ITT: good memories
>friday blockbuster and pizza hut for 8 years straight
>playing sonic games in store
>got interviewed in store on film about movies and recieved the vhs of it
>renting a whole snes
>playing megaman x2 and super metroid for the first time
>getting into bond movies
>got many chase pokemon card foils from booster packs
>3 dvds for $20
send me back
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>blockbuster
lol being 12 kys they killed off all the god tier local video stores
>you were in a movie?
>yes it was called the girl of my dreams it starred you
is this the smoothest pick up line in video store history
dvds for $20
are you shitting me...
Huh, so Field of Dreams and Bladerunner are war movies....
I used to fart a lot while slowly browsing through the aisles
Same. It's the excitement.
It was fun I remember being a kid trying to find the most hilarious softcore edits of porn spoofs with my older bros
I always wondered if anybody was brave enough to take out some of the more ridiculous stuff like Playmate of the Apes.
I remember when this happened in my small town.
>movie machine.
>free popcorn machine, so you can grab a bag full while you pick a movie.
>spin a wheel on your 10th rental, win free stuff.
>spin the wheel on your birthday.
>you could call ahead and they would put you on a wait list for any rental.
>if they didn't have a copy of the biggest release of the week, you got your next movie free.
>free coupons if you got good grades.
>you could ask them to take home promo posters.
>small porn room in the back, which you could see into if you stood in the right spot.
>large horror section.
>huge game selection.
>bought chrono trigger complete for 13 dollars.
Blockbuster fucked all that up.
post your childhood blockbuster
kill me
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>it hasn't become anything else yet
Huh.
The one near me became an Autozone too, probably 2008/09
Kek, Raw Deal on the lower left has Arnie on it's cover
anybody?
>Be me, video store day with family
>Drive right by Blockbuster
>Go to local video store instead
>Better selection
>Better prices
>Better membership benefits
>Longer rental periods
>Rent 3 movies and 3 games, all new releases, for 1 week
>$10
>Give Robie a quarter because he looks hungry.
I used to baby some dorky boy who enjoyed playing with that thing. He was into that Japanese cartoons like the ones drawn on that thing.
It hurts so much.
ITT anons get nostalgic over shit-tier video store franchises
now its 9340239 times more efficient, the horror
get outta here commie. We love our capitalism here.
I used Hollywood video, and it turned into a secondhand store and a large Vietnamese restaurant. I also miss my hometown. Fuck you. I'll never be able to live there again.
I own it. It's terrible.
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>its a 2017 nostalgia episode
>WISH WE COULD TURN BACK TIME starts playing
>Blockbuster
litereally what the fuck even is this
The thing I'll never forget about my Blockbuster was the smell. It had a very particular, rather pleasant smell. I don't know exactly what it was, maybe the AC, the plastic from the VHS/DVDs, the merch. I used to love when I entered that store and the smell hitted me.
eh, Panda Express is better anyway.
I want the suffering to end. I just want to go and rent fucking Spyro one last time.
guys, remember sleepovers with friends, and going to rent a few movies and then seeing which ones we wanted to watch that night?
wow....... FUCK
Blockbuster was shit. Local stores were always better.
>get outta here commie
You're an idiot. Local video stores were miles ahead of Blockbuster and Hollywood Video as far as selection, price, and rental lengths went. There's nothing more capitalist than spending your money wisely on an all around better and more affordable service. But you'd understand this if you weren't born after 1995.
Video Store Rankings
>Your locally owns stores
>The Local Library
>P
>O
>W
>E
>R
>G
>A
>P
>Blockbuster and Hollywood
Who gives a shit about the quality of the store, I just liked renting shitty Gamecube games and seasons of cartoons.
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Mr movies with those soft core porn slides that would be in the corner of a normal area.
my underage penis couldn't contain itself.
>Who gives a shit about the quality of the store
So you just liked wasting money then. The quality of the store reflects on the quality of the service or product. How can you people seriously be nostalgic for Blockbuster of all places? Especially when every city's local shops were better in every way. Hell, even the Library was better. Were any of you even old enough to understand how shit of a company they were when they were still around? Goddamn, I was born in '88 and even after only a handful of visits there I realized the local places were better and would only use Blockbuster if I had a winning Sprite cap or some shit.
It used to be a movie theatre before that
The local video store in my town stayed way longer than Blockbuster did.
It finally closed down a few years ago, now it's a smoke shop.
Fuck smoke shops.
Dude I was like 10 I had no concept of money
This is the last remaining video store I know of anywhere near where I live, It still has the same sign it had since forever
'no'
Hurt to see more than I thought. Fortunately based Video Library down the street is locally owned and still around. Still lots of good memories had.
>Little sister always rented Princess Mononoke
>All sorts of N64 games rented, always some multiplayer game since there were five kids in the house
>Picked up Zone of the Enders 2nd Runner on a rental once I got a ps2 of my own, never returned it
>tfw rented an anime with softcore porn and extreme violence in it and discovering it before the family sees it
Why do you cucks miss getting charged $7 to rent a new release for 2 days? Fuck Blockbuster. They dug their own graves.
That candy and carpet smell.
