What was blockbuster like?
>>71015992
OOGA BOOGA ROCK STOP
like picking a big booger out of your nose
>>71015992
shite
>>71015992
see op's image
It was...a fond memory. There was something meaningful about actually taking a DVD or cassette off of the shelf as opposed to just googling "the cuckold full movie."
>>71015992
t'was an ancient realm of earthen odours and blinding fluorescent lights. rented Scream like 5 times. pretty comfy place.
>>71016016
so rewarding
>have to have a credit card to check out movies, no debit will not work
2bh. I'm glad they were naturally pushed out. They were also very fee happy.
>Sorry, gotta charge you for not rewinding.
>>71016079
realm of odors is right, never been assaulted with the plastic of VHS, candy and pop corn which is strange because I recall they never literally served fresh popcorn
A more expensive family video with no porn
one of mankinds greatest inventions
i pity anyone who will never be able to experience that sweet sweet smell of a blockbuster. i still remember it. god what a great place.
>>71015992
Good for trying out games I weren't sure they would be good when I used to play console.
If it was good I usually googled a cheaper copy then paying blockbuster prices. I was part of their death.
>>71015992
I sorta miss going to a video rental store on a Friday night as a kid and the whole place was packed.
>>71015992
it was pretty comfy
>>71015992
expensive
netflix/other streaming services is better in every way
>>71015992
I feel as though I need to clear some things up about why Blockbuster Video is closing, and why they went chapter 11 in the first place a few years ago
>Blockbuster Video used to be owned by a Jew owned company named Viacom
>Viacom are money-grubbing whores
>Viacom buys all of blockbuster's rentals and merch with loans, instead of profits
>every year use profit to pay off loans, take out new loans to buy new merchandise
>blockbuster decides to split from viacom because they are tyrants
>viacom takes all of blockbuster's profits from that year, but does not pay off the loans
>the loans were taken out under blockbuster's name, not viacom's, so the loans technically belong to blockbuster
>viacom does not tell this to blockbuster corporate
>when blockbuster finds out, there is already a shit ton of interest, and viacom has all of their profits
>desperately try every quarter to pay off loans
>1 mil loan becomes 3 mil then 5 mil, finally tens of millions of dollars are owed
>go chapter 11, file for bankruptcy
>Dish network buys Blockbuster Video, because they want to use the iconic Blockbuster Video logo to sell tv subscriptions, plus wants brick and mortar stores to sell tv subscriptions
>closes unprofitable stores that were still around after chapter 11 closings
>has 300 locations left
>all are profitable
>blockbuster is profitable as a whole again, especially in the North East
>fast forward 2 years to 2013
>Dish decides to go exclusively to streaming
>considers selling BBV
>no fewer than 3 companies are interested in buying
>but Dish wants to keep Blockbuster logo for streaming service, cant do that if they sell the company
>decide to liquidate stores, put 3000 people out of work, all over the rights to a logo
>tell employees they are being laid off AFTER telling the news networks
Blockbuster's problem was it was owned by two shitty Jew owned corporations.
>>71016128
>Sorry, gotta charge you for not rewinding
I failed their penis inspection many a time.
>worked at a blockbuster in early 2000s
>went into work drunk off my ass every day, manager was a pothead who didn't care
>chatted with customers about movies all day
>set up a tv and watched movies on slow nights at the register
>started fucking my one coworker
>we would lock the front door and fuck in the back whenever we were on alone together during nights
i miss those days. good times.
>>71016182
You can't stream games on Netflix though
>>71016160
To be fair, Blockbuster was apart of their own death.
I miss hoping a movie was still there to be rented on new release day...
I miss looking through a variety games to rent for the hell of it.
Fuck their late fees though. My idiot sister could never FUCKING RETURN THINGS ON TIME GOD DAMNIT.
>>71016128
My local Blockbuster accepted debit cards, where the fuck do you live?
An expensive option to avoid the clunky "you have to own movies if you ever want to see them again" reality of the 90's.
I have better memories from the rental section of Kroger.
>tfw renting video games as a kid
The best part was when they threw trading cards out and you knew the one kid who would go dumpster diving and then get them for people.
>>71016186
Excellent research dear anon
Jews really will be the death of decency to your fellow man in their eternal search for profits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot6Guo3e_Zo
QUICK!
As you and your dad are at the check out line renting a pg-13 your mom said you shouldn't be watching dad says that you can pick ONE drink and ONE snack. What do you pick?
>Vanilla Coke
>hot tamales
Like everything in past, awful
>>71016265
Dallas/ft worth. They didn't always do this, but there was about a 3 year gap when they did.
>>71016380
>vanilla coke
>those cookie dough ball things
>>71015992
It was good for recent releases but my local independent rental store was much better for obscure or out of fashion movies
>>71016393
Oh you're in the US. In the UK they weren't very strict.
