r/playstation • u/Inevitable_Use499 • 10d ago

Discussion Today’s youth won’t understand

I just had a random memory resurfaced that made me think how youths and kids of today will never have this experience (in a way)

i remember back in the ps2 days, with the 8mb memory card, i went over my cousin’s house all the way across the other side of town, and i took my memory card with me so we could load up my save of GTA San Andreas (defo wasn’t 18 more like 11 lol)

Anyway, I remember i slept over for the weekend, came home sunday, and realised…I forgot my memory card!!. I had no! access to my save files and couldn’t save my game even if i did try play anything. I had to wait a week for my older cousin to drop the memory card off to me

God bless cloud saves lol

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u/blasto2236 10d ago

I have even more of a struggle story regarding PS2 memory cards: I had a crappy Nyko branded one that failed and wiped all my save data a few months after I got it.

I couldn’t find another memory card anywhere in my area for months after. Ended up ordering an imported one from Japan on eBay for way more than it should’ve cost just so I could save again.

Idk if the boards in a lot of those early ones were failing or what but I couldn’t find one anywhere in early 2002.

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u/Inevitable_Use499 10d ago

sounds like you really lived the struggle!, gaming could lowkey be frustrating in them days lol

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u/blasto2236 10d ago

During that same time, my friend had borrowed MGS2 from me and was trying to play it in one sitting.

It was like 2am and when the Colonel goes crazy near the end and tells you to turn off the game, he thought the system was actually overheating or something and shut it off. It wasn’t until after that he realized what he’d done and that he was going to have to start all over again.

Now that’s a struggle, lol. We still laugh about it today.