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 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.
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
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.
@@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 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 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’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
@@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.
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.
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!
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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 🤷♂️
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.
@@darkenergy410 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 🤦🏽♂️
I have that game informer with the PS2 cover. And egm and official PS2 magazine about the launch. Things were so much more interesting when you didn't have a smartphone to check.
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.
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.
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.
Ah yes, I remember this launch day. I was 30 years old, in line outside of Target in Santa Cruz, CA. I waited 4 hours in line. It was cold, rained the entire time and I had no umbrella. My wife was also 9 months pregnant and to this day she never forgives me for spending my night off away from her to grab this console. Lol. I would do it all over again in a minute. One of the last truly great launches. Thanks for posting!
The last midnight launch I went to was for the original modern warfare on xbox 360. It was a huge event. They had a big truck outside with like 12 consoles set up for multiplayer, loud music playing, people dressed fully in military gear cosplaying etc.
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.
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
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
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 😢
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
My PS2 midnight launch was an amazing time, everyone was so hopeful and excited (though the gut punch of the first person to be told that he missed the cutoff was palpable). I didn't care about the Wii but waited twice as long with my GF so she could get one, that was fun too because everyone in the line was playing Mario Kart together on their DS'. Some young PS3 hopefuls drove by and mocked us for wanting the "lame" system then almost tried to fight us when they left the store unable to get one of their preferred machines. They mooned us as they drove off. Good memories.
@@vampirerobot I was certainly very lucky. Thanks for the comment and thank you VERY much for this amazing channel. I'm drowning in nostalgia and loving it.
dude I got a dreamcast the Christmas that was like a month before sega announced they are exiting the console business LoL I still got a lot of fun out of code veronica, shenmue, phantasy star online, skies of arcadia, etc. It's a great little system that was ahead of its time in many ways.
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.
I used to work in a Kay-Bee Toy Store and they would at times over charge their prices compared to Toys R' Us being the cheapest. They sold the PS2 for $349 when it should have been $299. They got over, but I still bought mines from KB Toys. I have no regrets. That's how bad I wanted that system! I remember the managers at the store would always keep the PS2 systems locked up in the back office, so none of the employees tried to steal one. Lol Crazy time in 2000. PS2 is my second favorite system of all time!
@@vampirerobot 1. I wish lol. The store discount was 20%, but I wasn't allowed to use it on the system. If that did happen, I would have saved $70 off of it. Again, they got over. 2. Super Nintendo. I love that system to death.
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 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.
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.
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 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!
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.
This truly is a time capsule of a better time. In the early-mid 2000s, the Vista Ridge Mall in Lewisville used to be one of the livelier malls to go to. Nowadays, it's known as the Music City Mall, and the place is a borderline ghost town. 😕
Yeah, this was a pretty incredible time. Basically the time when 3D really became fully realised on consoles and all these new genres became available.
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
Jak & Daxter, Sly Cooper, Ratchet & Clank... I liked games that had a cartoonish innocence to them. Graphics don't need to be hyper realistic, just good gameplay and a sense of adventure.
I miss these days. My brother and I would stand in line for every console. 😂 I miss the days of going to our local vhs movie store and renting movies and video games. I was born in the 80’s. I desperately wish I could go back in time…
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.
Crazy to think that some of these young people in this video right at the start of their potential and adult lives are now in their mid 40's and either made something of themselves or just drifted through life with no real goal. One second you have all your hopes and dreams ahead of you and in the blink of an eye, you're middle aged. I'm almost 44 now, I turned 21 in 2000...it seems like yesterday. Wow.
im 30 and made nothing of my life seems like yesterday it was my 10th birthday, Ive been profoundly lazy since i was child i start things and never finish im sure many know this feeling
I was only just born during the release of this console so couldn't experience this in person, but this is such a relic. The ps2 is so special to me cause it was my introduction to video games. The first game i ever played being MK: Deadly Alliance. I've always loved the wonder and escapism video games provide. It brings me so much joy seeing all these people, happy, smiling, and talking about the same thing that they all collectively love. I truly hope everyone in this video is doing fine and still love video games to this day. It has this magical pull to bring all sorts of people together no matter the time period or circumstance.
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.
For real. Sometimes the journey from point A to B is part of the experience. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy being able to watch any movie I want at will but hitting the video store with the family on a Friday night was an experience.
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.
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)
The PS2 is still the greatest console of all time, what a legendary collection of titles still played to this day. I was finishing highschool so I got to experience that Playstation 2 fever.