>>71016380
Root beer and Lemonheads
>>71015992
Not as good as local video stores. They had this weird corporate christian morality bullshit when unrated dvd's started coming out they wouldn't carry.
> That fat kid in the blockbuster queue begging his mom to rent more games and/or buy sweets.
I liked it when they had a big basket of films they no longer wanted for dirt cheap prices
Blockbuster went out for a ton of reasons, but let's not forget the fees for EVERYTHING, them not owning a single building for any stores, so they'd have to pay MASSIVE lot fees, and that Credit Card shit.However they hired a fuck ton of hot girls there.
>>71016380
Dr. Pepper and Popz Popcorn Boxes
>>71016579
I bought about 20 DVDs for 20 bucks on their final days.
>go to blockbuster on a Friday night like normal
>waiting in line to check out
>black man that looks exactly like Tyrone biggums grabs a box of new games from behind the counter and runs out of the store
>have to wait for the clerk to call the police before we could check out
I rented project a and to this today it just reminds of that black man that robbed the store
>he didn't go to his local chain
RIP Crazy Carl's Movie House. You may have been gone for eight years now, but all of your signage remains thanks to the apparent difficulty of finding another tenant for your former location.
>>71016609
I fucking hate physical media nowadays.
I really need to sell all my dvds/cds/games because it is dead weight.
Blockbuster service was beyond awful where I lived. It was probably easier to buy a gun than to rent a fucking movie.
>>71016149
it just smelled like cardboard and air conditioning if i remember right.
>There's still a blockbuster down the street from me
decent place to get a flick
>>71016717
Better than that. Blockbuster was always very comforting in a weird way.
>>71015992
I was molested in the horror section by my uncle at Blockbuster when I was 23
>>71015992
I never had an actual Blockbuster in my town, but the local rental place was really great to go to. My parents would let me rent an N64 game every time we went.
I bet they paid like $500 each over the years for both Vigilante's, both Battletanx games, Beetle Adventure Racing, and some other game I always used to get where you have to like land military vehicles and you could just fuck off and blow shit up.
Point being if my parents would have just bought me the god damn games they'd have saved a fortune.
kids will never know the feeling of waiting in line to rent the newest video game and asking their mom if they can get a box of skittles and a soda too
>>71016848
That sounds horrorble
Blockbuster was everything awesome
>go in
>all the movies you want to see from wall to wall
>game section off to the side with all new releases and a bunch of classics
>get your game and movie for the night
>head into the check out line where they have GOAT move theater boxes of candy and cold drinks
>show them your membership card like a boss
>have a great evening
Kill yourself wannabe saetre
https://archive.4plebs.org/tv/search/image/oHk90wils8t312MTDLO26A/
>>71016225
onlive
>ywn rent sunbleached kids movies from a Blockbuster ever again
>>71015992
It was extremely exciting as a child.
>>71016752
>As of 2016, Blockbuster still maintains 19 stores across the United States.
Damn, you must feel special, anon. One of 19 across the whole country.
WARNING: LATE FREE
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>>71016974
Family Video still has those, and they have them for free.
I use to work at blockbuster from 2006 to 2007.
I don't remember much of anything because antipsychotic medication has destroyed my brain and my long term AND short term memory.
Somebody please kill me.
>>71016186
I have no idea if this is true but I've always been confused by the death of the local video rental store. Do that many people use redbox or know how to torrent? Always seemed like the economic equivalent of anaphylactic shock to me. Corporations freaking out over the idea of loss of growth and profits over the actual current reality.
I choose to believe this.
>>71017000
I think they're all in Alaska or the super rural Midwest that has shitty internet.
>>71016700
>It was probably easier to buy a gun than to rent a fucking movie.
>tfw this is 100%, non exaggerated, wholeheartedly true where I live
Dog bless this fucking nation.
>>71015992
I still have my Blockbuster video rental card in my wallet and I refuse to throw it out for some reason. It's almost like I'm still holding out hope that one day I'll bump into one last Blockbuster vidoe store while driving around the country .
>>71017024
>I don't remember much of anything because antipsychotic medication has destroyed my brain and my long term AND short term memory.
iktf, bro
it's nice not to remember some things, though
>>71017037
>I have no idea if this is true
It's true. All of it.
>>71015992
Apple store of Video tapes.
>those strange movie box covers that intrigued you, but you never got around to watching
>going in trying to figure out the one video game you were going to rent
>those deals on old crappy movies your dad always bought every time he saw them
>that smell of popcorn eminating from the giant pile of popcorn tubs near the checkout
>going to blockbuster to use the pokemon snap sticker machine
I searched this thread and nobody mentions broadband.
No blockbusters here, but video rental turned obsolete in literally overnight when broadband finally came into household in 2001.
It took an awful long time for legal download/streaming services to compete with illegal ones and surpass them. For a decade it looked like things had forever stagnated in that respect.
