Vintage Aussie Xmas Catalogues.
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For any one who wants to know yes Action Man was a thing outside of Australia, it was sold in the UK and I’m pretty sure it’s where it started,it’s basically a British GI Joe.
Yeah, because G.I. wasn't a thing over there
Also sold in non-English speaking countries, had one in Portugal. Action Man was the bomb back in the day
Fellow Brit here with fond memories of Action Man. There's a tall structure near where I used to live that we dubbed 'Action Man Tower' because we thought it would be a great place to throw the parachuting Action Man from.
We also had Action Man in the US! Not near as popular here, but we did have it
It also existed in France, alongside GI Joes.
This man should be protected at all costs
agreed
He is, thats why Frank exists
National aussie treasure
here before this comment blows up
Fax
Funny how 15 years ago AVGN was doing Nintendo Power episode on his past gaming experiences, and 80s seemed so distant for me, and now I'm listening to Australian who's 2 years older than me, yet I feel the same nostalgia for all the late 90s stuff he showed in these catalogues. My father even had this slab of an Erricson as his first cellphone.
I guess you could refer to the Christmas episode too where revisits old catalogs of the 80s
And the crazy thing to think about, is that'll probably be me as well in a couple year's time, as i'm on the border of becoming an adult.
JET SET RADIO WAS THE ABSOLUTE SHIT!! I still remember the first time I saw it, it looked so absolutely wild and just unheard of. I was super young tho, so actual gameplay was difficult for me, but once I grew up a little bit this game was amazing. Never hear about it anymore, glad you brought it up!
There's a spiritual follow up being made called "Bomb Rush Cyberfunk" with music by the same person too, it's worth a look!
Hideki Naganuma did most of the music and he's had some absolute slammin' video game compositions throughout his career. I suggest looking them up!
@@Weaver_Games Mans also hilarious on twitter
All I want for Christmas is Frank, a One Grit, and more Dankpods! Keep it up man!
Same!
On the first day of Christmas, Santa gave to me
One grit.
@@ArendAlphaEagle on the second day of Christmas, Santa gave to me
2 AAA
@@milantosic (It's supposed to be "My lover" but I'll play along, Santaphiles.)
On the third day of Christmas Santa gave to me
Three Nuggets melting
Two AAAs leaking
and One Grit a-gritting!
@@blunderingfool On the 4th day of Christmas Santa gave to me
4 dirty buds stinking
3 nuggets melting
2 AAAs leaking
And one grit a gritting!
Dank: "I'm so glad they solved the issue of wanting to use a flashlight and look at a clock all in the same hand."
Me: *Slowly looks over at my cellphone.
It's not just Mariah Carey season. It's also time to hear endless versions of "Last Christmas". Okay, maybe it's not endless, but when you hear four different covers of it in an hour at work, it certainly seems that way.
Glad to see eb games has always been outrageously expensive
Action Man was a very popular in the EU.
It did start out as a European rebranding of the NA GI Joe which later sort of became its own thing.
Can definitely confirm, had a couple of figures when I was younger.
Then there was action force which is another can of worms. Which also had gi joe molds and the red shadows became cobra for some reason. It was a whole fiasco
Had loads of them
UK aswell! I had a lego dumpster style bucket of action men stuff. Plus a 3 or 4 VHS movie set. Which were in the wrong order in the box,. watch order was 1,3,2,4 LMAO
Action Man in Germany confirmed with a big and obnoxious TV Jingle
7:21 "28 buck and you can have an argument with your family" This is the best line i've ever heard
I really like Monopoly and you guys are all pussies. lol
@@arnox4554 i am also big guy on Monopoly mate
A fellow acolyte of Gumi, this man has no flaws
Going through these as a kid was just great. What a nostalgic video!
Jerry Martin's work on The Sims (1) and SC3000 is just incredible. Two soundtracks I listen to all the time and 100% reason why I love jazz/bossa nova as an adult.
Indeed, it's so good that it was still used in most sequels of those games.
Don’t forget SC4’s soundtrack Jerry Martin did too.
