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Brand #12: Sportswear
Circulation: Common
Era: Late 1960s to 1990
Information: Aside from their ever-evolving tag design and heavy circulation not much is known about Sportswear. I had to resort to advanced internet technology to discover more info. How? By inputting the RN# that appears on the first tag above (41253) in to the FTC database (a technique I learned from a post written by the savvy members of our forum.) That RN is registered to Granite Knitwear Inc. which I then plugged in to Google who connected it to another familiar t-shirt brand called CalCru.
If you have any info on Sportswear please comment below.
Gameplay: Waka Waka Waka Waka Waka Waka Waka Waka Waka. Go through a maze gobbling up Pac-dots and avoiding the ghosts: Blinky, Pinky, Inky and…Clyde? Use the four power pellets to make ghosts digestible, otherwise contact with them will cost you a life.
My mom ended up getting addicted to this game because they had a table top version at her place of work. She ended up buying me the Atari 1200 version and played it more than I did. It was quite common to come home from a hard day at school and find her playing it in my room.
“Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.” – M. Brigstocke
Facts: Rumor has it in 1982 Ronald Reagan wrote a letter to an 8-year old boy congratulating him on his Pac-Man high score. A score that was only possible if he passed through the split screen mode (video below) which is caused by a programming glitch at the highest level. The very idea of this has caused a heated debate in video game circles because no player has ever demonstrated the feat is possible.
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Item #1: De La Soul, This is My De La Soul T-Shirt
Record: 3 Feet High and Rising
Year: 1989
Circulation: Rarer than a featherless Perdue chicken. Don’t believe us? Check eBay.
3 Feet High and Rising is my favorite hip hop album of all time. I purchased it on cassette and used auto-reverse on my deck to listen to it over and over. Pioneering rhyming with positive messages set to catchy melodies and beats topped off with a great sense of humor. 3FH&R is highly entertaining masterpiece that’s greater than the sum of its parts. And that’s saying a lot given each of its parts are little masterpieces themselves. Can you think of a song you didn’t like on this record? I can’t.
Condition: This item is in good vintage condition.
Variables: Some fade on design, specifically on the front panel. Two very tiny holes: pin hole near left arm’s rear seam and a tiny fabric separation under rear collar. Some light marks on lower front visible above. Collar has lost some elasticity and form which isn’t noticeable when worn.
Price: $550.00 (includes expedited shipping w/tracking and insurance for U.S. and Canada)
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