90s CompUSA Ads: Maximum Computery Nostalgia
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2023
- Relaxing with Comp USA newspaper insert catalogs from the late 90s! These flyers always made Sundays a bit better back in the day, and somehow they're even more enjoyable decades later. I have a bunch of them, but this time we're specifically looking at one from February of 1999. When the colorful iMac G3 was new and 300MHz Toshiba laptops cost $2,800!
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As a kid I wanted one of those colorful Apple computers so bad. They may have been just colored plastic, but it made them so unique.
Sometimes I'm completely awestruck at how much of a nerd I unavoidably am.
And this is why the Sunday morning news papers were such a treat back then. Compusa, Best Buy, circuit city, American, a few video game stores. Sears, I can go on….
They really did not spare any expense on printing. Damn those colors are poppin!
Every time I see one of these ads for a tower PC from the late 90s, I am THROWN back into 12 year old me being so so hyped to get my first PC. I remember cutting the ad out and just looking at it for hours while it was shipping, which took a week. Longest week I've experienced.
As exciting and powerful technology is today, I will say the late 90s and early 2000s is probably the most exciting time for technology. Even though I was like 5-6 at the time, walking into a CompUSA and Best Buy was like walking into a theme park for me. My Parents once spent 349 dollars on a 64 MB RAM Upgrade for my dad's PowerBook G3 back then.
This took me right back. I worked at CompUSA in 1998-2000 for all the transparent craziness.
I sincerely appreciate your enthusiasm. I was the only kid around that got excited for these Sunday ads. Thank you for this!
These store advertisements remind me of the old Scholastic Book Club mini-catalogs growing up. Expensive prices back then compared to what can be found today in comparison. Thanks for going through the pages.
I remember going to CompUSA with my parents at least a few times back when I was little, and my mom explaining to me that this was basically my stepdad's version of Toys R Us. Very sad it was replaced by a nursing school but the time I was old enough to really be into computers.
Wow. Big nostalgia for me - I remember getting up extra early on Sunday mornings just to see what would be in the sale papers. It was fun.
I miss the 90's. Great time. Loved going to Babbage's, Electronic Boutique, and others. Trying to find computer games on sale in the bins. It's easier now, but then it was adventure.
You're one of the only people that can make a 25 minute video on decades-old shopping ads and not make it boring. Love this stuff man
I know I am starting to get old when retro adverts make me wistful for times that were and will never be again
I miss CompUSA, I used to shop there a lot there at a mall back in the late 90s and early 2000s! I remember being blown away by the then-new iMac! It’s like seeing a brand new invention, those digital cameras were so cool!
Love these type of videos. Its like therapy and so relaxing thinking about those times
The trip to CompUSA in the 90's was always a great time! The Flyers in the Sunday Newspapers were like a Sears Christmas Wish book! The Fry's ones were even better!
I love seeing these old ads! I used to read them religiously around the same time period, also without the money to actually buy anything haha. Also used to just hang out at stores like CompUSA and others in the computer section and just look at stuff and mess around with the display models for hours… man memories…
Nice to know other people collect vintage retail ads. I saved a lot from 2016-2019 right at the tail end of my city's newspaper subscription before they stopped putting ads in it. I also saved cut-outs of cell phone ads from 2004-2008 (I collected them at the time) I still get the junk mail flyer that has a few ads in it but not an entire paper full. I work on sniffing out older ads from the 70s, 80s 90s but so difficult to find .
I mean it in the best way when I say watching your videos is like listening to a dad take a walk down memory lane about all the exciting stuff that went down in the computer industry back then, and I'm all for it.