1998 Toy R Us Christmas Book

[the bossman]

Man the sears wish book was a beast too.


My grandma calling them up and me reciting them order numbers. Christmas was the goat for my childhood

that was my Aunt with Fingerhut

 

[the bossman]

This page is dope!



The only way we made it out of this period was through Gods grace

Why does this look EXACTLY like the shyt they used to serve us in my elementary school?

So did every public school in America all sell the same square shape pizza with the plastic cheese and those corn dogs?

 

[Taco]

Right down memory lane I remember they use to have stickers and they’d be numbered from 1-10 (1 being most wanted etc.) maaan the daaaays. Now I got to buy them shyts lol

 

[King Kai]

I remember this very well.

I wanted that Nintendo 64 and there was a world wide shortage on those things.

My mom and dad told me I might have to settle for a PlayStation, so I was like cool. I was a teenager at this time so I wasn’t tripping. I was just thankful for what I was getting.

I get up Christmas morning and we opening gifts and I open my last gift and have no PlayStation or N64.

I was like well I guess I didn’t get neither. A few minutes went by and my mom told me to check the laundry room. Sitting there in the laundry room was a brand new N64 in a very nice gift bag with an extra controller and several games I wanted.

She told me later the only reason her my dad were able to get it is I put my name on a waiting list at GameStop and they just so happened to call them and tell them they were holding one for me.

Was expecting this to end with GameStop telling your mom the best they could do was a Sega Saturn.

 

[NOSaintsFan02]

The Toys R Us Book is actually how I tracked my maturity. I used to live for those books on Thanksgiving night/Black Friday. It was in the 2000s when I grew less and less excited for it and detached as I went through it. That was my realization that I basically wasn't a kid anymore.

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

When you was too poor to windowshop at the store

 

[Two Stacks]

being a kid/teenager from 1990 to 2005 was great.

 

[Lord_nikon]

 

[Atlanta 80s baby]

I remember my people gave me the option of 1 game. My choice was between Captain American and Techno Bowl 3 for SNES. Them joints were going for a good 50 piece back then.

My buddies were begging for that TB3 joint, something drew me to the Capt game. Toys R US was heaven on earth back then boy. Better than the movies, disney world, all that

 

[flea]

This was back when Electronic Boutique used to let you buy a game, beat it, and then return it and exchange it for another game. Then they changed the name to GameStop and it was a wrap for that

 

[Da King]

Zesty baked beans

 

[DPresidential]

I legit think I had this exact copy

No, I know my parents had that exact copy!

On the 8th page, it has the location of my toysrus a few blocks from my house in Fort Greene, Brooklyn - (Gallery at Metrotech Center)

Discovery Zone was on the basement floor of that GOAT mall.

I miss my parents, RIP

 

[Monoblock]

being a kid/teenager from 1990 to 2005 was great.

Toys R' Us, Eastbay and JCPenney catalogs use to have me on cloud 9.

 

[DPresidential]

I remember this very well.

I wanted that Nintendo 64 and there was a world wide shortage on those things.

My mom and dad told me I might have to settle for a PlayStation, so I was like cool. I was a teenager at this time so I wasn’t tripping. I was just thankful for what I was getting.

I get up Christmas morning and we opening gifts and I open my last gift and have no PlayStation or N64.

I was like well I guess I didn’t get neither. A few minutes went by and my mom told me to check the laundry room. Sitting there in the laundry room was a brand new N64 in a very nice gift bag with an extra controller and several games I wanted.

She told me later the only reason her my dad were able to get it is I put my name on a waiting list at GameStop and they just so happened to call them and tell them they were holding one for me.

I legit almost teared up listening to this.

 

[Spence]

Man the sears wish book was a beast too.


My grandma calling them up and me reciting them order numbers. Christmas was the goat for my childhood

That’s where all my power ranger toys came from in 94