Boomers used to go to these stores called "Blockbuster" and pay money to rent a VHS tape or DVD for a couple days to watch at home.
Then they'd have to return it in time or suffer late fees.

Lol. Lmao even.

>>508152669 (OP)
Darn those pizzas and pipes, i hate organ music

>>508152669 (OP)
They had some kino as fuck candy

>>508152669 (OP)
zoomers and millenials take out loans to buy HOTDOGS AND PIZZAS! AHAHAHAHA!

it was so comfy renting the latest game and playing all weekend

>>508152669 (OP)
Friday after work you'd drive over with your kids.
They'd pick out a vidja game for the weekend, sometimes a full week, and you'd rent a movie for 2 nights.
Sunday would come around and after church you'd stop by and drop them off, sometimes before after church olive garden, sometimes after.

>>508152929
This. Kids these days will never hit those dopamine levels, their brains are fried with cellphones.

>>508152669 (OP)
>implying zoomers pay to download free digital movies
lmao

>>508152669 (OP)
You will never know how comfy it was. Or being too broke to buy a vidya but being able to rent it for $5. Kino times

>>508152669 (OP)
Blockbuster Video was the pastime of kings. They had good movies and video games back then.

>>508152669 (OP)
It was amazing, unironically lead to more enjoyment than all of the readily available, cheaper games and movies of today
A little friction can improve experience dramatically

>>508152669 (OP)
>Then they'd have to return it in time or suffer late fees
and if you didn't rewind it before you brought it back they'd go off at ya

>>508152669 (OP)
I know you're trying to trigger me but I agree, it wasn't that great.

>>508152669 (OP)
theres a short window for profits wrt magnetic tape goyim

>>508152669 (OP)
good times. I am grateful I got to experience them as a kid

>>508152669 (OP)
>get two VCRs
>output one to the other
>other VCR outs to tv
>get blank tape in one, rented movie in the other
>hit play
>hit record
>gg Hollywood jews

>kids now will never be told "go rent a game anon" and hop on their bike so happy theyre going to play a video game without internet dlcs etc all night

Sucks to be you lol

>>508152669 (OP)
dont forget to rewind the tape or that's half a shekel goy

>>508152669 (OP)
SOVL

I once had a computer with a boomer DVD drive.

>>508152669 (OP)
Yeah but people had nothing else to do so you’d rent a movie once or twice a week maybe a game over the weekend and then you’d drop it in the after hours box on your way to work Monday or whatever. The late fees were definitely kiked and they actually got sued over that shit. Eventually they stopped charging late fees and let you keep rentals for a week I think. Every big box corporate store was a fucking Jewish scam back then. You couldn’t go to a car dealership without them trying to sell you snakeoil shit, you couldn’t shop at Best Buy without them pressuring you to get their credit card or extended warranty. Everyone wanted your phone number, address, email etc just to check out. Internet providers, cable and satellite tv, cellular providers, gyms, basically anything would lock you into 2 year contract with exorbitant fees if you cancelled early. Like I remember figuring with comcast for 2 weeks over cancelling my internet service when I moved and them trying to charge me a 499 dollar early termination fee. Thankfully that stuff has mostly ended but now we’re getting surveys shoved down our throats every time you shop somewhere and they want you to download an app to get deals. The cycle of Jewry never ends it just shape shifts.

>>508152669 (OP)
you retards pay for the most mid amateur porn

>>508152669 (OP)
>Boomers used to go to these stores called "Blockbuster"
I got sooooooooooooooo much pussy at those stores.

It was a great hangout for high school and college girls to go there to meet up and hookup for a movie.

The original "movie and chill" kinna date.

Fuck. They took this from us.

The "you will own nothing" rent Jews took it.

>>508152669 (OP)
buddy, i'm old enough to remember when you went to rent a machine to play your vhs tapes - and it wasn't some lightweight player, it was heavy af and likely some top loading shitter.

Also
>stay up late until porn movie plays on paid movies channel
>record em
>go sell em at school for 10 bucks each
>you were now a cool kid

Comfy

Blockbuster was a great place to meet hot chicks too. I miss running into local art hoes browsing the aisles. Blockbuster always had cute female employees too, or a fat neckbeard and one cute girl on staff.

My dad used to take me there before he had his skizophrenic break down and moved to a different country. Remeber he rented out hot fuzz and didnt return it for a few months ended up paying 79 dollars in late fees

>>508152669 (OP)
You pay amazon prime to watch ads and netflix to watch gay state propaganda

>>508152669 (OP)
Yeah it was back in the day when people actually got off their ass at least once a day. It was a really long time ago.

>>508153231
then some genx buys it on sale for a buck

>>508152669 (OP)
It was comfy I miss it... Also had used games. Movies weren't slop like now so back then and you didn't watch movies every single day

>>508152669 (OP)
You fags will never know the comfy feeling of going to the rental store with family or friends on the weekend and picking movies and to watch and eat together.

