There was a fairly interesting thread about Blockbuster yesterday, and I feel like talking about it some more.
So Blockbuster Nostalgia/Memories/Hate thread.
Or just any video store you went to as a kid/teen
Who here rented different things all the time and who just rented the Digimon Movie 200 times?
I was born in 2001. What is this?
>>63195564
I watched my girlfriend fuck a black man behind a Blockbuster in 1997. Ask me anything.
The reason I loved Blockblister is because I loved just browsing for something that looked funny or cool, not knowing what any of it was. And while you can do that with Netflix now, there is such a limited fucking selection.
>>63196056
Did she have a strapon? If not, where do you find your transgender qts?
My sister used to work at blockbuster and she got robbed by some crackhead with a machette who stole $300.
So that's my Blockbuster story.
>>63196070
No, she fucked him with her tight little pussy
>>63196070
>not calling it CockBlister
>>63195564
When you got home and took the newly rented DVD out of the plastic pouch and the ripped open the cardboard The smell of taking that plastic pouch wrapping off your rented DVD was so good, it meant a great night of cuddling with your bros and your dad was in store
>>63196155
But anon.
Is better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjgUblUtOR8
>>63196155
>not BlockBlister
>>63196174
senpai
FRIDAY NIGHT IN 1998: You saved up all your good boy points for doing well in school. what do you get, f a m?
>what movie
>what vidya
>what snack
>what drink
Remember seeing this and being confused as heck about it and wanting to see it because the cover was super scary but it had the same name as the family film Jack Frost which I liked so I assumed it must be somehow related or a sequel or something
If you want to see what the best video stores used to look like circa 80s and early 90s, look no farther than Video Station, still alive and kicking in Boulder, Colorado. They even have an online catalog search.
http://blog.thevideostation.com/
>>63196191
its better.. much better
>>63196328
>>what movie
Wild Things
>>what vidya
Metal Gear Solid
>>what snack
Milk Duds
>>what drink
Doctor Pepper
>>63196328
>>what snack
>>what drink
spoiled tbvh
>>63196402
there were a few interesting and or risque looking movie at blockbuster I always wanted to watch but couldn't because I was a kid. This was one of them
>tfw rewatched a tape and charged extra because of the no replays policy
>tfw fined an extra two dollars because I forgot to rewind
>tfw still had to tip 40%
Blockbuster was a mistake.
There was a blockbuster next to the safeway my mom would go shopping at. Everytime she brought me, I would always walk to the blockbuster and browse the movies while she shopped. I remember they had an n64 with Pokemon Snap hooked up and playable. It was a simpler time before I started getting boxers and worrying about my role in society.
There was a Blockbuster arcade, driving range, bumper cars, putt-putt, laser tag, and bumper boats place where I lived when I was growing up.
It was cool as fuck. I miss it.
>2002
>only average two movies a week for $40 a month with blockbuster
>2015
>now averaging six a week for $15 a month with netflix
t. not even a shill
>>63196328
>what movie
T2
>what vidya
Mario Bro's 3
>what snack
bowl of fries
>what drink
milo
>>63196328
A Bug's Life
Super Mario 64
Gushers
Mr. Pibb in the ribbed can, original formula
>>63196481
Yeah I hated the double watching fees
>>63196481
>>63196541
What the fuck? How would they even know? I've never even heard of this and I spent my whole adolescence in bb.
>>63196328
>Prince of Egypt
>Independence Day for the PS1
>Milk Duds
>Dr. Pepper
>>63196440
can't have salty chips without a tasty sodie-pop, mate :^)
>>63196191
Is that Fred armisan? Was he on the Amanda show??
>tfw you "accidentally" walked past the adult section...
>>63196601
It's a VHS. It's an analog tape. They can tell how often you've spooled through and rewinded it.
Same for copies. They can't tell you've copied a VHS (it'll just appear as another playthrough) but they CAN tell a copied VHS is a second-generation copy.
>>63196328
>what movie
Independence day
>what vidya
Waterworld for the n64
>what snack
Ben and jerrys
>what drink
cherry coke
I went there for SNES games, the Nintendo magazine, and Skittles. Always loved the carpet.
Post essential blockbustercore
>>63196824
>>63196927
I rented so many Godzilla movies from Blockbuster
My only memory is when I went to get a nintnedo wifi adapter but was short a cent and didn't have cash, but they didn't give a shit.
The thing was garbage anyways so I took it back, got a refund and got a penny out of it.
So yeah, I accidentally scammed Wal Mart when I was 12.
>>63196927
>dat Korinna font
>ywn again play Capcom video games then watch Jeopardy then play Dungeons & Dragons
I remember getting a Rugrats cassette tape. Am I the only one?
>>63196824
>>63196070
Blockbuster has way less than netflix, just don't assume the front page is all there is.
>>63197642
Well over here in America, we get next to nothing on netflix. Canada gets considerably more.
>>63196541
When even was this? I was working there 2000 - 2002 and aside from using the sweet ass rewinding machines we never did any checking of VHS tapes
>>63197892
Late 90s I believe. it was complete shit.
