Anyone Else Miss Going to Blockbuster Video?

[beenz]

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?

when I was a kid, it was $3 to rent a VHS movie and $4 to rent a NES game.

then they changed it for the new release movies where u had to return them the next day. they were $2 then.

 

[N*E*R*D]

Fridays were so awesome...I always knew my dad got paid and were going to pick-up some movies and games.

 

[Robbie3000]

R.I.P Blockbuster

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/blockbuster-closing_n_4226735.html

 

[SuckFohh]

Spent my allowance damn near every week.
Then moms told me I was too old to have allowance and should wanna help out on my own
Brought snacks from home and sold them in the lunchroom
Right back in blockbuster every weekend

Got questioned about the groceries disappearing
Told moms I was still hungry cuz the school lunch was small.
Got extra money to buy snacks
Took that money right back to blockbuster....and still sold those snacks from home.
Got exposed by my sister and beat for lying
Stole her money for revenge and was right back in that blockbuster.

 

[the next guy]

R.I.P Blockbuster

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/blockbuster-closing_n_4226735.html

Sad

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

Never really went to Blockbuster all like that. shyt was too expensive....or my parents were too cheap

*asks to rent wrestling tapes from blockbuster*

*gets hit with the *

*gets driven 2 minutes away from blockbuster to

*rents Royal Rumble 92', Survivor Series 88' and WWF Smack em, Whack em(pause)*

*Parents dub the rentals using two vcr's and blank vhs's*

*lather, rinse, repeat*

*wins*

Aww man you killed em with the phar-mor..they aint have shyt to rent though.I refused to rent from there.But they had a wrestlemania arcade machine in the front when you walk in.

"Mom give me some quarters i'll be right here when you get done"

But my friend did rent from there.Seems like we was always renting them tengen nes games with the black cart from there.

 

[3Rivers]

Aww man you killed em with the phar-mor..they aint have shyt to rent though.I refused to rent from there.But they had a wrestlemania arcade machine in the front when you walk in.

"Mom give me some quarters i'll be right here when you get done"

Our Phar-mor kept those WWF coliseum home video exclusives on deck

It was also phar-mor where I got my macho man hasbro action figure

 

[Kliq_Souf]

I wanted to work at Blockbuster SOOO bad in HS.

I applied like every week, and never got a call back.

 

[jmspro]

As far as this thread, people don't necessarily miss Blockbuster. They miss anticipation. They miss not knowing. The internet destroyed that shyt. Not saying it's good or bad, but it is what it is. At one point I lived 2-3 blocks from a Blockbuster and I'd be in there daily. If the game or movie was wack, you caught an L....but the L was worth it because occasionally you'd get some shyt, and the feeling from that trumped any possible L from randomly grabbing shyt off the shelf.

That's impossible nowadays.

A side note, and I've mentioned this before, does anyone remember Blockbuster Music? They'd let you listen to entire albums before you copped them, which was unheard of at the time.

Fred.

This right here. I miss the surprises and letdowns too. The rainy days you couldn't hoop so u would go by Blockbuster and pick some shyt based on the cover and then swing by Dairy Queen so u can have a Blizzard why u watch the movie. I remember staring at the Booty Call cover a few extra seconds too.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

So many stories. I must have rented Transformers The Animated Movie like 20 times. I was another who rented all the old wrestling VHS tapes so I knew about shyt that happened like 5-6 years before I was born. Rented a new game for N64 like every other day too.

I'm going to miss the easy access to all the old movies, martial arts flicks like people were saying, etc... Netflix doesn't have half that shyt

you li' fukks are missing out breh.

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

I wanted to work at Blockbuster SOOO bad in HS.

I applied like every week, and never got a call back.

the one by me closed before i could even try and apply

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

i rented that exact video from Blockbuster as a kid, i definitely remember that!! i was a mark for that push they gave Lex Luger in 93'

R.I.P Blockbuster

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/blockbuster-closing_n_4226735.html

They saw the power of this thread and decided to just put the rest of the blockbusters out of their misery

Our Phar-mor kept those WWF coliseum home video exclusives on deck

It was also phar-mor where I got my macho man hasbro action figure

damn breh, we had to have gone to the same pharmor back in the day. I got my 1st wwe toys ever at phar-mor, hard plastic Ultimate Warrior and Rubbery ass Sting action figures

that really took me back

 

[hayesc0]

Never really went to Blockbuster all like that. shyt was too expensive....or my parents were too cheap

*asks to rent wrestling tapes from blockbuster*

*gets hit with the *

*gets driven 2 minutes away from blockbuster to

*rents Royal Rumble 92', Survivor Series 88' and WWF Smack em, Whack em(pause)*

*Parents dub the rentals using two vcr's and blank vhs's*

*lather, rinse, repeat*

*wins*

nikka these was the shyt I tried to tell people about these earlier this year grew up in raleigh nc I live in kansas now the didnt know what I was talking about but you could get movies games music grocery 25 cent sodas my nikka

 

[muzikfrk75]

Lowkey, them struggle rentals from liquor stores was hot as fukk b. Had them generic black cases with the movie written on the white strip.

I kept VCR porn in those generic ass cases

 

[Methodical]

I remember when me and my brother got Sega Saturn for Christmas and we went to BB to rent video game. Me and my brother went to Sega Saturn section but it's only few f*cking games in one section/half and we saw Playstation section almost like 4 sections and we're like and they got a whole bunch of f*cking games in that PS sections.....too many games . Me and my brother were like we're done f8cked up Then next Christmas we got PS and we traded Sega Saturn for N64 to our friend