Comments on: Sears 1993 Annual Catalog

By: Billy Humphreys

Billy Humphreys — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 10:10:39 +0000

In the UK, we have Argos catalogues; they’re essentially everything you could ever want as a child, and were huge. (Argos is essentially a warehouse with a pretty front) – you would write down the little order numbers, go in and give them all the numbers, pay, and then they’d bring them all from the warehouse below or behind; I used one until a few years ago, and I’m <18 :P

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igg3XHl1wAc for more info on the British side in general (it's Christmasy but still)

By: AArdvark

AArdvark — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 02:04:23 +0000

I think it’s awesome that the Packard-Bell display shows random geometric images as a way to impress the readers.

By: Jizaboz

Jizaboz — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:00:58 +0000

Nice! My family ordered our first PC, a Packard Bell from the 1990 catalog.

Also..years later I acquired a Sega Master System and wanted to own Phantasy Star. Newer catalogs didn’t have any Master Sys games in it (Genesis had already been out a while), but my grandmother had a catalog laying around from the late 80s with an assortment of games. I figured what the heck, and called the 1-800 number and asked if they still had any old stock. To my surprise they still had Phantasy Star, Ys, and many others.. all at discounted prices. They should have been listing those as text somewhere or something!