I never looked back. Now i do, and it sounds way too bothersome.
>>71016217
That sounds like a plot for a very entertaining slice of life comedy
>>71018405
Yeah, but "broadband" back then was like 100KBps and it would still take you days to download a shitty 3:4 800x600 rip. You'd go to the store and rent a 720p quality movie in like 2 hours.
>>71018731
u best b in da spectrum or u best b leavin, nigga
>>71015992
expensive as shit sanitised video store that destroyed all the good video stores that had all the obscure horror and cult, arthouse movies
>tfw rented Banjo Kazooie and Atlantis with my dad
>>71018929
More like 1-3 hours. The thing was to put stuff downloading at night or during the day - if you had a decent router - and you'd have more movies and series to watch than most could in a day.
The lack of arcades and rental stores feels like if movie theaters disappeared in your lifetime. There was just something to "the experience" that made it feel special, even the downsides of it.
>browsing around looking at weird covers and reading synopses
>getting enticed into trying things you wouldn't otherwise; maybe what you wanted was all rented out, or you couldn't find anything else of interest and didn't want to go home empty-handed
>a weird minor bond you felt with fellow patrons that made society feel a little less cold and detached
>getting as many snacks as you could with the money you had left with you
My family or friends and I would always be in there a good 20 minutes or more and it added a little extra something to movie night.
>>71019951
> if movie theaters disappeared in your lifetime.
Spoiler: They will.
>>71016700
I would walk into blockbusters at 7 years old without any identification and exchange video games
>>71018818
Now that's a shitpost.
blockbuster video
WOW what a difference
>>71015992
they also independently censored movies
There was a Blockbuster in the neighborhood but I had a membership at the local mom & pop video rental joint, as they were closer, cheeper and most videos could be rented for three days, unlike Ballbuster, where most of the stuff was one day only rentals.
Mom & pop video were also the first place around to offer video game rentals and my buddy and I would rent a Nintendo on a Friday and spend the weekend getting drunk and high while playing G.I.Joe.
>>71020414
indeed but it looks like a challenger has just arrived. >>71020108
>>71015992
If you went to a blockbuster instead of your local family owned store then you were raised by faggots
>>71019148
>mfw I rented Goldeneye enough times to have just bought the real game
>mfw I rented Banjo-Kazooie, fell in love with it, and DID end up just buying it
kaka cigars
>>71020973
my local mom and pop closed up finally last year. i was their last customer, and i broke down in tears from that.
that place was full of such schlock and weird shit. the owners hugged me and said, "stop being a goddamned faggot, we closed up because we couldnt stand the thought of waking up to open this shit hole and having your fat autistic ass stumble through here mumbling and proud of going outside, annoying us for a half hour trying to pay for tranny porn with spaghetti and home made sonic comics".
i miss them.
It was glorious. I had a pass to get 3 movies/games out at a time. I miss it deeply.
>>71015992
Parents didn't believe in renting BBVideos since we had HBO, Showtime and, Stars
Their Sodas and snacks were always at least $2 to $3 over priced.
New DVDS for sale were always $10 to $20 more expensive than every other place that sold them.
It was just a nice store to go into and look around.
Some people who worked there were also rude so didn't even bother talking to them ever.
I rented this countless times...
I don't know how many months I waited for this to be returned to the store...
>>71016016
>>71016848
>molested at 23 by your uncle
how does this happen?
>>71018961
pfffffft : )
>>71015992
>friday nights, go into to blockbuster to rent a game and movie
>all the employees are super laid back and joke around among themselves and with the customers
>they even do this funny group greeting whenever they get a customer
I miss it /co/
>>71016972
discontinued for over a year, apparently
I'd totally forgotten it existed
![20071228_n64superman64-jpg[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vbC8bNA.jpg "20071228_n64superman64-jpg[1].jpg")
>>71016299
>tfw renting Superman 64 as a kid
It was a fun experience
I remember the smell especially
>>71018459
Sounds like something worth renting from Blockbu...oh.
I dunno, OP.
What do you think it was like renting a tape only to find out some autist before you forgot to rewind and left a greasy residue on it.
>>71016186
Don't forget, once Dish acquired Blockbuster they instantly closed all game trading services and did not accept any of their trade in credit. Some people had gift cards with hundreds from trading in consoles, games, movies etc to get a 360 but Dish said nope, no longer valid.
Pissed lots of people off.
>>71015992
Always smelled like carpet glue and plastic. Cover art was one of the most important factors in picking a movie.
>>71015992
Comfy.
It's one small example of how less is more and digital technology has kind of ruined everything. Back then, it used to be so gratifying to find those one or two movies or that you'll be renting for the next few days.
Now between netflix and pirating, everything is available always- and it's just so boring.
>>71025318
I don't know why but that image made me feel all cosy and christmasy.
