You can only post ITT if you have returned a rental in your lifetime

You can only post ITT if you have returned a rental in your lifetime.

Yes

I would guess most people over the age of 18 have. Even ignoring Redbox, mail delivery Netflix was very popular until maybe 6 years ago.

OK who else had the recurrent dream that you've forgot to return the dvd/video game and it's been a year now and the total is 10,000 euros?

This is some next-level pathetic gatekeeping.

And I'm old.

>prime...Netflix ...Disney...Hulu..gamefly
Soon we will witness the return of video stores

Mail man here: only old people still get Netflix DVDs in the mail. I find it strange as Netflix streaming has jack shit on it.

I'd ask my dad if he'd rent this or that, does that count?

>DVD
Get on my level.

>when your mom makes you go with her to return the tapes because she doesn't want to get out of the car and she interrupts your mario kart session

I don't think anyone here is quite young enough to have missed rentals.

>no one under 30 allowed
Awesome.

>I came here to interact with youngsters goshdarnit.
LMAO

>when you call your mom at work and demand she get Turbo: A Power Rangers movie on VHS from Blockbuster and she comes back with the first film instead.

yes, to an actual blockbuster

REAL NIGGA ROLL CALL
i remember going to blockbuster often

Goo goo gaa gaa the car is running hurry and go drop them in the slot...

>mom used to take me and my older brother to local video store every Friday
>we each go to pick 1 movie and 1 vidya game
>brother always tricked me into using my picks on games and movies he wanted
>it was okay I usually just wanted to spend time with him anyway
>gradually fell out after he dropped out and got addicted to meth
>he's been gone for almost 7 years now
I feel bad for people that will never get to experience browsing the video store in the afternoon.

why were these so often shaped like cars

What arcade machine was at your video store?

Ours had Willow

I've returned VHSes boyo. I remember convincing my mom to let me rent Goldeneye for N64. I remember be kind please rewind. But those were better days

what else would you shape them as

I'm 28 and I've returned videos to Blockbuster and other places.

The whirring noise was supposed to sound like an idle engine.

>mom only let us rent games from Drug Mart that had shitty selection instead of the superior Movie/Video right next to it because game rentals were only 1 dollar at Drug Mart

>charge you fee for not rewinding the VHS
>got industrial rewinder machine that takes like 4seconds

>feeling that satisfying tactile sensation of metal smoothly sliding against metal as you opened the drawer

Father, I have confession to make.
When I was young, I had allowance money and I squandered it.
Not only did I rent movies when I could have just downloaded them
But I neglected to watch them and incured much over due fee...

i miss de comfy blockbuster. Redbox is for homosexuals.

Of course OP, you must be at least 18 to post on Sup Forums in general.

Still have my Sonic Heroes and Godfather Trilogy here

>when your grandparents had a tape rewinder that looked like a sports car and lit up while it was rewinding

Didn't get to use it much, but still that was a neat thing back in the day

BASED

Used to return VHS tapes. The fucking sound of it sliding down the chute and landing in a pile of other tapes, I can still hear it. God damn going to blockbuster was fun.

I remember the return mailbox
but we didn't have the actual sign until MUCH later

When I was younger, I used to love doing this.

>rent video game
>beat it within a week
>return video game

I must've done this to at least 20 playstation games.

Nigga, I remember having to rewind VHS rentals before taking them back

Fuck I wish there was a place where we could still rent video games

ok

Can I post if it was a vhs?

what do i need to do to be a mail man ?

The last Blockbusters and Hollywood Videos closed down in the mid-2000s.
OP just wants a nostalgia thread.

You should also post what the last VHS you rented was
>if you remember old timer

There's a better place where you can just download them for free. It's called the internet

pirates of the carebbean the first one

>one week
>due back 9 days later

I'm not a fucking beta, i would always bring it back to the counter and fuck the employee at turn, no mather if it was a girl or a guy.

Fuckign milenials i swear on me mum.

We have the same type of box at my local library

Hardcover smoothly sliding on polished wood is pretty fucking neat-o as well, I must say

We had one of those it was kino as fuck, then my brother invited one of his retarded friends and they tried to toast their sandwich in it

Show up to work. That's basically it. They eliminated the test (which wasn't All that difficult)

It honestly baffles me why people born in 2001 are so desperate to identity with people born 1980+. Its like every single young teen or early 20 something is obsessed with early 90s or 80s. I was born in 83 and no one in my era had a obsession with 70s or 60s like modern millennials do with 80s. The whole thing is bizarre

Dog Soldiers. Found it in a bargain-bin piled full with tapes and picked it out because it had a neat cover and I thought a movie about werewolf soldiers sounded like a dumb but fun movie.

It was SO much better than I thought it'd be and I ended up rewatching it with my brother and then with by buddy the next day, before I had to return it. To this day it's the only movie I've ever rewatched immediately after viewing like that.

A videocassette rewinder was "kino as fuck"?

That's it.
That word is dead.
You guys have beat it to death.

I remember deciding on what movies to watch based solely on the cover art. It was a much better time, no instant gratification and life was actually much better because of it.

