Got to love Christmas Catalogs ....1991 Sears Christmas Catalog

1991-xx-xx Sears Christmas Catalog, a set by Wishbook on Flickr.

Who all used to love the fall season when you would end up getting the JC Penny Christmas Catalog or the Sears Wish book. Well doing a little looking I found a Person who has uploaded Page after Page of the Catalogs... Boy do these take me back

Yet another Videogame innovation that sucked then but would work now…

Sega Activator: Full Body Motion Controller

This little gem by Sega was one their unsuccessful products in the 90’s. It came onto the market in 1993 as Sega’s first attempt at a peripheral based. The Activator was marketed as a new type of simulator for martial arts. They way you used it was you would stand in side of the octagon that would lay on the floor and the infrared beams from the specific point on the outside of the octagon would translate into input for the game as you moved around.

What was cool about this was you could use this with not just games designed for the product, such as Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter, but you could use it with your regular Sega Games as well like sonic and others…

The Activator cost $80. And in the 90’s that was a lot more money then what it seems now. So with high cost for the controller and having it be so inaccurate when using it, It soon died out like many other bad technical products be it.

Below is informative video on the Sega Activator and a Picture of what it looked like.

 

The Apple Newton...Man Old Tech is Cool

A few years back I was given a Apple product I had never seen before then and found it very interesting. The product was the Apple Newton. The Newton was Apples early Attempt at a personal digital assistant (PDA), and some say its first tablet platform for the company, the second being the platform used in the "i" series of products(iPod, iPad, iPhone). This product line ran from 1987 to 1998. The Newton featured handwriting recognition software. Many company's including Sharp and Motorola used Apples Operating System used in the Newton for there own PDA products.

You'll Never See These Ads Again

You'll never see these ads again.

How's This for Nostalgia

How's This For Nostalgia?  
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms? And wore tennis shoes not $200 Nikes!

It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a  penny?  
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes, or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed... and they did it!
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber, or watch submarine races, and people went  steady?

No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends... and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?  

Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger...
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just  once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?

Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.  

And our summers were filled with bike rides, Hula Hoops, visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?

I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on... To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on... And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. 

Send  this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery; the Lone Ranger; The Shadow Knows; Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger, and Buttermilk.

How  Many Of These Do You Remember?

Candy cigarettes...

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside...
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles...

Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes...

Blackjack, Clove, and, Teaberry chewing gum...

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers...
Newsreels before the movie...

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601). Party lines...
Peashooters...


Hi-Fi's  & 45 RPM records...
78 RPM records...
Green  Stamps...

Mimeograph paper...

The Fort Apache Play Set...  Do You Remember a Time When Decisions were made by going...

'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?

'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?

It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best
Friends'...

Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?

Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? 

The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!
Pass  this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life...

  I  Double-Dog Dare Ya!