Black Friday shopping for the Wii at a Best Buy store in 2007
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ม.ค. 2025
- Footage of people purchasing the Nintendo Wii at a Best Buy store in Cedar Crest, New Jersey.
Lucky for them a shipment just came in and just in time for Christmas...which is less than a week away!
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I hope that Best Buy salesman got a raise, he totally convinced that lady to purchase about $400 worth of Wii products that she didn’t know she needed. Good stuff right there
commission
She couldn’t even realize how phony the salesman was too. I did laugh when she asked if the golf game he showed her was too childish lol
@Cosmetics Cameo they don't make commission and those customers went to a different employee to pay
Exaggerate much?
Lol
I remember my dad and I did a last minute run to best buy in 2007, they said they had 11 Wiis left, we raced over to Best Buy and when we got there they only had three left. We bought it with Wii play. Great memories, sadley had to wait till Christmas to play.
Despite It's lack of power basically being a slightly souped up Gamecube , Nintendo still had a true cultural phenomenon on their hands , *everyone* was trying to get a Wii all through 06/07.
It saved the company
Nowadays everyone’s grandma still has one
It has GameCube compatibility.
I still have mine I'm 34 now and still playing it smash bros bowling everything
wii is gay
ps3 rulez!!!
The sheer joy I felt when I opened up a box and it was a brand new Nintendo Wii. It was Christmas 2007 and I was about 9 years old
That’s awesome. I was about that age when the N64 came out. My parents kept saying over and over how many times it had been impossible to get one because they were all out of stock. I already had it in my mind that Christmas I wasn’t going to get one so I was okay with that. Of course the very last present my parents pulled out, the N64. I went nuts 😂
Me I was 7 & had the same awesome story
You were 9 years old so 2 that would make you what? About 10- 11 years old.
Same here. Simpler and better times. I was so excited when I opened the present showing the Wii in the box brand new. I remember me and my sister playing with the Wii all the time. I remember playing Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Sports Resort, New Super Mario Bros Wii, and Mario Party 8. I miss my Wii everyday. I want a Time Machine so bad.
I wanted th 64 so bad. I peeled a little paper backing my present and thought it was a 64. I was so disappointed when I opened a new vcr. I threw a fit and my Dad took and bought me a 64 the next week. Lol
Man, nothing compares to the hype of the Wii. Motion control was absolutely revolutionary, and it was the first video game console that focused heavily on family play. My entire family was playing this thing that Christmas it was so great!
and now more and more people beginning to appreciate the Wii U than it was a decade ago
And its easy as fuck to mod!
And its easy as fuck to mod!
I remember those shortages the first year. It was impossible to find a Wii in the wild for the 2006 holiday season. I finally saw a single new Wii sitting on the shelf at my small town Pamida store (R.I.P.) in October ‘07! Purchased on the spot!
2007 was the beginning of a few years where gaming was absolutely on fire. Every holiday season there was more games that'd become classics than there was time to play them. This continued to about 2011-14 I'd say depending on who you ask. Halo 3 and CoD4 were awesome, skate as well. Spent so much time with those 3 as a teen.
No doubt about it, it was almost like a second Golden age of gaming. Or third age. Every time you turned around there was some awesome game coming out that you just had to play, matter of fact if you're still playing games you'll know that we're basically still playing all of those same games now just souped up😂
This is so cool. I remember getting the Wii for Christmas. It was such an awesome experience. Keep uploading these. It's fantastic seeing these
Thanks American Otaku!! Comments like this are totally worth it.
4:36 "I came for a keyboard" LOL
Got her ass 😂⛄
Honestly, the wii might be the best console ever made. It brought people of all ages together to play video games people that never played video games, grandmas, dad’s, moms, and kids all were playing the Wii.
Absolutely. It wasn’t too much, nor too little. Won’t find as many people shoving their faces endlessly into the Wii like today’s devices that have absolutely *everything* on them. You go on the Wii, play some games, have a good time. That simple. A great console.
The cultural hold the Wii had from 2006-2009 was one I was proud to be a part of.
I still remember Christmas 2007 at my grandparents house, getting the Wii along with Twilight Princess from my mom. Shes told me the story a few times now of having to check 5+ stores just to find one lol
I should thank her again the next time i see her. That was probably the last Christmas where i still felt the childlike wonder, just before hitting that sweet angsty teenage transition lol
"i dont' know anything about them" "whoops, i mean i just know what I like". He'd make a good cop
Everyone looks so happy to finally get their hands on the Wii.
