Christmas shopping at Walmart in 2004

Footage of holiday shoppers at Wal-Mart. Shots of the electronics aisle and toy browsing.
#walmart

[@Zordiak]

Kids born in the 80s and 90s probably have experienced the most amazing childhoods in human history. Growing up with all these primitive game consoles and technology and slowly watching it grow up along with us. From more powerful consoles and handhelds to watching the internet explode. It's something I know I'll never forget.

[@Sicbay138]

@conor5148 Only if you were white, lol. So. there's that.

[@YoungSigmaGrindset]

What a cope lmao

[@atticuscorbitt8199]

I guess as a late 2000s/2010s kid (born in ‘99) I don’t really remember a whole lot from the 2000s. I didn’t get a wii until like 2008 or so, and my first Xbox was the 360 slim from around like 2010 or so

[@lafayetteplace3031]

Something about turning on a Playstation 2 and or Nintendo Gamecube in 2005 on a Saturday morning while everyone in the house is alseep is the PERFECT memory. Playing video games alone quietly. In those days... it was Jak n Daxter, Zelda Windwaker.... World of Warcraft was for the adult gamers. No kids played that. Oh wow... the memories. We played Medal of Honor. Not Call of Duty. We played SOCOM, not Battle Royalle. To be a school aged kid from 1999 to 2007 was UNREAL.

[@naruhearts1]

​@@YoungSigmaGrindset kk zoomer

[@evanbryan4077]

That PC software section sends chills down my spine. The good old days of browsing PC games in the store and showing my mother what my Christmas/birthday request is. The thought of my mother buying it for me in a physical form and giving it to me wrapped in wrapping paper makes me sad as my kids wont experience that. I love Steam but I feel like a part of me was lost with physical media.

[@xDarthSenpai]

I feel the same way. We're in a better place today with digital downloads, no more scratched or broken discs . But I feel nostalgic for when games came in big detailed boxes, sometimes containing extras like a map or poster you could hang on your wall, and the manuals would be thicc like a novel. When you took it home and loaded up the CD-ROM you would play it without any cheats or spoilers, since the internet was young and you couldn't simply look stuff up - If we got stuck we'd have to go a bookstore and spend $19.99 on a strategy guide. Good times.

[@snap4936]

​@xDarthSenpai the new generation will never understand.

[@ownage11445]

I remember them having Medal of Honor Allied Assault on a PC you can play on display. Convinced my dad to buy the game so we could play it home. Spent countless of hours playing through that campaign

[@fridaylite6914]

yeah and my mom would get creative and wrap a scarf around the games or put them in a big box or somthing, since a a wrapped game you could easily tell by the shape and size what it was.

[@trophyscene5015]

​@@xDarthSenpainowadays most games don't even have cheat codes anyway though. So they took the fun out of that. Most games also include multiplayer now, which is the main reason they removed the ability to have cheat codes.

[@DELL.ACNT.]

who would've thought a walk through Walmart would be such fascinating footage 20 years later.

[@watchforever1724]

Yeah

[@antisocialmaniac666]

Right?

[@Rhiannon-zv3ry]

The mother and son discussing the toy cars was so sweet. ❤

[@purpleflowers92]

That is cute my mom and I we were discussing Barbie feom Sawn Lake 😂 luckly I found the dvd at goodwill .

[@erisunflower]

They were soooo cute.

[@HappyYummmy]

both now dead

[@dasit6034]

@@HappyYummmy believe it or not the kid is his 50s now, far from dead

[@trotesdochupim]

@@dasit6034 You're not so good with math.

[@jakecapezzuto1050]

These videos make me feel like I'm watching something that a time traveler made. The way this is shot, its like someone from today went back to show what life was like.

[@mrmcguru163]

That’s exactly what I thought

[@grimngruesome8988]

It does feel like that, amazingly so

[@earthchan2093]

Its only been like 20 years LOL

[@frankwest911]

@@earthchan209320 years is an entire generation of people. So much has changed in only 10 years. Even more so in 20.

[@comingforya690]

YT is one big time capsule. I was 20 and yes growing up when game tech started to explode was amazing! Nintendo, super nes, genesis, 64, PlayStation.

[@davidmcnally6791]

Its amazing how old things from 2004 look now. To me it doesn't feel that long ago.

[@sweengeppetto1915]

I was going to comment this. I feel the same way, it's like no time has passed for me when I think about it. But it's 19 years ago. So strange. I remember this well.

[@saekomayamura9097]

19 years ago feels like yesterday. I work at a Walmart now but it’s nothing like this

[@furryballsploppedmenacingl8534]

​@@sweengeppetto1915 it's 20 gears ago now

[@sweengeppetto1915]

@@furryballsploppedmenacingl8534 not 20 years, until you go Christmas shopping in 2024, another year from now

[@furryballsploppedmenacingl8534]

@@sweengeppetto1915 2024 is in a day. Lol, it's the 31st of December, 2023 as I type this.

[@Tehbestshot]

I used rush back to electronics and play the demos while my parents would grocery shop, they'd stop by and get me when they were done. Now I always take my nephews so they can play the demos when we go to Walmart or Target. Crazy how much nostalgia there is just seeing those rows of old games.

