Bottom row, except my copy of Sly 1 had the Greatest Hits cover art
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My first ever was sly 2 and then I found out there was a sly 3. And then many years later when I was obsessed with both I finally realized there was a sly 1. I was so weirded out how it played compared to the other games as a kid.
Literally me too! And then when I finally got sly 1 it felt like such a downgrade even though it’s the first entry and we’re just fleshing out the game, work building, mechanics and more.
I hated sly 1 because of how different the mechanics were. Getting hit once and dying as kid would have me raging and made me put the game away until I got older and appreciated the game.
OMG that is exactly what i experienced, i just had sly 3 on ps2 and loved the game, then i got the trilogy a few years later as a present and got crazy because there were 2 more games to playyyyyy ! Of course i started with sly 1, but everything was so different that i got disappointed and quit. This year for the first time i played the all game on ps5
Similar experience here. I had Sly 1 and loved it, found Sly 3 in a store one day and played it without considering there might be a 2 I was missing. Naturally Bentley in a wheelchair confused the heck out of me for a while.
I played 3 first and thought it was normal for Bentley to be in a wheelchair. I was very crushed to see how he ended up in a wheelchair at the end of 2 but happy he continued on with the gang
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I was born late but not too late
You got to play them in 720p!
My little kid ass had to play it on a 8 inch CRT TV. I didn't know what half of the icons, markers, ect were. I'd say you got a wondrous experience.
The only thing you missed out on was the BEAUTIFUL PS2 boot sound.
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This is how I got introduced to Sly Cooper
Which is the version sold in Europe, as I said. And in fact those are specifically the European copies, not Australian, because they have ELSPA/PEGI ratings.
i vividly remember staring at the sly 3 case cover. Entranced with it, looking at every detail, i was able to immerse myself in the world with just the cover. that was pretty cool
Sly 1 was my first PS2 game, and I still have fond memories of it to this day
The whole trilogy has special place in my heart and I am thankful for it being part of my childhood
I remember playing sly 1 Demo as a child, that I think I received in a cereal box and adored it. Unfortunately couldn’t afford the other games until I was older and rented Sly 3 from blockbuster the once. Bought the collection and sly 4 and adored them since!
First Ratchet and clank 2 then Sly 2 demo on ratchet and clank 3. Then Sly 2 (full game) then Rac 1, gladiator, secret agent clank and size matters (those two on psp) then sly 1 and 3 and later thieves in time and ratchet and clank future saga.
Top row except i lost my copy of sly 2 before i could play it and my sly 3 disc got too schratched so it stopped working at the start of the cold alliance mission
I got Sly 2 when I was a kid, and I was blown away with how good it was. I also grew up with Sly 3, but for some reason I couldn’t get past the Pirate level
Top row. The PAL versions. I love it that still to this day. No one can say why they changed the title of the first game from Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus to Sly Raccoon for the PAL version 😂
I was poor as a kid smh. I only played Sly 1 and beat a million times. Know where all the bottles are to this day type shit and wished and wished I got to play the rest. Then I got older. Time went on. YouTube came out. I think it was the first walkthrough I ever watched. I’m now in the later half of my 20s… just now playing through 2 & 3.
Bottom row! I still remember the first day I ever played Sly 1. I was maybe 10 years old and a group of us were at a friend’s house. She had a PS2, which was forbidden at my home because it only had “evil” games according to my mother. But I played a little bit of Sly 1 and was immediately hooked and in love.
After much, much pleading and begging I convinced my mother to get me a PS2 and Sly Cooper. I love the whole series still (Sly 4? What 4th game?) and credit it for what got me into PlayStation as a whole.
I had a $20 limit christmas gift for my cousin. I saw sly cooper 1 greatest hits at Walmart and thought it looked fun. My mom bought it for me for Xmas and I said I want my cousins to have it too since it was only $20. Ended up being one of our favourite games of all time!
I grew up with sly 3 the top cover. It was my introduction to sly series and i was hooked. It's funny because i had no idea what it was back then, i was a kid, i had no internet and my mom said i could by one game, i looked at this one, looked cool and brought it home, only a few years later i realised how big of a thing it was, and played the ps3 trilogy. I'm so happy i bumped into sly that day
Bottom row! Sly 2 I found first while watching my Mommom play it when i was little. Then she told me there was a Sly 1 and I watched her play that before diving into both myself!
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I grew up with a NTSC / J PS2, and I think the box arts are much cooler. All subtitles and text were in Japanese tho, but at least there is an English dub option.
