OH BOY MOM AND ARE GONNA TAKE YOU TO BLOCKBUSTER WHAT AWESOME GAME ARE YOU GONNA RENTING TODAY?

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Anonymous Sun Mar 27 03:26:59 2016 No.3093171 [Reply] [Original]

OH BOY
MOM AND ARE GONNA TAKE YOU TO BLOCKBUSTER
WHAT AWESOME GAME ARE YOU GONNA RENTING TODAY?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 03:33:50 2016 No.3093179 >>3093171 >"You're not renting a game" > REEEEEEEEE

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>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 03:39:47 2016 No.3093189 >>3093171 Can I just buy a cheap game instead? If I know I have to give it back eventually I can't enjoy it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 03:41:04 2016 No.3093191 >>3093181 Experienced and it was great. Be kind rewind, anon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 03:42:34 2016 No.3093194 >>3093191 And don't forget to flip to side B after A is done.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 03:44:59 2016 No.3093196 >>3093194 You think I'm skipping out on some side B? Please. VHS was an adventure and I miss it. Okay OP, I'm going to rent Maximum Carnage. Can I get some Sour Worms too, please?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 03:45:35 2016 No.3093201 File: 108 KB, 640x468, 37458123.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Did you discover any great games through renting, /vr/? I chose Mystical Ninja 2 at random one weekend and it ended up being one of my all time favorites.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 05:52:49 2016 No.3093389 I've never been to a Blockbuster. They didn't exist where I lived. I rented games and movies from local mom and pop stores and a grocery store near where I lived.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 06:02:37 2016 No.3093395 >>3093389 I never liked Blockbuster. They were overpriced. I always preferred the mom and pop stores myself. I used to go to one called A to Z Video a lot in the 90s.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 06:21:39 2016 No.3093419 I heard Netflix, that company that lets you rent DVDs and games through the mail offered to sell out to Blockbuster for 50 million. Do you guys think Blockbuster should do it?

Anonymous Sun Mar 27 06:28:50 2016 No.3093431
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>>3093419
DVDs through the mail? Next thing you'll be telling me is they'll send it through you're telephone lines, space man. I mean, with Blockbuster, you get a membership card and $10 late fees. Do you get that with Netflix? Well do ya? Ooo... something shiny! Can I eat it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 06:37:10 2016 No.3093436 >>3093201 Mischief Makers.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 06:47:19 2016 No.3093452 >>3093196 I can't believe you actually fell for that.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 07:21:53 2016 No.3093493 >>3093189 Autism speaks.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 07:25:05 2016 No.3093498 File: 47 KB, 500x445, 1341810223038.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Post your face when you learned you could actually rent games and didn't have to limit yourself to Christmas and birthdays

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 07:29:37 2016 No.3093504 File: 43 KB, 600x450, 1458486464097.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093171

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 07:54:07 2016 No.3093537 File: 238 KB, 1920x1080, maxresdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093201 Rented Soul Blazer. That shit was cash.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 07:56:36 2016 No.3093540 File: 84 KB, 640x640, 12628129_530194860473442_477864814_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093201 I discovered Urushihara Satoshi's art by renting Warsong. Especially the manual. 'Twas a glorious discovery indeed.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 07:58:43 2016 No.3093545 >>3093181 Batefrogman, plz

Anonymous Sun Mar 27 08:00:48 2016 No.3093549

>>3093181
As if using VHS tapes was such a great thing in the past. I hated it when I watched a movie on it and had to rewind it all the way when I had to return it to the videostore. Not to mention some assholes didn't even bother to rewind it before their rental ended.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 08:04:26 2016 No.3093553 >>3093549 I fail to see how rewinding a tape is a problem, especially if you had really fast VCRs (and the tape wasn't ruined beyond recognition).

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 08:11:55 2016 No.3093560 >>3093498 I don't have a face for that because some of the first games I played were rentals.

Anonymous Sun Mar 27 08:19:51 2016 No.3093574

>>3093181
I still have 2 vcrs, my kiddo watches some of the same tapes I did. Also still have blockbuster here.

http://www.blockbuster.com/franchise.html

>>3093553
both mine rewind, eject and power down if you just let the tape play until the end. switch inputs or turn off the display and forget about it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 08:27:30 2016 No.3093589 >>3093504 Fuck you ;_;

Anonymous Sun Mar 27 08:39:02 2016 No.3093606

Dont know how much it used to cost to rent like, a sega game or whatever because I was a kid. But it must have been really shitty to be an adult who was in to games in that era.... Any random junk game you can pick from the <$5 bin at the retro game store today, you would have had to pay (im assuming) a comparable amount of money just to rent, just to find out how crappy it was... because also no internet.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 08:43:44 2016 No.3093617 File: 63 KB, 450x565, 1277528008523.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093181 >mfw my parents unironically bought a VHS rewinder >like pushing the "rewind" button on the VCR and letting it run for 5 minutes was too big of a hassle

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 11:56:42 2016 No.3093987 The cool kids owned copiers so they rented and dumped.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 12:55:56 2016 No.3094082 File: 20 KB, 242x208, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093189 yeah, you can have this one anon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 12:59:11 2016 No.3094085 File: 66 KB, 319x213, spinball.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093171 Blockbuster always smelled so damn good on the inside. Pretty sure pic related is the first game I ever rented.

Anonymous Sun Mar 27 13:04:04 2016 No.3094101

>>3093617
Bro.

That was a reasonable investment, especially if you watched a lot of movies or had kids.

Kids love to watch the same shit over and over again, and as a parent it was really easy to just forget to do that, so you pop that shit in a VCR rewinder.

More modern VCR's had really fast rewinds though which made that a little more redundant.

So you should probably think before you talk next time el chappo.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 13:05:34 2016 No.3094102 >>3093606 Pretty sure a rental was 5-10 bucks. It was fucking robbery. Especially for new releases 2 day rentals. Make the cost of the tape back in like a week, then everything else is pure profit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 13:07:23 2016 No.3094109 >about 1/3 of posters are actually underages pretending to have been to Blockbuster This thread.

Anonymous Sun Mar 27 13:49:43 2016 No.3094214
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>>3093171
>>3093201
Mystical Ninja Staring Goemon for me. Was one of the few amazing games I found on my own. My buddy introduced me to the rest. Game was fucking cash and only recently refound it. Waiting to play it with my own son now.
Most everything else I rented was trash.
Oh yeah, can I grab a coke too, Mom?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 14:11:44 2016 No.3094258 i was always renting lufia, lufia 2 and ff3

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 14:13:52 2016 No.3094262 >>3093181 Honestly, anyone that is the correct age for this site should have experience with vcrs in one way or another

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 14:19:36 2016 No.3094275 >>3094258 >rent JRPG >don't want to delete someone's game because I thought they would find out who I was and get mad at me That's why I named my main characters names of kids I didn't like at school

Anonymous Sun Mar 27 17:07:04 2016 No.3094642
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>>3093606
>>3094102
I remember renting games for 99 cents ($1.07 with sales tax in College Station, Texas) around 1988-1990. Searching around for enough pennies, nickels, and dimes to rent a game for the weekend. Pulling out the fistful of coins and dumping it on the checkout counter at Kroger Video.
I guess they may have had more expensive new releases also but if so I must have ignored them.

Anonymous Sun Mar 27 19:31:45 2016 No.3095003

I know people are gonna scream "NOT RETRO!" but the copy of Max Payne for the PS2 I own was a Blockbuster rental copy. It says that shit on the top of the disk.

Ah VHS. Never rented shit myself personally. But I did have a VCR when I was a kid. But by the time I was a teenager that shit got replaced with DVD and then Blue Ray players later on. I have a box of VHS tapes in my bedroom that I use as a doorstop.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 19:35:23 2016 No.3095006 Didn't Blockbuster go out of business?

Anonymous Sun Mar 27 19:36:50 2016 No.3095009 [DELETED]

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Rented this from blockbuster on a whim in the mid 00's, actually made my mom rerent it for about 8 weeks so I could finish it, ended up making her spend twice as much as a purchase cost just so I could play the whole game. Wouldn't buy it until years later but it was da bes.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 19:49:51 2016 No.3095034 >>3095006 In some places, sure. In total, of course not.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 19:51:55 2016 No.3095040 >>3093617 the rewind feature on the VCR can damage the tape if used too often the rewinder is easier on the tape

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 19:54:49 2016 No.3095046 File: 30 KB, 300x313, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw you could keep manuals and not be charged for them

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 19:54:56 2016 No.3095048 >>3095040 Depends on the vcr actually. The tape itself degrades overtime, so no matter what....it's gonna break and die

Anonymous Sun Mar 27 19:58:41 2016 No.3095056

>>3095040
That's totally erroneous. Most decent (surviving) VCRs have auto sensing rewind that can tell by tension when the beginning/end of the tape is approaching and slow down/soften the prices r. I've never seen a rewinder with this feature.

Rewinders are mainly to do it fast and not tie up your VCR so you can start watching the next movie immediately.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 20:07:10 2016 No.3095069 File: 3 KB, 256x240, Silver Surfer (U) [!]-1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093171 >MOM AND ARE GONNA >tfw no dad

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 20:17:59 2016 No.3095097 File: 79 KB, 291x343, 1450977661212.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093171 My dad always took me to Hollywood Video instead and every time I see these threads I feel like I missed out on something.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 20:22:07 2016 No.3095110 fuck YES gonna rent final fantasy IX and PAPER FUCKING MARIO I LOVE TUESDAYS can we get dominos

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 20:25:07 2016 No.3095124 >>3095097 Hollywood Video was the patrician Blockbuster. You're good to feel with us, son.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 20:29:19 2016 No.3095132 >>3095056 the only time I could've ever used one was multiple cassette movies like the 10th kingdom

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 27 21:19:07 2016 No.3095254 >>3093179 kekd

Anonymous Mon Mar 28 03:08:45 2016 No.3095986

>>3095097
I never had a Blockbuster in my town, and the only Hollywood Video was in the city about an hour away. My family always went to our local store, still about 2003 or so, when a Movie Gallery opened in town and we got an account there. I never liked that one as much, since they didn't rent Gameboy games like the other store.

They ended up closing back in 2008 or so when the town got its first Red Box. The local shop actually had a pretty decent customer base even after Red Box showed up, and they hung on for a while after. They finally closed down a couple years ago though. I wish I'd been there when it happened, could've snagged some cheap games.

Anonymous Mon Mar 28 03:40:41 2016 No.3096017

I remember when I was a kid my mom let my brother and I rent 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' for the NES.

I played it and played it and got so mad that I couldn't beat it that I hid it when it came time to return the game, so that I could play it for a couple more days.

I finally beat it as a grown man years later. The game isn't even hard lol. When I was a kid I thought that I could actually kill Freddy during one of those mini-battles with him.

Sorry mom for the late fees lol.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 28 03:48:00 2016 No.3096025 >>3095034 Actually, the company did go under. The only remaining stores are independently owned franchises.

