The jump from PS1 to PS2 graphically was insane. I remember getting mine in December of that same year and started playing Tekken Tag Tournament and I couldn't believe how huge of a leap it was in terms of graphics. I remember buying a PS2 bundle (the electronics store would only sell it in a bundle with an extra controller and 2 games), and taking the bus home carrying a full ass bag of PS2 goodness. Those were the days.
Even if the Tekken Tag Tournament models were just eveyone's Tekken 3 models, but a lot more smoother, arcade game and all. BUT, that does go to show how far ahead of it's time the PS1 was in terms of power!
Bro at 14:06 did his research! You could tell how excited he was about the console just based on the fact that he knew every little detail about the console before even having one of his own. He was also *spot on* about his predictions about future gaming.
I remember this launch. I went to Best Buy right at midnight and there were like 15 people there. Everyone was chill. So excited about getting the PS2. Just a bunch of gamers talking about how we couldn't wait. We stayed up there until opening, which was 8 am. I remember around 6 am a bunch of people started showing up, and were directed to the end of the line. One in particular was a mother trying to get one for her kid. By that time, there was no way they had enough stock to accommodate her. I finally got mine, went home and hooked it up to my TV, booted it up...and then went to work, lol. All that and didn't even play a game until that night. It was a great experience. Definitely a memory I will cherish forever. Not likely to happen like that again.
I rushed from my job at Blockbuster (they were cool enough to let me go an hour early) to wait at the Walmart in Beloit, WI at about 6 pm on Oct 22, 2000. It was a 6 hour wait but I got a PS2, something like the 8th out of maybe a dozen people who were lucky enough to get one. I remember feeling terrible for the first person in line who was the "cutoff" point despite having waited almost as long as the rest of us. But after they did come out and announce the cutoff the rest of us in line were able to relax and have a great, excited night. Walmart even gave us some free cookies and juice to keep us going while we waited. Getting a PS2 on launch night was an experience I'll never forget. Great memories.
Right. What a waste of material. Scratch that disc, gotta buy new one. Bought like 5 of the same game. Not to mention that games don’t get saved in your downloads and having memory card 1 and 2. I don’t miss ANY of it
I was 14 years old in 2000 what a time it was to be a teenager.The internet was getting big,flip phones were becoming a thing,No crazy BS social media like we have today it was so much fun.
The 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s were the golden age. Those who grew up in the 90s and 00s missed the first half of the good times. It all went to shit right around 2009.
Always appreciate the footage you provide. Especially for the late 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000’s. Relive a lot of Black Fridays, game launch days, and stores like KMart and Sears that no longer exist or are very much dead.
Epic story, I felt like I was there with ya. Great memories, I went to a UK town called Blackpool and bought mine at a computer exchange. Got it back home and it was dead as a dodo. It was a huge high followed by complete deflation. Great memories, thanks for sharing
21:27 I love how relaxed and honest this guy is, saying that he's going to get some rest and game later. Probably the best day of his life, celebrating with sleep. :)
Wooo! “Go home and go to sleep baby!” 🎉 yeah, it also shows how cynical that time was though. As he admits himself, many of those first to purchase merely sold on their consoles for a fat profit 💰
@@whispersmusic6173yeah I always think about stuff when I hear people bitching about $400-$500 consoles today and $60-$70 games. It seems everyone forgot about old ass NES games going for $70 back in the day which is insane. Tech is cheaper now and people have way more money now.
I cannot believe how civil people were back then, the doors opened and no one ran in like crazy grabing things and running out without paying, like today!
People back in the days are more respectful walking in the store than the ones today on black Friday, I guess every generation gets worst due to prev gen's fruit. Love the old videos thanks!
@hannahalexy4215 the parents taught half of those kids with respect even though I had problems eith kids in junior high and high school now the parents that grew up with me are rasing their kids to be duche bags I don't have kids yet except a step daughter but that's it
When I was a young lad, I was working at the Potomac Mills Best Buy that evening unloading the truck that actually had the PS2's on it and setting up the display units. Originally I was going to skip it because I had a Dreamcast already, but I said fuck it. When my shift was over, I was able to go out and get in line. I received one of the tickets I needed to pick it up a few hours laters. The problem was, I didn't really have the money until pay day. So I drove home and woke up my mom (she was the best), and asked her if I could borrow the money to get it and that I would pay her back in a couple days. She didn't have the cash, but she got up had some coffee and went back with me to the store so she could write a check. Just for reference, I had never asked her for anything like this before so this was an exception rather than a rule. But man...what memories. God I miss my mom.
