"Are you old enough to have seen the console that had the most units produced over the longest lifetime of any other console, and which is still made in some parts of the world today?"

I bought my PS2 from Toys R Us...

Crumbles into dust...

I have seen a PS2, never had one. I've also seen an IBM PS/2.

(I have a PS1 somewhere, too. And the first computer I ran Linux on was an IBM PS/1.)

I still have my PS2, and my son and I just beat FFVIII on it. He will learn the old ways

PS2? I started gaming on an Atari and Comodore 64.

When I was growing up, I met older people who had seen the Beatles perform live, had seen Jimi Hendrix perform live, and had gone to Woodstock (and hated it).

PS2 was the last game console I ever owned, and I have no regrets.

I remember staying up all night long with a group of friends of mine. We took turns driving by Target where one guy worked and he knew they were getting a shipment of PS2s in.

We formed battle plans based on who wanted the PS2 the most , down to me, who would buy one if there were enough, but didn't overly care if I had to wait a few months to get one. Since I cared less, and am over 6ft I was dubbed crowd control. The guy that worked there drew the floorplan and showed us where the display was going. Our caffeine fueled plans had us developing different formations and routes to ensure as many PS2s for the group as possible and delay other people as long as possible. And contingency plans if a different customer took an alternate route around the crowd to get there first.

Once we saw the line starting to form at around 2am we all drove down and got in line and camped out till 6am when the store opened.

Our plans were dashed, but held in reserve just in case things went south when we learned the store manager was a levelheaded individual. He passed out numbers for each of us based on our position in line.

I was #12.

The line never got longer than the number of PS2s they had in stock, so our plans were doubly dashed as there was absolutly zero confrontation.

It was a fun fantasy for a while though. These were the same kids that had baseball bats and ski masks at the ready when Y2K happened. They patrolled the town at midnight looking for signs that everything crashed and were going to join in if they saw anyone looting. They wouldn't start the looting, but were ready with a wishlist from various stores. Best Buy was high in their priorities.

That also never happened. But boy were they ready.

Was recently talking to a working student at $DAYJOB about LLMs and wanted to make the point that the pay-per-use model shows they're still a relatively new/immature technology. So, I likened them to mobile phone calls, which would generally cost you per minute in the early 2000s.

Yeah, she had no idea what I was talking about.

I haven't played video games since the Atari 2600. You kids don't know!! Back in my day I had to walk ten miles in the snow for a hit of ecstacy

I was in college when it was released. We put the couch in the back of the truck and put it in front of the Best Buy. We camped all night with everyone else and it was quite a party. We were also the few that had one for a while.

And yet I'm old enough to have seen the release of the original PlayStation and old enough to remember it

Kid, I'm old enough to have played Playstation games in my walkman for the music.

I'm kinda glad i lived in an era when we actually owned the games we bought and i still have a PS2.

FIFA 14 was on PS2. That person isn't a teenager.

So you’re in your late 20s and already letting punks call you old?

Just remember the immortal words of Redman, as featured in the soundtrack of "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3" :

My dress code is all black
When I'm making the moves,
Similar to the new
Playstation 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b_zT6mdN3c

Who hasn't seen a PS2? That must be a very young person.

I owned a sega Genesis.

Actually I still own a Sega Genesis. The same one. It's downstairs in a box. Now then, someone find me my walker so I can take a mid afternoon nap before my three o'clock dinner...