>>508153713
Hello my very old friend. <3

>>508152669 (OP)
I'm a young millennial and rented DVDs to pirate them before I got broadband access.

Just dont forget block buster refused to buy netflix and was also the reason why there were no more independent video stores after 99

>>508153930
The thing I remember the most about the 90s and early 2000s is that people actually dined in at fast food restaurants. Like you’d go to Wendy’s on a Tuesday night and the entire dining room was packed with people. And you could get double cheeseburgers for 69 cents. It was wild.

>>508152669 (OP)
Blockbuster was the corporate dicksuck video store. They didn't even have a porn selection. Fuck off zoomer shit.

>>508152669 (OP)
As a 15 year old it was a good place to meet girls on a Fri evening.

>>508153749
Jup, came in a thick plastic box too

>>508153749
>top loading
Those things are bulletproof. Still have parents VHS they bought in 1981. Not even nukes from orbit could fuck up one of them.

>>508152669 (OP)
There were no streaming services back then
Blockbuster was Kino
Even Netflix started out renting physical copies via vending machines.

>>508153943
>renting disc games from blockbusters
A waste of time and money.

>>508154279
True
But the tapes themselves wear out with each play unfortunately
RIP my copy of Blue Movie starring Jenna Jameson

>>508152669 (OP)
Imagine sitting around thinking about "boomers".
Lmfaooooo even. Your frail parents failed you.

>>508152669 (OP)
Blockbuster was a fun place to be for a young lad discovering new things, seeing the endless slop on slopflix and Amaslop Prime made me realise how good we had it

Blockbuster was absolute kino, silly zoom zoom.

>>508152669 (OP)
You fags will never know the comfy feeling of going to the rental store with family or friends on the weekend and picking movies and snacks to watch and eat together.
Enjoy watching slop on your own.

I used to work at a blockbuster video. I would pee in the video tape so that when someone played in on their tv the pee would come out of their tv.

shit was so cash

>>508154441
>But the tapes themselves wear out with each play unfortunately
>RIP my copy of Blue Movie starring Jenna Jameson
Dayum nigga, you musta wore ya dick out also! I still got tapes from the early 1980s that work.

Only tapes that ever quit got eaten when I tried a new front loading tape player. Fuck those things.

>>508154303
It wasn’t vending machines you retarded zoomer they sent them USPS to your mailbox. You paid like 4.99 a month and got to have 3 movies at a time. Then when you returned one in the prepaid label they’d ship you the next one on your wish list. For the longest time blockbuster had a monthly game pass deal where you could rent any two games in the store for 12.99 a month or something and exchange them whenever you wanted.

>>508152669 (OP)
My mother would get a 5 day rental and not let me watch it until the last day.
What the fuck, mom? What if I wanted to watch it again?

>>508152854
Retard's never been in a gas station.

>>508153657
:{

those days...

gone. gone forever. replaced with worse days

>>508152940
>Imagine being an olive garden nigger.

>>508153749
I remember Betamax.

>>508153422
That's why I plow your mom's ass without lube.

>>508153591
lol my grandmother had a separate little stand in the hallway where she had a small tv and two vcr's just for this. Every weekend as the standard 90s kid experience on the way home from school we'd stop by Blockbuster or another we had called "Circus Video"(which had 2-3 day rentals half the price of blockbuster unless a fresh release). My grandfather would get 2-3 movies and I'd get a video game for the weekend. My grandmother copied every single tape he'd bring. She also recorded for years every Simpsons, King of the Hill, Cops, and some other i forget for my Grandfather and she had a couple for herself. We never had cable in the 90's since it was a farm in rural Iowa so our options for tv channels was limited.

I remember she'd buy big bulk packs of VHS tapes from Kmart. I still have a lot of the King of the Hill / Futurama / Simpsons recordings. The best part is going back and watching commercials.

>>508153688
? what are you 6? Fuck off faggot.

I rented the eragon game from blockbuster as a kid but it was so bad they never asked for it back when I forgot to return it

>>508152669 (OP)
And games too
>>508153688
My DVD player was a PS2
>>508152854
Blockbuster branded popcorn was probably shit, but just tasted good

>>508152669 (OP)
I miss it.

>>508154680
You’ve never been to blockbuster if you’re making that comparison
Seriously, what a self report

>>508152940
we had no idea how good we had it bros.

>>508154996
All candy is shit, but blockbuster candy was THE shit

>>508152669 (OP)
Did you not have a blockbuster near you anon? Maybe you’re not so Canadian huh? I’m only a 98 zoomer and I look back on blockbuster fondly

>>508152669 (OP)
the idea was you would basically make it a date.

