WERE PS2’s FIRST Games ACTUALLY Good? (2025 Revisit, 2000 Game Library) - Affro's Curiosities

Welcome to Affro's Curiosities Season 8!

In 2000, the PS2 was released & became pretty much an instant success story, selling millions of units despite shortages & high eBay listings for some time!

But, most people seem to gloss over the first year the PS2 was available! Does that mean the year 2000 had no good games? Or perhaps they left no long lasting impression?

I wanted to find out for myself. I played over 40 titles! Some well known, most exclusive to the Japanese market! I used PCSX2 in Software Rendering mode to be able to experience these forgotten gems!

Let's check out the games & see which in this episode are still worth playing!


Contents/Chapters -

0:00 - Intro
0:09 - Vintage Gamer Shop Montage & My PS2 Memories
2:38 - Check Out Vintage Gamer!
3:16 - Aqua Aqua (2000)
4:00 - Armored Core 2 (2000)
4:47 - Beatmania II DX 3rd Style (2000)
5:36 - Bikkuri Mouse (2000)
6:23 - Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)
7:21 - Bust A Move: Dance Summit 2001 (2000)
8:26 - Cool Boarders: Code Alien (2000)
9:26 - Dark Cloud (2000)
10:11 - Dead Or Alive 2 (2000)
11:15 - Dog Of Bay (English Patched) (2000)
12:44 - Driving Emotion Type-S (2000)
14:33 - Dynasty Warriors 2 (2000)
15:28 - Eternal Ring (2000)
16:24 - F1 Championship Season 2000 (2000)
17:25 - Fantavision (2000)
18:24 - G-Saviour (2000)
20:17 - Gradius III & IV (2000 In Japan/2001 Worldwide)
21:21 - Gungriffon Blaze (2000)
22:22 - Happy! Happy!! Boarders In Hokkaido (2000)
23:22 - Jet Ion GP (2000 In Japan/2002 In Europe)
24:48 - Kessen (2000)
25:57 - O Story (AKA Love Story) (2000)
27:09 - Nascar 2001 (2000)
28:04 - Neo Atlas III (2000)
29:07 - Rayman Revolution (Rayman 2) (2000)
30:19 - RC Revenge Pro (2000)
31:12 - Ridge Racer V (2000)
32:39 - Robot Warlords (2000 In Japan/2001 In Europe)
33:29 - Shinrise Eiyutan R (2000)
34:18 - Sidewinder MAX (2000)
35:27 - Silpheed: The Lost Planet (2000)
36:30 - Smuggler's Run (2000)
37:26 - Street Fighter EX3 (2000)
38:43 - Super Bust A Move (2000)
39:42 - Surfing H3O (2000)
40:37 - Swing Away Golf (2000)
41:33 - Tekken Tag Tournament (2000)
42:47 - The Bouncer (2000 In Japan/2001 Worldwide)
43:54 - The Mechsmith Run=Dim (2000)
44:39 - Timesplitters (2000)
45:43 - Truck Crazy Song (2000)
47:06 - Outro & Conclusion

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