I love going through old catalogues, I've kept every Lego catalogue I've been sent since 2009. It's such a nostalgia trip. It's also wild seeing sets that retailed for $150 that are now worth at least $1K (looking at you, modular buildings)
The modular fire station, been looking for one of them for years and the price keeps going UP
I used to have a stack from 1999/early 2000s, I remember just staring at the OG Star Wars sets, rereading the old comic strips...they don't do backgrounds like they used to.
@@warped_rider They really don't, or alternate builds for sets. I sort of miss the classic space / rock raiders aesthetic even though I know Lego wasn't in the best financial state then
Oh man each time you turned the page in the EB catalogue brought more and more tears to my eyes... what a time it was to be alive. I would buy the entire catalogue if I could go back.
There were buggy, rushed, and unfinished games back then too. But most of them were not high profile releases so they didn't stick in our memory. That, or our nostalgia goggles blocked them all, Big Rigs Over The Road Racing was totally great, guys! And the thing is if the company cared enough to fix or update the game, you'd have to rebuy the game all over again (like the numerous slightly updated version of fighting games for example). So while this online patching capability led to lazy culture of "release now, fix later" from developer's side, it also has huge benefit for us customers.
6:24 The rush of nostalgia I got when he pointed to Crazy Taxi and spoke caveman was unreal
i looked away from the screen for a moment while he was talking about the games and i heard him go "YAH YAH YAH YAH YAH" and my neurons activated so hard LOL
I am a firm believer he invented that caveman speech because I've heard no one else but him go "booga ga booga ga booga" 7 syllables a second
Is that the offspring thing?
Holy hell this takes me back. I remember back in the day when Christmas was nearing my uncle would toss me a Toys R Us catalog and just tell me to circle. I would just go to town on those magazines as you do when you are a child and told to pick what you want. Obviously I didn't get everything I would circle, but it made gift shopping much easier on my family, whereas now I keep telling them they dont need to get me anything, but they still try I still get a chuckle when they tell me "we didn't know what you wanted".
It was so much more shameful back in those days to get people gift cards. Getting gift cards today a pet peeve of mine.
Like if youre gonna have no effort, just give me the fucking money, dont give money thats restricted to where i can spend it, especially considering i don't want anything from the shops i usually get cards for.. and you can only watch so many movies.
Reading old catalogues and old game strategy book is always a good time.
Oh my gosh congrats for getting on cold ones!! I’ve been watching both your channel and cold ones for so long and I can’t believe y’all collabed!!! Thank you!!!
I love the way that dankpods is slowly but surely straying away from audio and I'm all for it.
He's already had to start 2 side channels for his off topic content LMAO at this rate he's gonna have 6 by the end of next year.
And I'll sub to every one!
@@IRBork Same here, if there are 10 different ones I will be subbed and watch all even if I don’t understand what’s being talked about
I’m not for it
What are you talking about? I just checked. Only two vids out of the last 10 weren't audio-centric; a cashies special and this one. (Not counting the plushy announcement.)
@@YokiDokiPanic because all the other ones are on his other channels now, doofus. Pay attention.
BIONICLEs are super worth it, man. I’m not exaggerating when I say they _completely_ changed my life. I’m halfway through a creative writing degree because of fucking BIONICLE.
I liked bionicles
I know this comment is probably out of topic but I just wanna thank you for getting me to buy one of KZ's dirty buds.
I was astonished with how crisp the sound is and despite being inside your ears, it felt like I could tell where the noises were coming from, as in front and back too.
I gotta say this has ended up being one of my favorite channels this year thank you for all the content cheers fam
That Casio EZ-Label printer in the Tandy catalogue next to the mouse pad calculator is actually incredible. My lab had one, and we had to chuck it out after 26 years because while it worked like it was brand new, they no longer make label tapes for it.
That makes me sad. Always wanted one as kid, so I could just label "spinch" or "crutch papers".
It is always a good day when DankPods uploads.