>>71016717
>>71016839
Worked in one, it always smelled like old popcorn butter at all times.
I actually became nose blind to the smell of butter for a while.
Like going to the library but for videos.
>>71016136
They sold microwave popcorn, I think that's where the smell came from. They may have had butter-scented air fresheners though.
>>71016299
When blockbuster was brand new it was exciting for me because it was a 3 day rental. Most small independent rental places before that just had daily rentals, which was particularly frustrating with video games. If we convinced our mom to let us rent a game we only had one night to play it before she would start bitching that we had to take it back, but blockbuster gave us 3 glorious days to play.
>tfw oldfag enough to remember dad renting a VCR from the grocery store because they were brand new tech and cost $1000
>>71025373
>>71024378
>tfw you can tell that more than half of the anons posting in these threads are already very young do to the films they claim to nostalgia over when they were children.
>That horrible realization when you realize that if you stay on this site for a few more years the new generation wont even have childhood memories of walking into a video rental store and will probably reply to these type of threads with some aggregate and snarky bait sayings like .... " I'm streaming every thing I need in bed on my iPad without having to drive to some old gloomy store like a savage just fine becasue I don't live in the stone age , grandpa "
>>71021795
>best post ITT
Well played, sir. You made me kek in my office.
>>71027535
>in my office.
2/10
>>71016194
This is the biggest bs because I have a VHS rewinder and it takes literally seconds. It's not like they're losing any time or money at all by not having you rewind.
My local Cockbuster died young because we had friggen Video Update (later Movie Scene) right in the busiest part of town and they were hella cheaper.
>mfw half the GameCube games I own were never returned by my brothers to that place
>mfw I have no face
>>71027203
>>tfw oldfag enough to remember dad renting a VCR from the grocery store because they were brand new tech and cost $1000
damn that's pretty oldfag. I remember renting a nintendo 64 tho
>that smell of old carpet, cigarettes and plastic as soon as you walk in the door
>that feel when parents were kind enough to spare a few bucks for a rental
>that sound of the tape shaking inside the box as you took it home
>the sound of the VCR as you put the tape in
fuck me, I KNOW technology is vastly superior today but you just cant beat that old feeling
Didn't use it a ton for videos - really it was most useful when VHS were around because they cost a shit load to buy.
DVDs made them a bit less useful because fuck it, I can buy it for $15 at launch, why rent it for $7?
Games were bretty good though because they cost $50-$60+ each. My branch had this thing where during summer you paid like $50 and you could rent one game per week or keep the game you were renting. Lot of nostalgia having to pick the game, before a lot of game reviewers and stuff were free online (or I was aware of them)
>tfw used to rent movies every weekend with a group of friends
>just put up a big old tv and some couches in the attic of a friends house
>no toilet, we just pissed in a big bucket
>got drunk&stoned while watching one movie after another
man I kinda miss those days
Blockbuster was fine I guess, but it always felt like kind of a sterilized version of local mom and pop video rental places. THOSE places were comfy as fuck though.
>mom comes home from work
>ok kids, we're going to grab the pizza, let's go
>mom takes detour
>drives into the BB parking lot
>get excited
>go into store
>smells like a clean, carpeted store full of plastic
>stores don't smell like this anymore
>go to new releases
>pick out movie, one per child (3 kids)
>grab some snacks (raisenettes, here.)
>mom pays, get out and get pizza
>eat pizza, then go into the den with bean bag chairs ready
>a/c fucking BLASTING
>wrapped in blankets eating snacks and watching great flicks on a projection TV
those were the days.
It wasn't spectacular. But I do remember buying many a game or renting 80s cool movies to watch.
>Renting Road Warrior as a kid
>Conan The Barbarian
>All the old Godzilla movies
>The Secret of Nimh
>>71016071
It was the journey of going with friends that made it good.
>>71028651
that makes me sad as fuck for some reason. When the fuck will we ever experience moments like that again.
The good ol' days of browsing the Horror section and gambling on a movie based on just the cover-art.
Luckily, I wasn't tricked too often.
>>71016194
I never really under stood that rule.
All Blockbusters video stores had at least eight VHS rewinding machines on both sides of each counter in the 90s. The tapes would rewind in under a min.
It's already the job of every blockbuster employees to check each tape before putting it back on the shelf to make sure it's the correct film and that it's been rewound. It literally cost them nothing to rewind a tape and zero time is spent doing it since the machine does all the work. You paid to view a film not to rewind a film. When you rewind tapes on normal VCRs it eats away at its lifespan . They have a machine specifically there to rewind shit. Why is it my job to rewind their shitty product for them when it literally cost them nothing to take a second out and rewind it before putting it back on the shelf.
Fucking Jew scam artist.
>>71028732
Because life is fucking terrible.
