I miss the atmosphere of how people were like this during the 90's/early 2000's. Now, it's arguing on the internet about teraflops and prices of the consoles haha!
People argue what media or popular conception feeds them. The people who argued about bits are the same who argue about teraflops. During PS2 era people argued about dvds. Nothing has changed.
It’s so funny looking back at this and hearing about how amazing the graphics were. We all had no idea of how far graphics would go. Fast forward 20 yrs later and the “photo-realistic” graphics of the PS2 look like cartoons compared to the graphics of today. Wait til we look back at the PS4 and PS5 20 yrs from now haha.
@@Silvergun_Raven I don't mean to sound like I'm nostalgia blind or whatever but, I'm a lot more entertained playing and watching older stuff than the newer stuff, especially with the microtransactions and half finished games released today lol.
The PS5 and Xbox series X launch was the most anti climatic gaming launch in history. Here we are almost a year after launch and I have yet to physically see a box of either of them.
@@bryansteele832 Blame the virus, the PS5 itself has too much hype around it to be in stores. They tried to put them in stores in Japan and chaos broke out. I think I heard Walmart has scheduled restocks for both, might be worth looking into. I’m glad and lucky mine came at launch but I don’t think it’s a must have, until next year that is.
@@bryansteele832 Hasn't that been the case since PS2 onwards? They are ALWAYS in demand, I remember PS2's being scalped on eBay for 3-5x its price, same with PS3, PS4 and now PS5. But I will say the PS5 does seem to be crazier than the rest, seems each new generation for PlayStation they break a new world record in terms of amount bought in 24 hrs or whatever. The pandemic and increase in gaming population has led to this scarcity (also advent of computer bots that buy up online retail PS5s in a matter of seconds), I read Sony and the company that fabricates the zen2 APU for AMD , called TMSC made some $10 billion deal to open two chip fabrication factories, one in Arizona and the other in Japan. Hopefully it solves this dilemma.
I was at the Sony Playstation Store at the Metreon in San Francisco that day / night. It was quite the party and not as boring as - say - an Apple product line. First, it was catered. Sony got several businesses to provide coffee and sandwiches to those in line (quite decent too!). Second - and this was the really fun part - there were passes provided so people could leave the line and return. Mostly for bathroom breaks (since the Metreon was a mall - no prob). But the real fun was the fact that most of the line faced a huge bar / pub / restaurant so people would use the passes and grab a beer or cocktail and return to the line. Suffice it to say it was pretty lit by the time the doors opened and we went through a twisty line to the Playstation Store to purchase our PS2 and the first games available. Seriously fun (in spite of the drizzle / light rain - which they also provided plastic ponchos for too).
Still playing it to this day. Man i remember the first time my friend brought his PS2 over. I had been used to playing N64 and the PS2 graphics blew me away. One of my favorite cosoles and such a revolutionary time.
This is such a peak look at where the video game and pop culture was then. The biggest contrast is how niche or nerdy being an adult video gamer was. The landscape has been blown so wide open now and also so different. I hope with whatever Sony and Microsoft do after the 5 and SeriesX that we still do hardware just my son will be old enough to wait on launch day for me. Obviously this is a time capsule and I’m not craving go to a rave to wait, I just hope I can have that journey of anticipation and waiting in a physical space with me and my son to see whatever the ‘next’ next generation is
It may have been niche and nerdy but those were all good things , back then the Industry and gaming community was real and unadulterated. Too much money and mainstream are never a good thing for any fresh creative art. 2000 was definitely right In the middle of the golden age , after 6th gen things started going downhill In any ways.
I was 16 in 2000 and camped out at Wal-Mart till midnight to get one. It was defective so I had to send it back and wait a month for a new one. First games I got were Kessen and Timesplitters.
Yeah, but one you know what, we should be grateful for actually living this era of videogames, gaming was absolutely amazing back then, and the excitement was unreal, so many good games to choose from.
Most of the people are in the video now in there late 30s or early 40s with teenage children ready to do the same with PS5 like there parents did at the PS2 launch. I was only 19 when the ps2 was released now I'm 38........scary how fast it went.
