With it, lead designer Keita Takahashi and Namco created the best-ever PS2 game intro. Was this prelude related to the story? No. Did it explain how the game worked? Not in the slightest.

Use compressed air. You can also try a can of compressed air, like many offices use to clean keyboards, to blow excess dust out of the PS2. Open the DVD drive, and spray the air inside.

The PS1 might have been one of the pioneers of full 3D gaming, but it was the console’s successor, the PS2, that really began to push ambitions and technology forward in a massive way. But there are ...