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2 Catalogues (or catalogs if you prefer). One from Christmas 1995, the other from Christmas 2017. One from the store formerly known as Index, the other from Argos (they were essentially the same thing). So let's see how Christmas 1995 compares to Christmas 2017 from a purely consumerism point of view. Also with a heavy bias towards watches, televisions, game consoles and the like. Because that's what I do. HAPPY CHRISTMAS! :D
Argos Catalogue 2017 vs. Index Catalogue 1995.
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@Nostalgianerd 6 лет назад

Please share your "catalogue items of splendour" memories below :D

@EnglishLaw 6 лет назад

The Mercury One2One mobiles and the Rabbit Phones which were not even full mobiles just cordless phones that worked in some public places. Then there was the PSION series of organisers. Good times

@MDPToaster 6 лет назад

Nostalgia Nerd The Christmas LEGO catalogues were always a blast to look at, too bad they’re so expensive.

@pjomayo 6 лет назад

By all rights,the SNES Mini should be in the 2017 Winter catalogue..but sadly Nintendo arnt making enough of the bloody things to satisfy demand..although it's easier to buy one now than it was a few months ago.

@ChristopherSobieniak 6 лет назад

Nostalgia Nerd Those of us Americans had similar "catalog stores" like Best Products and Service Merchandise. These places had actual shops along with catalogs, but I used to look at both!

@clumaster 6 лет назад

In our country we had a similar store called Consumers Distributing, there is a site which has some old catalogs online. www.cdarchive.ca/

@sparkycasegbr 6 лет назад

Argos is a very British shop. The only one that makes you queue twice (once to pay for your items, the 2nd to collect them).

@SproutyPottedPlant 6 лет назад

Not if you order online for collection :)

@SpeccyHorace 6 лет назад

sparkycasegbr Not any more really.

@sparkycasegbr 6 лет назад

Richard M True but it still applies if you walk into the store without purchasing an item for collection in store. It was just a light hearted comment about our love of queuing.

@blogtodeath4736 6 лет назад

How do you pay twice? You pick them up when you buy them or order online and just pick them up!

@Zooumberg 6 лет назад

He never said pay twice. But he is absolutely correct. Queue to pay at the till and queue to collect your goods. Also if you're using public transport, queue to get on the bus to go there and queue on the bus to get home.

@alexrowland 6 лет назад

I really appreciated this video. Once you're in your 30's, that Christmas morning wonder has long faded away, but this actually helped to bring it back, if even just a little bit. Merry Christmas everyone!

@jdgonzo1982 6 лет назад

wow, nostalgia overload!!! i flicked through the Index and Argos catalogues as a kid...always wanted the Spider Man pyjamas, the Batman pedal go kart, the batman bed and a Mister Frosty!! The lingerie section also had it's benefits for us boys back then...what with no internet or nudity on TV before 9pm. But there was Eurotrash!!! ;)

@markrodin1982 6 лет назад

jdgonzo1982 Yeah mate I know what you mean, I have still some of those from 1997, 1998 I think I'm the loft.

@Tigermoto 6 лет назад

"the laminated book of Dreams!" - Bill Bailey

@frigbychilwether 6 лет назад

Near me it seems it has been replaced by the "iPad of Plenty"

@ShoreyJr 6 лет назад

"You know why it's laminated right? TO CATCH THE TEARS OF JOY"

@ianwebster3489 6 лет назад

So many beautiful things! I cannot possess them all!

@dixiep33 6 лет назад

I bloody love these old catalogue videos! 😁 Have a nice Christmas dude!

@k3ntris 6 лет назад

I LOVED going through Index/Argos catalogues when I was young.

@pdeaky 6 лет назад

k3ntris Me too don't think my Mum and Dad liked it though :-)

@DanOutdoorsUK 4 года назад

Christmas lists just being codes was great

@ChristIan-D78 6 лет назад

Wow, thanks for the memories! Back in the day, I had a friend who had the remote control watch shown a 2:52 and he used to change the channels on a TV that was at a coffee shop we visited after school. Used to drive the owners nuts!

@Fifury161 6 лет назад

Thanks for sharing! A lot of found memories!

@SamWards04 6 лет назад

I loved the Argos catalogue in the 90’s, it could take a week to choose a scientific calculator, despite not knowing what any of the buttons did. I’d also spend hours looking at the Casio keyboards, convincing myself I could teach myself to play. I finally bought one off eBay a few years ago, but never used it.