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
This is an awesome, classic video. Brings me right back to those late 90's/early 2000's days. We were all so much more appreciative of everything back then. We have definitely lost something along the way. Thank you for archiving this video.
This season into 2001 was probably one of the best years for media ever if you played on PS2 - GTA3, FFX, Metal Gear Solid 2, Silent Hill 2, Tony Hawk 3....just some really consistent all-timers. We didn't know how good we had it in 2000. This brings me back.
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 social aspect of it all is what brings nostalgia. Our shared memories were golden. Nowadays, smartphones have destroyed those social bonds. Before the pandemic, I was teaching elementary school kids, I witnessed the same phenomenon happen. At the beginning, it was the most social of times (magical super fun times). As soon as parents started buying them the dreaded smartphones, it all went downhill pretty fast. What I saw with those kids represents basically 20 years of social changes in a matter of months. Hence, it cannot be only all in our heads. So sad to see 😥
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.
![Unboxing a PS2 on October 26, 2000 [Launch Day]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/s06omXyhfQM/mqdefault.jpg)
![Unboxing a PS2 on October 26, 2000 [Launch Day]](/img/tr.png)
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!
Ok boomer
Dude its crazy you say that like it doesn't exist 🤣 go buy a magazine and newspaper. They literally are up to date.
These are all things that are 100% obtainable...if u are willing
@@AlphaFlight OK diaper zoomer.
@@AlphaFlight Ok out-of-focus zoomer
These are the golden days for gamers. thanks to whoever recorded this piece of history.
Yeah bitc*
I think the NES craze in the late 80s was a bit more magical
@@nyastclair8174 yea for kids, the PS2 was for the older teens!!!
"Golden days for gamers"
In your opinion, sure.
Counter strike 1.6
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.
We traded paradise for progress.
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
@Roach Family u traded common sense for an alternate reality
@@TechTokOffical I don’t disagree. That’s why I acknowledged it was the effect of nostalgia
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.
This man took his kitten to the PS2 launch. That kitten has grown up and had an entire life and passed away already.
says who?!
@narniaphuket you heard the man!
@@narniaphuket 24 year old cat
@richterbelmont6950 Most don't though. Although I sure wish they did.
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
Take it now. 20 years from now can do same thing
@@tayshow5642 dang you're right
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
Damn back when GameStop was actually a game store. Not filled to the rim with Funko Pop crap and t-shirts and useless crap.
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.
Amen to that. I am sick of frickin pop vinyl everywhere
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.
They fell off around 2004, thats when they tried upselling everything, selling used games as new, hired people that didn't play video games......ect.
Life used to be so simple. I truly miss it
I miss the good old days of gaming it was like living in a golden age
@@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. no 10000 genders and society wasn't divided and crazy like it is now.
yeah no Blks or immigrants
1:00 'how did you get first in line?'
'i came in a different entrance'
genius.
🤣🤣🤣
That was definitely pre meditated! LOL
Then the immediate awkward silence.
So great, so 2000's
That awkward silence afterwards straight up killed me lmao
The person kept the camera pointed at him even though he was clearly uncomfortable. Lol what a dick move.
Homie just has a kitten hanging off of his shirt and nobody questions it lol I love this video.
😅😅😅
That's a pocket pussy. I carry one everywhere I go, too.
I love that kitten i hope she's fine 🐱❤
@@FantasyNero it would be 23 years old by now. The average life expectancy for cats is 12 years. Highly doubt it's alive. Probably died 10 years ago.
@@yourwisegamer3844 crazy. I've had 20 year old cats and another 22
The era of no cellphones glued to ppls faces. Great times.
People acting like humans not orcs like today.
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.
@@thenostalgiabusiness bro no
Yeah just glued in a magazine instead 🤣🤣🤣 people gotta stop acting like us ignoring each other is anything new
There were cellphones back then but not as wide spread.
I miss the good old days man. It feels like a different whole timeline
Nobody can convince me it's not.
and it sucks ass lol
This is a piece of history. Beautiful times we were living in back then. Thanks for re-uploading this.
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.
Late 90's and early 2000's were golden.
@@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".
Indeed
Waiting in line with other fans at midnight to get your copy of a game was an amazing experience.
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.
same for concert tickets!
Hell yeah…. I did it for Gears ⚙️ 3 and Diablo III
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 97 but damn, I wish I was born a decade earlier. Still had a blast in the 2000’s. Phones and the internet f’d us up real good.
Born in 81 in New Jersey. Brand new music and best fashion of any decade. I like how most of the 80s styles are in style now
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..
