Some fun back and forth with some very lucky customers at midnight on October 26, 2000 the first day of the PlayStation 2 release in North America. Footage from a GameStop at a mall in Lewisville, Texas. #gamestop #ps2
Magazines, paying in cash, actually having cash to spend, things actually in stock, those things actually worth buying, being in a mall with other human beings Take me back!
It's funny you say that because I was born in 98 and can truly say I experienced the end of the era. I still remember buying a gameboy advanced for 20$ bucks and playing pokemon blue on it endlessly.
@@newbleppmore7855 2005. After that internet and flip phones became accessible to people. Then it was the internet golden age, which lasted up to 2015 then the wok censored internet began to take over.
@@batmanreborn81 the Xbox 360 era… when online gaming was prevalent but without the bullshit microtransactions and unfinished games that are “fixed” at a later date via patching.
consoles ruined gaming eventually and smartphones made things even worse. Publishers realized that you could easily manipulate and please the average intellectually and spiritually stunted casual console kid, with for example streamlining, homogenization, action and instant gratification focus, cinematics, flashy graphics, marketing and hype, political correctness and letting state of society, politics and media affect art and entertainment too much because of sheep mentality, not gatekeeping. Handholding. Forcing everyone to play the way the developer/publisher or certain players want them to, listening to the wrong critics(because they are so many and so loud and money and reputation is important) etc etc.. So much more money to be made but at the expense of ruining the things that made older games so good.
Yeah, but look at how some people are just standing and staring into space. I remember doing a lot of that back in those days when you forgot your book or Gameboy or whatever. Now I literally have the knowledge of the world in my pocket. I'm nostalgic for those days, but not for a lack of internet phones.
I’m 40, yes you definitely missed it all. I started with the Nintendo NES and watched it evolve to what it is today. Still gaming today. I’ve seen games go from 8-bit all the way to currently playing PS5 with 4K graphics and 60fps. It’s been a wild ride.
Born in 97 too.. I loved my time growing up in the early 2000's.. I would hate to be growing up as a kid/teenager in the current era because social media has taken such an important amount of space in our lives and people are growing more and more to be attention wh***s and everybody is offended by everything because tons of people identify themselves as whatever they want because its the current trend. We also look up to popular figures who you can smell the fakeness through your phone, yet, loads of people want to be like them and we are so hooked on our phones kids zone out in front of a screen instead of on a bike with other kids..
100% phones control us were distracted. Phones are a matrix in themselves lock away ur laptop, phone, video games and tell me how ur life changes. You'll start to feel a lot different, better. But it takes a lot
right... i think they began sellin junk merch and cricket crap and doin cellphone sales because gaming has gone so much into digital now. not many people go in their stores to buy games any more, i assume they branched out because of that. game stores were still hoppin by 2010. but by 2013, it was changing fast, and for the worst.
@S Niter i'd rather own a game than rent it digitally. digital makes no promise of ownership and there's no resale value. the cheaper online games are to entice people TO go digital. microsoft tried wedging this idea in with their underpowered turd of a console the Xbox One and it failed. at the time. now? i think people are just going to shrug and give in to digital. console could easily go the "game on a chip" route like Nintendo has and easily pop out games that are 128gb or higher in size on a chip.
Anyone remember EB Games? Like GameStop on steroids. But also old school GS used to sell cool things from Think Geek and when that got shut down, GS started becoming Hot Topic 2 with all that junk.
It's funny how nostalgia works. In 2000, I would have been so incredibly excited for all the technological innovations I have access to in modern times. And now looking back, I feel like I could give it all up to return to these earlier times.
That's just because it was a time when u had no real responsibilities,obtainable goals or concerns. It was more "simple" because YOU were more simple. Someone who was an adult during this time feels totally different yet exactly the same about the time they lived a simple life
What's weird at the time I thought the 2000s were crap. All the alt rock was replaced with Latin explosion and boy bands. Looking back though they were still pretty cool, not the 90s but way better than today.
@@alainportant6412 If you look into any of social media today you'll see that almost every video is similar to one another. And some videos or contents, are not far away from porn videos, especially if you look at female accounts living the Western world. Everything was so much better before smartphones were introduced to us, and the majority are probably agreeing with me on that.