Sir you are the TH-cam Time Machine this is so cool I wouldn’t get my wii till year or so later
Dude that guy walking out with the wiis was equivalent to him carrying out $20,000 or more on like a palate jack. It's bonkers.
People were so much more respectful back then, patiently waiting in line.
It really seemed like a totally different world. Things started going down the drain around 2012.
It's nuts that you can find most of those accessories at the thrift store for like 50 cents
This was so cool to see. I pre ordered my Wii at GameStop. I still remember it clearly. They only got 7 or 8 Wii’s in and I was the “first” to put in my pre order. I say “first” because I was number 5 on the list meaning the first four taken up on the sheet must’ve been the employees. I went early morning with my dad to pick it up and there weren’t any lines. I got it, two games (including Zelda, of course) and an extra nunchuck controller for my baby sister and I to play. I remember it wasn’t too hard to get stuff on my side of town but with the population boom in South Texas the past two decades it’s been getting much harder for stuff like this to be in stock. And just people not understanding the meaning of Southern Hospitality apparently 😞
Thanks for the nostalgic trip!! Your videos have been so awesome to watch I was happy to instantly subscribe😁
Also, poor Xbox. Nobody is touching those 360’s😂. That was the first system I bought with my own money so it had more meaning to my ownership. Just like the Wii my parents actually loved the bowling and the Kinect. It was easy to not have anything in your hand and use your body as the controller.
My parents camped out and got it on release day in 2006. Didn't receive it until my birthday that December. All I remember vividly is them talking about how long the line was to get it. The PS3 released on the same day and one stood in line for Wii and the other to get the PS3 for my older brother
The PS3 came out 2 days before the Wii.
I know we look back at the Wii and laugh how cheap it was. Back then, the $250 launch price was the equivalent of $400 today. Not only that, but each controller was $39 back then ($62 today). Games for the Wii back then would be the equivalent of $94 in today's dollars. The Wii was revolutionary, the motion sensing was a game change for the industry. And the PS3 was $599 for the "good" model, which would be almost $1,000 today
@breadandcircuses8127 Not sure where you got from my post that I was making excuses for anything?
Now we need christmas shopping for switch video. We can have a memory if we watch it in next 16 years.
Best buy was smart handing out bags knowing they would buy more.
Just brought out my old Wii this christmas and honestly it’s the most fun I’ve had in a while, it’s just so good at bringing the family together and the games are so fun and happy which I believe most modern consoles lack.
So cool to see a piece of gaming history, especially if you were around when it happened.
Hearing parents asking for "Wii play" is so cool.
Damn that's a lot of Wii's for a single store. This was also a year after the Wii had launched. That console was absolutely massive
This was such a hot system i remember looking everywhere for it
This was the year that I got my Wii for Christmas. My mom bought it for me at an EB Games store in New Jersey. I was 20 years old and in college at the time. I was hoping I'd get Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but that game got pushed back to March, so I ended up getting Super Mario Galaxy and WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2008.
But I had lots of fun with it over the years with games like Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, No More Heroes, MadWorld, The Conduit, the Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes fighting games, and so much more.
Came pretty damn close to having about 50 Wii's on the floor there. Good stacking on the pallet
The Wii is one of my favorite video game console's to this very day.
Summer of 2007 I went to every Gamestop within a 50 mile radius and reserved a Wii and got a total of 8 of them (limit of 1 per customer per location). The profits off of 7 paid for my Wii and all my Christmas shopping that year. Great memories.
Back when Best Buy actually helps and customers. This was when Best Buy was in its prime.
helped* their* customers.
Last time I went to Best Buy, they had some line at the front door to get in with a lady asking one by one why we were there and what we're looking for. I don't really understand why exactly, I felt like I had to make a good enough excuse otherwise they wouldn't let me in. After they pointed each person to what they're there for though, you could walk wherever anyway so it was really weird. Haven't been back since
Frys electronics closed down but talk about bad customer service! Unless you were elderly or looked rich, the employees would practically run away from you, dodging in and out of isles to make an escape. I had one dude tell me to please not price match an item that was $5 cheaper on Newegg, he said if people price match for any amount of savings, the employee loses all commission for that sale.
Must have been a lot of happy kids getting a Wii that Xmas!
I felt the joy again when I opened my series x box. To think I buy my own game consoles now
Look at how considerate and kind we were to one another just 17 years ago. What the hell happened?
