The VHS Era Appreciation thread

[KravenMorehead™]

my dad use to record hella dubs we had a whole box full. Addams family, the little rascals, home alone 1 and 2, bebe kids, rookie of the year

when michael jackson thriller got recorded over

my cousin use to play megaman x on snes from start to finish and record the whole thing on tape

watchin coming to america the legit vhs at grandma's house tho


Ninja turtles w/ the Pizza hut commercial at the beginning.

"making it great."

 

[Rollie Forbes]

the yutes of today will never know true joy.

@ family movie night being an evening on netflix

This. Streaming movies is nice for the sake of convenience, but there was something magical about getting to pick out movies as a kid at the local video store.
Also, getting to grab some snacks to go along with the movie was the icing on the cake!













































































The good old days...

 

[x-factor7]

Family Video by our house had kids movies for free, used to walk over with my brother when I was 10 and grab one like every other day in the summer

Those were the days

 

[Lannister]

Blockbuster video was lit back in the day...

When you walk in that store, and that smell hit you

 

[OGBIGBOY187]

Never did become old enough to venture into the porno section @ the local video store

 

[richaveli83]

Throwback for real. I still remember recording Raw is War and Monday Nitro on VHS, renting VHS tapes from Blockbuster every other weekend, the awe of walking down the aisles and seeing a bunch of movies that I never heard about.

I'm happy we got Netflix, Hulu, Prime, etc. so I can watch what I want whenever I want but this shyt takes a brother back.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Tons of VHS movies (definitely b-rated horror) never left the format

My mom still got the tapes she recorded episodes of Martin on lol

 

[MikelArteta]

Those Disney VHS tapes

Not knowing what was on a tape and seeing your fifth birthday

 

[Monoblock]

Believe it or not I'm old enough to remember when Video rental stores had BetaMax and VHS. I still have The Thing on BetaMax somewhere at my mother's house. I wasn't old enough to remember the fight bw both but I do remember we had a BetaMax player at one time and watching a few movies on it. Seeing how it went from VHS to DVD to Blu Ray and now streaming is/was amazing. I remember when DVDs first dropped I had to get every damn movie at the time and was at a Best Buy/Circuit City every weekend.
I still have recordings of Def Comedy Jam when Martin was hosting, Rap City episodes, Living Single episodes and tons of other shyt. I was just recording for the hell of it. If I sat down and watched them I'd probably end up crying. We grew up in an amazing time where TV was an event and everyone gathered to watch.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

We had these in the house growing up

 

[Luken]

at how those plastic cases smell.

We had these in the house growing up

 

[TKOK]

Going to blockbuster being a family outing

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

The struggle was real.....

I remember long movie VHS tapes being a hot commodity (more film to record on) ... I remember recording over 90 Monday night Raws and ECWs on that Schindler's list VHS (lord forgive me) that tape got the work from 93-96

Like I said the struggle was real....

 

[Big Brown Areola]

They had hd vhs.

 

[DosCadenaz]

E.T. on vhs forever.