>Parents decide to rent a movie for friday night
>Rent something for themselves and a kids movie for my brother and I
>Walk past the horror section and feel a rush of adrenaline by looking at all the spooky video covers
also
>Re-watching the film your parents rented you over and over Saturday morning before its returned
>9 year old me
>Would stand in my sweatpants and rub my dick while looking at some old Tarzan-type 80's movie case that had a tit on the front cover
>Think I was sneaky
>Looking back, everyone probably knew what I was doing
>Walking past the porno section that was blocked by a bead door and knowing there was some intense shit behind there
> never got to go into the adults only section at my local video store
;_;
Meh you didn't miss much. Just imagine a lot of shitty 90s porn covers and the awkward interaction of renting it from the cute girl behind the till. Also having to watch a lot of shitty exposition and acting before getting to the good parts. Also accidentally rewinding to far to the watch the part where you wanted to nut and then rewinding too far.
>Excited to rent the new movie Emperors New Groove
>Run to the new releases section in the back of the store
>See a huge shelf filled from top to bottom with Emperors New Groove vhs tapes
>Grab the first one I could get my hands on
>It's an empty display cover
>They're all empty display covers!
>Desperately rummage the shelf looking for a real copy behind the display covers
>They have none - they are out of Emperors New Groove
>In denial, I continue to check behind cases I already checked
>overwhelming disappointment fills my body as I shuffle off to find some other shitty movie that can distract me from not being able to see Emperors New Groove
>go home
>boot up AOL
>My man Jeeves teaches me how to torrent movies
>15 years later, Blockbuster is dead, Jeeves dead, and I have all the Emperors New Groove movies I could ever ask for
I never had a rental store that had an adult section - I guess that was a pretty common thing before blockbuster and hollywood video took over the industry?
I only remember the colds sweats from passing through the horror section and seeing with the corner of my eye the Child's Play VHS.
Truly a grand tale but you must say it was fun actually going out and searching for that one movie you desperately wanted to watch instead of being flooded with everything a few clicks away.
Hellraiser for me
>I never had a rental store that had an adult section - I guess that was a pretty common thing before blockbuster and hollywood video took over the industry?
I'm not from the US so we always had privately owned rental stores. Porn seemed to be the bread and butter of these places until everyone had their own internet connection. I remember back in the 80s and early 90s half of the stores were pornography with the rest being normal films and it progressively shrinking in the late 90s and early 2000s.
>late 1990s
>Rent Alien and get a gigantic bag of these fuckers at Blockbuster
Good times. I wonder why they don't make these things anymore, they were fucking great.
The porn section at my store wasn't even really roped off or anything. They just kinda had shelving arranged as a hallway that led to this cubicle-like area filled with porn. I remember unintentionally wandering back there as a kid while looking around. I was not ready.
>Wondering why the silence of the lambs cover looked so harmless but knowing it wasn't
>tfw my local video store propped up a concessions stand in the back and started selling pizzas for a little bit
RIP Tropical Video in Edgewater, FL.
Great image
When I was three. Three, maybe four, she left us at that video store
This happened to locally owned places in the US as well.
In the beginning, it was mainly standard movie rentals, but as DVDs got cheaper, and the internet became more prevalent, the local stores began to push porn more.
It was entirely possible for a mother to wander into some of these stores with her kids and just been attacked by covers of hardcore porno, because the owners didn't have the forethought to change the name of their business or put up a proper warning sign.
Nowadays, the only places you can buy porn locally are at shops that specialize in sex toys. I have to imagine they don't sell terribly well though, because they are expensive as fuck. I went in there with my wife once and saw what appeared to be a really good looking live action Sailor Moon porn parody. (the costumes were good, the women looked hot) but they wanted $50 for the DVD. and most of the other DVDs were priced at that range too
>you'll never watch Austin Powers on videotape and play with Bionicles at your friend's house again
fuck
Truly the golden age of human existence
>KFC family meals with beans and little toys of the latest action film
>renting a game with a movie every week
>having only 5 channels instead of 600
>no internet or mobile phones
>Bionicles
underage detected
what the fuck happened to our society?!
Dude I had half of those bot things.
Me too, finally watched the first 3 movies recently. They were entertaining, especially the first one but they would've seriously fucked with my sleep nightmarewise if I saw those as a kid.