Anonymous Tue Mar 29 09:22:29 2016 No.3099090

Everyone knew that the place to rent cheaply were public libraries. At least in Britain anyway. "Mum, I'm off to the library". "That's nice son. It's great that you have such an interest in reading". Anything half decent also got to meet ye olde CloneCD or CDRwin. Good times.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 09:38:14 2016 No.3099106 >>3099090 My mom stole mine and my brothers library cards because children don't get late fees. Keep in mind, she's also a librarian

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 10:14:18 2016 No.3099172 >>3094102 Due to the way the rental license was, rental stores had to pay ridiculous amounts for their copies. Like heaps heaps more than standard retail. >talking vcrs here

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 10:17:51 2016 No.3099179 Spent a lotta time renting master system games. Cant remember the first one. Probably some shit like the ninja. Definitely remember renting psycho fox, sonic, asterix and mickey mouse. Damn i love the master system!

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 10:23:27 2016 No.3099189 >>3099172 I just got my VCRs from Napster over my college's ethernet to T3 Until it got me expelled and fined eleventy billion dollars Thanks, Lars!

Anonymous Tue Mar 29 10:33:13 2016 No.3099206
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ah good ole Blockbuster thread.

>Walk up to Blockbuster with best friend
>Friends dad set it up where Friend can use his dads card AND rent rated R or MA stuff without him
>always felt like Gods walking out with R rated movies and didn't need parents.

Also did this regularly, and I don't care, do something about it:
>At Blockbuster with friend and see the new hot game is available
>Cant rent it right now, plus would be a waste to rent it and already lose a day not playing it
>Take the rental box and hide it behind some stupid game like Barbies Horse Adventure
>come back at a later day, go to hidden spot and retrieve box
>sometimes see other kids actively looking for it where it should be
>ha

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 10:36:45 2016 No.3099212 >>3099206 >not cocking their heads slightly and reading the clamshell spines Fuck 'em they didn't want it bad enough

Anonymous Tue Mar 29 10:41:27 2016 No.3099217

>>3099212
most of them did, but they couldn't be bothered to check at the other end of the aisle I guess.

If it was a particularly hot item at the time I would put it behind a game for a different system, which typically was either ps2 hiding in xbox or vice versa.

Anonymous Tue Mar 29 10:47:47 2016 No.3099228

Did the whole "No More Late Fees" Fiasco kill Blockbuster?

I know the times were changing and what not but, the money they must have spent on legal fees and settlements because of that disaster could have gone to making them at least attempt to keep up.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 10:56:21 2016 No.3099241 >>3093201 Worms Armageddon

Anonymous Tue Mar 29 11:09:15 2016 No.3099259

>>3099228
Netflix killed Blockbuster and Redbox nailed the coffin shut. The "no more late fees" thing was just them trying to imitate Netflix's by-mail model (You can have one or two titles out for as long as you want you just can't get more until you return them) but by that time Netflix was already pushing the streaming which was basically game over for Blockbuster. Interestingly Netflix had WAY more content back then than i[t does now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 11:13:31 2016 No.3099265 >>3099259 To be honest I don't see how RedBox stays in business itself with Netflix and other streaming services available. All it is is a movie rental store compacted into the form of a vending kiosk.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 11:30:52 2016 No.3099293 >>3099265 Pedo-loving ISPs imposing download limits.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 12:09:43 2016 No.3099379 >>3093201 Destruction Derby 64.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 12:11:26 2016 No.3099382 >>3093181 >tfw all my friends got a DVD player before I did >tfw honestly didn't see the point of getting one VHS (and cartridges) were always more comfy anyways. Do you think we'll get to a point when we'll miss CDs and DVDs?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 12:13:22 2016 No.3099385 >tfw Blockbuster demanded we pay late fees on White Men Can't Jump even though it got stuck in the VCR during Hurricane Andrew Fuck off, Blockbuster.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 12:14:18 2016 No.3099386 >>3099382 No. VHS is an objectively terrible format. CD's and DVD's either work or don't. VHS gets distortion.

Anonymous Tue Mar 29 17:17:18 2016 No.3100161
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>>3099386
I disagree, I still have all my Disney films I grew up with and every single tape I've bought for my kid works. No skipping, no menus to fuck with, Has the possibility of surviving if a toddler gets a hold of it, all those sweet previews and ads.

Line doubled with a tbc and they look pretty good. This is over composite from a shitty old Sharp vcr, I imagine it'd look better yet with a svhs player.

> I'm renting Rampart on snes, PREPARE FOR BATTLE

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 17:23:45 2016 No.3100176 >>3099385 I don't know why I laughed at this so hard.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 17:27:41 2016 No.3100181 >>3099293 Maybe so, but the way I see it, an actual movie rental place is much more convenient than RedBox. If I wanted to rent Forrest Gump, the Deer Hunter and McClintock I could just go to Blockbuster and rent them. RedBox only has new releases.

Anonymous Tue Mar 29 17:29:52 2016 No.3100184
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>>3093617
I had a rewinder that looked like a red sportscar.

I loved using that thing, I have no logical reason for it. Probably the best one I can think of is that it seemed less threatening to the videotape to put it in the rewinder rather than have it noisily disappear into the VCR where it sometimes got stuck.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 18:07:41 2016 No.3100276 Mischief makers import, because it was the first an last game I ever rented. And I kept it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 21:55:28 2016 No.3100871 File: 10 KB, 196x250, 2dd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093171 >WHAT AWESOME GAME ARE YOU GONNA RENTING TODAY? Nothing... All the good games have been rented out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 22:06:29 2016 No.3100889 >>3095097 Mom always took me to Hollywood because Blockbuster was more expensive or something.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 22:19:28 2016 No.3100915 >>3093171 Valis 3 I finally beat it the third time I rented it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 22:19:58 2016 No.3100916 >>3095097 i liked hollywood video a bit better because they had alot of older movies and games. it was so damn satisfying seeing rows and rows of cheesy 80s horror movies and a few older black and white movies.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 22:21:08 2016 No.3100918 >>3093537 I just realized I rented Soul Blazer and never bought it...omg.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 22:24:13 2016 No.3100925 >>3099265 Having films that are not available on Netflix, as well as games. Not to mention many rural or even just suburban areas have nasty ISPs that impose data limits that Netflix eats though like a fat kid with a chocolate bar.

Anonymous Tue Mar 29 22:37:10 2016 No.3100953

>>3100925
I live in Canada.

My brother lives in a more rural area so when he came down for Christmas last year he downloaded his entire steam library, then decided to reformat his PC, then download his entire stream library again.

So we went significantly over the limit for that month. Then Shaw basically told us that we need to throttle ourselves, by doing things like watching netflix in SD.

We don't have hard limits here, but they like to give "warnings" if you're downloading too much, and I guess if you're consistently downloading a lot over the course of months they'll encourage you to get the next package up.

Internet Providers are such scams.

Anonymous Tue Mar 29 22:41:08 2016 No.3100959

The best was in the 80s when there were mom & pop rental stores everywhere that were cheaper and sometimes carried more obscure titles than chains did. But I rented some real winners, like Deadly Towers, Hydlide and Where's Waldo.

My family never rented from Blockbuster (formerly Major Video) since we didn't have a credit card and my parents didn't want to pay a deposit to get a membership. At some point I figured out that Blockbuster was better to buy from than rent anyway. Got my hands on CIB copies of exclusives like Castlevania Legacy of Darkness, Clayfighter Sculptor's Cut and Beast Wars Transmetals, a brand new copy of Mega Man Legends 2, and weird stuff like Game Factory for under $10 each. Also at a different store, boxed Earthbound for $6. Great times.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 22:59:06 2016 No.3100981 >>3094085 I had this game forever. I finally beat it as an adult a few years ago. Feels good man. Its not a good sonic game, but a good pinball thingy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 23:17:48 2016 No.3101008 >>3100925 see my other post:>>3100181 RedBox may have new releases that Netflix doesn't have, but Netflix has far more films overall that RedBox doesn't have than vice versa.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 23:27:39 2016 No.3101028 >>3101008 Dont you just love that shit, what happened to unification?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 23:28:48 2016 No.3101031 >>3093181 You would have to be about 10 years old to not know what a VHS tape is like.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 23:32:38 2016 No.3101034 >>3100959 Not to mention. M&P stores had real adult movies, and chains did NOT. >that fucking gag from zombiempsons >Now you are equipped with CANCER

Anonymous Tue Mar 29 23:33:46 2016 No.3101039

>>3101031
Not exactly. You'd probably need to be on the low end of the not-terribly-underage spectrum, but I could see someone on here with a cutting edge family having no memory of using VHS. However, I'd say that image will be more applicable in 4 years or so.

Anonymous Tue Mar 29 23:53:08 2016 No.3101075

I'm gonna try to get Terminator 2 because my mega drive magazine has screenshots that make me think you get to play as a naked guy. Shit, its not there, guess I'll hire Jurassic Park again. Last time I only found out I could play as the raptor twenty minutes before we had to return it. A happy 5 year old that does not make.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 23:59:37 2016 No.3101091 >>3093181 How haven't you gotten underage b& yet? This is unfair.

Anonymous Wed Mar 30 00:12:27 2016 No.3101114

>>3094275
Tfw you missed a weekend and the guy left you one save and took the other.

My first rental was zillion or ys for Sega master system from a mom and pop.

...... I was really fucking lucky with sms.
Zillion, Ys, Aztec adventure, rescue mission were all on the short list of awesome games. I thought they were middling crappy because I could t beat em because I was a kid. I was always looking for a stupid fun shiny game like Zelda or Mario.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 02:22:16 2016 No.3101285 >>3101114 Got to dark palace in SoM when my save file survived weeks of rental neglect.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 03:06:43 2016 No.3101349 >>3099259 >Interestingly Netflix had WAY more content back then than i[t does now How so

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 03:09:59 2016 No.3101358 >>3094642 For some reason I really like that picture. Is that a specific Kroger from your childhood? Tell me about it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 03:21:28 2016 No.3101374 >>3096025 Yep. Here's the list. http://www.blockbuster.com/franchise.html

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 04:24:18 2016 No.3101447 >>3093171 Donkey Kong 64 but I can't play it because I didn't have the expansion pack and didn't even know what one was back in 99!

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 07:46:06 2016 No.3101618 >>3101358 Nah just something off image search

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 08:06:59 2016 No.3101641 >>3101374 This list is actually outdated. Some of these are closed now.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 08:23:44 2016 No.3101653 My cousin and I got to rent a 64 and Pokémon Snap one weekend. Shit was cash. I feel bad that kids these days can't rent systems.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 08:29:24 2016 No.3101662 >>3096025 By that logic Subway went under.

Anonymous Wed Mar 30 09:21:48 2016 No.3101746

>>3101349
>Netflix in 2006: Is that movie we wanted to watch on Netflix? Yup
>Netflix in 2016: Let's browse new releases and see what we can watch
I'm guessing they did some research that indicated people would rather have a lower membership fee than a comprehensive library

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 09:24:32 2016 No.3101750 >>3101034 Family Videos all have a porn section to this very day

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 09:29:57 2016 No.3101753 File: 40 KB, 325x322, PSFightingForceCover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093171 F I G H T I N G F O R C E It's gonna be a good Friday night with the lads.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 10:02:30 2016 No.3101785 I remember I once got a mega man game, but it was fucking corrupt so I couldn't save. Wasn't even a good game either, compared to the original mega man games.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 10:19:13 2016 No.3101813 >>3101662 Subways aren't all locally owned and operated stores.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 10:19:25 2016 No.3101814 >>3093171 the fuck is a blockbuster?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 10:20:47 2016 No.3101819 >>3093171 Mom and who? My Mom's son?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 11:36:58 2016 No.3101893 >>3101814 It's a movie and game renting store.