The most important thing is that it LAUNCHED with like 20 titles. Such a foreign concept these days to actually have games to play at launch for your console.
I remember I was smaller at Best Buy around launch and I remember a guy buying not 1 but 2 PlayStations 2s I thought he was the coolest guy ever, he said he needed one for the living room and one for the bedroom!
I'm glad people had the foresight to film times like this. I hated getting my picture taken growing up and now i wish i had pictures of my old friends and places we would hang out
Yoooo I’ve literally been feeling exactly like this for the last year or two. The only pictures you’ll find of me are the yearbook ones and a few that my mom snuck of me lol
@@e-2xe-double979 same. But glad that I don’t have the same embarrassing number MySpace photos floating around the web like many I know do. People then, even less so than now, really didn’t understand what the permanence of the internet truly means.
Same here I hardly have any pictures of myself growing up, i had a birthday party filmed in like 92 when I got a sega but when the dvd era came my mom threw away all of her video tapes. My kids are always asking me how did you look or how was it growing up in the 80s and 90s
@@elconquistador9667we have them, but they’re not even the same anymore. GameStop is literally dying, surprised it even exists anymore. If you were old enough to remember going to the mall as a teenager in the mid to late 90s, comparing it today is COMPLETELY different, completely. Personal, Social interaction was something that happened every minute, that’s rare today with everyone having a phone in their hand. Phones are a big reason why you have anti social kids scared to go into a store or scared to call and make a doctors appointment, kids have zero social skills compared to people that were teenagers and up before phones. Phones have ruined humanity and society in terrible, terrible ways. We will never recover 🤷♂️
that still happened. They must have had lots of stock. And I never have been pushed in a store once. Everyone has this idea that people were nicer back then. It's only 23 years ago.
Things were less convenient, so there was more patience. Morals were higher, and the population was lower. I'm 29, but I always said that conveniency has always been our downfall. We're so used to getting what we want, when we want, especially if we have the money to make it happen. This has replaced a lot of morality in the world.
@@hectorlopez1069 Yeah, I grew up in the 2000´s so magazines were fashion just a few years into the 2000´s until the first iPhone in 2007 but people still used the Blackberrys and Nokias since 1999 and other cellphones and I really feel that people were more intelligent back then when they used newspapers because they were actually reading instead of being on a screen 24/7, in someways technology came to make the world better you can find stuff more easily than before but in other ways worse with apps like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
This video needs to be saved and stored into a museum. I’m so glad I grew up in the 90s it was exciting being a kid. No cell phones, internet, or bots . What a time to be alive ,these kids today will never know how it feels to wake up on a Saturday morning watching your favorite cartoons, playing your favorite video game, and after riding your bikes to your friends house staying out all night until the street light comes on. Kids nowadays are too attached to their tablets or phone it’s a shame they’ll never experience this.
Im pretty sure people still do that and internet has made people dumber when it comes to politics but life is easy with smart phones. I can listen to music freely and download games digitally without worrying of disk being scratched or not.
I was 12 when the PS2 dropped. What a simpler, more peaceful time. Such nostalgia. I miss it so much. The best years of my life and I didn’t even know it.
I remember when me and my dad went up to our mall gamestop back in 2011 when Skyrim was coming out, was pretty cool shooting the shit with some of my high school friends up there while we were waiting.
Damn fr though now this mall is dead on the inside and still locks the same on the inside after all these years too bad GameStop left a while back since there was a GameStop across the street from the mall
I did this, not for a game or a console, but for a graphics card in 2021. Best Buy was dropping some 30 series cards and I camped outside for 17 hours, and chatted with some random people, and eventually grabbed me a 3070. Was a really cool experience.
I was born in 99, so it’s interesting to see what life was like for the adults of the world when I was just a small child. By the time I was a teen in the 2010s, things have already changed so much.
These really are the golden days man, cellphones that have access to social media really has changed our view and how people act on the world....such precious times these were.