>lets meet at the blockbuster, pick up a movie, and watch it, then probably fuck

you don't get it.

>>508152929
I remember doing this
I believe i rented watchdogs, comfy times

>>508154919
Based Grandparents.

>>508152669 (OP)
They used to and then antisocial White males like me figured out ways to get DVDs and games around the beepers so we could steal them. Usually we would have a "faceman" of the group so he could distract the cashier or run some game on her so she would have her back towards us as we ripped the shit off similar to how a lot of White zoomer shoplifter pairs/trios operate today really.

>>508153688
I still have one, a Getac cop unit running Linux. Can't throw out my old DVD's now can I?

>>508152669 (OP)
Yeah that's kinda ridiculous but at the same time I used to be able to have a XL Pizza twice the size of ones today delivered to my house for $4 (that includes the tip)

>>508153735
>>508153795
these anons get it
there used to just be hang out spots. the local drive-in joint. maybe a particular parking lot or street. even a place like a blockbuster or fucking walmart (since it was 24/7 and yes could go and meet cute girls at 3 am doing stupid shit, JUST LIKE YOU) and now literally all of that gone.

everywhere you go it's a zombie culture of brownoids and the few bastion whites, who connect over mere glances of the actual nation we once had.

>>508154230
This guy knows. You had to go to the local mom & pop video store. They had the back porn room and the gore like "Faces of Death". If you knew them they'd set stuff aside for you when it came back and would let you keep things a day or two more.
T. GenX

>>508154212
I just wish my grandparents could be picking me up from school to take me to Wendy’s again. I’d die for a JBC that’s not hepatitis curry flavoured right now

>>508152669 (OP)
Not having permanent access to everything always all the time was good, actually

>>508152940
im early 40s and i have the income and ability to kids the life i had in an upper middle class white neighborhood

i cannot find a woman that isn't a modern kiked out degenerate. 3 of them so far opened their mouths and said things that were an instant "ok. we're done here." but had to keep up the façade and then ghost them after dropping them off or leaving

>>508152669 (OP)
and

it

was

clean

>>508155319
>france
>white
Lmao

>>508155502
Not only that, bro, but Cockluster sold off their old videos and had a shitty excuse for an archive. The cult titles were available from the mom & pop shops because they retained their old titles rather than selling them off.

>>508155480
Extroverts are insufferable; idk how or why you fags end up here.

>>508152669 (OP)
Only late millenials are nostalgic for blockbuster because they never old enough for a blockbuster card. It wasn’t just the candy that was expensive because they put most of the mom and pop stores out of business before jacking their prices up. My local blockbuster got really shady with miscellaneous fees before going under. It’s a liquor store now

Those days were comfy.

The movie needing to be returned and just expensive enough you only got a couple meant the whole family made sure to get together and enjoy it and make an event of it.
Then filled in the rest of their weekends with other things.

Now people binge on netflix half watching on social media, sitting in front of the tv way too long, and some of the family already saw it or will just watch it later or like another show.
It no konger pulls the family together, and is just blah. And you got multiple competing streaming services that add up to more, just in case, which caused regular free network tv to turn into absolute unwatchable low budget dogshit instead of the mediocre normal stuff it once was.
Even videogames once were mainly designed to play together with someone sitting beside you. Not just strangers online.

Everyone can consume solo slop as atomized failed families now. But its so great nobody will be slightly inconvenienced having to agree on a show or share a schedule!

>>508152669 (OP)
>nothin personell yid

>>508152669 (OP)
I actually found out today Blockbuster only started in 1985. I can’t imagine opening over over 5000 stores in less than 10 years. The company I work for is opening 10 this year and it’s honestly a fucking pain in the ass getting everything ready.

>>508155673
take a look at what you posted and read that text again.

jesus fucking christ. some of you are complete dead ends, both mentally and as human beings

>>508155514
Yeah. All the fast food restaurants were good back then too and really fast, even Taco Bell. Now you pay 4x the price for it to take 4x as long and suck.

>>508152669 (OP)
Yeah, and it was fucking magical. Gen Z has no fucking clue what they missed out on. Just fucking cell phone games and your family falling further behind financially is all they had. You used to look forward to watching movies instead of getting throat fucked by woke remakes every 6 months.

>>508152669 (OP)
A retarded zoomer savage like you wouldn't get it

>>508152669 (OP)
Now you have lost even more...

>>508155703
This.
The modern zoomer bugmen will never understand the family and friend event that was going to the store to rent a movie to watch together.

>>508155909
Sorry I don't curate the memes and reaction images I post to be directly related to the content of my shit posts.

>>508152669 (OP)
It was pretty nice desu. No AI curated bullshit that serves you the same slop over and over again. It was just you and the shelf.

