I was born in 1997, what is this? Did people actually pay to keep movies for a week?
I don't remember shit from ages 0-6 before you start with the "early 2000s still had 90s holdovers" meme, other than shitting myself and eating hot dog slices.
>>63435649
Yeah, more shit that actually brought you outside the house.
>>63435649
Yes, and video games. Netflix also used to deliver DVDs to your house, but that was in the mid 2000s
> a week
I fucking wish
It was averge two days but Blockbuster probably let you keep it for three but they also charged like 5 bucks a rental.
he's going all out
>>63435649
Blockbuster memories thread?
>>63435768
lol, just the concept of this being the new stuoid thing to laugh at people about over 4chan is too much
>>63435649
Most new releases only let you keep them for two days.
>>63435801
Movie Gallery was better.
Mine had weeklong rentals for everything and the late fees were way cheaper. Our Blockbuster always tried to fuck us over one way or another.
> kids will never know the joy of going to blockbuster with your dad and picking up snacks and a movie to bring home and watch with the family.
Great memories
>>63435865
>havin a great relationship with you dad
>>63435865
I know that feel bro
My Blockbuster offered a 3 movie rental and 1 game deal for 19.99$ a month and you coukd trade in those rentsls for other DVDs thst week
Then netflix came
People still used Blockbuster in 2004, dipshit.
>go to blockbuster to find that brand new movie your whole family wants to see
>the rack is cleared out
>>63435865
Did your dad ever get "lost" inside a blockbuster any of those times?
>>63435865
>Convincing your dad to get some milk duds as you check out with a copy of the Mummy Returns
>>63435930
Find him in the adult section?
>>63435649
I was about to tell you to get fucked for being under age, but then I realized people born in 1997 are 18 now.
Thats crazy. Wow.
Yes OP, I remember going to blockbuster with my parents and renting movies, but more frequently I remember renting N64 games.
I remember my family had the Star Wars trilogy on laser disk. Laser disks were fucking ridiculous.
>getting home with your rental play the shit and its the wrong movie
I miss Blockbuster so much. I-I don't think I can live anymore. I'm going to end it all.
Blockbuster sucked though. The real comfy feels were at the smaller chains and local stores. West Coast Video RIP.
I remember when I first went to rent a movie at my local store - a place called Movieland. The place wasn't even properly lit, at least by today's standards. Blockbuster was just another sterile and cold shithole. Why do we always have to be nostalgic about that store alone?
>>63436009
My clerk would always check. Great guy. Works at a liquor store now. We still catch up from time to time.
>I was born in 1997
And I bet you're already more successful than I am. I hate my life.
>>63436009
That shit happen to me mang I was fucking exited to see Gremlins 2 and it was the Witches, pretty gud movie tho.
>>63436044
He shitposts on /tv/ so I doubt he's more successful than anybody else in this shithole.
>>63435728
>Netflix also used to deliver DVDs to your house
they still do
>not watching bluray nice quality over shit stream quality
>>63436044
we all make it bro just keep your head up
Blockbuster was the greatest I remember going through the game aisle and reading the back of every game case as a kid such good times
>>63436084
>paying extra to order blurays
Jesus, anon. If I liked something enough to watch it again I'd just download the full quality and save myself a couple days of waiting.
>>63435649
There are still movie rental locations all across the Midwest.
>http://www.familyvideo.com/locations.php
Look at Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Why do I live here again? It is cold and apparently people are willing to weather the cold for these things. Atleast the one in my town went out of business a decade ago.
I should visit one and see if they have some 90s porn with a sticky disc
ok let me old fag you how move rentals use to work.
First wave vhs
>new films were one or two copy under glass
>pay for membership, pre pay for movie rentals
2nd wave, larger independent rental spots
>Some let you rent on Sat, return on Monday
>some had discount rentals mid week
>early on stores even have entire betamax areas
3rd wave blockbuster moves in
>one day rental
>late fees, late fees everywhere
>move to 3day rental for older films
>they get sued, they drop late fees
>people get lazy as fuck and only return when they re-rent something
and of course the 4th wave is when blockbuster gets it's shit pushed in by netflix and redbox to the point of going out of biz. Kind of sucked for the people working there but no tears for the company. Blockbuster has a biz model of moving in right next to a local rental places and killing them off.
>>63436121
Why would you actively look for a broken DVD?
>>63435892
>being a spook who didn't know his pops
Daddy issues much?
True 90s kids remember video rental stores before Blockbuster. Blockbuster was the Walmart of video rental.
>>63436043
>this guy knows your taste in movies and liquor
You probably just keep good relations because he has too much dirt on your pathetic life.
>>63436179
I know his tastes too. We're just middle class assholes who bitch about how the past was better. You come here too often if you think everybody's just like /tv/.
>>63436179
>knowing what movies and alcohol somebody likes
>equal to having dirt on someone
What? How would sharing that information profit anybody?
