You have to be a square not to own one, it is the great and legendary PS2. This will be looked apon as a classic system like the NES, the Atari 2600, and the SNES, also it's predecessor- the Playstation. All of the greatest games of this era have came out on this system, this system got it right the time it came out by including a DVD player which became standard, it was the first DVD player I've ever owned. Neither the Xbox nor the Gamecube came with DVD players in them, and they all came out much time after the PS2 so they weren't really trying on that part. You can tell it's success because there is a massive, and I mean a MASSIVE library of video games for it, which may or may not be a good thing, but was a sign of how popular it was. I even remember I bought my first ps2 game before I even bought the ps2, it was Grand Theft Auto 3, I waited a week before I got the Ps2 before I could play it for the first time. O, the joys I had with that system.