[@_MemeMedia_]

they still have demos in the game sections nowadays ? i never seen them in walmart . they just have displays not actual console demos

[@brandonamezquita4501]

​@@_MemeMedia_At Target they have like 3 Nintendo switches.

[@brandonamezquita4501]

I remember challenging people at gamestop and circuit city. 😂

[@101Volts]

@@brandonamezquita4501 I guess it depends on the location. The Walmarts that I'm near don't have *any* display systems to play at all. Or they're at least not as obvious as they were in 2008.

[@brandonamezquita4501]

@@101Volts I believe the Wal-Marts in my area removed them during covid, but Target still has them. It's usually just the switch though; no X-Box or PS.

[@mackinblack]

I don't know much, but thanks to this video I know that an Elmo doll cost 16.88 in 2004...

[@mr.mopedmadness3441]

Before Biden took office

[@TrentPruitt1997]

The nostalgia is so strong that it absolutely hurts to watch.

[@oddac2669]

Growing up, I never understood when adults would say they would love to go back and do it all again. I'm starting to get it; this video didn't help lol.

[@TrentPruitt1997]

@@oddac2669 definitely.

[@raindropgames1507]

Life was so good back then it is just insane how different it is compared to today just makes me want to cry

[@wellokayyes1266]

For real.. I couldn't even make it halfway. Stay strong friends ❤

[@S0meb0dy728]

@@raindropgames1507No? stop being a nostalgatard lmao. grow up

[@BunkerSquirrel]

To put this in perspective, this was 19 years ago. Back then, 19 years ago was 1985.

[@watchforever1724]

Yeah now were in 2024

[@8Corpse1Allergy8]

It didnt feel as weird but i was around 10 in the mid 80s. and in 2004 i was already in my late 20s .

[@Aus10Ham]

@@8Corpse1Allergy8I was born in ‘98, I was 6 in 2004 and this year will put me in my late 20’s

[@cWalkerTHPS]

This feels about right to me.

[@pomo1697]

@@Aus10Ham I was born 1997 and I was 6 turning 7 that year it’s really crazy how life was so much better back then compare to right now

[@shyhiemjames1742]

2004 was 20 years ago now and even then things looked so ancient!!!

[@novelaego2404]

not really lol

[@yusufayoub2709]

Agreed

[@AliRnBPopAndReggae]

How was the 2000s, bro?🙂

[@AliRnBPopAndReggae]

I was six years old in 2004, yo :) Now im still 25 😆 Lol

[@TYMOONMFB]

@@AliRnBPopAndReggae Same 😂😂 man wasn’t nun like them 2000s tho they right tho the 90s was still close

[@RolandKoller90]

I love that a lot of us get brought to tears when we see our childhood times. I wanna go back so bad.

[@EarthsGeomancer]

Try to calm down

[@slothonmercury]

​@@EarthsGeomancershut up. Let people have nostalgia if they want.

[@EarthsGeomancer]

@@slothonmercury Did you cry too?

[@Lum_Versace]

why? i wouldnt want to live in that era again

[@carterclaire8862]

Walmart still looks the same lol

[@GarethJason]

It's weird to think. At the time people probably thought it was weird that some dude is just filming folks doing their daily business, unaware that almost 2 decades later we will be all sitting here nostalgic and feeling feels of a time long past.

[@kirbytsukinoXD]

when someone has a camera and is in love with a place that can't be in there all the day due to certain questions,it's normal to film the place so he can still watch what's in the place.. or that's what i guess.

[@markishbasedgod5251]

Yeah, this is why I don't feel bad recording people in the bathroom. They just don't realize it's for society's own good

[@kirbytsukinoXD]

@@markishbasedgod5251 Bruh one thing is recording stores... a PUBLIC place! And another thing is a bathroom. a private place!

[@markishbasedgod5251]

@@kirbytsukinoXD I know, I'm just joking buddy

[@RandomAnimeEnjoyer1]

lmaoooo@@markishbasedgod5251

[@thestrangebus5044]

Right before the HD era. Look at those TVs bro. I definitely did not hace a great childhood around then but yet shit feels much simpler then then now. Literally kids, enjoy your youth. Im not old but the younger parts are behind me and man there are some years i wish i could relive. This was a great walk back through.

[@redrocket597]

The golden era

[@cutthroat2823]

It was so cool to the little kid that he had the lastest handheld he had to go stand beside it so the world could know. Nostalgic moment right there

[@JC-sm4mp]

😭 literally. These videos hit so different as someone who grew up around all of this stuff, but was too young to ever see it from the other side

[@JC-sm4mp]

I'm 19 and just got a job at Walmart 🤡 I wanna go back

[@EikeKusch776]

What game was he playing?

[@CEDL0W]

The DS would’ve been out at this point in time. Assuming this was recorded after November 21st of that year.