There is nothing that excites my kids like BB did for me. When we drive anywhere, they are fucking zoned out watching some shitty cartoon in the back seat.
>kids, want to get ice cream?!
Nothing. Headphones on and watching a cartoon with "lol so randum xD" humor
>mommy/daddy, i want to play games on the phone
>no
Then they fucking scream.
I wish I died before I grew up.
>>71027902
>>mfw half the GameCube games I own were never returned by my brothers to that place
You can still get arrested in 2016 if you have VHS tapes that you never returned to video store.
No joke it happened to this guy and it made the news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLlBkz964tU
>>71024821
If you were 23, you were groped, not molested. There is a difference.
>>71019951
>arcade
I practically lived at the arcade as a kid in the summer. It was the place to be, to meet up with other kids.
>tfw you'll never have an audience watching you beat Dragons Lair on the extra monitor, never be known as the master of one game in the arcade.
>>71015992
it was good for its time, but lets be honest, they were the biggest jews ever with late fees.
not to mention when the dumb ass employees would fuck up and your stuff would come up as never returned when you know for sure you put it in the fucking box the night before.
fuck blockbuster
I worked there for a year and smoked weed constant. Manager was cool and let me play half-baked in the store at 5 in the afternoon, but some dad got pissed when they said fuck too many times
>>71029266
>master of one game
>>71029018
I was born in 81, and I assume you are pretty close to my age. We are the last generation that grew up without the internet. That has changed the kids, and the recent adults, more than anything else. They don't seek fun in RL anymore because they were socialized via Xbox and facebook, instead of learning social interaction by riding bikes around town throwing rocks at things, lighting fires in the woods, flirting with and harassing girls, playing baseball, fighting, just being mischievous kids. Their idea of mischief is trolling on fagbook.
Stanhope nailed it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n34eeXWjUQ
>>71029028
I think I paid my dues when the place finally closed and sold me Tomb Raider Underworld for $15. Probably THE WORST $15 I have ever spent in my entire life (keep in mind I saw Snow White and the Huntsman in the theater), plus it was the most expensive item there since everything else they were selling was $2-3.
>>71015992
>there's a therapeutic massage clinic where blockbuster used to be
>blockbuster letters are bleached into the building
>the return slot is still there near the entrance
It hits me hard as time passes
>>71027203
MY UNCLE HAD ONE OF THOSE. we stole it.
my mom rented me a Genesis for my 13th birthday from blockbuster. I later got the same one with the locking case from the same blockbuster, when my dad trading mechanic work for some drugs and stuff from a blockbuster manager.
i rented final fantasy 1 from the blockbuster on the corner of RT 37 and RT 9 in Toms River NJ.
>>71029445
My nigga
>Canada
We had Rogers Video and Blockbuster, they were both just as prevalent.
Rogers had all the shanky old horror movies and weird stuff, and just legendary stacks of 80's and 90's kids movies. I remember renting all kinds of stuff from Rogers, but all I remember about Blockbuster is seeing Monkeybone and Stripperella after forgetting about both. Before I could fap, I would just think about Stripperella having big boobs around me. Not like, engulfing me, just stabding around, stacked.
I remember renting Godzilla v Mothra, with my dad. He didn't watch it with me. I also rented Megaman X6 and it seemed like the darkest, most incredibly deep game ever.
I worked at a locally owned Jumbo Video (basically family video) a few years back. It was the best job ever, I'd just use a magic flight launch box to get ripped and then talk about movies with people. Sometimes it felt like certain customers sought me out specifically, just because they liked the cut of my jib. I fought off some drunk guys one night after closing, that was pretty harrowing. Another time, my coworkers and I drank on the roof to celebrate one of them moving away.
>Every Friday a group of anywhere between 4 and 8 friends would pick a house to spend the weekend at.
>Depending on the house we would head to Blockbuster and either rent games or movies. Matt had every new console before anyone else but Zack's parents had a massive TV, Josh's parents let us watch R rated movies, etc.
>Load up on movies, games, candy, snacks, soda. Order pizza or sandwiches and kick back binge watching movies with my friends. Staying up until the morning hours, if anyone fell asleep early they were getting teased. Summer was even more often because, after all, we had nothing else to do.
>We went through a wrestling phase around 5th grade and we'd watch WWF and WCW matches and fight on trampolines or in pools.
>These weekend traditions started in 2nd or 3rd grade and went until we all left for college. We met up a few summers but it was devoted to road trips not sleep over weekends. After college Blockbuster was nearing death and we all had jobs, girlfriends, etc. to keep us busy.
>We did it again 2 years ago for old times sake. Hooked up a projector and Matt brought a Dreamcast, SNES, N64, and PS2. Weird without Blockbuster...
>Sometimes I think about trying to replicate that tradition with my kids in the future...
but who knows if kids will even want to hang out when they can just chat online and whatever. Or if there will be enough kids and parents in the area with any interest. Or if parents will even allow their kids to go to a friend's house al weekend. Without the communal setting of Blockbuster it just doesn't seem the same.
