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Consumer slaves who would have thought each PlayStation after was drip feeding g performance to justify the pro. Or limiting units at launch to push the great reset adigital on,y version which loses 75 percent value on resale plus faking ther own scalper terrorist culture to make more and limit realisation the ps5 is just a ssd
@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 the processes behind all phone apps that run without your control are called daemons! Installers called wizards The cable was to link you to the ether Electrical component and circuit symbols are the lesser key of solomons demons. It's satanic from the ground up The games are pushing the occult it's black magic vs black magic Some force you to play tarot cards to progress in the game They are sin-ulators or sin-ulations
Obviously back then, only delivery was still new. Even when GTA Vice city was released, the idea of buying online and having a game posted was something very new to many. The first time I bought a game online and mainly went that way was second games like xbox or PS2, was on Amazon less than ten years after the PS2 launched. I bought a preowned PS4, so obviously that was online some years ago. But yes, PS2 was quite different, it was the change in how games were, and would be playable or some modes like online.
The difference is probably that only those people who were really in the know would know that a store is hosting a midnight release. Just like the first guy said, he found out about the launch from a gaming magazine. Nowadays there are too many ways to spread info out there, it's both a good and a bad thing. Personally I couldn't enjoy these days myself because I barely had any money. 😅
It was a different world.. today's world is what happens when the Gov't , it's media , it's politician's and society as a whole pushes race , hatred , sexual deviance , etc ..
Yea those were the days! No wars, no governments, no killing, no crime, no one dying in car crashes. Man, those WERE the days. LOL you are so fucking wacko!
"The best entertainment system to hit the world." That line still stands true today. The PS2 has a stacked library full of iconic games. Plus, there were a lot of creative and just downright fun games. Definitely one of the golden eras of gaming.
Nah. My first console was the ps1 and have been with Sony ever since. I loved some ps2 games, but ps1 (ffvii, abe, tekken, gt) and ps3 (souls games, dirt 2, Portal) are more precious memories to me.
Ain’t no “one of.” It IS the golden era of gaming. If you didn’t play PlayStation 2 you’re automatically disqualified from having an opinion about video games. It’s no different than never having HBO and having an opinion about television series.
@@24jithu24I don’t remember it being fragile and I threw that fucker around from playing everything or nothing, shinobi, prince of persia sot and bloodrayne 2, now the controller that had the fans in the hand grips (forgot what that controller was called) that’s another story
If this was done today, there would probably be influencers doing another shitty "challenge" or "prank" like cutting in line or stealing a console. Or the store just straight up being looted.
The golden era of gaming, back when upgraded graphics felt like huge differences. I remember seeing a football game auto playing on ps2 I swore it got me
That isn't so much because it was uniquely great or anything like that it's just because other consoles at the time were shit and because it was quite a while before the PS3 was released compared to nowadays when new generations of consoles come out every few years.
I was 17 then , 40 now , time flies to the young ones , weird how it creeps up , the minutes slowly tick away while the years fly by , be happy , be positive ❤
Take me back to the good old days 😢. Notice how there wasn't a stampede. Everyone was calm and respectful. What happened to thos generation. Where did we go wrong.
I was 15 and got a summer job just to save up to buy a PS2. I remember calling all the surrounding stores to see if they had any in stock. Finally found one Target store about 50 miles away had one console left. My mom drove me, I remember walking in and seeing that blue box, I was so hyped. Played Tekken Tag until like 4 am that night. Good times.
The ps1 and ps2 era were magical. It's like peeking into the future with all the advancements in technology. Companies are butting against each other. Trying to prove they have either the best games or specs. Competition makes great products. Nowadays game companies became more scummy on what they think they can get away with. Some even became entitled and others are fake activists.
PS2 era was in my opinion the best. There was online, there was backwards compatibility, games didn't try to make you fork over as much money as possible, they didn't need day 1 patches, they didn't prolong the game by making it open world or whatever. Just connect the console, pop the disc in and it just works. It was super simple but it was the best.
I miss these older graphics. They don’t necessarily look worse than what we have now in my opinion, but can be seen as another form of aesthetic. They give me a very different feeling from modern games, in a good way.
This is gaming's Golden Age. It never got better than this. I genuinely miss these days, where buying a console like this didn't feel like you were getting ripped off from the get go and games came complete at launch.
@@kvarnerinfoTV Well, this was 2000, which technically was still the 90s, very end of it. A decade is 10 years and when we count to ten we start with 1, or in this case, 1991. I kinda doubt the original commentor would be contradicting young when saying this was in the golden age unless something suddenly changed in gaming the year this video was recorded.
@@user-ys7ur5em1knah I recently got one of those and its alsoca ripoff. Absurdly poor hardware and the game prices are ridiculous. Its also plagued by ancient games available elsewhere, and mobile worthy games that arent worth 1 penny.
I miss midnight launches pre-social media. You had no idea who played the game from your area, it was such a social event and it was super fun to actually wait.
Back when you could actually be one of the first people to get something, and there wasn't a curated cadre of corporate sponsored "influencers" who got everything first and saturated social media with it before you even got a chance to try it out. There was an organic excitement there that's been killed by the modern marketing machine. Social media should have been a way to get people's takes on things, boots on the ground, grass roots style, but it has just turned into algorithmic manipulation so that guys in suits can try to control what you see and hear. I hate what we've let the internet become.
@@bombkangaroo Exactly that. The Internet ways way better like 15 years ago. Nowadays even if I preorder the game it launches at midnight and I'm just looking at the screen while the clock is ticking down. There are already guides made by the reviewers and other influencers who got the keys early and dissected the entire game. TH-cam overflows with spoilers immediately. Buying a video game doesn't feel special or personal anymore.
@@reisshep Not to mention the people that manage to get the game early and leak a copy online. People were playing Mario Wonder days before it even released.
Gone are life's realities. Now suddenly everything seemed to have turned into plastic. Now it won't be the same again because everything in this life have turned a lot worse.
Yup ^ what jwst8 said.. also, some of them looked stoned. Tbh, unchilled people demographically represent the people that are on anti depressants and anti psychotic medications
Best generation ever. No installs or patches. You play directly from the discs..I started that generation with Xbox then GameCube then the PS2...Still have my PS2 and Gamecube. I wish i had kept my Xbox ..
@Retrogamer1386-ve9vi I regret giving my Xbox to my brother 😤 I should have kept it when I decided to switch to Sony..Now I'm considering buying another.. Maybe get one of those clear ones
Definitely! I remember being 11 when me, my uncle and my dad first played a demo PS2 in a store. After years of playing Gran Turismo and Crash Bandicoot on PS1, the leap in graphics was unreal to us. PS2 to PS3 was really good too, but didn't hit quite the same.
Midnight releases genuinely used to be so fun, probably up until the switch midnight release. Everyone out having fun, playing games with everyone, chatting about games. Honestly miss these times.
Absolutely my friend i couldn't agree with you more people had conversations while out and about no heads down watching smartphones. I only had a Nokia 402 back then but not enough to not want a chat with a stranger 👍
I remember my dad picking me up from playing at a friends house when I was 9 or 10 years old in 2000 or 2001 and when I got in the truck I happened to look in the back seat and I saw the PlayStation 2 box and got super happy and excited. It’s a good memory with my dad. He would randomly get me and my siblings a big toy thing or dirt bike or something once every few years. I hope to be able to surprise my daughter like that when she’s a little older. It’s a big good memory I have about my dad.
When I looked in the back of my dad’s truck it wasn’t a ps2 😮 was usually guns, knives, drugs and even dead bodies on the back seat ! Those were the days !