Love these videos. As a kid (now 31) I remember getting my ps2 the year FFX came out on my birthday. Those memories will stick with me forever. Thank you mom! The revolutionary graphics/games blew me away.
it's funny to see how different things are between countries. I've seen a ps2 for the first time like in 2005, 2006. every ps2 around here in latin amerca were modified so that they were able to read pirate games burnt in dvd roms. I had mine like in 2008 (I still have it) and there still are places where they sell those pirate copies of the games around the neighbourhood. the fact that you could use those pirate games made it one of the only consoles (if not the only one) that children of lower economy classes could have. now it's impossible to have a ps4 (not even think of a ps5). a lot of people made a living of burning games in dvd roms or making mods (like the winning eleven versions with the local teams) and selling them, basically a parallel economy was born around the play station 2. that made it a legend and the favourite one around here. btw: i love and i'm obsessed with this footage you upload
Ahhh man, these guys didn't know then they would be playing *still* the greatest console of all time, for the first time. I've always said that this was when the industry hit peak creativity with so many amazing new IPs and iconic sequels.
Tell me what you want but the 90s, late 90s, 2000s, late 2000s were just infinitely better than today. People are chillin', no smartphones, no twitter hate, no social media nonesense, no follower madness. I would go back to the early 90s IMMEDIATELY even with the older tech back then.
Same born in 2000, it’s crazy when it launched the other systems were the Dreamcast and N64, and when it stopped in 2013, the PS4 and Xbox One were coming out. PS2 will always be iconic.
12:55 I remember how common it was for people to NOT want to be filmed outside and just cover their face when a unsolicited camera came near. How odd that this behavior has actually declined in the years since, despite the fact that the stakes are much worse these days.
I got my ps2 in December 2002. It was my first DVD player. Everyone talked about it on launch i was a senior in high school then. Mine was a Christmas gift. My mom got me "return on the living dead" for the DVD and "2003 madden". Im a flim buff so i had to try the movie first. I was blown away by the additional menu options and the clear picture. I still had a 4:3 CRT but i saw quite a difference from VHS
Awesome video some of the interviews were funny man! I was only 1yo when the PS2 release, though I grew up with it and it's really cool to see the opening day of the PS2!
Never stood in a line, except for getting the SNES Classic from a Target that has its entrance in a parking garage. Figuring it's better late than never since I missed pretty much all releases since PS1. I decided to try the standing in line thing. Had a blast, started talking to someone in line. It was such a in the moment kind of experience. It really makes you feel like this world, that is heading to a 100% digital age, that there are still people, physically, doing the same thing you are doing.
This is surreal to watch I was only 9yrs old when Ps2 dropped late 2000. I didnt get a Ps2 until mid 2003 and the first game I played was True Crime Streets Of LA my mind was completely blown.
My brother worked the entire summer of 2000 to save up for PS2. He had a reserve for months at Toys R Us. Our parents allowed us to take the day off of school to pick it up. We road our bikes at 6am to the Toys R US and there was zero line. Walked right in to a confused staff wondering why they were there and we were there so early in the morning. We got the big blue box, 8MB memory card, and SSX. We then rode our bikes with the PS2, teasing those in line at the adjacent Target. How we did not get robbed is a miracle. Amazingly, our original PlayStation died on Ocotober 26, 2000.
Thats pretty cool dude, i watched the whole other video and its incredible all the time they spent with you all and they only used a few seconds. Good clip
21:26 One of the first men to acquire a PS2, holding it up like it was Simba, a great acheivement. And when asked what he's going to do when he goes home? Go to sleep, recover, wake up and play it for the next 24h. True gentleman.
I remember getting my PS2 and the very next day sold my Sega Dreamcast to my cousin…. My PS2 is long gone but my cousin still has that same Sega Dreamcast right now as of 9/27/2023…
What an amzazing time. I was a senior in HS...I had bought a Dreamcast a year prior. If you weren't in one of these lines, or willing to pay an exorbitant amount of money online for one, the PS2 was basically unobtanium for about a year after launch. I finally got one at a local Walmart in about May/June 2001. By that time the GT3 Pack had released which is what I was waiting on anyways. In a few months I'd be starting college with a PS2, GT3, and soon to be MGS2. Life was pretty great lol. Cheers.
That really takes me back. I love all the camaraderie in the line. I am still a Playstation devotee to this day. BTW, that camera man was so passive aggressive towards the people waiting.
I remember the day, my mother suprised my bother and myself with a PS2 along with Tekken tag tournament and Dynasty warriors 2... The excitement was through the roof, I played the demo version of DW2 at Circuit City and dreamed about it. I still have my PS2 for extracting the bios to play on my Z fold 3, pure gold and amazing games too.