Also, I often wonder if I grew up in an odd neighborhood. I grew up with friends, or at least kids around my age, on every street in every direction for miles. There were hundreds upon hundreds of kids in our little town, Halloween night looked like Grand Central Station. Whenever I visit now it just seems devoid of anyone under 20...don't know what to make of it.
Sorry...this became a blog post
>>71016186
oy vey they did it again!
>>71029445
>I think I paid my dues
That's kinda like if you walked into Walmart and stole something then went back the next day and payed for an item you didn't enjoy. In the eyes of the law paying for a different item doesn't make the theft of the first item ok. You might feel that you paid your dues but the way you feel and reality are two different things. They can still fuck you over if they want to go through the trouble of doing so. Especially if its a mom and pop store.
People always feel good when they support mom and pop stores but most of the owners of those stores can be real vengeful pricks
>>71030950
maybe their store sucked? maybe their prices were too high? maybe they treated people like assholes?
This is egomaniacal self-entitled bullshit
t. restaurant owner
>tfw you pick out a PG-13 movie but your mom rents it for you anyway
>>71027445
4chan will be dead by then
I don't know about anyone else but even as a kid I knew blockbuster was fucked when my brothers and I went and there were 11 employees, 2 other customers, 214 copies of "Norbit", one night rentals, it cost like 30 dollars for a couple movies and a game, and it took 15 min to checkout.
Seriously, I've seriously rented a fucking vehicle in half the time it took them to clear me to pay to rent a DVD for one night...
>tfw gong to hollywood videos to get rare ova anie dubs
>tfw always getting snacks to go along
fuck man, growing up is terrible
The fuck was up with the tin cans? Did anyone ever by one?
>>71030950
I think I might have some kind of idea of why that business failed.
"disloyal" what?
I bet this place probably sold gluten free localvore sustainable free range vegan bran muffins for 13 dollars each and they tasted like gravel.
>>71016186
I've been here for almost two years, and this is posted in almost every blockbuster thread
Do you have a folder of relevant notepad files to post on /tv/ threads or something?
>>71015992
when the last blockbuster in town closed the employees refused to leave until they got paid the money the corporation owed them, you could walk by and see the place with cardboard covering the windows and tons of signs.
To this day there are still mom and pop video clubs, some of them offer counterfit anime blue rays for cheap, i wanted to get cowboy beebop but they where mising some episodes
>>71016848
So, you're what now, 60?
>>71030950
You're taking this way more seriously than I had ever intended. OBVIOUSLY I know that's not a legal move, I'm not a retard. I'm not even pissed at the store since it's my own fault I bought it. Thing is: store's dead. It's history. I found the little rewards tag you used to hang on your keys so you'd always have it when you went there in the back of a drawer awhile ago. None of that matters anymore. Nobody cares. Neither should you.
>>71029623
Adultfag of recent years here. I've seen interactions like you mention still happening today between my peers and those younger than. Social media and technology is just a bridge to certain gaps, like time apart from one another.
I would also say the issue is more of who is an introvert and an extrovert, and what that means in the modern age.
>be 12
>always into horror
>discover pic related at blockbuster, oversized case and all
>rent it
>traumatized for weeks
>>71015992
>Early 2000s
>Go to blockbuster, the store is really nice and welcoming, the employees are lazy kids happy to get some cash
>Go to McDonalds, the same all happy smiley faces from going adults, people enjoy their burgers and hat about what they are doing I. The weekends, kids play in the ball pit while grandma's sit and watch them while talking about what they read I. The papers
>Movie theaters where packed, promotional displays everywhere, they kept opening evertwhere. Big ones had a restaurant, a movie themed Carter and tons of lights, signs and posters that promised excitement
>Now
>Video rental is dead, you get to pay a subscription to get one tenth of the content. Still no realistic alternative to torrentkng
>Fast food joints are filled with ugly employees in their 40s who couldn't give less of a fuck about life, eating there isn't a fun experience anymore. It's looked down on, I still see kids there all the time but they rarely touch the play area or get away from their family
>Movie theaters are bleeding money, constantly short staffed, constantly getting g more and more expensive and dropping quality. It makes less and less sense to go with each passing year.
What happened to the world? It seems like going outside to have a good time js a dead concept and now everyone has 3 computer alternatives around and can shut the rest of the world away at any point
>tfw always rented The Goonies everytime I went to blockbuster
:(
>>71027445
Shit, there are probably underage anons that werent even alive for 911
>>71015992
i loved it
>going with my siblings and papa to choose movies on fridays
>dad choose his action movies
>me and my lil bros choose like 5 disney ones to watch to whole weekend , at least 4 times each one
those days will never come back
>>71016501
this
>>71033122
>Not renting aNintendo 64 game
>Not renting g the south park shooter arena and seeing how far you could get without codes
>>71032810
You grew up and no longer see the world through the eyes of a child.
