Usual RRP (when available): £104.99
Average price on eBay: £150+
Average price on eBay: £150+
National PS2 shortage
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Brighton Breezy
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My girlfriends brother was trying to buy on and couldnt get one anywhere.
There was a shipping cock up by Sony for the new slimline PS2 - British retailers were expecting a big order ('Game' stores ordered 220,000 but only received 20,000) The stores didn't bother re-ordering the old ones and now no one has any.
Found all this out while trying to get my brother one who's house bound after an op. Bloody nightmare.
Found all this out while trying to get my brother one who's house bound after an op. Bloody nightmare.
I'm sure I've got an old Model 30-286 knocking around somewhere. Not sure I can find the floppies for the OS/2 SE 1.1 operating system though.
I would never have thought they'd be worth that sort of money.
I would never have thought they'd be worth that sort of money.
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Get a GameCube, it's smaller, cheaper and the games are better (although there are fewer of them).
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
Well-known member
sorry i will have to strongly disagree with you there! pro evolution on its own makes up for all there games added together!El Presidente said:
Wardy
NSC's Benefits Guru
I got one of the "older" PS2 on release day, walked out of the shop and had people offering me £1000 for it.
mejonaNO12 aka riskit said:
Only if you are so shallow that you judge a console by a single genre of game (although PES4 is excellent).
That would be like judging a woman solely because she has a great pair of tits, and ignoring her personality.
The 'Cube has some great games out at present in the form of Metroid Prime 2, Paper Mario 2, Pikmin 2 and Donkey Konga (with free Bongos!). It's a shame it does not have GTA, but is still a superb piece of kit, especially for kids, and is only £75 including a game at Amazon
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
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my bro has the gamecube and i do like it but its a bit cartoony for me(though mario kart is good)
pro evo will get me through the whole year with ease but gta getaway etc are fantastic.
pro evo will get me through the whole year with ease but gta getaway etc are fantastic.
Little Piggy
Member
El Presidente said:
Well that explains an awful lot about where I am going wrong!
Braders
Abi Fletchers Gimpboy
right said it before , i'll say it again
all 3 consoles are BRILLIANT but all aimed at different game players
PS2- part time gamers (action/sports games)
XBOX- full time anorak gamer (shoot em ups /rpgs)
GAMECUBE- kids ( puzzles/kids games)
all 3 consoles are BRILLIANT but all aimed at different game players
PS2- part time gamers (action/sports games)
XBOX- full time anorak gamer (shoot em ups /rpgs)
GAMECUBE- kids ( puzzles/kids games)
Halftime Oranges
New member
El Presidente said:
don't be silly 
Cian
Well-known member
Titanic said:I'm sure I've got an old Model 30-286 knocking around somewhere. Not sure I can find the floppies for the OS/2 SE 1.1 operating system though.
I would never have thought they'd be worth that sort of money.
You beat me to it, you bastard
I want those OS/2 disks - I used to love that OS
MYOB said:You beat me to it, you bastard
I think you meant SAD OLD bastard !!
And OS/2 was a proper operating system 10 years before Windoze NT became even half-way usable for business applications.
Cian
Well-known member
Windows NT IS OS/2. Remember, Microsoft basically stole the VMS kernel team, and chucked Warp ontop of it. I used to use OS/2 as my sole i386 OS - when an SGI was my main workstation
I booted her up today as I'm trying to break the record for most browsers used in one day, but Warp 4.0 refused to pick up my DSL.
I've still posted from IE, Firefox on Windows, Firefox on Linux/PPC, Firefox on MacOSX, Chimera and Safari in the past 24 hours though
I booted her up today as I'm trying to break the record for most browsers used in one day, but Warp 4.0 refused to pick up my DSL.
I've still posted from IE, Firefox on Windows, Firefox on Linux/PPC, Firefox on MacOSX, Chimera and Safari in the past 24 hours though
Exmouth Seagull
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I bought a PS2 in Woolworths in Exeter on Wednesday.
The console is tiny now, about the size of a DVD case. The hand controller and leads take up much more space in the box.
I will gladly listen to any £1000 offers!
The console is tiny now, about the size of a DVD case. The hand controller and leads take up much more space in the box.
I will gladly listen to any £1000 offers!
Vankleek Hill Seagull
Well-known member
MYOB said:Windows NT IS OS/2. Remember, Microsoft basically stole the VMS kernel team, and chucked Warp ontop of it. I used to use OS/2 as my sole i386 OS - when an SGI was my main workstation
I booted her up today as I'm trying to break the record for most browsers used in one day, but Warp 4.0 refused to pick up my DSL.
I've still posted from IE, Firefox on Windows, Firefox on Linux/PPC, Firefox on MacOSX, Chimera and Safari in the past 24 hours though
Is that all.? I can beat that. I've posted from the following browsers.
Mac OS X - IE 5.2, Firefox, Opera 7.54, Safari, Camino, Mozilla
Windows - IE6, Opera 7.6 P4, Firefox, Mozilla