Anonymous Wed Mar 30 11:46:50 2016 No.3101898

>>3096025

A franchise is still part of a company, bro. It's not like I can open a Blockbuster theatre or a Blockbuster massage parlour or a Blockbuster haberdashery.

If you're claiming all these franchises don't comprise a company then why aren't they all just their own separate video stores?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 11:50:03 2016 No.3101903 >>3100161 >Road to El Dorado >Disney Top kek anon. Your mommy couldn't afford to rent you a real Disney movie!

Anonymous Wed Mar 30 11:58:03 2016 No.3101914

>>3093540
Gotta look into this game, I discovered him thanks to gifs of that one hentai , but his art was also used for dozens of other games. The US release of Cybernator removes his character portraits but the rest of his art is still intact.
>those doe eyes
I fucking love how he draws women

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 12:06:35 2016 No.3101923 Head straight to the anime section because sometimes theres hentai videos. Had my own tv/vcr in my room.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 12:37:56 2016 No.3101967 >>3101898 The Blockbuster name is owned by Dish Network. They allow these stores to use the Blockbuster name under license.

Anonymous Wed Mar 30 13:19:44 2016 No.3102018

>>3093201

I remember accidentally renting Jumping Flash because the shelves were messed up, and it was in the box behind Air Combat.

At first I was like "Woah what the fuck is this bunny bullshit, I wanted awesome fighter jets" but then a couple weeks later I ended up having my mum fucking buy me it.

Those were the days.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 20:25:00 2016 No.3102781 Can't go wrong with Bomberman Hero.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 20:30:12 2016 No.3102789 >>3093191 We had one of those little standalone devices that automatically rewound VHS tapes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 20:33:54 2016 No.3102792 >>3093181 I still have mountains of old tapes recorded from TV from the 90s

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 20:38:02 2016 No.3102802 >>3101898 >thinks he understands what franchises are

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 20:39:27 2016 No.3102806 >>3093181 Are VHSes that uncommon? I had a VCR until like 2010 or so.

Anonymous Wed Mar 30 21:00:24 2016 No.3102837
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>>3093201
As far as retro titles go:

Mischief Makers
Mystical Ninja Staring Goemon
Mega Man X
Mega Man Legends
Skies of Arcadia
Silent Hill

And probably lots more that I'm just forgetting. I think the bulk of my gaming as a kid came from renting and borrowing games from friends, which was what exposed me to a lot of my current favorites.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 21:06:44 2016 No.3102839 Aerofighters Assault for N64 obviously.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 21:17:14 2016 No.3102858 >>3093504 I wonder why they took all the signs back. Most businesses just leave that shit behind.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 21:29:52 2016 No.3102870 >>3099386 >VHS is an objectively terrible format >Only gets distortion How exactly is that worse than a CD or DVD that takes a shit the second you get a hairline crack on it?

Anonymous Wed Mar 30 21:35:42 2016 No.3102880

>>3101039
This. My friend's parents got a DVD player damn near the day they were released in the United States. I remember it wouldn't read DVD-R and eventually wouldn't read a lot of the newer releases due to formatting issues.

Yeah, they HAD a VCR, but we never watched that shit. I was always jealous of all the nice shit they had and didn't appreciate.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 21:51:39 2016 No.3102902 >>3102870 That's literally no different from a VHS developing a tear in the ribbon.

Anonymous Wed Mar 30 22:15:04 2016 No.3102940

No big name rental store in my town, just Papa's Videos.

>new release games about a month after they came out
>good customers got put into a lottery for first weekend rental of new stuff
>free weekend rental of 2 movies and one game plus a yummy pack of a 2 liter, pizza coupon, and your favorite candy on your birthday for regulars
>report card A's got free rentals
>free cleaning of Nofriendo/VCR machines once a year for regulars
>you could do after school chores for rentals or to pay off late fees
>never an asshole on anything, wife had cookies on Friday for us regulars

I remember when he had to close because his wife got sick. There was only two of us who were good regulars that he had come in for a special close out. He had us come in and pick the games we wanted for a buck each, plus posters if we wanted them. He explained what was going on, and that he was liquidating as his wife was going down fast and he wanted to spend the rest of her time together. It really ripped a hole in the town.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 22:17:18 2016 No.3102943 >>3102902 There is actually a world of difference.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 22:28:43 2016 No.3102964 >>3093181 Fuck, anon, we still have a VHS player and a bunch of tapes at home. No real reason; just didn't have any need to get rid of it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 22:36:14 2016 No.3102980 File: 31 KB, 250x175, Superman64box.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >hmm super man? I bet I could fly around that should be awesome!

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 22:52:46 2016 No.3103025 My buddy has Hook for Sega Genesis that he bought from an old video rental place from around my home town. I can't believe he never beat it when it had unlimited continues.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 22:59:44 2016 No.3103042 >>3102858 They still had a brand that they wanted to salvage for their ill-fated streaming business. All the dead locations hanging around just hurt their reputation more.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 23:01:25 2016 No.3103050 >>3102980 >tfw you rent a bad game What was it, /vr/?

Anonymous Wed Mar 30 23:05:34 2016 No.3103054

>>3102940
this made a 33yr old man quite sad. I miss my mom&pop's
>>3102902
youngin? you can bond magnetic tape back together, you will miss a little but it can function again.
>>3101903
I have almost every single one at this point. It's just what my daughter was watching at the time. btw this movie ends with two best friends in a polyamorous relationship with a thick south american qt.

>>3101653
remember those giant blow molded cases they came in? looked like you were carrying out power tools.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 23:12:32 2016 No.3103065 >>3103050 Sub-Zero Mythologies on N64

Anonymous Wed Mar 30 23:14:37 2016 No.3103070
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>>3103050
>>3102980
For some reason I actually enjoyed these shitty games as a kid. I guess because they were only temporary so I still had fun with them. I remember always renting simpsons and looney tunes games. Snes had a huge amount of shovelware.

Anonymous Wed Mar 30 23:49:39 2016 No.3103128

>Two of my best friends work at Blockbuster
>Hang out at Blockbuster all the time
>Take advantage of their employee checkouts while they're working to go make copis of Playstation games in my very expensive CDR drive
>Hide theft prevention tags in all their clothes as well as I possibly can so they set off the alarm literally every single time
The best hidden one I had to show him where I'd hidden it after Blockbuster was out of business he wasn't able to find it for like 8 years

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 23:53:22 2016 No.3103138 >>3102943 No, it's completely apt. If fuckface's counter to distortion is "but it doesn't work when it's broken" then my counter to that is "nothing works when it's broken."

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 30 23:56:07 2016 No.3103147 >>3103054 >youngin? I'm 34 and was a rich kid. I've had plenty of tapes wear out, I've never watched a DVD to death like a tape.

Anonymous Thu Mar 31 00:06:47 2016 No.3103164

>>3103147
I destroyed Robin Hood as a kid but it could've been repaired. had it been on dvd and ripped in half there would be no repair. That is the only cassette I've ever broken in 33? years. I do see your [point though with proper care there is almost zero wear on an optical disc aside from mounting it on the spindle.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 00:16:31 2016 No.3103181 Probably super mario rpg, mario kart, or like bart's nightmare. Dont rent barts nightmare again ffs.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 00:22:26 2016 No.3103195 >>3093617 watch movie, never rewind. Here is your movie. Fuck that shit blockbuster.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 00:27:49 2016 No.3103209 More like well shit I washed dishes for 8 hours, lets go to blockbuster, alone.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 00:34:35 2016 No.3103221 >>3103209 did you jam out to wingnut dishwashers union?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 01:58:14 2016 No.3103360 File: 735 KB, 300x252, avgn.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3102870 Stop putting dvd in you ass anon, never ruined a disc in my life.

Anonymous Thu Mar 31 03:42:05 2016 No.3103543

>>3093181
Still got dozens of tapes, couple of weird anime stuff and pretty notable movies that I'm too lazy to get on DVD.
Also got the N64 star fox tape and a tape for a preview of Sonic Adventure along side other game previews like Legacy of Kane Soul Reaver and Ocarina of Time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 03:47:22 2016 No.3103553 >>3103543 Uh, what? You still have a hooked up VCR that you use on like, a modern TV?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 03:52:02 2016 No.3103563 >>3100161 >I imagine it'd look better yet with a svhs player. SVHS VCR only has an advantage if it plays actual SVHS tapes - and virtually nothing except old camcorder stuff is SVHS. SVHS is pretty cool though, almost DVD quality picture on tape.

Anonymous Thu Mar 31 04:03:07 2016 No.3103585

>>3103563
I would think the s-video output to the line doubler would improve image quality somewhat. And done most high end svhs have 6 heads (4 video l+r audio) vs 4 on the vcr (2 video l+r audio)? I know the picture is better on the player used in my previous post than the old hitachi in the kid's room

Anonymous Thu Mar 31 04:07:03 2016 No.3103601

>grew up so poor we could rarely afford blockbuster, and if we could, it would only be movies.

I hate rental stores, I once got to rent a winnie the pooh video for my birthday from a third party rental store. The old lady there said she wanted to watch that one with the most sad tone ever, made me feel like shit.

You guys had it nice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 05:50:57 2016 No.3103757 File: 413 KB, 1000x750, 1331412371301.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3102940 >his wife got sick I didn't come here for these feels.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 09:08:22 2016 No.3104000 >>3103042 But why would they take all their signs back, but an gas station, Radio Shack, Starbucks, et cetera will just leave the sign there when they pack up and leave. I know, I know. I'm thinking too much about it. Just seems like a waste of money.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 09:10:18 2016 No.3104005 >>3103138 ..... What? Either it's too early, or you need to rephrase what you said. Are you agreeing with me that it's different, or arguing that distortion = not being able to use it at all?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 09:11:54 2016 No.3104009 >>3103360 >Never ruined a disc in my life >6 years Give it time, you will some day.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 10:49:12 2016 No.3104146 >>3102940 Stop making me feel things. Did you live in the boonies somewhere? I lived in the suburbs and everything around us was corporate with few exceptions. Nobody cared about "regulars" at any of the stores we frequented.

Anonymous Thu Mar 31 14:01:31 2016 No.3104529

>>3104000 (checked)
It's like he said, for every town to have an empty Blockbuster store would have damaged people's trust of the streaming service ("hurt the brand") of course it was already damaged beyond repair, we see that clearly now that the streaming service also failed. In fact we consumers probably could have told them that but Blockbuster was well known for their arrogance (another thing that hurt the brand long ago)

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 16:35:51 2016 No.3104750 >>3095040 So you could say the rewinder be kinder?

Anonymous Thu Mar 31 16:53:44 2016 No.3104783

>>3103054
>>3103757
>>3104146
Small town shop. We had a bigger name store, but new releases were unicorns there and it wasn't comfy like Papa's.

I mean, what fucking video store would wipe a late fee or give you a free rental for an A or B+ on a big test? Hell, he let the poor kid do light work like tending to the flowers and stack stuff for rentals and snacks. There was just no comparison.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 16:55:27 2016 No.3104786 >>3093181 VHS is still popular with young kids. CRT is cheap, VCRs are cheap and VHS tapes are cheap, and the whole thing is idiot proof so the kids can't fuck anything up.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 16:56:27 2016 No.3104789 >>3104786 I watched Ace Ventura 2 on VHS with a kid I babysat the other day.