But you still write at a 3rd grade level so you at least have that to hold onto.
>>71016217
Don't be mad if I steal this and make a movie out of it, okay anon?
>>71015992
It was like a place of endless entertainment. The shelves were lined with movies and you could pick whatever one you wanted. Even if they didn't have anything you were interested in seeing you still got to gaze at the bountiful opportunity of potential adventure before you. Simply walking inside and immersing yourself in the forest of tapes or dvds (it seemed really big as a kid) was an experience on it's own.
>>71015992
It was kinda like Gamestop only for renting movies and with less douchey employees.
>>71034950
And just think, it was SHITTY as video stores go.
>>71015992
oh for fuck's sake it only closed a year and a half ago
only four-year-olds can't remember what blockbuster was like
>>71016186
this is old pasta, and its true.
>>71016186
Redstone is a goldmine of faces
>>71028823
No shit they had rewinding machines, cause some people dont rewind.
Its just something to charge for. And it waste time rewinding a tape.
Its like those super cheap economy airlines. They have no physical tickets, you have to print it yourself, or show it on your phone. If you need to print a ticket at the airport, its like $35
>have a couple friends come over
>eat some pot cookies
>walk to blockbuster and grab some movies
>it hits me right as I'm walking up to the checkout
It was nice when your friend lived closer to another one, so you would go that one that had movies you hadn't seen yet.
>>71036197
I work for an airline. It's easy as fuck to change a ticket, it takes about 60 seconds to do a name change.
My company allows both free of charge, but we use the same reservations software as those that charge 100+ for basic transactions.
>>71016186
>>/pol/
>>71016128
What? I remember back in the early 00s they accepted cash, they only made it only credit/debit cards around when they were dying out because people kept not returning movies.
Expensive, tedious, and rude. I'm glad they're gone.
Used to work in BB here in México. The store closed this year, actually.
I miss renting new releases for free. I bought some of the newest games for 100 pesos (9 usd): witcher 3, gta v, nathan drake collection, dying light, etc. God, I miss my second home.
>>71033122
Yes but now it's much better because you can steal or pay for the digital copy of those same film in 1080p and watch them alone on superior non physical media. You will never be able to go to a video store with your children the way you did with you dad and share that tradition with them even if you did have a child at some point in your life.
ISN'T THAT WAY BETTER and PROGRESSIVE !?!?!
>>71036513
it's true though 2 of the people in charge of viacom are jews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_Redstone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Dauman
>>71016217
I'm very very jealous anon
>>71036513
Nope sorry, I don't browse that board or post there.
I've stuck to only posting on /tv/ since 2007. Not the boogyman from a different board you were hoping for, anon.
>>71036197
It takes zero time to rewind a tape on those machines. All it takes is the press of one button and the task is done within 20seconds. No work, effort, time or money goes into it AT ALL. Stop defending demonic Jew practices.
>>71031090
>>71031579
it's from an onion article
>>71037998
The store itself did exist tho and the letter was left on the door.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv5QDHA6oSc
>>71038305
read the comments on this one, that's just a coffee shop with the same name.
>tfw my dad used to work at Blockbuster and I got free game rentals
a fucking magical time
>mfw staying home from school because sick and getting to rent a game from blockbuster to play in bed for the day
>>71015992
It smelled clean. Like your aunt's house that's always immaculate. It was always a little frigid. Not enough to shiver but you were never fully comfortable standing still looking at games for more than a few minutes.
The rows were looming and endless. There was a single column devoted to "foreign movies/TV" that had a few animes. Akira, Armitage III, and Ghost in the Shell with a few random ones littered between.
The games selection was filled with SNES/PS1/N64 boxes cut out and inserted into plastic VHS covers. Each one was examined in detail. You only had one choice but you had a list of at least 5 games mentally noted in the case that you got a free rental by a generous parent or friend's parent.
You would wander over and see plastic briefcases with logos of current systems on them. They were the consoles for rent. Rather cheap at $15 for three days, but then you have to add in a random game to play on it. Your parents would never agree. They would tell it REALLY costs $300 but never explain that was just the hold Blockbuster would put on their credit card until it was returned. They would insist you would break it and to stop asking or you wouldn't get anything.
Your mother lines up behind 6 other people waiting. You can't see up past the solid white counters but you hear them opening and closing drawers for every box handed to them. Your mother pushes you towards the front center of the store when you start grabbing and begging for the wall of candy besides you.
You'd wander over to the square pit of FOR SALE games and movies. Most of them look like they were made before you were born. The games were being cleared out from old systems to make room for the new failed Sega system that came out. Megaman X3 for $15? "I wish I had $15 but I would get Mario if I did", you'd think.