@Larry 6 лет назад

I got that index catalog, they must be a staple of being thrown in the loft. Coincidentally I found an Argos catalog up there from 1984!

@jacklazzaro9820 6 лет назад

Larry Bundy Jr, I saw your vid on the times Nintendidn't come first. Keep it up.

@darrenfair7207 6 лет назад

It shocking to look at the old argoos catalogs because they weren't shy about showing side boob lol

@Gambit771 6 лет назад

Now I want to see what is in a catalogue from 1984.

@Nostalgianerd 6 лет назад

1984. Now that's a good year.

@Gambit771 6 лет назад

Nostalgia Nerd Is that the year you were born by any chance?

@jeremym9011 6 лет назад

The catalogs from the 80s and 90s were the best.

@grumpyoldwizard 6 лет назад

Great video as always. Merry Christmas!🎄🎁

@MegaWayneD 6 лет назад

One of my first jobs was inputting orders for Benson and Hedges Gratis points back in the mid-90's (gift points that you actually got in the cigarette packets). You could either exchange the Gratis points for some Benson and Hedges-branded tat, such as a watch that counted down to the year 2000, a bright yellow kettle with the B&H logo etc or vouchers to spend in Index. When the UK Government banned cigarette promotions in the late-90's that probably started the downfall of Index as the B&H promotion was keeping it afloat!

@MegaWayneD 6 лет назад

Ah yes, I think everyone in the office had at least one of those! I think the most popular items were the Swan Mellow Yellow kettle and the lemon squeezer which was this big metal thing that stood over the glass and you squashed the lemon on top.

@samanthamawditt4431 3 года назад

Your brilliant best videos you do on RU-vid

@superamario6464 6 лет назад

Wow... awesome video. So many memories!

@DisneyMarkUK 3 года назад

This was wonderful, thank you

@RMCRetro 6 лет назад

It was the handheld LCD games for me also, I knew they were rubbish, I totally knew it, so why did I still want them?

@Nostalgianerd 6 лет назад

Maybe we were just sadistic.

@gonzo3915 6 лет назад

TomyTronic

@memberberry6177 6 лет назад

The Game&Watch series from Nintendo were awesome.

@tunwicks 6 лет назад

Great vid as always:-)

@DisneyMarkUK 4 года назад

Oh I love this video, thank you so much

@SipodshowTv 2 года назад

please! more of this!

@JimGroome 6 лет назад

Just seeing that old Index logo brought me flying back to wandering around the local shopping centre on Saturday afternoons in the mid 90s, lol. Great video.

@samjam64 6 лет назад

This was beautiful....triggered many emotions! Thank you

@carlkamuti 5 лет назад

Nostalgia Nerd, I had to comment. When I first subscribed to your channel I thought you were just about retro gaming, and that suited me fine. But stumbling across this video and your car boot ones I can't remember a more enjoyable couple of hours, time travelling back to my youth, where I used to sit and put rings round Argos and Index goodies. Thank you sir for the nostalgic memories; in a Clickbait age you are the Ronseal of RU-vid channels.

@waveland44 6 лет назад

Great video man. You got fans out here in Kentucky

@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq 3 года назад

Thanks for this upload I really love old nostalgic children's toy shop adverts

@kamrongrant 6 лет назад

This got me deep... So many things I want from the 90s yet so hard to find now and even when you can, so expensive now! Had to pause a while on the games consoles page with all the segas and gameboy and aww... good times. You sure fulfilled your RU-vid name today! :)

@macbookboy2 6 лет назад

Becoming my fav channel !!

@chrisrobinson82 6 лет назад

Happy Christmas Nostalgia Nerd

@jamestravill9640 6 лет назад

I remember that exact catalogue..! Recognise all the pictures and even the prices of the goods that caught my eye too.

@SproutyPottedPlant 6 лет назад

Same here, Index seemed to have the more interesting looking HIFI.

@korvasterindar9672 6 лет назад

Merry Christmas!

@AnimalFacts 6 лет назад

That was a fun trip. Merry Christmas 🎁

@justinm6110 6 лет назад

Love it thx for that .

@robertcollins5307 6 лет назад

I had a fm radio watch from index too !! It had no volume control and was loud !!! Happy Christmas :) thanks for your videos they have brightened my 2017 :))

@johnmack680 6 лет назад

Loved that video

@Larry 6 лет назад

Argos, the Greek god of queuing.