Everyone sitting around bored, looking at magazines or just sitting around. No damn phones in everyone's hands. Man what a simpler time. Not like it was that long ago either. So glad I was apart of it. Born in 87 here
Ill never forget how happy me and my younger siblings we're when we got the ps2 for Christmas. My parents saved up and got this for us even tho we never begged them 😢
Daaammmnnn the quality is so 2000 I remember after school I would go to GameStop just to play the games for 3 hours & wait for my brother to get off work, good time bring me back to this era 🔥
I got this for my 10th birthday in 03. wow! what a time so many memories and nostalgia. wish we could go back to these times without phones and social media. made you really live in the moment and appreciate the details. as for the ps2, I didn’t even ask for it either my parents saved up and bought it for me 😢❤ so grateful for them for that because i loved my ps2 as did my big brother so many games we used to play!
No smartphones, no social media, no YT, no twitch, with a few words no toxicity. Life was so beautiful simple, after ending your works/tasks grab a gamepad and play. Call your friends so you can play in real life together, if get hungry with friends order some pizzas and keep playing until you get tired. Great times, I feel lucky because in 2000 I was eighteen...
dang i was only 8 in 2000 but i absolutely have.a strong love for the early to mid 2000's, honestly the best era of gaming. So wild with huge libraries. It has got me into collecting for the OG xbox
I was 9 years old in 2000 and i remember sitting on the stoop of my house and the street was packed with kids my age all on their bikes...playing hop scotch, freeze tag....parents too are sitting on the patio...or barbecuing...it was a hot summer day and it was a lower middle class neighborhood, mostly mexicans and chinese...and we all had so much fun. I dont see that in the streets nowadays in the suburbs where i live...i miss it so much!!!!
Me and my friends would all get together and play WWF games on N64 or PS1 at someone's house and loved it. When online gaming on consoles was just starting to get introduced with the Dreamcast and Xbox we thought the idea of being able to all play a game like No Mercy or Smackdown 2 online together from our own bedrooms would be so cool. Now that we live in that era though the idea is nowhere near as cool as it sounded.
@@gokux75 "Now that we live in that era though the idea is nowhere near as cool as it sounded." So true mate I can't describe it better. You losing so much fun when you are playing alone.
I remember my dad asking me what I wanted for my b day, And me telling him a ps2 with gta3. The rest was history. Thx pops for creating great memories for me.
Everything in this video(especially the dude with the kitten on his shoulder) is bringing me some form of happy nostalgia I didn't know existed within me and I was born in the 2000s. Im so glad I got to experience at least a little glimpse of this era while growing up
There was a certain aura that the ps2 had to it. It was like the dawn of a new Era the games were rich and full of new ideas giving hope for the future. Little did we know the future would lose alot of the magic we felt during the simpler times.
yes that was the most drastic change in graphics between any 2 gens. Now games graphics improve in other ways, like, the draw distance, and amount of shit happening all at once. Ps5 is very impressive, but the increase in fidelity to ps2 was insane. First game I saw, I remember was THPS3. I was absolutely floored by the graphics.
First guy was mad awkward, nervous, and flat out weird. He was acting like he had 100 kilos of cocaine on him, after he was asked *one little question...*
The way he did it was weird af BUT, I worked behind a register for a while and I was always taught to lay out $20 bills in stacks of 5s ($100) stacks so people wouldn’t dispute if they were looking at $300, or $280, or $320. It really ends up making the whole process faster.
Brings back memories, I didn’t get a PS2 until 2001 I had to let go of the Ps1 to get it though. The built in DVD came in clutch when cable was out because DirecTV sucks and it had backwards compatibility so i could still play my old games. The PS2 was definitely one of the best consoles ever.
I remember playing DVDs on my PS2 when I was in college on my little CRTV, I never did again subscribe to cable TV. I watched Gundam Endless Waltz and played the original Metal Gear Solid 1 on it from the MGS3 Subsistence copy I picked up at my local Gamestop.
@@moonspeech82 same i was in shocks when I went to my local library to see it ain’t a library nomore it now a parking lot 🥲 nowadays ppl be reading off the phones & it not good staring at the screen to long my eyes get blurry 🤦🏽♂️
PS2 had the greatest library of games for me. Introduced me to so many genres of games whether it was platformers, horror, action, adventure, shooters, etc.
@@flutebasket4294 Yeah, I heard about that. Not many major games etc. I had a Dreamcast when the PS2 launched. Must have been 1 year after when I got a PS2 for xmas I think.
