I have both the original fat one and the slim one released later.

I don't know if there were others before it, but this was the first console I remember having a stand. I thought it was so cool to be able to put the disc in sideways. Backwards compatibility was great, too. One of the reasons I ended up getting the slim version later on was because the original stopped being backwards compatible with certain games after a time.

Final Fantasy X is always the first game I think about when I remember the PS2 days. There's a motocross racing game called Freekstyle that I associate heavily with the PS2 days, as well. I'm not really a sports guy but the memories I have chatting with friends and family while we'd race is what made that game memorable.

Shout out to the games with blue discs.