>>508155781
had sony not been so anal about region locking, and put it in the same lockout system as the copy protection, there wouldn't have been as many people trying to figure out how to break it
>I just wanted to play imports

>>508155793
It was kind of like Kroger, out of nowhere they just bought up all the other stores, except unlike Kroger they switched everything to their branding instead of keeping the veneer of a different business. Before blockbuster all the video rental places were locally owned

>>508156179
is this the new "Viewer Discretion is Advised" before the shitpoasting show begins

>>508152669 (OP)
>Gen Xers used to "work" at these stores called "Blockbuster" and get paid money to watch VHS tapes or DVDs for a couple hours each "work" day.
>Some grew up to be Quentin Tarantino or Kevin Smith, but we didn't all turn out as faggots.
You will never know this level of comfort.

>>508152669 (OP)
It was only $2 Fagot, fuck off

>>508156179
RIP your neck.

>>508155480
>there used to just be hang out spots. the local drive-in joint. maybe a particular parking lot or street. even a place like a blockbuster or fucking walmart (since it was 24/7 and yes could go and meet cute girls at 3 am doing stupid shit, JUST LIKE YOU) and now literally all of that gone.


Remember what the idiots took from us. We can rebuild again soon.

i remember renting nes games and they would include the instruction booklet which ALWAYS smelled like cigarettes

>>508156345
Yes.

>>508152669 (OP)
https://odysee.com/@Das_Syndikat:3/Aryan-man-defends-Europe-from-shitskin-invasion-5000-BC:5

I used to rent video games from Blockbuster.

>>508152669 (OP)
It’s literally all we had back in the day, you retarded jungle nigger. Everyone went to Blockbuster.

I miss being able to read two or three paragraph descriptions on the back of the VHS box. Netflix and friends can't even show two complete sentences before throwing up ellipses, it's insane how retarded Indian devs are.

HARMREDUCTORS

>>508154680
blockbuster used to have candy that I've literally never seen anywhere else, like those cookie dough bites. you can still find some of these at actual movie theaters, but I've never seen them in a store.

>>508152669 (OP)
VHS and DVD used to be stupidly expensive, and unless you really liked a movie, there would be no reason to watch it more than once. movie rental places were good for that. obviously with streaming, that's no longer viable.

My old blockbuster is a liquor store now.

>>508157205
>VHS and DVD used to be stupidly expensive,
Remember when VHS first came out, they cost like $80-100 each for a recorded movie. That's like $300 in todays dollars.
$5 each for a blank one though, so you could record movies off HBO with a VCR.

>>508156179
this looks like a pic from scuffed realtor or something

Media of all types felt more valuable back then. Instant accessibility is jewish demoralization of the highest order.

>>508155480
Those are called Third Places and people were warning about their disappearance and the disastrous effects that would follow even back in the 90s. There were a handful of essays and papers speculating that the rise of the Internet was going to end up atomizing society. I vaguely remember reading an article in some magazine or another talking about how early Video On Demand services would do the same thing. Related to that, Blockbuster had plans for a subscription based movie streaming service as far back as 1997-1998 but they never went anywhere.

>>508152669 (OP)
Renting the latest game was based.

>>508152669 (OP)
Yea theres a Family Guy episode about that yoh faggot redditor goyslop enjoyer.

>>508152669 (OP)
What do you think Xbox Game Pass™ is?

>>508157602
>Instant accessibility is jewish demoralization of the highest order.
This really can't be stated enough. Last summer there was a book I wanted to read. It wasn't available digitally anywhere, and our local library had to get it via Interlibrary loan. Waiting for that silly little book to come in was the first time in a very, very long time I actually felt like a kid again and it really opened my eyes to how corrosive it is to have every kind of media you could possibly want instantly available.

>>508155672
>mom & pop
They'd also track something down for you if you came in with a request. Man. Times were simpler but I miss stuff like that.

>>508154303
RedBox had the machines nigga'.

>>508152669 (OP)
AAAAAAAAAAAA I WANT TO GO BACK

>>508152669 (OP)
Damn it was fun though. The real finds were in the little VHS rental place on the outskirts of town. He had all of the good X Rated stuff. We'd stop by his place, pick up some tapes, go next door and get 2 cases of beer and snacks then we were set for the night. Top shelf comfy.

>>508156861

This is what they took from you

>>508152669 (OP)
my grandfather had a hobby of renting movies from blockbuster, making vhs copies of them, and there was this book that was a list of every movie ever made, and he'd check the movie name if he got it copied. I asked why he did it and not just buy the tapes outright and he said to me 'cause I'm able to get more movies and save more money, and it's fun.'

It actually started off as a pretty decent business model.
>$3-4 rent a movie for a week
>$5-6 rent a game for a week

If the movie sucks you don't buy it, same with the game. Then the JEWS took over and it became a 2 day rental to bank on late fees.

>>508158007
What kind of gay shit did you do after a few beers?

