      • NES
      • OG Gameboy
      • Gameboy advance SP
      • PS3
      • DS lite

      I haven’t seen any old consoles IRL outside of that, or not anything that I remember 😆

      Since they had kids i’ll list the systems I (and a few from my siblings) own

      • dsi
      • Wii
      • 3ds
      • Switch
      • PS5 (I don’t see the appeal tbh)
      • Gaming PC (played nothing but Minecraft for about 2 years)
      • Steamdeck (LCD, OLED)
      • GBA I modded with a LCD screen, but that was like a year ago so I don’t rly count it

      Tried a friends switch 2 and it’s pretty cool but the fact my steamdeck has over 100 of my PC games WITH SAVES just makes the entire console seem kinda silly. Also there’s no soul to it which makes it even more unappealing :/

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    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Engineer born in the 2000s, I’ve heard of the PS2 but never had one in my life (although I had original Xboxes in my life so maybe I just had the weird family). I had a PS3 growing up, and a few of my friends had xb360s, but then I moved to PC.

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  • OnyxRex@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I played Combat on a 2600 with the paddle controller.

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  • heliotrope@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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).

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still own a PS2.

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  • Feddinat0r@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Man…I’m way out of here with my understanding of German currency. I thought the German mark was the currency they introduced after WWI when they started just printing money to pay back the allies.

      Then I thought they abandoned it in favor of the euro which came after WWII.

      My timeline/understanding is way off

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      • Davel23@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I mean, it did come after WWII. 54 years after.

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      • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The german currency after WWI was just called Mark, then after the hyperinflation it was replaced by the Reichsmark. After WWII came the Deutsche Mark. After the cold war the Euro.

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