Wasn't shown in the vid, but I miss when PC games came in cardboard boxes and opened on the front to show more pictures of the game and what it was all about. Was one of my favorite parts about going to Best Buy back then as a kid
Every time I’m in our bestbuy or Sams club or the Ollie’s that was once our circuit city I go and stand in the old games location and it’s like a movie scene where some elderly folk is seeing the ghosts of their past around them.
I worked at Best Buy from 2001-2009 probably my favorite job of my life, I learned so much there and really molded me into who I am now, today. I still enjoy shopping there and am Amazed people I worked with are still there!! Thanks for the memories, this is all in my mind and heart forever.
I worked there from about 1999 to 2001. I was always stuck in the damned printer aisle of PCHO. But damn if I wouldn't do it again. That was a fun job.
Used to go here every Tuesday for new CD releases 😢 I miss those days. You could scan a CD underneath the listening station and listen to 30 second samples of each song on the album. I miss those days…
The 37" hdtv for $2500 was a great refresher. I almost forgot how expensive everything was at that time. Then again, they were made of good quality materials that can last a long time too.
@@RandomTechWZ Right, those TVs were actually crap. I guarantee nobody still has one like they had old tube tvs from the 70s 😂. Those Tvs burned out or easily got fried during a thunderstorm. You are absolutely right, it was the new technology at the time. I know many things were better back then, but to try to say they were made of better stuff is why they were more expensive is a reach that's not even true. I remember Portable CD players were like 800-900 dollars when they first came out. Every new technology starts out expensive.
Exactly!! I remember my aunt purchasing a 32” Samsung back in 2008 if I recall for about $2k those we’re insane prices back in the day. Last I purchased a 43” Samsung 4K QLED UHD for $298 @ Walmart & man times have changed lol
In 2005, only one person I knew had an HDTV and his family was rich who owned a campground. I got my first HDTV in 2007 for $1300. Still works to this day.
2005-2006 the last years of the mighty CRT TV's. At the time they had way better picture quality than the LCD's and even some Plasma;'s. But they also had the limitation of 1080i max res and the weight of them lol
so thats what non-flat screen tvs are called! CRT. Thanks I didnt know that! I despise flat screens and now I know what to look for. Ebay, here I come No more scrolling throught 1000s of TVs online trying to find a non-flat screen.
My dad bought his first "higher quality" video camera at Best Buy in 2005. Old Canon handheld camera. We bought our first video camera in 1994 when they were beginning to shrink down in size. The Canon one was a huge improvement in video quality. We still have both cameras, but now he has a Canon 1080P HD camera that he's owned since 2015.
This is when Best Buy was a TRUE electronics geek store. I can't get over the amount of general stock at the place, like there's so much multimedia and just geek stuff everywhere! All about video games, TVs, multimedia, computers, stereos. None of this kitchen appliances, home survailence, and smartwatch bullsh*t you see nowadays. All this bullsh*t on cards and not physical media. I wish Best Buy would go back to this format. Where they weren't tailoring to moms.
We loved going into the special "Designer" high end TV and audio section that was set up like a living room, and just enjoy being blown away by how good it all looked and sounded even if we'd never be able to afford it in our life times lol
Opening shot of the digital cameras brings back memories. I spent most that year on the market for one. The flatscreen TV’s also reminds how modern it all felt at the time.
Dvd section has been greatly reduced if non-existent. But yes, the store itself looks the same. Wal-Mart and Target have looked the same for thirty years now.
This was such a trip, thanks for sharing. I was a junior in college in 2005, bought a PSP for my younger brother from BestBuy when they first came out. I remember demoing new PS2 games on display when I had the chance.
I went there recently to get a new phone and had to wait for the guy in the cell phone department to get off his phone before he even looked up to acknowledge that I was standing there waiting. Awesome times we live in.
Going to best buy for the video games as a kid was like heaven. It felt incredibly rewarding when my father would buy me a video game or a brand new video game console from there. my father felt same when buying blu ray movies or a new surround system lol
In a way I wish they where still that size because these days if you drop t he one you have outside you will have a hard time finding it because there so small.
I remember when they were shaped like that. Some people wore those call center representative style headsets for a while until they became more sleek in size. I had a Bluetooth set for my first flip phone back in 2006.