Tbf fashion trends always repeat in a surprisingly predictive manner, today's generations fashion will also be back in a couple of decades.
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
Instead of Phones, it was Magazines we used to look at while waiting around!
Simple and best times
And before magazines it was newspapers
@@_-1776 oh yeah, newspapers was the way to look at the news and on TV. No smartphones.
@@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.
I looked at Swank Magazine…
I'm serious...I would go back to that time period in a heartbeat if I had the chance.
I was born in 97 and even I agree.
I was born in '74. The 80's was the best decade!!!
Same, I really didn't appreciate it when I was a teen and I don't fit into the world at fucking all anymore lmao
@@metalhead4725 I was born in 91' i would say the 90s/2000s were the best 😅
Born 75. 80s was very neat. The whole life vibe was different.
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.
The launch wasn't great, though
@@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.
@Living Dead Fitness Same here. I got Time Splitters early and it, along with the Dreamcast, helped alleviate a subpar launch
@@flutebasket4294 The next year certainly made up for it.
The Dreamcast had the best lineup of games at launch by far. Shame that system didn't last long, after a fairly promising beginning too.
PS2 was one of the most anticipated gaming consoles with a variety of titles that lasted over a decade 😭❤️
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.
last game was a fifa game in like 2012 or 2014 lmao its nuts
@@ValSempai
Not only that, but also that these 20 titles were made up of New next gen titles and not of ports from last gen.
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!
So many modern indie horrors emulate the ps2 graphics!
I want to go back to this timeline so badly...
I would go back to only warn people about the biggest tragedy of the history: The PS5 Stock Shortage in 20 years
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.
Because you were allowed to watch DVD movies on it, which was a game changer and the start of purchasing DVDs for it.
Dremacast did all that a year earlier tbh. Dreamcast was the giant leap and had better games until MGS2and GTA III.
@@paulearl8203 Mini Dreamcast coming.......🤞😣🤞
@@trustnoone3007 I hope so ha.
Maybe because of advertising...
I wish the world could be more like this again
Throw away your smartphones and block all your accounts on social media, then you'll receive what you wish for!
@@666VeniVidiVici666 it doesn't mean shit if you're the only one doing it
@@alainportant6412 If *YOU* do it then you wouldn't care what the rest does. Be a leader, not a follower.
@@666VeniVidiVici666
Sure, but this won't bring back better times, at best it will turn you into a marginal and a socially awkward person.
@@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.
I like how calm everyone was. No rushing or pushing anyone to get in. Everyone respected each other. Must be nice.
Agreed. And the workers were very professional and kind.
All White people, no blacks.
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.
I’ve got to do better, and live a slower life. Your comment is true. I miss these times. I was 10.
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.
People’s reaction to have a camera put in their face is unreal. They’re so chill, if you do that now people scream and turn into banshees
Because they knew it will not gonna end up on some stupid social media post!
@@Raptify420 Very very true. I wish we could all go back to that
@GlockTard Social media was the beginning of our downfall I agree 100% with that, but could you explain why is it the democrats fault?
@@Raptify420 it's not stupid if you watched it and have fun!
@GlockTard alias checks out
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.
The jump from ps1 to ps2 was eye opening graphically.
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.
@@JunkBondTrader dreamcast was the biggest eye opener.
@Scratch_off_Trucker yup the Dremacast had already put out superior graphics to anything that launched with the ps2.
because now Sony could finally do true 3D graphics. Those polygons on PS One were such a joke, you could tell it strained developers
@@jackson5116 I liked resident evil 3 and Tekken 3.
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.
I experienced the same in 2010-2017
@@jackallen83hehe, with you there. Fellow late production run millennial?
We spent our time in our rooms becuz of the corona
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.
This video was in 2000, not the 90s kid
Wow man goosebumps. We can never get back to those midnight release vibes again
Why not?
@@zerosoma33 Digital/online sales, scalpers, etc.
Omg so true. Still remember waiting in line for Pokemon yellow lol
Might have been Pokemon gold can't remember lol
@@Digitalgems9000 Man that must have been cool. I copped Pokémon Gold from my sister haha.
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.
Spot on dudes. I, still dressing and acting (mostly) as I did back then. I do feel free from the bounds that control ppl now.
@@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.
First guy was handling that cash like he was dealing cards lol 😂
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...*
@@vknzach socal anxiety is a real thing you know
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.