>>63436035
you won't be missed
>he didn't experience the golden age of home entertainment
in 10 years everyone will slowly realize new movies coming out have been mostly shit uninspired rehashed garbage since the 2010s, everyone is still in the bargaining phase atm
>>63436156
You didn't even mention how renting the video games in those stores cost a third of the retail value of the game. They had better movie deals, but they fucked you over with the porn and games from my memory. But I am also not as old as you.
>>63436265
Movies have been mostly shit uninspired rehashed garbage for decades. For every great 80s movie you're guaranteed to find at least ten shitty ones that nobody remembers.
>>63435649
Only true cool cats will be down with this.
Best popcorn in my entire life.
>>63436084
>shit stream quality
[citation needed]
>>63436294
Maybe he has a shitty connection.
>>63436096
>Blockbuster was the greatest I remember going through the game aisle and reading the back of every game case as a kid such good times
I didn't ask for these feels
>>63436044
>not being aware of the "born in 1997" meme this far into its existence
>>63436305
Oh, good point. Sorry anon.
>>63435649
Yes, one would pay to rent a tape or game for a time.
>>63435849
Movie Gallery had cheaper rates and fees, but their shelves were stocked with a lot of shit, at least in my area.
>>63435865
Hell yeah, stopping by Blockbuster on Friday afternoon to pick out a movie and a Genesis game.
>>63436284
everyone says this, but looking at at pure volume production numbers and general percentage of shit and the ever declining ratio of actually good shit being released, it's easy to come to the conclusion
>>63436284
Nah, this argument is made often, but the reality is that the average film put out by studios has gotten progressively worse since the early 90's. Even bad directors back in the day attempted some craftmanship and structure. Nowadays you have a bunch of advertisements being passed off as stories. Proper film grammar is almost extinct.
>>63435649
I was born in 1917, what is this? Will people actually pay to “stream” moving pictures and not be able to keep them at all?
>>63436331
>posting anime
Go back to /a/, this is a Boltman board
>>63436368
Five star post
>>63436354
>>63436367
I believe movies before our time were great, but I bet when we look back we'll realize it's just like most other decades (save for maybe the Golden Age): many good films, but slightly more bad ones.
>>63436342
Yeah, I probably got lucky and had a good gallery. It had pretty much everything and kept up with new releases.
>>63435865
>that time your dad rents Mortal Kombat 3 for you and doesn't tell your mom
Good memories
>>63436354
>>63436367
Of course the percentage of good movies is gonna go down. It seems that literally everybody's making a movie. There are so many more coming out on a weekly basis these days.
>>63436276
>they fucked you over with the porn
yeah and there were entire shops that did nothing but rent out porn tapes. I know they still have a few sex shops in larger towns but I doubt they have much of a rental area anymore. Those places were creepy as hell at night. A strange mix of maybe 10% normal people, 70% off and 20% really, really off.
as for video game rentals, that did not really take off until the PS1 came out for the most part. It's not like you could rent Atari stuff etc in the mid 80s..
>Hollywood Video gets replaced with a Library
>Lets you rent movies for free
>>63436367
Not true. Take the all the good films of the past 10 years released by a major studio, and you'll be close to empty handed if you did the same for the 80's.
Hell, even a mediocre 90's film has more craft and vision than most of the better films of late.
Sure, there are still good films being made, but they're being more and more pushed to the putskirts of the industry.
>>63436276
A third of the retail value? Fuck, I'd rent a 5 day game for like 4 bucks. Where the hell did you rent games, anon?
>>63436276
Most of the porn at Blockbuster was softcore at that even, as far as I remember at least, the adult section was a magical land that you could only get a glimpse of.
>>63436459
you'd be close to empty handed compared to if you did the same with the 80's*
>renting a playstation 2 only to find it didn't work
>having your mom call Blockbusters to complain only for them to say "hurr there's a power switch on the back"
>No shit there's a switch, it still doesn't power up
>having to wait a week to rent a working console because they're always out of stock
>mom shitting her pants over a $200 deposit fee
>having to keep the console running the entire weekend because memory cards weren't included and everybody thought this was acceptable
>Going in the final days of Blockbuster and its all half empty
Such a depressing feel
I'm old enough to remember renting SNES games from Blockbuster. I specifically remember having to wait weeks to rent Kirby Superstar because some cunt rented it and didn't return it on time for fucking ever.
>>63436483
Rented a dreamcast once. Best five days ever. Crazy Taxi the entire time.
>>63436483
>tfw you go to hollywood video
>tfw your parents say you can only look while they rent laserdiscs
JUST
>>63436465
>$4
It was $5 I think where I lived, but Xbox were $40, PS1 like $25(?), N64 $20-$25(?). Right? I don't remember the price of the rentals changing by more than a $1 in that whole time either. I could be wrong though.
Obvious bullshit. Blockbuster was around until about 2010
>>63435649
This is absolute bullshit OP, I'm the same age, video stores didn't even shut down till a few years ago.
>>63436504
It was sega genesis for me.