I was 18 at the time. Started gaming at about 6 or 7 years old with the original Nintendo and the super Mario bros/duck hunt cartridge and ended my gaming career in my early 20's with the ps2 because my kids were born and I didn't have time anymore. Gta San Andreas was one of the last games I got into. My kids were old enough to start gaming when Xbox 360 with the kinect was the newest thing so we got that and they've been gaming every since. They're 17 and 18 now with a ps5 and I have their ps3 with all their ps3 games and just recently started getting into gaming again with it.
Anyone else love the blue they used on this console? The blue box, blue ps2 logo on the system, blue game discs, the cool blue DualShock controllers. Something about black and blue was the perfect color choice for this console and really added to its cool futuristic image.
There was always something special about that blue color scheme, I remember getting the PS2 for the first time and safe to say despite not having the best childhood, it played a huge part of it for me.
Yeah that and the original Xbox were genuinely interesting designs - I don’t think any subsequent PlayStation has been as aesthetically pleasing, or as well branded as the ps2.
seeing ps2 graphics for the first time was the most awesome gaming experience ever. No jump between gens has been as drastic. I remember being just blown away by the improvement.
Almost true - the Megadrive (Genesis) / SNES to PS1/N64 was much bigger in terms of hype and amazement - 2D moving into 3D was an incredible thing to see. The 64 was everywhere in shopping malls for people to try out and it was out of this world to see everything 3D. PS to PS2 was a big jump for sure (although the Dreamcast already came in) - just not quite as much of a game changer (😅 pun intended) as the N64/PS coming in.
@@MKu64I remember being a kid playing GTA 2 demo from a magazine, top down camera to GTA 3 one Christmas and amazed by the graphics change. I thought it was so life-like, telling my mum, look at it it's almost real lol
My brother was 18 at the time, around the same age as many of the guys in the video, and his first child was born a week before this but he passed away 5 weeks after during surgery for an intestinal birth defect. Nothing against the guys here having fun but it's just striking how people's life experiences and memories of a certain time period can be so drastically different. R.I.P. Angelo III
My 2000 was rough as well. I get what you're saying. I loved the era in terms of video games and being young, but I wouldn't go back because my life is better now. I have my own children and it is the cruellest thing for your brother to have been ripped away from his own so young. I hope your brother's child has grown to be a fine 23 year old.
Doesn't mean it's better today, I'll quote one of the comments above.. Delanuma 2 weeks ago I’m gonna say it. Games lost some magic as they got more realistic. Something just draws me into the older games more than seeing the realism of modern games. RE4 for example, the remake looks amazing, but the art style of the original just sends my spidey senses into overdrive like “OOOO DAMN BOY GET IN ON THAT SHIT”. Maybe it’s just my OG gamer roots, but old school games slap the shit out of 98% of games made today.
Yeah, we've come so far in gaming when in comes to technology. So far that we don't even care about gaming. So many people now just speedrun games with youtube walkthroughs to unlock achievements on steam or just play what their friends are playing even though they're not really interested in the game. It's like it's not about gaming anymore. Back then this was different, it was all about the actual game and how you enjoyed it (or didn't). Now you have hundreds if not thousands of extremely repetetive games where people play the same round over and over.
@@CinHalCedHerChance While the ability to create more realistic games does sometimes cause developers to forego having some form of original artstyle, I would blame the gaming industry becoming more corporate as the real culprit for games losing their magic. A lot of games aren't made as labors of love anymore, they're simply made by major companies as a way to bring in the most revenue possible, leading to bland, soulless games that attempt to appeal to as many audiences as possible.
DVD players were barely a thing back then, and they were probably about the same price as a PS2. Having that as an add-on to the console you already wanted for gaming anyway was actually a really nice feature. It was one of the main machines that got the ball rolling for DVDs in general, actually.
Well it definitely was a better time. But I remember 2001 watching thousands die in planned attacks to later star middle east mindless wars. It was carnage in other places lol.
I remember the demo display at Target or Best Buy. The consoles were expensive when they first came out so we didn't get them right away so playing the demo display was a treat-I'd actually want to go with my parents to the store just to play, and there was almost always a line to have your chance to play.
