What was it like to Rent a Movie?

What was it like to Rent a Movie?

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What was it like renting that ho to pretend to be Belle?

Horrible. They charged you late fees literally no matter when you returned it and you had to call and argue with the teenage manager to get rid of them.

Also the DVDs were always scratched as fuck

Like returning library books.

Walking around the aisles was quite the experience, I'll always remember "that smell" - oldfags will know what I'm talking about. That said, our local rental store was really inconveniently placed so if you wanted to go get something it was an ordeal, taking it back was worse.

It's better now.

You were choosing something based on very little info. Either a trailer you saw before another VHS months or weeks earlier or you just went off cast/crew alone. Or you just went off the cover.

Before the internet wandering the movie aisle was an adventure. I feel sorry for kids these days scrolling mindlessly through Netflix.

It was kinda shit and overpriced.

But it did allow you to watch movies you were interested in but not too much to see it in the theaters or buy the VHS.

Sort of like Netflix but shit and less retarded since it was the only thing we had.

Never had much of a experience like . Though my local video renting place was more chill mom&pop type store.

Man I miss that so much. Same with video games as well.

Now I ignore something if the rating and cover art on IMDB doesn't look all that interesting because I've become so lazy.

Find out for yourself. Go to iTunes or Amazon instant and rent one.

it was fun to peruse the shelves and coming across some pure kino

>be me
>play rainbow six vegas non-stop
>calyso casino
>camp outside the kino room
>xbox scratches my disk like fuk
>ring scratch on disk caused by xbox
>rent rainbow six
>swap disks
>take old disk back
>muh rental didn't work lady of blockbuster
>sorry user
>rent a different game instead.
>new disk
>play new rental game
>win win

I loved going to the video store and looking at the latest releases. We rented at least once a week but now free movies are on tap, I hardly ever bother to look.

It was a reason to leave the house...

>used to live next to a hollywood video/game crazy
>was on a first name basis with everybody
>got free stuff all the time
It truly was a golden era...

Who here had the unlimited rentals option from Hollywood Video?

I would ride my bike up there almost every day and get a new movie. I was allowed two at once so I'd get a game for a few days and beat it too. Even R and M rated ones!

Now I have hundreds of movies and tv shows I obsessively collect but never watch and five years worth of games in my backlog because I don't play that much and I'm obsessed with getting 100% completion on everything I play.

>growing up

It was.

pretty comfy. We only rented in weekends cause then you were allowed to return it on monday, and on that weekend we watched that same movie at least 4 times.

>Parents are elsewhere in the store
>Edge down the horror isle
>Looking at all the depraved body horror and nudity on the back of tapes
>Longingly glance at the curtained off area
>Pick some weird Japanese cartoon with loads of gore

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the fat neckbeard who ran the place approved of my kino selections and after a while would recommend shit that I was too young to rent. great source of arthouse fap material pre-internet.

Interesting, except for the return part.

I miss em, going to get a movie was like a fun experience. Had a small rental where I lived, All the sections to browse through and they were always playing something in the store. All those old timey posters on the wall. Clicking a few buttons in netflix just isn't the same man.

Video rental stores still exist in some places, though they mostly cater to really niche videos that are hard to find.

>renting N64 games
>more often than not get a game with 100% unlocks
>delete save file

>every blockbuster and family video in the local area goes out of business
>sale on everything at every store to get rid of stock
>dvd's and blu rays for 50 cents a pop in some places

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thoughts on this qt?

good fuck those lazy kids they can play there own game

like bags of sand

I know this feel well.

> Friday nights
> Can go rent a movie or two at blockbuster
> Got to new releases
> All checked out
> Disappointed
> Spend 30 minutes finding two other movies to watch
> Go to checkout
> Ask dad to buy some junior mints and hot tamales
> Return home renting two movies you didn't want but getting some candy
> Dad forgets to return the movies on time

Anyone here ever shop at Moviestop?

It was the best experience because you would walk in and be greeted with the best smell and the workers were so nice. You could just browse and find whatever you wanted and they had great prices.