Also Blockbuster dug their gave with the return fees because they would lock the return cabinet after hours. So even if you remembered to return the movie if it wasn't in the slot before closing time you got hit with a late fee. They should have let you drop the movie off overnight and save you the fee.

>>508152669 (OP)
stfu alex

>>508152669 (OP)
I was an assistant manager while in college at a BBV.

>>508155480
brown people made it so you cant hang out with people in public

>>508154348
Copying discs probably cost hundreds of dollars back when the sega Saturn was made

>>508152669 (OP)
I finished GTA San Andreas just by renting it when it was a weekly.

>>508158609
Lying faggot. Drop slot was open 24-7. Did you know we checked in movies late fee free until 2 PM? I would almost always empty the box up to at least 1:30 if I had time, but after that it was a roll the dice for people unless they walk them in.

>>508155529
Find a woman who wasn't born and raised in the US.

Anyway, you can browse dvds and bluray movies at your local library. You'll want to ask around to find out the piss guy's schedule to avoid him, but it's free.

>>508153713
ABSOLUTELY THIS.

>>508152669 (OP)
Yeah except back then you could meet a cute white cashier instead of a smelly shanjay

>>508158309
Did you get your based grandpas collection bro??

That'd be awesome to have! VHS is more close to watching on the screen since it's a tape rather than digital.

>>508154626
Netflix still mailed videos until a few years back

>>508152669 (OP)
It was just a more kino time overall.

>>508159206
unfortunately not. it was A LOT. they had two houses in different states, and each one had half the collection. a good considerable amount were in boxes, but it was how I saw wizard of oz for the first time as a kid. don't know exactly what happened to it, but my guess is my parents saw it as useless. I would've kept it mainly as both a functional vhs library of films and as art. something about all those end titles with hand writing labels of a single tape having multiple movies is just mesmerizing. would've put rlm's library to shame.

>>508157915
there was a home video store near my home, someone elses garage, like 5 times cheaper than cockbluster. I still miss the odor of blockbuster thought

>>508152669 (OP)

Well, we'd rent a movie, make a copy for our own use and return it. Was cheap piracy.

the 90s -> Early 2000s were the best middle ground for consumer technology.

I remember the checkout system where they'd place your videos in the little outlined area around the corner of the counter past the anti-theft detector.

And the one near me had two sets of doors, like most places back then did to stop blasts of outdoor weather every time someone came or left. That little foyer was where they stuck the AOL CDs.

>>508153713
CRUNCH BITES !!!!!!

Here's a nigger story from BBV. It's like 4PM right, I emptied the box out all the up to 2PM on that day. After that we just let that shit build up. Sheboon comes up to counter with movie to rent. Late fee. She's all like I DROPPED THAT SHIT OFF THIS MORNING. Go check box, found her movie on a top of a pile of like 70+ movies. Check it in. I tell her the late fee stands because she's lying. Starts chimping out, tell her the actual check in time was 2PM and I emptied the box right before 2PM, and her shit was on the top of a giant pile so I know she just dumped it. Anyway, she gets all pissed, throws the movie she wanted on the counter and leaves sayin "I ain't payin shit".

>>508152669 (OP)
Kinda crazy there’s still people born in the 1900’s that are still alive today

>>508154587
I used to work at Blockbuster and there was this one family of what I would describe as hillbilly coded gypsies. They would let their hell demon kid with the most oddly coifed mullet run wild knocking over displays to distract us while to fat harpy wife argued over late fees. After two weekend shifts of their distractions I concocted a plan with my cool supervisor who would lock himself in the bubble office overlooking the store snorting whatever he was into and blasting black metal to end this retarded theft and while fat bitch got me to forgive their $15 of late fees he rummiged through their car and found the meth that got them locked up when mullet spaz son got nailed tossing PS2 games out of the fire door to scum older brother/fuckpal druggie.

>>508154480
I lived in the UK when LoveFilm was a thing. It was a blip that nobody probably remembers.

>>508159647
Mighty Max
I hope I still have my little stuffed dinosaurs from the video store. Red trex, pink triceratops, purple brontosaurus

And the kid section was in the sunny south window so all my Snoopy vids has sunbleached boxes.

>>508152669 (OP)
Yeah there was a ritual behind it though. And the ritual was fun. You and a group of friends would go there. Pick out cool movies and video games, buy popcorn and candy. And then spend hours hanging out and watching the movies. This ritual is something that you are missing. The internet was a fucking mistake it didn't make the world smaller it made it bigger. Everyone is more disconnected now than ever.

>>508152669 (OP)
>>508153591
>>508158309
>Rent titles from Blockbuster
>Rec shitty copies with color and tracking issues because of copy protection
>Switch out the mag tape of original copy with my shitty copy
>Return "original" and repeat the process

>>508152669 (OP)
what a time to be alive you just dont get it

>>508152669 (OP)
then along came the internet and Blockbuster went out of business

>>508159512
>don't know exactly what happened to it
Damn shame. I'd try to find some or all of them.
He put a lot of work into that collection, and might even be some movies that never made it to the digital age and cannot be found now.