Anonymous Thu Mar 31 16:58:50 2016 No.3104801

>>3099228

That shit was such bullshit.

>2005
>Rent "True Crime: New York City"
>"Return it within 30 days and you only have to pay a small restocking fee."
>Return on Day 30
>Get a bill for $50
>Throw the bill in the trash, stop going to Block Buster
>Four years later they're out of business.

I won.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 16:59:44 2016 No.3104805 Yeah, I'll just rent Pokémon Stadium 2 again. If they are out of that Kirby 64 or Bomberman Heroes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:00:18 2016 No.3104806 >>3093171 I rented Majora's Mask at least 4 times and I always got the same cartridge that had my save file on it. Man, I miss carts.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:01:56 2016 No.3104812 >>3104806 >regularly rent a cart >someone else had rented it and wiped the file Damn my ego and always wanting file 1...

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:02:28 2016 No.3104813 >>3093181 Underage don't get to post here.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:05:58 2016 No.3104823 Fun fact, when I was 10 working at Blockbuster was my ideal part time dream job while I went through college. The year I graduate high school was one year after they closed down. There was a Movie Scene near my college but they closed down too. F

Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:06:12 2016 No.3104825

Was anyone else absolutely terrible with late fees?

>Go to the local store
>Rack up huge late fees bill
>Stop going to the local store
>Go to another store
>Rack up huge late fees bill
>Stop going to that store too.
>Rinse and repeat

In a span of six years our family ended up going through at least six stores. At one of them my Dad had the cops called on him and a corporate ban because he attacked the poor teenaged clerk when he found out how big his bill was.

There was a span of three years where I just couldn't rent anything. It only turned around when I turned 13 and was able to open my own account.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:07:14 2016 No.3104829 >>3104806 >>3104813 I sucked at games so piggybacking on other people's saves was the only way to see later levels in DKC and SMW.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:07:27 2016 No.3104831 >>3104823 F >tfw you had a blockbuster down the street At least Redbox is a thing...don't use it often tho

Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:18:20 2016 No.3104859

>>3104825
You were literally a serf-tier white being jerked around by jews. They know people like you aren't actually as responsible as they want to act like they are and get you to agree to obscene usury levels of economic leverage "but only if you don't blah blah blah on time" q.v. the housing crisis, the credit card debt pool and the home lending bubble.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:19:27 2016 No.3104861 >>3104859 wut

Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:28:58 2016 No.3104883

Probably Ape Escape or Jurassic Park for the PS1.

There's still a mom and pop store in my town, but they do only video. I love it and try and rent from them when I can. It's on the same road as my favorite pizza place so sometimes I'll pick up a couple movies and a pizza and have a good night in.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:31:17 2016 No.3104890 >>3104786 >VHS is still popular with young kids. CRT is cheap, VCRs are cheap and VHS tapes are cheap, and the whole thing is idiot proof so the kids can't fuck anything up. How millenial are you?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:33:28 2016 No.3104896 >>3101374 >there are 7 open blockbuster videos in El Paso in 2016

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:34:27 2016 No.3104901 >>3104890 Born in 1990.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:40:52 2016 No.3104913 >>3099259 I think it was DVDs being really cheap that killed Blockbuster more than the internet. No reason to go to Blockbuster when you can buy DVDs at Wal-Mart for $5.

Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:44:26 2016 No.3104920
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One of the Blockbusters I went to as a kid is now a martial arts academy (pictured). Before that we'd go to a mom and pop store for rentals.

What have your Blockbusters become?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:46:26 2016 No.3104924 File: 286 KB, 1280x1080, 1458353388067.jpgXX0001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3104859

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 17:47:48 2016 No.3104931 >>3104920 one's a dollar store, one's an insurance office there's a mom and pop video store one town over that's still open, i might go check it out

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 18:02:31 2016 No.3104969 >>3104861 it's just /pol/, don't reply

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 18:43:30 2016 No.3105105 >>3104786 thats why i still buy disney for the kiddo. my 2 year old can use her vcr unassisted. >>3104890 I know a bunch of parents with crt and vcr's in their kids' rooms

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 20:48:58 2016 No.3105396 >>3093171 In The Hunt, Klonoa, Air combat, Ace Combat 3, Spyro, Croc and one treasure diving game we never learned the name of

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 21:17:26 2016 No.3105462 >>3104890 The only reason my kids don't have a VCR in their room anymore is because I got DirecTV and therefor have no need for them to touch the first flat screen I ever purchased 6 years ago that's somehow still kicking.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 21:53:02 2016 No.3105538 >>3093181 i still have my working vcr and a vhs copy of star wars ep1 >ep 1 i never watched it until last year meh it's ok i guess

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 22:00:45 2016 No.3105550 >>3105462 Are flat screens supposed to die early? Or is it just that it survived children?>>3100161 is from 2006 and still looks great. The ipod dock is iffy now though

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 22:23:23 2016 No.3105605 File: 75 KB, 282x256, 2016-03-31 22.18.51.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3104920 Got turned into a medical center, I wasn't particularly attached to the location but it was the last one in the area to close

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 22:42:55 2016 No.3105637 >>3093171 my dad always looked so ashamed when i'd get puzzle fighter on ps1. like fuck you dad it's the best puzzle game ever

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 31 22:44:00 2016 No.3105640 >>3104920 some depressing matress store

Dr. Dude !!xYApC7v7+j4 Thu Mar 31 23:07:30 2016 No.3105704

>Parents divorce when I'm 8
>Move to new town with Mom and sister.
>Only go to Blockbuster a couple of times ever.
>Just for movies, never snacks or VG.
>No video games when I was a kid-before divorce, my dad was against them. After divorce, too poor.
>Just borrowed movies from library when I was older and started with Netflix (when it was cheap and good) when I was 18.
>Feel "eh" when Blockbuster goes away.

Anyone else feel the same? I do miss the Pokemon Snap machine, but I didn't have the game nor an N64, so I couldn't have done anything with it, anyway.

Anonymous Fri Apr 1 05:51:14 2016 No.3106416

>>3104920
They turned it into a T-Mobile store lol. I remember when Blockbuster was going out of business and they were selling all their stock. Got so many xbox games that were scratched to fuck but somehow still worked. Never spent more than 20 bucks for 5+ games

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 1 05:53:58 2016 No.3106423 >>3105704 There's a functioning Pokémon snap center with sealed boxes of cards and sticker rolls on craigslist. http://anchorage.craigslist.org/vgm/5484628348.html

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 1 05:57:10 2016 No.3106427 >>3106416 became a 7-11

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 1 06:39:49 2016 No.3106469 >>3105704 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8

>>	Juana Phillips Fri Apr 1 09:54:01 2016 No.3106720 >>3104920 Opthamologist

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 2 04:47:47 2016 No.3108592 File: 14 KB, 306x306, tumblr_inline_nt0vu7juhN1spsojg_400.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093179 >MFW she know's full well I have enough good boy points saved up for a blockbuster trip >that stupid bitch can't screw me over

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 2 09:49:33 2016 No.3109007 >>3093171 I will rent Little Samson and conveniently "lose" the cart somewhere, parents will pay the fee anyway

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 2 11:11:05 2016 No.3109146 >>3104920 The one in my hometown with my dad is now a veterinary office. The one where my mom lives is still there.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 2 15:10:29 2016 No.3109685 >>3093191 you used to have to rewind dvds when they first came out. I was watching Goodfellas on DVD and it confused the shit outta me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 2 15:13:17 2016 No.3109694 >>3109685 >you used to have to rewind dvds when they first came out. >>>/traffic/

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 2 15:13:46 2016 No.3109696 File: 118 KB, 1092x647, Kenzi.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3100184 my grandmother had one of these. My nigga.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 2 15:16:31 2016 No.3109706 >>3104920 The one from really early childhood is a restaurant now I think and the one from later is still there because someone modeled it like a castle for some reason.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 2 21:02:10 2016 No.3110701 >>3105550 I had always heard at the time that they die early. It's a Vizio, which is a "cheap" brand, and it's lasted a long time, in my opinion, based on the rumors I've heard regarding power board failures, backlight going out, dead zones, et cetera.

Anonymous Sat Apr 2 21:07:08 2016 No.3110715

>>3104920
My favorite one was Mr Movies. It's now a Sherwinn Williams.

There was also the one my dad always brought us to called Current World that the grocery store that it shared a building with expanded into it.

We had a kind of shitty one called Video Plus that stopped having shit you were looking for around 1998, and we had a Blockbuster for a while but I was hardly nostalgic about it considering I went there one time with my friend's mom and she forgot to bring the copy of James Bond Agent Under Fire back until well after they went out of business.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 2 21:11:31 2016 No.3110724 File: 235 KB, 1024x1024, dragon_ball_z_vhs_collection_by_animefeen85-d8a9gu7.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093181

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 15:32:42 2016 No.3112692 >>3104920 Is now an Autozone

Anonymous Sun Apr 3 15:48:14 2016 No.3112715
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>>3104920
Here's a pic of the Blockbuster I rented lots of games from off google maps, the Verizon store has been there a while now. Another place I used to rent videos from is now a 7-11, and two other local places I'd rent stuff from are now just empty.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 20:38:08 2016 No.3113401 >>3093171 >Rent Hey You, Pikachu! >They didn't give you the mic adapter God dammit, I didn't even know what I was doing but I think you couldn't get past the start screen.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 20:51:07 2016 No.3113427 >>3113401 That's terrible. I hope your parents made a fuss when they returned it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 21:05:25 2016 No.3113461 File: 1.43 MB, 1920x1080, Screenshot_2016-04-03-17-03-15.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3104920 Still a Blockbuster.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 22:18:47 2016 No.3113640 >>3093171 Oldfag here. Blockbuster going under was one of the best days of my life. They literally ruined movies. I do miss renting games though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 22:22:14 2016 No.3113650 I usually went to Movie Gallery instead.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 22:34:27 2016 No.3113673 >>3093201 Holy shit I think I remember playing this game on N64. I loved exploring the world and always stuck to me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 22:36:15 2016 No.3113676 File: 114 KB, 476x346, bobsy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3113461 glitch in the matrix

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 22:37:38 2016 No.3113682 Clayfighter Sculptor's Cut and I'll "lose" the game and make mommy buy it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 22:41:53 2016 No.3113694 >>3104920 You know, all the Blockbusters in my city are all empty.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 22:50:11 2016 No.3113708 >>3104920 An Autozone And the one I went to the most by my cousins house just sits there, empty...

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 22:53:21 2016 No.3113716 >>3103553 Yeah, as gay as that may be. I connect my DC, NES, and SNES/N64 to it in order to have all of those and my other systems hooked up.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 23:23:05 2016 No.3113757 >>3106423 I want that so bad

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 23:30:05 2016 No.3113769 >>3104920 autoparts store my old hollywood video has been an abandoned building for over 6 years now

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 23:36:20 2016 No.3113774 >>3095003 I remember my dad getting Madden 2001 from blockbuster. It's when they started selling movies and discs. Still have it. And any legacy console is considered Retro gaming.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 23:41:12 2016 No.3113783 >>3096025 What r these franchises like? Anyone been to one?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 23:45:26 2016 No.3113789 >>3099206 Any good VHS to digital converters? Basically where you can convert VHS tapes into digital files.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 3 23:55:38 2016 No.3113806 >>3113789 A caprice card? You want a good vcr with clean heads for that, look into a cheap svhs. S-video and better audio.

Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:01:19 2016 No.3113810

>>3113461 here

>>3113783
Just like they were except it's all optical media and They don't rent consolses, vcrs or dvd players.
There's still an anime section at the one pictured but it gets no new additions.
Still has the impulse wall with coolers candy, cheap movies for sale, trinkets etc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:02:25 2016 No.3113812 >>3101746 Or maybe just film companies hiked up the licensing fees and didn't want all there movies on there :-)

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:04:25 2016 No.3113814 >>3113806 Shit, capture card.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:05:09 2016 No.3113815 >>3113812 >Because film companies hate making money

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:08:19 2016 No.3113819 >>3102940 Couldn't he have just sold it to you?

Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:09:22 2016 No.3113821

>>3113789
Probably the simplest way to do it is to use a VCR/DVD-R combo to make DVD "masters" from the VHS tapes then rip the DVDs to whatever digital format you want to use. I've been thinking about doing this for some horror movies I've collected that have not been released on DVD and selling them on eBay just to see if I get in trouble and/or how much I could get for them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:09:51 2016 No.3113823 >>3102980 I just loved flying around

Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:14:03 2016 No.3113829

>>3103054
>It ends with Miguel and Julio bangin' Chel

You know, I remember them having that Julio and Chel scene specifically to avoid that notion, but in hindsight, yeah, they never really did solidified any sort of romantic or sexual bond. This is not even bringing up the fact Chel would totally fuck both of them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:17:27 2016 No.3113836 File: 329 KB, 256x256, I'mtakingyouwithmebub.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3103050 Glover.

Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:21:50 2016 No.3113845

>>3104529
I actually remember the last time we went to one.

>just got an Xbox 360 for my bday in 2008 so thought it would be nice to rent some games.

>the clerk said Blockbuster will only allow purchases using your social

>we noped out of there

After that I just bought games that Look good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:23:23 2016 No.3113847 >>3113829 Hell the horse might have got in on some. Also I have 2 or 3 16bit carts I got from bb when they were getting phased out. Too bad I didn't get there earlier. Poor nec kids my bb was nintendo and sega only

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:29:43 2016 No.3113859 >>3104920 >O'Reilys auto parts

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:31:23 2016 No.3113864 File: 52 KB, 386x249, 1410139058879.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Maybe this is just me. But I always found something really creepy about a rented thing that went unsought for.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:35:33 2016 No.3113873 >>3106416 $20 for 5 games >Not spending $100 on 20+ games. Either go big or go home. When a store is closing either go big or go home. Your suppose to buy alot of shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 00:45:41 2016 No.3113886 File: 13 KB, 210x273, 1392329920833.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >wanting to rent one game in particular >rental copy is never behind the game box >ever

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 01:19:58 2016 No.3113930 >>3104825 I heard some of these companies would send debt collectors after you. Is that true? Anyone else?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 01:34:50 2016 No.3113954 >>3113873 >go big or go home >go big or go home just go away

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 02:17:58 2016 No.3114019 >>3113873 Why? 99% of what's left is going to be 2005 sports games or other garbage.

Anonymous Mon Apr 4 02:27:51 2016 No.3114037

>>3102940
>report card A's got free rentals
Shit man. When I was in elementary school students who got straight A's and Honor Roll got a packet of coupons with their report card for a ton of places in town as a reward. Shit like free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut, a free vanilla cone from the local ice cream store, and a free game or movie rental from both. Coming home with that shit was the best feeling, because it meant a weekend of pizza and awesome games. They stopped doing them when I was in second or third grade though, never found out why, and Gatorland closed a year or two later because it was in the middle of nowhere and the other store was smashing its ass in sales.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 02:29:58 2016 No.3114041 >>3113821 What movies?

Anonymous Mon Apr 4 02:47:01 2016 No.3114059

>>3093171
I got to keep a bunch of unreturned shit when blockbuster closed. One of my buddies even broke in to our local one with some other dudes after the news went out that they are closing.

>stocked on popcorn for months
>massed a collection of games that didn't get marked for rental
>even more movies
>snacks

I used to repeatedly rent Conker's, Perfect Dark, Road Rash and StarCraft 64 though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 04:42:32 2016 No.3114212 >>3113886 Aggggh.. Someone always, always, ALWAYS had rented out Yoshi's Island. It drove me fucking crazy. By the time of the PS2 era, they were stacking plenty of copies of every game though.

Anonymous Mon Apr 4 08:36:15 2016 No.3114431

>>3101746
When Netflix was relatively young, way before streaming, they found that most of their customer base was requesting/receiving older movies WAY more often than new releases. The big selling point of Netflix was their massive library of old stuff, not the new stuff.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 09:06:37 2016 No.3114458 >>3113873 >Your suppose to buy alot of shit. Why didn't you pay attention in English class?

Anonymous Mon Apr 4 09:46:20 2016 No.3114496

>>3114041
A bunch. Whenever I see small studio clamshells as I'm thrifting I give them a dig. Gotta get into stuff like that now that thrifting retro games is busted (except PC).

>>3114431
Well their streaming library is a lot less massive than it used to be. I can't be the only person who's noticed that?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 10:14:59 2016 No.3114538 Never in my life have I visited a legit Blockbuster. We had a crappy local place I used to rent Starfox 64 from occasionally tho.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 14:34:41 2016 No.3115030 >>3114037 I remember getting the Pizza Hut pizzas for reading 10 books every month. We don't have Pizza Hut anymore so idk.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 15:19:18 2016 No.3115105 RIP xtravision

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 16:02:40 2016 No.3115171 File: 300 KB, 975x978, 375996-treasure_of_the_deep.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3105396 >one treasure diving game we never learned the name of This one?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 4 16:31:11 2016 No.3115232 >>3114496 I do they used to have sword of the stranger, went to re-watch it the other day and it was gone. Kickass movie if you're in to anime.

Anonymous Tue Apr 5 18:21:31 2016 No.3117915

>>3093201
Mystical Ninja starring Goemon I discovered in a magazine then rented it. A few years later when the PS2 came out and blockbuster was getting rid of some old games I snagged it for friggin 5 bucks with manual.

Oddly enough, they also included the blockbuster box it came in... I think I may still have it kicking around. Always loved the little descriptions they would have on the back of them...

Anonymous Tue Apr 5 18:28:05 2016 No.3117927

>>3093171
Did anyone else get those coupons in the mail that let you rent one game and rent a second for free?

>>3093606
> No internet
Well... There were BBSes, IRC channels and mailing lists (although those were spammy as fuck)

Also yeah it was about $5 or $6 bucks give or take, or at least, that's the price I remember

Anonymous Tue Apr 5 18:39:28 2016 No.3117950

>>3093171
> Riding home from school/super market/whatever
> Car takes a turn
> Realize you're not taking the normal route home
> Realize you're heading in the direction of video rental store
> HEART RATE ELEVATES
> JUBILATION BEGINS

Fuck you for making me remember OP. Now I'm just sitting here at my 9-5 wishing yearning for more care free days

Anonymous Tue Apr 5 18:45:14 2016 No.3117962

Geez, those were the times, I can remember it as if it was yesterday. Goddamn it those were the good old times, every Friday I would look forward to renting some kind of console or movie. It was dope as shit to bad everything is moving towards digitization

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 5 18:47:50 2016 No.3117967 >>3093181 Dude I'm 19 and I used VCRs until like 6 or 7 years old How young do you need to be to not have experienced them?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 5 19:16:46 2016 No.3118027 >>3099206 I use to do this too

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 6 05:25:12 2016 No.3119257 >>3117967 I'd say pretty young because my nieces and nephews still use VHS and some of them are getting up there in age. Only reason I don't is because I'm not enough of a movie watch to justify taking up that much shelf space

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 6 05:58:42 2016 No.3119279 File: 477 KB, 1600x1200, DSCN0321.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3119257 uncle?

Anonymous Wed Apr 6 06:18:50 2016 No.3119287
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>>3113886
>see game that I want to rent
>see another game I want to rent
>can only rent one at a time
>take rental box of other game and hide behind a VHS/DVD I knew no one would be renting from anytime soon or in some small space no one but me would know where to look
>rent the other game and play it
>return it and rent the other game I hid
Worked every time

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 6 08:15:16 2016 No.3119397 >>3119287 I was the kid searching the behind chick flicks/shitty movies looking for those new releases you assholes were hiding. No regerts.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 6 10:42:54 2016 No.3119605 >>3093504 In my town there's an old Blockbuster store that was turned into a hookah store and its now called BakeBlazer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 6 12:36:53 2016 No.3119764 >>3095046 you are scum

Anonymous Wed Apr 6 12:52:49 2016 No.3119785

>>3119764
Truth is sicker than nightmares. Blockbuster actually threw everything but the disc directly in the dumpster for every copy beyond the one or maybe two boxes that sat on top their stacks of generic rental cases. There would be dozens of sets in there for any big release. At least they usually only got one copy of niche titles and limited releases so they were spared.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 6 20:10:34 2016 No.3120606 I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so I HAD to rent games instead of buying. Back then, you could spend $2-3 to rent a game for 3 days/ 2 nights, or you could shell out $60-80 to buy a game. Back then, renting made a lot more sense.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 6 20:49:40 2016 No.3120706 >Go to the Hollywood Video as a kid (we didn't have Blockbuster) >Rent Yoshi's Island/DKC 3 and Batman 1962 >Rented Batman so much they let me keep it when they were about to go out of business I still have the tape.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 6 21:17:55 2016 No.3120775 >>3119279 Cram that setup into a 2 bedroom trailer and you have my sister's living room

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 6 21:24:49 2016 No.3120794 >>3119279 White men can't jump. Classic

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 7 11:06:08 2016 No.3121890 My family wasn't rich.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 7 14:32:47 2016 No.3122160 >>3113930 Yep, they tried sending debt collectors after me for a $50 late fee or something.. I just laughed and threw it out

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 7 14:45:49 2016 No.3122180 >>3119785 Probably because nintendo were assholes and tried sueing them for including manuals in their game rentals. Nintendo really didn't want anyone renting their games

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 13:15:34 2016 No.3124371 >>3093171 for like 5 entire years my little brother would rent Wario World every week, get frustrated on the first level, and then make me come and beat the entire game for him

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 13:18:41 2016 No.3124379 File: 245 KB, 750x508, 3845560xun.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 13:35:59 2016 No.3124401 File: 24 KB, 269x370, Wacky_Races_front.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] First NES game I ever rented.

Anonymous Sat Apr 9 13:30:53 2016 No.3126772

>>3093181
I do, even though I don't miss the format overall because I was a stupid kid who fucked up rewinding, I do wish I kept some recordings around.