Both of my parents were Gamestop managers at different stores in the early 2000’s, so much of my childhood was spent visiting one of them at work and hanging out. Seeing videos like these brings such a rush of nostalgia
These were my people. We were gamers in a time when games were looked down upon. Online gaming was in its infancy. You played a game because the gameplay was amazing. Chill time and I’d love to have a moment like this again.
And these were the nerds at the bottom of the social heiarchy of that time. Really says something when these dorks are considered more socially competent and interesting than today's average person
Imagine being one of the people in the video and seeing this pop in your algorithm. I can't imagine the rush of nostalgia, happiness, and sadness that would hit you at the moment
I remember per-ordering Final Fantasy VII and a couple of other games and being able to pick them up a couple of days before release. I used to love that about pre-orders.
The biggest thing I miss from the older consoles like the ps2 (which was my first console) was you got to read the book inside the box on the way home then play the game right away not wait a few hours to install it!
Bro it took hours to get back home from the store to play the game, it still was waiting but not in front of the tv, with a fast download speed it takes 45 min to download, in the future I’m pretty sure it will take 4 to 10 min
Just cause it's YOUR childhood and adolescent times..nastalgia. don't be so tunnel visioned...old people will say the 60s and 70s were the best decades...follow? I grew up in the 90s and 00s. Take a wild guess what two decades are my favorite?
@@anon2414 I agree with your statement, however it's also got to do with the peak of the wealth of Western civilisation. 9/11 changed global travel and engendered a sense of constant fear. The crisis in 2008 made clear that we were living in an unsustainable bubble, since then the inhabitants lots of Western countries have experienced a decline in their purchasing power. Combine that with the growing dominance of smartphone technology and the maturing of social media (and with that the collapse of the 'old internet'-a new model was found in which the users were the product) around the same time and it makes sense people prefer the previous era.
I was born in 2001, but absolutely agree those times were better. The games, the anime, music I like the most in life comes from the 90s until early 2000s.
I'm pretty sure people will seem nice when they are literally happy about the same thing.. They all have the same interests so yes they can walk up to each other and talk about gaming..
@@kenrickkahnwrong. People nowadays will think you are a creep if you talk to them in a videogame store, even when you obviously both love videogames. Back in the day, I would go to the store as a kid and a few adults would chat with me, ask me if I played this and that game and what I think about them. People are just generally nicer back then, and less weird
It made more sense to spend a few more bucks on a PS2 instead of a DVD player back then. Such a great console, just seeing that beautiful blue box it came in brings back great memories from that time.
PS2 was my first DVD player in February 2002. Next one was my iMac, then my Dell laptop, then a DVD drive. I dont believe Ive ever bought a standalone DVD player.
@@moussatahirou1531Not sure, but sounds plausible, given the PS3 was significantly cheaper than a dedicated Blu-ray player at the time of launch. This was made possible by them selling the consoles at a loss.
I wish they would do a "where are they now" it will be interesting what everybody is doing now and what they think of current consoles. anyways those were the golden days.
The guy here at 0:03 with The Tazmanian Devil shirt on predicted the future, because the Sony PlayStation 2 still remains today the biggest selling video game console of all time.
I miss this, I miss this so much. I was only 12 but I loved growing up in the 90's and early 2000's. Things were so simple and people were very sociable, it was so easy making friends back then.
PS2 turned out to be the a major breakthrough in the world of video games. Even today after 23 years, several PS2 games are still amongst the bestest games ever created.
I'm so thankful that videos like this exist on this platform. Everyone look so carefree and almost innocent: I love the guy who started explaining Silent Scope and the fact that he already tried the demo. It's simple but he looked happy to just talk about it.
This was a fun time to be a kid. We had just enough tech to have fun and connect but it was still a time where you could go without constant updates and photos and the list goes on.
I WAS THERE !!!! At walmart at 4h00 am in line with 18 more persons, there we're only 40 consoles available on that day, and at 8h00 am there we're 150 people waiting in line and only the 40 first persons including myself got a ticket to get a console. It was awesome and i kept great memories of this day. Bought NHL and SSX. In fact if I remember correctly, they had 41 or 43 units in store. I knew because I went to the electronic section the evening before the launch and that's what the lady told me. So I woke up at 3h AM to go to a Walmart that was already full at 4h Am, then I travelled another 20 km to get to a 2nd Walmart in the suburbs and got in line at position 18. It was the first time we we're doing a line to get a console, lots of late people we're pissed. And when you got out of the store with your box, YOU RAN your ass off because all the pissed people we're still in the parking lot watching the lucky ones get out with their PS2. But it was all done respectfully.
@@Voltomess Indeed ! In fact if I remember correctly, they had 41 or 43 units in store. I knew because I went to the electronic section the evening before the launch and that's what the lady told me. So I woke up at 3h AM to go to a Walmart that was already full at 4h Am, then I travelled another 20 km to get to a 2nd Walmart in the suburbs and got in line at position 18. It was the first time we we're doing a line to get a console, lots of late people we're pissed. And when you got out of the store with your box, YOU RAN your ass off because all the pissed people we're still in the parking lot watching the lucky ones get out with their PS2. But it was all done respectfully that was true.
@@casadilla111 Indeed it was ! It still fun even today. So sad they are no longer making these type of games anymore. Very sad ! The golden age of video game, it truly was at that time trust me !
@@Shotzeethegamer the problem with that is once you do you’re surrounded by people who are buried in their phone and you just stick out like a loser who has nothing to do that’s the problem with the phones and social media these days when you put it down you realize how bad it affects everyone else and how left out you feel because they’re not doing it
I was in the Air Force and working a 2nd job at Gamestop when the PS2 launched. We have 3 Air Force bases in Colorado Springs and I'm pretty sure every enlisted guy and officer under the age of 25 was in the store buying one that night. It was insane, but everyone was just happy to be there. I still have my PS2 and will never get rid of it...
I love this video. This is a piece of history right here. The 4:3 aspect ratio, the way everyone dressed, all those brand New ps2 consoles in box....ah beautiful, takes me back
Me as an 8 year old in 2000 still enjoying my sega games and the next year getting astounded seeing my neighbor playing Spiderman on the ps1 then the first TMNT game on the ps2, while i had to wait til 2004 to get my ps2
Mad how the world has changed so much in such a short space of time. I grew up at this time, I was 10 in 2000. The way the world has changed has made me struggle, I now struggle going to busy places because of how rude and impatient people have become. What I would do to go back to a nicer time to be alive.
@@bamf6603 I’d say it is an accumulation of things, from games to movies to the political atmosphere, even education. Can’t blame 1 things of the problems of the many.
I was born in 99, was a new born when this happened and this gave me goosebumps. Didn’t even get to witness it directly but man it seems so peaceful and everyone is so calm. A person can record without someone feeling offended… 😞
99 too man! I remember PS2 because my father cracked it like in 2005-06 and we had "free" games, but half of them didn't worked or crashed hahaha. Man good times.
I'll never forget working a summer job and earning a pay cheque after 2 weeks of work and buying my PS2 when I was 15 I believe. I bought FFX and my room was like a sanctuary where I felt like it was truly home and peaceful. I loved playing ps1 and ff IX and all the other final fantasies to. Ff7, 8, anthology you name it. This was such a golden time. I barley passed school I got alot of C pluses and minuses lol so worth it tho. Few of my friends were in love with the ps2 and ps1 too it was awesome
bro I was 3 years old by the time this system released but yea it's good to see early 2000s vibes in this video because it's literally my early childhood!