I'm an 80's teen and seen everything in its birth. one thing that is pretty crazy is the people waiting and have no phones just good ol fashioned conversation.
Woooow this is at the Best Buy in Glendale Ca! I was literally just there early today and then went to Costco! I been coming here since I was a kid and seeing how the when Toys R Us was still there is a trip down memory lane!
That black dude at 14:30 was exactly right 23 years ago. Internet is now and forever and PS2 WAS the console of the future. WISH I could go back to 2000/2001
Dreamcast was first with Phantasy Star Online, but I suspect Microsoft bought out Sega's spot in the market, that's why Dreamcast got discontinued all of a sudden. Dreamcast was the real future, PS2 didn't get online games until long after launch day.
Back in those days once you plugged everything in, it was all ready to go. No updates or downloads, no HAVING to connect to the internet, no having to wait every few months for game updates or season passes. Just simple plug it in and play. It was a fun time, the most you ever needed was a memory card, but that was it. You see back those days when a game was released, THE FULL GAME WAS RELEASED AND IT WAS A FINAL PRODUCT!
My friend and I were in grade 11 on PS2 launch day. We timed it for spare in the morning, while everyone else was in class and at work. My small town only had 12 at Zellers. We each bought one. $520 Canadian. They didn't even have the games out yet that day.
I’ll never ever forget that day when my mom and dad got me a ps2 with gta3 and midnight club for Christmas when i was 14. I miss those times so much. You just don’t get that magical feeling with new generation consoles. I have a ps5 and it just sits there. The ps2 I’ll play all day everyday.
I think it's because we are older now, I was a huge gamer back in the day, now I'm 29 and hardly play, maybe a mobile game on my phone but i sold my PS5 because i hardly got on it.
I remember spending the night at one of our local Target stores with one of my homeboys. We went like at 10pm the night before release. We were like number 5 & 6 in line. We were too excited to be sleepy. It was well worth it. Great memories!
Im a pc gamer now for 4 years but whenever consoles release its always so hype, if devs ever give full mouse n keyboard support for all games on consoles ill probably go back to consoles
My parents surprised the heck out of me with a PS2 that Christmas. I still can't believe I woke up to that iconic blue box that morning. I will never forget that image burned into my mind.
I didn't buy day 1, but even years later it was still valuable. By the time I needed one, all the stores were out and it wasn't even Halloween yet. I had to be stuck with the Gamecube til the coming February and it turned out to be the most boring holiday season ever
I went with my buddy from work who drove an our and a half from the city we lived in. He was only able to score a preorder in his hometown and was excited about the DVD function!
will never be this exciting to get a new console right on release again, the jump in tech was really so big. i can only finally getting it in that bag, heading home and playing it all day and night. cant imagine that feeling now, the differences become more subtle and nuanced as graphical tech comes to a pause these days. also, good soundtrack that best buy was playing lol
Had to wait till the next year after the launch to get mine had to have family members ship it to us couldn’t get one anywhere around our area 😮 man I miss those days!
At the time, I was working at Target here in the DFW area. On release day, I had school that day and I ended up giving my money to my mom to pick up my PS2 while I was in school for half of the day (as a senior) and when she came to pick me up she had it right there along with a copy of Dynasty Warriors 2. #thursday 10/26/2000
Memories man. Memories. I remember dropping my brother off at EB Games in Cali the day of before work to pick one up. Got home and he was knee deep in playing Tekken Tag. Such a great system.
2000: Bring out a pallet of systems and people grab them to take them to the register to buy them. 2023: Bring out a pallet of systems and people grab them and run out stealing them knowing nobody can catch them.
I remember that anticipation as a kid during Birthday's or Christmas, or just events you were excited for. Now, it's countless disappointment and future of just cold darkness. The spiral down to nothingness.
HOLY SHIT thats the best buy in glendale that I always go to. There is a costco on the other end and the toys r us building is almost always empty until holloween when it becomes a costume store for a couple months. Crazy
Was going to say, everyone there had that early 2000's SoCal Honda Homie vibe. Even though these were all out of date by 2014, when the media started focusing in on gamers as the new boogeyman these guys were the archetype I saw in my mind.
hearing the songs (28:10) being played at the store makes me understand how old I am and how fast time has past me, I'm 40yrs old. WOW..!! I can say that I have regrets of not applying myself to do what I knew I should of done.
When I look at this footage, I can't help but wonder what became of these people. Did some fall victim to illness like cancer? Were others lost to unforeseen accidents or tragedies? The relentless march of time inevitably brings loss, and the thought fills me with a profound sadness. time is a seranade of losses.