Price wasn't that better than Blockbuster which led to their demise, my millennial friendo
I just want to smell Blockbuster one last time.
RIP
for the love of fuck, you don't want blockbuster back you want your goddamn childhood back
That's funny considered our local places survived up until a few months ago. Whereas Blockbuster has been gone from this area for a decade.
wow, thanks for the insight frued. any other stunners you wanna drop on us?
>not renting a whole ps1
>with parasite eve 2 and being blown away by cgi cuz you had a n64
>not having your dad letting you pick a few snes games at discount price cuz the place was closing
>NOT picking the Lion King, Shaq-Fu and Daffy Duck Maui Shadow something
HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND
I remember renting a ps1 for a few days from blockbuster
that concept seems so absurd now
Holy shit
Fellow Coronabro here. I had to double take on the thumbnail. That's off McKinley but I'm in South Corona.
*"freud" actually.
mine still alive
think it's closing down soon though
Damn this is depressing
this
blockbuster wasn't special, video rental wasn't special, they are, in fact, quite shit.
which anime? just curious.
Kite
I got Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Plok, and Faceball 2000. All for snes.
I think what it represents is a limited availability of content.
I think we yearn for a time when movies, tv shows, games where less readily available, which make the experiences more significant.
Blockbuster is like a physical manifestation of this.
AHH, FRESH MEAT
Was anyone else ever fascinate with the horror section when you were a kid? I alway used to go to it and look at the box art and freak myself out because my parents wouldn't let me rent them.
>dude I have too many choices now I want less this sucks :(
If you could jump off something taller than 12 feet and do your best to land on your head, I'd appreciate it.
No, what you want is the shittier taste of youth to return to you so you can enjoy shit again.
>you will never take your son and his pals to rent some cheesy horror flick and a video game on a Friday after school.
Unironically, hurts anons.
>go to sleepover with neighborhood kid
>his mom takes us to the video store
>she spoils him and lets us get whatever we want
>we were too scared to even get a horror movie
We had Hollywood Video
>more of everything is always better
pleb opinion
physical manifestation? not to sound contrite, but i think you mean cultural manifesto... think about it. blockbuster was new age video zeitgeist predicated on consumer capital for the excess liberal agenda. it's pure cultural exploit, designed to create corporation-sponsoring clones worshiping the week's new release in the postmodern temple of ultra-mega-monotheism.
I still go to Family Video from time to time.
Mostly when new releases come, the library didn't have the movie I was looking for, or if my mom wants something to do. Renting games isn't an issue anymore too. Its great. Pretty cheap too.
I used to go video warehouse before blockbuster
>ywn rent Bully and spend 4 days straight immersed in Bullsworth academy again
unirnoically one of my favorite life memories
So close and yet so far
You're basically arguing against freedom you stupid fuck
Where do you live? As far as I know, the last remaining blockbuster in America that's not in Alaska is the one down here in Texas
>Take-1 Video
>go every week to return games
>had a cool sticker system
>blue stickers were rent one get one free kind of thing
>had a popcorn Machine they gave up free popcorn with on Friday/Saturday
>had one of those rooms that played kids movies like We're Back! and shit with beanbag chairs
>even gave each kid a balloon
I miss those balloons.
I had a few around me\
they all mysteriously turned into mattress stores
What is it about browsing shelves that make you want to take a shit? Happened back then and happens now while in CEX (game trading store)
Because it smelt like a cinema because it had the same sort of stuff in it. The best memories when you're a kid are when your family take you to the cinema so you associate it with that
QUADULAR QUADENCE BRAH
Yup, went here cuz it was closer to my house. HOW DO ALL YOU RICH FUKKKS AFFORD TO BUY SNACKS THERE THOUGH?
YOU KNOW HOW FUCKING OVERPRICED THAT SHIT WAS?
YOU RICH MOTHERFUCKERS.
YOU CANT EVEN FATHOM HOW JEALOUS I AM THAT YOUR PARENTS HAD THROW-AWAY MONEY.
And (YOU) cant even fathom how privileged you were (are)
>15
>blockbuster near me had a massive bitch as a manager
>go to rent a game
>first wipe my ass with the money I was going to give her
>mfw I handed it to her
I did some weird autistic shit in my teenage years
>no credit check
Do poor people not pay in full for a mattress? That makes no sense to me. Its a fucking bed not a house or car.
youtube.com
music for this feel?
nothing yet, there's talk of a methadone clinic tho
good mattresses can be 1k+, so yeah.
My mattress cost me about $1.5k and I paid in full. If you have to make payments on a mattress then you should probably just kill yourself for being a waste of space.
Me too user that game has certain feel about it. Can't even describe it...
Not long before it closed down my town finally allowed the sell of liquor. No more driving out to the lake to get vodka. This is the only liquor store on that side of town.
>"Oh Miss INSERT ACTRESS NAME your movie is right here"
I have to admit, I did this a couple times, it always got a laugh, problem was, they didn't want to date me.....cause I worked there.....
You don't miss Blockbuster. You miss being a kid.
the atmosphere, music, characters, missions and mechanics. the amalgamation of all different high school clique cultures. everything was just so fucking perfect.