[@EikeKusch776]

@@CEDL0W 4:35

[@MarkMeadows90]

I miss this style of Walmart. The old store use phones they used making that unique ringer tone. You don’t really hear that anymore. And the blue bags! Our local Walmarts still used them until 2006, and occasionally used gray and white bags lol

[@asciicatface]

They actually have that ringer at my work lol it was super funny when I heard it right there

[@watchforever1724]

Yeah I know

[@EOG706]

Man those old portable dvd players really set me back … ahh good times 😌

[@watchforever1724]

Yeah

[@nathan24689]

Born in 1991, went from using cassette tapes, VCRs, and floppy disks to CDs, the internet, and touch screens. Not to mention no such thing as social media until high school. Wonder how much more things will change in the coming years?

[@watchforever1724]

A lot will

[@fredc8618]

💯

[@FUBBA]

I swear it may have just been my self-aware kid years but 1998-2008 were the amazing years to grow up. The 2000's were fantastic years to be a kid. Even back then; adults complained it wasn't as good as it used to be though.

[@rolltideroll8458]

As someone who was born in 1999, I absolutely love the 2000s so much. I'd do anything to go back

[@waltchan]

Good in the 2000s, but the late-1980s were even better for the adults.

[@Lexi2019AURORA]

​@@rolltideroll8458 Same here

[@MesquiteTree0521]

​@@rolltideroll8458 I also was born in 1999, and yes bro I feel you.

[@MakelBelieve]

It was ❤2000

[@mordecaifox7799]

For some reason this made me smile. It really was like time traveling. I was about to graduate high school in 2004. Seeing the game section as well just hit the nostalgia for me. I owned a DS but when I was younger I played my gameboy color so much with Pokemon. Thanks for the memories! Really cool to watch.

[@Connowot387]

Gold Silver or Crystal? Sorry. Huge Pokémon fan here. Hi. I am also wondering the day this took place… for research purposes.

[@mordecaifox7799]

I played Red/Blue a lot. I got the game when it first came out and played it on my gameboy color all the time. Played yellow a lot. Eventually I played gold/silver but I stopped after those two as I kind of grew out of them.@@Connowot387

[@RebelJew777]

Same class, 2004.

[@AfloatFob]

Gen 3 Ruby was my first, I downloaded an emulator on my phone for platinum a few weeks ago.

[@noble9759]

I legit felt shock seeing the old xbox logo and classic games

[@LivingwithPerks]

I worked electronics retail from 2006-2014. It was a wild time. I got to see the launch of PS3, 360, Wii, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, and so much more. We had the game demo kiosks, clearanced out tube TVs, and found lost vintage games behind the racks when we went through construction. Very nostalgic.

[@videogamephenomhd]

Wal-Mart was one of the most dominating discount department stores in the 2000s decade, providing so much variety in kids toys, building blocks, consumer electronics, video games, and everything else customers could speak of.

[@strappadork]

Lmao the kid at 5:50 "What do you like about the yellow car?" "Uh... it's a car?"

[@jediskunk67]

And he's grown up now!

[@Melvinnnnnnnn]

​@@jediskunk67 Ikr he might be a grown man with his own kids

[@purpleflowers92]

​@@MelvinnnnnnnnDo you think maybe he is in his early 30s now?

[@TaedarVulpine]

Wow! I love these laid back videos of people browsing and shopping big box stores before the Smartphone era and social media era! I remember shopping at Walmart, Target, and Kmart in my pre-teen years in the early 2000's! with my Mom or Dad. I wish your channel isn't underrated, it is a hidden gem for sure! Thank you for these!

[@vampirerobot]

Thank you for the nice comment ZandurFox. Glad you're enjoying these videos.

[@brooklyn7941]

U do know the sidekicks was been made before 04 the smartphone u talking about like iPhones n etc camed around 07 or 08

[@WPack911]

​@@brooklyn7941 Yeah, but without the internet & social media people rarely were just walking around with their heads down with them like they are today, they were present and in the moment. I think that was their point.

[@TheGMan.]

@@WPack911 a better time

[@wubbers662]

@@WPack911 I don't see that at stores, personally.

[@xSparticus]

95 baby here and my gosh I missed growing up in the early 2000’s such a time to be alive and crazy to watch the world change before your eyes from then until now. We take things too much for granted nowadays.

[@OhmyWrist]

This is truly a diamond in the dirt i enjoyed every part of this video thank you🖤

[@TheStinkusofYore]

The PC game aisle sent me back like nothing else! I remember so vividly spending all my time browsing that and looking at all the games my parents wouldn't get me like Call of Duty 2 and The Sims 2. They looked like such premium gaming experiences, and they certainly were when I finally got to try them as a teen.

[@Nick94MI]

Same! I always played PC games as a kid until my parents got me a PS2 in like 2006 (a little late lol). I'd spend all my time looking at/reading the boxes trying to decide which game I'd get next after my next giftcard from grandma after Christmas or my birthday while my mom did her shopping 😂. Now the electronics department is practically empty and the few games they do sell are all locked up in glass cases..

[@TexasGreed]

I was watching a livestream the other day with John Carmack and John Romero for the 30th anniversary of Doom and one of them mentioned that the reason the PC game boxes were designed so large is because when the store bought a bunch of them it would literally force the store to take other games off the shelf so it was a tactic to push competitors out. I thought that was a pretty cool piece of gaming history I never knew.