All I want to know is, why is there someone wearing a Goron mask and where did they get that at? 😂 This is a fascinating channel. Keep up the great work archiving absolute history.
The 2000 Internet Surfing footage alone is historical.
Giggidy 👌 awright
This is some historical footage
Back when it was cool to be recorded
People were excited to be recorded then.
Isn’t all video footage historical?
@@summerrr1
Not tik tok videos though
The jump from PS1 to PS2 graphically was insane. I remember getting mine in December of that same year and started playing Tekken Tag Tournament and I couldn't believe how huge of a leap it was in terms of graphics.
I remember buying a PS2 bundle (the electronics store would only sell it in a bundle with an extra controller and 2 games), and taking the bus home carrying a full ass bag of PS2 goodness. Those were the days.
Spot on about the graphics, that was actually one of the first few games we bought too when we got the ps2
I bought the Primal PS2 bundle.
And I also noticed.
I remember my friends and me shitting ourselves over players being able to blink in Madden 01.
I remember having my gaze fixed on the sun reflection of the ground on Jin's stage, it was mouth droppingly gorgeous!
Even if the Tekken Tag Tournament models were just eveyone's Tekken 3 models, but a lot more smoother, arcade game and all. BUT, that does go to show how far ahead of it's time the PS1 was in terms of power!
"WELCOME TO BEST BUY!"
That manager waited all his life for that moment.
😂😂😂
wanted to like this comment, but I gotta keep it at 69 likes ;)
Bro at 14:06 did his research! You could tell how excited he was about the console just based on the fact that he knew every little detail about the console before even having one of his own. He was also *spot on* about his predictions about future gaming.
Yea
Is that how you start every sentence?
@@ChillingTales12 ?
He was exited because he cant wait to play hentai games on ps2
Yeh he was a real one - dude even carried the box out in his hands to let everybody know he's got that new PS2 - Flexin
I remember this launch. I went to Best Buy right at midnight and there were like 15 people there. Everyone was chill. So excited about getting the PS2. Just a bunch of gamers talking about how we couldn't wait. We stayed up there until opening, which was 8 am. I remember around 6 am a bunch of people started showing up, and were directed to the end of the line. One in particular was a mother trying to get one for her kid. By that time, there was no way they had enough stock to accommodate her.
I finally got mine, went home and hooked it up to my TV, booted it up...and then went to work, lol. All that and didn't even play a game until that night. It was a great experience. Definitely a memory I will cherish forever. Not likely to happen like that again.
I thought you were gonna say you let that lady trynna get one for her kid take your spot or something 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I rushed from my job at Blockbuster (they were cool enough to let me go an hour early) to wait at the Walmart in Beloit, WI at about 6 pm on Oct 22, 2000. It was a 6 hour wait but I got a PS2, something like the 8th out of maybe a dozen people who were lucky enough to get one. I remember feeling terrible for the first person in line who was the "cutoff" point despite having waited almost as long as the rest of us. But after they did come out and announce the cutoff the rest of us in line were able to relax and have a great, excited night. Walmart even gave us some free cookies and juice to keep us going while we waited.
Getting a PS2 on launch night was an experience I'll never forget. Great memories.
what game did you buy for it at launch?
@@adewilson132 Dynasty Warriors 2 was the game I played the most at launch, though I dabbled with Tekken Tag and mostly completed Summoner.
14:21 he was 💯% right all the way about PS2 being the gaming console of the future in regard to Internet, USB, playing online, etc
I wonder what he thinks about the PS5
@@dericjames2018 No games. Just like every other systems now and days.
@@milesbbop9563 true that. I've had my PS5 for 2+ years and theres only 3 games. All the other ones you can play on the ps4.
@@dericjames2018garbage lol it even looks silly by design of the shell
but the online component didnt take off until Xbox live and the arrival of Halo.
This was truly the golden age
LOL Each for their own.
@@ERTChimpanzee Ok Zoomer and go touch some grass while your at it😏
My dude called the future of gaming to a T. Internet changed everything.
@theflipbook1280 My bad, wrong person 🤣
@theflipbook1280 But yeah, you're welcome
I just got one at a garage sale for $18. Should have just waited 23 years you silly geese!
They go for about 60-100. You got lucky.
Wow…all those shelves filled with actual physical products. 😢
Right. What a waste of material. Scratch that disc, gotta buy new one. Bought like 5 of the same game. Not to mention that games don’t get saved in your downloads and having memory card 1 and 2. I don’t miss ANY of it
@@Igoriann😂🤡 take better care of your shiat
I was 14 years old in 2000 what a time it was to be a teenager.The internet was getting big,flip phones were becoming a thing,No crazy BS social media like we have today it was so much fun.
