I bought a PS2. Second hand, but everything works fine. $30 USD for a slim console, all the cords, one 8MB mem card, one 120KB PS mem card, a Dualshock, and a MadCatz controller that has turbo and mostly works. Pretty good deal, I think. I don't actually own any PS2 titles (but I obviously didn't throw out my PS stuff, so I have that to play) so I'm currently borrowing some games. Right now I have Champions: Return to Arms (which I've already put about 40 hours into with a friend over the past few years), Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, and Monster Hunter. As much as I like the idea of Monster Hunter, I can't get into the controls. The whole thing is sloppy. Navigation, combat, all of it. The controls suck. I'm hoping the Wii installment turns out better in that regard because I planned on buying it. Star Ocean TtEoT is great so far. A bit long winded in terms of plot development, but maybe that's just the first hour or so (I've been notified that this is a ridiculously long game). I haven't put much time into Champions. This is because of a number of reasons. First of all, I didn't request to borrow it, I ended up with it by mistake. Second, I've already put a lot of time into it with the owner of the game. Lastly, I tried to play co-op with my sister but as I mentioned earlier the MadCatz controller mostly works. It doesn't want to go left on the left stick instantly so my sister ends up dying a lot. Everything else on the controller works so I'll keep it for stuff that doesn't need analog. I'll need to buy another that fully works for multiplayer stuff.

Yeah, so... that's that.