Overheard a kid at the thrift store call a PS2 a 'weird DVD player'

I was digging through a bin of cables at the local Value Village last Saturday when this teenager picks up a fat PS2 and asks his friend why anyone would want a 'weird DVD player.' Made me feel ancient. I had to hold back from explaining how many hours I put into SSX Tricky and GTA: Vice City on that exact model back in 2002. Anyone else get called out like that recently when you're just trying to find replacement controllers?

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pat_roberts551d ago

Does it make you feel a little bit better that I had the exact same thing happen to me at Goodwill last month? Some kid looked at a GameCube and called it a "cube shaped toaster." I almost laughed (but then I got sad because I still have my original one in a box somewhere). The PS2 really was a DVD player first for a lot of folks though, I remember convincing my parents we needed it for movie nights and then sneaking in Gran Turismo after they went to bed. That fat model with the network adapter and the memory card slots on the front (and the way it would sometimes sound like a jet engine taking off) was a whole era. It's wild how something that felt so futuristic just looks like junk to them now. I guess we're all just walking around with memories attached to old plastic boxes, huh?

danielr991d ago

Bruh my PS2 fat model still lives under my TV stand and I'm lowkey scared to move it cause the disc tray might just yeet itself across the room. I remember the day I bought Gran Turismo 3 and told my mom it was a "movie disc" so she wouldn't ground me for spending my allowance on a game. Now I look at that chunky gray box and all I can think about is how I used to think the network adapter was the peak of technology. Guess my old toaster's just collecting dust now too.

shane_bell23h ago

Man my PS2 network adapter felt like I was hacking the matrix or something. I remember the first time I plugged that thing in and tried to play Tony Hawk online, took like 15 minutes just to find a match. That disc tray noise though, sounds like a dying robot every time it opens. I still got my copy of Gran Turismo 3 with the little scratches on it from when I'd blow on the disc like a nintendo cartridge. Those chunky gray boxes really did feel like the future back then.