Twenty-five years ago, on October 26, 2000, the greatest video game console ever made was released in North America. Tucked neatly inside an iconic blue box was the PlayStation 2, the future of gaming and home entertainment.

While the world didn’t know it at the time, everything was about to change forever. And for those of us in the future, sadly, it would never be quite the same again.

Everything about the PS2 looked and felt like the future. That sleek, blue box and the minimalist design still look like what I imagine 1,000 years from now will look like. Like, the PS2 is still futuristic… in 2025… that’s how well they nailed what they were trying to do.

Even the marketing before the console’s release was unlike anything we’d ever seen before. It was sc-fi, it was weird, and… it didn’

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