Oh those were the days, fond memories of going through the catalogues and circling stuff we wanted
Action Man was very popular in the UK. They where 12 inch figures. Eagle Eye was one of the popular models released. Plus the helicopter, jeeps, boat, and many other vehicles sold.
It was also a thing in the Netherlands! They were a toy brand, but I also remember there being cartoons and video games. I think it's a European thing, because GI Joe means a whole pile of nothing over here.
It was also a thing in France
The soundtrack for Sim City 3K is seriously underrated. I'd like to see a band play "Magic City" live one day.
I really like the Simcity 3000 soundtrack and have since the first time I played the game. "Building", "Broadway", "Urban Complex" "Concrete Jungle", "South Bridge" and "Updown Town" were my favourites and I would loved to hear any of them being played live. When I hear Updown Town I can't help hearing the lyrics to Frasier theme in my head "Toss salad and scrambled eggs" as the lyrics fit the Updown Town music so well. I especially liked the Unlimited soundtrack with "City Lights" (one of my favourites), "City of Dreams", "Sixth Floor" and "The Howling Wind"
Considering he went to do 3 degrees in jazz, I think SimCity 3000 might have played an important role in his life
8:21 Well hold on, now. H3O is very acidic. If that guy falls out his board he's dead as shit. That game is hardcore.
@@DankPods413 Oh hello totally real dankpods. Yes, I'll be messaging you on a completely different platform to receive my real ass gift shortly. Could have at least gave me a thumbs up, fucking useless scambot.
1:40 that "its funny how nearly everything here is replaced with an app" line stuck with me.
It's so nostalgic seeing all these catalogues...... It's amazing how many memories they are bringing back!
6:59 - oh my god that scream had me in tears. Too funny. This was also my childhood too, right in the feels. And most high end GPUs have over 24,000 MB Ram this generation, much quicker obviously and server grade GPUs can have more the 64 GB or more per card, in a chassis filled with them.
Yet they can’t run a game to save their life. Apples and oranges my dude.
Only RTX4090 and not yet released RX 7900XTX.
That's not "most" GPUs, that's a handful of newest top tier GPUs.
Also it's not 24000MB of RAM, it's 24576MB of RAM.
@@AgneDei I phrased it incorrectly, I was referring to most high end cards. And not quite Wolfgang, the server cards often work very well for gaming, but can be nerfed (I. E. No display inputs, driver restrictions) but not like a server CPU, which most are slower in gaming, due to having slower clock speeds, due to heat and the number of cores and the fact that games only support a few threads, so clock speed in the same generations are the better and cheaper option.
@@alkestos as another example, when linus tech tips do a crazy 16K (or higher) gaming system, they'll have multiple server grade cards, as they often have triple the vram, but still in the same generation/architecture as the latest consumer cards.
@@SWISS-1337 Maybe I remember incorrectly then. Regardless, have a great day :)
I had no clue that you were Dankmus mate. You've been on my song rotation for years now. Please give us more!
12:07 Subtitles: “BOAT IS GAY”
10:51 Gen 1 probably isn't the best example to bring up when talking about a Pokemon game being broken.
This episode really feels like a patron video with the catalogs
All I can say about this video is that it was a blast from the past. Growing up with Nintendo and seeing the games and the pokémon cards brought me back. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
I saw you on Cold Ones and your content is incredible! So glad you were a guest there, not sure if I would have found you elsewhere!
Fun fact at 6:10 - The PSone is actually a different console to the original Playstation. It was a smaller revision, and you could get an attachable display for it so it was semi-portable (still needed to find power)
We had the carkit for ours, screen, cig lighter power adapter. Got us through so many 11 hour car trips to visit family. I still have it in a closet at my parents place somewhere.
@unsubtract Yeah, re-releasing the same console in a smaller form factor goes back to Sega and Nintendo doing it with their consoles in the 80's. The Master System 2 was the best selling console in Australia for years.
