Anyone Else Miss Going to Blockbuster Video?

[Dog Based Gremlin]

yo brehs, how much was blockbuster throughout the years, i remember the prices being way too high near the end of their dying years

how much was games and movie in their heyday?

 

[oO J Smooth Oo]

Blockbuster in the USA shyts on the uk one

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

Be kind brehs,Rewind.

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

Be kind brehs,Rewind.

we've come a long way, i definitely dont miss VHS tapes

Spoiler

or maybe i do

 

[BlvdBrawler]

we've come a long way, i definitely dont miss VHS tapes

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or maybe i do

Sequential-access, 480i movies that degraded in quality with each viewing and required rewinding? Nah breh I am good on that.

 

[mannyrs13]

I remember they had some monthly pass my boy had gotten. we would chill and watch movies all the time one summer. me and my fan used to mess with video connection. they always seemed to get everything early before release. was a great feeling just going to the video store and picking up the latest film.

 

[Long Live The Kane]

RIP to the entire brick and mortar rental industry...in elementary there was a lil local mom and pop joint I used to go and rent sh!t in the 16bit days...summers I lived in alabama I used to get my grandma to hit up Movie Gallery and rack up, they was like WCW to Blockbuster's WWF or some sh!t back in the day...they had the southeast terrority sewn up, but i think Blockbuster eventually ended up putting them out of business

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

*Came in to say there was always hoes there

*Sees pawg in OP

 

[Robbie3000]

Man those were the days. I came up on so much puff just by browsing, checking out the art cover and movie description. So many memories of me and my pops going to BB and looking for movies then bringing them back to the rest of the family like a successful hunt.

 

[Anti-Anime]

I was a Hollywood nikka. But later took advantage of the better deals at BB.

 

[Mr.Black]

1 love for all the movies and games that i rented and never returned from blockbuster

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Got a lot of good used dvds from them. Then i realized how much i hated cases.

 

[PS5 Pro]

hearing a new game came out, hoping it was new at blockbuster, trying to hide games behind other games so u can come back and get it later

or knowing its friday and renting new releases or horror movies and buying that bucket of popcorn and 2 dollar box of movie candy


thats my childhood, breh

Blockbuster was cool, but it never surpassed the swag of Erol's video with the signature movie cases with the red strip on the borders

Now something I forgot about (because I was too young to be responsible for this)
But back in the day, you had to pay for a membership to rental places. And I don't mean the maybe $5 fee they had about a decade ago
I'm talking this...

$60 for a lifetime membership? $60 back in those days was a lot more than $60 today

 

[R=G]

When new shyt would come out, they had the little red 2 day rental thing...some used to be empty and motherfukkers would be PISSED Then you would have to let that ride and go find some new thriller you never heard of that has a interesting cover. And they used to have a video game tournament in San Diego...for NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition. All of that shyt. The Asian kids would post up for that shyt in a heartbeat

 

[the next guy]

Yes. Another thing the internet destroyed