Yo flipping phones were a luxury then & I think they came around 2003 I think
And everything was better. Television, Music, People.
The 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s were the golden age. Those who grew up in the 90s and 00s missed the first half of the good times. It all went to shit right around 2009.
@@navyvet05 I would say it was still fine until around 2012/13. Then it got worse year after year. And when Covid came. We hit the absolute low point.
I was 4. Just able to experience or witness what the world was during this time :)
This is so awesome!! At 22:07 you can hear teenage dirtbag by whetus playing. Would love to time travel back to a best buy in 2000!!
that was the part, for me lol...TRL lol
At around the same time we can also see Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets
Always appreciate the footage you provide. Especially for the late 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000’s. Relive a lot of Black Fridays, game launch days, and stores like KMart and Sears that no longer exist or are very much dead.
Epic story, I felt like I was there with ya. Great memories, I went to a UK town called Blackpool and bought mine at a computer exchange. Got it back home and it was dead as a dodo. It was a huge high followed by complete deflation. Great memories, thanks for sharing
21:27 I love how relaxed and honest this guy is, saying that he's going to get some rest and game later. Probably the best day of his life, celebrating with sleep. :)
Wooo! “Go home and go to sleep baby!” 🎉 yeah, it also shows how cynical that time was though. As he admits himself, many of those first to purchase merely sold on their consoles for a fat profit 💰
I remember PS3 retailing for $600. Crazy how high the prices were for a timeline with significantly smaller wages
@RadHazy And thats what makes it crazy. 600 just for a game console, which the original 60 GB model had major issues.
@@whispersmusic6173yeah I always think about stuff when I hear people bitching about $400-$500 consoles today and $60-$70 games. It seems everyone forgot about old ass NES games going for $70 back in the day which is insane. Tech is cheaper now and people have way more money now.
Paid $800 at Kmart for the Limited edition, reverse compatible PS3. Man, time flies.
The wages are basically the same
Adjusted for inflation, wages don't increase or decrease over time
I cannot believe how civil people were back then, the doors opened and no one ran in like crazy grabing things and running out without paying, like today!
must not be democrats then
Do not look into tickle me elmo ignorance is bliss
Hey Americans, can you maybe go one day without bringing up your shitty country's shitty politics?@@kT-ci1ke
You must have missed the story about someone who got murdered for a PS2.
😂😂😂
People back in the days are more respectful walking in the store than the ones today on black Friday, I guess every generation gets worst due to prev gen's fruit. Love the old videos thanks!
This wasn't black Friday?
@hannahalexy4215 the parents taught half of those kids with respect even though I had problems eith kids in junior high and high school now the parents that grew up with me are rasing their kids to be duche bags I don't have kids yet except a step daughter but that's it
The scalpers were lurking 😂
More like slithering.
But notice how it was 1 ticket per person and only the folks with tickets could get one. Needs to go back to that.
@@fordxbgtfalcon lmaooo
When I was a young lad, I was working at the Potomac Mills Best Buy that evening unloading the truck that actually had the PS2's on it and setting up the display units. Originally I was going to skip it because I had a Dreamcast already, but I said fuck it. When my shift was over, I was able to go out and get in line. I received one of the tickets I needed to pick it up a few hours laters. The problem was, I didn't really have the money until pay day. So I drove home and woke up my mom (she was the best), and asked her if I could borrow the money to get it and that I would pay her back in a couple days. She didn't have the cash, but she got up had some coffee and went back with me to the store so she could write a check. Just for reference, I had never asked her for anything like this before so this was an exception rather than a rule. But man...what memories. God I miss my mom.
Love these videos. As a kid (now 31) I remember getting my ps2 the year FFX came out on my birthday. Those memories will stick with me forever. Thank you mom! The revolutionary graphics/games blew me away.
You were either born in 1991 or 1992 making you around 8 or 7 when this came out in the fall of 2000.
it's funny to see how different things are between countries. I've seen a ps2 for the first time like in 2005, 2006. every ps2 around here in latin amerca were modified so that they were able to read pirate games burnt in dvd roms. I had mine like in 2008 (I still have it) and there still are places where they sell those pirate copies of the games around the neighbourhood. the fact that you could use those pirate games made it one of the only consoles (if not the only one) that children of lower economy classes could have. now it's impossible to have a ps4 (not even think of a ps5). a lot of people made a living of burning games in dvd roms or making mods (like the winning eleven versions with the local teams) and selling them, basically a parallel economy was born around the play station 2. that made it a legend and the favourite one around here.
btw: i love and i'm obsessed with this footage you upload
Ps1 same
Ahhh man, these guys didn't know then they would be playing *still* the greatest console of all time, for the first time. I've always said that this was when the industry hit peak creativity with so many amazing new IPs and iconic sequels.