The golden age of gaming.. I wasnt old enough at this point to appreciate the actual launch, but this was such a bright, shining time in gaming history... Oh, where did the magic go.
I remember doing this with some friends when halo 3 and reach came out it was just like this video, everyone hanging out talking playing cards and Nintendo ds, this could never happen today cause everything is digital people are socially awkward and everyone would just be on their phones
0:43 man this dude knew the future. “ they’re doing it right from the beginning with backwards compatibility”, 23 years later he couldn’t be more right lol
@@collisions4615 Fair, my point was if maybe they had focused on backwards compatibility rather than disk-less consoles, we would have a system from them that could play ANY Playstation game. I was kinda being sarcastic. PS6 better be shwifty.
I love watching old videos of stuff like this. If you look past the main focal point and pay attention to what is going on in the background it’s like being transported back in time. Your own little personal time capsule. I love how NO ONE has a mobile phone as a source of entertainment as they wait in line.
man i miss thos days. no smart phones no ppl being on it 24-7. and no system updates every month or game updates every few weeks. just put the disc in and play and your good to go. ps2. gamecube and xbox the best!!!. i would say that was the golden year of my life.
i mean kind of but not really, with all those load times add up its the same as installing a patches... i remember on playstion sometimes the load time from one area to the next took like a whole minute
@@Dulc3B00kbyBrant0n i did have an n64, i only got a psone after it was cheap like 100$ and all the games were on sale and old cus ps2 was already out, got a gamecube too but no ps2
Ps2 sold all over the world, you think chaos didn't happen? It didn't happen in this particular store but on every store i'm not so sure. Stop looking at the past with rose tinted glasses.
@@darklex5150nah these type of launch parties were everywhere. People used to go to live in the moment. Now people go to post online and live in the past
I'm just tired of all this PC non-sense and like all these months of recognition (I. E. a more specific month), like everyone needs to be included in EVERYTHING. I play DnD and they even did away with Racial traits, do racial traits not exist in real life? I'm pretty sure I can't run as fast as a black man or be completely ripped like a black man, like that's just one example. I'm sick of cell phones and how much they dictate everyone's lives... I hate social media... I could go on and on.
@@SenseiSmokey_89ok to be fair, yes taking racial traits out of DnD is dumb. A orc should be way stronger than a human or elf. But gnomes should have higher sneak abilities. But to say you can’t run as fast as a black person is just plain stupid of a statement.
Man I miss these days so much . I’d do anything to go back . These days were so damn amazing . When you could just go to a midnight release with your friends and pick up your console ! Can’t do that nowadays .
I love to rewatch the shows and replay the games of 00' from time to time. It's not the same like it was then, but at least we can experience them even now. And that's amazing
Wow, nothing gets closer to a Time Machine than videos like these! I remember these early days when it was actually fun to shop around at EB Games and GameStop! Miss those times! 😢
@@MasterAlpha1000nothing funny about it. The fact that you don't know any better because you're a little brat doesn't make you cool or better. PS2 era was the golden age of gaming. You've got no idea what you missed.
I was 9 in 2000, I remember just the sheer hype and talk of the PS2 coming was absolutely everywhere. When it finally released here in the UK, honestly it was bigger than sporting and global events, it was that epic and amazing. The childhood we had back then was truly great.
I was 14 in middle school when PS2 released. So many fun memories playing on this console. It's weird because technology at this point in time, I feel wasn't consuming your soul. You sill went outside to play with friends, bmx ride, make trails, camp out, play sports, etc. I usually played video games at night, was outside during the day. No social media, No amazon, No instant this or instant that. Tech has evolved so much and made the world so much more efficient, but sooo much more toxic on a social / societal level.
Bro, kids back than had the intelligence to understand that technology and gaming were toys you have fun with, not escapes from reality that allow you to cry in your bedroom about how hard it is to get a girlfriend. We have to change things back to the way it used to be.
This was like one BIG party! Sellsmen were nice, everyone was in good mood and they wished it to others, even though they had to wait some more. Just AWESOME!
Fast forward 20 years, the PS4 is broken, no memory, you can only play regional games, all games have DLCs hidden costs and those DLCs need to be in the right country else re-buy all again. Man I'm fed up of their nonsense!
Wasnt able to experience this. The closest i had was when nba 2k10 came out it had a long line at the store. Now nobody cares and 2k giving huge discounts
Really glad I got to be a teen in this era. Back when people socialized with each other instead of with their phones. Much simpler, but much happier times. Kids today have no idea what they missed out on.
Best era to be in. Technology was available, but it wasn’t too prominent to effect everyone’s day to day life. Wish I was an adult back then instead of now.
It was awesome to have witnessed this world as a kid, but the side effect of that is I have this constant painful nostalgia and I know I can never cure it. I can never go back an experience it, the world before social media dominated everything. I'm glad I saw it, but I know what I'm missing and I don't think I'll ever feel better about society again. I'd talk to a therapist, but they wont have a time machine.
Not their lives? How can you get that from this short video? Did you miss the part where the guy said he probably wont get any sleep just to play his console?
@@xCaRnRAGExhe means it’s not consumed there lives each one of there little personal interviews they seemed like real people who aren’t completely controlled by it. Nowadays everyone seems completely controlled by this world. These guys are all still level headed
@@xCaRnRAGEx You can understand it clearly by the way they speak about it you chimpanzee. Not like the losers almost killing themselves over a PS5 or the new Iphone.
you don't sound like you were a gamer back then. it definitely was their lives back then too. there weren't many people into video games like they are today but that hasn't changed.
Legendary times, so happy I got to enjoy these days, I recall when I went to game launches at midnight, back when GameStop was respected, stayed up all night with the bros and play. PS2, 360, GameCube, I feel that was PEAK in gaming history.
I'm not even from the US, but this video, the vibes, fashion, video's grainy look, 4:3 ratio, people waiting in line without scrolling on phones, ps2 everything made me nostalgic. What can we do to go back to those times?
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Consumer slaves who would have thought each PlayStation after was drip feeding g performance to justify the pro. Or limiting units at launch to push the great reset adigital on,y version which loses 75 percent value on resale plus faking ther own scalper terrorist culture to make more and limit realisation the ps5 is just a ssd
@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 the processes behind all phone apps that run without your control are called daemons!
Installers called wizards
The cable was to link you to the ether
Electrical component and circuit symbols are the lesser key of solomons demons.
It's satanic from the ground up
The games are pushing the occult it's black magic vs black magic
Some force you to play tarot cards to progress in the game
They are sin-ulators or sin-ulations
Not one black person in this video!!!
Interesting af. 😢 you must be somewhere killing each other or in prison
*Friends, I took off the 23 one arm pull ups* *Support the people*
Steal content to gain and audience to advertise to. lol what a life
23 years later and a serene scene like this is unimaginable. Man I miss these kind of times.
Obviously back then, only delivery was still new. Even when GTA Vice city was released, the idea of buying online and having a game posted was something very new to many. The first time I bought a game online and mainly went that way was second games like xbox or PS2, was on Amazon less than ten years after the PS2 launched. I bought a preowned PS4, so obviously that was online some years ago. But yes, PS2 was quite different, it was the change in how games were, and would be playable or some modes like online.
The difference is probably that only those people who were really in the know would know that a store is hosting a midnight release. Just like the first guy said, he found out about the launch from a gaming magazine. Nowadays there are too many ways to spread info out there, it's both a good and a bad thing. Personally I couldn't enjoy these days myself because I barely had any money. 😅
Peak pre-social media in the 2000s
What about new iPhone launches?
