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Post by John Titor on Apr 27, 2019 9:19:58 GMT 10
I know some of you may be too young to remember, however a few people here @slowpoke & maybe al may remember this era as I saw it, the era known as the Ps2 mass hysteria era. I don't think any console will match the hype this system had. It was getting name dropped in songs on the radio. When the console dropped in 2000 there we riots and mass ebay sellers for the first time selling the system for 3K, hype for the ps2 was at an ALL TIME HIGH once GTA 3 dropped, it was in the news and on radio broadcasts every day. The fact that this system was a DVD player really made it futuristic, it was really a wrap for nintendo once u had FFX and GTA 3 and MGS 2 all coming at once. It was prob the highest point in video game history.
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Post by al on Apr 30, 2019 13:43:55 GMT 10
I remember it being a pretty hot item when it came out but that's about it. Even well into the 00's though, it remained the console of choice. The fact that it was also a DVD player is a huge point that often gets overlooked, as many parents were able to justify getting their kid one, seeing it as multi-use device.
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Post by mwalker96 on May 6, 2019 10:46:32 GMT 10
Yeah most of us in here would've been too young to remember the ps2 hype. I do remember the Gamecube and Xbox being new tho but barely. My family was still playing the ps1 at the time I didn't know about the ps2 till like 2002 ish but even then the ps1 ruled our household till about 2004 when my mom bought me and brother a Gamecube. My brother did get a ps2 in Christmas 2005 however. One of my cousins did own a Dreamcast tho.
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Post by SharksFan99 on May 6, 2019 16:01:37 GMT 10
I was only a year old when the Playstation 2 was released, so I personally don't have any memories of the hype surrounding it's launch. Like what has already been said though, the PS2 was still hugely popular for the rest of the 2000s and even at the turn of this decade. I remember EB Games (at least here in Australia anyway) only stopped selling PS2 consoles/games back in 2013.
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Post by mwalker96 on May 6, 2019 20:18:41 GMT 10
I was only a year old when the Playstation 2 was released, so I personally don't have any memories of the hype surrounding it's launch. Like what has already been said though, the PS2 was still hugely popular for the rest of the 2000s and even at the turn of this decade. I remember EB Games (at least here in Australia anyway) only stopped selling PS2 consoles/games back in 2013. Yeah if this thread was on in the00s it would be a buttload of people talking about the ps2 hype. From what I heard it wasn't till mid-2001 when the ps2 recovered from the shortage issue. 2002 was the year the system really took off.
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Post by John Titor on May 7, 2019 1:56:20 GMT 10
I was only a year old when the Playstation 2 was released, so I personally don't have any memories of the hype surrounding it's launch. Like what has already been said though, the PS2 was still hugely popular for the rest of the 2000s and even at the turn of this decade. I remember EB Games (at least here in Australia anyway) only stopped selling PS2 consoles/games back in 2013. Yeah if this thread was on in the00s it would be a buttload of people talking about the ps2 hype. From what I heard it wasn't till mid-2001 when the ps2 recovered from the shortage issue. 2002 was the year the system really took off. That was me who talked about the shortage hype, Fall 2001 is when people could get their hands on a ps2 despite it launching October 2000. That shortage issue was lame as hell tho you could only really play it at Best Buy. My first time playing the system was in Fall 2001 when The Mummy Returns game launched.
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Post by mwalker96 on May 7, 2019 2:09:22 GMT 10
Yeah if this thread was on in the00s it would be a buttload of people talking about the ps2 hype. From what I heard it wasn't till mid-2001 when the ps2 recovered from the shortage issue. 2002 was the year the system really took off. That was me who talked about the shortage hype, Fall 2001 is when people could get their hands on a ps2 despite it launching October 2000. That shortage issue was lame as hell tho you could only really play it at Best Buy. My first time playing the system was in Fall 2001 when The Mummy Returns game launched. Not just on inthe00s but on YouTube as well. Most people I know in real life got a ps2 from 2002-2005. I didn't know it came out in 2000 till i played midnight club 1 on my brothers ps2.
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Post by John Titor on May 8, 2019 8:26:02 GMT 10
That was me who talked about the shortage hype, Fall 2001 is when people could get their hands on a ps2 despite it launching October 2000. That shortage issue was lame as hell tho you could only really play it at Best Buy. My first time playing the system was in Fall 2001 when The Mummy Returns game launched. Not just on inthe00s but on YouTube as well. Most people I know in real life got a ps2 from 2002-2005. I didn't know it came out in 2000 till i played midnight club 1 on my brothers ps2. Got mine in the last few weeks of 2001, 2002 is true when it REALLY kicked into gear
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2019 0:33:21 GMT 10
I remember the hype. My cousin sold his N64 and games for a PS2 and I was furious because we couldn't share games anymore.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2019 0:35:44 GMT 10
Not just on inthe00s but on YouTube as well. Most people I know in real life got a ps2 from 2002-2005. I didn't know it came out in 2000 till i played midnight club 1 on my brothers ps2. Got mine in the last few weeks of 2001, 2002 is true when it REALLY kicked into gear Still shook at that PowerPoint slide after all these years tbh 
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Post by John Titor on May 9, 2019 2:50:08 GMT 10
I remember the hype. My cousin sold his N64 and games for a PS2 and I was furious because we couldn't share games anymore. n64 was like the last thing on my rmind in 2001 and 2002 LOL I think Conker was the last notable release for n64 and that was like early in the year. I remember after No Mercy came out it was a wrap for n64.
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Post by X2M on May 10, 2019 7:19:48 GMT 10
I remember it being a pretty hot item when it came out but that's about it. Even well into the '00s though, it remained the console of choice. The fact that it was also a DVD player is a huge point that often gets overlooked, as many parents were able to justify getting their kid one, seeing it as a multi-use device. Agreed with the second statement. That's genuinely the only reason why most people got the PS2 during the first few years since it had that feature and not necessarily the games. I was only a year old when the PlayStation 2 was released, so I personally don't have any memories of the hype surrounding it's launch. Though, the PS2 was still hugely popular for the rest of the 2000s and even at the turn of this decade. I remember EB Games (at least here in Australia anyway) only stopped selling PS2 consoles/games back in 2013. Yeah If this thread were on in the00s, it would be a buttload of people talking about the ps2 hype. From what I heard it wasn't till mid-2001 when the ps2 recovered from the shortage issue. 2002 was the year the system took off. Not just on inthe00s but on YouTube as well. Most people I know in real life got a ps2 from 2002-2005. I didn't know it came out in 2000 till I played midnight club one on my brothers ps2. Got mine in the last few weeks of 2001, 2002 is true when it kicked into gear I nod with this too. That was the year nearly everyone bought one especially since I had it myself by that time. Before that, The N64, PS1 and the Dreamcast still reigned supreme.
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