@@vknzach that’s definitely me. I hate being asked anything from anyone. That’s social anxiety for you. I would’ve started sweating
@@canyougetthat507 I would need benzodiazepines just to stand there 😢
How I miss the 2000's. Malls, crowded GameStop's, and walking around with kittens hanging on you.
😄😄
we still have these in 2023 tho
toys r us should also be included
@@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 🤷♂️
Fully agree with you @@cody7068
Back when there was a lot of PC games available in boxes with awesome manuals .
Back when half life and CS ruled every Internet cafe and LAN party
Fuck gamestop name was babbages
Yeah that wall of big box PC games gave me massive nostalgia.
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.
Instead of a phone in everyone’s hand, they all have magazines. Crazy how fast times change
im still like them , it freaks ppl out when im reading a book
@@darkenergy410 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 🤦🏽♂️
I have that game informer with the PS2 cover. And egm and official PS2 magazine about the launch. Things were so much more interesting when you didn't have a smartphone to check.
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.
so was I! crazy to see how much time has changed.
Same I was born in 99 and felt the exact way
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 was about 12 when the ps1 dropped. Maybe 13.
And I wasn't born
@@LittleGoblinJR that’s too bad.
It's mean that you are around 35 year old now
What a coincidence.... people from 2000 were saying the same thing about the 80's, and people in the 80's were saying the same thing about the 50's
I feel like people get weirder and weirder every year, but damn this guy shows up to a midnight launch with a tiny kitten attached to his shoulder
It feels like a competition nowadays to be as outrageous as possible.
haha this is literally what stood out to me the most. I didn't realize cats were able to just hang on like that?
@@pajamaguru5315 lol
The kitty was so cute
If trained at a young age, cats aren't scared to most sounds
Come on, that's not even weird, it's just unusual, to be honest I thought it was adorable haha.
4:30. Homies getting a ps2 with his cat sitting happily on his shoulder. Life was good back in 2001.
He tought they accept the cat for payment.
er.... about that.
Until September it was good.
2000 not 01
October 26, 2000
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.
I was 8 when this came out. My dad was at the GameStop in Sacramento this same night grabbing one. How cool of a memory this is.
80s to early 2000s. The best decades human kind have gone through. Unforgettable, unbeatable times.
Yes, but only if you have lived in the western world.
I was born in 85 and I know this to be true!
GTA 3 is a classic
@@sophist1cated How come?
2002 is the best year of my entire life
History in the making..
PS2 was truly amazing!💖💕
Was? Is.
It still is. I still play mine lol.
The guy with the kitten hanging on his shirt is a real one
Ah yes, I remember this launch day. I was 30 years old, in line outside of Target in Santa Cruz, CA. I waited 4 hours in line. It was cold, rained the entire time and I had no umbrella. My wife was also 9 months pregnant and to this day she never forgives me for spending my night off away from her to grab this console. Lol. I would do it all over again in a minute. One of the last truly great launches. Thanks for posting!
Awesome ! 🎉
Wow. I’m 30 years old currently. I guess I’ll be making a remark about the PS5. Lol
Do women get 9 months pregnant?
The last midnight launch I went to was for the original modern warfare on xbox 360. It was a huge event. They had a big truck outside with like 12 consoles set up for multiplayer, loud music playing, people dressed fully in military gear cosplaying etc.
The fact that they were hyped about it allowing you to play DVD just truly shows how far we have came in the gaming industry.
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.
@@CinHalCedHerChance no one said it was better you old heads are delusional but it is indeed better
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.
Instant nostalgia! We thought the future couldnt get any better than ps2 lol little did we know, we were right!
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
The majority of these people probably already died of covid in early 2020.
@@therookie5714 I miss split screen multiplayer
@@visionist7some games still have it. I recently played black ops Cold War zombies with my brother and it had split screen
That cat on that was on that guys shoulder is definitively dead today.
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
Same here dude.. was only 4 when it dropped. I was still playing Spyro 3 and monsters Inc on ps1. Didn’t get ahold of a ps2 until 06
@@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
@@MyGodzilla99haha that monsters inc game was fire
@@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
@@chrisspedling75 yea the PS3 release day price was $600 entirely too expensive
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 😢
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. 😀
@@mr.selfimprovement3241 Yea I'm turning 32 next month and I was 10 when we got one lol
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.
I still love video games. It is different now. I wascreading an article where millenials buy more games than gen x or teens.
Big Monk Early 90s isn't Gen Z. The two didn't even go to school together at any point lol.
GameStop vibes hit different back then.
Before it was GameStop, it was Software Etc. I miss that store actually. GameStop is ehhhh...