>>508152929
I remember I rented red dead revolver it was a good weekend those were the most comfy times zoomers will never understand

>>508159003
No I was alluding to the fact that discs from blockbusters were notoriously scratched to hell and back.

There's a cool video store that still exists in my town
https://youtu.be/ksUcwW4zBMQ?feature=shared

>>508152669 (OP)
maybe you could talk about arcades next im dory you had a shit childhood

>>508152669 (OP)
yeah cuz back then you could trust, now we have niggers mainstream

Man, I remember when we still had blockbuster, towards it's end we enjoyed it.

Going with family every Sunday to pick out few movies, we'd promise mom we'd keep track and return them, lol, she would have to naturally keep track herself because otherwise late fees.

Oh the fun, the popcorn and candy ... good times. :)

>>508152929
This. Some of the most fun vidya I ever played was rental stuff that I'd probably have been enraged at if I'd paid full price for it. That whole rental niche is gone, there's shit like gamepass but that's bad for the polar opposite reason where it makes you end up not valuing anything at all.

>>508154749
Olive Garden used to be pretty good, faggot.

>>508159112
They changed that policy a couple years before they went under.

>>508158120
Would suck a fart out of that ass.

>>508160592
piracy kind of made movies redundant for me. back in the day it took forever and gave ur machine cancer but I didn't have 6 dollars just my piece. I've still got a lot of stuff in bad quality but I still watch it every now and then for nostalgia.

>>508154680
t. zoomer

>>508152669 (OP)
We would also rent sega and Nintendo games and buy 2 pizzas and 2 liter and breads ticks for 20 bucks and somehow the delivery driver would het to your house without GPS.

>>508152669 (OP)
You will laugh but you don't know what you missed out on. Going into a physical video store was kino. Checking out all the covers, reading the blurb, talking to your dad/brother/friend/gf or whoever else came with you. You'd always spend a good 30 minutes checking everything out and ussually end up renting at least 2 maybe 3 movies and a video game on weekly, maybe an overnight for a new release. Always meant a fun weekend.

Reminder, that this was back when films were worth watching and culture was good. Now I can't even be fucked to torrent most films. I have a VPN, a torrent client and know how to get the good pirate sites working. And yet I still don't care. Only slop is produced now, only old things are worth watching.

But back in the day, no one had this attitude, most things were worth watching back then. You'd find so much kino in those stores. You'd go around and look at the covers and find stuff you never knew existed, expose yourself to new genre's and cool new stuff. Also the adult section with all the porno's was always fun to sneak into and have a quick pervy look at them all if no one else was around kek. Good times.

Streaming is 100% objectively an inferior experience.

>>508159766
When you’re born 10 years before the 21st century starts, no, it’s not really surprising.

>>508156859
I miss that smell so much on my DVDs bros. It was the sign of a good movie

>>508156158
2001 zoomer here. I have fleeting memories of it. It’s sad. I remember having a CRT and cabinet full of tapes, and seeing flip phones. Climbing the neighborhood pool fence after dark with friends, and not setting off a bunch of IoT cameras. I’m so fucking nostalgic for something I never got to actually experience

>>508156859
>which ALWAYS smelled like cigarettes
>tfw don't know what cigarettes smell like because mum smoked them all the time to the point the smell became neutral in my house
>kids at school claimed I smoked and me and everything I had reeked of smoke
>couldn't smell it myself
>seriously everything smelled neutral
>can still barely smell it

I was a teetotaller for years afterwards. Now I smoke weed. I can smell weed. But tabacco still has got fuckall smell for me even in my 30's. Fucking chainsmoker mothers man.

>>508162802
Seeing pay phones, not flip phones. Hell, I even saw people using one. We had it at the neighborhood pool and would ring up friends to come join

>>508152669 (OP)
>be me in 2000, ten years old
>first day of summer vacation
>wake up and call my friend's house on my landline
>we meet up and ride our bikes through the woods
>spend all day riding down trails and going off jumps
>stop by his house and drink some capri sun.
>play some Nintendo 64
>mom says to be home by nightfall
>ride home on my bike in the dark
>when I get home my mom grabs my brothers and we go to blockbuster
>rent spooky movies and get some candy
>pick up a pizza on the way home too
>stay up late watching movies with my brothers as we eat delicious pizza
the true golden days. Zoomers will never understand.

>>508152669 (OP)
they had a slot that you could drop it off in without going inside. here in CaliWali we called in the "hotslot".

>>508162873
Breaking news unc: You can do all of that now, but the movies are now easier to access and the video games have better graphics.