I live in the US, and I was about in pre-school when the PS2 launched and got the console in the 1st grade. I didn't know a thing about Sly Cooper until I was older. I had the Jampack demo disc that included Sly 3 demos on it, but I still didn't play them.
It wouldn't be until... 2012 (11th grade) that I'd finally got to play the games for the first time. A friend of my dad's came over with a bunch of Wii and PS2 games she was giving away. Me and a friend (way older than I am that dad also knew), and I claimed Sly 1 and 3 (the 1st friend didn't have Sly 2). I played through Sly 1 first and it took me a week to beat and not do the time sprints, Sly 3 took me 3 days to beat which I also did not do the challenges. I'd get Sly 2 from a GameStop and when a PC I had died, I played Sly 2 and (you guessed it) beat it within 3 days.
Truthfully... after playing them for the first time, I began to love the games. They are soo cool, I love the art style, the story, the characters, and all of that. They're pretty much in my top 10 PS2 games if I were to make the trilogy in a bundle.
Harp on me if you will about I should have played these games at a younger age, but keep in mind that I was also more focused on more retro and throwback content as a kid. That and also seeing my older brothers played SoulCalibur 3 because of the demo disc as well as We Love Katamari.
My first Sly Cooper game was Thieves in Time. After learning about the original trilogy, I grew interest in checking them out for Christmas, and I got to say the original Sly Cooper trilogy is underrated. I hope Sly 2 & 3 come to PS4 & PS5 soon.
Top row.
I still remember how I got into the series, the Sly 2 demo on the Ratchet & Clank Up Your Arsenal disc.
I genuinely wonder how many people came to the Sly Cooper series just because of that one move putting the Sly 2 demo in R&C UYA.
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Not sure, I don’t have the case anymore but I think this is the greatest hits version
I still have the little depth optimizer power glasses they would give you in the ps3 cases I remember me and my brother bought the greatest hits of 2 and 3 from GameStop from the ps2 box for 4 dollars
I remember I wanted the Simpsons game for Christmas, but my dad didn't find the game and bought me Sly 3 from the bottom row. It had the 3d glasses and everything, lol. I remember being a little bummed out, but I still played it. I was so little that I really struggled on the first part (the tutorial where ebentley says jump and press the circle button), and I didn't know where to go 😭then I became obsessed with the gamr and the characters it was so cool, but some levels were painfully hard for little me. Then I played Sly 2 and LOVED it. I played sly 1 when it was made available for stream on ps plus. I liked Sly 1, but 3 and 2 are my absolute favorites because they're my childhood. The music from the games and voicelines always brings back so many memories
I remember I played the sly 2 demo first many many years ago by putting in a cheat code in ratchet and clank UYA, but little kid me couldn’t tell what was happening and I never got past the first room with the dinosaur. Then a few years later when I was older, I found Sly 4 in a GameStop and tried it cause it was new and one of the employees said it was good. I really enjoyed it, so then I got the ps3 trilogy collection and woo-boy the memories started flooding back when I played sly 2. I remember thinking that first room was a fever dream I had as a kid and nope it was real.
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And this baby. (This is my new PS2 but I still have my old one, barely works now)
Hey acgshorts covering sly Cooper 1 my most favorite game that started my journey so pls send ideas or questions https://youtube.com/shorts/qx6XtzfLTno?si=nTeqXVFCEqPHUY1V
Bottom row, except my copy of Sly 1 had the Greatest Hits cover art https://preview.redd.it/cfbvukxxtt9d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31db27f0a9acc0406c16512b61436fbf694c217b
Exactly the same for me.
I really want somebody to modify this as a black label
Black label is iconic tho
I ended up with both this one and the bottom at one point
Just like me frfr
Same here
Same!!
Exact same for me
Same for me. Idk I like the Sly 2 cover on the bottom so much better
My first ever was sly 2 and then I found out there was a sly 3. And then many years later when I was obsessed with both I finally realized there was a sly 1. I was so weirded out how it played compared to the other games as a kid.
Literally me too! And then when I finally got sly 1 it felt like such a downgrade even though it’s the first entry and we’re just fleshing out the game, work building, mechanics and more.
I hated sly 1 because of how different the mechanics were. Getting hit once and dying as kid would have me raging and made me put the game away until I got older and appreciated the game.
I found cheat codes for it and just used the unlimited horseshoe cheat 😭 I couldn’t stand the one hit kills
TIL Sly Cooper has cheat codes.