>had a high-end VCR that could detect ads and skip them
>now realize ads were the best part of old VHS recordings

Anonymous Sat Apr 9 13:35:33 2016 No.3126789

>>3126772
I should've specified, when I said fucked up rewinding:

>have a long tape, like one of those 6 hour ones
>want to watch something on it, don't want to use the regular rewind because fuck that for 6 hours worth
>dad says to use some VCR mode that rewinds it faster while the TV just shows TV
>never figured out how to get to that mode on my own, got a TiVo anyway so never really had a reason to learn

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 9 17:06:40 2016 No.3127205 >>3099265 Here in North Texas some RedBox kiosks are going away. I'm a manager for a grocery chain and Redbox came in and removed almost all their machines from our stores saying they were not making enough money.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 9 17:22:14 2016 No.3127236 >>3104920 A carpeting store, a dress shop and a black people hair saloon and wig shop

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 9 18:56:45 2016 No.3127394 File: 5 KB, 267x79, stop%20button2[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3126789 >some VCR mode that rewinds it faster while the TV just shows TV Stop, Anon. It's called Stop.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 9 20:09:40 2016 No.3127527 >>3104920 My local Blockbuster (southwest PA) is now a Visionworks, there were probably a few more surrounding it but I don't recall where they were now

Anonymous Sun Apr 10 05:45:35 2016 No.3128523
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>>3093181
>All those taped Adult Swim shows since you had to go to bed.
>Tfw watching them in the morning.

>>3100161
>El Dorado.
Mein nigga. A coworker and I shoot lines back and forth at work. Totes watching on my next two days off for some fresh material.

>>3093171
MOTHER
FUCKIN
SMASH
WHAT'S THAT DAD? WE CAN GET TWO CAUSE NICK DOESN'T WANNA PLAY SMASH AGAIN?
FUCKIN
SWEET

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 10 05:50:40 2016 No.3128527 >>3095097 This is what we went to as well. Would always have a Game K(EXTREEEME)razy outlet connected with sick console kiosk. Got to try SC2 with Link and Resi Evil 4 for the first time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 10 08:09:40 2016 No.3128668 >tfw renting the game and the movie

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 10 08:11:01 2016 No.3128669 File: 51 KB, 520x350, spawn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw renting the game and the movie

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 10 08:11:12 2016 No.3128670 >>3093171 >MOM AND _ fuck you for being accurate

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 10 08:14:18 2016 No.3128673 I went to both Blockbuster and Movie Gallery, but overall I went to Movie Gallery more frequently. They weren't as popular, so there was a better chance that a game I wanted was in stock.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 02:46:04 2016 No.3130792 Anyone go to an A to Z Video? I went to one of those more than Blockbuster. Blockcuckster was more expensive and were relentless with the late fees.. Not only that but they had a limited selection compared to smaller places like that one

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 06:29:28 2016 No.3131102 I distinctly remember renting Link's Awakening, Wario Land 4, Megaman Legends, Digimon World 3 and this weird 2.5d platformer called "Spyder".

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 11 10:47:24 2016 No.3131356 >>3128669 >every time someone farts a demon gets his wings

Anonymous Mon Apr 11 19:35:51 2016 No.3132354

>Used to rent Extra Innings all the time
>Always used to make the edit teams after family members
>Years later they're selling off their SNES games
>buy it
>Has them all

Sure, it's a silly little baseball game that was way outdated by then, but it was a nice feel.

On the other hand, I avoided Chrono Trigger for years because of the one time I rented it and, not knowing any better, played the NG+ and went right to Lavos, and naturally since I wasn't able to beat it, called bullshit and ignored the game for the next 10 years.

The worst though was how me and my grandma used to rent Super Ball. One week I really wanted to play it so we agreed to get it after school, but i got in trouble for something and got grounded for a week. When we went after that week to get it, we found out during that week they had sold off their SNES games. I probably got some cool N64 game that weekend anyway but for some reason that mild disappointment has stuck with me.

Overall I do miss going to rent games, there's still a video place around and while it's still kinda fun to do once in a while it's not as fun as it used to be.

Anonymous Mon Apr 11 21:48:34 2016 No.3132621

>>3132354
>On the other hand, I avoided Chrono Trigger for years because of the one time I rented it and, not knowing any better, played the NG+ and went right to Lavos, and naturally since I wasn't able to beat it, called bullshit and ignored the game for the next 10 years.
That's pretty funny, anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 12 14:34:00 2016 No.3134186 File: 460 KB, 501x471, Untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3127394 What?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 13 15:43:06 2016 No.3136884 >>3134186 You hit stop, then rewind. On some VCRs you need to hit rewind twice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 13 17:11:13 2016 No.3137076 >>3093171 >Mom and Thanks for reminding me that I don't have a father. >rent Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow again for some reason

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 13 17:47:27 2016 No.3137196 Anyone remember Video Oasis?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 13 18:18:49 2016 No.3137314 File: 257 KB, 1200x800, 1449499036744.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Do you remember the VERY LAST game you rented from blockbuster before yours closed? Super Paper Mario on Wii for me in mid 2007.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 13 18:43:00 2016 No.3137374 >>3137314 Agent Under Fire for the Gamecube because my mom never got an account there and my friend's mom was kind of a ditz so it never got brought back.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 13 19:24:34 2016 No.3137468 File: 24 KB, 470x260, Movie_Gallery_r470x260.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 13 19:34:12 2016 No.3137496 >>3093201 Same here except the SNES one. Me and my brother just spent the entire time just beating the townspeople up

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 13 20:54:14 2016 No.3137691 >>3137314 Sonic Free Riders for the Game Cube.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 13 21:37:51 2016 No.3137798 File: 118 KB, 500x375, 8498433689_107652d019.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 13 22:00:18 2016 No.3137835 File: 568 KB, 706x455, volcano.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3104920 Restaurant. At least the food's pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 14 00:40:03 2016 No.3138136 >>3104920 i had 2 one's now a heart doctors office , and the other's a 24 hr fitness store

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 14 00:49:17 2016 No.3138150 File: 15 KB, 300x178, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3104920 This is what my Blockbuster became.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 14 00:52:10 2016 No.3138154 I still have a video rental place a couple blocks away called "Family Video". There's a pizza place connected to it so I can call in an order for pizza and a game, and they'll deliver both to me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 14 01:12:44 2016 No.3138193 >>3138150 hey my old blockbuster became a liquor store too but it's like a "hipster" liquor store called the stache or some shit

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 14 01:56:37 2016 No.3138263 >>3137314 Might have been Capcom vs SNK 2 on ps2because it is one of the few games with the blarring blockbuster sticker i got with it. If not then it was gran turismo 2 which is missing the simulation disc because got counted as two separate games.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 14 12:02:27 2016 No.3139154 >>3138154 >Pizza and game delivered right to your door You know, I get Red Box and all, but they never fucking have the games you want, you know? You'd think rental places would be more popular, at least with enough hipsters to keep them in business.

Anonymous Thu Apr 14 12:29:12 2016 No.3139213
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>>3093171
>be me
>oldfag.jpg
>grow up in the 90s
>mom takes u to video store
>the new game you wanted is rented out
>tfw you will not leave that store empty handed
>mom only lets u have 2 day rental
>end up getting that game you like but wouldnt rent unless u had too
>that 90s feels that no one will ever feel again.

I think ill rent that n64 blockbuster exclusive plz ty.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 01:18:02 2016 No.3140667 I wish I can remember more games I've played back in the day. My brain got fried over the years

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 01:37:40 2016 No.3140689 >>3139213 Oldfags don't type like 12-year-old girls.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 01:43:31 2016 No.3140698 >>3093171 my mom died when I was 5. Dad used to take me to BB all the time because he worked a lot and was never home latch key life

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 02:09:17 2016 No.3140729 >>3140689 baited

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 03:40:14 2016 No.3140869 >>3104920 Mine got butchered. They split the suit in half and made half a travel agency and the other a Subway...

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 04:03:02 2016 No.3140904 >>3138154 I have 2 family videos in my city. One of them has a Little Ceasers connected to it. they still get business interestingly enough. >>3104920 Mine became a Tim Hortons

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 04:18:03 2016 No.3140918 File: 75 KB, 550x730, snap3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093171 Oh, not renting anything today. Just printing out my latest shots.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 04:19:04 2016 No.3140920 >>3140918 theres one for sale on cl with cards and printer paper

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 04:19:10 2016 No.3140923 File: 97 KB, 1136x852, xBmNLYn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3140918 These ones turned out really great. Finally got to the Mew level!

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 04:35:54 2016 No.3140962 >>3138154 >>3140904 Family Video is not only doing well, they're actually expanding. If a small chain like that can thrive, there's no reason why Blockbuster couldn't.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 09:02:12 2016 No.3141360 monster rancher

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 09:19:11 2016 No.3141376 >>3137314 Had to have been a Gamecube game. I'm thinking Super Monkey Ball or Resident Evil.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 17:30:28 2016 No.3142426 >>3137314 I won a years worth of free rentals at BB from a 99cent nuggets from Wendy's. I still have the card around here somewhere, I had it in my wallet for Far Too Long. Last game I rented was probably something on PS2 although I don't remember.

Anonymous Fri Apr 15 17:33:59 2016 No.3142431

>>3114059
Guys I knew got a shitload of games and movies out of the dumpster when they went out of business.

I distinctly remember people saying go rent what you want now because when the go out of business you won't have to take it back.

I got Mister Mosquito on ps2 still from my local store

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 17:47:15 2016 No.3142464 File: 1.65 MB, 4320x2432, IMG_20150122_132710791.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw this sign was finally taken down last year, years after the store itself was closed down

Anonymous Fri Apr 15 17:47:30 2016 No.3142467

>>3137468
My sister's bf worked at a movie gallery and if any of you don't know they rented porno. Blockbuster didn't because they sucked but anyway he stole Tons of xxx dvds from that place. He would show up at my house to play madden and chill and have a trunkload of xxx.

He also gave me a switch box with the game console names on the front buttons, I still use it. Also printed out my social studies teacher's video rental list which was all xxx like Cueball (all bald chicks) and a movie called Too Many Chalupas.

Thanks Phil

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 19:06:36 2016 No.3142649 >not playing your rented game after watching TGIF on ABC

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 15 21:17:16 2016 No.3142863 >>3140962 Other than the lack of quality titles, poor business practices, pure idiocy, et cetera

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 16 04:24:30 2016 No.3143539 >>3099206 Is it wrong that I read the entirety of that post, filename included, in Randy Savage's voice?

Anonymous Sat Apr 16 04:42:47 2016 No.3143580
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>>3104920

Let's see...I think the one that was far from my where I live possibly got torn down and made into a Panda Express, I think. The one closer to me went out of business years later, and was made into a dental office, I believe.

>>3113461
Behold, gentlemen. A testament to the past.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 16 23:48:41 2016 No.3145640 File: 82 KB, 615x615, hatevideogames.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093181 >mfw "now if you'll excuse me I have to return some video tapes" was the closing line of my valedictorian speech

Anonymous Sun Apr 17 16:43:06 2016 No.3147168

>>3100916
>>3095097
>>3128527
>>3095124
>my dad would always get mad at me for looking at rated r movies and horror movies
>that tension of walking by really slowly trying to read and remember all the monsters and titles
>waiting for him to get distracted with my brother or sister so i could just read as many as i could
>buying a bunch a crunch
>going home and trying to re enact them with lego or friends
fuck man i miss that place

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 17 21:04:20 2016 No.3147904 >>3145640 That's awesome though. It makes me feel bad about getting my GED at 16 and dropping out to go to college just to end up fucking around because it was "perpetual summer vacation". 8 years later I'm finally getting it together.

