HALL 3 / 8
Controllers and devices
The PS2 was a party machine. This hall holds everything that plugged into it.
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2000Controller
DualShock 2 (SCPH-10010)
Almost every button reads how hard you press it. The DualShock family is the best-selling gamepad line ever made.
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2000Memory
8 MB Memory Card (SCPH-10020)
MagicGate copy protection, and the earliest known commercial product with ferroelectric memory. It came in black, satin silver, pink, crimson red, ocean blue and emerald.
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2000Party
Multitap
SCPH-10090 for the fat console and SCPH-70120 for the slim. With two of them, up to eight players.
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2000Living room
DVD remote
The SCPH-10150 remote and its SCPH-10160 infrared receiver turned the console into the family DVD player.
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2000Stand
Vertical stand
SCPH-10040, 70110 and 90110: the stands that made the PS2 a tower on the shelf.
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2002Online
Network Adaptor and hard drive
Slid into the Expansion Bay of the fat console. Final Fantasy XI would not run without the hard drive.
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2003Camera
EyeToy
A USB camera that put you inside the game, dreamed up by Richard Marks. 10.5 million sold.
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2004Karaoke
SingStar microphones
One red and one blue USB microphone, and suddenly everyone could sing. The online servers stayed up until January 2020.
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2005Quiz
Buzz! buzzers
Four big buzzers from Relentless Software. Over 10 million games sold and a BAFTA in 2006.
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2005Music
Guitar Hero guitar
Harmonix and RedOctane, November 2005: a small SG-style guitar with five coloured buttons.
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2001Racing
GT Force and Driving Force Pro
Logitech wheels made with Polyphony Digital: the GT Force came with Gran Turismo 3 in 2001, the Driving Force Pro with Gran Turismo 4 Prologue in December 2003.
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2006Racing
Logitech G25
900 degrees of turn, a clutch pedal and a gear stick, for $299. It worked on the PS2 too.