@coreylineberry8557 6 лет назад

Larry Bundy Jr Ello, You!

@philmuller-geib3361 3 года назад

amazing!!!

@ZankDigiTrash 6 лет назад

Great Video :)

@magnumforcemopar402 6 лет назад

Thanks for the trip.

@Jikyuu 6 лет назад

Soooo nostalgic. Reminds me of flicking through the catalogues with my sister saying the one things we want most on each page

@so_bendy 6 лет назад

i remember looking through that exact catalogue as a kid. so many memories

@JasonVectrex_187 6 лет назад

Good video!

@01302 3 года назад

Great video. I wish you'd review space precinct for us, I loved that show back in the day, but it seems to be lost in time.

@leeroy25024941 6 лет назад

How I miss the Hitachi '3d' Super woofer boom-boxes!! I'd but one now if they were still around. Loving the comparison from both catalogues BTW. Merry Xmas NN from a long term subscriber! Please keep up the channel as loving your work, thus far Sir! :-)

@binkman853 6 лет назад

In the US we had Service Merchandise with a similar setup. No longer around sadly. Thanks for the great content as always.

@g9icy 6 лет назад

I had this exact catalogue. I used to browse the watches with lingering, jealous eyes. I did eventually have a watch that could change the TV channels though!

@TikiShootah 6 лет назад

Dude! 16:08 number 6. I got that same videoscope, in fact it was on the Christmas of that very same year. Wild!

@jay-swm 6 лет назад

The apostrophes they’ve added to TV’S and VCR’S in the section titles at 8:58 are killing me.

@dcflake5645 6 лет назад

My inner Max Caulfield loved seeing all those analog cameras. Something special about having your photos not be perfect.

@BeatsYo Год назад

Love the video , nostalgic

@Daniel15au 6 лет назад

10:04 I had one of those Yamaha keyboards (the second one from the bottom, on the right) back when I was 8 or 9 years old. Nostagia.

@CJWarlock 5 лет назад

Surprisingly interesting! Thanks. I remember the catalogue named "Schwabb" from 1989. The C64, Amiga 500 and Schneider CPC were there. Amiga 500 had the game "Saucer" displayed on the monitor's screen.

@theclassicrestorer4627 5 лет назад

Please could you do more retro catalogues from argos please loved this one brought back memories

@dr_jaymz 6 лет назад

Why did I enjoy this so much?

@amigatroels3645 6 лет назад

At 19:27 did you say Twitches? ;) Love your videos! It sure was more fun back in those days ☺️

@LeShark75 6 лет назад

I have to say, and I'm very very very sad, but I love picking up a new Screwfix catalogue! Always enjoyed looking at the watches etc in the old Index/Argos catalogues too.

@WhatALoadOfTosca 6 лет назад

Those organisers brought back memories. I always always fascinated as a kid by the "kids photocopier"

@tomsuzyinfluencerinfj2712 6 лет назад

That's nice, a TV-Boy in the Index, and a Flashback in the Argos. I bought my TV-Boy from Argos actually in the same year as the Index catalogue is from

@pdeaky 6 лет назад

Jesus! Remember Teletext and Ceefax! I remember most teles at Argos you'd normally pay an extra £20 for it. Was totally amazed first time I fired up Teletext and played on Bamboozle!

@SamWards04 6 лет назад

Yeah I had a ‘Matsui’ teletext tv in my room. It was like having a portal to another dimension. Bamboozle became a family event sometimes. Does anyone remember a computer games page called ‘The man with the long chin’? I think it was on channel 4.

@alastairward2774 6 лет назад

Nick J Digitiser! Don't press reveal in front of your Mum...

@alastairward2774 6 лет назад

Paul Deakin oh the disappointment when you found the new TV your parents brought home didn't have the colour buttons on the remote to give you access to extra features on screen.

@blogtodeath4736 6 лет назад

Ah the joys of Bamboozle, I used to be a TV engineer for Currys and we used to have Bamboozel and Teletext quiz competitions in the workshop as moost of us did not have the amazing Teletext, beats working!

@japzone 6 лет назад

Never really had anything like that over in the states. Never caught on for some reason. I wonder why? Maybe people were just using their computers for information services instead. The internet was catching on by the second half of the nineties.

