Curmudgeon Gamer: My PS2 history

27 February 2006

My PS2 history

Today I was pondering whether my launch-day PlayStation 2 will still be working when I get a PlayStation 3, and I wondered just how many of my games I've completed on this machine. Here goes a rough list:

Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies
Ape Escape 2
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
Champions of Norrath
Devil May Cry
Grand Theft Auto III
Ico
Katamari Damacy
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Rez
Silent Hill 2
SSX
Twisted Metal Black

As for PSOne games:

Ace Combat 2
Ape Escape
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Diablo
Driver
Parappa the Rapper
Rage Racer
Twisted Metal 2

Some of those, I've played multiple times to completion (or what I consider completion). Some were completed partially on Bob's PlayStation 2 back when we lived in the same country. And this doesn't even begin to approach the total number of games I've played significant parts of, but never finished. For example, I played a lot of Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, but I've not finished it.

Not a bad little machine, this old PlayStation 2. I don't believe I've ever owned a single piece of gaming hardware that I've played so consistently for so long. I do hope it will last at least another 5+ years.

--jvm at 00:21

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My PS2's still kicking too after 5+ years. For at least a few years it was even my primary DVD player too. And it survived being knocked over twice (and then I stopped standing it on its side, this was years ago though).

I hear this is atypical though. And of course with my luck, as soon as I finish typing this and fire it up, it'll grind to a halt.

By Dan-o, at 27 February, 2006 01:04

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