GameStop was really something in it's heyday. If you were a kid in the 2000s, a video game store was always an exciting experience. I got my PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4 in person at the store until PS5 that I had delivered instead. The PS5 is a great console, but it sure as hell doesn't compare to the excitement when I got a PS2.
No screaming, running, punching? No yelling, fighting, cursing, clawing? Everyone calm, cool, chill and having fun? What bizarro world is this?! lol PS2 is amazeballs.
Times felt so peaceful and everyone looked happy. I truly miss those days. I'm an 80s baby and would love to back to late 80 mid 90s. The vibe was it and will never be matched.
I know exactly how you feel. It was a special time that will NEVER be repeated and that upsets me because no-one could ever know how awesome it was unless you were there to see it with your own eyes. It's not something you could explain to someone in words.
@@mikehawk120 Same here.I'm not interested in modern day. I only wear 80's and early 90's clothes, I don't watch TV only 70's 80's and 90's stuff as well as music. I'm the only person that I know of that has a laserdisc player and a VCR.
@@Kit_Bear sweet! Same here. I still have all my old Kung fu vhs tapes I still watch, even my sega nomad or genesis gets play time too. It’s how I get grounded. All these cats trying to play Superman online make me laugh. but yeah, even just bought some LUGZ ankle boots again,they still make them and cheap too. One love.
@@Kit_Bear Youre not alone...i was born in the 90s but i am obsessed with the 60s-80s....i also only watch movies and listen to music in the 20th century...i am Asian though and all those mid century things are new to me even though for most Americans it was actually their reality.
I remember I bought my Dreamcast for $50 (the first system I purchased with my money) at Circut City after the PS2 launch. Every Dreamcast game was reduced to $5-$10 and I loaded up on them for a whole year before going to boot camp. A memory I'm very fond of.
I was just talking to my mother about this the other day. The early 2000's were some of the best times. Life was still simple enough and technology was advanced enough for what we needed but not over the top like today.
@@dano1307 perfectly said! We had flip phones which were perfectly balanced for actual social prosperity, had primitive internet and websites which were alot more exciting and mysterious, gaming was alot more magical because we appreciated every single positive aspect of a game, movies and music were masterpieces, people were normal for the most part, just the peak of humanity.
@@dano1307 I agree technology is over the top today. What began in the innocent early days of the internet as a way to play multiplayer games turned into a quest for survival i.e. getting more eyeballs to your online business and trying to get others attention to make few or no sales. Also, job searching online and being rejected time and time again until I finally "broke through".
I was just 5 when the PS2 came out and my uncle (R.I.P) was kind enough to give his to me and my older brother and we had fond memories of playing GTA, Need for Speed, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, Soul Calibur, Socom, Final Fantasy XII, World Tour Soccer, among others and we cherish the moments that we didn’t thought it’ll eventually become memories. Good times and I’m glad to have the prerogative of growing up in the 2000s and with the PS2.
the only thing i miss about the 00s is the fact that you could go to a physical shop and count on them having what you want on the shelf because if they didnt they'd lose all their customers. the amount of times I've gone to a shopping center to buy something in-person and left with nothing is baffling
What do you mean exactly when you say, and or type out "count on them having what you want on the shelf because if they didn't they'd lose all their customers"? Did you mean that if they didn't have what someone wanted, everyone in the store would leave? Or, did you mean every person that shops there wouldn't come back ever again? And, why would that be the case if they in fact didn't have *one* thing *one person* wanted? I'm so lost, and or confused...
@@vknzach People would flock to the store that had what they wanted & they would get all the business. Thats why you see so many dept stores closing because they don't have shit & you can just buy it online. It's simple lmao.
? stuff being out of stock was a common thing (hence why preorders were big back then) unless you lived in a small town I remember having to run across different stores back in the day just to find a game i wanted because it would be out of stock almost everywhere (but tbh that was part of the magic of buying games back then and i do miss it a bit. gave you something to do on days where there was nothing)
Watching that GameStop makes me conscious about how the digital era is so convenient, but souless. I miss those times with physical games, manuals and everything. It was a better experience overall.
