Remember vhs rental stores? Remember walking down the horror aisle and getting really scared by all the movie covers?

Remember vhs rental stores? Remember walking down the horror aisle and getting really scared by all the movie covers?

Remember all the snacks they had up near the front?

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>summer
>friday night
>your friends mom takes you and your friend to rent some movies and games
>each get to pick one movie and one game
>stay up late all weekend watching the movies and playing the games
>utter bliss

Why am I even alive still

Fuck I miss walking down an aisle and picking out movies. Fuck you Netflix.

>summer
>friday night
>your friend's mom takes you to the blockbuster parking lot at 11 p.m. and sucks you off
>utter bliss

>mfw did this same exact thing
>mfw my friends older brother would take whatever game we rentrd and burn bootleg a copy for us and another for him to sell
>mfw trading games and dvds around with each other

She was a whore though. They ended up getting divorced a few years later because she was cheating on his dad.

>tfw your dad lets you pick out one movie, 1 videogame, and 1 candy from the rental store.
>tfw whole family made popcorn in a big bowl that we all passed around while watching on Dad's jerry-rigged surround sound
>tfw playing the videogame all weekend, returning it, then reading about said videogame in magazines like Nintento power or Electronic gaming monthly and discovering that it has cheat codes.

>summer
>the neighborhood girl your parents payed to keep an eye on you while they were at work molests you every day

i worked at one of these shit holes for a few months

from time to time qt's from my past would show up, from high school, community college, etc, and i would puke spaghetti each time

i had to watch black people come in and steal shit all the time and i couldnt confront them per orders by management ("we cant directly imply they stole something; they would be able to sue us")

every single coworker was unbearable except for one chad who was actually pretty cool

literally a nightmare

Nostalgia is overrated.

>and getting really scared
You mean walking down the horror isle and getting raging erections at all the mostly naked women on the cover of every horror movie, right?

There are literally three competing video rental stores still operating in my home town.

I worked at a used DVD store up until about two months ago and I can confirm most of this.

Niggers always either came in to buy obscene amounts of anime, or steal shit. Coworkers are either pretty cool, up their own asses about their movie taste, or are just there for a paycheck.

I liked working there, but jesus you see some weird shit working at a video store.

>Remember walking down the horror aisle and getting really scared by all the movie covers?

oh fuck i didn't sign up for this man

>friday evening after school
>the new releases are already gone off the shelves
>wait in line near the returns desk where they stack up movies as they come in
>finally get to the counter
>fuck yes they have one copy left of the one i wanted
>watch it friday night
>wake up early saturday morning, watch it again

Good times.

>Remember all the snacks they had up near the front?

Yeah, they were all overpriced as shit, but I still begged for them.

I do actually remember that, I remember having nightmares of Michael Myers after seeing the Halloween 4 VHS cover, even though I hadn't even seen a Halloween film.

>Remember walking down the horror aisle and getting really scared by all the movie covers?
You mean laughing at the hilariously stupid shit like Santa Claws and Smiley right?

how do you get scared by covers?

one memory i have of blockbuster is always talking about the xxx rated movies and wanting to watch it cuz i thought it was super hardcore scary. my brother would always tell me to stfu and would never tell me what it really was

Blockbuster wasn't even the original mega videostore. That used to be Video Warehouse during the mid 80's. They sold records, tapes, CDs, snacks, soda, candy, magazines, books, rented movies with the biggest betamax section I ever saw. They even rented out VCRs and had shoplifting detectors at the doors that looked like subway platform entrances that you had to push yourself thru. Way better than Blockbuster who catered to new release normies and nobody else.

You're bringing back the feels.
At least we have Family Video where I live. God bless 'em, for keeping the dream alive.

Look at that monkey thumb.

In 20 years kids are going to be reminiscing about Netflix over their retina-implanted visual array systems, and how great it was to spend an evening staring at the same screen as their buddies back in 2016. How -- while the selection was not quite as good, the image quality was lacking, and how there was no VR support -- Netflix on Smart TVs, computers, tablets and phones were better because it was a more visceral experience.

Old technology and business is awful. Blockbuster was awful. However, I do miss the smell. They had a pretty distinct smell, didn't they?

>payed

>walk into video rental store
>life sized cardboard cut out of pinhead
>mfw

Yes, i'm in my thirties. Woopty shit. I can download any fucking movie ever made in 20 minutes now. Life moves on, things get better. Stop wishing for the past and embrace the future.

it was a social thing.

did you not have friends?

