Then I still had 45$ on my card, so I went gamestop hunting for rayman revolution because I had the crappy ps1 version of rayman 2. Searched online and found a store that had it over in burlington, MA, which was only 30mins away and 30mins away from my dad's office. So I went with him when he goes to his office on the weekend to pick up his check, and we went over to the burlington mall on the way back home, stopping to eat at chili's, and then going into gamestop. I saw the huge rack of used ps2 games, thinking it would take a while, but they were organized alphabetically and I went to "R" and there it was. I also looked around the shelf and found sonic mega collection +, sega classics collection (the one with the 3d ages remakes of outrun alien syndrome monaco gp and the virtua racing arcade port!!!
), crazy taxi, and psyconauts.You can probably tell I'm a big sega fan.
For some reason I still haven't bought R3, which is still on my list of games to-buy.
EDIT:
:O 100'th reply to the OP.
. In my case, I discovered Rayman when a friend of my father gives me this game :
Pink Plant Woods/The Primordial Forest). I was marveled to the ammount of detail of everything in the screen. When I look to the left I see a character with a unique atribute, something that I've never seen before: no arms, no legs and no neck. I asked if I could play, and he let me (even with a moody face). I found quite fun his attack (telescopic fist) and how the enemies died. I managed to beat Bzzit and to reach Bongo Hills. I was hooked to the game because I was in there for more than hour and I was already further than the ex-neighbour. In the same day I tried Rayman 2: The Great Escape's DEMO in a Playstation Magazine disk. From that day on I got a Rayman fan 