Finally you would meet your mother as she finally checked out. She hands you the game you chose: Aero Fighters. "I hope this is the sequel to F Zero. It looks awesome".
>>71038388
Comments just come to the defense of the Manger. They don't say anything about the video being fake.
>>71038835
fuck, I meant Aero Gauge. It's been a while
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42HDgCgdf6c
>>71038772
So instead of keeping a sick child in bed at home your parents took you outside to a video store to rent games?
>>71015992
They never had the movie you wanted and everything was overpriced.
Anyone else work there? "Blocking" the shelves (making sure the DVD covers were perfectly aligned with the rental cases) was the fucking worst.
Amazing and legendary.
>>71039049
I worked there for about a year and almost got fired. We were allowed to play movies in the store as long as they were G or PG. One day I picked Airplane! and the scene where Kitten Natividad shows her tits was playing while a family with young kids was in the store. The cunt mother complained to my manager, but luckily after an "internal review" by Blockbuster higher-ups I was allowed to keep my job because Airplane! is rated PG. I ended up quitting a few months later anyway because it was a god awful job. Really the only good part was getting to watch movies a couple weeks before they were released to the public and also snagging extra copies of movies that we would throw away (Blockbuster policy - I wonder why they went out of business).
I lived in New Mexico and we had way better than Blockbuster. Blockbuster in the little remote towns we had that passed as "cities" kinda sucked. It had videos and games for rent, sure, and that's it. Hastings on the other hand was a Blockbuster in just one fourth of the store. The rest of the store was music, books, magazines, comics, PC games for sale and rent, and free coffee. You want to rent a game, no problem, rent it. You want to just buy it? No problem. Turn in any digital media and they'll give you store credit for the new or used section just like any other music store, except you can get books or software or whatever you want. The number of copies per game or movie was low but the variety for every single thing was enormous. Hastings was the absolute bomb. I'd spend hours in there just looking at everything they had, and it was only 99 cents to 1.99 for new releases for a 1 day rental of a movie or game. Couldn't be beat if you were looking for media of any kind.
>>71026386
>Now between netflix and pirating, everything is available always- and it's just so boring.
I don't know about boring but it's pretty overwhelming to me. There's so much media to consume, so many movies I want to see and albums I want to listen to and books I want to read, and it's all available within a couple keystrokes. But there's only so much time, and there are so many things getting some kind of acclaim out there, anything that doesn't feel amazing almost feels like I'm wasting my time. It's dumb because I know that gives off some sick sense of entitlement but with everybody seemingly competing just for the consumer's attention it's hard to not feel entitled.
>>71028534
That sounds pretty great man.
I remember stealing some posters Blockbuster threw in their trash.
Actually, can you consider that "stealing"? If it's in the trash that means no one wants it.
Anyway, they were The Simpsons Movie and Superman Returns posters.
>>71039769
No it's not stealing but if the Manager is a dick I'm sure he could give you trouble.
>>71039919
I quit/was fired from a movie theater when I was a teen because the manager told me to throw a trash bag FULL of popcorn in the trash. I went to put it in my car and he said I was stealing and would have to pay for it. I reminded him that he just told me to throw it away and he said I can have it if I pay for it. At movie theater popcorn prices this would have been about $500 worth of popcorn. I left with the popcorn, never went back. I never did any work anyway, I just hid in the theaters and watched movies. The only reason I took the job was so I could watch SW ep1 a few times at work but this happened a few days before its release.
When I got sick of eating it I dumped it in the sunroof of a car that belonged to someone I wanted to fuck with.
>>71015992
They still have them in Alaska
It was like netflix. you go in with yourself and whoever else is with you. and you walk around for like an hour browsing because you all can't decide on a movie so you eventually both agree to a movie you both aren't really too excited about and leave. be kind rewind
>>71015992
Like a gamestop only instead of only selling video games they only rented movies and video games. It wasn't really anything special, people just have nostalgia for it.
>>71029623
Born in 91 I'm the south
I did all these things (arcades blockbuster playing in the woods etc)
My ex made me get a fagbook in 2010. I agree man everywhere you go people just sit on there phones. I don't even know if movie night exists anymore.
Been here since 08 and it's one of the few things I enjoy anymore
>>71042286
>When I got sick of eating it I dumped it in the sunroof of a car that belonged to someone I wanted to fuck with.
edgy
>>71044707
>edgy
It was almost 20 years ago and I was a child. If you weren't a cringey teenager you weren't doing it right
>>71016186
>>no fewer than 3 companies are interested in buying
>>but Dish wants to keep Blockbuster logo for streaming service, cant do that if they sell the company
bullfuckingshit anon, all they have to do is seperate the trademarks for streaming and for brick and mortar. it's been done before.
>>71033000
>tfw people who were born in 2001 are now 15 years old
stop the ride, i want to get off