2007 has never looked so old damn
Trashy camera
My childhood looks old
Never played a Wii in my life. I probably sold at least 10 of these on eBay in 2006 and 2007. I remember camping out at Walmart, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. However, getting them and selling them werent nearly as fun as getting and selling NES Classics and SNES Classics. Easily sold tons of those. Still got 1 brand new SNES and NES Classic for backup purposes and another set for personal use. Got hakchi2 2.17c on NES Classic with all my favorite SNES/NES/Sega Master/Sega Genesis/TurvoGrafx16/Atari 2600/Atari 7800/Arcade games on there. Kept the SNES Classic as stock, since it's perfect without the addition of any installed roms. Fun fun fun!!!!!!
I feel you. I never really cared about video games back then. But now I regret not asking my parents to buy me one.
Making a Mii in 2007 was probably the most nostalgic thing ever lol
Please tell me its the quality that makes this look old and not the fact it was 16 years ago😭😭
its the quality. this camera is pretty crappy for the time
@@TheAbandonedAccount7no it isnt, this camera shoots in HD, which is damn good for 2007. it was just uploaded in 360p, but it still looks decent for that year
Does this Wii come with Homebrew Channel?! 😅😅😅 Seriously, this is cool to see! Thanks for uploading!!
I miss that AWESOME customer service 🤩🤩
i miss these days
The man at 5:19 was probably trying to scalp asking for two consoles
Zooming into the Xbox 360 at the end 😂
My mum and dad had a very hard time looking for a Wii in 2007 got my one on Christmas with 5 games Wii sports mario galaxy 1 my favorite one mario party 8 M&SOG & carnival worth my time could never stop playing it the Wii & finally enough I still go back to my Wii years later Awesome
Absolutely one of the best things I bought day one ! Still have it still use it !!
I remember somehow my mom was able to get a Wii that Christmas, it was crazy. I don't know how she afforded it or even found one as they were crazy sold out. I remember showing it to my friends playing red steel, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and wii sports.
You couldn't beg, borrow or steal a Wii during Christmastime 2006. I finally got one at a Best Buy after standing in the cold for three hours in mid-January '07.
Why do these people always sue the worst cameras from the 80's? We had 1080p60 in 2007. Hell, the Cannon 50D was about to drop in a year and that had 4K, becoming one of the most common DLSRs.
I guess the crystal clear images, indistinguishable from modern vloggers wouldn't sell views as "Nostalgic" though, would it?
can you stop talking? youre on about absolutely nothing man. we had 1080p60 in 2007, but that shit was the newest, most advanced stuff you could fathom back then. 4k in 2007 was just unheard of, most people didnt even know what it was back then. hell, the first 4K tv wasnt even released until late 2012, and even then those types of televisions werent the popular ones until 3-4 years later. what do you want them to do, go back in time and tell their 2007 self to buy the most advanced piece of equipment available for shooting video? what youre doing is looking at a normal, average video from 2007 and going full on delusional over it for no reason
Yeah. High def camcorders where a mint back in 2007, like $1,000ish. I didn't get a HD camcorder til 2017 much cheaper!
This was around the time my father bought my brothers and I our Wii. It's cool that this was in New Jersey because I live and grew up in that tri-state area. I was 9 years old when we got ours. I have some great memories with the Wii.
In 2023 people would just steal that whole pallet and walk out.
Its insane that no one buy game with it !!! Super Mario Galaxy must just came out !!!
And Metroid Prime 3
You need to understand though lol, the people buying the Wii on this video are mostly people who heard about it from the hype. The extent of their knowledge of video games and Nintendo is "Oh, that's the system that lets me play golf and bowling with motion controls"
@@Avrazael A lot of them were probably parents who knew little to nothing about video games buying them for their kids for Christmas. They probably had no idea what games their kids wanted, so they figured they get the games later.
Crazy how im watching this and getting excited for something that was recorded in 2007. Definitely going to order the Switch 2 or whatever comes next from a store and go at midnight for old time sake.
That one lady 🤣 she just saw something was going on and said "imma get one too , idk what it is but imma go get me one of whatever people lined up for " 😂
Getting that Nintendo Wii was so exciting
@breadandcircuses8127 back then we did
What the heck this is cool
I love seeing videos like this
Bro I remember when I was younger my parents took me to a best buy and I saw a guy playing on the Nintendo wii so I went to watch him play and he showed him how to play it. He also let me play it too I believe the game that was on the screen at that time was Super Mario (racing). Definitely one of the happy memories I have.. sometimes I wonder how's bro been doing. Hopefully he's doing good in life
I wish I got a Wii 😞. Everyone in my class had one.
I still play my WII, enjoy playing all the retro systems
I worked at EBGames around this time and I can’t help contrast this with the 360 release where we had 4 consoles on release day. Then we’d get 2 per week in until the following summer. I managed to get mine a week before Christmas.