Love it! Do you have any Best Buy footage of when they had those computer stations where you could pick any songs and burn them to a CD? It was awesome. You could make your own compiliation CD.
I always thought of flat televisions as a late 00s/early 2010s-present thing, but this video proves that they are no novelty. Apparently all the new models were flat as early as 2005. Not a single CRT tv on display. I guess I'm stuck in the 90s.
@@glh2000yeah pretty bad, people knew where to go potty before then, you had two options and the one you went in was determined by what you had in your pants at birth.
That's about how much you would pay for a decent one back then. Plasma TVs were expensive back then. Some people chose to buy rear projection TVs for almost half the cost.
@@dco2006 the thing is you don't need one. Cord cutters like me stick to free service. If you get an HDMI signal converter you can use a Roku or whatever on an SD, and in most cases that's perfectly fine since the free stuff is not typically HD anyway. I use my laptop and phone for everything so it doesn't matter.
@@Anarchist86ed you're the ignoring that it's 18 years later saying the difference in prices as if there's any point to it. I was alive in 2005 nobody used the term cord-cutting and maybe one person out of all of the people that I knew had an HDTV and they were a rich family who owned a campground. Of course they're going to be more expensive back then when they were newer and nobody had them.
Hey question... Are these videos just vintage B-Roll footage? I love them all as they show subtle nuances of what stores were like decades ago. These are really important time capsules of life in a retail setting and am so glad they are still around.
Plasma screens were a game changer. A TV you could mount to your wall. The fact that TVs are thinner now is of less importance than the form factor of a flat screen TV to begin with.
I used to work at a Best Buy around this time. They basically told me to try to get as much money as you can out of a customer. Now you walk into a Best Buy to look at anything except the new iPhone and they don't even walk up to you or bother you.
Wow. Seeing Shadow of the Colossus on the shelf for sale brought back some fond memories. Also I bought my first HP Media Center desktop this year. Such a cool design in my opinion. I wish some electronic design sensibilities could go back to these times.
Digital Camera era, didn't last long after. I think it was around the time when LCD screens became famous. Anyway, it's been 18 years since then,i mean do u believe it?😢
What a coincidence UA-cam should recommend this video to me on the same day Best Buy announces they're removing all physical media from their stores. End of a very long and prosperous era. The future of entertainment seems rather grim.
I was only a couple years old in 2005. My first console was the ps2 and that spongebob game at 3:36 was one of my first games. It's crazy how times can change so fast.
That was back then when Best Buy have stuff to buy. Now most of their shelves are empty. Yo go to the store to buy something and you may end up buying it online because they don't have it.
Best Buy used to he so amazing. How I miss those days, when I was a kid, it was so much more fun going to the mall and stores. Now everyone is pathetically lazy and sits at home and uses amazon
TONY HAWKS’S AMERICAN WASTELAND!!!!!! The game I never got!!😔 Also the Xbox 360 at (6:02) in 2005!!!! As kids we were still trying to get the first Xbox. The Xbox 360 was rare and was not really advertised. All we seen was the PSP.
I remember those days. My dad bought a 42-inch Panasonic Vierra Plasma TV for $3500 back in 2006, just for them to go down to less than $700 within 3 years.
Cashier cashing people out. On the TV's this era is different than your 1970s and 1980s video in the fact that back then they had broadcast TV on. Here the bigger companies here had they own promotions on the display televisions.
TV's have gotten so dirt cheap now days, 4k TVs only a few hundred dollars. While a standard definition flat screen back then was easily 2000-3000 dollars, Found one of those 37 inch LCD TV's for $20, in the video it shows one being $2500+
This is where my brain is stuck. About 2005.
Wasn't shown in the vid, but I miss when PC games came in cardboard boxes and opened on the front to show more pictures of the game and what it was all about. Was one of my favorite parts about going to Best Buy back then as a kid
I miss that so freaking much
Yes!! I remember the original Sims games came in those cardboard boxes. Added more excitement to buying the game
Now it’s all corporatized and microtransactioned to death.