>>	Xenos Sun Apr 17 22:35:00 2016 No.3148093 File: 92 KB, 800x480, 2013-02-24 04.48.58.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3093181 excuse me

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 18 23:03:15 2016 No.3150571 lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 17:07:54 2016 No.3152467 File: 228 KB, 500x368, tumblr_n9aczoz0LY1tdhimpo1_500.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 18:17:24 2016 No.3152689 >>3152467 Holy shit, how much was that even?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 18:32:21 2016 No.3152734 >>3152689 No clue, but what a deal!

Anonymous Tue Apr 19 18:47:59 2016 No.3152793

>>3101034
>that doorway with hanging beads

>>3102792
did you ever do that thing the FBI apparently hated where you rent a video and record the playing with another vcr?

McHale's Navy, motherfuckers

>>3102880
my family and my cousin's both bought DVD players despite having PS2's
I tried to explain, but parents are dumb

>>3103065
my dad bought me that (he bought things randomly)

>>3105640
uh....mooresville, IN?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 18:47:59 2016 No.3152794 >>3113815 >Because film companies like selling you Blu-Rays and DVDs.

Anonymous Tue Apr 19 18:54:09 2016 No.3152816

>>3152793
>did you ever do that thing the FBI apparently hated where you rent a video and record the playing with another vcr?

Dude, I got my hands on an Academy screener of Titanic about 5 months before it came out on video. I copied dozens of copies and sold them at my school for $15 apiece.

My copies were arguably better, too, since I could fit the whole movie on one tape instead of the two the official release had (and they wanted like $40 because of it.)

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 18:56:08 2016 No.3152825 >>3104920 Hollywood is empty and has been for years, and the two Blockbusters are now an auto shop and a dentist.

Anonymous Tue Apr 19 19:09:13 2016 No.3152874
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>>3152467
oh man...i heard the cracking of the box when u closed them as i saw that pic...

pic related was my first real card with my name on it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 19 19:16:42 2016 No.3152902 So literally everyone played Legend of the Mystical Ninja 64 through Blockbuster. What an odd coincidence.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 03:24:27 2016 No.3153751 >>3093171 >Kike buster lel fucking americans

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 03:32:34 2016 No.3153758 >>3153751 In what third world country you live?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 03:32:35 2016 No.3153759 >>3099172 this they payed like $100-$120 per tape

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 03:52:07 2016 No.3153774 >>3103563 >SVHS is pretty cool though, almost DVD quality picture on tape. not DVHS get a load of this pleb

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 03:56:41 2016 No.3153781 >>3104920 dentist office

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 04:20:38 2016 No.3153798 >>3153758 canada mom and pops kicked block busters shit in on price and carrying obscure uncensored titles

Anonymous Wed Apr 20 04:26:04 2016 No.3153807

Not blockbuster, but Roger's Video (Canada). My gf and I, both 15 at the time, were chatting with the staff. Asked if we could go into the 'dark room' (where they kept all the porn rentals). They let us rent a few as long as we didn't return them late.

Pretty cool at the time I guess.

Otherwise weekly, weekend vidya game rentals when I was a kid.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 05:27:24 2016 No.3153875 >>3152902 For some of us that was the only way we played any game besides the one included with the console. When I first got SNES for example. All we actually OWNED was Super Mario All Stars and A Link to the Past

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 17:41:13 2016 No.3155009 File: 6 KB, 259x194, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3106416 Your Blockbuster apparently wasn't filled with greedy bastards. All of the video games I tried to get only had a 10-20% mark down.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 17:49:44 2016 No.3155026 Never rented from BB because they were so damned expensive, we have a place called Northwest Video here, like a 1 store franchise, games were 1.99 for new releases, 99 for older stuff. Fuck even Starvin Sams was a cheaper alternative.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 20 17:50:45 2016 No.3155029 >>3155026 *Had, I meant, place has long since been replaced by a Subway.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 00:07:48 2016 No.3155863 >>3104920 It sat abandoned forever. Now it is some sort of "vascular" specialist place with generic big font, the type of business you just glance at and you're instantly bored.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 01:23:19 2016 No.3155968 >>3093171 Paper Mario if that asshole before me finally returned the game.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 01:32:38 2016 No.3155995 >>3095034 http://www.blockbuster.com/newspr.html

Anonymous Thu Apr 21 01:37:16 2016 No.3156004

>>3099265

I'm a manager at a Hastings, we keep our rentals alive by contracting with Netflix on a lot of titles, or getting rental exclusivity for a period of time.

We also do this thing where you pay for a week, but you can bring it back by the next day for credits towards your next rental.

It works pretty good, but renting movies and games is nowhere near what it used to be.

Anonymous Thu Apr 21 05:37:59 2016 No.3156362

>>3156004
>Renting movies and games is nowhere near what it used to be

I don't understand why. Sure, piracy is a thing, but I've talked to a looooooot of people and most don't know how to do it. Redbox sucks dick, has very little selection, and most of the shit I want is never in it, and Netflix sucks because nothing I want to see is on it. Of those places only Redbox rents games, which all suck and are never there, with the only alternative being Gamefly, which sucks because you sit there waiting for one of the few shitty games they have.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 07:21:23 2016 No.3156445 >>3103050 Gadget Twins, Genesis.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 21 07:43:19 2016 No.3156473 >>3153751 >cock buster Those late fees senpai

Anonymous Thu Apr 21 08:02:50 2016 No.3156501

>>3156473
They got rid of late fees sometime around 2004.

Kind of.

They changed it so you had a week to return a game or movie with no penalty. You just couldn't rent anything else until you returned it. If you waited longer than that, you had to pay like 5 bucks as a "restocking fee".

Anonymous Thu Apr 21 08:05:20 2016 No.3156504
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>>3156362
>Renting movies and games is nowhere near what it used to be
>I don't understand why. Sure, piracy is a thing,

Because there are so much free entertainment these days and it has caused an inflation. There are also people who rather watch shit on YouTube.

I know I'm kinda getting off the track here, but since we're talking about renting shit: when people say I miss going to a video store, I miss old TV, I miss this and that and why it has all gone to shit? Well the thing is that it hasn't. It just that you don't appreciate the entertainment as much as you did back in the day because there is so much of it now. In the old days it was limited and it was harder to get.

There is always a certain pattern when I listen to people talking about the good old days and it's that the entertainment was limited. You only had a few games that you played or a few movies that you watched.

Now we're in the situation where we have the video store library in our house and everytime we watch or play something, we're thinking that did we choose wisely, maybe there's something better in the pile.

I don't think I'm the only one here who while watching some mediocre show, instead of giving it a proper shot, thinks that there are million other things I could be watching on YT/Netflix right now, did I choose wisely and is my time really worth it?

Anonymous Thu Apr 21 08:27:00 2016 No.3156530

>>3156504
>tfw I go to Family Video just to get the video store experience
>check out the new release wall to see what I might like to go home and download
>Maybe buy some PS3 or 360 games if there's anything rare that hasn't been rented in long enough to be $5

Anonymous Thu Apr 21 09:20:59 2016 No.3156591
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>>3128523
You made me dig out and watch the VHS tape I made years ago that I plan on keeping for my entire life.
Its contents:
3 minute news clip of a tank rampaging around San Diego
Toonami Midnight Run: Special Edition
Freshman year speech class presentation
The cutscenes and boss battles of Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon for the N64
Pokemon episode 196: Control Freak, in which Jessie finds an ancient golden mask that allows her to control any Pokemon
The music video of Pearl Jam's "Evolution"

Maybe I'll request that they bury it with me.

Anonymous Thu Apr 21 21:03:21 2016 No.3157993

>>3156504
I already said in my post how Netlfix actually doesn't have a wide enough selection, as a lot of shit I actually would like to see isn't on it. Redbox is limited as well.

You chose your time wisely not blowing through 10 years worth of a series in two days.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 22 00:36:16 2016 No.3158386 File: 15 KB, 250x250, ls.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3094642 I remember grocery stores having rental sections. Be-Lo was mine. >wanted to rent Yoshi's Cookie and Kirby Superstar >neither worked

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 22 00:44:53 2016 No.3158397 >>3104920 A Sleepy's mattress store. We also had a Hollywood video further down the same street. It's now a Panera Bread. I actually ate there today and it was pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 22 01:03:26 2016 No.3158430 I rented Bionic Commando and Megaman 2 when I was a lad. Miss those days at the video store next door to the bomb ass chinese take out place in Haines City Fl.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 22 05:28:57 2016 No.3158795 rented a gamecube and smash fresh after the games release, despite being young it might have been my most hypest experience for a game ever. Also this was the only place I could find regular sized snocaps, can only find the minis in packs now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 22 14:04:38 2016 No.3159416 File: 451 KB, 2100x1536, n64-1345677887.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I found out the hard way why this game was the only one left to rent back then.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 22 14:09:10 2016 No.3159423 Some sports title and the usual RPG, that I don't play and only rent to delete the save files in the cart.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 22 21:10:11 2016 No.3160237 >>3158397 Isn't it weird going into businesses that uses to be different places you went a lot when you were younger?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 22 21:26:30 2016 No.3160269 I heard once that Blockbuster got its start as a Royce Video, and kind of spun off from that. I only remembered today bit I have no idea if that's true. I think Royce Video still exists as a vcr repair

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 06:43:53 2016 No.3160949 Anyone still got some cases from there?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 07:54:21 2016 No.3161041 >>3160949 james does https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6jVw5eZJjk

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 09:22:59 2016 No.3161127 >>3161041 Literally just started watching that as you linked it. Spooky.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 09:24:02 2016 No.3161130 Did anyone ever pinch the Xbox Live free subs from within the display cases? I had a bunch of them. Thanks, Blockbusters!

Anonymous Sat Apr 23 10:24:09 2016 No.3161202

>>3093617
>>3094101
>>3103195
>>3093574
My parents were cheap as fuck even though they were loaded
They always bought the cheapest VHS/DVD Player/PC.

Three years ago, they wanted to buy a Blu-Ray player.
So I joined them, and they literally listened to the salesman's saletalk, just to say "But does it play Blu-Ray discs?" afterwards.
Then they bought the cheapest no-name and left.
Our VHS was always a no-name brand without auto-rewind, we had to do it manually with the remote.

Renting games and movies was always fun.
>go to a store we haven't been yet/isn't part of a chain
>rent the maximum amount of films and games they allowed
>never return them
I like to think my parents were what caused the need to register your address.
>Anon, why should you buy a game that's 50 frank and you might not like, if we only pay 10 per game so you can get 5!`

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 10:24:23 2016 No.3161203 >>3137314 Bayonetta. 2010.

Anonymous Sat Apr 23 10:32:03 2016 No.3161214

>>3095003
I have a lot of former rental PS1 and PS2 games, VHS tapes, and DVD's. The larger chains here only started renting out PlayStation games during the mid-to-late nineties because they were intimidated by the shit Nintendo pulled in the USA.
Many of them are from stores that went broke and sold their stock.

My parents never rented either. Never really got told the reason.
Mostly, my parents got me cheap second-hand games every month and 2-3 new games for my birthday and Christmas.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 10:37:38 2016 No.3161219 >>3161202 >we had to do it manually with the remote. Oh please, when I was a kid I was the remote.

Anonymous Sat Apr 23 10:41:25 2016 No.3161224

>>3147168
>Dad getting mad because you're looking at the porn and horror sections
Total opposite from mine.

