Platform: PlayStation 2
PaRappa the Rapper 2
Sonic Mega Collection
Super Monkey Ball Adventure
Freedom Fighters
NHL 2004
Shadow the Hedgehog
Peter Pan
Tak and the Power of Juju
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters
Persona 3 FES
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
The Bard's Tale
Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing
Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001
The Dukes of Hazzard: Return of the General Lee
Cheggers' Party Quiz
Hanjuku Hero Tai 3D
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
Rock 'n' Roll Adventures
The Guy Game
Dark Cloud
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
Escape from Monkey Island
Rayman 4
Transformers
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up
Tekken 4
Final Fantasy X-2
X2: Wolverine's Revenge
SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons: Globs of Doom
Gauntlet Dark Legacy
Haunting Ground
This Is Football 2004
Fur Fighters: Viggo's Revenge
The Simpsons Skateboarding
Pac-Man World 2
Monster Hunter
Pac-Man World Rally
RTX Red Rock
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
Samurai Warriors 2
Frogger Beyond
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Maniax Chronicle Edition
TimeSplitters
WWE All Stars
Chaos Wars
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 4: Gunyip!
subdirectory_arrow_right Nuon (Platform)
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While DVD video playback was a major selling point for the PlayStation 2, Sony didn't plan to support the feature at first, as they were already intending to manufacture standalone DVD players through their home entertainment department. However, after seeing a demonstration for the Nuon, a DVD player by VM Labs with video game support, Sony Computer Entertainment head Ken Kutaragi demanded that a similar level of multimedia functionality be incorporated into the PlayStation 2. The move was met with resistance from Sony's home entertainment wing, who believed that doing so would cause the console to cannibalize sales of their standalone DVD players. However, Kutaragi won out in the end due to the clout that the PlayStation brand had given him.
Techmoan video on the Nuon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN_XeVSKqSY
Ars Technica article about the Nuon that mentions its impact on Sony:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/06/before-the-ps2-nuon-famously-tried-and-failed-to-combine-dvd-and-game-consoles/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN_XeVSKqSY
Ars Technica article about the Nuon that mentions its impact on Sony:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/06/before-the-ps2-nuon-famously-tried-and-failed-to-combine-dvd-and-game-consoles/
subdirectory_arrow_right Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue! (Game), PlayStation (Platform), TT Games (Company)
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When the PlayStation 2 was revealed in Japan, a demo was shown off of a fountain of spark particles. When this demo was shown to Jon Burton, founder of Traveller's Tales, he coded an identical tech demo for the first PlayStation as a joke. This tech demo would ultimately end up in the files of Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue!, unused, by accident.
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subdirectory_arrow_right PlayStation 3 (Platform)
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The small PlayStation logo on the front of both the Fat and Slimline PlayStation 2's disc trays can be rotated 90 degrees clockwise to match horizontal or vertical console orientations. This is also a cosmetic feature in the original model of the PlayStation 3, but was cut from future models.
PlayStation 2 - Fat and Slimline model rotation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROobHU_REfE
PlayStation 3 - Original model rotation:
https://www.tiktok.com/@skylotakahashi/video/7086069700005776645
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROobHU_REfE
PlayStation 3 - Original model rotation:
https://www.tiktok.com/@skylotakahashi/video/7086069700005776645
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In the year 2000, 4,000 PS2s had been bought in the US and shipped out to Iraq. Some US military experts believed that several PS2s could be linked together to form a "supercomputer", which could control a missile or an unmanned aircraft, and that Saddam's regime was doing just that with these consoles. This was before military intervention had occurred in Iraq, so it was not members of the US Army. This large purchase also exacerbated the shortage of Playstation 2s in America for the Christmas period of 2000.
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The white towers in the startup animation vary in height and number depending on the number of games currently on your memory card and how many times you've played each game.