[@Web720]

@@TexasGreed Scummy but interesting history.

[@B0nezee]

I remember getting Empire at war and Diablo 2 battle chest when I was a kid at a local target. I really love steam but the feeling of looking at all those PC games on a shelf really hit a spot that I haven't felt in a long time.

[@nidhishshivashankar4885]

Bro specifically that shot, same here

[@Zeldafan1ify]

Seeing the gamecube section makes me want to cry. I remember when I got my first gamecube, it was sometime between 2003 and 2005 at a walmart. The dark-lit ambience of the videogame section was just like this, lined with boxes of gamecubes and gameboys. I was so sad when the gamecube started disappearing from shelves.. I still have my gamecube, sometimes I have to resucitate her, but she breathes for me. My red gameboy advance sp got lost somewhere in the late 2000s, it had puppy stickers on the cover. I still miss it

[@suprxmefire9497]

I remember looking for the GameCube at Walmart back in 2011 but was sad that it wasn’t on the shelves. I was late to the party tho

[@Videogamelover58]

Ikr!

[@HatedJared]

If only we had known those games would be worth 400% over retail today.

[@jeffrey7454]

man up cupcake

[@Zeldafan1ify]

@@jeffrey7454jokes on you, I'm not a man lol

[@westongale5899]

Seriously, thank you so much for recording this. Little did you probably know back then, this would be an invaluable treasure. Thank you again!

[@stevewmartist6182]

It opens with “The Perfect Gift”. And that gift ended up being this little snapshot in time. Thanks, whoever filmed this. You let me take a step back to the past for a few minutes.

[@Greatness-yw7id]

Born in 1997! The 2000s were such an awesome time to be a child. Wish I could be a good 5 years older so I could remember the early 2000s (2000-2003)

[@chadwellington2524]

haha i was born 91 and youngest brother 97, you were there for those moments early 2000s just as a little kid, maybe dont remmber exactly but you were there feeling it

[@valkiron11]

There really wasn't much to remember.

[@childrensorg856]

It's no different to now.

[@Badgerlust]

I was born in 1995 I remember everything I was 9 years old in 2004

[@iman-2880]

thats funny i was born in dec 1996, which is like being born in early 97. my earliest memory was the year 2000 at age 3. dont remember a thing in the late 90s as i was literal baby. so technically you did grew up with this stuff thats shown on this video, you just forgot.

[@FourKaiju]

As a kid I'm so glad that I always had a Gameboy in my hand instead of a cell phone.

[@mrconroy4672]

Same with me, but it was a gameboy advance SP and Nintendo ds. I would kill to go back to those times.

[@xunbekannt1572]

Yes a Cell Phone would have been broken 2 years later like other phones 2day! My Gameboy still lives!!

[@TENOVISION]

@@xunbekannt1572 RIIGHTT! Mines too !!

[@xunbekannt1572]

I guess Switch UP won't be out untill 2025. But the Story seems to continue😎😎

[@Bromon655]

There’s hardly a difference. Both are devices meant to distract you from the real world.

[@sirbirbalot199]

Anyone else feel the sadness when watching the past?It’s like so much has changed but in that moment it doesn’t feel like it.

[@lakerfan2874]

Back when tech didn't look all the same and prices were super low. I had that Elmo toy for Christmas in 2004. Seeing it at 16.44, it makes me think that it would be 30-40 dollars today. Seeing the kiosks for the GBA SP is giving me huge nostalgic memories. I'm 24 now, and I love how stuff from this time is coming out now instead of 2040 or so.

[@vincentj365]

I wonder if all these people who've recorded videos like this would have ever thought that they'd end up being such special and beloved videos? These videos really make me want to have a time machine... even if I can't comeback after using it.

[@watchforever1724]

Yeah

[@tj921able]

This is so different from today. It was a year after my father died & stores were still a treat to go to. TY for sharing this. God Bless You & stay safe.

[@mr.mopedmadness3441]

Indeed Things were much better before Biden Bucks

[@BassWhoopinFishingTeam]

Man i miss these days as a kid. I hope I get to share these memories with my kid in the future! Always loved toy shopping growing up! Making a Christmas list and hoping to get my top few on Christmas day! My parents always did their best and gave us the most they could. I will pass that down to my kid

[@mtwenty4]

Feels like this was just yesterday but it’s been 20 years!!

[@watchforever1724]

Yeah

[@robertquinlan8063]

Anyone remember when Walmart had the live lobsters you could buy? It was awesome to go see those things.

[@packisbetter90]

Meijer in Indiana too

[@ithydoodles]

​​@@packisbetter90 Ohio Meijer also. I think the one in my small city did away with them maybe 4 or 5 years ago.

[@MeloRat69]

they had live lobsters????

[@robertquinlan8063]

@@MeloRat69 yeah. And they had entire fish wrapped in the plastic things. Like just there not skinned or filleted. Head to tail. I used to poke their eyes….lol

[@flurpoid]

And the entire live pet fish section too.