I was born in ‘84 I’m a 90’s kid. I still got my old fat strategy books lol we didn’t have the luxury of watching a walkthrough on RU-vid if we got stuck. I still prefer my physical games bec if my internet goes out during a storm I can still play single player games.
1:00 that was me 🤦🏿♂️ I actually snuck in the mall at night through the back door. I wasn't gonna tell anyone that lol best risk of my life ever! #ps2
Imaging coming home with a new PS2, TimeSplitters 1, Ridge Racer V, and a DVD of your favorite movie and playing until the early morning. That must have been very cool.
Knowing we can never go back to this era again is really sad, I'd do anything to live during that Era again, this era is like where good things go to die.
@@doublevision84 I'm sorry you don't understand the difference between an opinion and a fact. Let me clarify. It's ONLY a subjective opinion. Please grow up.
Well, the internet was way too slow back then to download big games! The fast internet we have today are part of the reason why physical games are dying.
@@franksmith613 Except that games were a lot smaller back then (most didn't even fill a single CD-Rom), so if you had a good cable connection, downloading wasn't a problem.
I was 14 when this was filmed and I am still proud of my decision to purchase the Sega Dreamcast instead! It was a short - lived console, but in my opinion, had the most enjoyable games.
When you didn’t have to worry about what size TV you play on, if it’s an OLED or LCD, what frame rate games are running at, pop-ins in draw distance, stuttering, which console is better etc. you just gamed and that’s all that mattered.
I remember those days. I worked at walmart supercenter as an unloader when the ps2 systems first came out. We had a crew of seven. When the eighteen wheeler that delivered the ps2s arrived at the store, they called the cops. Four cops with shotguns came to the back gm receiving to open the trucks. While we unloaded the trucks they stood there watching us and watching for the systems. We finally got to them, they were on a pallet and one cop went into the eighteen wheeler with the guy in the trailer. They called the supervisors and they made the rest of us back off and stand back from the boxes. They loaded them onto a cart and rolled them to the security room and the cops stood guard there till they took them to the floor for display/sale. It was crazy! All that for a ps2.
Property was more culturally protected during those days. Now you can just walk out with a Dyson and no one stops you. Sure on camera but if unrecognizable oh well.
It’s wild to me that I never realized the PS2 came out all the way back in 2000. I don’t remember seeing one until late 2001. I was still heavily invested in my PS1 in 2000-2002
@@MyGodzilla99 we the same age I was turning 5 in 2000 when it dropped late that year. I got my PS2 in December of ‘02 for my 7th birthday and honestly don’t remember asking my parents for one they always kept up with the latest tech and just felt by that point it was time
@@KDubb-ws9zcya my dad always got the newest shit for me until the ps3. Then he got real quiet lol. Costs were well into the triple digits after the ps2. He wouldnt pay. Had to get everything else myself
Hope all these people are living well rn. They seemed so genuinely happy. Miss those times. Used to be so hype and now we've got emulator handhelds like the Steam Deck, AYN Odin, etc. that can play games from lots of consoles like PS1, PS2, N64, NES, GBA, etc. but nothing can compare to bonding with friends playing at each other's houses as kids on tv consoles 😅
It was fun but I wouldn’t go back. One day I’ll look back fondly on playing through Red Dead Redemption 2 with my brother. You can still do this stuff right now
32 years old now. The memories of being a teenager when the consoles of this era came out. Wow. I don't enjoy video games like I used to but man such fondness for these consoles.
You are probably mistaken about being a teen during the launch of this generation, as you would have only been a 9 or 10 year old kid (assuming you were born in 1990 or 1991). I am 37 and attended all 4 launches, as I had a very part time job during high school at a G2K Games back then (in 2000-2005) and had to help oversee the tickets. I was 14 when the DC launched (99)... 15 when the PS2 launched in winter 2000, and 16 when GC and XBOX launched in 2001 - and you are atleast 5 or 6 years younger than me (I was born in late 1985). I have a younger brother who was born in may 1990, and even he was too young to attend the XBOX launch night, so my parents had to go that night and bring his home to him.... unfortunately we had limited supply of units, and mostly preorder tickets only - so they had to brave a cold target night to get his. You are thinking of the NEXT console gen (PS3, Wii, XB360), which was 2005 and 06, when you where a teenager. Which was also a fun launch window if you could actually get one. 😀
People don't want to admit they're gen z when they are. Or at least Zillenials. I always wanted to be a 90s guy but I was born in 1987. I have to accept the fact I'm a millennial. I can't talk about how cool it was to play Mario on NES when I was 5 because I barely remember that far back.
