What was going to Blockbuster Video like?

What was going to Blockbuster Video like?

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Overpriced. A million copies of the same movie. Nothing more than 10 years old. It fucking sucked.

not as fun as you keep posting it out to be…seriously quit spamming this stupid fucking thread over and over again. We have the final Jurassic park coming out in less than a month and then Thor comes out in July.

So fuck off

seething zoomeie

It was okay I guess
There's still a DVD rental place where my Nanna lives and it doesn't have many good films

>ohemgee muh nostalgia and mommy said i could choose one snack!!!!!

We don't have them in the UK, at least I never saw one. We had our own independent video rental in our village but they went out of business 20 years ago. It's a nail salon now.

SOUL, we must return

Pricier than hollywood video. There was a drive up vhs return slot like at a bank.

Shelves full of video tapes.
New release section in the back of the store.
Original video box on shelf, with rental copies of tapes behind the box, if any copies of the tapes were in stock.
New releases, at least the popular ones, were almost always out of stock because someone had rented the tape before you.
You had yo show up early in the day, before most people got off work, at maybe 5:00pm to actually get the new releases on the day they came out.
New Releases would routinely remain out of stock or only sporadically available for months or even a year after coming out.
The New Release section sometimes had movies remaining in it for months or even a year or more from what I recall.
Blockbuster didn’t rent porn.
They also didn’t rent NC-17 films, so they had “Unrated” versions that were almost the same cut.
One nice thing was that they tended to have a lot of direct to video B-Movies and movies made for Cable channels that were sometimes very good, which aren’t as easy to find nowadays.
Blockbuster’s selection of actual art house, independent, and foreign movies was usually very lacking.
They would charge you for not rewinding tapes.
They would charge you for returning tapes late, which was not the “24” hours they said, but which started at closing, so you got less time to watch movies if you rented late in the day.

Honestly, the fees and charges fucking sucked.
It could cost $3-$5 per rental, 20+ years ago.
This is the equivalent of probably $6 to $10 per rental today.
It was nice once Netflix started, since my local video rental place did a similar monthly x-number of tapes at a time rental scheme, but without the postage crap.

The staff at Blockbuster were originally nice, but once they had been established for a decade or so, and competition started cutting into the margins, the staff started to be assholes, like their bosses were working for a dickish corporation and the job was shit.

Trash. Most of it was straight to dvd shit and whatever came out in theaters in the last twenty years.

>be 10 years old
>have bowling every saturday at like 9am
>usually go to biancos/blockbuster after and rent a movie and/or game
>play it the entire weekend, or sometimes get 7 day rental

It was the shit

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you had to wait weeks to see any new release movie cause they were always rented out

get raped by late fees and it smelled bad.

Movies, games etc. often only obeyed a vague alphabetical or genre based order, and were often shuffled around haphazardly or in ways that hid certain titles
The cases on display occasionally didn't correlate with the actual media they had available to rent
The services provided were overpriced. Nowadays they'd be called extortionate.
Anything unrelated to the core services, i.e food and snacks, followed the cinema-model of convenience pricing

When you analyse and dissect what made the memories of places like Blockbuster good, you quickly come to the conclusion that it wasn't anything to do with the businesses themselves. It was the circumstances that led you there. Going with a parent or relative to pick out a few films or a game or something that would then lead to an enjoyable night or weekend. Hanging around with your friends and browsing the latest releases because you needed to kill time for a get-together later that day.

It was weird that you had to leave the house and go interact with people to get your kino

It made watching movies at home an event. You really enjoyed stuff even if it was shit.

I never got to try Blockbuster popcorn

i liked wandering into the game section and looking at the n64 and playstation game boxes

>You really enjoyed stuff even if it was shit.
If it was shit I just hated it more.

I remember the smell more than anything. I remember it had a unique smell. It was real useful in the early days of video games because there wasn't a real standardized pricing for vidya like there is now. I never noticed the prices until I started buying them myself in the Playstation/N64 which had already adopted that $50 across the board. but those early SNES cartridges were going for like 150-250 a fucking pop in 1980s money. The normalization of gaming had way more benefits than those retards on Any Forums will ever understand.

yeah, even 50 bucks is huge money. that's like over 100 in todays dollars. those n64 carts were expensive!

Any Forums is infested with nintendo-obsessed autists, what else do you expect

like a physical pirate bay