Every time I’m in our bestbuy or Sams club or the Ollie’s that was once our circuit city I go and stand in the old games location and it’s like a movie scene where some elderly folk is seeing the ghosts of their past around them.
Yes and the amazing smell of opening them.
Crazy to think that generally everything in that store, is now obsolete.
I know weird
😭
Yep, pretty much the whole store in a landfill now. The TV prices are insane especially considering the size.
My family is still using a Dyson vacuum they got at best buy in 05 so there's one thing lol
@@bobd9868 Really puts into perspective how wasteful we are as a society and how disposable consumer goods really have become.
I worked at Best Buy from 2001-2009 probably my favorite job of my life, I learned so much there and really molded me into who I am now, today. I still enjoy shopping there and am
Amazed people I worked with are still there!! Thanks for the memories, this is all in my mind and heart forever.
Wow. Sounds like a great job by the way you write. Must have been fun for sure.
@@vampirerobot fond fond memories!
I worked there from about 1999 to 2001. I was always stuck in the damned printer aisle of PCHO. But damn if I wouldn't do it again. That was a fun job.
wow that's cool I always wanted to work there. How much did they pay per hour back then?
@@Superdimensional In those years of you working there you were a legend man
This feels nostalgic sort of. I worked there for about a year in 2006, so this looks just how I remember it.
remember when they had stations to pick your own songs and burn them to a CD? good times
same layout in all stores back in the days?
@@Exchange-Student-Australia The one in Mays Landing NJ in 2005 looked nothing like this
2005 was almost 20 years ago.
Looking back at this video, it seemed like it happened not even 5 years ago. How strange.
Can't BELIEVE it's been almost 20 years!!! Holy mackerel!!!
Used to go here every Tuesday for new CD releases 😢 I miss those days. You could scan a CD underneath the listening station and listen to 30 second samples of each song on the album. I miss those days…
That slipped my mind for so many years. Definitely remember how awesome that was.
The 37" hdtv for $2500 was a great refresher. I almost forgot how expensive everything was at that time. Then again, they were made of good quality materials that can last a long time too.
Its more like it was the newest tech at the time so its going to be expensive.
@@RandomTechWZ Right, those TVs were actually crap. I guarantee nobody still has one like they had old tube tvs from the 70s 😂. Those Tvs burned out or easily got fried during a thunderstorm. You are absolutely right, it was the new technology at the time. I know many things were better back then, but to try to say they were made of better stuff is why they were more expensive is a reach that's not even true. I remember Portable CD players were like 800-900 dollars when they first came out. Every new technology starts out expensive.
@@thegamingchef3304 My mother still has her plasma panasonic 43 inch tv from 2007, other than a bit of burn in on super light scenes, it works great
Not really, those TV's are all junk now if they still even work.
@Arkiasis but it was pretty damn good for it's time tho
The cashier looked more genuine than cashiers nowadays.
$2499.99 for 37" Flat screen LCD, wow.
And here my 2015 Samsung 37" Flat Screen only cost me 10 bucks at a Goodwill.
Exactly!! I remember my aunt purchasing a 32” Samsung back in 2008 if I recall for about $2k those we’re insane prices back in the day. Last I purchased a 43” Samsung 4K QLED UHD for $298 @ Walmart & man times have changed lol
$2500 can get you so much more TV now and qled
And people today complain about wages lol. I remember when TVs cost thousands, and weighed 200 pounds.
In 2005, only one person I knew had an HDTV and his family was rich who owned a campground. I got my first HDTV in 2007 for $1300. Still works to this day.
2005-2006 the last years of the mighty CRT TV's. At the time they had way better picture quality than the LCD's and even some Plasma;'s. But they also had the limitation of 1080i max res and the weight of them lol
Interesting...I miss those old crt TV's...I have a terrible time with the volume with flat screens especially with music in the background.
@@vampirerobot Yea CRT's also have a good sound speakers, especially the Sony ones.
so thats what non-flat screen tvs are called! CRT. Thanks I didnt know that!
I despise flat screens and now I know what to look for.
Ebay, here I come
No more scrolling throught 1000s of TVs online trying to find a non-flat screen.
You mean the last real TVs?
CRTs were still being made as late as 2008 and people owned them well into the early 2010s.
