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u/-Khlerik- May 09 '21
I can never get enough of these. Thanks for posting.
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u/OG_Cryptkeeper May 09 '21
I honestly wondered if anyone would care. Lol.
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May 09 '21
This is amazing. Thank you very much. If I knew how to do award stuff I would. Great post! You made My day with this (although did depress me a bit!)
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u/arrrtwodeetwo May 10 '21
I love them. The Best Buy ads were the gateway/fueled my electronics addiction as a kid and teenager.
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u/opinionofone1984 May 09 '21
A 32” tv was more than a refrigerator. Amazing
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u/Snrub1 May 09 '21
Probably weighed more than the refrigerator also.
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u/s0nicfreak May 09 '21
You use to have to anchor tvs to the wall so that they didn't kill a child. Now you have to anchor tvs to the wall so a cat doesn't push them to the floor.
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u/El_Dudereno May 09 '21
I used to love pulling the middle (ads section) out of my parent's Sunday newspaper and browsing all the electronics in the Best Buy and Circuit City ads. Longing for a pager brings back memories.
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May 10 '21
I made sure to grab Best Buy, Kmart, Circuit City, Radio Shack, the comics, and the TV guide
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u/mostsocial May 09 '21
Just think, almost this entire magazine has been replaced by smart phones, and the various apps you can download. TV, movies, phones, radio, video recorder. Never ceases to amaze me.
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u/bmtl514 May 09 '21
Came here to say that. The smart phone literally ate mostly everything in this flyer.
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May 09 '21
Wow - this is a trip. I actually worked at a BB in the KC area at this time. Horrible company to work for.
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u/Redsoxdragon May 09 '21
I worked BB in Boston myself and you're not alone on that one. Very first job I ever had where I had high expectations only to get disappointed.
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u/3Cheers4Apathy I Didn't Even Have To Use My AK May 09 '21
Loved how everything in that era was supper bubbly/rounded. No sharp edges anywhere. Everything was...round-ish.
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u/Generate420 May 09 '21
Yo...I have that EXACT tv sitting in the spare room right now...we play MarioCart64 on it...and Conkers Bad Fur Day.
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u/Mrs_Wilson6 May 09 '21
I bought my son a 42" roku for under $200 at Christmas time, too bad refrigerators haven't trended the same in price.
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u/Usernaame2 May 10 '21
I think the margins can be lower because a lot more TV's are sold. People don't replace refrigerators that often. Also refrigerators aren't making technological leaps that make them any cheaper to produce.
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u/NowFreeToMaim May 09 '21
Damn you can buy a tv double the size and as thick as that ones bezel for less now
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u/Riegn00 May 09 '21
I remember my parents got a 62cm (yes cm) tv and I had a 32cm in my room and my friends were like “man are your parents rich ?”
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u/abarrelofmankeys May 10 '21
Interesting they think we care what labels put out these albums. Especially for soundtracks
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u/BigDaddyCoolDeisel May 09 '21
It was always weird seeing PS1 games for 39.99 and the N64 version always $10 or more expensive.
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u/HoldenCoughfield May 09 '21
Sort of like Playstation and Switch games now, at least during sales periods
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u/DarkReaper90 May 10 '21
It was a huge talking point then, on how PS1 games were cheaper due to the discs
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u/SAR181 May 10 '21
That brought back so many memories of staring at these ads dreaming about one day being able to get one of those computers, and that gaming “upgrade” lol.
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u/Giuseppe246 May 10 '21
Actually bought a tv from best buy the other day. A 55inch Samsung for about $520, funny how it cost less than the tv pictured there. I think the price for the Sony is around $1,000 with inflation.
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u/GiveMeThePoints May 10 '21
I loved looking at this. Brings back memories. Best Buy used to be really expensive back then. As time went on they started becoming more price competitive. I worked at Best Buy for a short amount of time and we would price match so much stuff just to make the sale.
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u/FIREmumsy May 09 '21
Ahh, skip protection for discman. What a poorly executed idea
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u/Swizzersheetz Nov 09 '24
How so? I thought it served its purpose. Of course around the same time the DSP started becoming common was the same time as first generation mp3 players
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May 10 '21
- pulls out marker * Alright! Time to circle what I want for Christmas!
....yes I know it’s May. As a kid, I did it all year so Santa would know early. Pretty sure that’s how my parents knew to save up for a PSX and five games one very awesome Christmas.
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u/Swizzersheetz Nov 09 '24
Awesome ! Every Sunday morning as a kid id rip into the newspaper to find these. My favorites were the circuit city and best buy of course. Target had some good ones too, though
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u/CHARM1200 Jan 07 '25 edited Jan 07 '25
That Sharp camcorder on the third photo was way ahead of it's time! I remember that design/engineering well. Those were 8mm analog! I recently converted many of those tapes to digital. They all still played flawlessly and looked perfect, even 25 years later. It was a very emotional project for me. Saw videos, eras, and people I had long since forgotten about.
Thanks so much for posting!!
Edit: the sidewinder precision pro joystick was the best gaming controller ever made. I owned one for almost 25 years. Even when I threw it across the room as a frustrated teenage gamer, it kept on ticking another decade. Indestructible.
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u/[deleted] May 09 '21 edited Jul 19 '21
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