GTP Alternative Cool Wall: 2000-2013 Sony Playstation 2

GTP Alternative Cool Wall: 2000-2013 Sony Playstation 2

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2000-2013 Sony PlayStation 2

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Launched: March 4th 2000 in Japan, October 2000 in North America, November 2000 in Europe
Production ceased: January 4th 2013
Generation Console: 6th
Backwards Compatible: Yes
DVD Optical Disc Drive
Number of titles: Over 4,000
Best Selling Console In Histroy with over 155 million units sold
Number of titles sold: Over 1.5 billion​
 
I loved mine and it seems lots of people loved it as well. Sub zero.
 
Some of the best games I've ever played were on this console. So was Barbie Horse Adventures and Ford Racing 2. Uncool.
 
Best console ever. Introduced me into some of the coolest games ever. Sub :censored:ing zero without a second guess.
 
It's the one technological device I have never had problems with. Sub-Zero.
 
Two fats broke on me before I got a slim that still works.

Still Sub Zero because it has some of the best racing titles ever. GT3 & 4 (backwards compatible with 2), Need for Speed HP2, Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3...
 
Sub-Zero. Best console I've ever had. I have over 50 (maybe even 100) games for it. Shame that it broke after a while.
 
Cool. Would have gotten sub-zero if it didn't lose it's disc drive and then die altogether literally 5 years ago. System was sitting in my room for 3 years untouched. I miss just playing PS2 games though more than the system.
 
Bopop4
If you managed to break 2 fat PS2s then I'm surprised that the whole of Alaska isn't a smouldering crater.
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I managed to break 1 by breaking the disc tray and then had about 5 faulty replacements sent to me under the warranty. Finally got a good one which was great.
 
Best software library of the sixth generation = Cool.
Bought in bulk by Saddam Hussein to string together into a supercomputer that could guide missile systems = Meh.
Less reliable than an Xbox 360 = Uncool.
Accompanied the turning point of Polyphony Digital's descent into madness with the laudable but fundamentally flawed Gran Turismo 4, and similarly ruined the Final Fantasy franchise = Seriously Uncool

Allows me to play Enthusia Professional Racing = Sub Zero

 
Sub-Zero. Many great games were played on this system. Including (but not limited to) Burnout 1 through Dominator, Star Wars Battlefront II, Gran Turismo 3, NFS Underground 2, and Midnight Club 3.
 
This console was my companion through my childhood, it also tops my PS3 for best console ever. I need to find a way to fix mine however.

Mega Sub Zero.
 
SomePlayaDude
The quintessential version of NFS Hot Pursuit 2 has me giving this a Sub.
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I've actually been playing a lot of NFS: HP2 lately! Such a fun game and probably the most fun "arcade" physics I've come across.


Had to give this one a Sub Zero rating. This is the console that introduced me to the Gran Turismo series and kickstarted my obsession for cars and motorsport, without it I would probably have no knees left from skateboarding in my spare time instead.
 
Cap'n Jack
I've actually been playing a lot of NFS: HP2 lately! Such a fun game and probably the most fun "arcade" physics I've come across.


Had to give this one a Sub Zero rating. This is the console that introduced me to the Gran Turismo series and kickstarted my obsession for cars and motorsport, without it I would probably have no knees left from skateboarding in my spare time instead.
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Our gaming history shares similarity 👍

I still remember fondly my outright confusion playing GT3 for the first time.
 
I think it's cool but not as cool as the PS1 was when it first hit shelves. I do owe a lot to that little machine but I can't say it's Sub-Z because it wasn't the only machine out there at the time doing those awesome things.
 
Solid cool. Got knocked down for destroying a couple disks (including a bran new GT4) straight out of the box. Took it back the same day and I've had the replacement ever since.
 
Bopop4
If you managed to break 2 fat PS2s then I'm surprised that the whole of Alaska isn't a smouldering crater.
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I don't know. The first one just up and quit, wouldn't even output sound or video anymore. The second one drifted in and out of Disc Read Error, but usually only on PS2 games (not PS1) and often only on certain games. Not using it for several days seemed to help it start working again. The slim still works.
 
Problem with the PS2 is it seemed like it had a set life expectancy. During a period of just over a year around '07-'08 I had to replace my original by buying one from a friend who had used his as much as I had mine. That didn't last long and I had to buy another. And another.

It's a good thing they were going cheap at the time (£20-£25) because having 3 PS2s die in that short space of time is annoying on its own, would have been horrible if they were expensive.

Seems to me like Sony planned it so their components would last just long enough for the PS3 to hit the scenes and therefore making sure most gamers had moved on to the PS3 and would never discover the lifespan of the PS2.

Not a rant, just a reason why I think it's just 'cool' and not anything more than just that.
 
The only reliability issue I've come across is not reading a few discs, as far as I recall. And that's only 1 of the 3 I have showing this problem. 2 large ones and a slim, one of the large ones has this issue. Couldn't even tell you how much they were used and still operated almost flawlessly. Very solid console in my experiences.
 
White & Nerdy
I don't know. The first one just up and quit, wouldn't even output sound or video anymore. The second one drifted in and out of Disc Read Error, but usually only on PS2 games (not PS1) and often only on certain games. Not using it for several days seemed to help it start working again. The slim still works.
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Disc read error can usually be fixed by cleaning the laser.
I clean the dust out of it every once in a while as well, but there were times when it ran for years completely clogged.

Mine is 13 years going and still the best thing ever.
 
I've had 3 of hem, 2 fatties and a slim. I'd like another fatty someday though.
 
This was the turning point of console gaming for me. Although I do not rank it up there with Atari or when I got a Nintendo when it first came out it ranks a solid third on my list.

The PS2 brought gaming to a whole new level. Games like Midnight Club, Tokyo Xtreme Racer were thoroughly entertaining. Once the network adapter was released playing Socom 2 while talking trash to anyone an everyone brought the console a gigantic step closer to computer gaming at the time.

It was Gran Turismo 3 though that really made this console absolutely amazing. At the time we have never seen cars look so "realistic" in replays like the ones in GT3. It brought forth the founding of the WRS here.

It is a definitive sub zero. If it was not you might as well log the f out of GTPlanet because GTP would never have become what it was today without it ;-)


Btw, the arse that voted uncool should be caught and shot now
 
My sister had a fat PS2 that kicked the bucket, and the slim PS2 she got to replace it doesn't like to register the disc lid latch correctly anymore. My first PS2 needed to be taken apart and cleaned every two years, one of the USB slots shorted out, the AV port wore out, the controller hub would occasionally drop its connection if rumble was enabled, and then the laser started becoming too weak to read anything. When it started gouging discs, I replaced it.

I'm very gentle with my current PS2, and it's fresh enough to read the worst one of my three copies of Enthusia, which had been carved up by the last PS2. No more hangups, and quick loading times.
 

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