Worked for BBY from 1995-2005. Fun times
2005 is like the year the flat screen TVs became more market popular, the plasma display i think
Yes, then LCD’s a year or two later
In 2005 I walked into a Best Buy and bought my first Desktop along with WoW after working and saving for an entire summer. What a great memory.
2 years before smartphones and tablets hit the market. These are the days of flip phones!
back then the Motorola Razr's were the shit just before the Iphone's came out.
the decline of civilization really began with the iphone and apps going viral in 2011.
@@mstrikesback168 True I didnt get my first iphone til 2012
The Motorola Razor flip phone from 2005
My dad bought his first "higher quality" video camera at Best Buy in 2005. Old Canon handheld camera. We bought our first video camera in 1994 when they were beginning to shrink down in size. The Canon one was a huge improvement in video quality. We still have both cameras, but now he has a Canon 1080P HD camera that he's owned since 2015.
This is when Best Buy was a TRUE electronics geek store. I can't get over the amount of general stock at the place, like there's so much multimedia and just geek stuff everywhere! All about video games, TVs, multimedia, computers, stereos. None of this kitchen appliances, home survailence, and smartwatch bullsh*t you see nowadays. All this bullsh*t on cards and not physical media. I wish Best Buy would go back to this format. Where they weren't tailoring to moms.
We loved going into the special "Designer" high end TV and audio section that was set up like a living room, and just enjoy being blown away by how good it all looked and sounded even if we'd never be able to afford it in our life times lol
Hard to think that the Xbox 360 is a 16 year old system now.
I still play mine occasionally. Still a fine working first gen Elite model.
17****
17.5*
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@@MarkMeadows90 I still have my Halo 3 edition that I play every now and then. It had the red ring of death many years ago but was promptly fixed.
Every time I go to buy best I watch this beforehand lol
It's so weird looking into the past
2005 was the year I was born
It was a heck of a year; I’ll tell you that.
Opening shot of the digital cameras brings back memories. I spent most that year on the market for one. The flatscreen TV’s also reminds how modern it all felt at the time.
I started their in the fall of 2004 I was 19 years old and worked their till December 2007 man that was a flash back
Other than the products on the shelves, it doesn't feel like a whole lot has changed about Best Buy over the years.
Most big box stores have essentially been the same for as long as I can remember, and I'm in my early thirties.
Now they’re more empty (less people) and now they have cell phones, cell phone accessories, no music CDs, and booths for different brands.
Dvd section has been greatly reduced if non-existent.
But yes, the store itself looks the same. Wal-Mart and Target have looked the same for thirty years now.
@ericzaldivar2205, Best Buy stopped selling DVD's and Blu-rays at the beginning of this year (2024).
@@RustyNickels They really shot themselves in the foot here with their latest decision to stop selling physical media entirely.
I started at BB in 2004, this is a trip back to the past
This was such a trip, thanks for sharing. I was a junior in college in 2005, bought a PSP for my younger brother from BestBuy when they first came out. I remember demoing new PS2 games on display when I had the chance.
Weird, I have a memory from when I was 17 in 2005 going into a Best Buy and playing on a display Xbox 360. So strange that was almost 20 years ago.
I went there recently to get a new phone and had to wait for the guy in the cell phone department to get off his phone before he even looked up to acknowledge that I was standing there waiting. Awesome times we live in.
Going to best buy for the video games as a kid was like heaven. It felt incredibly rewarding when my father would buy me a video game or a brand new video game console from there. my father felt same when buying blu ray movies or a new surround system lol
I almost walked out of a bestbuy the other day because there were barely anyone working and I couldn't find help with finding something.
That early bluetooth headset at 1:10 is a blast from the past...
In a way I wish they where still that size because these days if you drop t he one you have outside you will have a hard time finding it because there so small.
Looks like a raptor claw.
I remember when they were shaped like that. Some people wore those call center representative style headsets for a while until they became more sleek in size. I had a Bluetooth set for my first flip phone back in 2006.
@@SirDinielFortesquegood point. you could probably get one on ebay.
2005 customer tries to play with an Xbox 360 and someone says "It's Broke".
Me watching this in 2023..............of course it is.
Love it!