@@oOoAlanWaKEoOo the OG xbox had to have this bullshit kit just so it can play DVDs. Since its Sony, they already had the mechanical engineering to play both dvds and games. Say what you want to say, but og xbox cant really beat the PS2
It warms my soul knowing we grew up in the best era ever, steroid baseball, NFL Gods ,the advancement of tech from phones,tv’s and consoles. The kids these days just except it they don’t understand how valuable these things are
Man the console that made me a playstation fan a fantastic console probably the best ever in most people opinions not mine personally but I see why my cousins had one and asked me if I wanted to play man of course I said yes and since then video games were a huuuge part of my life ( the first game I ever played ever was vice city on my own PC when I was 5) then I'm not sure what happened to their PS2 but it wasn't there anymore then my uncle got a ps4 and that console changed my life it introduce me to uncharted 2 me and my cousins played the demo of uncharted 2 over and over man we had other amazing games that I made memories with probably more than the ps2 to be honest we had Titanfall 2 cod infinite warfare btw infinite warfare's campaign is awesome we had fifa 14 fifa 14 was the best fifa ever and we had fifa 18 that's all I remember man but finally in 2019 I got my personal ps4 my first console ever and boy it believe that the PS4 is my personal favorite console I ever played on I have spiderman PS4 the uncharted Nathan Drake collection (which made uncharted 2 my favorite game ever) I have GTA 5 (a fantastic game) I have crash bandicoot the trilogy.Subnautica a very addicting game and we'll that's all I have for now but I hopefully will get crysis remastered trilogy soon but but bye I gave out too much information honestly but the people who say that PS4 exclusives are movies I highly disagree these games are awesome games these games got heart, characters, storytelling,tone, atmosphere, gameplay,fun, colour, replayability, variety and memories some of the best exclusives for a console ever except for horizon forbidden west and horizon zero dawn and god of war 4 because god of war 4 combat is such a downgrade and his son is pretty annoying the game is just not good and horizon forbidden west and horizon zero dawn are both trash games cya
Ps2 was an awesome system it came out at a time when developers were creative with the games they made instead of just making a generic shooter game like call of duty every year
Actually jes a year prior in 99 was the horrific colombine high-school shooting worse shooting at the time, but yes, the frequency was lower than today.
All these kids out there dancing and acting a fool waiting on this game system are now parents and they're now telling their kids what are you freaking out about it's just a video game calm down...
do we have this much excitement during the ps4/ps5 launch day? it’s just weird like we know those are pretty advanced technology for this day compare to the old gens. but still it’s not really getting there
If it wasnt for the pandemic and making it impossible to get a PS5 i would have gotten one but instead I got a PC. Playstation was part of my childhood but the PC jus offers more and allote of playstatioin games are eventually going into PC. Believe me playstation folks getiing a PC is way better.
I miss the atmosphere of how people were like this during the 90's/early 2000's. Now, it's arguing on the internet about teraflops and prices of the consoles haha!
As someone who was on a few forums from back then, I can definitely say the console warning was way more fierce back then.
yeah no. The console wars were way more intense back then.
@Giga Force people argued back then too, but they didn't have social media
People argue what media or popular conception feeds them. The people who argued about bits are the same who argue about teraflops. During PS2 era people argued about dvds. Nothing has changed.
Don't forget mass shooters or karens and anti-vaxxers.
Having a Rave during the PS2's Launch is the most 2000s thing I've heard in a while.
It’s so funny looking back at this and hearing about how amazing the graphics were. We all had no idea of how far graphics would go. Fast forward 20 yrs later and the “photo-realistic” graphics of the PS2 look like cartoons compared to the graphics of today.
Wait til we look back at the PS4 and PS5 20 yrs from now haha.
Smoovey 20 years later in 2040: It’s funny looking back at these comments saying how amazing the graphics were on the PS5 and Xbox Series X. Lol
Luis Vizcarra lol
not really the graphics have barely changed in the last 20 years. its just better resolution
matthi321 if you say so 🤷🏽♂️
aesthetic > graphical fidelity
One hell of a system worth the hype, the Playstation 2 gave me so much joy, truly brings tears to my eyes thinking about it sometimes.
2000 was so good 😌 good films, music and games
I was a newborn baby in 2000
@@leteizjordan298 i was in my daddy's balls
people were literally raving for the PS2. Thats why its my favorite console
So much life in the early 2000s and 90s. Everything now is so stale for some reason.
Ain't that the damn truth haha!