Grandparents still use it. I've offered to hook them up with my Netflix/Hulu but they're set in their ways

The 80s were A E S T H E T I C as fuck, that's why.

are these only out of business in usa? apparently, they're doing well in my country since they have pretty big stores

Youre a piece of shit degenerate. Probably one of the first ones to cry about how video games suck now days.

Can you blame them? Look at what they have now.

It really wasn't. It was AIDS and nuclear war with the soviet union. It was actually scary times. 1990s was way better

>tfw it's raining really hard and your mom made you put the tapes in the slot.

the first one was better in every single way though

That's bullshit.
The eighties had a ton of 60s nostalgia (like The Big Chill)...
And the nineties had a bunch of 70s nostalgia, particularly in the music scene.
This is nothing new.

you still can at the library, nigger

>Pre Internet Era
>Post Internet Era
>nothing new

The state of this user

>rent final fantasy 2
>see the save on the moon and think about how cool that is

>have no idea what to do or where to go

Reread that post.

>be young and naive
>store policy to fine you if tape not rewound
>scared so always rewound tape like a good boy
>rented tapes were never rewound
>one day forget to rewind tape
>only remember once I get home
>worry about fine because moms gonna be pissed
>no fine on account when next I visit
>never bother to rewind tapes after that
and that was the start of my moral decay

Because it was the last generation before mass surveillance and the internet. The last generation where you could legitimately start another life by moving a couple towns away. Things were harder, but they were also simpler. Pop culture was at it's peak and there wasn't a pervasive left. Gays were dying of AIDS and inner-city niggers were smoking crack. We were naive, not knowing or perhaps not appreciating the good vibes and it just suddenly faded away during the 90's, culminating in 9/11.

This is not a "le born in the wrong year" rant either so I won't say one era is objectively better than the other. 90's and 00's were pretty comfy too.

Blockbuster fucking sucked balls downloading movies is so much better

Don't forget The Brady Bunch movies, the Starsky And Hutch movie, That 70s Show... etc

There's a chain called Family Video that still has a store in my town in the US, and quite a few across the midwest

Yeah I dropped your mom home last night m8

>This is not a "le born in the wrong year" rant
Could've fooled me

My local video store didn't have a drop off bin, had to take it in to the counter. Still have my membership card. Buying DVDs from their closing clearance sale was a sad day for me.

tubro had that titty monster and cars you stupid fucking fag

You would be surprised how many literal children lurk, sisters middle school classmates do autistic shit I know they got from Sup Forums.

Woops, ment to seperate these, it was some lame racing cab that cost like $1.5 so i only played it a few times.

Family video is the shit, ours closed down in 14, maybe early 15.

kino post

>and that was the start of my moral decay
Kek

>We had one of those it was kino as fuck

Didn't even have boxes yet.

>The Brady Bunch movies, the Starsky And Hutch movie, That 70s Show... etc
Those were all comedies that lampooned the 1970s it didn't try to glamorize or make it a cult obsession like millennials born 1999 do with the 80s

Yo have any of you ever took a shit inside the case and returned it ?

Similar, but I bought them and then kept the great ones and traded in the rest, price for buy and trade in and buy again worked out to about the same as renting and I got a nice collection going.

kino poaster

I remember the 'please be kind and rewind' videos...the vhs kind, and the beta was around for a bit...then laser disk...was fun looking for something to watch on a Friday night with family...

I still rent from my local library. Can request any movie I want from their network of libraries.

And it's FREE, yes, free

Beta came first, just so you know.

>tfw these women are probably in their 60s by now
Why were women so much more attractive in the 80s and 90s?

Who remembers the CED?

Yeah, people don't take enough advantage of their local library.

>When I found out I could rent movies from the library
>Rented Waynes World 1 and 2 along with City Slickers 1 and 2 all at the same time

That was a good day.

I used to go to the Blockbuster during lunch in highschool, it was like renting friends.

Millennials are lazy as shit. I used to walk 35 miles in snow just to return my rentals of Sister Dearest and Traci Takes Tokyo.

i never return on time, always the late fees. companies make bank off of people like me.

As time went on, Blockbuster competed by extending its rental times a couple times. Originally, popular new releases used to be "2-day rentals" (it included the day you rented it and had to be back by noon the next day, meaning you usually had less than 24 hours to watch it), and games and most other movies were 3-day rentals (similarly, included the rental day). Eventually, older releases not on the outer shelves of the store moved to a week-long rental system.

They eventually extended all these times to be more reasonable and true to their name (2 and 3 day rentals still weren't if rented them after noon) to compete with Hollywood Video and others who had longer rental times. The "1-week" 9-day rental system makes sense when you consider it always gives a person 7 full days (at least 168 hours) of rental time even if they rented it late at night and returned it early on the final day.

>rental return time is at closing time
>they have a 24 hour return slot
>charged late fee for returning after they closed
Jokes on them, I never rented there again since late fees only applied at individual stores not chain wide.

of course.

for my then local joint Major League Video
for Blockbuster
for Hollywood video
and even still today for redbox (yeah I know)

They weren't allowed to be fat. They used to take the fat ones and grind them up to feed cows.