I was so fucking hype when Earthworm Jim 2 was on the shelf and the clerk just restocked it.
Right up there with the one morning we went to movie gallery on a whim and I was psyched for FFX coming out in like a week, only to see it on the shelf.
Turns out it released early and they'd just put it on the shelves like an hour before.
>>63436542
Most major titles were around 50 bucks brand new. It fluctuated, but they were occasionally more expensive than 20 bucks, and often more expensive than 30.
>>63436001
> I was about to tell you to get fucked for being under age, but then I realized people born in 1997 are 18 now.
same, god damn that is depressing...
> tfw you're old enough to be someone's father around here
>popular movie is out of stock
>go to employee counter where they put out the movies that have been returned to the store but have yet to be placed back on the proper shelf by an employee
>find said movie
>>63436483
>putting your mother through this bullshit
you should be ashamed of yourself
>>63436663
it was my birthday, bruh
>>63436481
>you'd be close to empty handed compared to if you did the same with the 80's
well the argument for films being better in past decades is all about the variety of films. Modern day hollywood is all about sequels, reboots and $$$$$$$$$$$ level tent pole movies.
So rather then making a bunch of 20-50million dollar films they make a 200m+ part "3" or whatever. I'm pleb enough to admit I even like some cap shit films but holy crap it's year after year the same actors, the same setting, same outfits, same CGI and the same themes.
Can I get something new?
No, no I can't being the next big $$$$$$$ film is starwars, again. Even bring back the older actors, again.
uh, am i the only one aware of the fact that Blockbuster still exists in Alaska?
http://www.avclub.com/article/blockbuster-video-still-thing-alaska-apparently-209857
>>63436765
Yeah, I've heard high speed internet hasn't really made it up there fully yet so there's still a few franchises surviving pretty well there. It's essentially dead in the water in any market with high speed internet however, just can't compete with the convenience of things like netflix or otherwise.
>>63436765
Alaska's perpetually 20 years behind.
>>63436789
We have a couple left in Australia. There was like seven left in Sydney last I checked but the one that was near where I lived closed and I saw on Snapchat someone in an almost empty one.
I think there's still one in Drummoyne or Rozelle. They'll be gone by the end of next year, probably though.
>>63436765
>blockbuster locations
>320 N. Santa Claus Lane North Pole AK 99705
kek.
>>63436789
GCI provides 1 gig internet in Anchorage, but most of the state has piss poor coverage for obvious reasons.
This has to be bait.
I was born in late 1996 and even my little brother who was born in 1998 remembers when our mom used to take us to Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, and all the others.
Nigger I was born in 96 and I remember, clear as day, what the fuck block motherfuckin buster was sheiit nigga muh dick muhfugga
>>63436504
>>63436564
I was rocking NES games, kiddos. Everyone owned most of the normal games, so you'd look for oddities! NARC and Rampart were the two rare titles that turned out awesome in my day.
I was born in 1997 too, I'm pretty sure internet was already a thing back then, why not downloading a movie or making a netflix thing with streams and such? Were people in the past that stupid?
>>63437351
Nice bait, friend. Truly Excellent. I crown you King of the Epic Trolls of Epicness. Epic, dude.
>>63437351
Pretty bad bait, but your stupidity makes me nostalgic for the simpler times, when you would eagerly attempt to load a single porn image and wait fifteen minutes for it to load down to the boobs, only to find out it was a clothed pic.
>>63437183
Whatever dude, I owned a NES and remember playing Atari 2600 at my baby sitters house. I just don't remember ever renting games for it.
Well, in my coutnry there was no block buster. I remember maybe once renting a movie with dad though, but I can't remember what it was. Rented some also on VHS if memory serves correct
>>63437183
I owned my NES games.
You weren't shit if you hadn't played Deja Vu.
>>63436276
What sort of a scumbag rented porn? I used to see it but I could never understand why you would do it, at the time you could have mail ordered super strength hardcore and shit that would get you V& in a second now.
>>63436035
Don't try it!
>>63436640
>>tfw you're old enough to be someone's father around here
Crap, you're right
>>63435649
>eating hot dog slices.
Who the fuck feeds that to their kids?
>>63438144
>tfw you turn 28 on Sunday
What am I doing here?
>>63438001
Maybe the kind of scumbag that preferred porn that wasn't super strength hardcore or shit that would get you v& in a second.
Also married couples were known to rent or buy softcore porn to spice of their sex lives.
>>63436700
>>63436483
so you put her through 22 hours of painful labour and to pay her back for your life, you remind her every year on the anniversary of that pain... case in point this post
you SHOULD be ashamed bruh
>>63435649
this thread AGAIN
>>63435649
>I was born in 1997
Hm interesting, how about kill yourself?
>Not going to Video Sleezy
>>63436179
literally what: the post
>>63435649
>Cant remember anything from ages 0-6
>Mfw my first memory is when i was under 2 yrs
>>63435849
>late fees
You mean extended viewing fees