@@Silvergun_Raven I don't mean to sound like I'm nostalgia blind or whatever but, I'm a lot more entertained playing and watching older stuff than the newer stuff, especially with the microtransactions and half finished games released today lol.
The PS5 and Xbox series X launch was the most anti climatic gaming launch in history. Here we are almost a year after launch and I have yet to physically see a box of either of them.
@@bryansteele832 Blame the virus, the PS5 itself has too much hype around it to be in stores. They tried to put them in stores in Japan and chaos broke out. I think I heard Walmart has scheduled restocks for both, might be worth looking into. I’m glad and lucky mine came at launch but I don’t think it’s a must have, until next year that is.
@@bryansteele832
Hasn't that been the case since PS2 onwards? They are ALWAYS in demand, I remember PS2's being scalped on eBay for 3-5x its price, same with PS3, PS4 and now PS5.
But I will say the PS5 does seem to be crazier than the rest, seems each new generation for PlayStation they break a new world record in terms of amount bought in 24 hrs or whatever.
The pandemic and increase in gaming population has led to this scarcity (also advent of computer bots that buy up online retail PS5s in a matter of seconds), I read Sony and the company that fabricates the zen2 APU for AMD , called TMSC made some $10 billion deal to open two chip fabrication factories, one in Arizona and the other in Japan.
Hopefully it solves this dilemma.
I was at the Sony Playstation Store at the Metreon in San Francisco that day / night. It was quite the party and not as boring as - say - an Apple product line. First, it was catered. Sony got several businesses to provide coffee and sandwiches to those in line (quite decent too!). Second - and this was the really fun part - there were passes provided so people could leave the line and return. Mostly for bathroom breaks (since the Metreon was a mall - no prob). But the real fun was the fact that most of the line faced a huge bar / pub / restaurant so people would use the passes and grab a beer or cocktail and return to the line. Suffice it to say it was pretty lit by the time the doors opened and we went through a twisty line to the Playstation Store to purchase our PS2 and the first games available. Seriously fun (in spite of the drizzle / light rain - which they also provided plastic ponchos for too).
Amazing!! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you for sharing
So awesome lol two years ago I camped out for the ps5 at Best Buy lol 😂
Cool,story
Still playing it to this day. Man i remember the first time my friend brought his PS2 over. I had been used to playing N64 and the PS2 graphics blew me away. One of my favorite cosoles and such a revolutionary time.
PS2 was one of the OGs system in the 2000's
Same goes for the original XBOX and Nintendo Gamecube.
@@MrMarshmelloBoi i won't mind owning them at all along with Dreamcast
This is such a peak look at where the video game and pop culture was then. The biggest contrast is how niche or nerdy being an adult video gamer was. The landscape has been blown so wide open now and also so different. I hope with whatever Sony and Microsoft do after the 5 and SeriesX that we still do hardware just my son will be old enough to wait on launch day for me. Obviously this is a time capsule and I’m not craving go to a rave to wait, I just hope I can have that journey of anticipation and waiting in a physical space with me and my son to see whatever the ‘next’ next generation is
It may have been niche and nerdy but those were all good things , back then the Industry and gaming community was real and unadulterated. Too much money and mainstream are never a good thing for any fresh creative art.
2000 was definitely right In the middle of the golden age , after 6th gen things started going downhill In any ways.
this's the last golden piece from the best era then its all over.
Some of us are crying right now that we grew up, now we only get to play games few hours of gaming a week or months.
20 years ago, we got the PS2
20 years later, we got the PS5
20 years later we are getting the ps8
@@vegetasaiyan1875 nope, almost 15 years later
@@vegetasaiyan1875 Nah i'm thinking we'll only have the ps7 by then.
@@vegetasaiyan1875
(every 7 years)
2024/2025 = PS5 Pro.
- 2027 = PS6.
2031/2032 = PS6 Pro.
- 2034 = PS7.
2038/2039 = PS7 Pro.
- 2041 = PS8.
I was 16 in 2000 and camped out at Wal-Mart till midnight to get one. It was defective so I had to send it back and wait a month for a new one. First games I got were Kessen and Timesplitters.
Woah, sounds like fun.
I wish i could experience the early 2000s life 😭
I was just born in 2000 my mom was 24
@@leteizjordan298 and now your mom is 44 years old
I was 20 in 2000. Good times,sucked that it was defective.
Long live the PlayStation 2 for its Amazing Console and its Outstanding Games!
