my old ass still remembers when playstation had the free online multiplayer
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My old ass remembers when there was no online multiplayer and you had to cram four students onto an inflatable plastic sofa, close enough that the wires from the multitap reached.
oh lol I'm not old enough to remember having friends
I always wanted to do the system link with two psones as a kid but I didn't know anyone who had the thing for it.
We did that quite a few times, mostly with two of the best racing games ever; the Wipeouts & Ridge Racer Type 4. Both awesome soundtracks, both awesome games, usually drunk or high after coming in from an awesome night out.
Cool, I wanted to play bushido blade on the system link myself.
I never actually played Bushido Blade. Apart from a bit of Tekken I (and most of my peeps) were racing game fans mostly.
It's fun, really unique fighting games based around swords and has one hit kills.
I remember when I had a sofa in my bedroom, and schoolmates would come over over to get their asses kicked in GoldenEye 007 multiplayer.
I miss splitscreen. 
I tried playing Splinter Cell online. I was killed several times by an invisible player. I promptly logged off and never went back to online games.
You got out-stealthed in a stealth game.
Shame. Spies v Mercs was one of the best multiplayer games ever. idk if it would hit the same today but in the Chaos Theory/Double Agent era it slapped.
PLAY HAS NO LIMITS
But my overdraft does. 
Why were you subscribed 
At one point there was decent value in it. You got games added to your library monthly.
But you can't access them unless you're subscribed, so why bother?
On console, you need to pay to play online
Back when it first launched the psx was $300. Now the cost of it's online service is nearing that.
Sony's back on the boycott list.
"Where are all the games?"