It's so cool to see so many people geuinely happy and excited. Great video. Best Buy used to be such an awesome place. Barely hanging on these days..
We need a circuit city video
The first dude was speaking ahead of his time it age well..
He just needed to wait for the PS3 and also the PS4 and PS5.
Yeah the Dreamcast was superior to the PS2 when it comes to internet capability. The Dreamcast was the console of the future.
Tell me what you want but the 90s, late 90s, 2000s, late 2000s were just infinitely better than today.
People are chillin', no smartphones, no twitter hate, no social media nonesense, no follower madness.
I would go back to the early 90s IMMEDIATELY even with the older tech back then.
I was born in 2000 but didn’t get a ps2 until 2006, this is fascinating to see how life was the year I was born
You'll forever be a fetus to me lmfao
Same born in 2000, it’s crazy when it launched the other systems were the Dreamcast and N64, and when it stopped in 2013, the PS4 and Xbox One were coming out. PS2 will always be iconic.
@@supersmashmaster43 People will say the same at PS6 50 years later lol.
@supersmashmaster43 I liked Dreamcast, a very underrated system they were actually the 1st to connect to the internet and have a built-in fan
12:55 I remember how common it was for people to NOT want to be filmed outside and just cover their face when a unsolicited camera came near. How odd that this behavior has actually declined in the years since, despite the fact that the stakes are much worse these days.
I got my ps2 in December 2002. It was my first DVD player. Everyone talked about it on launch i was a senior in high school then. Mine was a Christmas gift. My mom got me "return on the living dead" for the DVD and "2003 madden". Im a flim buff so i had to try the movie first. I was blown away by the additional menu options and the clear picture. I still had a 4:3 CRT but i saw quite a difference from VHS
Its good to know someone went back in time to record the more simpler times of gaming.
Scalpers in 2000, scalpers in 2023.. some things never chance lol
No one on cellphones those we're good times
Ok boomer.
@@ERTChimpanzee 🤓
@@ERTChimpanzeeadjust your low IQ kid
guess the rest of forever will just be shitty.
cool outlook
Yea lol
Phone gaming helped ruined gaming as a whole. Now the mainstream gaming industry is mostly cancer.
It connects to the internet and we all know the internet is now in forever.
Awesome video some of the interviews were funny man! I was only 1yo when the PS2 release, though I grew up with it and it's really cool to see the opening day of the PS2!
everyone relaxed, quiet, nobody screaming or running with the console in the hands, all civil and good. WTf happened in todays world ?
We’re just idiots M8
My God this is such a time capsule piece that needs to be kept safe. Your videos are awesome.
Never stood in a line, except for getting the SNES Classic from a Target that has its entrance in a parking garage. Figuring it's better late than never since I missed pretty much all releases since PS1. I decided to try the standing in line thing. Had a blast, started talking to someone in line. It was such a in the moment kind of experience. It really makes you feel like this world, that is heading to a 100% digital age, that there are still people, physically, doing the same thing you are doing.
This is surreal to watch I was only 9yrs old when Ps2 dropped late 2000. I didnt get a Ps2 until mid 2003 and the first game I played was True Crime Streets Of LA my mind was completely blown.
I was 8 haha and was lucky to get a system Christmas 2002 with final fantasy X and Tekken 4
My brother worked the entire summer of 2000 to save up for PS2. He had a reserve for months at Toys R Us. Our parents allowed us to take the day off of school to pick it up. We road our bikes at 6am to the Toys R US and there was zero line. Walked right in to a confused staff wondering why they were there and we were there so early in the morning.
We got the big blue box, 8MB memory card, and SSX. We then rode our bikes with the PS2, teasing those in line at the adjacent Target. How we did not get robbed is a miracle. Amazingly, our original PlayStation died on Ocotober 26, 2000.
Sorry to hear the last part man.
Thats pretty cool dude, i watched the whole other video and its incredible all the time they spent with you all and they only used a few seconds.
Good clip
21:26 One of the first men to acquire a PS2, holding it up like it was Simba, a great acheivement. And when asked what he's going to do when he goes home? Go to sleep, recover, wake up and play it for the next 24h. True gentleman.