Almost 20 years ago. We getting so old now guys.
😢 We gon' die soon huh?
Yeah, but one you know what, we should be grateful for actually living this era of videogames, gaming was absolutely amazing back then, and the excitement was unreal, so many good games to choose from.
@@HansensUniverseT-A true we were lucky
I commented in another PS2 launch video that a lot of those dudes in the video have got to be pushing 50 now.
@@bjaanderson yup haha, that's how it is
Year 2020 and still have this consle
Me too
@@totally_ahumanbeing we are legnds
Ps2 is the greatest, but ps5 🤮
@@andythebehemoth9467 Really?,i don't have a ps5
@@totally_ahumanbeing good
Dang tho. The rave seen back in the late 1990's and early 2000's was sweet
Wish I could go back to early 2000s and play Ps2 and dance to trance music!
Most of the people are in the video now in there late 30s or early 40s with teenage children ready to do the same with PS5 like there parents did at the PS2 launch. I was only 19 when the ps2 was released now I'm 38........scary how fast it went.
I was 4, now i am 23!!! I am a old
hah I was only 9 at the time and will be 30 in a few months. I’ll never forget getting the ps2 for christmas in 2001.
I was 4 year old😅😅
And now im 26 in the year 2022
And PS still dominating 20 years later
Still the best console ever
No it isn't
@@umarthegamer7038 because of too many reasons, it is.
@@oOoAlanWaKEoOo the OG xbox had to have this bullshit kit just so it can play DVDs. Since its Sony, they already had the mechanical engineering to play both dvds and games. Say what you want to say, but og xbox cant really beat the PS2
@@noahboat580 👍👍👍
Yeah exactly
PlayStation 2 Launch Events are so damn good!!
I miss 90s and early 2000s
I still play my ps2 to this day i set it up again a few years ago with a hdmi converter and its like i time traveled to my childhood 😢
I was at that launch in San Francisco.
Shame it’s closed now and replaced by a Starbucks coffee shop
Incrível reviver a época de ouro da Sony, muitas horas de diversão com esse console.
Glad I grew up in this era ❤️
Greatest console of all time.
PlayStation is KING. Had it since the first one. Have the PS5 and I have the most fun ever playing it.
just think how mind blown these people are now
Wayne Brady is definitely a highlight of this vid. 😎
Awww shit its Wayne Brady son!! 😆
4:30 Imagine if that guy was the first one to buy every subsequent PS console at that location
i think they had it limited, but yes, would be fun. :)
Im still lined up! Cant wait...
Watching this right now to commemorate the 23rd anniversary
2023 😂✌🏾
“Find me the most aggressively year 2000 background music as possible.”
0:00
You can never go wrong with 2000s techno or whatever lol
Takeshi yeah that stuff is comfy as hell
I love old PS Underground stuff, just an incredible time capsule of late-90's - early 2000's culture.
It warms my soul knowing we grew up in the best era ever, steroid baseball, NFL Gods ,the advancement of tech from phones,tv’s and consoles. The kids these days just except it they don’t understand how valuable these things are
Man the console that made me a playstation fan a fantastic console probably the best ever in most people opinions not mine personally but I see why my cousins had one and asked me if I wanted to play man of course I said yes and since then video games were a huuuge part of my life ( the first game I ever played ever was vice city on my own PC when I was 5) then I'm not sure what happened to their PS2 but it wasn't there anymore then my uncle got a ps4 and that console changed my life it introduce me to uncharted 2 me and my cousins played the demo of uncharted 2 over and over man we had other amazing games that I made memories with probably more than the ps2 to be honest we had Titanfall 2 cod infinite warfare btw infinite warfare's campaign is awesome we had fifa 14 fifa 14 was the best fifa ever and we had fifa 18 that's all I remember man but finally in 2019 I got my personal ps4 my first console ever and boy it believe that the PS4 is my personal favorite console I ever played on I have spiderman PS4 the uncharted Nathan Drake collection (which made uncharted 2 my favorite game ever) I have GTA 5 (a fantastic game) I have crash bandicoot the trilogy.Subnautica a very addicting game and we'll that's all I have for now but I hopefully will get crysis remastered trilogy soon but but bye I gave out too much information honestly but the people who say that PS4 exclusives are movies I highly disagree these games are awesome games these games got heart, characters, storytelling,tone, atmosphere, gameplay,fun, colour, replayability, variety and memories some of the best exclusives for a console ever except for horizon forbidden west and horizon zero dawn and god of war 4 because god of war 4 combat is such a downgrade and his son is pretty annoying the game is just not good and horizon forbidden west and horizon zero dawn are both trash games cya
The graphics is OUTSTANDING 🤣
Amazing graphics 😂😅😁
For the time, they were
I don't think people who were dancing that night actually bought a ps2.