Exactly
This video looks like its from another universe compared to today, it looks so peaceful and genuine
1000%
It was a different world.. today's world is what happens when the Gov't , it's media , it's politician's and society as a whole pushes race , hatred , sexual deviance , etc ..
@@justinedwards9393yep
Pre-9/11
Yea those were the days! No wars, no governments, no killing, no crime, no one dying in car crashes. Man, those WERE the days. LOL you are so fucking wacko!
"The best entertainment system to hit the world." That line still stands true today. The PS2 has a stacked library full of iconic games. Plus, there were a lot of creative and just downright fun games. Definitely one of the golden eras of gaming.
Not to mention it being a really good DVD player. Which definitely helped it's sales.
But the dualshock 2 was very fragile.. probably the only con with ps2
Nah. My first console was the ps1 and have been with Sony ever since. I loved some ps2 games, but ps1 (ffvii, abe, tekken, gt) and ps3 (souls games, dirt 2, Portal) are more precious memories to me.
Ain’t no “one of.” It IS the golden era of gaming. If you didn’t play PlayStation 2 you’re automatically disqualified from having an opinion about video games. It’s no different than never having HBO and having an opinion about television series.
@@24jithu24I don’t remember it being fragile and I threw that fucker around from playing everything or nothing, shinobi, prince of persia sot and bloodrayne 2, now the controller that had the fans in the hand grips (forgot what that controller was called) that’s another story
"you brought your kitty?"
the kitten : "bold of you to assume he brought me, I brought him"
Early iteration of AI. 😂
"Determinded or not, that cats long dead by now...that's sort of a downer..." - Marge Simpson
Brought my human to buy this ass-warmer I saw on this magazine
So refreshing to see, no smartphones, no toxic social media, these people all seem genuine and happy to be there
If this was done today, there would probably be influencers doing another shitty "challenge" or "prank" like cutting in line or stealing a console.
Or the store just straight up being looted.
*Friends, I took off the 23 one arm pull ups* *Support the people*
The golden era of gaming, back when upgraded graphics felt like huge differences. I remember seeing a football game auto playing on ps2 I swore it got me
@@thisaintartonly bc graphics back then was so bad so it was easy to improve upon every gen.
@@HarlemPSGameri dont think graphics really matters before. People just want to play games
PS2 is still holding the title of most sold console in history. Legendary
That isn't so much because it was uniquely great or anything like that it's just because other consoles at the time were shit and because it was quite a while before the PS3 was released compared to nowadays when new generations of consoles come out every few years.
@@06hurdwpPS3 is not that great.
@@06hurdwp bro please stop yapping
@@06hurdwp? The ps4 and ps5 were not a "few years" apart
@@06hurdwp lol
I am proud to say that i still have my ps2, and it still works after 23 years!
I still have my Nintendo, Super NES, PS1 and PS2 all working. Gonna get either a Switch or PS5 now after a long hiatus
Dang, your optic is strong as hell.
I just turned 40 and I still have my PS2
Same
A few weeks ago I tried to charge my gameboys after many years and unfortunately they don’t work anymore.
I find it wholesome how everybody in line is respectful to each other and just chillin...such vibes lol
I was 17 then , 40 now , time flies to the young ones , weird how it creeps up , the minutes slowly tick away while the years fly by , be happy , be positive ❤
Same as it ever was
This ❤️
Spot on mate
41 now myself. I have been married 19 years, I have 7 kids and 3 grandkids. Time flies like you wouldn’t believe.
@@fsgfdbbgfdbdgfhis children had children of their own
Golden era of games. No bugs,no need to update games, no need of internet just pure entertainment.
Games definitely had bugs back then, they always have since the dawn if gaming.
@@MaB-b7l But not as much like cyberpunk, gta definitive edition, wwe 2k20, battlefield 2042 and many more recent games
bro said no bugs 💀
Bugs were a feature, so no bugs
Раньше никого не парили ошибки в играх, мы просто наслаждались жизнью
Take me back to the good old days 😢. Notice how there wasn't a stampede. Everyone was calm and respectful. What happened to thos generation. Where did we go wrong.
Lack OF God.
Social media and todays rap music lol
They had to pre reserve it
There were definitely places with stampedes and people getting robbed in the parking lot after but no phones around to record it. Lol
@@Retrogamer1386-ve9viagree with social media. But rap music? 1990s rap was a lot more violent
I was 15 and got a summer job just to save up to buy a PS2. I remember calling all the surrounding stores to see if they had any in stock. Finally found one Target store about 50 miles away had one console left. My mom drove me, I remember walking in and seeing that blue box, I was so hyped. Played Tekken Tag until like 4 am that night. Good times.
Great times, man!
We’ll never get times or moments like this ever again and it makes me really sad I really wanna go back to the past.
No smartphones, no social media. Just people having a good time. Happy to say that I was young back then!
Throw away your cellphone if you hate it so much 🤡🤡🤡
I was 8
@@mindgames7411But I'm on PC.
How original
Back then people were holding magazines and newspapers and books. Nothing much changed.
Life was so much easier, and better back then. Social media destroyed our relationships.
Just as it was designed to do
A lot of people acknowledge this fact, but I'm curious as to how many of those people actually quit
@@khvostov7g-0x17 If you mean "quit" as in quitting social media, no not really. Phone/social media addiction is at astronomical highs.
Life much easier? It’s still the same thing today but with advance phones
I agree. Social Media needs to be demolished
The ps1 and ps2 era were magical.
It's like peeking into the future with all the advancements in technology.
Companies are butting against each other. Trying to prove they have either the best games or specs. Competition makes great products.
Nowadays game companies became more scummy on what they think they can get away with. Some even became entitled and others are fake activists.
man, couldn't agree more!
spot on
PS2 era was in my opinion the best. There was online, there was backwards compatibility, games didn't try to make you fork over as much money as possible, they didn't need day 1 patches, they didn't prolong the game by making it open world or whatever. Just connect the console, pop the disc in and it just works. It was super simple but it was the best.
Idk man, the SNES/Genesis generation was pretty damn magical, too.
I miss these older graphics. They don’t necessarily look worse than what we have now in my opinion, but can be seen as another form of aesthetic. They give me a very different feeling from modern games, in a good way.
That kitten would be 24 years old now. All of those young guys would be mid 40s.
My cat lived till it was 23…it could still be alive.
They would be 60 in dolphin years.
This is gaming's Golden Age. It never got better than this. I genuinely miss these days, where buying a console like this didn't feel like you were getting ripped off from the get go and games came complete at launch.
I get the same experience today with my Nintendo Switch.
If you ask me, golden age was in 90s
@@kvarnerinfoTV Well, this was 2000, which technically was still the 90s, very end of it. A decade is 10 years and when we count to ten we start with 1, or in this case, 1991. I kinda doubt the original commentor would be contradicting young when saying this was in the golden age unless something suddenly changed in gaming the year this video was recorded.
@@user-ys7ur5em1knah I recently got one of those and its alsoca ripoff. Absurdly poor hardware and the game prices are ridiculous. Its also plagued by ancient games available elsewhere, and mobile worthy games that arent worth 1 penny.
@@user-ys7ur5em1k not even remotely close
I miss midnight launches pre-social media. You had no idea who played the game from your area, it was such a social event and it was super fun to actually wait.