I wish he was my best friend
I remember getting my PS2 and the very next day sold my Sega Dreamcast to my cousin…. My PS2 is long gone but my cousin still has that same Sega Dreamcast right now as of 9/27/2023…
I like how everyone quizzes them on current events, as if people who buy video games are completely disconnected from reality.
But they are
@@Chris-cx6wl not all of them
Damn, the Majora’s mask shirt is sick, especially considering the fact the game just came out when this was recorded. True history right here
What an amzazing time. I was a senior in HS...I had bought a Dreamcast a year prior. If you weren't in one of these lines, or willing to pay an exorbitant amount of money online for one, the PS2 was basically unobtanium for about a year after launch. I finally got one at a local Walmart in about May/June 2001. By that time the GT3 Pack had released which is what I was waiting on anyways. In a few months I'd be starting college with a PS2, GT3, and soon to be MGS2. Life was pretty great lol. Cheers.
Amazing!!
You had the goat system dreamcast. I have my hook up to hdmi and still play it.
That really takes me back. I love all the camaraderie in the line. I am still a Playstation devotee to this day. BTW, that camera man was so passive aggressive towards the people waiting.
I remember the day, my mother suprised my bother and myself with a PS2 along with Tekken tag tournament and Dynasty warriors 2... The excitement was through the roof, I played the demo version of DW2 at Circuit City and dreamed about it. I still have my PS2 for extracting the bios to play on my Z fold 3, pure gold and amazing games too.
Dude talking about USB ports back when I didn't even know that was a thing..
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Me and my ps2 box are watcjin this
the early 2000s was the apex of video games.
My mom bought me a PS2 at in 2003. I always wait about 2-3 years after release as the game library is extensive and I get it on less price.
So fun to watch everyone’s so chill so ready for this excited not gonna sleep for sure
I'm an 80's teen and seen everything in its birth. one thing that is pretty crazy is the people waiting and have no phones just good ol fashioned conversation.
No one realizes the true excitement and feelings these passionate gamers were feeling
Woooow this is at the Best Buy in Glendale Ca! I was literally just there early today and then went to Costco! I been coming here since I was a kid and seeing how the when Toys R Us was still there is a trip down memory lane!
Back then when when customer service was legit good and respected. Good times!
Back when customers had to take rude customers shit
That black dude at 14:30 was exactly right 23 years ago. Internet is now and forever and PS2 WAS the console of the future. WISH I could go back to 2000/2001
I was there for it it was a magical time I miss it
He really was spitting straight facts especially at the time and hell even today the system is regarded as one of the greatest systems of all time
Nostalgia is a very powerful drug. U sound like some 70 year old boomer lol.
Internet gaming didn't take off until 2004 through 07 with Xbox and halo tho
Dreamcast was first with Phantasy Star Online, but I suspect Microsoft bought out Sega's spot in the market, that's why Dreamcast got discontinued all of a sudden. Dreamcast was the real future, PS2 didn't get online games until long after launch day.
Back in those days once you plugged everything in, it was all ready to go. No updates or downloads, no HAVING to connect to the internet, no having to wait every few months for game updates or season passes. Just simple plug it in and play. It was a fun time, the most you ever needed was a memory card, but that was it. You see back those days when a game was released, THE FULL GAME WAS RELEASED AND IT WAS A FINAL PRODUCT!
My friend and I were in grade 11 on PS2 launch day. We timed it for spare in the morning, while everyone else was in class and at work. My small town only had 12 at Zellers. We each bought one. $520 Canadian.
They didn't even have the games out yet that day.
I’ll never ever forget that day when my mom and dad got me a ps2 with gta3 and midnight club for Christmas when i was 14. I miss those times so much. You just don’t get that magical feeling with new generation consoles. I have a ps5 and it just sits there. The ps2 I’ll play all day everyday.
I think it's because we are older now, I was a huge gamer back in the day, now I'm 29 and hardly play, maybe a mobile game on my phone but i sold my PS5 because i hardly got on it.
I remember spending the night at one of our local Target stores with one of my homeboys. We went like at 10pm the night before release. We were like number 5 & 6 in line. We were too excited to be sleepy. It was well worth it. Great memories!
Wasn't it a great time?
@@dskillzhtown a wonderful time! YES!!!
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Great time is an understatement.
I would give anything to go back to those days
This is when stores were price gouging and charging around $700
Cool to see people also there for Majora’s Mask. Crazy to think they launched on the same day in North America.
Nice to know even back then people scalped new systems. Man i miss midnight launches. Such a good time waiting for a game or system.
these new video games consoles are such a hype show and amazing how far graphics have come.
