In the summer months before it was released, I prepaid for my PS2 so that I could have it for launch day, Thursday October 26, 2000. That August, I got my first job as an IT consultant. On launch day, I was working in San Antonio and my regular Thursday flight back to Chicago got delayed. It was 7:30 PM and pouring down rain at O'Hare, but I was determined to make it to EB Games before they closed at 9. I told the cabbie that I would pay double if he could make it back to my house by 8:15 so that I'd have time to snatch up the console. His cab left the stand like a bullet out of a gun, and though it was the most terrifying cab ride of my life, that cabbie was determined to make an extra $40. At the house at 8:10, I threw money at him, grabbed the keys to my Jeep and tore out onto the street. Sure enough, I made it to the mall at 8:45 and ran to the EB. The female cashier, dressed as Ling Xiaoyu, walked in the back and came out with a big white plastic bag of happy, telling me that it was the last system that they had in the store. I don't really remember the ride home, but I do remember hooking up the PS2 and playing Tekken Tag Tournament for hours and hours until the sun came up and I had to get ready for work.

Getting a console at launch is the best!! Great story!!!

After 140 hours of total play time and countless attempts, finally beating the Final Aeon in FFX. He had killed every one of my Aeons except my weakest, Shiva. I used her Overdrive and for the first and only time, her move crit for 42,000 damage and finished him off. It remains one of my happiest moments with games.

Vice City and Persona 4

nevar forget

The things a traveling gig with ACN will make you do for your games. I loathed the idea of lugging my 360 in my carry-on... But I did it anyway for AC:Brotherhood.

@MrCHUP0N: I used to lug my PS2 to San Francisco every week. Kind of stupid, in retrospect, but I had games to play dammit!

PS2>every other console.

@supermonkey122 said:

PS2>every other console.

No, no, SNES, then PS2.

@believer258 said:

@supermonkey122 said:

PS2>every other console.

No, no, SNES, then PS2.

I like PS2 better, sorry.

@supermonkey122 said:

@believer258 said:

@supermonkey122 said:

PS2>every other console.

No, no, SNES, then PS2.

I like PS2 better, sorry.

Well then you are wrong!

@9cupsoftea said:

I love hearing this.

PS2 was a hell of a system.

Best console by volume and quality, though perhaps not by average quality (still there's more good games for it by nature of having the most games made for it)

Nice story!

@MrCHUP0N: Fortunately, I wasn't travelling anymore by the time that the PS2 Slim came out. My launch PS2 never failed on me, though it did have trouble playing the original blue DVDs towards the end.