>Kids today will never know the joy if going through grandma's Sears catalog and circling every single game they wanted for Christmas
>>12206134for me it was the JC Penney catalogThe year they sold the Jurassic Park command center I was really into playing SNES Duck Dodgers; the in-game money came in increments of $50 so I would just sit there daydreaming about how many command centers I could buy with the money I had collected in the game. Pic related lived rent free in my head for years, I remember thinking that pterodactyl was floating in the setup but see now it was a separate image.That Mario Paint snowman image in OP was used everywhere, including said 1993 JCP catalog. Along with the purple Cadillac.
>>12206134>and then getting the tiger handheld version
>>12206639>sir, my grandson wants a Mega Man for Christmas>right this way, ma'am! it's been all the rage lately
>>12206134I thought Sears catalogs were for beating off to lingerie models?
>>12206134When I see ads like that I feel the original excitement as if it was 1990 all over again. :)
>>12206134This post sounds like that one boomer comic
>>12206636>Shameless Godzilla Bootleg
>>12206134DUDE!I drew this Mario a thousand times. What a brain blast to see this page again
>>12206134Do poor people really? I asked Mother for a Nintendo and she didn't know which games to get so she just told the Toys 'R Us serf to bring one of everything.
>>12206663It was.>>12206786It's a sort of strange drawing. It definitely looks like a Japanese illustration. Probably from some guidebook.
>>12206134>>Kids today will never know the joy if going through grandma's Sears catalog and circling every single game they wanted for Christmas
>>12206990>>12206786Its a very interesting drawing. Certainly Japanese but not an official Nintendo drawing, I think. I wonder where it came from?
>>12206990>>12207009It's from Super Mario Bros. Kanzen Kōryakubon, which then was published by Nintendo of America as a promo book called "How to win at Super Mario Bros.". The illustrations were made by Daisuke Shigoto.
>>12207017Thank you based /vr/ historian anon. You know when I was a kid, some people would refer to the Koopa Troopas as “ducks” which I thought was weird and had no idea where that came from. But the art here makes them look sort of bird like so I wonder if that’s where it originated.
>>12207002I was wondering if this retarded boomer comic will show up here.
>>12206134yes. the first of december, or at least the first weekend of december, we would put up the christmas tree and write the letter to santa. on the type writter!I would spend hours working on the list, cross referencing from different catalogues, typing down the fucking product IDs or whatever like XU 655-1303 A ($14.99)fun times
>>12206134>that smell of glossy printtake me back
>>12207002BASED comic
>>12207017For me the entirety of Mario's world is SMB 1,2, and 3(all the old games like Punch Out, Golf, Wrecking Crew;et al) and Super Mario 64.And that art is so comfy to look at. Yes I left out Super Mario World. Whatcha gonna do about it?
>>12207484Well, I'm gonna play Super Mario World while you seethe and stamp your feet impotently because you think game tribal allegiance is a personality. That's too bad.
>>12207002Those damn kids with their rap music, the nintendos and apple itablets
>>12207061Thanks anon. I was just thinking about those retards a couple days ago and how the hell they were calling them ducks
>>12207486No, I got no problem with people who like Diet Super Mario Bros. 3, Anon.
>>12207530>that passive-aggressive limpwristed Capote-ingAh, how delightfully transparent. Snipe some more for me, anon.
>>12207543Relax, it's just a joke. I just never got into the game for some reason and it's legitimately the real Super Mario World, is all. No hatred here, friend.I even had a Super NES back in the day. Yes, before laziness made everyone shorten that to SNES. I had Castlevania IV, U.N. Squadron, Pilotwings, Street Fighter II and that's all I can recall at this time.
>>12207556>I even had a Super NES back in the day. Yes, before laziness made everyone shorten that to SNES.This is the most astonishingly stupid thing I've ever seen anyone say.
>>12207561You're right your post is pretty bad.Back in the early 90s society wasn't as lazy and yes, everyone said Super NES or Super Nintendo. If that rankles you, it's a mental problem that you should work on.
>>12207571You've convinced me you're deeply unwell in the head.I have seriously never seen anything stupider than the opinion "abbreviations are laziness" in my life. I can't imagine the story of failure that must be your life to lead to something like that.
>>12207578It doesn't take much to ruin your day, huh? Sorry to hear that, Humorless Anon.Maybe enjoy some Diet Super Mario Bros. 3?
