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The Video Game Systems of the 1983 Sears Wishbook
1983 was the year of the video game crash and that year’s Sears Wishbook was chock full of the detritus of a bloated dying industry. You got the handhelds, Vectrex, Gemini, Colecovision, Intellivision, Odyssey 2, Atari 2600 and Atari 5200 … Continue reading
Digital Audio is Awesome
Nearly $600 for a CD player back in 1983. Its astonishing that they ever caught on at that price – looks down at the dusty 1G iPod on the desk. Anyhoo…What I don’t understand is how they can say a … Continue reading
What Action Figures would you like from the 1986 Sears Wishbook?
Its amazing how the Action Figure landscape changed since the Christmas of 1985 Sears Wishbook. The Robots, Transformers and GI-Joe have actually kept pretty steady since last year, but the Star Wars figures are gone. Now Rambo has a full … Continue reading
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