From 1978-1995, no magazine looked to the future as excitedly as Omni. (Expand the gallery to fullscreen for the best experience.)

Your parents were on to the Columbia House scam, but if you were lucky, they'd let you join the Science Fiction Book Club.

VIC-20: The Commodore 64's cheaper cousin, and the author's first ever gaming device. (Radar Rat Race 4eva!)

Before Red Sonja, before we even knew Wilt Chamberlain could act, there was the original Conan.

"Astrocade Gives You More!" Because next-gen experiences like Checkmate and Scribbling would never become obsolete. LOL Scribbling.

Cosmos fans: bet you didn't know Big Oil was behind the greatest science miniseries of all time!

Fun fact: the Walkman was created for webisodes about Rick Moranis' character from Ghostbusters. No, seriously, it's true.

"And with so much personal information being stored in computers...it's been of continuing concern to us at IBM."

Atari 2600 and its murderer's row of gaming titles. Shame you treated these like crap, you non-investment-minded ingrates.

One man, five douchey getups. Though we'll give him credit for skiing with a cassette machine around his neck.

The French translates to "don't worry, in a few years you and your D&D buddies will run the tech world."

Believe it or not, there was a time when film marketers knew what the word "restraint" meant.

Between this and football, Mattel's handheld electronics game was on point. (Sorry, Nintendo Game & Watch.)

Oh, tiny keyboards. We all had you, yet none of us became musicians. What's that about?

"All that computer for $599? Who'd expect that in 20 years something the size of a credit card would run laps around this thing?"

"Apple, the computer not worth waiting for. Until we build a bunch of huge crowded stores, anyway."

The next time your friends tease you for not dubbing Human League songs onto TDK, you tell them if Ampex is good enough for the Bee Gees, it's good enough for you.

Okay, we're just now realizing that One Guy, Multiple Douchey Looks is a personal-electronics ad trope. We're just not sure why.