Back when you could actually be one of the first people to get something, and there wasn't a curated cadre of corporate sponsored "influencers" who got everything first and saturated social media with it before you even got a chance to try it out. There was an organic excitement there that's been killed by the modern marketing machine. Social media should have been a way to get people's takes on things, boots on the ground, grass roots style, but it has just turned into algorithmic manipulation so that guys in suits can try to control what you see and hear. I hate what we've let the internet become.
@@bombkangaroo Exactly that. The Internet ways way better like 15 years ago. Nowadays even if I preorder the game it launches at midnight and I'm just looking at the screen while the clock is ticking down. There are already guides made by the reviewers and other influencers who got the keys early and dissected the entire game. TH-cam overflows with spoilers immediately. Buying a video game doesn't feel special or personal anymore.
Nowadays it's 90% scalpers standing in lines at midnight releases.
@@reisshep Not to mention the people that manage to get the game early and leak a copy online. People were playing Mario Wonder days before it even released.
Crazy how PS2 is 11yrs away from the 1980's, but 16-23yrs away from 2023!? 😳
I miss the good old days of 90s and early 2000s. Life was more fun without social media.
But we had online chat rooms though. That's a form of social media.
Yes it was.
Gone are life's realities. Now suddenly everything seemed to have turned into plastic. Now it won't be the same again because everything in this life have turned a lot worse.
MySpace was around in the early 2000s
THIS.
This one guy‘s trust his cat won’t jump down the 10 meters is insane
PS2 was one of the rare things in life worth waiting in a line at midnight to get.
The HD era really brought the worst of out games.
Tekken Tag blew my mind away on PS2. Insane gfx.
@@Kaido_928 PS2 was a masterpiece.
Seeing Revenge of the Sith on midnight opening night was also great
@@mygirlfriendismean it still is.
Dude look how goddamn chill everyone is. But you know they’re so fucking stoked. The energy here was amazing.
ofc everyone's chill, they're all geeks and white/asian
Yup ^ what jwst8 said.. also, some of them looked stoned.
Tbh, unchilled people demographically represent the people that are on anti depressants and anti psychotic medications
@@jwst8black people can be geeks too
@@damigamermx-us8291 they can be inventors, scientists and philosophers too.. but 99.9999% of them ain't...
Times were definitely better back then. Social media and greed have degraded society
Best generation ever. No installs or patches. You play directly from the discs..I started that generation with Xbox then GameCube then the PS2...Still have my PS2 and Gamecube. I wish i had kept my Xbox ..
Still got all 3 lol n my kids who got the ps5 n switch actually likes playing my game cube so glad I kept them .
@Retrogamer1386-ve9vi I regret giving my Xbox to my brother 😤 I should have kept it when I decided to switch to Sony..Now I'm considering buying another.. Maybe get one of those clear ones
@@alpha-boss I sold a lot of my collection but kept those 3 n my Dreamcast n Xbox 360 n ps3 but I sold my nes snes n64 n ps1 smh
You'd hate me then - I got 10+ original xbox consoles
2-5 PS 2 consoles
1 gamecube, but I want more
@@cobrakainevereverdies6940ive got a soft mod xbox, gamecube/molded wii and a dreamcast 👍
I just bought a refurbished PS2 old model. It’s all my son and I play and it’s like a dream
I still think the leap from the PS1 to the PS2 was the most significant in all of the consoles.
Nah PS2 to PS3
Ps4 to Ps5 is like an iPhone next yearly version
@@runeguy277naaa, ps2 have EXCELENT games with high graphics too then ps3
How so?
Definitely! I remember being 11 when me, my uncle and my dad first played a demo PS2 in a store. After years of playing Gran Turismo and Crash Bandicoot on PS1, the leap in graphics was unreal to us.
PS2 to PS3 was really good too, but didn't hit quite the same.
Midnight releases genuinely used to be so fun, probably up until the switch midnight release. Everyone out having fun, playing games with everyone, chatting about games. Honestly miss these times.
Absolutely my friend i couldn't agree with you more people had conversations while out and about no heads down watching smartphones. I only had a Nokia 402 back then but not enough to not want a chat with a stranger 👍
Good old days😢.
Back before the rainbow mafia ruined everything….
I remember my dad picking me up from playing at a friends house when I was 9 or 10 years old in 2000 or 2001 and when I got in the truck I happened to look in the back seat and I saw the PlayStation 2 box and got super happy and excited. It’s a good memory with my dad. He would randomly get me and my siblings a big toy thing or dirt bike or something once every few years. I hope to be able to surprise my daughter like that when she’s a little older. It’s a big good memory I have about my dad.
When I looked in the back of my dad’s truck it wasn’t a ps2 😮 was usually guns, knives, drugs and even dead bodies on the back seat ! Those were the days !
@@paul-ie6wi Dude... 😦
Both of my parents were Gamestop managers at different stores in the early 2000’s, so much of my childhood was spent visiting one of them at work and hanging out. Seeing videos like these brings such a rush of nostalgia
r/Superstonk
@@jamesg8203no he shouldn't be like you
@@jamesg8203 Lmao universities in USA are such a scam
I don't think anyone ask
That's awesome- do you guys still play games?
Back when the game industry wasn't the greedy cesspool it has become today.
back when devs and directors were both gamers and not marketing whores :_)
They were hella greedy here in Europe.
@@cyphaborg6598I’m in the uk as well but what did they do?
These corporate businessmen have always been a cesspool.
C'mon man, it's always been about money
These were my people. We were gamers in a time when games were looked down upon. Online gaming was in its infancy. You played a game because the gameplay was amazing. Chill time and I’d love to have a moment like this again.
@user-yc7ws9jp9gwhen? 😢
something like gunbound, warcraft, and maple story, our days were unique
you simply had to be there. wow such nostalgia.
@@madufilmsthe world felt more connected before we were all “connected” with internet everywhere.
Just more proof that normies ruin everything
0:32 Kurt Cobain was there too!
There's just a nice feeling seeing everyone vibing out just reading magazines and chatting with each other.
the past is the future
@@yt-shThe past is the past only thing that awaits is the dark future that is full of despair
@@Zargex:(
Real life PlayStation home
Social media ruined it
Seeing everyone either reading or communicating personally without cell phones hit right in the feels
How polite everyone is? Just crazy.
And these were the nerds at the bottom of the social heiarchy of that time. Really says something when these dorks are considered more socially competent and interesting than today's average person
@@Chillycloth
Yes Nerds of those days had better social skills than the cringey extroverts of these days
100%!
Have you been to like a party or anything. People still act like this lol
Back when people weren’t constantly chasing validation. Just living life in the moment.
Imagine being one of the people in the video and seeing this pop in your algorithm. I can't imagine the rush of nostalgia, happiness, and sadness that would hit you at the moment
Remember those days. Crazy how gamestop fell off. It use to be an event with the midnight releases.
Incredible when it came out. My first game on it was Unreal Tournament
I remember per-ordering Final Fantasy VII and a couple of other games and being able to pick them up a couple of days before release. I used to love that about pre-orders.
People not supporting like they used to.. more into buying things that aren't tangible
The biggest thing I miss from the older consoles like the ps2 (which was my first console) was you got to read the book inside the box on the way home then play the game right away not wait a few hours to install it!
U spoil brat
Doesn't take hours to install. Takes hours to download.
@@jasonMB999 bro has copper internet connection
Bro it took hours to get back home from the store to play the game, it still was waiting but not in front of the tv, with a fast download speed it takes 45 min to download, in the future I’m pretty sure it will take 4 to 10 min
@@jasonMB999My p.o.s is different it'll download in minutes and take forever to install lol I think something's wrong with it
80s to early 2000s. The best decades human kind have gone through. Unforgettable, unbeatable times.