>tfw your mom takes you and your best friend to Friendly's right after bringing you to Toys R Us to buy some sweet Slizers, while you built / play with them at the table whilst enjoying a milkshake and those mini gummy bears they give you
No specific memories but I always enjoyed the feeling of being able to discover something new, it seemed every box had a story within, it simply made you want to watch them, you don't feel the same thing on streaming platforms.
I was thinking about this a week ago, what're the chances of an updated brick and mortar movie rental place actually enjoying some success in this day in age?
I constantly hear people complaining about how they've seen everything on Netflix, or how the selection at Redbox sucks. Plus the nostalgia running high for the 90's and things like the movie rental store. There are industries that have found new success with people becoming tired of doing everything online and wanting to have a human interaction.
If there was an updated video store with a good selection, good service, and obviously snacks, would you go on a friday night and make movie night an event again?
I played with bioncles almost 20 years ago now.
What are you talking about?
ITT: Gen Z pretends they remembered the 90s and early 2000s.
nostalgia isnt going to bring back a pointless dead business model.
>implying there aren't legitimate oldfags here
I'm 29, turning 30 in a few months
I'd say give it another 10 years or so and maybe you could have one as a novelty.
Kinda like what drive in movie places are like now.
It sends people to theaters in droves to see dead franchises.
You're still a Millennial, though.
Know your role, junior.
>turning 30 in a few months
Don't let the existential dread set in.
Gen-Z =/= millennial, learn the difference.
this
>this is what millennials and wikipedia actually believe.
Millennial is someone that "grew up" past the millennium, with the Internet, rise of social media, etc.
Gen-Z refers to a generation of births from a specific time period. Gen-Z can be millennials, as can Gen-Y.
really? thanks billy.
I used to look at the backs of videos, and try to imagine what the movie would be like.
Even though i'd already been through the section a dozen times before, and knew pretty much every movie they had, i'd still go through them to see if maby there was something I missed last time.
The 'adult' section was literally right there with the normal movies, just a little 4 foot section, I think 4-5 rows.
I never checked it out because I was afraid the workers would see me and rat me out to my mom, plus back then I didn't really get what the big deal was with bare titties and ass.
I'd watched Conan and all those other fantasy movies by that point, with tits and bush fucking everywhere, and I didn't understand why these certain movies had thier own section when i'd seen it all before.
If only i'd knew.
I remeber seeing this kid absulutely loose his shit after looking at the Child's Play cover at Hollywood Video I was probably the younger than him and was like wtf
>mfw walking past the giant Hellraiser cardboard cutout
>mfw i still have yet to watch Hellraiser in its entirety
t. self-hating gen Z pretending to be an oldfag
No need to get jelly that your single mom was too poor to provide an enjoyable weekend with friends, movie/videogame of your choice, and fond memories
...
I was around 12 or 13 in the late 90's, and used to rent wrestling tapes from my local video store. Well one day my friend tells me about something called UFC. This was back when UFC had very few rules, so the fights were crazy sometimes.
Anyways we rent this tape, Ken Shamrock vs Dan Severn, and it was the greatest fight I had ever seen. The next week we go back and lo and behold, there is a tape of shamrock/Severn TWO, the rematch.
We go to the checkout and the stoner working there looks at the tape and says hmmm we have a special today, two videos for the price of one but you have to let me choose the second tape, so he went to the wall and chose another tape. Me and my friend just went with it.
Long story short Shamrock/Severn 2 was the worst fight in history, and the second tape was a UFC tournament where Don Fyre won, and it was a great tournament.
Anyways the point of the story is that there was no two for one deal that day, the guy working the counter just new the Shamrock/Severn 2 fight sucked and didn't want us to waste our money, so he threw in another tape for free.
Thanks nick, wherever you are.
If it has a god-tier selection and I really mean god-tier (as in EVERYTHING that isn't 5/10 or less from the past 70 years) in addition to an incredible anime section with kino shit like LotGH and Planetes.....AND some bangin ass snacks maybe fresh popcorn/nachos.....I can see it doing well in a college town.
>Severn in UFC
The state of his striking m8. You ever watch his fight in Pride 1?
They sell kit-kat versions of these, just as good imo.