Do you have any Best Buy footage of when they had those computer stations where you could pick any songs and burn them to a CD?
It was awesome. You could make your own compiliation CD.
It's so crazy that plasma TVs used to cost $2,500. Now I can get like a regular flat screen TV for under $500 bucks.
What a time man.
Ah yes, classic footage of the Dad Stance in Best Buy 2:04
😂😂😂
I miss these times
the good days when best buy actually carried physical media
I always thought of flat televisions as a late 00s/early 2010s-present thing, but this video proves that they are no novelty. Apparently all the new models were flat as early as 2005. Not a single CRT tv on display.
I guess I'm stuck in the 90s.
2005. I was a freshman in high school and then a sophomore. Better times.
same
I was just starting the first grade 😂😂😂
I was a junior in 2005. Definitely miss these days
Same here 🎉
@@candy2325 Class of 2008. 👍
2:31 Gromit moment
*I miss the DVD/CD section at BEST BUY used to be straight fire* 🔥💯🔥
Napster CD @8:52! - a few years after Napster's heyday, but still fun to see.
Yea after Metallica sued the fuck out of them... Then we moved to Kazaa, then Limeware and Bearshare... Those were the days
Thats right folks, a 37" LCD HDTV cost $2500 in 2005, which is equivalent to about $3,900 in 2023.
Plasma..not LCD
Plasma was great...LCD is garbage>>>Now OLED is great again
R.I.P. the 00's as my Main childhood (2001-2016)
Im so sorry about that..Truly a horrible time to be a kid.
@@thetruthhurts7500 2016?
@@glh2000yeah pretty bad, people knew where to go potty before then, you had two options and the one you went in was determined by what you had in your pants at birth.
It's just insane how dead it feels inside to shop at Best Buy 19 years later.
Back when digital cameras 📸 were displacing film cameras.
Nowadays iphones are displacing digital cameras. 😔
$2500 for an HDTV. I just bought one for $70.
That's about how much you would pay for a decent one back then. Plasma TVs were expensive back then. Some people chose to buy rear projection TVs for almost half the cost.
Yeah. 2005 ... No one had an HDTV. 2023. Who doesn't?
@@dco2006 the thing is you don't need one. Cord cutters like me stick to free service. If you get an HDMI signal converter you can use a Roku or whatever on an SD, and in most cases that's perfectly fine since the free stuff is not typically HD anyway. I use my laptop and phone for everything so it doesn't matter.
@@Anarchist86ed you're the ignoring that it's 18 years later saying the difference in prices as if there's any point to it. I was alive in 2005 nobody used the term cord-cutting and maybe one person out of all of the people that I knew had an HDTV and they were a rich family who owned a campground. Of course they're going to be more expensive back then when they were newer and nobody had them.
@@dco2006 Talk about not getting it. 🙄
Hey question... Are these videos just vintage B-Roll footage? I love them all as they show subtle nuances of what stores were like decades ago. These are really important time capsules of life in a retail setting and am so glad they are still around.
Jesus I remember that year going to best buy to buy a tv but they were too damn expensive!
Plasma screens were a game changer. A TV you could mount to your wall. The fact that TVs are thinner now is of less importance than the form factor of a flat screen TV to begin with.
This was just a few months after my parents bought our first "flat panel" LCD computer. 🖥️
I was intrigued by how flat it was.
I miss the days where companies would actually put effort into their stores
I used to work at a Best Buy around this time. They basically told me to try to get as much money as you can out of a customer. Now you walk into a Best Buy to look at anything except the new iPhone and they don't even walk up to you or bother you.
It's like looking at a modern day Goodwill or thrift store.
Recipet prints faster than at my store in 2022
You must really hate your pos equipment at Dunham's.
Wow. Seeing Shadow of the Colossus on the shelf for sale brought back some fond memories. Also I bought my first HP Media Center desktop this year. Such a cool design in my opinion. I wish some electronic design sensibilities could go back to these times.
I was 28 when this video was taken.
I was 27. Where the time go? :/
One thing I think would be really cool to see is StarCraft 1 brood war launch date at Best Buy. Lines out the door in 1998
I see Soul Calibur 3!!! 😍
I worked at Best Buy as a kid in 2002. It was so much fun.
