Christmas Catalogs from the 80's

[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
Oh my god, I spanked it so hard to this page. No internet porn and I was too young to buy from 7-11. [/quote]

LOL!

Same here. Well, not THAT specific page, but the bra and panties pages, bikini pages… well, all the pages with perdy young wimminz. So, yeah.

I never had that catalog with the lingerie there but I would have practiced some hand to gland combat with it no doubt…especially to that picture 4!

Picture 4 is pretty hot.

And yea, ditto to all the above =P

and I know this isn’t a catalogue picture of it but while we’re on the subject of Castle Greyskull (which I had) WHO also had this fucking bad boy right here???

Oh yes. It’s the GI Joe base. My GI’s often had epic battles with muscular giants across the tundras of the couch and into CG or the GI Base!

[quote]Stern wrote:
and I know this isn’t a catalogue picture of it but while we’re on the subject of Castle Greyskull (which I had) WHO also had this fucking bad boy right here???

Oh yes. It’s the GI Joe base. My GI’s often had epic battles with muscular giants across the tundras of the couch and into CG or the GI Base!

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Haha… As it should be. Nice one on having the base, I had to make mine out of a milk crate and cardboard.

I’m not a bigtime toy collector but it’d be badass to find the GI Joe Aircraft Carrier. I’ve never seen one up close.

[quote]QuadasarusFlex wrote:
How was life before Rap music?[/quote]

We wore Carhart and Timberlands because it was cold and muddy, not because Sir Mix-alot wore it in his videos.

[quote]Nards wrote:
I never had that catalog with the lingerie there but I would have practiced some hand to gland combat with it no doubt…especially to that picture 4![/quote]

Hand-to-gland combat! LOL

Genius, Nards!

[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Atari system[/quote]

A friend of mine still has that system lol. We play it once in awhile for a laugh. Pitfall and frogger were the best games.

I tried to find a pic of a console game he had called tank attack, he probably still has it around too. Different modes where the shot could bounce around a bunch times so you could get these crazy pinball kill shots. It had two stick controlers on each side like a mini arcade game, awesome(at the time) sound effects.

[quote]bond james bond wrote:

[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Atari system[/quote]

A friend of mine still has that system lol. We play it once in awhile for a laugh. Pitfall and frogger were the best games.

I tried to find a pic of a console game he had called tank attack, he probably still has it around too. Different modes where the shot could bounce around a bunch times so you could get these crazy pinball kill shots. It had two stick controlers on each side like a mini arcade game, awesome(at the time) sound effects.
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That’s awesome. How is it hooked up to a modern TV? Ours had the metal half circles on wires that you screwed in behind the antenna.

I remember my brother and I fighting till nearly death to see who would get the better of the two joysticks. Tank Attack was a good one, I liked the football game too

[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
1984 CD player

$300[/quote]

I still have a Denon CD player I bought in 86’ for $500, works fine too. I remember telling the salesman I don’t need any bells or whistles, just quality. He said " pass on the Sony then and by the Denon, it’ll work forever but it’s pricey". He was right.

Man, if I had an Atari system right now I would play that thing until I got bored…which would be about 15 minutes.

I don’t blame kids today for not leaving the house…if I had some of the games they have now I’d be 350lbs. The last console I had was N64 and that was 15 years ago. I used to play an hour of Goldeneye and an hour of Shadows of the Empire every day.


From the 1983 catalog

http://wishbookweb.com/1983_SearsWishbook/index.htm

“8 hours of recording time…”

With a remote on a wire, for over $400… Crazy


Did any of you guys have one of these helmets?

They were freaking awful, squeezed the shit out of my forehead every time I put it on but I wore my Lions helmet like a boss every chance I got.

Sadly, I was never allowed any GI Joe’s or Big Jim’s WITH THE KUNG-FU GRIP!

My father considered them dolls, the homophobic basterdo.

I have to confess, I am a pack rat when it comes to toys. There is roughly seven or eight tupperware containers full of my son’s toys stashed in my attic.

I still have my tyco track that I bought myself when I was in my early twentys lol.

Years ago a bunch of us went out one day in a drug induced quest to buy multiple tyco tracks, connect them all together and make one huge track at a friends loft apartmemt. Things were going well in untill a buddies Rotty came over and went berzerk when it saw the cars wizzing around the track, it was fucking mayhem. Must have thought it was mice or somesuch because it was crunching the cars once and going for another lol.

[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Did any of you guys have one of these helmets?

They were freaking awful, squeezed the shit out of my forehead every time I put it on but I wore my Lions helmet like a boss every chance I got.[/quote]

I was all aboot da hockey here so would have to say no :frowning:

[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
From the 1983 catalog

http://wishbookweb.com/1983_SearsWishbook/index.htm

“8 hours of recording time…”

With a remote on a wire, for over $400… Crazy[/quote]

I shit you not, this came up in a conversation the other day lol. Betamax had the picture quality and better sound but VHS had more titles.

I think that was the big debate at the time no?


Here’s Sterns’ base.

I had #'s 11 and 12. The Helicopter was my pride and joy haha…

[quote]bond james bond wrote:

[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
From the 1983 catalog

http://wishbookweb.com/1983_SearsWishbook/index.htm

“8 hours of recording time…”

With a remote on a wire, for over $400… Crazy[/quote]

I shit you not, this came up in a conversation the other day lol. Betamax had the picture quality and better sound but VHS had more titles.

I think that was the big debate at the time no?
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I think the old theory is that whatever the porn industry went with so did everyone else. Porn distributed VHS more than Beta… Or so goes the legend.

[quote]BradTGIF wrote:

[quote]bond james bond wrote:

[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Atari system[/quote]

A friend of mine still has that system lol. We play it once in awhile for a laugh. Pitfall and frogger were the best games.

I tried to find a pic of a console game he had called tank attack, he probably still has it around too. Different modes where the shot could bounce around a bunch times so you could get these crazy pinball kill shots. It had two stick controlers on each side like a mini arcade game, awesome(at the time) sound effects.
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That’s awesome. How is it hooked up to a modern TV? Ours had the metal half circles on wires that you screwed in behind the antenna.

I remember my brother and I fighting till nearly death to see who would get the better of the two joysticks. Tank Attack was a good one, I liked the football game too
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I have no idea how it’s hooked up. The last time we played it we used a CRT TV.

I pwned this game, scored every possesion pretty much. The little victory jingle at the end sent a chill up my back lol.

[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Here’s Sterns’ base.

I had #'s 11 and 12. The Helicopter was my pride and joy haha…

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Holy shit that brings back some memories! =) The dude with the eyepatch #13 was probably one of my favourites. Well all the big fights were between him, Snake Eyes and whoever it was that could ski (he always got to places faster than anyone else travelling on foot).

There was some chick as well but she was generally the prize. =P

Odd I can remember toy battles/tactics from 30 years ago…