Remember these video rental store chains?
Remember these video rental store chains?
Remember these video rental store chains?
no
yes
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Xtra Vision
I remember back in the day you used to be able to rent game boy games at blockbuster, but they stopped renting those out because they were so small people were losing them, and they stuck to bigger games on discs and stuff instead.
I have vague memories of a time before the big chains came to the area there was a little local video rental store we went to.
yeah
Yeah, who over the age of 30 fucking doesn't?
I want to go back
Two completely different local video stores I lived near in two different states both got bought out by Movie Gallery and then never reopened. I thought they were following me.
tfw Blockbuster had nearly 6,000 stores at its peak in 2005 and absolutely collapsed within 8 years
Why did they fall apart so rapidly?
My dad still had his blockbuster mini-card on his keychain as recently as a few years ago.
Cobra
yup
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Did you make sure to always rewind?
i think pretty critically they snubbed a partnership with netflix, scrambled to do the mail-service dvds netflix started with, and by the time they did, netflix was going onto digital alongside the mail ins. blockbuster thought they were too big to fail.
i still miss them
For some reason I cant find pics of it being a liquor store as it currently is but somehow found a pic of the last one in my town before it became a liquor store.
Also post 'em faggots.
Of course. Always rewound tapes, always brought them back on time. Except my dad still has a few Steven Seagal DVDs that he didn't take back. He either couldn't find them or Blockbuster closed down before he had to take them back. I posted a picture of his collection in another thread the other day. The two with the "action" sticker on the top right corners are from Blockbuster.
why does have so many Steven Seagal tapes?
WHY?!!!!!
It appears they ripped the blockbuster signage off the building but here is a pic with the sign intact on the lot.
My dad's 68, so when he was younger he thought Steven Seagal was the man. He just likes action movies. He doesn't care if the acting isn't the best or if the plot isn't so great. He used to watch a lot of Mexican shows, which is a little odd seeing as we're Australian, but I guess he just liked the action in them. Now he only watches youtubers who talk about American politics. I don't know if I should tell him that some of the channels he's watching are using AI generated voices. Btw, 6 of those DVDs are pirated, so someone probably sold them to him at work for cheap. He loves a bargain.
Kino
BROOOOOO DO YOU REMEMBER BLOCKBUSTERS? SOOO NOSTALGIC BROOO HAHAHA EPIC REFERENCE, ZOOMERS IN SHAMBLES BECAUSE OF MY EPIC OLD REFERENCE NOW LET'S DANCE
I was into subtitled movies do they were no good for me
Blockbuster had better a better game collection
Hollywood Video had more obscure movies
Nope, we had a comfy local store where I grew up and small rental sections in just about every gas station and grocery store.
Bruce Willis
i still miss them
why? they were awful. most people on here are too young to remember a time before blockbuster but those places were great. just random places renting movies. my father took us to a terrible part of town behind a meat packing plant to some random rental store. also they used to rent porn at the early stores
The ancient fat lady at the mom and pop video rental I worked at got mad at me for using the big TV to watch concert DVDs I brought from home instead of using it promote new releases haha
I wonder if she's dead now.
Most definitely. This was 20 years ago and she must've been 70. She mentioned stairmaster workouts sometimes, but also once she mentioned going in for her seasonal flu shot. So yeah she's one of those.
Semi-related to that are the small mom and pop photo labs that used to exist before big chains got into the 1 hour photo business. The equipment and day to day operations in those places are kind of borderline lost knowledge too, outside of tracking down an ex employee and talking to them.
friday night
rent a movie, a nintendo 64 game, and get some sour punch from the counter at hollywood video
a simpler time
Hollywood Video was the patrician's choice. Blockbuster had the latest releases but very few films that weren't made less than 5 years prior.
They stopped doing that because niggers would swap the internal circuit board for another. So they'd return the plastic case of the rental with a completely different game inside.
Little drive through kiosks in parking lots were a thing for many years too. Back to the Future is the only movie I remember seeing one in.
I've still got my blockbuster keychain card on my keychain with my keys
also have a 1999 taco bell card "good for a crunchy taco after 12am" expired in 2000. i'd be an asshole for actually trying it though
My Hollywood video shut down. It's a combination Family Fitness and Dunkin Donuts
I liked Hollywood video better because they didn't warn my parents about the M rated games I was renting. At Blockbuster they were master cucks of this
They didn't take the emerging market for digital rentals seriously. It's like when Sony put a DVD player in the PS2. It didn't immediately make DVD player manufacturers go tits up right away, but they should have seen the writing on the wall.
They have them in the children's show Pete & Pete, it's a major part of the Mister Softee episode and the older Pete's tomboy gf works at the photo hut
cheech and chong worked in one in the 70s show
One of those still operates in my hometown. I think most of the business they get is people turning digital photos into polaroids because they don't want it stored on the internet.