>>508153591
if you had a modded xbox you could rip the rental disc to a harddrive

>>508163027
Breaking news unc: 2025 is a giant soulless algorithm

>>508153713
FUCKING BASED. TAKE ME BACK, BROS.

>>508163027
There’s no build up to the main event. You’d get so hyped up just to see the movie, the car rides back with friends were always so much fun. Now it goes something like this
>ayo cuz what you wanna watch
>aight bet
>*click*
It’s fucking hollow unmemorable now

>>508163027
You just don't get it, zoom zoom. You have no dopamine receptors since you've had porn and unlimited entertainment on demand since birth.

>>508152669 (OP)
Yeah that's how it still was when I was a kid. They had a video game section too, and you would try to sneak a look in the porn section if you could.

>>508152669 (OP)
I'm a millenial and I lived more than a decade of my life doing exactly this

>>508163265
This anon niggers.

>>508163265
my most memorable blockbuster visit was when I was with my friends and we were all stoned, the clerk gave us a free copy of Elf. we got some KFC and laughed our asses off watching that crap.

>>508162873
>>be me in 2025, thirteenth years old
>>first day of summer vacation
>>wake up and call my friend's house on my cellphone
>>we meet up and ride our bikes through the woods
>>spend all day riding down trails and going off jumps
>>stop by his house and drink some beers
>>play some PC/emulation
>>mom says nothing im an adult i dont have to be home by nightfall
>>ride home on my bike drunk
>>when I get home my wife grabs my cock and jerks me off
>>while im cumming my torrent is downloading a spooky movies and a brownoid is delivering me some candy on uber eats
>>ordered a pizza as well
>>stay up late watching movies with my wife and kids as we eat delicious pizza
>the true golden days. Boomers will never understand.

>>508162802
Its overrated to be honest. Society could go back tomorrow but many of the same extroverted normies that complain about contemporary social scenes are the same ones who ruined it by insisting on combining irl with the internet via social media. Can't do shit anymore without some clown looking to record it and get views and validation from the entire rest of the human population indefinitely.

>>508163027
you don't understand. I don't think you can understand.
You had to actually put in effort to get a movie to watch. Also movies back then were way better.
Now all you have to do is open one of your 6+ streaming apps, find whatever jewish slop looks interesting, and you guys don't even watch it. You look at your phone throughout the whole film because it doesn't hit your soul and you are dopamine fried.

>>508162873
Ah the days. Fuck I remember shit like that. So good.

>>508163027
No you can't. Everyones brains are too friend or too depressed. Everything is out of order. Everything has been "convenience killed". Too much convenience is literally a bad thing. You just get brain fried and don't end up having any fun at all from overstimulation. Nothing is set up properly. Life has lost it's natural pacing. Everything is artificial and shit.

>>508153591
We had a two deck VCR. Copied a lot of porn on that

>>508152669 (OP)
I was a kid and young teen when movie stores were still a thing, honestly for some reason it was more fun going to the movie store than finding something on streaming services.

>>508163561
>You had to actually put in effort to get a movie to watch
This, and it made it better.

Effort followed by reward is fun and healthy. Retarded Americans didn't get this and dumped money into convenience tech so now we can get reward without effort, but reward without effort works for 5 mins then burns out your brain wiring and you never feel the same level of fun ever again for years. It fucking breaks you.

I loath convenience tech so fucking much. There is no achievement anymore in life. It's all hollow.

>>508152929
I played so many games that I wouldnt have been able to have played otherwise

>>508153688
Zoomer detected

>>508152929
When the SNES first came out there was a 3d adventure game that I rented. I can't remember the name of it. It was a total shit game. But I'm still happy I rented it. I wish I could remember the name of the fucking game.

>>508152929
I remember seeing Ocarina of Time on the shelf of Blockbuster.
I just saw a cool sword and shield with a nice title font and thought "this looks cool."
turned out to be a lifechanging experience for my brothers and I. We were blown away. We stayed up late many nights with that game.
Then when Majora's Mask came out....it was like LSD for kids.

>>508164023
I played Majora's Mask 3DS version emulated on my PC during covid. Gotta admit, actually a good game. I say this after shitting on Ocarina of Time for years for being an overrated turd. I played the N64 version of OoT after retards on /v/ hyped it up for years and was disappointed. MM actually lives up to the hype and is worth playing though, well the 3DS remake with improved camera controls anyways. The game has so much soul. I tried the N64 orginal as well to compare but fuck me dead I hate how low res N64's textures are, literally every single game on N64 looks like ass. PS1 has way better textures, and when polygons are that simple, higher res textures become super important for aesthetics. Also the N64's awful controller ruins the gameplay. Every single N64 game would have been improved by being a PS1/PC exclusive. So many soulful titles ruined by the shitty console they were made for.