Got my wii back the same year this video is made
“Maybe you should wii turn it and get a wii fund”
This is right before Amazon tookover and brick and mortar started dying.
This is how stock should be today. Nintendo and Sony make very little on purpose and no reason these days.
and for* no reason
0:48 dafaq is that Alex Jons????
I have an original wii with the game cube capacity
Cuanta nostalgia me da ver estos videos 💖🥹, recuerdo salir del kinder de 3 años y mi familia y yo no éramos de altos recursos no teníamos lujos ni nada por el estilo si mucho una tele pequeña de 10 pulgadas, pero mi papá me dijo saliendo que conprariamos un Wii me emocioné tanto que de verdad lloré aún recuerdo haberla pedido en el Walmart y estar súper emocionado 🥹😭😭😭😭💖💖💖😊
Do they let you record at every establishment or what? 😅 What did you use to capture this? Genuinely curious. The public seems unfazed being recorded.
Probably a local tv station cameraman shooting B-Roll
@@tomp7621 why would a tv station be filming b roll with an old crappy 360p camera? like they couldnt afford 720p?
Everyone's talking about the Wii and not the skeeziest employee at 12:15, "I've played them all, they're all great" "none of them are childish"
Dude clearly doesn't have a Wii, and may not even have a wife
🙄
It feels like this was yesterday
I remember my mom got me the simpsons movie dvd and toys for christmas
I sadly never got those. I got a remote control toy car which ended up breaking within a few months.
Now all the wii's are in goodwill....people are dumb
my dad got me a Wii for Christmas of ‘07 😄
i remember getting w wii when it came out ! i was in 3rd grade and like doing my hw with my younger brother that night when my dad came home with it in a giant black bag. me and my younger brother asked what it was and he said it was a suprise and that we would get to see it when we were done with our hw . s we finished it and 30 min later he showed us it was a wii and omg we were sooooooooooooo happy and stayed up all night playing it
Weird. So many White people working there. Less than 20 years ago. Have you been to a retailer lately?
Is that Fedor waiting in line at the 2:00 mark?
Watching people shop on Black Friday, is Like watching a bunch of Cats at a Milking
I remember getting a Wii black Friday 2011. I watched Netflix like crazy on it
My Brother got a Vita around the time. I played on it too.
i remember in the 2000's bestbuy computer depart when it smelled like sweaty gamers.
golddd video here
5:49 She didn't wake up that day thinking she needed to go out and buy a Wii, she's going with the flow. She's just happy to be there.
10:35 This is why the Wii was so popular, *_everybody_* was playing. The Switch has sold more, but I think that's because they put out so many different consoles. I've bought a Launch, A SE Sploon, and a SE TotK, My brother has also bought a couple of Special Editions as well as a Lite. I think the Switch is winding down now, but if they did release another Special Edition that I liked, my dumbass would probably buy another Switch.
12:48 It's a shame that Nintendo has had the stigma of being "childish" for so long. They really are at the top of the mountain when it comes to quality, fun, and innovation.
@breadandcircuses8127 What a braindead comment that just proves what I said. Nintendo isn't just "childlike games". If you don't know what they have to offer that's your loss.
@breadandcircuses8127 Listen lil bro, I'll be real with you. you're coming off like an 11 year old that's trying to sound cool.
"hardcore gaming communities" lmfao
There isn't a damn thing wrong with liking Nintendo but there is something real fucking cringe about thinking that because you play on PC that everybody else is below you. Or, that if someone plays Nintendo they haven't played anything else.
Since you asked, I have a gaming PC, PS 1-5, PSP, Vita, NES, SNES, GBA, GC, Wii, Wii U, Switch, Genesis, Saturn, and a Dreamcast.
I've been gaming for longer than you've been alive and I don't shit on other gamers unless they think they're too cool...like you're doing.
Ah shit, had to come back and edit this because somehow I forgot one of my favorite consoles! I have a 3DS that I still play regularly too.
@breadandcircuses8127 I first got an NES controller in my hand in 1986.
Picking a single console is tough.
