What was blockbuster like?

What was blockbuster like?

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like picking a big booger out of your nose

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It was...a fond memory. There was something meaningful about actually taking a DVD or cassette off of the shelf as opposed to just googling "the cuckold full movie."

t'was an ancient realm of earthen odours and blinding fluorescent lights. rented Scream like 5 times. pretty comfy place.

so rewarding

>have to have a credit card to check out movies, no debit will not work

2bh. I'm glad they were naturally pushed out. They were also very fee happy.
>Sorry, gotta charge you for not rewinding.

realm of odors is right, never been assaulted with the plastic of VHS, candy and pop corn which is strange because I recall they never literally served fresh popcorn

A more expensive family video with no porn

one of mankinds greatest inventions

i pity anyone who will never be able to experience that sweet sweet smell of a blockbuster. i still remember it. god what a great place.

Good for trying out games I weren't sure they would be good when I used to play console.

If it was good I usually googled a cheaper copy then paying blockbuster prices. I was part of their death.

I sorta miss going to a video rental store on a Friday night as a kid and the whole place was packed.

it was pretty comfy

expensive

netflix/other streaming services is better in every way

I feel as though I need to clear some things up about why Blockbuster Video is closing, and why they went chapter 11 in the first place a few years ago

>Blockbuster Video used to be owned by a Jew owned company named Viacom
>Viacom are money-grubbing whores
>Viacom buys all of blockbuster's rentals and merch with loans, instead of profits
>every year use profit to pay off loans, take out new loans to buy new merchandise
>blockbuster decides to split from viacom because they are tyrants
>viacom takes all of blockbuster's profits from that year, but does not pay off the loans
>the loans were taken out under blockbuster's name, not viacom's, so the loans technically belong to blockbuster
>viacom does not tell this to blockbuster corporate
>when blockbuster finds out, there is already a shit ton of interest, and viacom has all of their profits
>desperately try every quarter to pay off loans
>1 mil loan becomes 3 mil then 5 mil, finally tens of millions of dollars are owed
>go chapter 11, file for bankruptcy
>Dish network buys Blockbuster Video, because they want to use the iconic Blockbuster Video logo to sell tv subscriptions, plus wants brick and mortar stores to sell tv subscriptions
>closes unprofitable stores that were still around after chapter 11 closings
>has 300 locations left
>all are profitable
>blockbuster is profitable as a whole again, especially in the North East
>fast forward 2 years to 2013
>Dish decides to go exclusively to streaming
>considers selling BBV
>no fewer than 3 companies are interested in buying
>but Dish wants to keep Blockbuster logo for streaming service, cant do that if they sell the company
>decide to liquidate stores, put 3000 people out of work, all over the rights to a logo
>tell employees they are being laid off AFTER telling the news networks

Blockbuster's problem was it was owned by two shitty Jew owned corporations.

>Sorry, gotta charge you for not rewinding

I failed their penis inspection many a time.

>worked at a blockbuster in early 2000s
>went into work drunk off my ass every day, manager was a pothead who didn't care
>chatted with customers about movies all day
>set up a tv and watched movies on slow nights at the register
>started fucking my one coworker
>we would lock the front door and fuck in the back whenever we were on alone together during nights

i miss those days. good times.

You can't stream games on Netflix though

To be fair, Blockbuster was apart of their own death.

I miss hoping a movie was still there to be rented on new release day...

I miss looking through a variety games to rent for the hell of it.

Fuck their late fees though. My idiot sister could never FUCKING RETURN THINGS ON TIME GOD DAMNIT.

My local Blockbuster accepted debit cards, where the fuck do you live?

An expensive option to avoid the clunky "you have to own movies if you ever want to see them again" reality of the 90's.

I have better memories from the rental section of Kroger.

>tfw renting video games as a kid

The best part was when they threw trading cards out and you knew the one kid who would go dumpster diving and then get them for people.

Excellent research dear user

Jews really will be the death of decency to your fellow man in their eternal search for profits.

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QUICK!

As you and your dad are at the check out line renting a pg-13 your mom said you shouldn't be watching dad says that you can pick ONE drink and ONE snack. What do you pick?

>Vanilla Coke
>hot tamales

Like everything in past, awful

Dallas/ft worth. They didn't always do this, but there was about a 3 year gap when they did.