@epicfirsts888 3 года назад

EXCellent retro series. Pls do more catalogue and old tech brochures runs...

@lrochfort 6 лет назад

I had that talking watch and it was blooming amazing!

@MattHayesVinyl 6 лет назад

Awesome video. I had that Casio data bank watch! Got it for Christmas and it would have been around 1995, possibly a year or two earlier. Its big draw was the "Illuminator" function that lit up the screen like a Christmas tree. Bathed in blue light so bright it could burn your retinas. Wonderful. Too bad it would completely drain the battery and the battery life was already suspect to begin with (they claimed a year but six months was more realistic). Still, it was a big, chunky, data bank watch and I loved it. I was obsessed with calculator watches for a while and the Casio Illuminator was the pinnacle of that obsession.

@steveirvinejr1672 6 лет назад

Merry xmas nerd

@richardstiff8949 6 лет назад

Awesome !

@PikaStu666 6 лет назад

I started a Saturday job at Index around Christmas 1995, so that catalogue cover brings back some crazy memories! The pay was £2.85 per hour. Epic!

@2097xl 4 года назад

Used to love going through the Argos catalogue in the 2000s me and my sister used to just sit there and circle the things we wanted for Christmas 😂

@MrSolveMYMaze 6 лет назад

Damn this takes me right back! As much as I love online shopping, its just not the same as getting out the Argos catalogue. Oh, and as for those pocket tvs, I won a colour Casio one in 98. It sucked batteries quicker than the Gamegear

@TheRetroShed 6 лет назад

Kays catalogue from 1981 featured Astro Wars! I went nuts for this... Awesome toy / game back in the day

@ciprianwinerElectronicManiac 6 лет назад

This is awesome. I quickly saw my Aiwa walkman there for 70$, I always wondered what it costed back in the day, of course it doesn't work right but hey I got it for like 3$. Merry Christmas :)

@spidereyes6290 6 лет назад

A thumbs up for excluding the apple watch from being a watch :-D

@Nostalgianerd 6 лет назад

Much obliged :D

@videogamepolak0 6 лет назад

The toys they had back then, compared to now all these "grab bag, loot crate reject, junk finger toys" now. In quoting my friends dad in a classic moment with his grandson...Grandson says "Hey Papa whats the name of this toy?", Grandpa says : JUNK!

@Ashmoleon2006 6 лет назад

we had a chain of stores somewhat like that called BEST and all the merchandise was behind glass display cabinets and you'd take the tag on the cabinet and take it up to the cash register and your purchases would come down a conveyor belt

@Kzoowallace 6 лет назад

The moment of silents was ruined by an Ad.

@pdeaky 6 лет назад

Wow I actually got the Team Cosworth Scalextrics for Christmas one year. Had to be a shared present for both me and my brother as I don't think it was cheap and we weren't made of brass. What a Christmas that was! Superb nostalgia!

@TheAnkMan 6 лет назад

Nice video, as usually. I wonder who the (now) 29 people are giving a negative rating. Anyway, I loved it. Bit would have been even more fun (for me) to compare the 2017 catalog to one from 1987. If you have one and time to create another video that would be awesome.

@r5LgxTbQ 6 лет назад

youtube gave me an ad right after you said "I think we need a moment of silence to take in the wonder here" at 11:12

@StellaSteve80 6 лет назад

i remember doing the same thing with comparing catalogues. in the very late 90's i worked at Argos. i remember finding an old one from the mid 80's and was comparing tech stuff. That had the likes of Atari 2600's and Nintendo NES in it. i'd love to see that old catalogue now.

@justink.2277 6 лет назад

The Casio watch that is labeled "15" is one they still sell, and it's one of my favorites in my collection.

@toposebi95 6 лет назад

I was just a wee month when this catalog came out, but damn if I remember seeing stuff like this in catalogs all the way up to the early 00's!

@MaxStax1 6 лет назад

I loved browsing the Radio Shack and the Sears Christmas catalogs back in the day.If I had studied my school homework as hard as I studied those catalogs,who knows how far I would have gone. :-)

@cleanycloth 6 лет назад

1:03 I can see my Argos from here!! (Hello Argos Harlow retail park and the one next to it in the town centre :p ) TIME TEACHER!! I had one of those I swear, I loved the colours and the teaching aspect of it. Shame it died about a decade ago :/

@missionpassed4584 6 лет назад

I remember picking up the very first Argos catalogue and thinking wow whats this, then going into the store and seeing alot on display and all connected to alarms which kept going off all the time, oh still got that exact gladiators watch somewhere

@bit-ishbulldog2089 6 лет назад

You did not mention the Sega Lock on, the tag game :D sweet.. I want one.

