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offworld.com - 12/18/2008

What fun life was: the 1983 Sears Wishbook's game wares

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sears1983.jpg I was still content with my TI-99/4A when Sears was touting the Intellivision and the still frankly beautiful Vectrex (I'm still waiting on a nice package of repro- overlays, guys), but The Retroist's scans of the 1983 Sears wishbook remind me of two holidays following, when I was ...

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Scans of vidgames from 1983 Sears catalog
Boing Boing — ... Over at Boing Boing Offworld, Brandon gets nostalgic (as did I) after looking at scans of the 1983 Sears Wish Book catalog pages of videogame systems. "What fun life was: the 1983 Sears Wish Book's game wares" ...

Today on Offworld
Boing Boing — ... listened to Merry Pixmas, a fantastic new chiptune Xmas album, and read Jim Rossignol's latest Ragdoll Metaphysics column on the Ten Things That Made Him Glad To Be A Gamer In 2008. Elsewhere, we saw that Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill were also coming to the iPhone, heard another good holiday song with The Doyouinverts Gears of War parody 'A Happy New Gear', saw a slightly slurred Burt Reynolds in the movies, flipped wistfully through the 1983 Sears Wishbook again, saw Spore's DRM debacle coming ...

Today on Offworld
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... listened to Merry Pixmas, a fantastic new chiptune Xmas album, and read Jim Rossignol's latest Ragdoll Metaphysics column on the Ten Things That Made Him Glad To Be A Gamer In 2008. Elsewhere, we saw that Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill were also coming to the iPhone, heard another good holiday song with The Doyouinverts' Gears of War parody 'A Happy New Gear', saw a slightly slurred Burt Reynolds in the movies, flipped wistfully through the 1983 Sears Wishbook again, saw Spore's DRM debacle ...

Afternoon Linkage for December 18th, 2008
GEARFUSE — Afternoon Linkage for December 18th, 2008 By Vince Veneziani December 18, 2008 Comments (0) Filed under: Features Don’t ask questions. Just enter the contest and run. This RC tank can tow a car! Can RIM weather the Storm? Old-school Sears gaming! Maybe Apple would have made something like this back in 1999 DNS Hacking A LEGO camping trailer Great tips for rebooting your iPhone Have great links you want showcased on Afternoon Linkage? E-mail us: tips AT gearfuse DOT com . Read More ...