I had a yearning for it, a strong desire… I even had a dream about it. And I finally did it. I bought a PS2.

I’ve always tended to ride a little on the late side of the technology wave, PS3 will be out soon, but I don’t care, new games will make me want to spend lots of money, while old games are cheaper and I already know something about them. But still, this thing wasn’t cheap.

The playstation alone was over 150, and I also bought a dual shock controller because I didn’t think the system came with any controllers at all (Futureshop had a helpful sticker to confuse this fact), and I bought memory cards which I could only seem to purchase in units of two at collosal expense. And to top it all off, they didn’t even have the games I wanted.

I was putting everything back when I remembered a little store on Yonge that was basically a new and used game store, Curtis and I were in there once, surely they’d have stuff. So I bought the damn unit (and accessories) anyway, put it in my backpack, and went to that other store.

There I was able to pick up Amplitude and We (heart) Katamari, I wanted the original Katamari Damacy as well, but they didn’t have it. It was still enough spending for one night. Nearly oblivious to the amount of money I’d just pissed away, I brought it all home.

I set the sucker up, fired up Amplitude, and beat mellow (with some difficulty, god I suck)