>tfw you will never walk to Blockbuster after school with your friends and sneak peeks at the adult section ever again

>mommy will never pick you up from school, take you to blockbuster to rent some kino, and get you pizza for dinner

>be me
>horror section was like porn to me
>that and fangoria mags at comics etc
>wasn't allowed to rent movies back then being only 8,9 yrs old
>mind went crazy imagining how fucked up these movies could be

>years later, rent Pieces, Wizard of Gore, Sleepaway Camp.
Realized my childhood gets ruined every time I see one of those movies whose VHS covers used to impress me so much as a kid. Basically, the movies never lived up to the box art. My twisted childhood imagination was so great none of those horror flicks could compare

>summer
>visit old friends in old town
>discover they have a video rental store, snacks and all

I didn't know I missed it until I had it again.

>having to walk past the horror section to get to the giant monster section

i hate people like you

>Blockbuster
>adult section
Blockbuster never had such a thing, you fucking gen-z poser.

can you describe in detail what happened to you

>Implying Blockbuster didn't have unrated movies with the occasional set of tits on a cover that looked like a piece of gold to a young boy

post blockbuster-core movies

>tfw you can still memorize your fathers person number because you had to give it when renting films
>tfw he would go there every weekend with my little brother
>tfw those good times came to an end

>go to movie store after school Friday to play some vidya for the weekend
>browsing for game/movie
>I need to pee
>I NEED to pee
>rent game
>immediately don't need to pee

every fucking time, it's like the one thing I remember clearly happening every time I went to rent something.

>I don't even know what a blockbuster is
>there are a bunch of old grandpas who still post here that do

>Remember walking down the horror aisle and getting really scared by all the movie covers?

Day of the Dead. Every time I went to Blockbuster I'd stare at that VHS box and want to rent it. Then I'd chicken out.

>walking down the horror aisle
>special combo pack of the Child's Play movies with a huge display
>mfw I ran into it while looking around to make sure none of the other spooky horror movie villians on the other covers would get me

Remember having to rewind tapes or paying a fine? Remember tracking? Remember that shitty audio and video quality? Remember letterbox'd aspect ratio? Remember those fuckhuge VHS boxes that would take up an entire bookcase just for 30 movies?
Such great times, I nostagiae'ded hard bro XD

You're going to have a lightly attended funeral.

>walk around video store
>see Alien, the cover didn't look scary and I thought aliens were cool as fuck
>bring Alien to dad
>oh oh oh son, that is far too scary, even for me! You'll dream nightmares for weeks
>always check to see if they still have it when we go to rent a movie
>fast forward several years
>I was 13 - finally old enough to watch this spooky movie
>watch it with my dad
>it was great

>Be me
>Work in a VHS rental store in a small town
>Weekend afternoons from the age of 15 - 18 making less than minimum wage
>Still remember the shitty software used to manage rentals and accounts
>Remember when DVDs started
>Nostalgic for the same shitty movies that they always played in the background

It shutdown when a chain opened up in a nearby larger town. Easiest job I ever had.

>be 2000
>call local vidstore
>ask, "gotta copy of Scary Movie?
>clerk sounding annoyed, "yess"
>"coolbeans. Can you hold it for me? I'll be there in 15."
>clerk goes, "not allowed to do that. First come, first serve policy"
>plssssssss???
>nope
>whatanass.aol
>buddy suggests the new blockbuster
>enter new blockbuster in town
>ask female clerk, "got any Scary Movie copies left?"
>clerk with shiteating grin goes, "we sure do. over here."
>clerk waves her arm at an entire wall of Scary Movie VHS copies like a Price is Right model
>cue echoing "waaAAHHHH" sound
> me and my freinds couldn't believe what we saw

>mfw my babysitter would sleep nude and let me "catch" her while I'd wake up sometimes to get water

>Family Video

You in the Dallas suburbs?

Exactly this, except afterwards my friend and I would lie in bed for hours and talk about ourselves, our anxieties and aspirations.

>be early 20's
>ask for job app at videostore
>she-clerk says, "you don't want to work here. We only have part-time positions open and you'll only makr min. Wage"
>mfw I was living with my parents at the time and the money didn't matter. I just wanted to be the next Quentin Tarantino

>Be home from school on a Friday because sick.
>Mom wants to go grocery shopping.
>We go to blockbuster first.
>It's 9 AM
>All new releases of everything available.

It was like discovering a cheat code.