When he opened that door at 18:57 I thought they'd all run in there and trample one another. How times have changed...
This one is so good. The console launches always have a special kind of hype to them.
Pre- 9/11 era, 8th grade for me. I miss these times 😢.
This is retro gold right here
Im a pc gamer now for 4 years but whenever consoles release its always so hype, if devs ever give full mouse n keyboard support for all games on consoles ill probably go back to consoles
My parents surprised the heck out of me with a PS2 that Christmas. I still can't believe I woke up to that iconic blue box that morning. I will never forget that image burned into my mind.
I didn't buy day 1, but even years later it was still valuable. By the time I needed one, all the stores were out and it wasn't even Halloween yet. I had to be stuck with the Gamecube til the coming February and it turned out to be the most boring holiday season ever
Damn! the memories are flooding
I went with my buddy from work who drove an our and a half from the city we lived in. He was only able to score a preorder in his hometown and was excited about the DVD function!
will never be this exciting to get a new console right on release again, the jump in tech was really so big. i can only finally getting it in that bag, heading home and playing it all day and night. cant imagine that feeling now, the differences become more subtle and nuanced as graphical tech comes to a pause these days. also, good soundtrack that best buy was playing lol
Had to wait till the next year after the launch to get mine had to have family members ship it to us couldn’t get one anywhere around our area 😮 man I miss those days!
Очень интересно, обожаю такие видео! Особые ощущения увидеть как это было❤
At the time, I was working at Target here in the DFW area. On release day, I had school that day and I ended up giving my money to my mom to pick up my PS2 while I was in school for half of the day (as a senior) and when she came to pick me up she had it right there along with a copy of Dynasty Warriors 2. #thursday 10/26/2000
Memories man. Memories. I remember dropping my brother off at EB Games in Cali the day of before work to pick one up. Got home and he was knee deep in playing Tekken Tag. Such a great system.
Trying to get new tech in stores in that golden era of rapid growth and innovation was such a experience
crazy how people were reselling consoles back then too
I got one at a Walmart at midnight. I think we got in line 6 to 7 hours ahead of time.
The Dreamcast launch was far more exciting and memorable.
back when people were less cynical and moody. I stg we done f*cked ourselves up entirely with social media. we've changed so much.
2000: Bring out a pallet of systems and people grab them to take them to the register to buy them.
2023: Bring out a pallet of systems and people grab them and run out stealing them knowing nobody can catch them.
I remember that anticipation as a kid during Birthday's or Christmas, or just events you were excited for. Now, it's countless disappointment and future of just cold darkness. The spiral down to nothingness.
The clothes and hairstyiles always fun to revisit what people wearing.
HOLY SHIT thats the best buy in glendale that I always go to. There is a costco on the other end and the toys r us building is almost always empty until holloween when it becomes a costume store for a couple months. Crazy
Was going to say, everyone there had that early 2000's SoCal Honda Homie vibe. Even though these were all out of date by 2014, when the media started focusing in on gamers as the new boogeyman these guys were the archetype I saw in my mind.
remember going to the night/day release of xbox360 and halo games! good fn times! and now in 2023 i bought a ps2
By 2007, they were the same price as Dreamcast in April 2001. $79.99 used. That's when I looked both ways and pounced. 😂
hearing the songs (28:10) being played at the store makes me understand how old I am and how fast time has past me, I'm 40yrs old. WOW..!!
I can say that I have regrets of not applying myself to do what I knew I should of done.
Can you please confirm me something? Is this a re-upload? I remember watching this in 2021
When I look at this footage, I can't help but wonder what became of these people. Did some fall victim to illness like cancer? Were others lost to unforeseen accidents or tragedies? The relentless march of time inevitably brings loss, and the thought fills me with a profound sadness. time is a seranade of losses.
I camped out at a Walmart and was able to get one. Ah the good ol days…
All I want to know is, why is there someone wearing a Goron mask and where did they get that at?
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This is a fascinating channel.
Keep up the great work archiving absolute history.
Majora's Mask launched the same day.
That sense of buying the best console at that time. Buying a video game console nowadays will never beat the PS2 launch feeling.
Still my favorite console to this day.
love this shot when camera man talks to the ppl
Hey Vampire Robot you got any footage relating to the HD-DVD vs Blu-ray war of 2006-2008?
Or anything related to the DCC vs Minidisc war of 1992-93?
There might be some old ces footage from 93...but I'm pretty sure that might already be on RUclips. I will have to check it out.
28:27 That look of " Do I really need this PS2 DVD remote?" l😂😅😂😅
Those DVD remotes were such a waste of money. Never bought one. I just used the PS2 controller.