>>63195564
Anyone else remember the anime section in these things?
>episodes 15, 16 and 17 of JapShit season 4 all on one disk!
>no episodes 1 - 15
>no season 1
Why even bother?
>>63195564
The video store I lived by as a kid had a comic book shop attached to it. The guy who ran it taught me how to play drums and his wife would smoke me out when I came over to their house. She was also an outstanding artist who taught me a lot about the subject. Those people had an overwhelming influence on me during my formative years. They took me to my first punk rock show, and taught me many things. I love those guys.
Ugh, I remember this being at my Albertsons rental area but I couldn't rent it as a kid.
>>63196328
didn't start school till 2000
>>63198690
don't trigger me, you young turd.
>>63195564
> Be me...
> Be in intermediate school...
> Go to blockbuster...
> Check anime section...
> DBZ Tree of Might still missing for the 10th week in a row...
> Piddle in horror section pondering covers for films it seemed like I would never ever get to see...
> Rent random Godzilla film for the 13th time...
> Get sour punches...
> Mournfully Leave that glorious place....
I'm surprised how hard it is to find these types of picture. You'd think there would be a giant imgur album or something
>>63196402
idk senpai the actual Jack Frost cover freaked me out too
could never bring myself to watch it
>>63196664
I didn't think blockbuster had porn. at least not the ones I went to
We went to hollywood video not block buster
We didn't have alot of money so whenever we got there me and my younger brother would split up get pick out 3 movies each and then decide which movie we would get
The first movie we rented was a chupacabra movie
It sucked ass
Pic related
my dad never let me get ranma 1/2 since he thought it was about trannies. some old weeb faggot started telling him about it in line when i was asking to rent it...I would have seen it other than that retarded man.
There was a ranma 1/2 theme song that used to be stuck in my head constantly and i cant find it on youtube to this day.
>>63195564
Who /moviegallery/ here?
>>63199199
We grew up in Saginaw Texas tho
There was this mom n pop store called blazing video
We never rented from there but i remember during the summers we would ride our bikes up to the store and just look at all the box covers of styrofoam VHS cases
3 best things i remember from that store
1. Buying independence day from there (still have the VHS)
2.buying popcorn and riding our bikes up to our elementary school to swing
3. The store sold pokemon and yugioh cards. First pokemon card ever was a magnemite first booster pack was metal raiders
Felt like a badass when i got my first booster pack and got PIC RELATED
/tv/ take me back to 1998-2003 please :(
>>63196402
Same dude
>Be kind, please rewind.
I miss going in to rent SNES and N64 games and maybe a VHS on weekend nights.
>>63195564
>There was a fairly interesting thread about Blockbuster yesterday,
Yeah This one and you're welcome.
>>63158648
>>63158648
>>63158648
>>63199611
Thank you my man
>>63196100
Did the robber feel her tits up before leaving or is your sister a fatty ?
>>63196601
They just asked you and people were not assholes back then so most admitted to watch the movies multiple times.
>>63195564
I was born in '89. Even as a kid I found Blockbuster pretty off-putting and artificial. Maybe it was the way they had empty video covers on display in front of multiple VHS copies in those sterile-looking Blockbuster clamshell cases, but I always preferred the local mom-'n-pop video stores and the smaller chains like Premieres Video.
I used to rent videos all the time up until... middle school I guess. I'm as guilty as anybody for the death of the video rental industry. When I went off to college, there were two local video stores and I never rented from either of them because I didn't want to register a fucking membership with them. One of them went out of business, the other one is still going but they regularly have outdoor sales trying to clear out their remaining stock. I've collected a lot of DVDs and blurays for dirt cheap from them.
>>63198723
East York? Fuuuuuuuuuuck
I worked at a blockbuster 10 years ago,and supposedly it was haunted. I never saw anything but 3 different managers and a half dozen other employees swear they saw some freaky shit at night when the store was closed.
2 of them were atheists as well. Not exactly prone to believing in supernatural stuff.
>>63196056
>>63195564
I miss going to BB or Movie Gallery every Friday to get a movie and video game
>be me
>21 year old in 2011
>going to girlfriend's house to have a god old girls night
>we all go to blockbuster
>little did i know it would be my last blockbuster experience
>we get vampires suck, zomebieland, and black swan
>fall asleep halfway through vampires suck
>we decided to call it a night
>finish the movies in the morning and return them back
>"haha we should do this again sometime"
>>63197828
are you being sarcastic?
i am canadian and i use a proxy to get american netflix?
my wet dream has always been fucking a cutie in a blue blockbuster vest in the horror section
What was the first Mature game your dad allowed you to rent or buy without telling your mom?
My first ever was Carmageddon on the N64, we bought Diablo 2 some time later.
My step-dad beat the shit out of my dad in a Blockbuster once
>>63196666
Where's your proof on this
You can't tell how many times a watch's battery has died just because it's an analog watch
>>63196056
story taim
>>63197828
lmao what no we don't
>>63201395
my parents divorced when I was 9 :(
>>63196481
>>63201659
Yeah man same, when I was 5.