>vanilla coke
>those cookie dough ball things

It was good for recent releases but my local independent rental store was much better for obscure or out of fashion movies

Oh you're in the US. In the UK they weren't very strict.

Root beer and Lemonheads

Not as good as local video stores. They had this weird corporate christian morality bullshit when unrated dvd's started coming out they wouldn't carry.

> That fat kid in the blockbuster queue begging his mom to rent more games and/or buy sweets.

I liked it when they had a big basket of films they no longer wanted for dirt cheap prices

Blockbuster went out for a ton of reasons, but let's not forget the fees for EVERYTHING, them not owning a single building for any stores, so they'd have to pay MASSIVE lot fees, and that Credit Card shit.
However they hired a fuck ton of hot girls there.

Dr. Pepper and Popz Popcorn Boxes

I bought about 20 DVDs for 20 bucks on their final days.

>go to blockbuster on a Friday night like normal
>waiting in line to check out
>black man that looks exactly like Tyrone biggums grabs a box of new games from behind the counter and runs out of the store
>have to wait for the clerk to call the police before we could check out
I rented project a and to this today it just reminds of that black man that robbed the store

>he didn't go to his local chain

RIP Crazy Carl's Movie House. You may have been gone for eight years now, but all of your signage remains thanks to the apparent difficulty of finding another tenant for your former location.

I fucking hate physical media nowadays.

I really need to sell all my dvds/cds/games because it is dead weight.

Blockbuster service was beyond awful where I lived. It was probably easier to buy a gun than to rent a fucking movie.

it just smelled like cardboard and air conditioning if i remember right.

...

>There's still a blockbuster down the street from me

decent place to get a flick

Better than that. Blockbuster was always very comforting in a weird way.

I was molested in the horror section by my uncle at Blockbuster when I was 23

I never had an actual Blockbuster in my town, but the local rental place was really great to go to. My parents would let me rent an N64 game every time we went.

I bet they paid like $500 each over the years for both Vigilante's, both Battletanx games, Beetle Adventure Racing, and some other game I always used to get where you have to like land military vehicles and you could just fuck off and blow shit up.

Point being if my parents would have just bought me the god damn games they'd have saved a fortune.

kids will never know the feeling of waiting in line to rent the newest video game and asking their mom if they can get a box of skittles and a soda too

That sounds horrorble

Blockbuster was everything awesome

>go in
>all the movies you want to see from wall to wall
>game section off to the side with all new releases and a bunch of classics
>get your game and movie for the night
>head into the check out line where they have GOAT move theater boxes of candy and cold drinks
>show them your membership card like a boss
>have a great evening

Kill yourself wannabe saetre
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>ywn rent sunbleached kids movies from a Blockbuster ever again

It was extremely exciting as a child.

>As of 2016, Blockbuster still maintains 19 stores across the United States.
Damn, you must feel special, user. One of 19 across the whole country.

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Family Video still has those, and they have them for free.

I use to work at blockbuster from 2006 to 2007.

I don't remember much of anything because antipsychotic medication has destroyed my brain and my long term AND short term memory.

Somebody please kill me.

I have no idea if this is true but I've always been confused by the death of the local video rental store. Do that many people use redbox or know how to torrent? Always seemed like the economic equivalent of anaphylactic shock to me. Corporations freaking out over the idea of loss of growth and profits over the actual current reality.

I choose to believe this.

I think they're all in Alaska or the super rural Midwest that has shitty internet.

>It was probably easier to buy a gun than to rent a fucking movie.
>tfw this is 100%, non exaggerated, wholeheartedly true where I live
Dog bless this fucking nation.

I still have my Blockbuster video rental card in my wallet and I refuse to throw it out for some reason. It's almost like I'm still holding out hope that one day I'll bump into one last Blockbuster vidoe store while driving around the country .

>I don't remember much of anything because antipsychotic medication has destroyed my brain and my long term AND short term memory.

iktf, bro

it's nice not to remember some things, though

overpriced and shitty customer service

>I have no idea if this is true
It's true. All of it.

Apple store of Video tapes.

