@SentientPops Yes, we would take the stickers off if asked. To your point, it would take a lot of time to manually wipe the memory cards. In addition, we would need to set up a PS2 to initiative the process of deleting the saves. Gamestop was all about getting the used product back out there so they could sell it at max price. The more the games or accessories sat on the shelf the less they would be worth. This also included systems as well

I would have rather clear memory cards than file guts

I bought a few used memory cards from GameStop during that period as a kid and mine were full of saves.

make sense especially since person data Ie address, name weren't on save data linked to an account like nowadays

there was probably for sure that managers who probably did it anyways but thats awesome you didnt let childhood's die

Feels kinda dirty though especially if you lived in it people touching your card or saves was almost sacrilegious but they gave it up by choice so I can't say no.

​@@erueka6Somebody's gotta finish the fight. Complete the mission, even when the original owner couldn't.

yes plz

@@erueka6 That's a fair point, although, handling money everyday that has been exchanged by people for decades isn't any cleaner. Besides, I don't think anyone died of game card related deseases. I myself I always clean anything I buy used.

​@@raptornerd4213I don't think they were talking about physical dirt

What I didn't like about the Xbox was that it had a hard drive. As a result, hardly anyone who had an Xbox bought the memory card. It was always said bring your save and the answer was, don't bring my console with you. Just the love that was put into it for the memory card savegames with the animations, etc. Didn't even have the cube. The cube generally had the problem with the blocks. I remember that I had the gray card with 54 blocks. Some games simply took up to 20 blocks. was like the PS1 but even there, I didn't think it was that bad. especially since PS1 memory cards were not that expensive in comparison. It's really a shame that those times are over. At the latest with the PS5, where you can no longer back up your saves on the USB stick, it's just shit and pure money-making, because you're forced to pay for the cloud save subscription. At least MS offers it for free.

One of the greatest? The PS2 is the greatest!

It's the greatest it will ever exist simply because it was the end of an era when decent budget games were made with little corporate interference.

@@ThomastheDankEngine8900 What about NES, SNES, N64, Sega Genesis, PS1?

@@etherealdreamerart i'd take the ps2 over any of those. best library, best controller.

This is awesome

This is so fucking cool lol

I love this!

No way

lies

You'll never get this kind of creativity again

@@TheChaoticWolf i'd love to go back to when that was current, these and the icons on the gamecube cards were awesome

​@@nmkflvptttwell it's new to many people that have never seen it done before. And Mystics audience clearly enjoys him making these types of videos.

@@aussieknucklesI’ve never seen this done. Until now thanks myst

True

"user experience" very true

The market is what dictates the final product. The companies have only followed the gamers. Gamers used to appreciate quality and creativity. Times have changed.

You have that somewhat wrong. Today, what is happening is so-called 'user experience' via 'UX experts'. The problem here is the framing of the word 'user', like a drug user. One element of modern UX is in microtrans and attention-stealing/retention, which means it's built to keep you hooked to their game/service 24/7. This is also how modern social media functions, along with Netflix and other TV streaming services. I don't use the term UX for this reason, even though it used to have a more reasonable meaning that was actually player-centric and positive (such as with Naughty Dog's amazing UX with Crash Bandicoot circa 1994-1996). What you're really talking about is 'player experience'. You have also somewhat incorrectly placed the issue of micotrans and greed onto the devs, when the players -- or users -- are also to blame for demanding it and/or supporting it. Nobody is forcing players to use microtrans -- they want to and love doing it and keep doing it. Sometimes, they even demand it with Skins/cosmetics, season passes, general DLC, and even in-game benefits. This was really invented around 2007-2009 (with origins back to 2004 and before) and was widely used and demanded by players by 2012 or so. By 2017, it's in almost every major game, and many players love it and demand it, such as with Call of Duty: WWII, Fortnite, Overwatch, CS:GO, World of Warcraft, Warframe, RuneScape, FIFA, and many more.

@@emotionalfriendone43 Had to comment: you're one of only about 5 people I've seen correctly understand this and openly state it, out of 2,000+ comments across dozens of videos and Reddit posts, etc. Devs are only partly to blame. Many, many players are to blame and demanded this and pushed it and accepted it, starting in about 2007, more so, 2012. As you said: players mostly rejected all of this MTX/DLC stuff between 1996 or whatever and 2006. It's mostly an issue with Gen Z and middle-aged fools starting in 2007-2009 with FarmVille and FIFA. By 2012, it was in RuneScape, CandyCrush, and many other games. By 2013, it was in Warframe and countless other MMOs and AAAs and live service games and MMORPGs, leading to the state we currently have today, which really cemented itself around 2016-2018 with Overwatch, GTA Online, buyable Minecraft skins, Call of Duty: WWII, CS:GO, Star Wars: Battlefront II, and so on (including many Asian MTX/loot box machines). We had a shift in gamers and gaming landscape, which led to the devs creating MTX for income and new ways to give games to people, and a way to move towards free-to-play games instead of sub models, along with never-ending live service games, with its roots in things like World of Warcraft and RuneScape and League of Legends in the 2000s. Warcraft was very open about this by 2013 or so, when it really shifted gears. Entire games were then marketed in this way, and literally demanded by millions of players. This is around the time Gen Z got some money to throw at these games and were older, and wanted to fill their lives with something, so they turned to video game addiction and gambling/loot boxes. Now, it infects almost every young gamer -- ranging from about 12 to 25 -- in the world, from America to England to China to Japan. Many of these games are not even 18+, some are not even 16+, so pretty much anybody can buy them and feel justified and moral about doing so. It's insane that we have millions of 12-16-year-old gambling addicts via loot boxes on popular video games like FIFA, RuneScape, Call of Duty, CS:GO, Overwatch, and so on. Partly, this is a parenting problem, too. Then, we have millions more just like this in their 20s. Not as many in their 30s, but still enough -- with many more using cosmetic MTX systems in Warframe, Minecraft, Fortnite, League of Legends, World of Warcraft, and so on. Lots of studies have come out since 2018 showing that loot boxes is literally gambling, and psychologically unhealthy. They get away with it due to legal loopholes, though some nations have banned them entirely.

