HALL 6 / 8
Memorabilia
Things you only remember if you were there. Or if you still have the box.
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2000Advert
Welcome to the Third Place
David Lynch directed the European launch advert: black and white, a man in a corridor, a duck-headed figure, a mummy on a couch. Nobody knew what it meant. Everybody remembered it.
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2000Launch
Half the boxes
Sony cut the first American shipment from one million consoles to about 500,000. The PS2 stayed mostly sold out in the United States until March 2001.
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2000Launch
Launch night in Europe
On 24 November 2000 stock was so short that reporters went looking for the big queues they had seen in Japan and America, and could not find them.
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2004Christmas
The slim shortage
The new slim PS2 ran out in more than 1,700 North American shops on the day before Christmas.
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2007Limited edition
The pink PS2
A limited edition pink console arrived after March 2007, near the end of the run.
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1997Demo discs
The disc on the cover
Magazine demo discs were how you tried a game before you bought it. Many players still have a stack.
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2018Farewell
The last repair
Sony stopped repairing PS2 consoles in Japan on 7 September 2018 because the parts ran out.