1983 Sears Christmas Catalog

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1983 Sears Christmas Catalog

Postby ASalvaro » September 2nd, 2022, 10:04 pm

love looking through these every once in awhile..this is the Intellivison page but you can change the pages
https://christmas.musetechnical.com/Sho ... -Book/0606

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Re: 1983 Sears Christmas Catalog

Postby VideoGameCritic » September 3rd, 2022, 9:08 am

This is gold. The pages that follow are even better because they list the games.

I remember these catalogs because they told you very little about the product, yet all your hoping were riding on those few words for Christmas morning.

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Re: 1983 Sears Christmas Catalog

Postby ASalvaro » September 3rd, 2022, 12:55 pm

VideoGameCritic wrote:This is gold. The pages that follow are even better because they list the games.

I remember these catalogs because they told you very little about the product, yet all your hoping were riding on those few words for Christmas morning.

and how about those fake screenshots on a lot of games lol

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Re: 1983 Sears Christmas Catalog

Postby matmico399 » September 3rd, 2022, 3:07 pm

Very cool.

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Re: 1983 Sears Christmas Catalog

Postby txsizzler » September 5th, 2022, 9:26 am

I love how they show a ColecoVision cartridge going into a Gemini.. :lol:
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Re: 1983 Sears Christmas Catalog

Postby VideoGameCritic » September 5th, 2022, 11:17 am

I'm intrigued by the Gemini controllers. Has anybody used one? I take it they work with any Atari game, whether controlled via joystick or paddle?

This system looks kind of lame, but if I could go back in time I'd buy a bunch. LOL

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Re: 1983 Sears Christmas Catalog

Postby ASalvaro » September 5th, 2022, 3:25 pm

here's a list of all the Christmas Catalogs this site has
https://christmas.musetechnical.com/

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Re: 1983 Sears Christmas Catalog

Postby ASalvaro » September 5th, 2022, 3:31 pm

never heard of this console that was in the 1981 Ward's Christmas Catalog
https://christmas.musetechnical.com/Sho ... -Book/0383

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Re: 1983 Sears Christmas Catalog

Postby Atariboy » September 5th, 2022, 4:13 pm

VideoGameCritic wrote:I'm intrigued by the Gemini controllers. Has anybody used one? I take it they work with any Atari game, whether controlled via joystick or paddle?


They worked with both joystick and paddle games just as their appearances suggest. You'd connect both controllers via the supplied Y adapter dongle into port #1 for a 2 person paddle game.
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Re: 1983 Sears Christmas Catalog

Postby Breaker » September 5th, 2022, 11:06 pm

ASalvaro wrote:never heard of this console that was in the 1981 Ward's Christmas Catalog
https://christmas.musetechnical.com/Sho ... -Book/0383


Look at that Telstar Marksman!


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