Now that store is shut down. It's sad but life goes on.

Embarrassing as hell.
>Don't-even-have-my-first-pube years old
>Parents super abusive
>Not allowed to say no
>Forced to watch (18) movies with them
>Movies with graphic sex
>Forced to return them solo, last moment in the dead of night
>Can't properly reach the counter
>Slide it to the dude avoiding eye contact
>Sprint out

It was pretty bad.
Got mad boners in the same room as everyone and didn't even know what a boner was or what to do with it.
It's the moaning along side the silence of everyone watching that makes you want to end yourself.
Saw films like old boy and the rocky horror show before I could even jizz.

>Movie ends at when-o'clock and you try to sleep
>Can't sleep because BBC stepdad is plowing your psycho feminazi mother
>Next day in school you can't focus
>Teacher rages when you space out
>Teacher snitches to parents
>Parents beat the shit out of you
It's like you can't win.

Fuck rent-a-movie

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>100 percent completion on everything

Don't feel bad user, that's the right way to play a game.

Life ain't easy for a boy named sue

>rent N64 game
>profile name is "ASS"

Every time.

>Check and see if they have that one N64 game ive been waiting 6 months to play
>Still checked out
>Pick out bloodsport again for the 100th time
>Pick out some butterfinger BBs
>tug on moms shirt until we check out and leave

every time

I'd always ejaculate onto the bottom of the disk and smear it around before putting it back in its case.

Hitler in the making

What game was it

You know which one

It was fun to go through the isles and argue about what to get. Also people were more invested in the film because the put a modicum of effort into getting it.

>rent harvest moon 64
>like 10 save slots
>first 3 already taken
>start a 4th one and play it nonstop for 5 days, getting several years into the game.
>parents won't let me rerent it
>wait a week
>get to rent it again, ready to return to my waifu
>first 3 save slots are unchange
>my slot is overwritten despite their being 6 empty slots underneath, and 3 taken slots above it

I know the fucker who did that is here. If I find you, I will beat the shit out of you.

Was good experience overall, go out, walk around store, pick up some movie eheh, then you pick up snacks and popcorns in tub, then you drive home, rewind the vhs and watch movie that had been played to much and was distorted at the parts with boobs.

Great, a real treat for oneself that you recognized as such because of how ceremonial it was. Actually going to some physical space to pick out whatever entertainment you temporarily wanted that night along with snacks and even pizza added to the excitement, as did the thrill of discovering something new or interesting without simply looking it up. Hell, as a kid I regularly visited such places just to look at the covers and read the blurb, then make up the movies in my head before I actually saw them, with various results.
Just renting or torrenting material digitally just doesn't hold the same weight. It's cheaper and more convenient, but you loose the thrill of your own discovery and any sense of agency that comes with physically going out for the hunt or gather.
Oh well, at least we can still buy films or rent them from our libraries, but it ain't quite the same.

They probably deleted it because you picked Maria

Mystical Ninja Goemon?

But I want to play other games too. I have three going right now.

>rent a vhs
>kids knew the employees never rewound the videos before putting them on shelves again
>would always return the video with the tape starting right at climatic point and spooling the film for them

Who /shitbag/ here

it was smash bros you dingus

No, the correct answer is Diddy Kong Racing

My blockbuster would place a sticker over the disc to stop people from doing this but all it did was make the disc not spin properly. It was retarded and I'm glad Blockbuster went out of business.

Fuck yeah, $10 a month unlimited rentals, 3 out at a time. I miss that shit. I would rip them and take all 3 back the same day.

Which three?

>Go to rent a movie
>forget the password when at the counter

Every time

MGSV, Dishonored 2, and the newest Hitman. Been on a stealth kick this year it seems. I don't do multiplayer games.

