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16 photos anyone who grew up playing the PS2 will recognise
AH, THE PLAYSTATION 2 - taking up so many of your teenage hours.
It was all sorts of epic:
1. You’d never seen anything as big as the 64mb memory card
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None of your 32mb Playstation 1 memory cards any more.
2. The dual shock was now a slick black – and it was so much better than the old grey one
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3. Suddenly, Grand Theft Auto was 3D and it was a whole new world
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4. Vice City came next and it was the best game you had ever played
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5. Because you could fly loads of different helicopters around the place
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6. This screen struck fear into your very soul
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And when this popped up, it was panic stations:
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7. When they introduced that GAA game on the PS2 and everyone you know thought it was shite
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8. You were introduced to the concept of the guitar game for the very first time with the PS2
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9. And controllers looked a lot different
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All changed.
10. When you had never stepped foot on a ski lift but you were an expert in SSX
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11. You could cruise around as The Simpsons characters in Road Rage
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12. When it first came out, everyone had a sense of wonder at the fact that it could stand up straight
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THE FUTURE.
13. Gran Turismo has never looked so shiny
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14. Final Fantasy X was a massive step up
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But you could still play VII – because the PS2 was that good.
15. And then San Andreas came along and made Vice City look positively small
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16. And finally… this screen when you were playing some TUNES
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
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