Of all the things to have nostalgia for, these overpriced, limited selection shrines to mediocrity shouldn't be one of them.

kill me

>summer bliss

I remember the Jack Frost VHS that changed its picture as I walked past it
fuck you blockbuster
also mom would never get me "movie style" pop corn packs because they were too expensive

rented most of my tapes from Albertson's anways

>tfw i never bought the snacks at blockbuster because I thought they were a waste of money
>tfw I didn't realize that they wouldn't be there forever

Before the dark times... before the empire...

I lived out in the middle of nowhere and we had an A-Z video and right next to it a pizza place called Pop's.

Jack Frost and the Killing?

I remember seeing that in the blockbuster store in my home city. Same with another B-Movie Horror revolving around santa claus.

I hated video stores. I'd go in, look and look for something, and a lot of the time leave a 1/2 hour later with nothing.

Going to blockbuster was an event to look forward to. The anticipation of renting a new game or movie, see the coming soon signs for other movies. Nowadays you don't even have to put pants on to stream a movie. Theres no anticipation or satisfaction, and too much selection

I remember the game isle. I remember the new movies all over the outer walls. I remember the candy near the front.

I was not scared by the horror section, because they were stacked book-style and I could only see the names.

i rented this so many fucking times

>20-25 year olds
>grandpas

Grocery store rentals. Damn that just brought me back user.

all i remember is weird danny hanging around the bathroom requesting permission to give grooming tips

>too much selection

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>summer these days
>friday night
>have to take your wife's son JaMarcus out for Sonic while mommy has her new friend over

>really young
>friday night, family is at blockbuster
>brothers taking forever to pick a movie to rent
>really have to pee
>too shy to ask where the restroom is
>piss my pants in the middle of the store with everyone looking

Have you ever had sex with another human?

are you implying it matters at all how many people attend your funeral, or how many people even think about you after you die, or how many remember you for longer than a week?

i loved that game

Such is life.

are you from the past?

Coincidentally I lost my virginity that year, user ;)

>Fuck you Netflix.
>tfw Blockbuster had the chance to buy netflix but passed because they thought digital streaming was just a fad that would pass

>their face when it killed them

I remember there used to be a Palmer Video (later West Coast Video) a couple of blocks down.

I remember when on sticky hot friday nights my parents and I would go out, walk to the videostore, theyd pick 2 movies out, and let me pick out a third myself.

>they had a Metal Slug Arcade machine and a Marvel Vs Capcom machine with the volume at full blast


>tfw the Q Sound jingle and MvC intro are both burned into my brain for life

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>I would always ask my parents for coins to play and I would always suck ass

wish i had more clear memories of my childhood blockbuster, I lived on Cape Cod and would go every weekend, usually get a Brosnan 007 film, maybe walk through the horror section if I was feeling adventurous

then in middle school I moved north and my town had a local/indie video store which had so much more character and was way cheaper. it closed right around the time I went off to college, I never got to say goodbye... I remember the employee was a wanna-be horror writer..

When I was about seven a boy my age that my family knew was crushed by a blockbuster sign during a storm.

Fucked up

>renting video games for a week
>faking sick to stay home from school and get full use out of them

Sorry user. :/

Fuck, I miss that. Being a teenager sucked, but spending the night and staying up until the wee hours talking about everything with someone you're growing up with was really nice

When I was 18, I would only apply for jobs at the 4-5 video stores that were in reasonable driving distance of me. Landed a job at Blockbuster. I was in the same situation as you. No bills, lived with parents. I made shit money, but I got lots of free rentals and got the new releases early. Good times.

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>you'll never stay up late to watch the uncensored girls gone wild infomercials ever again

I would always ask if they could check the returns bin. It rarely worked out for me but on occasion it would. It was such a great feeling when it did.

it was fun

>tfw Wichita, KS still has video stores
God it sucks here. Like being trapped in the past.

Where did it all go so wrong?

12 year old guilty fap to this cover.

my first job in high school was working at a movie rental place. minimum wage but I got to rent as many free movies as I wanted.

It kills me that I'll never be able to share little shit like that with my kids. Netflix is cheaper and more convenient, but it's just so sterile and impersonal.

Being cunts about late fees, raising prices, and not offering DVD by mail/streaming until it was too late. They used to charge $5 for game rentals for 5 days then jacked up the prices to $10 for 2 days.

It was the shitty customer service that killed them quicker. They didn't take Redbox or Netflix seriously.

Take them to the park

My best movie memories are sitting in the theatre and having incredible shit happen on a 50 foot screen in front of me, or in a dark basement surrounded by friends while we watched a great movie we rented.

Can't really imagine the same experience huddled around an iPad.

I love this movie. They sold the uncut version a few years ago at big-box retail stores for $5