"You game and dancing, that's what gamers do" lol
damn, and Wayne is still making Who's Line - 20 years later!
I see these now at yard sale for $5
"Pretty close to cinematic quality"
Very close
Ps2 was an awesome system it came out at a time when developers were creative with the games they made instead of just making a generic shooter game like call of duty every year
2000: No mass shooters at least not as frequent
2022: Don't forget to bring your bulletproof vest
Actually jes a year prior in 99 was the horrific colombine high-school shooting worse shooting at the time, but yes, the frequency was lower than today.
Far better launch than PS5.
If PS5 was postponed to 2021 Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart and Deathloop would have been Launch titles
Happy 20th anniversary , ps2 🎈 🎈 🎉 🎊 2000-2020
I can say I officially have every single Playstation including the portables
Man, how far we’ve come.
I was born in 2000 when the playstation 2 released
the best console ever made
Nostalgic😎
I owned soo many jrpgs for the ps2.
Same here!
Alternative title: The day the Dreamcast died
All these kids out there dancing and acting a fool waiting on this game system are now parents and they're now telling their kids what are you freaking out about it's just a video game calm down...
In todays society, buying a luxury car in North Korea is easier than obtaining a PS5
shit this console is something else.....
Man Wayne Brady 😮dang he was so young looking I feel old!!
Iconic❤❤
do we have this much excitement during the ps4/ps5 launch day? it’s just weird like we know those are pretty advanced technology for this day compare to the old gens. but still it’s not really getting there
Happy 20th PS2!
0:21 & 0:24 even Jamie Foxx & Robert Downey Jr. love PS2
2022!
2020s best year for gaming!! 😃 the future is now! :)
Back when sony wasn't afraid to put their console on shelf
Ahh ! Good memories
PS2 best system ever made
When you didn’t need to pay to have fun
Agree, If you lost a fight in a fighting game or shot dead in a shooter game, just push start depending on the game but no quarter required
0:58 je sus that girl is really into that party like dang lol
I've got my 3rd one for Christmas recently!!!
3:19 O tio do Chris gosta de PlayStation.
Dreamcast still the best❤
I got my ps2 on launch i was there for 5 days waiting for the ps2 to come out
I went to school up the street from the Metreon.
And then the “Disc Read Error” era happened. 😜
How can they get any realer *laughs 20 years later*
Y2k what a time
Would they still say the same thing about the graphics today?
I still have mine
PS5 anyone?
Back when gaming was fun and not competitive
I miss cheat codes
20 Years Ago
Ps2 games was dope
Wish I was 20 then instead of now
I was 20 than 😀
HAPPY NATIONAL VIDEO GAME DAY!
2020 coming ps5
Hopefully, unless the Coronavirus causes production delays.
@@Silvergun_Raven there will already be a limited amount of consoles when it comes out, so you have no choice but to buy it fast.
@@Silvergun_Raven no
If it wasnt for the pandemic and making it impossible to get a PS5 i would have gotten one but instead I got a PC. Playstation was part of my childhood but the PC jus offers more and allote of playstatioin games are eventually going into PC. Believe me playstation folks getiing a PC is way better.
2:52 who is she ?
Carmen electra
Sony Rules 😁😁 Amazing graphics..21yrs later..will still saying the same things..😁😅😁
"it's pretty close to cinematic quality" yeah sure...
People 20 years ago thinking graphics from 20 years ago are impressive? No way.
Hey for its time that shit was amazing 🤣🤣
For the year 2000 they were amazing
I was only a month old lmao
Playstation 2 Fear & Respect cancelled game Upload
Year 2000
0:10 Nardwuar?
I think so
Imagine if covid2000 hit on ps2 launch
Now switch makes ps2 look like a joke!!!!!😌😌😌😌😌old times
Ps2 is way more powerful then all of nintendo junk hardware! lol
Beside all the shovel where the wii is better
Bruh