22 PlayStation Memes for Gamers Who Finally Have Money for Games but No Time to Play Them

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Celeste Mello • Writer and Editor
Oct 27, 2026 12:00 PM EDT

Can I add a free afternoon to my cart along with the game?

When I was little, my mom got my brother and me a PlayStation 2 and our lives changed forever. Can we agree that the PS2 was the best PlayStation ever??? I admit that nostalgia is influencing my judgment. That console gave us so many afternoons of fun that I don't mind being a little biased. Ours was modded, which meant it could play copied discs, which meant we could play thousands and thousands of games! The games cost next to nothing, so we ended up with a lot of games. There was always something else to try. Choosing a game didn't have to be a major financial decision like these days.

One of the games I liked the most was SingStar Pop (and we played it with the microphones!). I can't remember how many times I sang Baby One More Time in the living room and always got the score of a "wannabe." I had a microphone and a favorite song. I didn't need anything else to perform. If anyone else in the house hadn't requested a concert was a separate matter. Oh, and no surprise AT ALL that I turned out to be gay years later. My mom missed so many signs. The signs have always been there, mom. Singing Britney Spears songs in the living room is definitely not straight people behavior. 

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  • Then there was Guitar Hero, complete with the guitar controller, of course. My brother and I had so much fun with that thing. I never learned to play a real guitar. Well, only a few chords. But in Guitar Hero I rocked the heck out of it. Now I play drums, real drums, but I'm happy to acknowledge my earlier career on a plastic guitar with five colorful buttons. I loved holding my guitar high so that I got the booster and the whole floor turned blue and the score increased like crazy. Such a fun game. 

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  • Another one of my favorites was Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3. And then again, as I said, the signs have always been there, people. I loved picking characters and fighting in multiplayer mode along with my brother. That game could keep us entertained for ages.

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    500GB console in 2025: 8MB in 2000: PlayStation 2 8MB MEMORY CARD MAGIC GATE SONY 00
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    PS2 + PS3 = PPSS5

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  • I also played Grand Theft Auto, like every 90s kid. Actually, one of the GTA versions we had was modified so that the main character was Vegeta. Yes, you could play as Vegeta from Dragon Ball. So that GTA version combined my two true passions. At this point, do I really need to repeat that the signs have always been there? 

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    There's not a single PS5 owner I know that plans on buying a PS6 now.

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    You lost this and felt like your life was about to end PlayStation 2 8MB MEMORY CARD MAGIC GATE SONY
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    *turns on PS4* PS4: @comedyposts
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  • Having free time and all those options made playing so easy. My brother was there, the games were there, and we had time to enjoy them. I didn't need to find a gap between work, studying, or keeping the house in order. We picked something and played. That's how it feels to be kids! And that's what most people miss most about childhood and what we all struggle to achieve these days: to get absorbed in something without checking what else needs doing. To live in the present, just like when we were kids. Oh, to be a kid with a free afternoon, my brother, and a PS2.

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    No accounts. No logins. No day-one patch. No battle pass. No roadmap. Just the disc, the controller, and the game. We didn't realize how good we had it. ase SONY of
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    Kid me beating a game without knowing how to read 30 year old me having to look up walkthroughs on youtube
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