[@rbrick3685]

It’s a little crazy to me that the style in the 2000’s haven’t changed all that much, compared to how wildly different styles were from 1980 to 2000.

[@lurkwave]

its because of the technology hasnt changed all that much, when tech changes clothing, we'll see another shift.

[@principality543]

@@lurkwaveumm technology changed rapidly.

[@user-vr4zm4vk3h]

@@principality543not really that much technology change in the last twenty years when compared to the twenty year’s previous

[@Ethan_Frost]

@@lurkwavetoday we have a lot more synthetic materials, but other than that, yeah, it seems culture may have slowed down a bit

[@lurkwave]

@@principality543 you dont understand what I mean, a rapid change in processor speeds hasnt changed our clothing. We've been in the era of recyclable fashion for the past 40 years. The next big change will be wearable tech. Industrialization had us go from drab to formal then to the first big change in the 70s. Then we went to casual in 80s-90s, but theres not much to progress into until there's a new shift in culture.

[@isaiahrivera7683]

I miss the 2000’s so much I mean ya everything is cool now but I wish I could back to the 2000’s that was a really great era

[@AFatOcelot]

You those DUB city RC Cars are cool as hell I want one now! The xbox and PC gaming section is a vibe. All the old sims games, I forgot what a phenomenon that game was. Ty for this

[@thispeen]

Being born in 1998 feels like having a foot in two worlds and not belonging to either of them.

[@zigzigzig]

dude thats wild to think about

[@Boanerpains]

It really does

[@jonesjones6279]

Believe it or not, universal experience for anyone born around the new millennia

[@mewkatlol]

Two worlds? Your childhood was cellphones and the internet in every house.

[@thispeen]

​@@mewkatlol we had flip phones. having a computer in your house was rare, my family didn't get one until 2007 because my mother wanted to play world of warcraft. I was 8. but sure, you know my childhood better than me, right?

[@brightlight3520]

Its incredible this footage even exists and Im so glad someone filmed it originally.

[@Solearks]

Back when society still had that raw feeling. Games had more of a reward and achievement to being complete and were actually completed on release by companies and developers without needing patches or major work most of the time. You can clearly see it through this video. I guess as stated multiple times in the comments, before the real big boom of social media.

[@matthewmosier8439]

That unfinished element to games is one of the worst ideas, ever. Right up there with internet connection only/ digital only, ownership.

[@zarrowthehorse]

Things didn't change that much. Hate these types of comments

[@Solearks]

@zarrowthenorse Technology ruined the world with social media and phones. I hate stupidity. It's filmed with a phone at the palm of everyone's hands with half the story to go by. I hate comments like yours it just proves it. People would rather film something than help. You probably weren't even alive then. Must have a closed-minded mindset to say such a basic troll statement.

[@fizzbrew]

​@zarrowthenorse yea they have you can't be that unaware. Ridiculous comment

[@chadwellington2524]

@@zarrowthehorse yes they did, somene born in say 91 compared to 2001 had a completely different childhood

[@RowdyClouds]

I miss it so much. I miss all the crt TVs, old consoles, how video games were made then vs now. Entertainment back then just felt so right. The internet was still fairly new and social media was barely a thing yet. Good times. Things just felt so simple still despite how far we've come. I feel like modern media is saturated with so much content, it's impossible to find anything good to watch or play. Not without extensive amounts of searching. Growing up with this technology was amazing, even though what we have today is better in many ways, I think we've also regressed in so many aspects.

[@H.K.5]

As someone who was born only four years before this, I really want to experience what the world was like back then. Maybe it wasn’t anything special but it’s still a dream come true.

[@StreetsofATL_19]

It was random at the time but priceless 19 years later in the future. Thank who everyone filmed this for having the presence of mind to record this. ❤😊

[@thelastshadowpigz]

It was probably raw footage for a news story or advertisement.

[@philliesphan9364]

I love seeing all the original Sims games.

[@gushernandez25]

The Sims 2 and Simcity 4 use to get me super excited to play video games.

[@zanekocsis270]

I miss this era so much. I love just seeing gameboy and gamecube so much

[@zalz]

Thank you for this. Life has changed and its great to be able to look back

[@nkarim4979]

What makes me sad is even though I grew up during those times ( 90s, 00s), most people never carried cameras around, so we didnt take a lot of pictures. Now, everything is photographed and recorded. Memories will always be saved unlike the ones in our minds that will eventually fade away...

[@watchforever1724]

Yeah

[@pyeltd.5457]

Like this video

[@dominikamimari427]

Bro those elmo dancing dolls i used to have?! Wow nostalgia all over again now i know where i get my toys from hehe

[@gonzalogauna46]

It's incredible how 2004 was really still in the "old world" (XX century). Even in the late 00's we keep mostly seeing things from that old world. I think the 10's (specially mid-late 10's) was when definitively everything changed.

[@pyeltd.5457]

Maybe because it was first decade of the new world and everything would be the old world apart from iPod

[@brbrdeng9122]

"The thing about happiness is that you only know you had it when it's gone." -Conrad Kellogg

[@ShawnA3104]

My younger sister was born in 2004; I was 9 years old; She's nearly 19 now; Where did time go....???????

