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- ChilledDeath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The article was modified by the way. The original never had the extra comments. Its progressiveboink.com attempt at humor added into a nostalgic catalog out of an old Nintendo Power magazine. You all should have expected that if you know anything about progressivebonk
- lurker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1On the power glove description... "Note to left-handers: You're just not bad enough."
Amazing. - wthulhu, on 08/29/2009, -0/+1it's obviously not a nintendo catalouge, or at least not in it's original state.
Notice how the descriptions are satirical, almost insulting?
WTF wasn't exactly common usage back then either.
Wetspot?
it's been messed with, at some point in time, obviously. - ViperDaimao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I recognize some of those pictures. Dude, why didnt I have super mario bed sheets when I was a kid? On second thought, why dont I have them now!? *rushes to order*
- boicraig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OMG this is awesome...check out page 6 at the bottom
++digg - kaje, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used to have the Super Mario watch...that thing was badass!
- DewayneSmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I find it very hard to believe that Nintendo, the company that removed blood from Mortal Kombat, would produce a catalog that talks about your girlfriend "leaving a wet spot" on the couch."
Lost in translation? Maybe they meant piss her pants at the awesome >16bit graphics? - GTAcrimelord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok you idiots, the captions that contain cuss words and other derogatory terms were obviously added in by a third party via photoshop or other form of picture altering application.
- SelfAppointedMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I had the Nintendo Squadron tshirt. This stuff brings back the memories man.
- RobbieCrash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What about the part of the catalogue that says:
"If you manage to get one of these pencil toppers over the top of your pencil, you can go past the castle to a warp pipe that takes you to level nine and you get to see the princess' boobs. Seriously, I saw my cousin Steven do it one time."
Hilarious, regardless of if it's real or not. - Catalyst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Impressive............... most impressive.....
- ek3s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dude, I had a mario watch and a zelda watch. That's ***** is badass... They don't make them lik they used to.
- SaintStryfe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am so freak'n embarassed about how much of this crud I owned....
going quickly:
Nintendo TV stand, Zelda trash bin, Mario Bros. Game Watch, mario bedding, Zelda bed trunk, the kite, the calender and coloring book, the pinball game. And that's just what I remember - Ir0n_mE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Funny comments.
- TrainwreckX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is an excellent find. I love the sort of "retro movement" we have on digg gaming right now.
"I'm from the 80s, do you have an NES?"
+dugg - rabid_monkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My favorite page of all...absofreakingfunny: http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/nintendocat/17.htm
- sock2828, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Huh thats funny "buy this whatch beacuase payingatention at church is no inportant" i whant that whatch
- GlitchEnzo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i thought this was going to be lame, but i was laughing my ass off
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very funny modification. It's like MST for ancient magazines XD
- rchtr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"written by Bill on October 12th - 2004"
Super old news, but still cool as hell. - Markdoggin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the good ole days
- linuxmatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nostalgia and hilarity (the funny -and fake- captions)!! DUGG!
- Vektuz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I call bs. There are cusswords on some of the pages - they drop the f-bomb a few times. There's no way a magazine would do that, advert or trendy or not, in 1990.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Real picture, but fake (albiet funny) comments. Still gets a digg from me
- foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"buy this watch, because paying attention in church is not important."
...damn those japanese! trying to expel religious beliefs out of our children! - NiX0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's times like these I wish I had stocked up on all this Nintendo paraphernalia when i could.
- geoboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0***** hell. I dugg this until I realized the captions were altered, contrary to what that stupid site says.
If you've ever read Nintendo Power, the writing can sometimes be kind of condensending in a subtley humorous fashion, but the one captions that reads: "Jesus, Mario, you're a fat ***** Italian wearing nothing but overalls" is just blatanly fake and of bad taste. - Jeppy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I want my NES back....and my childhood spending countless hours working on my hand eye coordination.....I wish I could go back to all of this.
- madmathmatician, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i acually remember this! brings back memories, i remember thinking that girl on page 3 was hot (was in 2nd grade i think) lol
- shiftless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh my god I had those Mario sheets.
- Tecknishen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I used to have the Super Mario watch and one of those Nintendo sweatpants when I was in 1st grade. Brings back memories.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0+Digg just for the severely warped captions. 0.o
- carpenoctom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that magazine is off the chains, and those friggin captions are funnier then social security
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OmFG!!! thats fukin awesome.
Da//N I wish I could buy some of that shet..... - jmholloway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0does this make anyone else here shutter, or just me?
- BoozeMiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I need to find my old Mario Flagpole pencil. Still unsharpened. =p
- JayRod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hey totalabyss I remember that cereal, I actually bought a mini refrigerator magnet with that cereal cover on eBay a couple months ago. Besides that I did have the watch, board game, power glove and u force. I thought the u force was a piece of crap. I swore the power glove was way better than the controller, but it kinda wasn't. I couldn't get to Mike Tyson with it only without it. I don't care if the article was modified from it's original version it's the fact that it gave me great memories. Great digg!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's true. In the 80's, you didn't play video games, you played "Nintendo". Thats what we all called it. I remember talking the parental guardien units into letting us hook it up to the big color TV in the living room. Mario was so big, I kept waiting for the room to shake when he jumps and lands!
Even grandma got in on the action, she probably has a higher score on tetris than all of you combined! (years of Bingo training) She still calls all video games "Nintendo" too. So I bought her a Gameboy SP to play while waiting for the early birds to start, haha. - mbwilliamson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I still have the pinball machine in my attic. That thing took like 6 D batteries lol.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I had that pair of underwear. Really, I did.
*digg - Xopl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dear lord, I beg you, please, do not let 1990 ever come back into style. Please.
- MattZed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dugg forsure, love the captions. they seemed plausible on the first page. but then just got out of hand and much funnier. /me wants to get the mario board game
- sych0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I still actually have a copy of this.
Itd be great if this was pdf though :/ - Nerfdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i used to have the watch on page five. i also used to have that catalog (duh the captions have been altered). also, it's surprising how young you guys are.
dugg - uacheesehead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0misleading subject - say it's a parody, please...
- abusey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Vanilla Ice??? I digg.
- Wreckk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Man I used to have some of that stuff...
I think I actually still have the TV cart.. - Nobi-Wan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This page is hilarious. WTF were the photographers thinking when they took pictures like this. Seriously they were asking for it.
http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/nintendocat/17.htm - toad3k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow I had a few of those things. I had the powerglove, the wireless controllers, the controller with the circle on it, the nintendo calendar and the cabinet on page 17 that had a big mario on the front.
- foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow. so, the second page was talking about getting laid. only, in the picture i see "biff" on the track pad thingie and an eight (or so) year-old girl, "susie," sitting next to a guy twice her age. if you can't follow what i'm saying, then go read the comment for the second page. then, put that, which you read, together with what you see in the picture, and tell me what you think is wrong with that scenario.
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