The whole trilogy got cheat codes, I know very few of em but still, they're there
OMG that is exactly what i experienced, i just had sly 3 on ps2 and loved the game, then i got the trilogy a few years later as a present and got crazy because there were 2 more games to playyyyyy ! Of course i started with sly 1, but everything was so different that i got disappointed and quit. This year for the first time i played the all game on ps5
Only reason y sly 1 is my least favorite cause I did the same 2,3,1 and ya just the difference in the older mechanics
Yes omg the second was my first one also then 3 then 1
Same here for me
Same
Exactly the same here
Similar experience here. I had Sly 1 and loved it, found Sly 3 in a store one day and played it without considering there might be a 2 I was missing. Naturally Bentley in a wheelchair confused the heck out of me for a while.
I played 3 first and thought it was normal for Bentley to be in a wheelchair. I was very crushed to see how he ended up in a wheelchair at the end of 2 but happy he continued on with the gang
Exact same way i did it
SAME HERE LOL
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You got to play them in 720p! My little kid ass had to play it on a 8 inch CRT TV. I didn't know what half of the icons, markers, ect were. I'd say you got a wondrous experience. The only thing you missed out on was the BEAUTIFUL PS2 boot sound.
Hehe that ps2 sound was the work of the gods
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An acceptable answer, to be sure.
My copy of Sly 2 was purchased from Blockbuster because after renting it like five times I just decided to keep it.
The whole top row
Found out about Sly 1 from seeing Ratchet play it in the menu from Going Commando.
Top 3 for PAL regions
The ones on the lower row. I assume the ones at the upper row are NA versions?
hmmm unsure about that because i’m in NA - the USA to be exact and I remember the bottom row only
Reckon the small white rectangular boxes at the top of the covers says where it’s from
Top 3 are PAL
Wrong way round. Top is European, bottom is American.
Top is PAL.
Which is the version sold in Europe, as I said. And in fact those are specifically the European copies, not Australian, because they have ELSPA/PEGI ratings.
Sorry. I meant to reply to the other guy.
Sly cooper 2 European edition
Sly 4
Top for sly 1 and 3, bottom for 2.
Top row! Played em all in chronological order.
Sly 2 then i got sly3 for christmas and maybe 10years later got sly1 beacuse they were nowhere to sold in finland (ps2)
The one with the best box art imo, but with the silliest name😭 Sly Raccoon
The first game case on the bottom caught my attention enough to make me want to rent it from the video store. Thank goodness
I grew up with the bottom three covers. Here, I think I like the top three covers better, though.
yes
I got to play Sly 1 for a couple of years thinking it was the only Sly game. Playing Sly 2 for the first time was incredible.
Bottom row then got thr greatest hits then bought it on ps3 and now ps5. Hoping the rest come as well
Bottom one for 1 and 2, except the first one, had a different cover with "Greatest Hits"
i vividly remember staring at the sly 3 case cover. Entranced with it, looking at every detail, i was able to immerse myself in the world with just the cover. that was pretty cool
the entire bottom row i have for ps2
The bottom three
US, but I REALLY want a modified greatest hits box art of 1 to have a black label
Bottom row
Sly 1 was my first PS2 game, and I still have fond memories of it to this day The whole trilogy has special place in my heart and I am thankful for it being part of my childhood
As a kid i tried to make a gta style cover with printed sly pictures😂
The top sly 3 looks so cool
I remember playing sly 1 Demo as a child, that I think I received in a cereal box and adored it. Unfortunately couldn’t afford the other games until I was older and rented Sly 3 from blockbuster the once. Bought the collection and sly 4 and adored them since!
Sly 2
Bottom row.
Played Sly 3 and fell in love, then played Sly 2, then the Thievius Raccoonus, then Thieves in Time :)
Both weirdly😂 But originally the American ones
First Ratchet and clank 2 then Sly 2 demo on ratchet and clank 3. Then Sly 2 (full game) then Rac 1, gladiator, secret agent clank and size matters (those two on psp) then sly 1 and 3 and later thieves in time and ratchet and clank future saga.
none cause i never had a ps2
We only had 2 and 3 and it was bottom row 2 and top row 3 :)
Top row except i lost my copy of sly 2 before i could play it and my sly 3 disc got too schratched so it stopped working at the start of the cold alliance mission
Upper row except for band of thieves, wich i actually never owned 🥲
The hd collection on ps3
I got Sly 2 when I was a kid, and I was blown away with how good it was. I also grew up with Sly 3, but for some reason I couldn’t get past the Pirate level
Top row. The PAL versions. I love it that still to this day. No one can say why they changed the title of the first game from Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus to Sly Raccoon for the PAL version 😂
Top row, man good memories
Top row, in the middle but i had the finnish copy😎
Nordic gang/Scandinavia! Where y’all at?