2:10 - You gotta buy the table, this and that ahahaha!
Can't wait for the "Shopping on Amazon 2023" video in 20 or 30 years from now.
I think I might start screen recording when I buy stuff online so I can go back in 30 years and see what I purchased🤣
3:13 That SOCOM:CA warning just gave me the shivers. 😅
I just bought an charger from Best Buy here in munster Indiana, we have them everywhere throughout Indiana.
Digital Camera era, didn't last long after. I think it was around the time when LCD screens became famous.
Anyway, it's been 18 years since then,i mean do u believe it?😢
its yesterday,,unless you are 4 yrs old
What a coincidence UA-cam should recommend this video to me on the same day Best Buy announces they're removing all physical media from their stores. End of a very long and prosperous era. The future of entertainment seems rather grim.
This feels like yesterday.
Thats because it was yesterday
@@thetruthhurts7500 well damn, how old are you?
This was when it was normal to just go in the store and buy movies, mfs be looking at you weird if you do this now
Yes! Can you do please Shopping to buy Baby Einstein Products at Target in Christmas 2006.
I was only a couple years old in 2005. My first console was the ps2 and that spongebob game at 3:36 was one of my first games. It's crazy how times can change so fast.
Best Buy feels so empty without DVDs
Yes! Loved going there! I wanted a camcorder so badly in those days!
Its nice to see nothing has changed
Childhood memories
I used to buy my World of Warcraft time cards there in 2005 😅
That was back then when Best Buy have stuff to buy. Now most of their shelves are empty. Yo go to the store to buy something and you may end up buying it online because they don't have it.
0:44 I remember seeing a giant screen like that in our best buy back in 2003 what screen is that???
I prefer the old technology.
That might be the dumbest thing ive ever heard...
Which state are these recorded in? Generally curious.
A state of delusion
@@thetruthhurts7500 ha, fair enough
The TiVo Boxes were my all-time favorite at best buy.
That’s funny, I worked at Best Buy in 2013 and they still had the exact same POS system lol
It's so interesting to people watch, nothing changed ahahaha!
It's a TIME CAPSULE! 🤩
Not really
The old Avaya phones ringing in the background 😭 I miss working at best buy in the 2000s
I think shopping at Walmart is better now than shopping at Best Buy.
Rumor has it that Xbox red-ringed the following day.
This literally looks like a time traveler POV
The HDCRTs still look good I’m sure. I can get so many of those games so cheap and still want them. I gotta go thrifting soon.
is it just me or i actually like best buy more back than todays best buy
TVs were definitely more expensive then I thought they would be
That's when flat-screen tvs first came out.
Best Buy used to he so amazing. How I miss those days, when I was a kid, it was so much more fun going to the mall and stores. Now everyone is pathetically lazy and sits at home and uses amazon
The world before the iPhone changed it forever.
TONY HAWKS’S AMERICAN WASTELAND!!!!!! The game I never got!!😔
Also the Xbox 360 at (6:02) in 2005!!!! As kids we were still trying to get the first Xbox. The Xbox 360 was rare and was not really advertised. All we seen was the PSP.
$2500 for a 37" TV??!! See, some things are better now than they were then.
I remember those days. My dad bought a 42-inch Panasonic Vierra Plasma TV for $3500 back in 2006, just for them to go down to less than $700 within 3 years.
That’s crazy to think that old couple are probably dead now. Wow 2005 seems like it was yesterday!!!😮
We had UA-cam in 2005. It's not that long ago. Two years before the iPhone.
it has been almost 20 years 😂
I was 7 in 2005 I remember buying a PlayStation 2 that year. 😊
Your family must've been rich if they were giving you $200 in that year alone.
That’s when it was good. 06 was the last true year the 90s were prominent.
Cashier cashing people out.
On the TV's this era is different than your 1970s and 1980s video in the fact that back then they had broadcast TV on. Here the bigger companies here had they own promotions on the display televisions.
TV's have gotten so dirt cheap now days, 4k TVs only a few hundred dollars. While a standard definition flat screen back then was easily 2000-3000 dollars, Found one of those 37 inch LCD TV's for $20, in the video it shows one being $2500+