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TwoHeadedBoy
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by TwoHeadedBoy » Wed Nov 26, 2014 10:12 am
Smashing stuff, cheers for that - seen the price that old Argos catalogues go for on eBay nowadays???
Just waiting for the Xmas 93 one to load up, I recognise the cover, certainly.
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by Megamixer » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:37 pm
The pictures of all the Lego sets used to captivate me

. Don't know what they are like these days but I loved poring over the images of the big sets that were kind of 'in action' with the mini figs in all kinds of places and crazy stuff happening. The Lego product catalogues that came inside the big sets were the only better thing.
Retro is a state of mind, and cares not for your puny concepts like dates and calendars.
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by TwoHeadedBoy » Wed Nov 26, 2014 5:32 pm
I've got loads of those LEGO catalogues, some spectacular scenes within, definitely
Back to the Argos again, there's whole pages I remember staring at in my nan's house on a Friday evening - and how can so many "emotions" happen just from seeing a Jurassic Park duvet set?
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by thebear » Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:00 am
cool, I've ordered my son Super Striker so will check out how much it used to be to what I paid now!
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by koopa42 » Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:15 am
LMAO @ Super Striker! It's up there with FIFAs for the MD
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by thebear » Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:28 am
koopa42 wrote:LMAO @ Super Striker! It's up there with FIFAs for the MD
I mean the board type game!

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by koopa42 » Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:56 am
Even better! I remember a later foot game

the one where the players sort of slid up and down and you had little control knobs
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by thebear » Thu Nov 27, 2014 11:04 am
koopa42 wrote:Even better! I remember a later foot game

the one where the players sort of slid up and down and you had little control knobs
we all had little control knobs back then
I know the one as my brother had it, looked into getting one but they go for 50 quid!!
Used to make a right racket

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by Liamh1982 » Thu Nov 27, 2014 1:15 pm
^ My brother had one of those too, it was all kinds of ace! Damn near unbeatable, I was...
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by clarance » Fri Nov 28, 2014 9:23 pm
Amazing, been looking for these for ages - found my first ever joystick from '85 - I've now got that sunny-bunny feeling

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by Combo-Breaker » Sat Nov 29, 2014 9:11 am
thebear wrote:koopa42 wrote:Even better! I remember a later foot game

the one where the players sort of slid up and down and you had little control knobs
we all had little control knobs back then
I know the one as my brother had it, looked into getting one but they go for 50 quid!!
Used to make a right racket

Omg! What is the name of that? That's took me right back!
I love catalogues for some reason. So I will be checking them out! Cool and interesting thread, op!

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by Combo-Breaker » Sat Nov 29, 2014 4:35 pm
Mate this is a great article. Only just browsed it now, what a range of toys we had back then as kids!

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