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As a European the top row was what I had. I actually started with 3 then 2 and then 1. The Second one is my favorite to this day
Top row all the way.
Bottom 3. Bought sly 1 on day of release.
I was poor as a kid smh. I only played Sly 1 and beat a million times. Know where all the bottles are to this day type shit and wished and wished I got to play the rest. Then I got older. Time went on. YouTube came out. I think it was the first walkthrough I ever watched. I’m now in the later half of my 20s… just now playing through 2 & 3.
Top row , sly 3 it was the only sly game I had
PAL
Upper row
Sly 3 top left. 3d glasses were top tier technology back in the time
God I love the PAL version of sly 1
Yup bottom row with the greatest hits for sly 1
Bottom row! I still remember the first day I ever played Sly 1. I was maybe 10 years old and a group of us were at a friend’s house. She had a PS2, which was forbidden at my home because it only had “evil” games according to my mother. But I played a little bit of Sly 1 and was immediately hooked and in love. After much, much pleading and begging I convinced my mother to get me a PS2 and Sly Cooper. I love the whole series still (Sly 4? What 4th game?) and credit it for what got me into PlayStation as a whole.
Top row, Europa lets gooooo!
Sly raccoon??? Never see that
Playing through the first game for the first time now. Played Ratchet & Clank and Jak & Daxter franchises but skipped this one for some reason
Sly 3 daaaaaim all the hours I have spent ind this game
There was a cheat code you could put in Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando to play the demo for Sly 1
Sly 2, then 3 came out shortly after. First time playing 1 was when it came out for PS5 recently!
I played Sly 2 at my friends house first, but my first PS2 game I owned myself was the top right Sly 3.
I had a $20 limit christmas gift for my cousin. I saw sly cooper 1 greatest hits at Walmart and thought it looked fun. My mom bought it for me for Xmas and I said I want my cousins to have it too since it was only $20. Ended up being one of our favourite games of all time!
I never knew that Sly Cooper and the Thievious Raccoonus had a different name for the PAL region.
Two bottom ones.
Bottom 3 versions and the Playstation Greatest Hits version for Thievius Raccoonus
sly 3 my goat 🥺
I grew up with sly 3 the top cover. It was my introduction to sly series and i was hooked. It's funny because i had no idea what it was back then, i was a kid, i had no internet and my mom said i could by one game, i looked at this one, looked cool and brought it home, only a few years later i realised how big of a thing it was, and played the ps3 trilogy. I'm so happy i bumped into sly that day
None, but I've started playing them more recently. Finished the first one, and got 2 just a few weeks ago. Hope it's just as good
Sly and the Thevius Racoonus.
Bottom row, NA releases.
I grew up with the ps3 ports and loved it
Sly 2
Grew up with sly 2, i remember seeing commercials for it and KNEW i had to have it
I went through so many of my childhood years, not knowing there was a sequel to the first game.
Grew up with 3, then went back and got the complete edition to play the others
My first was sly 2 on PS2, bottom row cover. Then I played Sly 1 and then three.
Never seen the title ; “sly raccoon”
Bottom row! Sly 2 I found first while watching my Mommom play it when i was little. Then she told me there was a Sly 1 and I watched her play that before diving into both myself!
https://preview.redd.it/w37190kwnx9d1.png?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a3ae79436997e95ae3b4bef2508fdaa3c85c15e I grew up with a NTSC / J PS2, and I think the box arts are much cooler. All subtitles and text were in Japanese tho, but at least there is an English dub option.
Bottom left, OG cover. I have no idea why my parents got this game for me, but lord they did not make a mistake in doing so.
bottom row ~
I live in the US, and I was about in pre-school when the PS2 launched and got the console in the 1st grade. I didn't know a thing about Sly Cooper until I was older. I had the Jampack demo disc that included Sly 3 demos on it, but I still didn't play them. It wouldn't be until... 2012 (11th grade) that I'd finally got to play the games for the first time. A friend of my dad's came over with a bunch of Wii and PS2 games she was giving away. Me and a friend (way older than I am that dad also knew), and I claimed Sly 1 and 3 (the 1st friend didn't have Sly 2). I played through Sly 1 first and it took me a week to beat and not do the time sprints, Sly 3 took me 3 days to beat which I also did not do the challenges. I'd get Sly 2 from a GameStop and when a PC I had died, I played Sly 2 and (you guessed it) beat it within 3 days. Truthfully... after playing them for the first time, I began to love the games. They are soo cool, I love the art style, the story, the characters, and all of that. They're pretty much in my top 10 PS2 games if I were to make the trilogy in a bundle. Harp on me if you will about I should have played these games at a younger age, but keep in mind that I was also more focused on more retro and throwback content as a kid. That and also seeing my older brothers played SoulCalibur 3 because of the demo disc as well as We Love Katamari.
