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>>716448043 (OP)
I've never seen this screen in my life and I've had a PS2 since 2001.

>>716448151
I only saw it one time and it was at night, spooked my whole night doesn't help that the sound the red screen of death plays is haunting as hell

Do zoomers really find this scary?

>>716449714
Zoomers didn't play PS2

>>716448043 (OP)
>it's an "putting the disc into the console then turning around and praying for 15 minutes because in your kid mind if you're not looking at the screen you're willing the game to load" episode

>>716449861
Define 'zoomer'. Not that anon but both I and my group of friends grew up with it and I'm 25.

>>716448043 (OP)
*inserts UNHOLY WAR PS1*
Heh, it's gaming time.

>>716449861
true Im 22 and mostly played on PS3

>>716449714
as a kid it made you felt like you broke your console and mommy/daddy is gonna be pissed your hundreds dollar toy is broken

>>716450039
You were born when it was released. By the time you were 6, the PS3 was already out.

>>716453398
I know, my point was that depending on outside factors like whether you had older siblings or not even if your generation's console was the PS3 you could've very well grown up with the PS2. I played SNES and classic Tomb Raider on PC on my parents side and PS2 on my older brother's side. Friend of mine grew up with Diablo 2 thanks to his uncle. That kinda thing used to happen moreso than now, where younger zoomers have seen Fortnite and Among Us for like 8 years straight and even if they had an older sibling they might've played what, The Last of Us on PS3? Console generations haven't changed as much as they used to

>It's a "load up PS2 not to play games but instead watch the animated save file icons on the memory card" day.

>>716448043 (OP)
Easily fixed by opening the ps2 and cleaning the disc reading lens

>>716448043 (OP)
Happens to me occasionally, the way I've circumvented it thus far is by unplugging the console for a few minutes and then plugging it back in. I think i need to reapply the thermal paste on the consoles CPU or something.
>>716448151
If it's what i suspect it is, it might be due to how i actually need clean the console out for dust to make it less hot as well. I think its console overheating.

I'm talking about my slim model here.

>>716449861
yeah we did faggot i played thug, ssx, ff x, jak, sly and I was born in 98

>>716449714
yes
first time it happened I was trying out various discs in my PS2 when I was bored one night and that red screen and sound was not something my 5 year old ass was prepped for

t. 27 year old zoomer

>>716449861
>>716450039
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>>716455424
Sir the Zoomers have discovered the PS2...and they love it.

>>716455792
>discovered
>had once since my earliest memories
Troonllenials actually think the ps2 was some obscure gaming machine that 5 year olds didnt play cartoon games on

>>716455792
jeet post

>>716448043 (OP)
>>716448151
Here in this region everybody had a PS2 and you had the choice of buying full-price games or pirated ones worth $3 per CD. The latter was the most popular option obviously, but some disks were not pirated/burned properly and you'd have the red screen show up often.

Yeah as a child it was scary because you wouldn't know the implications of a failed disk, and your imagination would spook you into thinking "what if this screen happens in the middle of the game?", or "what if a particularly bad disk bricks the console?"
>>716449914
Fun times.

>>716456453
>Trooncase

>>716456137
Sir...the Zoomers have been playing PS2.

>>716448043 (OP)
Old consoles were weird pieces of plastic shit. Sometimes you had to insert a cartridge/disc like 10 times to get it to work.

>>716455792
I "discovered" the PS2 when I was 7 doe