This is going to be an odd post…an old guy promoting an over-priced object for a gaming system only kids should by rights have any interest in.

We have a PlayStation2. We specifically bought the PlayStation2 because the old man (yes, me) wanted to play one game, which he received as a gift - 24: The Game. Since it was only available on PS2 (co-produced by Sony), I had to have one. Fortunately, through my wife we have “a guy” so we got a great deal on a mildly-used one. Of course, since we’ve owned it we’ve acquired more games than you can shake a stick at (just today I was laughing at my nine-year-old playing Sitting Ducks, an old PS2 game given to Katie by a friend of Annie’s that is so cute and silly it had all of us crying with laughter), but it’s 24: The Game that gets the Friday-night weekly workout.

A while back, a glitch in the save mode had me literally lose the entire first half of the game, as if I had never played it. I had to do some research on the Net, and find the built-in “cheat code” that allowed me to play all missions so I could reclaim my scores on those (there’s still one I haven’t re-done). Then my daughter lost a game save for one of her games, to much wailing and gnashing of teeth, and I decided something needed to be done. (More after the jump…)
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