>YOU'RE LOOKING AT PORN?
>YOU LIKE THAT, ANON? WANT ME TO RENT IT FOR YOU?
>HAHAHAHA YOU'D WISH HUH
Later, in the car.
>WHY ARE YOU SO SILENT, ANON?
>SAD THAT YOU DIDN'T GET YOUR PORN?

They were just fine with horror though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 11:46:06 2016 No.3161324 File: 33 KB, 640x480, 2870.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OH BOY, BLADE II FOR THE PS2! THE MOVIE WAS GREAT SO YOU KNOW THE GAME WILL BE TOO!

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 11:56:20 2016 No.3161340 >>3161041 >>3161127 >TWO idiots on /vr/ watch AVGN What are the odds

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 12:14:15 2016 No.3161359 >>3099265 where I live one of the supermarkets just got one of those DVD rental kiosks in the last couple of months, not RedBox cause we don't have it here but the equivalent

Anonymous Sat Apr 23 15:24:32 2016 No.3161592
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>>3109685
>>3109694
>somebody actually decided to turn this into a product to fool people who didn't know better

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 19:00:22 2016 No.3162090 >>3161340 tips fedora i am way to classy to watch james back to r/cuckold m8

Anonymous Sat Apr 23 21:16:13 2016 No.3162450

>>3156591

OMG

I remember seeing that shit during high school. It was the first time I saw something and was like "Hey, this band is cool!". Listened the shit out of Daft Punk for the first few years and then got into other shit after living on my own.

Can't believe it's been almost 15 years...

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 23 22:46:33 2016 No.3162661 >>3093201 Jet Force Gemini

Anonymous Sun Apr 24 02:20:38 2016 No.3163094

>>3104920
FUCKING Gamestop

And my local Hollywood Video is a Halloween costumer store every August-October. I've never bothered to check what it is for the rest of the year.

I miss that place so much. Hollywood Video + GameCrazy + some dank fried chicken and thick-cut fries from the chicken place next door = GOAT night for a kid

Anonymous Sun Apr 24 14:47:47 2016 No.3164132
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I have a question

How the fuck is Family Video around there's like 4 in my city AND they're opening a 5th one next year plus their website straight looks like it is still 1997.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 15:13:11 2016 No.3164186 >>3161202 Nigga I'm sitting next to a VCR right now that has never had a remote stop whining

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 24 15:38:12 2016 No.3164247 >>3164132 They're filling the niche left that the collapse of the video store left.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 01:18:00 2016 No.3165630 >>3164247 That and their prices aren't horrible.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 02:19:55 2016 No.3165758 >>3164132 their website doesn't look that old mid 2000s maybe

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 02:57:10 2016 No.3165805 >>3164132 money laundering operation front

Anonymous Mon Apr 25 03:48:21 2016 No.3165864

>>3164132
Because there's still a demand for video rental stores, just not ones with shitty business practices like Blockbuster and Movie Gallery/Hollywood Video.

I hope they continue to expand nationwide. I would actually still rent games if I had a choice other than fucking Redbox.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 04:00:59 2016 No.3165878 >>3161340 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:19:50 2016 No.3166951 >>3104920 Mine is a Sizzler now. It feels weird whenever I go there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:25:17 2016 No.3166972 >>3104920 Don't have a pic, but Planet Fitness.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:26:35 2016 No.3166976 >>3164132 >website straight from 1997 Here's what websites really looked like back then kiddo: http://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:38:10 2016 No.3167010 >>3164132 Because Video stores never really became obsolete. The only thing that is truly obsolete is video rental kiosks like RedBox, and even they (somehow) stay in business.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 21:57:33 2016 No.3168008 >>3095097 We only had a local rental place, so I know I missed out. On the upside, I first played Wrecking Crew because of Mom & Dad taking me to The Boob Tube.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 26 20:35:23 2016 No.3170360 >>3165864 Same here. I don't have $60+ for a new game, and would rent the fuck out of older games.

Anonymous Tue Apr 26 22:04:10 2016 No.3170571

>>3165864
I'm starting not to even understand why arcades and video stores went obsolete at this point. The internet speeds aren't as good as you would think they would be in 2016, plus these companies cap your bandwidth so you can't just stream whatever you want. It's easier to just go to the video store and rent shit. Netflix doesn't even have everything either and Redbox is shit.

Arcades are still fun to go to and they should still make more. I don't get why that has to be extinct because of home consoles or PCs..

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 27 00:03:38 2016 No.3170738 >>3093181 I still have one.

Anonymous Wed Apr 27 17:27:05 2016 No.3172180

>>3170571

I honestly expected that most games would be streamable by now, if just because in 2003 or so Ted Turner had that service. It seems like it's -just now- getting to where that's feasable on a large scale, now. What a dissappointing future.

Renting games is much more fun, anyway.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 27 18:13:06 2016 No.3172221 lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 27 23:00:53 2016 No.3172736 >>3093179 My sides!

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 27 23:18:28 2016 No.3172774 >>3100871 This is actually how I managed to wind up with a lot of games that were unexpectedly good. >"Have you chose a game yet son? We're about to leave..." >Just grab the first thing that looks interesting.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 09:01:36 2016 No.3173640 >>3172774 That's how I found Goofy Troop for the SNES

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 28 11:12:44 2016 No.3173860 >>3093171 Is that Richard Stallman?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 29 10:17:01 2016 No.3176209 Pokemon blue

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 29 15:20:41 2016 No.3176737 Hagane

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 29 17:23:17 2016 No.3177006 Ha ha!

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 29 20:47:12 2016 No.3177303 >this thread has been going for literally a month

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 29 20:55:46 2016 No.3177326 >>3177303 And we still haven't figured out what we're going to rent.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 29 21:03:14 2016 No.3177340 >>3177303 That's a slow moving board for ya.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 29 22:22:21 2016 No.3177473 >>3094642 I've never seen a Kroger outside of Michigan.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 1 04:24:51 2016 No.3180445 >>3093179 Top lel.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 1 05:01:22 2016 No.3180481 >>3177473 We have plenty of them in Virginia. I've also seen them in Ohio and the Carolinas.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 1 05:16:07 2016 No.3180495 >>3093171 warfrogs

>>	Anonymous Sun May 1 05:20:57 2016 No.3180501 File: 17 KB, 196x110, hqdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbzckHYsQSs

Anonymous Sun May 1 09:11:16 2016 No.3180731

>>3104783
GOD! This story breaks my heart.

It's like my local Tabletop Hobby Shop...
>Guy owns a store since the late 80s
>Devotes it to board games, video games, war miniatures, and D&D.
>The store had a great atmosphere, and people hung out there all the time.
>If it was a slow day and you walked in, he would be playing SNES or Magic: The Gathering with a customer
>Once there was even a newspaper article about the store. Said he opened it because he wanted a place where people like him could hang out in a small town like this.
>Couple years ago, guy gets cancer.
>He sells the store to his nephew, who doesn't know shit about tabletop gaming or retro games.
>He literally thinks "It's all like that Big Bang show? Right?!"
>He runs the store into the ground, then sells it, and now it's a Pawn Shop.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 1 09:12:21 2016 No.3180736 >>3104920 An Office Depot, and... A sushi place?

Anonymous Sun May 1 09:15:48 2016 No.3180740

>>3172774
This is how I ended up with Kirby Super Star.

I didn't have a SNES for long, and I was at that age where cute shit wasn't cool anymore. I WONTED A MANS GAME. But I grabbed the first thing that happened to be nearby that looked interesting, and I wasn't dissapointed.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 1 16:10:36 2016 No.3181469 >>3165864 >>3164132 >Because there's still a demand for video rental stores, just not ones with shitty business practices like Blockbuster and Movie Gallery/Hollywood Video. How so?

Anonymous Sun May 1 17:31:08 2016 No.3181657

I shall share with you, fair /vr/, the tale of when my dad was put on some sort of list at Blockbuster...

>My dad is a pretty chill guy. Very level headed, calm, and collected.
>I can only ever remember him raising his voice a couple times.

>One day, we brought some movies back to Blockbuster, and were going to grab a new batch to bring home.
>We slid our movies in that little return box, and browsed the aisles, before returning to the counter to check out.

>"Sir, we can't let you check these out until the other movies are brought back."
Oh, it's fine. We just brought them back. They're in the returns box.
>"Sir, that can't be. I just scanned all of the returns... Let me check."
Well, what does it still list as checked out? Maybe we forgot something.
>Guy lists three movies, which we just slid in the box.
Dad turns to me and says, "You DID put them in there. Right?" To which I nod.
>"Sir, I don't have any of those back here."
Dad goes back and forth with this guy for a LONG time. Dad tells me to go get in the car.
>As I'm leaving, the man asks Dad to step aside so he can assist other customers.
>I look in the window just in time to see Dad go BALLISTIC and knock over a candy display, before running out and getting in the car.

A few days later, Dad went back and apologized. The guy behind the counter said that it was his fault because he layed the movies on a shelf right beside him. They didn't keep him from coming back... But every time after that, whenever we checked something out, they would know refer to him by name, and there would be a pause. The employees would stop, grab another employee and point to something on the screen. They'd both snicker and sometimes give Dad a discount on candy or snacks by the exit.

It was pretty weird.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 1 21:00:34 2016 No.3182194 >>3181657 >Return box I'm glad I never trusted those.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 1 22:06:25 2016 No.3182359 >>3181657 Well now I'm wondering what the notes on the account said. >"We fucked up with this guy, something that was 100% our fault. He called us out on it, then went crazy, but then he apologized. Give him a free candy whenever he rents something."

>>	Anonymous Mon May 2 23:19:55 2016 No.3185067 Any decent video stores that still exist in Florida?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 09:43:42 2016 No.3185834 we didn't have blockbuster in my town during the 80s and 90s. we had SMASH VIDEOS. Then we got some Movie Gallery store in the 00s. I think they became blockbuster later but I can't remember.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 09:47:11 2016 No.3185835 >>3180481 Yeah, NC man here, we got them everywhere.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 09:52:19 2016 No.3185840 >>3161130 I did this at gamestop. I would open all the empty cases and get the codes for free 1 months. It's how my friends and I played Halo 3 without paying a yearly sub for our accounts when they expired.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 10:15:08 2016 No.3185885 >>3185834 Movie Gallery was Blockbuster's main rival. They closed down in 2010.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 10:59:14 2016 No.3185990 >>3185885 ah, I didn't know about the rivalry. I was a child back then and all I knew was that smash videos was across the store and they had some bitching SNES games my parents sometimes let me rent.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 11:21:26 2016 No.3186015 >>3172774 Yep that's how I found Gemfire.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 13:04:58 2016 No.3186254 >>3137314 Guilty Gear X2, which I conveniently "lost" mere days before they shuttered forever.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 14:33:41 2016 No.3186443 >>3093617 rewind was always the first thing that broke on VCRs back then there were places you could take your appliances to get fixed they were fucking expensive but cheaper than buying a new VCR

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 14:52:32 2016 No.3186489 >>3143539 It's what Macho Man would've wanted, anon.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 15:01:20 2016 No.3186509 >>3113815 Film companies love making lots of money instead of a little money

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 15:15:25 2016 No.3186521 >>3139154 >You'd think rental places would be more popular, at least with enough hipsters to keep them in business. I get the impression that most people liked browsing the store way less than people like us did.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 15:31:58 2016 No.3186548 >>3099382 No idea. But seeing the rainbow in cds for the first time was fascinating.

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