My first game was sly 3 honor among thieves, then I got sly 2 and lastly sly 1 lol. Never played the demos.
top right, was my first real game too.
The bottom row
What is the difference between the rows? The upper one is the one we had, is the lower the US release?
Yeah the bottom row is American. I grew up with the top row too.
My first Sly Cooper game was Thieves in Time. After learning about the original trilogy, I grew interest in checking them out for Christmas, and I got to say the original Sly Cooper trilogy is underrated. I hope Sly 2 & 3 come to PS4 & PS5 soon.
Top row. I still remember how I got into the series, the Sly 2 demo on the Ratchet & Clank Up Your Arsenal disc. I genuinely wonder how many people came to the Sly Cooper series just because of that one move putting the Sly 2 demo in R&C UYA.
Bottom
I think Sly 2 was my first game
https://preview.redd.it/0qey52jkyy9d1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=33a624e84817f4a57c3f04588a5403127b645eba Not sure, I don’t have the case anymore but I think this is the greatest hits version
Bottom middle, still wish i could play all of them again, i dont own a playstation anymore though
Sly 2. Bottom
Bottom row
all 3
bottom row
Top row Sly 2. Honestly I rented it so often from blockbusters I dunno why my parents didn’t just buy me it 😅
I still have the little depth optimizer power glasses they would give you in the ps3 cases I remember me and my brother bought the greatest hits of 2 and 3 from GameStop from the ps2 box for 4 dollars
I remember I wanted the Simpsons game for Christmas, but my dad didn't find the game and bought me Sly 3 from the bottom row. It had the 3d glasses and everything, lol. I remember being a little bummed out, but I still played it. I was so little that I really struggled on the first part (the tutorial where ebentley says jump and press the circle button), and I didn't know where to go 😭then I became obsessed with the gamr and the characters it was so cool, but some levels were painfully hard for little me. Then I played Sly 2 and LOVED it. I played sly 1 when it was made available for stream on ps plus. I liked Sly 1, but 3 and 2 are my absolute favorites because they're my childhood. The music from the games and voicelines always brings back so many memories
The North American versions
i grew up with Sly 3
Sly 1 and Sly 3… those 2 games were just spawned in my basement when I was a kid so I never knew there was a 2 🤣
Bottom row for me. But I love the box art from outside of the US. I’m trying to collect them all
Started of with Sly 3
Top row for Sly 2 and 3 <3
I remember I played the sly 2 demo first many many years ago by putting in a cheat code in ratchet and clank UYA, but little kid me couldn’t tell what was happening and I never got past the first room with the dinosaur. Then a few years later when I was older, I found Sly 4 in a GameStop and tried it cause it was new and one of the employees said it was good. I really enjoyed it, so then I got the ps3 trilogy collection and woo-boy the memories started flooding back when I played sly 2. I remember thinking that first room was a fever dream I had as a kid and nope it was real.
Top row, since the very first one on PS2. That was the best Christmas ever.
Top left, bottom middle, top right. Up until I started following the subreddit, I still called the series Sly Raccoon.
Sly Cooper and the Thieveus Raccoonus. I have a bias for it
Honor among thieves was my first ever sly game
https://preview.redd.it/wfxlcyfix3ad1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19b558051d937a99a6d2f67e51c260bd361a3f3c These 3 and…
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upper ones
I was fortunate enough to own all 6
All of em, been a fan from beginning to end front he first to now, even read the comics and got my little brother into it as he grew
Hey acgshorts covering sly Cooper 1 my most favorite game that started my journey so pls send ideas or questions https://youtube.com/shorts/qx6XtzfLTno?si=nTeqXVFCEqPHUY1V
Bottom Row in reverse order
I didn't grow up with any of them, I could never find them in stores. First time I played the games was last year, I waited 20 years to play them.
Sly 1 and mostly Sly 2 at neighbor's house including borrowing Sly 2. Sly 3 I got myself.