This Day in Gaming, January 6th

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This Day in Gaming, January 6th

2000: Retailers begin taking preorders for the PS2 console. Remember when $299 seemed like a lot of money to pay for a system, but you just HAD to have it? The good old days, indeed.

2004: Sega releases Sonic Heroes for GameCube in the US (a few days after the Japan release). Personally, if the hedgehog isn't packing, I'm not interested in the series. Scratch that; I'm just not interested in the series. Mark Wilson

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