[@chickenwings6172]

youngens

[@92WayToTheMoon]

We are literally the same lmao

[@Odthean]

I feel a strange sense of comfort and nostalgia while watching this video. It's eerie yet soothing. Ghostly and familiar

[@stefincanada]

I was 22. I have so many awesome memories from this time. even just the stuff available at the stores.. so exciting.

[@mr.mopedmadness3441]

Things were so much better before Biden Bucks

[@m8x425]

I was at a Walmart around late 2004 and chatting with a couple employees at the gaming section. There was a Harry Potter console game on the shelf, and I commented on how much Harry Potter on that boxart looked like Chandler Bing from Friends. They doubled over in laughter.

[@RolandKoller90]

That’s the best😂😂😂

[@taylormartin9468]

I can see super mario sunshine

[@taylormartin9468]

And sims 2 for pc

[@lachlanwilliams5818]

This makes me wish time travel was real. I might not want to go and live in the past of 2004 but, I would like to visit.

[@sabrinashelton1997]

Well, I would go and live there. It was far, far better. There is nothing about right now that is worth sticking around for.

[@orlanzo2621]

@@sabrinashelton1997 You're definitely right about that, the world is way more of a hateful toxic place than it was 20 years ago.

[@sabrinashelton1997]

@@orlanzo2621 It absolutely is.

[@rCrypto_Frog4148]

@@sabrinashelton1997 me tooo then id scoop up all the bitcoin i could in 2009

[@purpleflowers92]

I sure would love to live in 2004 that was when I had my first crush in school I was in 5grade at the time my crush he was in 6 grade back in 2004 his name was Juan Longoria at were in Ms. De La Garzas class good old times. Now Juan is married with a wife and kids of his own lol 😂😂😂😂

[@2ssrs950]

I meet my wife in 2004 we have been together since then. Saturday is 20yrs since the night i meet her. I remember these days like they were yesterday

[@TJay7777]

As a 90’s kid, we had to best childhood of any generation. We were all still outside playing running around and had the prime gaming consoles and games. Everything was perfect for us. If only little us knew we took it for granted and how life would end up 20 years later..

[@margaretf.b.9688]

Bruh that dancing Elmo at the beginning of the video 0:30 would be like $30+ today 😭 inflation bro

[@GameOver_Tv]

Man I miss these days 😢

[@AliRnBPopAndReggae]

Do we all?🥺☹️

[@camdenkeeton2411]

I was born that year , it’s neat seeing all of this retro 2000s stuff in the video.

[@taliahjohnson4138]

Boy, this takes me back. I was 9 years old in 2004(b.1995) so I remember this era very well. That little boy at 4:39 with the gameboy advance perfectly captures what it was like to be a kid back then. I had a GBA and a GBA.SP. Back then, it was common to see other kids casually playing gameboy at the supermarket while rolling around in their heelys lol. This was also the last year that Nickelodeon would air new episodes of classic Nicktoons like Hey Arnold, Rugrats, and Rocket Power. Not to mention, The Incredibles, Shrek 2, and Polar Express came out this year. I can't believe it's been 20 years and I'm 29 now, lol. I'll be 30 next year but somehow this still feels like yesterday. I'm sure the kids in this video are both around my age as well, Time flies. I love finding captured moments in time like this, so thanks for posting.

[@watchforever1724]

I’m age 25 if anything i remember stuff back then in 2004 when I was in elementary school

[@taliahjohnson4138]

@@watchforever1724 well, yeah you would've been like 5 so I'm sure you remember kid stuff back then. Good times.

[@watchforever1724]

@@taliahjohnson4138 yeah

[@Lerrycapetime]

at 2:52 the guy walking in blue, my dad knew him, his name is Paul he was a sweet guy, died last year from cancer, god rest his kind soul.

[@ErinMott09]

2004 was the best year of my life. I was 18 and falling in love with my now husband. 20 yrs flew by like nothing, so much so that when I first saw the thumbnail I thought “Walmart essentially hasnt changed in 20 yrs” but I stand corrected. There are definitely differences made apparent in this video. I was always warned by my elders that one day I would wake up and my youth would be in the rear view, you still never expect it. I wish I could go back, the technology wasnt up to todays standards and it’s easy to imagine we were living in the dark ages compared to today, but we had cellphones and texting, internet, aim, MySpace, the movies were bomb and so was the music, but we conversed a lot more and spent a lot more time with people in person. People didn’t walk looking at their feet or drive staring at their laps. Life was at its peak, how advanced technology was supposed to get before things start to affect society negatively and in just a few short years we would experience the rise of social media. Yep, life was just about perfect.

[@vampirerobot]

Great comment 👍

[@paypig2652]

2 years before getting with my now kinda wife

[@watchforever1724]

Yeah I see what you mean

[@AliRnBPopAndReggae]

Born in 98 :) I missed the 2000s tho🥺🎞️

[@treasuretrails]

My life was perfect 20 years ago in 2004 how did I mess up my life so bad man 2024 sucks....

