Front cover
I originally thought this was from 1994 since it includes levels for Doom II (so it can't be from before 1994) and it never mentions Windows 95. One page confirms this catalog is from spring 1995 though. It's on a boring page so I wonder if anyone will find it?
Anyway, all these pages are available in three sizes because I'm being nice today.
Page 1 - Doom levels
I have one or maybe both of the first two collections. A lot of the levels are total garbage. Of the 900 levels it feels like 850 of them are E1M1 but with cyberdemons. It's all stuff scraped off BBSs. There are just barely enough decent levels to make it worthwhile.
Page 2 - CompuWorks Office
For comparison, a standalone copy of WordPerfect retailed for $299.99 at the same time. For most average use cases this cheaper software was probably fine.
Page 3 - Design/Publish & Print Workshop
This would have been a competitor to Print Shop where a roughly equivalent bundle at the time went for $84.99.
Page 4 - Fonts and clip art
OK, so 3000 fonts because of math. There are really 500 but if you count having them bold and so on there are 6 variants of each. That's still a lot of fonts.
Page 5 - CompuWorks Sounds
This seems super annoying, hard pass.
Page 6 - CompuWorks Business Cards & Certificates
This looks like the same application as Design/Publish & Print Workshop.
Page 7 - CompuWorks Accountant
I wonder if being cheap was actually a bad selling point for this? Do you want to trust your accounting to something that costs $24.99? Just a thought.
Page 8 - CompuWorks Labels
This looks an awful lot like the previous two designer things.
Page 9 - Game Packs
I thought this catalog would be more fun once we got back to games but was mistaken.
Page 10 - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 9 Game CD
That 9 CD collection is what this catalog was included with. It's a solid collection. I mean physically, the box contains all the manuals and supplemental journals for the 9 games.
Page 11 - Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Games
I've played most of these, some even on Apple II. What I have not done is play them without hacking the save games. These all have an unforgiving difficulty level.
Page 12 - Doom levels and Fun Packs
"most games contain full sound" is my favorite quote in this catalog.
Page 13 - Various games
I'm just now noticing that Llamatron 2112 is included in one of these, not bad.
Page 14 - Fonts and clip art
I have a font hoarding problem myself. I've managed to avoid these two collections though.
Page 15 - Clip art and Before Light
Before Light is the most brazen knock-off product in this catalog.
Page 16 - Cheap productivity software
Kids today will never understand the thrill of printing a banner on a dot matrix printer.
Page 17 - Family value software
Huh, Perry Como doesn't sound like an Irish name.
Page 18 - Possibly educational software
I don't recall carrying of these at Electronics Boutique. Almost everything else in this catalog was at one of the stores I worked at.
Table of contents
Maybe I should have listed this first.
Mailer - outside
I suppose this also confirms the date this catalog was published.
Mailer - the form itself
Alright, thanks for visiting. This was not the most exciting thing I've scanned but maybe someone enjoyed it.
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