A pretend basket with real sources
Choose a year, work with a fictional budget and keep a souvenir receipt. No order is placed. No game account, app or AI service is needed to play.
The original scene draws on August 1995 newspaper advertisements from Tahoka, Texas. Other scenes use the named US catalogues or dated manufacturer announcements. Every offer retains its edition, market, unit and conditions. These are not national average prices.
How we select current products
We look for exact current references that connect with a memory. We check the named Amazon.com listing, variant and visible availability, and keep modern differences explicit. We have not bought or tested these products. A listing check is a dated observation, not a guarantee of future stock or delivery.
About the pictures
The home still life, year covers, experience mood photographs and historical product pictures are AI-created interpretations produced during development. They are not archives or exact product photos. Shapes, colours, labels and packaging details are interpretive. The experience photographs illustrate activities, not the exact linked products. Current-product cards do not reuse merchant images or these interpretations as product photographs.
Contact
For project questions or corrections, contact Patrick at patrick@astoul.pro.
An independent project
This is an early independent project. Audience, conversion and revenue have not been validated. Shopping buttons use affiliate links. How shopping links work.