This is actually a long con from physical therapists and chiropractors with the goal of destroying the necks of children for future job security. It was quickly adopted by both parents and the flu who both saw the benefits of a free short term daycare while shopping.
This is the kind of thing that I’m glad someone out there had the foresight to capture. I never would have thought to film or save this kind of thing at the time. I hope people out there are doing the same right now with all kinds of daily life.
It’s just dumb retail consumer garbage, sure, but it is historical in a way. Seeing 1970s grocery stores on video and stuff like that, it’s just neat. This is a time capsule and I think it’s important, or at the very least a little bit interesting.
I love these videos but I have to be honest: watching them, the longing I have to go back to much happier and less complicated (for me) times makes me angry and depressed; those times are gone and they’re never, ever coming back.
They shut down a Target near me and they were selling those things for $10. I had the xbox one. I lost the cable that hooks up the xbox to the control box thingie on the way out the door. I was the proprietary female to female video cable so I never got the chance to see if it worked.
Woa talk about some nostalgia! I vividly remember playing these things as a kid around the time Halo came out because pretty much every other game sucked compared to it in my kid opinion at the time.
love the strategy guides in the screen cap. SO BIG. and i think i had the Vice City guide (which was weird because i never owned the game, only rented)
I can smell it.
Interesting. $50 standard price for games then is equivalent to $84 now.
Games have been slowly getting cheaper over time.
Ten years prior in 1993 they were $60-$100 (equivalent to $130-$215 now).
This is actually a long con from physical therapists and chiropractors with the goal of destroying the necks of children for future job security. It was quickly adopted by both parents and the flu who both saw the benefits of a free short term daycare while shopping.
This is the kind of thing that I’m glad someone out there had the foresight to capture. I never would have thought to film or save this kind of thing at the time. I hope people out there are doing the same right now with all kinds of daily life.
It’s just dumb retail consumer garbage, sure, but it is historical in a way. Seeing 1970s grocery stores on video and stuff like that, it’s just neat. This is a time capsule and I think it’s important, or at the very least a little bit interesting.
The same year I got my GameCube with Melee and THPS4 for Christmas. Even though the GC has been busted for years I still have it.
Socom was one of my favourite games back then, even had the magazine shown in the side of this.
I love these videos but I have to be honest: watching them, the longing I have to go back to much happier and less complicated (for me) times makes me angry and depressed; those times are gone and they’re never, ever coming back.
Note that the SEGA Dreamcast had released just a few years prior in late 1999 and had already vanished from retail. R.I.P.
My favorite touch is Michelle Branch playing in the background. If any song says “2002,” lol…
Oh look, it’s that video which has been trending all week in my feed
They shut down a Target near me and they were selling those things for $10. I had the xbox one. I lost the cable that hooks up the xbox to the control box thingie on the way out the door. I was the proprietary female to female video cable so I never got the chance to see if it worked.
Woa talk about some nostalgia! I vividly remember playing these things as a kid around the time Halo came out because pretty much every other game sucked compared to it in my kid opinion at the time.
Stuntman! Such an underrated game
love the strategy guides in the screen cap. SO BIG. and i think i had the Vice City guide (which was weird because i never owned the game, only rented)
Are those Gamecube’s 49.99 or am I crazy. Insanely cheap.