[@mr.mopedmadness3441]

Did you vote for Biden? That didn't help .. AT ALL 😂

[@treasuretrails]

@@mr.mopedmadness3441 I voted for a lefty in New Zealand and got fired over a vaccine mandate in 2021 and never recovered since fml....

[@mr.mopedmadness3441]

@@treasuretrails I hope you learned your lesson

[@mr.mopedmadness3441]

@@treasuretrails leftist socialist democrats are all about control and power over you as an individual

[@mr.mopedmadness3441]

@@treasuretrails democratic socialist party is only out for control of the public

[@Zilear]

2004 was the year my gaming hobby began. A little 3 year old girl was given a silver Gameboy Advance SP and she immediately put a tinkerbell sticker on the top. After all these years, now an adult of age 22, that system is with her and it still works.

[@tybear00]

Eeyyy I was 3 too! The way we grew up watching technology change so dramatically throughout our school years was actually crazy.

[@jigokutensei71]

.l.

[@rubenkmkc]

And that girl is me

[@paiged8639]

Love seeing all of these videos, thanks for uploading them!

[@vampirerobot]

You're very welcome Paige

[@pocdabeno1974]

I remember when the electronics section at Walmart had only one entrance and one exit, was usually located in the center of the store and you could drop off your camera roll there and have it developed in a couple of days.

[@sugarmantk]

In 2004 I was 6 years old. I lost my home in a hurricane. That storm was the scariest I've ever been through to date. The wind sounded like real human screams. It was terrible. We lost nearly everything we had but my Aunt, God bless her she allowed my family to move in with hers for until we got back on our feet. We spent that Christmas at her house but there was almost not one. I was too young to really understand what was going on but it turned out to be a good holiday season. Seeing this, I am legit getting teary eyed because life as a kid was so easy no matter how hard it got because we never had to worry about adult things. I miss times like this, where a kid can be a kid. Cheers to anyone else that feels the same way.

[@WantBadtime]

2:52 4:45 It's so satisfying seeing this kid play their GBA SP. It sheds a tear in my eye.

[@GoatOfWar]

I played that same game haha, it's a gameboy color game. Dragon ball legendary super warriors.

[@rocksreviewsreactions337]

So crazy how 2004 seems such like a different time. No smart phones, no social media. Big bulky TVs and computers. And no insane politics.

[@steveosk8s]

Eh politics are always insane. This was peak Bush era, I remember this time vividly, it seems quaint by today's metric but it was still a mess then.

[@keen9166]

@@steveosk8sthe difference from today is that nobody was screeching woke for everything 😂

[@Evin07]

​@@keen9166 Back in 2004 it was Bill O'Reilly doing all the screeching.

[@4u23o4sjcmgfd]

i was born in 1997 and everything feels the same to me from 2004 to now except for the addition of cellphones and heavy reliance on internet. people hardly dress different

[@thrashmanpoint]

​@@Evin07 Don't forget ol Rush Limbaugh publicly laughing and joking about liberals, gays, and immigrants dying. Rest in piss Rush

[@PoliticalDisaster]

God this takes me back, seeing the kid playing his sp and all the gamecube games really hit hard

[@MaxW-e2i]

CaseOh never fails to pull girls with his gravitational pull

[@rodneybreslin668]

One thing I do miss is the physical game discs... everything is just digital now. Easier but something about unwrapping that plastic from a new game was amazing.

[@PrincessofKeys]

Can still buy physical copies of games

[@MrSkullMerchant]

People love spending money on something they dont realy own these days.. its weird to me

[@AceHuman]

I still buy physical when I can

[@watchforever1724]

Yeah I know

[@watchforever1724]

@@AceHuman the issue is the price for physical media is now so expensive compared to back then so I assume this is why digital is the way to go sadly

[@DubBeats]

2004 sure was best time…

[@dtxspeaks268]

The last year of the late 90s/early 2000s era and the last year before the Social Media/KZbin/Online gaming era

[@hollowaang5284]

@@dtxspeaks268 The year that changed everything.

[@dtxspeaks268]

@@hollowaang5284 2005-2006 changed everything. 2004 was the last of the retro era

[@roboticsandwich8139]

@@dtxspeaks268 2007 changed everything. 2005-2006 were still amazing years but with the release of the iPhone in 07, everything suddenly plummeted downhill.

[@tony_anello]

@@roboticsandwich8139 I don't disagree with 2007, but if we're being real, iPhones didn't really make an impact culturally until about 2011. At least how I remember it. Everyone was still on Sidekicks, Blackberries, and Razrs.

[@DaBeastGamesYT]

Crazy how it really doesn’t look much different but definitely felt different.

[@watchforever1724]

Well most people don’t go to stores as they used too

[@theacetrainer4676]

Looking back turning 23 in a month, it is crazy to think I am essentially that kid in the video. I don't remember going to Walmart too much to buy games with my parents. But I do remember going to buy Pokemon Emerald new, playing the same GBA SP as the kid too!

[@inferno1153]

24 atm, same. Just long distant and great memories that were sheltered away in a small hole that wouldn’t have been brought back otherwise

[@HollowRick]

Lol you're both young.. try turning 31 next month

[@UnknownUser_10]

True. Weird to think that we were young kids in 2004 because 2004 looks so different compared to now and even compared to ten years ago.