@japzone 6 лет назад

It's impressive how well Lego is doing right now. They used to just have generic kits, but now they have massive brands, games, and even blockbuster movies. In a way, they're doing even better now, despite digital content eating into toy sales.

@coyoteartist 6 лет назад

You just described Service Merchandise although they did have a working object on display to see and some of the smaller items of kids toys would be handled as traditional checkout. I use to love that store.

@barryboos 3 года назад

There was an Argos next to the Sainsbury’s where we used to do our family shop on Saturdays. I’d beg to be left to ponder the Argos catalogue and then be picked up on the way home (ah, the 90s... I was 8 or 9 and this was central London...). I remember fantasising about all the plastic crap I’d buy when I was a rich grown up. I did get a blue stereo system for my 11th birthday (89.99 if I remember correctly) and a Gameboy pocket for passing my 11 plus. The Color was out by then but too expensive.

@HildebrandJohnson 6 лет назад

We had a similar showroom chain called "Service Merchandise" in the States.

@HeyLaserLips 6 лет назад

Hah! My aunt had the whole GMTV kitchen set back in the day. I remember at the time thinking how 80s it looked, rather than 90s, like something the Memphis Group would have released. xD

@YouTubeSupportTeams 6 лет назад

i remember that exact index catalogue like it was yesterday. primary school days. my best mate had the talking watch and i had the casio tv watch

@pesokpesok 5 лет назад

where was the video from the very beginning from? one with futuristic elfes ?

@nathanforester5993 6 лет назад

I frequently searched through the action figure sections of both Argos AND Index on a regular basis. Especially when it come to collecting Power Ranger figures, Batman figures, Captain Simian and The Space Monkeys, Beetleborgs, Masked Rider, just about any action figure line I could get my hands on. And also vehicles too.

@holnrew 6 лет назад

Oh god I had that Bart Simpson alarm clock. I ended up hating it, as you do all alarms

@IgorKolar 6 лет назад

I HAVE THAT TALKING WATCH!!! Awwwww, that was amazing to see!

@firstsequence7132 6 лет назад

I remember that '95 catalogue, trying to imagine what I'd have thought back then if I was presented with the stuff in the 2017 one

@Embracing01 4 года назад

Great video. I think most people when they think of catalogues seem to have forgotten about Index. Although I do remember Index, I never considered them in the same league as Argos; they seemed like a small business than anything with only a few stores dotted around the country. My uncle had that Philips two cassette deck and CD radio cassette recorder, and yes it was a beast of a machine. I used to lend him music CDs and he'd use the tape deck to copy the tracks onto a tape. On the VHS page I could see an Orion VHS recorder; my dad bought one just like it as a package from the now long closed Colourvision. I hated that VCR as every time you tried to load a tape into the tape loader, 9x out of 10 it end up loading the tape wrong and would scrunge the tale up because you had to push the tape through quite hard because the loader mechanism wouldn't grab the tape smoothly for some reason. With that VCR also there was a period when all we could record in was in Longplay mode because we had lost the remote that allowed SP/L.P. to be switched, and it course back then finding a replacement remote was a pain and they cost about 40 quid from the manufacturer. Obviously no eBay back then to find a second hand remote.

@AtariBorn 6 лет назад

That's insane! I had the Casio Databank, twice (you could actually name all your alarms) and I still own the remote control watch. Lol

@Daniel15au 6 лет назад

I completely forgot that computer dust covers were a thing!

@Crana 6 лет назад

I really don't remember Index for some reason. I remember going through the Argos and Littlewoods catalogues as a kid and cutting out the stuff I wanted and gluing them on notepad or something. Pretty much like adding stuff to your wishlist on Amazon I suppose..!

@RighteousBruce 6 лет назад

The watch with the sports images on it.... i remember having that watch. I always wondered what the guy on the left was doing, always questioning it when i wore it for agesss.

@liverush24 6 лет назад

The tiny Index catalogue with the accompanying rectangular magnifying lens, was my favourite. The entire contents was miniaturised. It was better than anything in the store!