My god things seemed so simple when you look back on them compared to the absolute insanity that is society today. I know it wasn't exactly how we imagine it but things sure seemed "better" at least in some ways.. i sure miss these days
I was working 12 hour overnight shifts at this time, 6pm to 6am. I took a break and went out at midnight and got so lucky to basically walk right into a Best Buy grab my new PS2 and get back to work. I never expected to find one, but there was no harm in trying.
The good old fashioned days the basic times. Freedom! No smart phones, no social media. Peace in mind back then. I got my PS2 way back in 2002. I still have it and still works in 2023. Still have all of my PS2 games. The best moments just playing all these games for many hours. Ready to play games out of the box. I'll do anything to go back in time and relive those great moments again. Thanks for uploading this brings back so many memories.
It wasn't THAT different. I met a chick online around that time and travelled off to meet her after tons of all-night IM chat/phone sessions. I think it was actually easier to meet new friends back then even. I had chat buddies from all over the world back then. Now everything is about Facebook and people you already know from real life.
@@anonamatron It feels so weird seeing footage from back then and the life we live in now. Vice City, Silent Hill 2 and 3 where one of the best games back in the day. I still have my PS2. Still plays great.
People are too blinded by nostalgia to be saying things like this. I wasn't alive back then but from my parents' perspective the world back then was just the same as it already is today just technology wasn't as advanced, but cellphones did, just not as widespread
@@LittleGoblinJR These where the simple and basic times. I still have my PS2. I got it way back in 2002. Still plays great. The best moments just playing these games for many hours. It feels so weird seeing footage from back then and the life we live in now.
I was a sophomore in high school when the ps2 came out its so crazy to see how much we have advanced in technology In the past 20 years still and will always be a gamer and I still roll with the PlayStation this was for sure a beautiful time in life it just went by too dam fast . thinks for this upload man it was nice to get a glimpse of the past for a few
I’m gonna say it. Games lost some magic as they got more realistic. Something just draws me into the older games more than seeing the realism of modern games. RE4 for example, the remake looks amazing, but the art style of the original just sends my spidey senses into overdrive like “OOOO DAMN BOY GET IN ON THAT SHIT”. Maybe it’s just my OG gamer roots, but old school games slap the shit out of 98% of games made today.
Because back then the hardware limitations made developers use creativity to get things as real as possible. Textures, lighting, stylization. Now every game is full of million polygon bullshit with flat textures. It's stale
Well gaming market has gone completely corporate now. They treat gaming like a math equation and just stick to known formulas and rarely expand beyond whats already known to not only be possible but be trendy. Because people making games have little say in the product theyre making. Simply following orders and executing them like a machine. Thats why every new game feels robotic and like you've already played it. Also the philosphosy behind the game desing has changed with the times. Simply put, with youtube shorts and tik tok, no one has the attention span to sig into a game anymore. They want instant gratification and don't want to dig too much to get it. So now its about being able to hook a gamers attentions from the jump, much like a youtube thumbnail, and then never really expand much beyonw the intial gameplay because new age gamers dont want to try and figure out solutions they just want the instant gratification of solving problems quickly. Then on top of that you most likely just have an affinity for older games. I believe we get our gaming taste by the games we play early in our childhood. You played games with older art style and are fond of those type of games so your drawn to those games now because your brain tells you that is where the fun is. While playing games with "good graphics" usually fell flat on your dopamine for one reason or another. Objectively though, RE4 remake is simply better in every single way. Your brain just doesnt care for modern graphics because youve likely never had a good experience with a game w modern graphics. Realistic gaphics are cool and a way for you visualize the game if your imagination isnt the strongest like a kids might be. A video game is trully good when youre able to immerse yourself into it and being able ti imagine it as real life. Kids do this much easier than adults which is why they can get engrossed by games much easier.