You know what I don't get

Why don't Netflix or Amazon create a virtual store in Oculus Rift where people can just pretend they are in a rental store and browse titles by walking through the virtual store. They pick up the movies, look at the cover, have a Siri esque host follow them to make sure they aren't stealing the virtual gummy bears

>there is a VHS Case in the world with fake blood on it
>somebody thought of that idea and then actually did it

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neat

The Redbox doesn't exist anymore?

lel, sounds like something I'd do

I remember renting games and check all the savegames so I could overwrite the most advanced one

>unbreakable kimmy schmidt s2

wew

>rented Majoras Mask
>save file was CUNT
>didn't know what it meant
>had all the masks so played on that save
>"hey, CUNT...."
>me mum saw and banned the console for a week
>banned rentals forever

>My local blockbuster went out of business
>go check out their dumpster that night
>get about 20 different movie posters and a full size cardboard cut out
>Give them to all my friends as "random gifts"
>they thought I bought them

Hahaha that was ME that named that save file CUNT

Do you remember any?

this user is smart

library? never heard of one.

>no idea what to get
>rent some kids cartoon with robot dinosaurs that have guns attached
>never find it again

That was awesome

I remember a cartoon on Fox Kids where these robots or warriors can become dinosaurs. It was computer animated iirc.
And now I suddenly realize that there's not much action cartoons for kids nowadays.

Naa, I'd play the game a little different.
My bio-father was black so I have the perspective of someone who's neither here nor there.
My play would be one of choice, personal responsibility and consequence.

>you will never walk into a video store and spend a whole hour just roaming around looking for something to watch

Renting VHS tapes was pretty cool user. Nice way to spend your weekend and sometimes was cheaper to rent 3 or more at a time. It was fun and exciting to be looking forward to new releases. It only sucked when you got that occasional bad tape or getting them went they weren't rewinded yet.

Good times. We got Rebox now but its not quite the same.

It was nice.

But cinema was also better back then.

By today's standards of convenience and media on demand, it was a hassle. But you cant really put a price on the nostalgia of it.

For me, it was a family ritual every Friday night. We would go to the video store and pick up 1-3 movies depending on well behaved me and my sister had been that week. Browsing the aisles as a kid with my sister looking for new release horror movies or discover older movies we had never heard of was awesome.
We would then pick up a pizza on the way home and make popcorn and sit down for a family movie before my mom went to bed. After that my sister and i would get to stay up late watching horror movies together.
That was back when we still got along like siblings and could talk to each other.
Now that we're grown up, my sister and I had a falling out and never speak or see each other. She addicted to popping pills and my memories of us as kids going to the video store and staying up all night watching movies are the only things left of our family ties.

I... I can't remember anymore.

It was a ripoff but just walking in there made you feel right, this line from Chrissy embodies that feeling.

It's obviously Resident Evil 2

Way too often, you wanted to rent the New Hottness and the store was completely out of every copy of said movie.

R6V was pure vidyakino desu

Good feel tbqh. Wish I bought more.

>get a VHS
>it's not rewound
Stores that charged unrewound fees were the shit

Dinozaurs? Super obscure anime. Think it got buried to promote digimon and power rangers more

Yep, that's it. Shit was cash though at the time.

It was pretty great back in the early 90s, mostly due to VHS being rather expensive for new movies and new VHS movies coming out took far longer then today.

The blockbuster we used to get stuff at in Florida was always well maintained and had a decent selection, although I did get a few duds every now and then (I remember a copy of a Genesis Simpsons game and a Superman game never worked). Hell, they even rented game consoles at one point, although it was extremely expensive and required a deposit.

I noticed the whole "charging even if it was returned on time" started near the end of the 90s and was common in the early 2000s. That was also when I noticed a lot of movie stores getting dirtier and having less of a selection.

annoying as fuck and I miss nothing about it, DVD wasn't commonplace until I was 11 and rewinding VHS fucking sucked too so you missed nothing.

Goddamn dude, the smell.
Us oldfags amirite?

I remember renting an N64 and some games from a blockbuster on a vacation once and it seemed cheap as hell to me for what you got. Do you remember what they made you pay?

There is still a Family Video that operates in our city and it has an absolutely massive selection. I don't know how it's still there but apparently people go in there all the time and it's like never empty.