@Bounty1Berry:
Well, I couldn't resist. I had been planning to get one, and today I saw a used copy of Dragon Quest 8 sitting in the local video hire for 15 bucks, so I finally dropped 80.- on a used PS2, and 18 on a memory card.
So what else is can't miss worth getting?
I know I also want one of the Katamari games.
I've got the FF5/FF6 remakes for PS1 also sitting around.
I loved Breath of Fire IV on the PS1– did the fifth incarnation make it to the States? I can't be bothered rolling down past the first 82 "previews from Tokyo" links. :)
30-minute, still-stuck-in-first-town impression of DQ8:
1. The load times are handled TERRIBLY. Not even a "please wait" screen.
2. The designs, you don't even need to say "Designs by Akira Toriyama" on the opening credits. It looks like they held a Dragon Ball tanko over the disc and shook until characters fell out!
Play BoF3… if you can find it. BofV:DQ did come to America, the problem... it was horrible, it's really really different from what you've come to expect from a Breath of Fire game.
Play FFIX, honestly, I feel as if it's the best out of the series. If you gonna play FFXII, play FFT before that, and play the PSP version. The really odd translations in ps1 version will sort of make you confused, as apposed to the remake-port.
Kingdom Hearts 1 is worth checking out, so is 2, if you can get pass the homosexual thing. Chain of Memories of the GBA probably will give you the most headaches.
Most worthwhile games-Okami and if possible, Brave Fencer Musashi-that Brave Fencer Musashi, not Samurai Legend Musashi, a really obscure, really well done Square Adventure game.
Don't play Final Fantasy X, and if you do and if you get an urge to play X-2... kill yourself, there is no experience worse than play Final Fantasy X-2, you braincells will literally line up and kill themselves, and you'll end up a brain dead whore, much like Paris Hilton.
MGS series is always an awesome choice. Though it might make you want to buy a PS3 for MGS4, then again playing all these FF games will probably make you do the same thing of FFXIII.
Megaman legends is also a really good title, if you want some laughs.