[Idiotekque]

I've actually heard of a few people with low numbers like that! It's odd, because the original owner of this console won it through a Playstation Underground contest. They awarded US participants a total of 50 of these limited edition consoles; 10 in each color. As far as the contest said, they were the only 50 ever made, but clearly that's not the case. Since the consoles weren't sold on the open market as far as I know, this is the only case I've heard where average joes got ahold of these. Interesting.

And I'm thinking they numbered 0000001-0002000, since in all of these that I've seen, I've never seen a number above 0002000. I can't confirm that, but it seems like the most likely scenario. It looks like the US (NTSC-U) series was the second to be produced in this case.

Interesting history though! I wish I had a PAL or NTSC-J PS2 game to test on it.