When the consoles come out, they're closer to breaking edge and need more discreet components. But over time the chips can be put into one package, and manufactured for much cheaper. By that point the next generation is normally out, and often the architecture from the old gen is used in the next gen for some sorta co-processing. They often order a lot of those components for both the old and new hardware, and keep making the old consoles to thin the parts out, as they don't wanna be putting almost 15 year old chips in the next-next-gen, or stuck with a bunch of old chips.
For example; the Sega Saturn uses the Megadrive's 68000 cpu for sound, and the PS2 uses the PS1's cpu for I/O. A good example of chip miniaturization, is the combined CPU (EE)/GPU (GS) in the later PS2 slims and also used early PS3's (EE+GS). But when they ran low on EE+GS's, and were convinced that they could get people to re-buy PS2 games on the PSN, they pulled them from the PS3's and ran the parts out with PS2's.
Basically, it's a business thing, driven by the need to use parts ordered in advance.
born 1993, from Belgium, can confirm action man was big in Belgium when I was a child. And tthat Toys-R-Us catalogue just brought me back to a lot of childhood memories, I'm so glad you made this
You are absolutely correct about Perfect Dark, Goldeneye was good and pioneered a lot in the FPS genre, but Perfect Dark definitely refined it and build off the solid framework.
Also as an American, still got nostalgia from these, sure your Dollarydoos are different from our Freedom Bucks, and Radio Shack and GI Joe have different names, but otherwise the catalogs didn't feel too different
Gonna say I love it to listen to your videos while going to sleep thanks for making such good videos
That Casio calculator got me through high school. Loved it. Even had the ability to make programs on it. I remember making some sort of snake-like game on it.
Currently going through the 12 stages of a cold this week, today's been the worst so I really needed this
Same here. Which stage are you at today?
@@rabbitsrefuse bed ridden and boiling hot lmao this sucks
Get well soon! Hope you feel better.
@@numptypootis8012 damn. I’m sorry. I hope things start to improve for you. I’m hacking a lung and I’m the sole caregiver for my elderly parents, so the struggle is real. Stay strong.
And they say laughter is the best medicine, but they clearly didn’t have a chest cold when they said that…
That sucks
I hope you get better ASAP.
Good God man you just brought me so far back you just dusted off memories I thought that were gone, holy f*** I saw so many things I actually got when I was a kid and still have in the attic... totally suffering from brain melting nostalgia right now.
This actually gave me some warm fuzzies. Old Christmas catalogs give me such a nice rush of nostalgia.
MAN this was a trip. I totally forgot we had one of those karaoke things before dad got a proper one in the 2000s. I was 8 in 1996, both of my father's parents died in 1996 like a week before his 40th. Good memories. Might have also been the year I almost did myself in whittling with a razor blade and slicing the old wrist open, that was fun.
Ah yes. The nostalgia.
@@Anime_Beats Can't remember if that was the two countries in one trip year or not. Where we did Easter Break in the UK first and then went to Paris France via the Chunnel or if that was the next year. UK was great, Paris was terrible.
@@tdata545 I live in Montreal and there are many people that come here from Paris, so I could see a whole city of those annoying people being terrible. Hope you recovered from that experience.
@@Anime_Beats I have since next year we did Hawaii. And two years later Italy. WHICH WAS AWESOME.
Fun facts, Pokemon Gens 1-2 were almost atrociously buggy on release until their code was cleaned up by outside help, particularly by one little-known programmer named Satoru Iwata. Game Freak has ALWAYS been bad at optimizing their games without outside help.
Japanese Red/Green (which was out TWO YEARS before Americans got it) could do save-corruption bugs without actually needing to corrupt any saves. Hell, the thing that got Pokemon "on the map" for Japanese gamers was someone figuring out how to get Mew, which was added to the game at the last minute as a developer in-joke. They had to release Blue Version in Japan just to fix all the bugs (which became US Red/Blue).
Gamefreak trash dev
Yup. Especially gen 1 which had what felt like half of it's mechanics broken
Frank loves to interact more than any constrictor I've ever seen.