I really like the PS1 because of Silent Hill, FF7 and 8, and Grandia. PS2 for Grandia 2 and 3, Silent Hill 2, the Fatal Frame series, FF10 and 10-2, DOA2, and Persona 3 and 4, I do like Persona 4 Golden on the Vita better though. I like the 3DS because it was fun to take it around and get street passes. The Gamecube had Metroid Prime and Prime 2, Windwaker, and Animal Crossing, Resident Evil Remake and RE0, Paper Mario, Eternal Darkness. I loved the Wii U for Splatoon and the Miiverse. The Miiverse was the most wild community Nintendo ever cooked up. It was a shitpost heaven. It's hard to pick just one console. The PS5 has the potential to be great if they would only start making games specifically for it instead of just slightly upscaling PS4 games. I probably play my Switch the most right now though because Splatoon 3 is fun and I can just lay in bed with it and play just about anything else I want. It isn't region locked either so I can play JP games on it. That's nice because I like collecting physical and JP copies of VNs are almost always cheaper. As for my PC, I've been playing a lot of Lies of P but am probably going to start Like a Dragon Ishin soon even though I haven't Finished Yakuza 0 yet. I always have several different games going at once though instead of forcing myself to just play one start to finish.
I guess my pfp could throw someone off. That's something else I've been into for a long time. When I was in HS you kept that shit to yourself or only talked about it among the other loser weebs unless you wanted to get made fun of. Now it's way more popular or at least more accepted. My last gf was hot, admittedly too young for me at 23, but she even openly had hentai stickers on her car and wore a little Sanrio plush keychain.
@breadandcircuses8127 I don't know if you've ever played Splatoon but it takes more skill than what a child is capable of to actually be good. I think most kids play Fortnite because it isn't as difficult.
Paper Mario isn't just for kids. It is fun and entertaining. It's one of Nintendo's highest rated games, chosen by adult reviewers and game critics. It's praised across the board for it's game play.
A lot of people still shit on the Wii U, but it was a good console with good games. Nobody gave it a fair chance.
As for whether or not I'm a weeb...
I look and act like a normal person, I don't do embarrassing shit in public, but I imagine you would probably think you're better than me.
@breadandcircuses8127 The atmosphere. The gameplay was fresh and interesting when it came out. It can legitimately be scary even if some of that _is_ jump-scares; it still has an unsettling vibe. Trying to take a picture of a ghost at the perfect time with proper film when they are creeping around and you can only see them through the camera is just good horror.
Its so funny to see old peoples takes on the Wii, lol
"Nothing childish, but I dont know what I want. Golf. Wii can play golf, right? Get me a non specific golf game. Wait, not that golf game, the specific golf game that I didn't know I wanted"
9:12 Adam Sandler is that you? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I remember heading out at 6:30 in the morning in -8 cold... on a bike. To wait in line for 2 hours to get one for my idiot, now dead brother. He wanted it sooooo bad. Used it like ten times, got a PS3 and never touched it again. I still have it and the PS3 in a garbage bag in my closet. 🙄
Dead?
@@bluepterosaur Died of a drug overdose in 2019.
Not nice calling the dead idiot. They can't defend themselves. Rip
@@h3cz_ He was a bastard.
Rip
Great video history
Thank you David!!
why does working seem so much better in those days compared today ?
Where do you find all this footage?
Probably has his own time machine
was the nunchuck even needed to play wii sports games? sounds like they were upselling people hella hard
Yes it was needed for a few of the sports such as archery and boxing.
nah they was lowkey pushing extra accessories😂
@@DanteRaddd no it was necessary, so you'll get the full experience out of the gaming system.
It was definitely a necessary part of the system
Now the charger they're selling, *that* was some totally unnecessary but smart upselling
Nunchuck is definitely reccommended but they were totally telling people they needed the Classic controller when they really didn't lol
Some of your early 1990’s footage looks better than this. Why?
Cameras used and video sources may vary. 😂
Analog video could look great, early digital could be rough.
There something about that release edition boxed Wii
Love it
Did anyone get the Simpsons movie
could i possibly reupload this on my channel?, i would credit you in the description
Go for it
Anyone know what camcorder this might have been shot on? Or something similar? Thanks 🙏
PLEASE bring me back
While everybody was getting the wii was too busy playing Budokai Tenkaichi 3 that year 😂
Same 😂
Hey wait a minute....Tenkaichi 3 came out in the very late 2007.
Best buy employees are no where near this helpful today
Such an amazing console its what got me into gaming seeing my friend play mario kart wii it was torture waiting for Christmas till my brother and I could finally get our hands on it
@breadandcircuses8127 yeah well that's just like your opinion man
I went to Best Buy when I was 2 years old
I remember getting the Nintendo Wii for Christmas in 2006. I was wanting the PlayStation 3 instead but they were all sold out and it made me mad. I didn't get a PlayStation 3 until a year later for Christmas in 2007. The only thing I didn't like about the Nintendo Wii was that you had to put new batteries in the controllers every time the batteries died. They didn't have rechargeable batteries.
That's why you get the Energizer rechargeable batteries with the adapter that charges them