Gran Turismo 2 is 10 in December!

[tomo 427 S/C]

Has anyone realised? My first ever and favourite video game hits 10 in December! I'm celebrating with a Gran Turismo 2 marathon in December. What about everyone else?

 

[FRR35H]

Has anyone realised? My first ever and favourite video game hits 10 in December! I'm celebrating with a Gran Turismo 2 marathon in December. What about everyone else?

i own a Mitsubishi GTO MR in real life because of GT2 so ill just Drive that in celebration

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Wow, you're right! Thanks for reminding us. 👍 If you lived in Japan back then, I supposed GT2 would have already been released? But yea, we didn't get it in North America till later.

Edit: actually that's incorrect. Release dates were as follows:

JP December 11, 1999
NA December 23, 1999
EU January 28, 2000

There were three versions of GT2 as well--1.0, 1.1, and 1.2. I'm not sure if any of these dates correspond to any of these three versions, but I do know that in America, we got all three versions. 1.0 and 1.1 were the buggiest. 1.2 was supposed to be the final, finished product, although we all know it was still quite buggy.

 

[LeGeNd-1]

It's been 10 years, but GT2 is still as good (if not better than) some of the new racing games on the market right now. Just goes to say how amazing it is really.

I don't know what I'll do in celebration though, since I'll be overseas at that time (so I won't have my GT2 disc or PSX ). Maybe we can persuade Jordan to put an Anniversary message on the Main News page?

Anyway, I'll say this just in case I don't have the chance to say it on the actual day:
HAPPY 10th ANNIVERSARY GT2 . Long live one of the greatest games of all time. May your spirit always lives on in all of our hearts. Thank You for being my 'friend' and source of inspiration for many many days, months and years.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Where's Pupik? He definitely should join our celebration. I'll send him a PM

 

[Ultraboy94]

id love to join with the celebrations, but my GT2 disc is somehow broken
i paid £5 to get the scratches/marks etc removed. twice. still dosent work

 

[Tornado]

I still lean towards GT2 being my favorite in the series, actually. I didn't end up buying it until late 2000, though.

 

[Jetboy.]

I didn't end up buying it until late 1999, though.

As opposed to what?

Meanwhile, yeah, I'll join in the celebrations. Maybe someone may make a spot race out of it.. Best Hotlap in the Espace F1 or something of the like.. 💡


Cheers,
Jetboy

 

[Pupik]

Yeah, now that my PS2 died, I am going to have to unearth my PSX from the depths of the storage unit.

I don't think I marked the box, though.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Cool! We should all have a GT2 marathon.

 

[tomo 427 S/C]

Cool! We should all have a GT2 marathon.

I'm up for that!

 

[loulou221]

10 years old, and still played... I love GT2, but I haven't touched the PSX for a few months
Happy birthday to GT2 !!

 

[SportWagon]

I got my copy of [size=+1]GT2[/size] on December 16, 1999; I have the impression that was a day early. (EB wanted to reduce lineup the next day, perhaps?) And then, ...

Thursday December 16, 1999
I Lost My Skill, on Apricot Hill


My wife phoned today to say that Electonics Boutique phoned and left a message saying that the evil item I requested has arrived, and will be held till Saturday if I phone back

She had it wrong, actually. I had to phone if I wanted it held any longer than Saturday. Hmm. Let's see. Two weeks from next Tuesday might be about right...

Hee. Hee. Special trip to Fairview Mall to pick it up tonight.

I used to think that the "Greatest Hits" version of Gran Turismo would likely to be complex enough for young children, although the "this is old stuff" peer pressure may cause them to ignore the game. There is *so* much to Gran Turismo 2 that you could spend the rest of your life playing it and not touch it all... And I've been playing Gran Turismo 1 too much for almost exactly a year, and still haven't exhausted it.

But I sort of take that back. Gran Turismo 2 is probably better for youngsters because the license tests (even though there's a lot more of them) are doubly easier to learn. The minimum standards seem lower. It seems you pass when you reach the proficiency which in Gran Turismo would mean you were close enough to begin working off the last half-second or so.[*] And on top of that, if you come too close too many times, you get some sort of (undocumented) "Kiddie's Award" that might be sufficient for considering the test passed. I don't know; the people I know who had got these ( 8-) ) always kept going and replaced them with a proper "bronze". And in GT1 there were full-lap time trials for license tests; there are none such in GT2. Two laps of a skid-pad, yes, but no laps of road courses. There's a quite nice slalom test, and I'm surprised how much fun I found the rally course tests. And climbing the bottom of Pike's Peak in a huge wing with a tiny Suzuki attached to it! Wow!

Besides that, you really do get two (2) two games in one! It comes with two disks, one Arcade and one Simulation, and these could be used on different PlayStations at the same time.

I may now just never finish my latest [size=+1]GT1[/size] game, playing with Nismo 400R, in a game which I call nismo.


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[*]I'm reasonably unco-ordinated, with relatively poor reactions, and a creature of habit who learns old things thoroughly and new things slowly, but I passed 48/50 GT2 license tests tonight (early morning), meaning I've got 4 of 5 possible licenses already, and none of the tests use the old courses (excepting the drag race ones).

I hadn't at that point discovered the "S license" which didn't appear until you had completed the rest.

 

[Bram Turismo]

GT2 is without any doubt my all time favourit video game. I can't even count all the hours I've spent in this game, but I remember a lot of the cars and the variety of them in the game. I still remember chasing the 180SX drag car in my TS020 road version, amongst other things. I also remember trying to gold the S license to get my hands on that super fast '99 TS020 racer, but I never succeeded.

Unfortunately my GT2 discs broke down many years ago, so instead I think I'm going to run an endurance race in GT1. Yep, people still play that game.

 

[Tornado]

As opposed to what?

Whoops. That should have said 2000.

 

[Jetboy.]

Ah. Makes sense now. One hell of a typo, man.


Cheers,
Jetboy

 

[Eunosthedeer]

Still the best Game in the Series imho