Just cause it's YOUR childhood and adolescent times..nastalgia. don't be so tunnel visioned...old people will say the 60s and 70s were the best decades...follow? I grew up in the 90s and 00s. Take a wild guess what two decades are my favorite?
@@anon2414 I agree with your statement, however it's also got to do with the peak of the wealth of Western civilisation. 9/11 changed global travel and engendered a sense of constant fear. The crisis in 2008 made clear that we were living in an unsustainable bubble, since then the inhabitants lots of Western countries have experienced a decline in their purchasing power. Combine that with the growing dominance of smartphone technology and the maturing of social media (and with that the collapse of the 'old internet'-a new model was found in which the users were the product) around the same time and it makes sense people prefer the previous era.
@@anon2414I grew up in the 00's and 10's both those decades were shit
I was born in 2001, but absolutely agree those times were better. The games, the anime, music I like the most in life comes from the 90s until early 2000s.
Anon over here throwing shade at the best decades.
So refreshing seeing everybody waiting patiently in line, no pushing, screaming or any of that
Man people just seem genuinely nicer back then. Like you can approach someone and have a nice conversation. Even if it's just about gaming.
The government has destroyed society
I'm pretty sure people will seem nice when they are literally happy about the same thing.. They all have the same interests so yes they can walk up to each other and talk about gaming..
@KalvynL I use to do that nowadays with no problem 🤷♂️
@@kenrickkahnwrong. People nowadays will think you are a creep if you talk to them in a videogame store, even when you obviously both love videogames. Back in the day, I would go to the store as a kid and a few adults would chat with me, ask me if I played this and that game and what I think about them. People are just generally nicer back then, and less weird
It's because of the lack of social media. People did not walk around as angry and their cortisol levels were lower.
It made more sense to spend a few more bucks on a PS2 instead of a DVD player back then. Such a great console, just seeing that beautiful blue box it came in brings back great memories from that time.
yes, the package ia great. not like ps5 with a trash design white box.
PS4’s can’t even play CD’s.
PS2 was my first DVD player in February 2002. Next one was my iMac, then my Dell laptop, then a DVD drive. I dont believe Ive ever bought a standalone DVD player.
Wasnt the ps2 cheaper than any DVD player at the time?
@@moussatahirou1531Not sure, but sounds plausible, given the PS3 was significantly cheaper than a dedicated Blu-ray player at the time of launch. This was made possible by them selling the consoles at a loss.
Such a sad state the world is in right now why can't we have days like these anymore? 😢
with social media and scalper bots, we can't
These days you got scalpers lining up days before a release instead of gamers lining up that night.
I agreed. If today I'm not sure if the first guy who got first PS2 would be able to bring his console home without getting robbed in parking lot
cuz we never learn.
The worst part:
Sony's CEO Jim Ryan is ruining the PlayStation's modern legacy.
imagine the feeling of them walking to their car, driving home with this next to them lol, pure excitement
I wish they would do a "where are they now" it will be interesting what everybody is doing now and what they think of current consoles. anyways those were the golden days.
That would be cool.
Not possible. These people don’t know each other.
@@SpoonLegendyou know… some things don’t need to be said.
@@26107011 clearly this guy needs to know lol
Guy still has his kitty :3
The guy here at 0:03 with The Tazmanian Devil shirt on predicted the future, because the Sony PlayStation 2 still remains today the biggest selling video game console of all time.
Not really predicting the future, as many magazines and newspaper at the time were already saying that.
I miss this, I miss this so much. I was only 12 but I loved growing up in the 90's and early 2000's. Things were so simple and people were very sociable, it was so easy making friends back then.
I can completely relate. I’m 28 now and when the PS2 came out, I remember it was a turning point in video game history!
@@BL-jz7sgNice
@@BL-jz7sg Bro we were like 5-6 when the PS2 came out
I was 4 And a half. I still remember it because my older cousin bought one. He was obsessed with SSX and kingdom hearts.
I was 32 the year 2000 . Doom and Quake were number one.
I was 3 years old at that time but joined quickly at 4 - 5yo 😄 I'm so grateful to have experienced the world before social media became a real thing.
PS2 turned out to be the a major breakthrough in the world of video games. Even today after 23 years, several PS2 games are still amongst the bestest games ever created.
Yup 2K still haven't made a better wrestling game than here comes the pain
Examples?
Bestest
Even i still play PS2 on my phone with emulator. 😄
@@Burn_Slow maybe he mean "best of the best" game title. GTA SA, GOW, And many more.
The 90s were everything.
Strongly agree
2000s
This was the beginning of the 2000’s
The 90s is the best by far. 2000s introduced social media so no
Come on peeps name your favorite band from the 90’s mine would be Bush.
I'm so thankful that videos like this exist on this platform. Everyone look so carefree and almost innocent: I love the guy who started explaining Silent Scope and the fact that he already tried the demo. It's simple but he looked happy to just talk about it.
Haha exactly
I remember having a PS1 and buying Playstation Magazine to get free demo disks. That was pretty rad.
This was a fun time to be a kid. We had just enough tech to have fun and connect but it was still a time where you could go without constant updates and photos and the list goes on.
don't be sad because it's over, be happy because it happened
-Dr. Suess
This is not a Dr. Seuss quote. You mean the obscure German poet, Ludwig Jacobowski, don’t you?
@@TitusSc no, I mean Doctor Suess
He was one of them.
I was 15 in 2000. It was such a wonderful time to be alive. I still think I'm 15.
respect the honesty
i still think i’m gay
You will be 40 soon. 😮
I was 4 - wish i grew up in that era
@@IamJigle You can. Just stay off social media and listen to CDs. Ignore all this PC nonsense and pretend they don't exist
I WAS THERE !!!! At walmart at 4h00 am in line with 18 more persons, there we're only 40 consoles available on that day, and at 8h00 am there we're 150 people waiting in line and only the 40 first persons including myself got a ticket to get a console. It was awesome and i kept great memories of this day. Bought NHL and SSX. In fact if I remember correctly, they had 41 or 43 units in store. I knew because I went to the electronic section the evening before the launch and that's what the lady told me. So I woke up at 3h AM to go to a Walmart that was already full at 4h Am, then I travelled another 20 km to get to a 2nd Walmart in the suburbs and got in line at position 18. It was the first time we we're doing a line to get a console, lots of late people we're pissed. And when you got out of the store with your box, YOU RAN your ass off because all the pissed people we're still in the parking lot watching the lucky ones get out with their PS2. But it was all done respectfully.
only 40? that is crazy shit
@@Voltomess Indeed ! In fact if I remember correctly, they had 41 or 43 units in store. I knew because I went to the electronic section the evening before the launch and that's what the lady told me. So I woke up at 3h AM to go to a Walmart that was already full at 4h Am, then I travelled another 20 km to get to a 2nd Walmart in the suburbs and got in line at position 18. It was the first time we we're doing a line to get a console, lots of late people we're pissed. And when you got out of the store with your box, YOU RAN your ass off because all the pissed people we're still in the parking lot watching the lucky ones get out with their PS2. But it was all done respectfully that was true.
SSX what a game
SSX was the best! I never got it myself, but every time I was over at my friend’s house I’d beg to play it!
@@casadilla111 Indeed it was ! It still fun even today. So sad they are no longer making these type of games anymore. Very sad ! The golden age of video game, it truly was at that time trust me !
The times where people used to read magazines. I miss these times.
The magazines are still there.