But my mom would always harp on my dad that he was letting me play too much video games and she would monitor the shit out of everything I played at her place.
>Blockbuster closes down
>get a bunch of 70's martial arts movies for about 50 cents each
>the building is now a large liquor store
everything turned out pretty nice
>>63201395
I don't remember what game, but I do remember he let me watch The Rock...
My mom used to get so mad when he'd let me watch R rated shit.
>>63201659
>>63201711
I was 5 also. So they'd always think the other was a shit parent. Things were really different from house to house.
>>63201711
my mom was the same but I only had a console at her house cuz she took all my dad's money to the point that he had to rent a room in a boarding house til he got back on his feet. he's doing better then her now though so that makes me happy. nice dubs btw.
>>63201464
why?
I was an employee in 2004 and during Christmas we were encouraged to wear this button.
Here's the script that came with it.
CUSTOMER: What does your pin mean?
EMPLOYEE: I'll tell you for one dollar!
CUSTOMER: Okay!
EMPLOYEE: It stands for "Your Curiosity Just Cost You A Dollar!" and now we'll donate that dollar to help kids stay curious in school!
...it always seemed kinda weird to cheat the customer out of their money for a good cause. Like why make them feel stupid for donating? You'll notice I kept the button for the last 11 years because it makes me laugh.
>>63202024
did anyone ever tell you to fuck off?
>>63199497
Fucking hell, did we all have the same childhood?
>/tv/ take me back to 1998-2003 please :(
1990 bro?
>>63202064
Never wore it
>>63202024
ooooh fuck. in gonna do this to pay for my bus rides home, exceptno one will ever talk to me
>being 8 years old and allowed to walk to Blockbuster whenever to trade in games without showing ID or anything
incredibly sick time in my life
>>63202064
I worked at a Blockbuster. I got told to fuck off once a week or more.
I'm going to blockbuster tomorrow
do y'all think they still have 64 games to rent?
>>63200424
so what freaky shit did they see
>>63195564
do video stores not exist anymore? this is a serious question. I live in Canada and my city has an amazing rental store that I go to almost on a weekly basis. Do movie rental places not exist anymore?
I can't answer this thread because I still rent things all the time
>>63201152
>lesbianism
>being a real orientation
kek pick one.
>>63202579
I don't know where you are in Canada but here in Montreal QC we still have a bunch.
>>63202579
They do, but they're nowhere near as big as they used to be. Redbox and Netflix have taken over here in the US.
>>63202605
alright well you guys don't count because Montreal has a sense of culture which is why you guys also still have bookstores. the rest of us are drowning. I'm in Kingston, about 3 hours away from you guys.
>>63202626
I dunno if the Canadian Netflix is just much worse but I can't even use it to watch movies. there's almost nothing I'd be interested in watching on it. I guess my city no longer has a Blockbuster or a Jumbo Video anymore though. Did Americans have Jumbo Video? They had a popcorn machine of extremely salty popcorn that you could eat from for free as you browsed.
>>63199386
>implying its not
>my fondest memories of my dad were when he let me choose a movie to watch
>it was always some animated shit he didn't want to see, but he sat through it like a champ
>I-I love you dad ;_;
Also, fuck Blockbuster, Hollywood Video is where it was at.
>tfw my old Hollywoof Video is now a Total Wine and More
>tfw I now buy alcohol where I once bought happiness
>>63202746
>he doesn't consider alcohol the grown up happiness
wtf brah
>>63202586
I used the term girlfriend in a platonic way.
>Blockbuster near me starts having PS1/Saturn games to loan
>Saving up for a CD-R unit
>Eventually have enough and buy one
>Blockbuster stops having vidya for loan
>Only got to copy one (SF Alpha 2)
:|
>>63202707
At the risk of getting laughed at, but as someone who recently starting getting really into film (I mostly lurk here for more movies to check out), Netflix is a decent tool to have since the American version does have quite a bit of movies. If they have the movie I'll just watch it there, if not I'll pirate it.
>>63202773
It's only a façade, anon.
>>63196503
>t.
please explain this meme
>>63202746
Hollywood video had higher prices and shorter rental periods than Blockbuster here, and it was always a dilapidated shithole, even the brand new ones. It was odd
>>63196824
>The Mummy gets released on VHS
>Hyped as fuck, ask Dad to get a copy when he goes to Blockbusters
>Returns with pic related
>>63203039
not him but mine wasnt.
it made it 10x more annoying when shitbuster drove them out.
>>63202998
no more so than movies my man
>>63203039
Blockbuster was usually out of the newer releases so I went to Hollywood Video. I honestly can't remember the rental rates or periods, however.
>>63196402
wtf same >>63199498
>>63199497
My fucking nigger. I remember pulling a Jinzo from a pack. Nearly pissed myself.
>>63203023
krautchan, I think. Indicates "source:" I've been seeing it for a long time and never knew what it was either until a few weeks ago.
>>63199497
Never liked fusion cards. It was almost always better to have the separate monsters on the field in the first place.
Plus my deck was littered with traps so I fucked a lot of people like that.