Top tier taste

only SO game i liked was one of the PSP versions

For me it was SO Second Story

i'm playing through it now

PrestiegeIsKey jumpscare

Why the sphere grid was more linear then the game itself,

​@@MrPsyren99Clearly talking about the expert sphere grid, not the standard one.

@@gamingbytetv665 expert wasn't available on PS2 copies

@@MrPsyren99 Uh, yeah it was. Maybe not on NTSC copies which is a fair point considering where most of these cards came from, but to say it wasn't on ps2 copies at all is just flat out wrong.

this was awsome

Yeah this was such a good video idea

Wipe your mouth off after you zip him up..

@@lordeowstheking Is the thought of someone being nice to someone else that foreign to you? Has nobody in your life said anything nice about you? If that's your first thought when you see some positivity online, then I'm not really surprised...

I did finish it back in the day, but it took forever because I’d just play blitzball over and over

2020s*

Man, I still somewhat regularly play Final Fantasy X on my PS2. What a hell of a game, unfortunately the HD Remasters were not as good as the OG

and lots of xenosaga files lol and not to mention that the game is expensive now

@@timelymirror7826 don't remind me I sold my copy years ago 😭

Shinobi had a sequel!?

@@TheGary108 Yessir, or at least a spinoff? It's somewhat similar to Shinobi but more enemies and you play as a Kunoichi after the events of the Shinobi game. There is also an unlockable character from Shinobi!

@@shahrouhokay, now I’ll have to find a copy. Somehow I missed that.

@@TheGary108 Tbh, I much preferred the original on PS2. I think I stopped playing Nightshade because I got bored of it halfway through. But if you do end up getting it, feel free to lmk what you think of it.

@@shahrouh No problem.

It sold that much because it had a built in DVD player, that was a big deal at the time because DVD players were more expensive than the PS2, which is why people bought the PS2 even if they weren't big gamers.

I still have mine... Game selection less now than it was tho

@@__D-B__ The same could be said of the PS3 blu-ray player

@blkshp25 Kind of but it didn't have anywhere close to the same impact at the time. Bluray players went down in price really quick. PS3 sold around 85 million... PS2 sold almost 160 million. The PS3 is only the 8th highest selling console, while the PS2 still remains at the top.

Right I got so happy when saw mine XD

I remember back then seeing the optical sound port complete with blue glowing cable tips and thinking "I have no idea what this is but - the future - is - here)

surprised we saw a kh1 save but not 2. i knew 10 was popular, but didn't know how much so at the time, i didn't get my copies of 10 and 10-2 until like 2005.

👏🏽

Thanks -Mike

Thanks -not Mike but identifies as Mike during this video

MVP gamer

@@warrioroflight99 For Micheal! 😉

Had 50004 in 2007-2010, died due to laser disc readed malfunction because of DVD-RW abusing. Not a huge deal, nowadays I play on PCSX2.

My first trophy is from 2009, thats crazy, My PSN account is already 14 years old lol

once you've taken over all the terrority in the post game, there's no way other gangs can challenge you, is there? I can't remember it was so long ago

I actually tried this with my cousin back then. But I had the first revision and he had Platinum (Greatest Hits). The save I got him obviously didn't work, it said it was corrupted and restarted the game from the start. He was so mad at me lol but I was confused. I found out much later that the early copies were not compatible with Platinum revisions. Same thing for Vice City.

@@Manic_Panic yeah so weird how copys that look similar can't be used.

The Completionist would beg to differ... 😅

@@skitzocalypso5840 who dat?

@beautepley8352 Jirard Khalil. Aka The Completionist. He's played over 300 games as part of his youtube channel, and plays them to 100% completion. He is well known...

@@skitzocalypso5840 I don't watch well known channels. I like chill, low key channels. I like supporting small channels. Mystic is like the biggest I'll go but I've been here for over a decade. I grew up with the guy.

I know, I'm a chronic game switcher and restarter myself anyone else do that? if (and only if) I'm really enjoying a game I keep the original save but about 50% will start a new save and then jump between the 2 saves as I finish the last half. No idea why just what I do sometimes

@@sellingacoerwa8318 im the fucking worst for it...i need something to hook me immediately, then i need to just stay away from looking or thinking about anything else on my steam list or emulators. here's a good example, i started witcher 2 in march of 22, got through most of chapter 1 , just did the bath scene. then didn't open it again until may 2023.... the same thing happened to me with witcher 1 back in 2018....so i'll just restart and hopefully ignore everything else when i do.

game development was different back then

Didn't Sony end up releasing larger than 8mb official memory cards later in its life cycle? Or I'm just remembering wrong and they were all aftermarket made ones?

@@craigsampson3386 I'm not sure. The one I got was from a "licensed" third party.

I finally found a comment mentioning this. He loaded in with Jak finding out about the dark makers and just straight up finished the game. Props