I noticed that many of them were just chilling and laying down, reading some magazines. How awesome is this 80's generation!
I LOVE the fact that everyone sits one the ground, reading a folder or newspaper. I wish I could relive that time. No smartphones and social media
Just put the phone down
@@Shotzeethegamer the problem with that is once you do you’re surrounded by people who are buried in their phone and you just stick out like a loser who has nothing to do that’s the problem with the phones and social media these days when you put it down you realize how bad it affects everyone else and how left out you feel because they’re not doing it
@@MidnightRider1034 cope
@@Shotzeethegamer Then there’s no point of doing it to begin with. It won’t feel like the old days in my case im stating
@@Shotzeethegamerhere you dropped your mask 🤡
I was in the Air Force and working a 2nd job at Gamestop when the PS2 launched. We have 3 Air Force bases in Colorado Springs and I'm pretty sure every enlisted guy and officer under the age of 25 was in the store buying one that night. It was insane, but everyone was just happy to be there. I still have my PS2 and will never get rid of it...
Tax free must have been nice as well
I still have the one my brother and I played on as kids, I need to replace the laser though, it doesn't read CDs or DVDs anymore
Back when no updates and half-baked games out there, just true Masterpieces.
What a golden era ❤
Oh there were plenty of half baked games and lots of them could have used updates..lmao
People still enjoying half baked games and horrible controls. Too much internet really tainted your view in gaming on current gen.
I’m looking at you Street Fighter 4 and killer instinct…releasing the game with missing characters. :(
@@moodyman2627 I'm loving the new postal
@@moodyman2627 nah. overall the quantity of good games was high., now its very low.
Wait... you're telling me that 2000s gamers were more sociable and articulate than anyone nowadays?
Yes we were and still are 😊
I won the PS2 as a door prize at my high school graduation party back in 2001. Best prize I ever won. Capped off my grad night 🎉.
This is real gaming era not like today's digital trash and empty disc with installer trash
To be honest the slim aye a lot of my cherished games lol
That thing should not have been marketed
Ate*
The ps5 is far from being trash lol only people who can’t afford it write comments like this
Overpriced ps5 made from the dollar store lol
"digital trash" I can see you're old, very old😂
I love this video. This is a piece of history right here. The 4:3 aspect ratio, the way everyone dressed, all those brand New ps2 consoles in box....ah beautiful, takes me back
Crazy how PS2 is 11yrs away from the 1980's, but 16-23yrs away from 2023!? 😳
Everybody reading because there are no smart phones lol
It was a good time all around.
why do you guys put "right here" in every sentence
Anything pre 9/11 truly is a different era
Me as an 8 year old in 2000 still enjoying my sega games and the next year getting astounded seeing my neighbor playing Spiderman on the ps1 then the first TMNT game on the ps2, while i had to wait til 2004 to get my ps2
Mad how the world has changed so much in such a short space of time.
I grew up at this time, I was 10 in 2000. The way the world has changed has made me struggle, I now struggle going to busy places because of how rude and impatient people have become.
What I would do to go back to a nicer time to be alive.
one day you'll see what really happened.
Same here, 33 now going on 34.
maybe this ps2 is the reason the ppl are today like this? I mean the whole new generation grew up with this ps2.
@@bamf6603 I’d say it is an accumulation of things, from games to movies to the political atmosphere, even education. Can’t blame 1 things of the problems of the many.
Cry about it 😂
I was born in 99, was a new born when this happened and this gave me goosebumps. Didn’t even get to witness it directly but man it seems so peaceful and everyone is so calm. A person can record without someone feeling offended… 😞
99 too man!
I remember PS2 because my father cracked it like in 2005-06 and we had "free" games, but half of them didn't worked or crashed hahaha.
Man good times.
I'll never forget working a summer job and earning a pay cheque after 2 weeks of work and buying my PS2 when I was 15 I believe. I bought FFX and my room was like a sanctuary where I felt like it was truly home and peaceful. I loved playing ps1 and ff IX and all the other final fantasies to. Ff7, 8, anthology you name it. This was such a golden time. I barley passed school I got alot of C pluses and minuses lol so worth it tho. Few of my friends were in love with the ps2 and ps1 too it was awesome
I felt in love with the ps2 aswell
bro I was 3 years old by the time this system released but yea it's good to see early 2000s vibes in this video because it's literally my early childhood!
The golden age of gaming.. I wasnt old enough at this point to appreciate the actual launch, but this was such a bright, shining time in gaming history... Oh, where did the magic go.
There was comunity those times.. now.. "gamers" are just stupid children who dont let you enjoy the game, they just play to ruin your day, is so sad
Behind a paywall :(
Greedy people and micro transactions
I remember doing this with some friends when halo 3 and reach came out it was just like this video, everyone hanging out talking playing cards and Nintendo ds, this could never happen today cause everything is digital people are socially awkward and everyone would just be on their phones
By “magic” you mean the fleecing, zombification and waste of American youth’s minds?
I wish we were all still living like this era. Miss those days more than anything. Everything was normal
I think about it daily
What was normal about it? Just curious on your thoughts.
@@Hi_MyNameIs_Billno woke
@@Gypsygeekfreak17no people like you
@@Dead_Heir no woke
0:43 man this dude knew the future. “ they’re doing it right from the beginning with backwards compatibility”, 23 years later he couldn’t be more right lol
The backwards compatibility on the PS5 is ass. You can't play PS3 games.
@@collisions4615 Fair, my point was if maybe they had focused on backwards compatibility rather than disk-less consoles, we would have a system from them that could play ANY Playstation game. I was kinda being sarcastic. PS6 better be shwifty.
PS1 to PS2 era was probably one of the most exciting gaming eras. I wish I could have experienced it.
Dude with the kitten is a whole vibe 😂😻
Kitten in heaven now ❤❤
He lived during a good age :)@@HughJass-313
@@HughJass-313☠️
@@younjgin
😆😆
@@HughJass-313 we gonna ignore the fact kitten coulda jumped to his death at 1:05?
Back when the world was normal, I miss that place
It will only get worse
@@IsiahGatson-f2f unfortunately you're right
and then social media happened
Amen brother
A world without social media
I love watching old videos of stuff like this. If you look past the main focal point and pay attention to what is going on in the background it’s like being transported back in time. Your own little personal time capsule. I love how NO ONE has a mobile phone as a source of entertainment as they wait in line.
The reason why people are impatient. They are soo used to having everything instantly in the palm of their hands.
Because phone back then was a luxury & even if you own one, you can't do anything with that except talking.
@@pokemonitishere202No fucking shit, it's the year 2000 💀
you had to interact with someone or read.
@@pokemonitishere202people had the simple Nokias. I was in high school
I was 14 when this happened. The transition from ps1 to ps2 was big. The feeling of it at the time was amazing.
man i miss thos days. no smart phones no ppl being on it 24-7. and no system updates every month or game updates every few weeks. just put the disc in and play and your good to go. ps2. gamecube and xbox the best!!!. i would say that was the golden year of my life.
No early access, no half-assed games at launch, no microtransactions. Truly golden times.
I still have my PS2. So glad we didn't have to install patches / updates etc. Just play the game and have fun!
i mean kind of but not really, with all those load times add up its the same as installing a patches... i remember on playstion sometimes the load time from one area to the next took like a whole minute
@@seawaterjohnmiller7118 playstation is actually child abuse. u were supposed to get a n64
and no dlc, what we buy is full game.