I think Wade himself said that even the vet never seen such a socialized snake
God, so many memories, this vid reminded me of a time my family and I were on a road trip at night and I was playing pokemon crystal, on my gameboy advance, with it's rechargable battery pack and screen magnifier/light attachment. I even recalled having a few other toys from those catalogs, what a time the early 2000's we're for kids, this vid was such a blast from the past for me, thanks mate.
I’ve been waiting all will for another vid from you and I just love this channel and how much you have poured me through some stuff with your funny humor thank you
The kid at 5:38 definitely grew up to be a "just chuck 'er in tha fackin' ute mate" guy.
6:34 it is but the ps2 was a dvd player too and other ones were even more costy
PS2 was the first console to feature a Blu-ray drive, so I'm not surprised it was $694ea
@@B77L wait ps2 could only run cd or dvd's ps3 could play blue-rays
I've been working in the as a A1 in the concert industry for 4 years and already feeling burned out/uninspired about audio gadgets. But your videos have reignited my spark and I thank you for that. I have a Chord Mojo 2 in the mail to use 600ohm DT open backs and I feel like a kid again. Also, the bluetooth FiiO is amazing for playing music during gigs.
Thank you so much for being such a great CZcamsr and making awesome vids
I was legit having a bad day and said out loud "only a Dankpods video can improvwe my day" and then he uploaded a video, thank you, i needed this, hands down best content on this damn app
Man this video was a special kind of nostalgia. I remember when me and my brothers were younger and we would come home from school to find an Argos catalogue waiting for us. Just looking through one of those and taking the numbers down for things we liked the look of. I got so many beyblades lol
1:28 My grandma had a home adding machine like that! She still used it to balance her checkbook, well into the smartphone era
1:00 That's actually genius - a stand that has the amplifier and centre speaker built in (to plunk your CRT TV on), with two tower speakers and two rear speakers. It even has a Mike (who I guess sets it up) and a headphone jack.
nah it has a mic jack for karaoke
Another fantastic video dude! Absolutely loved your rendition of The offspring, All I want (the song from crazy taxi) love it 😁😁😁
I had a bunch of Bionicles and I still have my Pokémon Gold game (actually played it again recently)! Thank you for this nice nostalgia trip!
6:01 peak video moment for me, but everything was funny!!! Very glad to have found this bloody amazing channel
Holy shit, when I see the US catalogues of the time it all seems alien and odd, but your stuff is EXACTLY the same stuff we were getting in the EU back in the day! MAJOR nostalgia bomb with the Action Man. It was big here in Poland and I was so into it. The only thing I was more into was LEGO and AM was a close second with an entire huge box full of the things and the accessories for them. I'm really sad that it was all let go at some point, as a teen I didn't care much but nowadays I really regret not keeping at least some. At least I do have all the LEGO still.
Dankmas is almost here
Muppet Monster Adventures is one of the games I grew up with and weirdly enough didn't know anybody else that knew about this game. I had the best time as a kid playing it though and I even played it again later as an adult and I still think it's a great game. Seeing it being mentioned on the channel makes me happy!
I STILL HAVE SWING AWAY GOLF FOR PS2. That game is INCREDIBLE lmao. I used to play it with my dad all the time.
ANOTHER VID LETS GOOOOO
It's wild how much computing power fits in your pocket now compared to what I spent my whole childhood play on in the 90s! Kinda blows my mind how far things have come in the last 20 years.
We had action man in the UK. I used to love the run up to Christmas too, used to get the Argos catalogue and spend hours reading through the thousands of pages
Seeing Bionicle in a Dankpods video made my day
All his commentary is spot on as usual
My bones age with every zinger...
I love yellow zingers 😅
This man is amazing. I watched him through the duration of when I had the flu and it kept me in high spirits
You hit right in the nostalgia. I had that parachute action man from the catalog, got it for Christmas when I was like… 9 yo. I still remember expecting a Max Steel but the parachute was so cool I didn’t mind.
This was nowhere near Australia, in South America
I sleep to your videos, love your voiceeeem it's so soothingggggg
6:45 gumi getting the attention he deserves
Gumi should be protected at all cost
holy shit action man, I remember in the early 2000s as a kid in Ireland everyone either wanted or had one. Me personally I stole one from the toy box in school and felt so proud
This was great, thanks for the trip down memory lane Dank. And yeah, the wheel mouse optical is indeed the best mouse ever.
