The PlayStation 2
The best-selling console ever made, and a DVD player.
Sony's machine that was cheap enough to buy for the DVD playback and then quietly became the games console everyone owned.
For a lot of British households it was the first DVD player in the house, bought as a games console and justified to a parent on other grounds.
The memory card, the disc tray that eventually stopped reading blue-backed discs, and the startup sequence with the towers.
Cost back then
£299
Goes for now
£60–£200