[@UnknownUser_10]

@@HollowRick I understand, being 31 is now unimaginable for me. I guess it’s always a thing of perspective which age feels weird. At 23 I think it’s weird to not be a child anymore but when I will be 31 I will probably think of me being totally immature at 23. Someone who is 55 now probably also feels like 31 is young and a person that is 80 probably thinks 55 is young.

[@CloudyWarth]

@@UnknownUser_10 You were probably right around around the cusp of forming real memories back then. Shit I would've been 8 years old in '04 and it's unlocking old memories that still aren't crystal clear to me. What's important is we all get nostalgia from vids like this and can appreciate how much things have changed.

[@jarty5467]

MAN Just seeing 2 whole sections of shelves be taken up by Sims expansions brings back so many memories

[@fallen4life080]

I feel like once you cross into the early 2000s it feels like it was just last year. I still play GameCube, occasionally use headphones, watch DVDs/Blu-Ray and other nostalgic technology.

[@rosealldays]

Life before social media ❤ I’m happy my childhood wasn’t affected by the internet so much as now. I was 7 years old in 2004

[@josephvalentin4214]

I was 8 years old. I remember these days like they were yesterday.

[@Austin.D]

This was back when Myspace was still around and Yt was still brand new

[@carolcity1919]

@@josephvalentin4214my mom tells me 2004 doesn’t feel that long ago since that was the the year I was born

[@josephvalentin4214]

@@carolcity1919 Shoot next year will be 20 years ago, I was born in 96. For me seeing these prices, fashion, even the camera quality sparks memories. Playing PS2 and it was the same year my dream car was release. 2004 Subaru wrx sti

[@bonchbonch]

Oh, it was around. MySpace existed in 2004, and people had been chatting on ICQ, AIM, and MSN for several years by that point. This was even the same year that To Catch A Predator was using social media to catch people, lol.

[@FSAPOJake]

I was born in 1995, so I was about the same age as the kid at 4:37 playing the display consoles. This video makes me so nostalgic that it hurts. It doesn't help that I've been missing this time period like crazy over the past few years.

[@TREVORVADER]

I forgot the display console was even a thing until watching this

[@pyeltd.5457]

@@TREVORVADER It's still a thing today with PS5 and Switch Advance SP

[@TREVORVADER]

@@pyeltd.5457 I haven’t seen a console playable on display in years where I live. The last one I remember seeing was the Switch but it that was probably 5-6 years ago at this point.

[@amaromem1]

2004 is nearer to Skyrim release than today.. Let that sink..

[@Seahawkfan1108]

i was 10yrs old at the time, loving video games and all my favorite cartoon/anime shows to the max. i still do today but with lower back pain and credit card debt now. i miss my childhood alot man....

[@MACMETALFACE]

So blessed to be born in 1989 got to be a 90s kid 00s teen and enjoy what I think were the last good days of the early 2010s as an adult and now at 33 I live in Japan my own house and business life is a beautiful thing!

[@angelmaldonado5657]

Awesome

[@TBAG]

omg the Spider-Man webshooter toy @7:22. I remember wanting them so badly 😭 man this video is so nostalgic

[@user-nm2ux7ps9k]

Ik bro I’ve seen them before when I was kid to 😢

[@TheMystikzShow]

I had one, made a huge mess in my yard though 😅

[@pspcow]

Man, how phones changed everything. I had an ipod touch in high school, which was pretty much an iphone without the phone and used wifi. I was so hooked on it I barely made any friends

[@Taterooo]

I was born in 98 and I grew up with that spider man toy holy shit i totally forgot it existed and the memories just came flooding back

[@cobyjones5535]

I remember getting my first GBA back in 2004 and I still have it almost 20 years later in my nightstand. I miss this

[@braydenr8338]

crazy how that elmo doll is now 67.88

[@watchforever1724]

Yeah

[@borgestheborg]

3:29 brings back so many memories lol. When my parents and I would go shopping, I'd go straight to the home entertainment section and just play the demo games and look at all the boxes of PC games. I could spend hours there just browsing and wishing I could buy something but my parents never let me.

[@Zero-xl2ef]

Damn good old fucking days. So damn nostalgic. I wish I could go back in time when I was happy….if the afterlife does exist I wish to relive that era of my childhood in a loop

[@S0meb0dy728]

Then stop letting yourself feel that way? the only reason you feel like that is because you have a bleak perspective on life lmao

[@brandonedwards1181]

Hey bro Jesus is the way the truth and the life and nobody goes to the father but through him. Call out to him and mean it, he will answer.

[@orlanzo2621]

Man i can believe 2004 is literally a year away from being 20 years ago....sigh. I was 16/17 years old, thinking i'd be young forever, lol. Crazy how fast time flies, 2004 DEFINITELY doesn't feel like two decades ago to me.

[@ChiGyu620]

The nostalgia of that PC games aisle hits hard. I spent a lot of time browsing that section when i was younger.

[@thetman0068]

I don’t remember much from 2004, but when I dream I am in a WalMart, it looks like this.