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PlayStation 2 classics

Order by the North American release year. You place all 40 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How to play the PlayStation 2 classics timeline game

These cards are PlayStation 2 games that sold millions or earned a devoted following: open-world crime sagas, stealth epics, role-playing adventures, rhythm games and racers. Each shows its developer under the title, and the goal is to sort them by North American release year. The first card starts on the line with its year visible. Pick a gap for each one that follows. Get it right and the year appears; get it wrong and the game drops into its true position while you lose one of three lives.

The PS2 stayed on shelves far longer than most consoles, so the deck has more room than you might guess. Some stretches are crowded and others thin out, and a few titles arrived long after newer hardware had taken over. Series entries offer handy anchors if you can remember the gaps between them. Japanese role-playing games can be tricky, since North American players often waited months for them. Numbers in a title are not always as helpful as they look.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • SSX EA Canada
  • Tekken Tag Tournament Namco
  • TimeSplitters Free Radical Design
  • Twisted Metal: Black Incognito Entertainment
  • Silent Hill 2 Team Silent
  • Devil May Cry Capcom
  • Ico Team Ico
  • Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy Naughty Dog
  • Final Fantasy X Square
  • Kingdom Hearts Square
  • Ratchet & Clank Insomniac Games
  • Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus Sucker Punch Productions
  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Ubisoft Montreal
  • Soulcalibur II Namco
  • Katamari Damacy Namco
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Rockstar North
  • Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Konami
  • Star Wars: Battlefront Pandemic Studios
  • Resident Evil 4 Capcom
  • Shadow of the Colossus Team Ico
  • Guitar Hero Harmonix
  • Dragon Quest VIII Level-5
  • Kingdom Hearts II Square Enix
  • Final Fantasy XII Square Enix
  • Guitar Hero II Harmonix
  • Bully Rockstar Vancouver
  • Rock Band Harmonix
  • Persona 4 Atlus

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