@@Dulc3B00kbyBrant0n i did have an n64, i only got a psone after it was cheap like 100$ and all the games were on sale and old cus ps2 was already out, got a gamecube too but no ps2
What I love the most during this time period is people reading books, magazines and newspaper as a way to pass time.
Especially _before_ the time of the Internet.
@@Religious_man2000 is before internet? Are you crazy?
I said "especially before."
Many still do xD Not newspapers though lol
You guys do realise nothing prevents you from doing this today right?
Man the smartphones have made humans more uncivilized. The scene here was complete serenity... magazines and books while we wait
Ps2 sold all over the world, you think chaos didn't happen?
It didn't happen in this particular store but on every store i'm not so sure.
Stop looking at the past with rose tinted glasses.
@@darklex5150nah these type of launch parties were everywhere. People used to go to live in the moment. Now people go to post online and live in the past
They weren’t demoralized dopamine addicts
Can we change that in us individually? Or do you think/believe all hope is gone? Your thoughts.
@@yasureyabetcha”I’m not racist”
Late late 90's and Early 2000's was the best times... Great games, movies, music, shows. Just a good time to be a kid
More and more Morpheus was right about the peak of our civilization
Smith is right @@brendan6619
Before cellphones took over too. It was nice.
I'm just tired of all this PC non-sense and like all these months of recognition (I. E. a more specific month), like everyone needs to be included in EVERYTHING. I play DnD and they even did away with Racial traits, do racial traits not exist in real life? I'm pretty sure I can't run as fast as a black man or be completely ripped like a black man, like that's just one example. I'm sick of cell phones and how much they dictate everyone's lives... I hate social media... I could go on and on.
@@SenseiSmokey_89ok to be fair, yes taking racial traits out of DnD is dumb. A orc should be way stronger than a human or elf. But gnomes should have higher sneak abilities.
But to say you can’t run as fast as a black person is just plain stupid of a statement.
Little did those people know, it would eventually be one of the best selling video game consoles of the 2000s
it's the best selling console of all gaming history
How on earth would they not have made this assumption lol
@@jamesinhenleyright ? I’m pretty sure a lot of people could’ve guessed this stupid ass assumption
Trust me, everyone knew how special the PS2 was about to be. It was such a leap from the PS1.
They knew it, this is why they are there
1:55 tony hawk pro skater 2 on the shelf ♥ omg
Man I miss these days so much . I’d do anything to go back . These days were so damn amazing . When you could just go to a midnight release with your friends and pick up your console ! Can’t do that nowadays .
I love to rewatch the shows and replay the games of 00' from time to time. It's not the same like it was then, but at least we can experience them even now. And that's amazing
Fuck. yes.
What you also missed was at 0:22 is a young Boomhauer
@@yellowvespagts300exactly, I do the same 😂😂😂😂
Wow, nothing gets closer to a Time Machine than videos like these! I remember these early days when it was actually fun to shop around at EB Games and GameStop! Miss those times! 😢
Lmao ok boomer
@@MasterAlpha1000 Someday you'll have the same nostalgia as him, kid.
@@themaskedfucker nostalgia is one hell of a toxic drug fella
@@MasterAlpha1000
Stop it coomer!!
@@MasterAlpha1000nothing funny about it. The fact that you don't know any better because you're a little brat doesn't make you cool or better. PS2 era was the golden age of gaming. You've got no idea what you missed.
It’s funny how they were all waiting reading magazines but now a days people would all have their cell phones out texting and taking photos
I was 9 in 2000, I remember just the sheer hype and talk of the PS2 coming was absolutely everywhere. When it finally released here in the UK, honestly it was bigger than sporting and global events, it was that epic and amazing. The childhood we had back then was truly great.
I was 14 in middle school when PS2 released. So many fun memories playing on this console. It's weird because technology at this point in time, I feel wasn't consuming your soul. You sill went outside to play with friends, bmx ride, make trails, camp out, play sports, etc. I usually played video games at night, was outside during the day. No social media, No amazon, No instant this or instant that. Tech has evolved so much and made the world so much more efficient, but sooo much more toxic on a social / societal level.
Agreed
Bro, kids back than had the intelligence to understand that technology and gaming were toys you have fun with, not escapes from reality that allow you to cry in your bedroom about how hard it is to get a girlfriend. We have to change things back to the way it used to be.
@@Pswayze23not even comparable times... although I’m not saying that isn’t a problem nowadays🤣
@@Pswayze23 but back on that.. it’s definitely harder to find a girl with true intentions nowadays with social media... fact🤷♂️🤣
@@Pswayze23 its cuz of pron. it's not hard to get girls, just make a habit out of talking to them everyday in person or online apps
This was like one BIG party! Sellsmen were nice, everyone was in good mood and they wished it to others, even though they had to wait some more.
Just AWESOME!
Fast forward 20 years, the PS4 is broken, no memory, you can only play regional games, all games have DLCs hidden costs and those DLCs need to be in the right country else re-buy all again. Man I'm fed up of their nonsense!
Exactly! No phones, no unhappy sales clowns, everyone just want wanted to game and have a good time.
The good ole days!!!
@@oosmanbeekawooyep 🤦🏾♂️
Wasnt able to experience this. The closest i had was when nba 2k10 came out it had a long line at the store. Now nobody cares and 2k giving huge discounts
Back when most of the games were working fine without Day 1 patches.
To be fair the games weren’t as complex and long as they are today
Stop the cap
omigosh the little kitten just hanging around doing whatever they want is too cute!~
Really glad I got to be a teen in this era. Back when people socialized with each other instead of with their phones. Much simpler, but much happier times. Kids today have no idea what they missed out on.
People were more confident back then too.
Best era to be in. Technology was available, but it wasn’t too prominent to effect everyone’s day to day life. Wish I was an adult back then instead of now.
It was awesome to have witnessed this world as a kid, but the side effect of that is I have this constant painful nostalgia and I know I can never cure it. I can never go back an experience it, the world before social media dominated everything. I'm glad I saw it, but I know what I'm missing and I don't think I'll ever feel better about society again. I'd talk to a therapist, but they wont have a time machine.
Just enjoy the moment, evey generation complains about the same thing anyway @@Soipelez
See how much more chill the fans are. Like it's their hobbies and a passion but not their lives.
Not their lives? How can you get that from this short video? Did you miss the part where the guy said he probably wont get any sleep just to play his console?
Imagine the other stores having a riot party. Its impossible not to have one
@@xCaRnRAGExhe means it’s not consumed there lives each one of there little personal interviews they seemed like real people who aren’t completely controlled by it. Nowadays everyone seems completely controlled by this world. These guys are all still level headed
@@xCaRnRAGEx You can understand it clearly by the way they speak about it you chimpanzee. Not like the losers almost killing themselves over a PS5 or the new Iphone.
you don't sound like you were a gamer back then. it definitely was their lives back then too. there weren't many people into video games like they are today but that hasn't changed.
Damn those days I miss 2000
And PS2 did not disappoint. Great memories as a kid.
Legendary times, so happy I got to enjoy these days, I recall when I went to game launches at midnight, back when GameStop was respected, stayed up all night with the bros and play. PS2, 360, GameCube, I feel that was PEAK in gaming history.
original xbox was around that era, not the 360
I just got hit with a nostalgia wave...over seeing all those big box pc games at 1:52...
I know that was cool!
Yup
Baldurs Gate 2 is on the end shelf!
I'm not even from the US, but this video, the vibes, fashion, video's grainy look, 4:3 ratio, people waiting in line without scrolling on phones, ps2 everything made me nostalgic.
What can we do to go back to those times?
1:40 Having an arcade inside your room." Best explanation