>>12206134You could get more than 1 game for Christmas? Damn, your parents were rich
>>12206134>every single gameYou mean the ONE game you got for Christmas? From your parents? Grandma don't buy no veddio gaems.
>>12207002fucking stupid
>>12207617>Grandma don't buy no veddio gaems.My grandparents bought me an NES in 1986.
>>12207620Doesn't speak well of your parents.
>>12207625My mom spoiled the fuck outta me with video games. Dad only liked arcade games, the ones from the 1970s and before.
>>12207620My grandma gave me $2 and spent the rest of her money on alcohol
>>12207606>>12207617what a weird samefag
>>12206663And wiping your ass too.
>>12207002>Sears went bankrupt because kids cant use catalogs like ipads
>>12206134I wouldn't consider it joy, but just simply a vehicle to imagine and hope.>>12206639>>12206658They have robbed us for generations. Wages really haven't kept up.
>>12207002Was the sears catalog even a thing by the mid 90s? I never remember seeing one and we shopped at sears a ton, I cmahopped there as an adult til the day they closed. I bought so many sockets and wrenches from there, coats, my 1st pair of workbooks, my grandmother bought an n64 from there for us to play when we came over.
>>12207017Thanks, bro.
for me it was the spiegel catalog
>>12207017>the breakable blocks in the original game were once people.Huh. Ok then. Also why didnt the mushroom king make any more appearances? Or did he just die?
>>12207530Funny, I thought you sound like someone who considers "diet" a bad thing.
>>12209803lol(stay mad)
>>12207002the stupidity of the boomer is bottomless. it is physically painful.
>>12206134Ok boomer, well, you'll never know the joy of being groomed by 50-year old creeps on Roblox, so who's to say who had it better
>>12209945lol
>>12208853Sears catalogs were discontinues in 1993.
>>12209945from what i've read, most of the groomers are barely in their 20s. watched a body cam video where they arrested one and the kid was like 19 and looked like your average pudgy sperg
>>12209950The Christmas Wishbook went all the way up into the 2010s.
>>12206134It’s funny they sold alttp for the same price as a 30 minute tech demo like pilot wings.
>>12210690And 50 dollars is over 100 today. No wonder my parents made me mostly rent my games.
>>12206134The family went to a Toys r Us and we got a big thick catalog, at the time I had no idea that that many systems even existed. I circled really bad games like Hard Driven on Atari Lynx but my parents always managed to get really good games.
>>12211462I remember TRU used to keep all their display consoles behind glass. It felt very premium. There were so many of them back in the day.
>>12206639LCD games were a sick joke from the start
>>12207002Skibidi Gen Alpha, killing Sears with their propeller beanies and lollipops, they're bussing no cap frfr
>>12207571I bet you autistically pronounced it "super en ee ess" too
>>12211562>irony: the post
Never got shit but it was awesome to look through
>>12208853Right up to the last decade apparently.https://christmas.musetechnical.com/I don't know how complete this archive is since going by it it seems Sears already resigned itself to Christmas books my the mid-90s. Online shopping wasn't quite there yet at the time, even Amazon was only a book seller.
>>12207617>Grandma don't buy no veddio gaems.Here is exactly what I got every single Christmas:Grandma on dad’s side: random colored sweater wrapped in a JC Penny shirt box. I hated this.Grandma on mom’s side: that popcorn bucket with 3 kinds of popcorn in it. I loved this.
Not strictly Sears but here's a site that has a bunch of catalog scans, including lots of Electronics Boutique ones.https://huguesjohnson.com/scans/
>>12212257>>12211868Very nice, thanks anons. I've been wanting to go through old catalogs to see how the prices of things have changed over the years, I guess the place for that is the Internet Archive but I never bothered trying to find catalogs there.>>12206134I think kids these days do the same thing with Amazon wishlists, though I feel like most are told to pick only one thing since most people's parents are broke.
>>12211973My grandfather knew I liked videogames. For several years his Christmas gift was a box of about $25 in quarters. Best gift ever.
>>12206134No, but they'll learn the joy of pirating games. Just not from a BBS.
>>12211973>that popcorn bucket with 3 kinds of popcorn in it. I loved this.Me too. Still do love it.
>>12211973>>12213097isn't that a scouts popcorn thing?
>>12206134pictures activate the imagination better than videos do. I miss magazines bros
