The Visual Cortex: Remembering Christmas Wishes

I'm fairly certain that heading into the Christmas season, a lot of kids in 1983 were lying under their blankets at night with a flashlight, pouring over the video game section of that year's Sears Wishbook.  Crammed full of every important video game of the era, it was a cornucopia of gaming goodness.  It also has a tinge of doom with all the price slashing, a herald of the collapsing market that would lay waste to the video game landscape the following year.

In the Cortex today is a page from the 1983 Sears Wishbook, featuring what was considered a great, shining hope for the continuation of the industry, Coleco's 3rd-gen powerhouse ColecoVision.  Sadly, the great "arcade in your home" system sank with the rest of them in the great video game crash.  A page of history, forever turned:

For more on the history of the ColecoVision, consult your local Dot Eaters entry.