Bloody hell mate, that really took me back. I loved the Chrissy catalogues in the Sunday papers through December, and shoved in the letterbox. After dad had finished with the papers, woe betide anyone touching his papers before he read them, I had a pile of the Xmas catalogues, the TV guides, and comics in front of me, of course when I was 10-14, in the early-mid 80s, I snuck off with the KMart, Target, etc catalogues to my bedroom for the um ladies underwear sections :P
Time to celebrate the socceroos’ win with another Dankpods video!
4:35 you should play billiards on one of those
I'm from the U.S., I had that same toy cash register at 7:17 as a child. I absolutely loved those toy registers, and cooking equipment back then.
5:47 I had that parking thing when I was a kid. I loved the snot out of it.
1:21 Good to know that calculator is not only probably still in use, but costs the same price
i got banned from 4chan when i was like 14 for saying this 10:40
Had no idea you were DANKMUS til the cold ones episode. You're a bloody legend mate.
You were amazing on cold ones man!!
Nice, another JSRF appreciator! Jet Grind Radio is good, but Future is my jam. Biggest issue I have is the game never got re-released.
Oh boy, Action Man. What a throwback! I had a couple of them as a kid. (Scotland so can confirm, sold outside of Australia. We had magazines and comics too!)
Thursdays are one of my favorite days. I can't wait for the next Dank drop.
You have brought back nostalgic memories of playing phantasy star online on my Dreamcast.
All hail Gumi! 🐦
ALL HAIL GUMI CHAN 🍅
6:00 nah nah nah. as a lifelong fan of the series, the single time we've had a *finished* pokemon game released was Black and White. Red and Blue were unfinished, (which is funny since theyre built off of the Japanese Blue, which was already a "fixed" Red and Green), Gold and Silver were basically just them putting in everything they wanted to put into RGBY that they couldnt finish, and then they didnt finish that which is why Crystal exists and adds animated sprites and a playable girl option. RSE has some insane amounts of cut content. DPPtt you can quite literally use the bike to phase through all levels of reality to get events you shouldnt be able to. BW and B2W2 are solid actual. XY have clearly unfinished areas and events. SuMo actually also very solid. USUM was the result of them putting months of effort into a Switch sequel to SuMo and running out of time/budget/ too many issues, so they backported it to the 3DS to try to get back the invested time and money. Sword and Shield and Scarlet and Violet both have the issue of theres no time and no budget.
Pokemon is the largest media brand on earth, and the production schedule for them is on par with pre-Frontiers Sonic Team. Cant blame it on devs, its all down to capitalism, the games arent their money makers, the toys and anime are. the games exist solely to market the toys, cards, and anime, and they dont want to delay the games since they want to maximize the profits of those areas. its scummy, and no amount of extra staff are gonna fix the problem, infact it'll most likely just make communication worse and more cluttered. they need more time but hey, everytime a pokemon game releases the narrative of "game developers deserve more time and money and are some of the most exploited hard workers" that had cultivated in the past year gets tossed out the window for "wow look at these lazy devs just getting another cash grab"
🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓 btw all the games were good stop being a baby
In what universe is SuMo solid lmao
OMG i still have this SONY receiver 1:48 , its such fine machine (its needs some repairs cuz sometimes it shuts off by itself )
really made me travel back when you mentioned the soundtrack for sun city 3k!
7:26 In Dutch it says Bruin ... which means brown lol. Don't wanna know what is brown ... haha
💩
3:22 A 1GB file taking 30 seconds to download!?! Man you've got some insane internet because I'm still waiting HOURS for 1GB to download and that's the best I can get where I live (rural usa)
You probably use Cox
Yeah I definitely remember action man! I live in the uk and he was definitely in my collection among Lego and other stuff.
Oh my god I had that Fast Lane parking set and loved it…I loved all the mundane car toys and construction sets haha