@@colin1657 I remember Funcoland!
How do you know? You type like an 18 year old, I doubt you were old enough to remember any of that.
EBX
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
That’s you? Hi! Lol.
do you still play video games 20 years later?
@@sunnydelight5255 hi hello!
@@gonzo3417 sadly... Yes! I was one of the people to get the PS5 also! Lol still Sony fan boy 👍
No it's not
I miss these days so much
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.
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.
80s and 90s were much better.
@@DAVIDSMITH-kj8di nope
@@doublevision84 That's your opinion.
@@DAVIDSMITH-kj8di no shit and it's the correct one
@@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.
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.
We ca never go back
Man I was so lucky my mom was able to get my brother and I one of these. So blessed
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!!!!
that's called being young
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.
In that day a legend was born and the game history would witness the peak of its golden age.
Nothing compared to the madhouse of the 9.9.99 Dreamcast launch I went to. That was the first and last midnight launch I ever went to.
That sounds amazing 🥵 the Dreamcast is so underrated! Lucky you!
My PS2 midnight launch was an amazing time, everyone was so hopeful and excited (though the gut punch of the first person to be told that he missed the cutoff was palpable). I didn't care about the Wii but waited twice as long with my GF so she could get one, that was fun too because everyone in the line was playing Mario Kart together on their DS'. Some young PS3 hopefuls drove by and mocked us for wanting the "lame" system then almost tried to fight us when they left the store unable to get one of their preferred machines. They mooned us as they drove off. Good memories.
@@MiketheratguyMultimedia That does sound like a good memory Mike. Thanks for sharing. Lucky you to be able to be there on launch day.
@@vampirerobot I was certainly very lucky. Thanks for the comment and thank you VERY much for this amazing channel. I'm drowning in nostalgia and loving it.
dude I got a dreamcast the Christmas that was like a month before sega announced they are exiting the console business LoL I still got a lot of fun out of code veronica, shenmue, phantasy star online, skies of arcadia, etc. It's a great little system that was ahead of its time in many ways.
All those gaming kiosks from that era were so awesome and are greatly missed.
A cat on their shoulder on PS2 launch day haha. Iconic! 4:34
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.
My friend was at a Best Buy in seriously cold weather and camped out to get his PS2. That was so wild to me.
I used to work in a Kay-Bee Toy Store and they would at times over charge their prices compared to Toys R' Us being the cheapest. They sold the PS2 for $349 when it should have been $299. They got over, but I still bought mines from KB Toys. I have no regrets. That's how bad I wanted that system! I remember the managers at the store would always keep the PS2 systems locked up in the back office, so none of the employees tried to steal one. Lol Crazy time in 2000.
PS2 is my second favorite system of all time!
1. Did you get an employee discount?
2. What's your all time favorite system?
@@vampirerobot 1. I wish lol. The store discount was 20%, but I wasn't allowed to use it on the system. If that did happen, I would have saved $70 off of it. Again, they got over.
2. Super Nintendo. I love that system to death.
Wow you brought up a core memory of Kay bee toys for me 😂 totally forgot about that store
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 🔥
God such a time to be alive. Having the internet before the internet sucked. Remember malls, midnight releases, no crazy scalping.
scalping?
whats that?
@@f12pushthekeys Buying something then reselling it at a much higher price, happens a lot with concert tickets.
@@Nolegu That still happens. People just buy it up the stock online and then sell it on marketplace. Had it happen with Ps5 and graphic cards.
Back when things were simple without people getting anxious and violent everyone is just calmed waiting
I noticed that
This is just absurdly nostalgic
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.
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.
That’s why Puppet Combo games are getting popular cause they’re not realistic but actual scary or has a good story .
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
I daily play retro than these massive open world games😂😂😂...that just my preference
I know right? Why do they gotta take away all the fun in modern games. I love being excited. The reaction I have now would be 'eh' seeing new games
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.
I remember the 2000’s as a kid. The world was far different like we were living in a world of peace and excitement
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.
And the economical crisis in 2008
This is nothing but the truth. Even then I was aware of how peaceful and calm things were. Loved it !
@@mikem4481the world doesn’t revolve around America you know
There was plenty of wars going on just not world wars.
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!
I don't know about anyone else but this brings back so much good memories
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.
This truly is a time capsule of a better time. In the early-mid 2000s, the Vista Ridge Mall in Lewisville used to be one of the livelier malls to go to. Nowadays, it's known as the Music City Mall, and the place is a borderline ghost town. 😕
Yeah, this was a pretty incredible time. Basically the time when 3D really became fully realised on consoles and all these new genres became available.
