1992 Electronics Boutique Holiday Catalog

I believe this is the third Electronics Boutique (EB) holiday catalog post on the blog with the previous two being 1989 and 1991. While the other catalogs were 34 and 36 pages each, this catalog from 1992 is a whopping 64 pages! It took a bit longer to scan and, due to the size, I didn't spend a lot of time editing the pages too much as far as clearing up shadows or marks pages might have. The latest generation of consoles has seen $70 game prices starting to become the norm but those prices did exist 30 years ago as well. Although I purchased games in the '90s, I'm still surprised at how much some of these games are, and EB did price games around the MSRP. The Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System isn't included in the catalog or you'd see $199.99 games. 

In the pages below you can find SimEarth for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) priced at $69.99 which I wouldn't think is even a very appealing game to play on a console. Final Fantasy II matched SimEarth and Street Fighter II, also for the SNES, was more at $74.99. For the Sega Genesis Streets of Rage 2 and Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool were $64.99 and Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun (a rather short RPG) cost $67.99. The most expensive games in the catalog are $79.99 computer games, including SubLogic's flight sim add-on USA East (not shown is USA West which likely was the same price) and The 7th Guest on CD-ROM. The catalog also features a variety of expensive productivity software and hardware, and don't forget the all important screen savers.

Shigeru Miyamoto Magazine Interviews (1992-2007)

Happy birthday to Shigeru Miyamoto who turns 70 today! The title of this post might be a little misleading as the 1992 article from Rolling Stone is more about Mr. Miyamoto and Nintendo's popularity rather than an actual interview. That was a time when video games weren't quite mainstream yet and not a lot of people in the U.S. likely knew who Miyamoto was. I don't think he gave too many interviews outside of Japan back then and many U.S. game magazines didn't do a lot of interviews either. The interviews I scanned are from the first issue of Incite (12/99), the November 1999 and 2000 issues of Next Generation magazine, and Nintendo Power's June 2007 issue. As I've mentioned many times here on the blog, I grew up with Sega consoles which is why there are so many more posts about Sega than Nintendo. Despite not being able to play too many Nintendo games during the '80s and '90s other than a few Game Boy titles, I always enjoyed reading everything in the old gaming magazines and respect Nintendo's contributions to the industry. Miyamoto's accomplishments are numerous, of course, with Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., and The Legend of Zelda being three of the most iconic video game franchises that are still going strong today, 35+ years since they began. 

The above photos were made available to the press by Nintendo from 2001-2003. 

Rolling Stone - January 9, 1992 

Incite - December 1999

Next Generation - November 1999

Next Generation - November 2000

Nintendo Power - June 2007