wageslave
05-09-2006, 09:33 PM
I took advantage of the recent Amazon / TRU PS2 with two games for $99 deal and it arrived today! I had it delivered to work and I went to the mailroom personally as soon as I had confirmation that my baby had been delivered by FedEx, lest the mail guys should drop my precious while bringing it to my office. My boss would have been unhappy if I plugged it into a tv at work and started playing, so I opened the box just to make sure everything was there. I was quite happy to see that the two games included were regular retail versions of Ratchet & Clank: Up your Arsenal and Jak II, and were not OEM versions packaged with the PS2. Of course this makes me wondered why they clearanced the system if they weren’t packaged with the games, but I still couldn’t wait to get my baby home and set it up!
When I finally got my PS2 home, I opened the box and took out the first things I could reach. First came the sexy black controller, next the AV and power cables, and then I pulled out what appeared to be a stand. “Cool” I thought, “They included the vertical Stand, this deal keeps getting better.” I was about to casually toss the “Stand” onto my bed when I noticed that there was nothing else in the box. “WTF. Did Amazon hose me?” I thought to myself, and then I looked at the “stand” again. I’ve only seen the “fatty” PS2 models before, and assumed that the “Thin” was pretty much the same size – except for being thin. I realized that what I thought was the “stand” was actually my PS2! This thing was much smaller than I had thought – nearly as small as a PSone. It was hardly bigger than my PSone and it’s mass looked tiny even next to my now clunky seeming Gamecube.
So, almost laughing at my new PS2, I set it up on my entertainment center. I had a wide ass space all set aside waiting to receive my PS2, with my Cube and DVD player shoved far to the side, but I now saw that the thin PS2 was so damn small I only needed half of this space. I finished setting up, get a game ready to go, and try to find the button to open the tray and insert the game. This was a problem since there was no loading tray button that I could find, but I found another button on top that looked promising. When I pushed it my jaw hit the ground when no tray slides out, but the top pops open. “Friggin A!” I think. I’m feeling like a serious video game newbie at this point.
…To be continued
When I finally got my PS2 home, I opened the box and took out the first things I could reach. First came the sexy black controller, next the AV and power cables, and then I pulled out what appeared to be a stand. “Cool” I thought, “They included the vertical Stand, this deal keeps getting better.” I was about to casually toss the “Stand” onto my bed when I noticed that there was nothing else in the box. “WTF. Did Amazon hose me?” I thought to myself, and then I looked at the “stand” again. I’ve only seen the “fatty” PS2 models before, and assumed that the “Thin” was pretty much the same size – except for being thin. I realized that what I thought was the “stand” was actually my PS2! This thing was much smaller than I had thought – nearly as small as a PSone. It was hardly bigger than my PSone and it’s mass looked tiny even next to my now clunky seeming Gamecube.
So, almost laughing at my new PS2, I set it up on my entertainment center. I had a wide ass space all set aside waiting to receive my PS2, with my Cube and DVD player shoved far to the side, but I now saw that the thin PS2 was so damn small I only needed half of this space. I finished setting up, get a game ready to go, and try to find the button to open the tray and insert the game. This was a problem since there was no loading tray button that I could find, but I found another button on top that looked promising. When I pushed it my jaw hit the ground when no tray slides out, but the top pops open. “Friggin A!” I think. I’m feeling like a serious video game newbie at this point.
…To be continued