Tom Cruise Movies
In this film, Tom Cruise played a cocky young pilot.
Top Gun
Until 1983, Best Buy was known as this.
The Sound of Music
A Trip Advisor Review said of this "So many Steps. Rude staff. Seeing the Mona Lisa isn't worth it".
The Louvre
This defunct Video Cassette Recorder company lost out to VHS in the '80s.
Betamax
What wildly successful "open world" crime game was originally a simple driving game.
Grand Theft Auto
In this film, Tom Cruise played a cocky young bartender.
Cocktail
The Fun
Trip Advisor Review said of this "It's all falling down and the chariot race never happened. Julius Cesar was rumored to turn up the day we were there but never showed."
The Colosseum
This Microsoft competitor to the iPod allowed you to discover other users over a shared WiFi. Welp. Good luck with that.
Zune
This iconic Nintendo character is the favorite son because he has the same first AND last name.
Mario Mario
In this film, Tom Cruise played a cocky young race car driver.
Days of Thunder
One of the corporate creeds, since retired, was to "Have Fun" while doing this.
Being the Best
Trip Advisor review said of this "This place is a sewer. Get a tetanus shot before you go. I guess this is what New Orleans wants you to see."
The French Quarter
Fax Machine
This highest grossing video game movie of all time was released in 2019 with the main character voiced by Ryan Reynolds.
Detective Pikachu
In this film, Tom Cruise played a cocky young sports agent.
Jerry Maguire
Which CEO of Best Buy did HR (Brett's wife) teach how to take a "selfie".
Hubert Joly
Trip Advisor review said of this "Went up to the pedestal. OK view of Manhattan. The statue is not as impressive compared to Christ redeemer."
Statue of Liberty
Phone Book
A long-time rumor of this Atari video game having millions of copies buried in a New Mexico desert was confirmed in 2014.
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
In this film, Tom Cruise played a cocky young lawyer who wanted "the truth".
Best Buy Canada was formerly known by this "forward looking" name.
Future Shop
Trip Advisor Review said of this "It's a bunch of bricks. It took nearly 2000 years to make? At what time did they realize it was a total waste of time!?? SO WHY IS IT SO GREAT?"
The Great Wall of China
This eye wear was invented by a major tech company, but received widespread scorn about users potentially, covertly, video recording orders.
Google Glass.
What video game (not series), ported to numerous platforms, become the best-selling video game of all time, with 200 million copies sold across all platforms.
Minecraft