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
Jak & Daxter, Sly Cooper, Ratchet & Clank... I liked games that had a cartoonish innocence to them. Graphics don't need to be hyper realistic, just good gameplay and a sense of adventure.
I remember how magical the word 3d was back then. All the console game stuff was so magical and amazing. Love seeing this. 😅
I miss these days. My brother and I would stand in line for every console. 😂 I miss the days of going to our local vhs movie store and renting movies and video games. I was born in the 80’s. I desperately wish I could go back in time…
I was born from 1996 and I'm stuck in 1996....
same, the modern age sux so bad
@Duke Nukem it'll probably get worse in the future too....
@@terrywalton96 Social media ruined it all. Being an actual kid or young adult during those times were the coolest.
@Lady Tamriel It was mostly Instagram's and Facebook's fault
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.
Crazy to think that some of these young people in this video right at the start of their potential and adult lives are now in their mid 40's and either made something of themselves or just drifted through life with no real goal. One second you have all your hopes and dreams ahead of you and in the blink of an eye, you're middle aged. I'm almost 44 now, I turned 21 in 2000...it seems like yesterday. Wow.
I was still in elementary school in 2000 now I’m almost in my mid 30s
Time is scary. I always have hardcore depression thinking about things like this.
@@Xeshiraz I think we all do tbh.
im 30 and made nothing of my life seems like yesterday it was my 10th birthday, Ive been profoundly lazy since i was child i start things and never finish im sure many know this feeling
@@newbleppmore7855 I think this is very common, hopefully you dont give yourself a hard time over it and live a happy life regardless :)
I was only just born during the release of this console so couldn't experience this in person, but this is such a relic. The ps2 is so special to me cause it was my introduction to video games. The first game i ever played being MK: Deadly Alliance. I've always loved the wonder and escapism video games provide. It brings me so much joy seeing all these people, happy, smiling, and talking about the same thing that they all collectively love. I truly hope everyone in this video is doing fine and still love video games to this day. It has this magical pull to bring all sorts of people together no matter the time period or circumstance.
Love the colors of the inside of GameStop here. Looks like the Mighty Ducks colors lol. Good times.
The dude with the cat OMG what a moment lol I love it
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.
Wow people were so calm! 😢 And yet I remember the 90’s/early 2000’s as pleasant but still it’s shocking to see.
I miss midnight releases with my buddies having fun.
For real. Sometimes the journey from point A to B is part of the experience. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy being able to watch any movie I want at will but hitting the video store with the family on a Friday night was an experience.
great times. where people were happy and sane. before the world got dark and insane.
I love that rhyme.
Pssh please, plenty of bad stuff was going on during this time.
@@begley09 compared to now it was a great time to be alive
People used to be burned in this country for being suspected of being a witch.
Bro Columbine school shooting happened a year before this and 9/11 happened a year after this.. The world always been fucked up
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.
I love and miss those times.
Nobody was staring down, looking dead inside when they look up now.
Souless you all are now.
Haha
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.
@@vknzach jeezus dude
@@RichieAlton very simple. His confusion baffled me
? 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)
The PS2 is still the greatest console of all time, what a legendary collection of titles still played to this day.
I was finishing highschool so I got to experience that Playstation 2 fever.
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
This is an awesome, classic video. Brings me right back to those late 90's/early 2000's days. We were all so much more appreciative of everything back then. We have definitely lost something along the way. Thank you for archiving this video.
Damn, I was almost 5 years old and my brother was a few weeks old when the PS2 released. Wow, time really flies.
This season into 2001 was probably one of the best years for media ever if you played on PS2 - GTA3, FFX, Metal Gear Solid 2, Silent Hill 2, Tony Hawk 3....just some really consistent all-timers. We didn't know how good we had it in 2000. This brings me back.
I always though 04-05 was nuts. Re4, WoW, Halo 2, ...just stacked with Legendary games. I guess 96-98 was too.
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 social aspect of it all is what brings nostalgia. Our shared memories were golden. Nowadays, smartphones have destroyed those social bonds. Before the pandemic, I was teaching elementary school kids, I witnessed the same phenomenon happen. At the beginning, it was the most social of times (magical super fun times). As soon as parents started buying them the dreaded smartphones, it all went downhill pretty fast. What I saw with those kids represents basically 20 years of social changes in a matter of months. Hence, it cannot be only all in our heads. So sad to see 😥
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.