90's Circuit City Commercial

An old Circuit City ad from the 80's

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• 80's
• 80s
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• circuit
• city
• computer
• retro
• ads
• tv
• 1980's

[nurb101]

Circuit City deserved to die, I worked there just after they fired all of their knowledgable career salesmen that the thought made too much money, and then hired teenagers to replace them for shit pay to run the store at half the number of original staff. It did nothing but piss off customers who had to wait forever for help from one of the 2 employees per department, and then only to find highschoolers weren't paid enough to care about learning the product. Welcome to modern corporate retail.

[golby260]

God knows what a 16-year-old commercial about a computer with a 33-mhz processor on it has to do with current U.S. politics.

I'm a big, evil liberal, too, but I don't think our government's the greatest in the world -- you'd be surprised how many liberals don't actually think Obama's that great. However, we simply have the system we deserve because we're arguing about Reagan and economics on a 1994 Circuit City commercial video post!

Keep politics out of the goddamn thread. Be NOSTALGIC! :)

[Chaniyth]

@cobaltblue1975

I got years of good computing and gaming out of my old Pentium 100Mhz Packard Bell PC back in the day. I maxed out it's RAM and eventually bought a 333Mhz Evergreen "upgrade" chip for it, and it had a Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold, and Voodoo 2 12MB GPU. It played all late 90's - early 2000 games just fine. Then I built my own Pentium III 450Mhz CPU back in the day and wow was that a speed up [used the Awe64 and Voodoo 2 but replaced it with Voodoo 3 3500 eventually]!

[Chaniyth]

@nurb101

Wal*Mart is doing the same thing, they are slowly letting go of all their old staff, i'm talking people that have worked there for over 13+ years, and people who have never called in sick, etc... just to replace their hard workers to hire a bunch of lazy, whiny teenagers who don't know the meaning of customer service for minimum wage or slightly (10 - 25 cents) higher. Wal*Mart is following the same mistake as Circuit City, and all I can say when they close is good riddance.

[sideslide23]

25 inch TV for $277 at 0:24, I bought my Sharp 42 inch High def flat screen TV for that same price and its bigger and better than that old ugly box TV haha.

[cobaltblue1975]

LOL! Packaged Hell computers! Anyone remember those horribly defective monsters?

[RingSight91]

And if you're from abroad and had to "go home" to [try to] finish college in May 1994, you'd have to be rich to even have a 386 w/ Win3.1, the way some import markets work. I'm still pissed at how I had to write my papers on an effing 286 and WordStar thanks to my tech-clueless dad. Frack!

[jejeroy]

wow 1099$ for a 486 33MHZ MEGA DEAL rolf now today peoples complain that they can not get a laptop all installed with windows for 329.99$ ...

[MrBallmer]

In 1998 I and my cousin bought our first computers when we were little there the were Compaq's and they ran windows 98 on a Pentium iii and a nVidia Graphics card! Aaaa i miss the 90's.

[Wavedude21101]

@boonya2 but its not real CC they got bought out. (of course lol). . their basically another company selling stuff now . but at least they kept the name

[RichGilly]

@AkitoJr It is just a reeeeaaaalllly long offer =)