>those strange movie box covers that intrigued you, but you never got around to watching
>going in trying to figure out the one video game you were going to rent
>those deals on old crappy movies your dad always bought every time he saw them
>that smell of popcorn eminating from the giant pile of popcorn tubs near the checkout
>going to blockbuster to use the pokemon snap sticker machine

I searched this thread and nobody mentions broadband.

No blockbusters here, but video rental turned obsolete in literally overnight when broadband finally came into household in 2001.

It took an awful long time for legal download/streaming services to compete with illegal ones and surpass them. For a decade it looked like things had forever stagnated in that respect.


I never looked back. Now i do, and it sounds way too bothersome.

That sounds like a plot for a very entertaining slice of life comedy

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>be me
>dad lets me rent any horror movie i want
>rent the first three Nightmare on Elm Street films
>get to the counter
>total hottie working
>"yes, user. it is I, the girl. and as you can see, I have a stack of fresh kaka cigars here. do you poopy puff with your films?"
>"yepperoo"
>sends me home with 3 stogies made of shit. i poopy puffed all night

I miss blockbuster

also, who /jumbovideo/ here?

Yeah, but "broadband" back then was like 100KBps and it would still take you days to download a shitty 3:4 800x600 rip. You'd go to the store and rent a 720p quality movie in like 2 hours.

u best b in da spectrum or u best b leavin, nigga

expensive as shit sanitised video store that destroyed all the good video stores that had all the obscure horror and cult, arthouse movies

>tfw rented Banjo Kazooie and Atlantis with my dad

More like 1-3 hours. The thing was to put stuff downloading at night or during the day - if you had a decent router - and you'd have more movies and series to watch than most could in a day.

The lack of arcades and rental stores feels like if movie theaters disappeared in your lifetime. There was just something to "the experience" that made it feel special, even the downsides of it.
>browsing around looking at weird covers and reading synopses
>getting enticed into trying things you wouldn't otherwise; maybe what you wanted was all rented out, or you couldn't find anything else of interest and didn't want to go home empty-handed
>a weird minor bond you felt with fellow patrons that made society feel a little less cold and detached
>getting as many snacks as you could with the money you had left with you
My family or friends and I would always be in there a good 20 minutes or more and it added a little extra something to movie night.

> if movie theaters disappeared in your lifetime.

Spoiler: They will.

I would walk into blockbusters at 7 years old without any identification and exchange video games

Now that's a shitpost.

blockbuster video
WOW what a difference

they also independently censored movies

There was a Blockbuster in the neighborhood but I had a membership at the local mom & pop video rental joint, as they were closer, cheeper and most videos could be rented for three days, unlike Ballbuster, where most of the stuff was one day only rentals.

Mom & pop video were also the first place around to offer video game rentals and my buddy and I would rent a Nintendo on a Friday and spend the weekend getting drunk and high while playing G.I.Joe.

indeed but it looks like a challenger has just arrived.

If you went to a blockbuster instead of your local family owned store then you were raised by faggots

>mfw I rented Goldeneye enough times to have just bought the real game
>mfw I rented Banjo-Kazooie, fell in love with it, and DID end up just buying it

kaka cigars

my local mom and pop closed up finally last year. i was their last customer, and i broke down in tears from that.

that place was full of such schlock and weird shit. the owners hugged me and said, "stop being a goddamned faggot, we closed up because we couldnt stand the thought of waking up to open this shit hole and having your fat autistic ass stumble through here mumbling and proud of going outside, annoying us for a half hour trying to pay for tranny porn with spaghetti and home made sonic comics".

i miss them.

It was glorious. I had a pass to get 3 movies/games out at a time. I miss it deeply.

Parents didn't believe in renting BBVideos since we had HBO, Showtime and, Stars
Their Sodas and snacks were always at least $2 to $3 over priced.

New DVDS for sale were always $10 to $20 more expensive than every other place that sold them.

It was just a nice store to go into and look around.
Some people who worked there were also rude so didn't even bother talking to them ever.

I rented this countless times...

I don't know how many months I waited for this to be returned to the store...

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>molested at 23 by your uncle

how does this happen?

pfffffft : )

>friday nights, go into to blockbuster to rent a game and movie
>all the employees are super laid back and joke around among themselves and with the customers
>they even do this funny group greeting whenever they get a customer

I miss it Sup Forums