Things I've Found on Vintage Media

"RBI Baseball" huh? Couldn't afford that MLB license, could you?

This is from a VHS video magazine, published by the print magazine "Game Players". Kids, I need you to understand that this was literally the "Gaming Walkthrough YouTube" of the late 80s and the 90s. Only you had to pay $20 + shipping for it, it was an hour long at most, and you had to wait two months before it arrived. Then you needed permission from your mom to watch it.

It's a video for young kids, teaching them about basic kanji, their origins, and how to write them. Japanese language, of course.

What has math ever done for us, anyway? Friggin' NERDS and their math.

Always make sure you have the right weapon for the job.

You know the Wizard of Oz is fiction because ain't no way Dorothy's farmhouse is gonna survive a twister.

That's the second most convincing British accent I've ever heard from an American.

No lies detected.

A documentary of sorts about what early space colonization might look like. It aired in 1993 and as a kid I LOVED it. It had cool science info stuff, science fiction stuff, all sorts of stars in minor roles (see if you can recognize them all). This is almost 30 years old and it still it has it all. It's aged amazingly well.

I'll never understand how people didn't recognize these as the obvious scams they are. I mean, maybe some numismatists just thought they looked cool? But I'm betting most people buying them thought they were getting authentic investments, like they were buying a bond or something.

Hard as it is to believe for many people these days, magazines were the best way to get specialist information for a very long time.

Call your cable operator... because they DEFINITELY offer channels a la carte.

"We're changing things for the better." Yes, because no insurance company has ever screwed over it's customers....

I don't know... What are you doing leaving your couch?

This rap song is peak "How do you do, fellow youngsters?"

Wireless controllers have been around a lot longer than you'd think.

"It's Prilosec Time!" is Ben Grimm's much less catchy battle cry.

I want to make fun of this, I really do... but it seems like a legit idea to me. Where do I sign up? And how do I hide the fact that I'm signing up from my wife?

It's art... But is it ART?

Callanetics. Etics by Callan.

Does anybody know who this is? He says his name but it's unintelligible. - Edit: Apparently his name is Alex Zanardi.

Yoko Minamino's first live concert!

Repeat after me: "Google/Alexa/Siri, add this to my workout playlist."

What? Are you suggesting women aren't normally money-smart?!?!?

Hey, kids, remember Bob Villa? YOU DON'T!? Well... He was kind of like Bob Ross but for carpentry.