>>508152669 (OP)
>When I was a kid I rented a whole series of unwatched old English sitcoms, something like Dr Who or Faulty Towers or something
>I had nosy parents so couldn't have porn
This was the 90s
>So I got 2 VCR's and taped the back of the VHS tabs up, then recorded all of my mams porn videos on to the hired tapes, and would rent them back from Blockbuster for $1 a week to jerk off at will
>HONK
Next level secret agent shit that was

>>508164337
Majoras Mask isn't a Zelda game though. It contains the name, its considered some kind of sequel I guess but it is far from a real Zelda game. Its more of a spin off. Which the Zelda franchise has plenty of. Links awakening for example. Great game... but not a Zelda game.

>>508164582
I don't really care. OoT N64 and MM 3DS are the only two in the series I've tried. OoT is a 0/10 turd I will never touch again and was a fucking chore to finish. I finished it solely so I can absolutely shit all over it on /v/ for weeks and make Nintenyearold seethe as revenge for all their shilling for years. Fuck that game.

I just find it so weird that it's spin off on the same engine, with mostly the same assets, on the same console, but merely with a different guy as director (and 3DS added second stick controls) and suddenly it's a legit fun game.

>>508153422
like that ol nigga, old "friction" himself, harley "gay boy wrestling faggot" race?

>>508164749
You're just weird though because everyone loves OOT. It was the most amazing Zelda game ever made.

There is nothing wrong with any of this though. Thats why they made the spin off games. For those who don't like Zelda games.

>>508164749
Also... you might try links awakening. They have a reboot on the switch that is exactly like the original just with improved graphics.

>>508164582
A Zelda game is one where you have an arbiter - Link - interact in a world.
Some day there'll eventually be Zelda games beyond current comprehension.

>>508155529
Much younger women are the answer. Ones in high school now.

>>508152669 (OP)
Yeah and there was no internet, so when you rented something you rented it based on word of mouth, or by looking at the box and seeing who created it and who starred in it.
You took a punt and rented shit outside your bubble and you often found incredible and obscure stuff. Stuff that you would never come across today because it gets buried under the mountains of IP/Franchise advertising of enormous multi billion dollar publishers.

Also, video games were at their peak. Back then It only took 3-18 months to make a game compared to the 7-10 years it takes now.
So every single weekend when you went to the rental store, it was loaded with brand new titles.
Not only that, but every console had its own exclusives.

It was an amazing time to be alive and i feel bad for younger people today.
>>508164582
>Links awakening for example. Great game... but not a Zelda game.
You're a fucking idiot. It was by Takashi Tezuka, THE director of zelda 1 and zelda 3. It is absolutely a zelda game.

>>508156179
I hate the modern world

>>508164915
It might just be me, but I actually thought OoT was a bit boring compared to MM for some reason. I really liked MM a lot more, and the music was bar none better imo.

>>508164915
>>508164952
It was a combination of constantly fighting the camera in the worst way imaginable because of single stick controls. It was like PSP before PSP. Excessive handholding tutorials that never ended. Even halfway through the game, every single dungeon would do an unskippable 10 second cutscene every fucking time you entered a room or opened a box or something, just so show you were a the fucking door is or where some item is. Not to mention the empty and ugly open world you kept having to pass through, and the really low res textures. They should have made it a 2D game and saved 3D for the Gamecube. N64 wasn't powerful enough for what they wanted to do.

>>508165083
it literally isn't. Its not based on "The Legend of Zelda". It doesn't have Gannon or Zelda. Its a spin off. And spin offs are fine lets just call it what it is.
>>508164993
They don't call the game "The Legend of Link". There is an actual plot in Zelda games and there is also a formula that they used for Zelda, Link to the Past and OOT. The formulas are tried and true and thats why people love the games.

>>508159112
I used to work at Hollywood Video and we'd get Blockbuster tapes every day and Blockbuster would get ours. Their store would call and then I'd have to call the customer and tell them they're retarded.

back when everyone was happy.

>>508165258
The camera part is daunting at first but you can figure it out. Also they have a very similar camera in Majoras mask the game is basically the same engine.

Also forgot to mention "Twilight Princess". That is literally the best Zelda game ever made.

>>508152854
Oh gosh I remember they had some frozen lemonade called Lemon Chill. I must have ate a thousand of them as a kid.

>>508165367
The only thing I liked about OoT was it's origin myth story and the fairy fountains. They were kino ideas.

The whole goddess sharding itself into 3 and seeding the world sounds like soft disclosure, or at least some interesting esoteric eastern religious ideas.

>They don't call the game "The Legend of Link"
Why don't they? Zelda was just the Princess Leia character you had to rescue. What's even important about her.

Blockbuster had a demo Ninetendo Virtual Boy you could play. Usually went to the mom and pop video store but either way those were the days.

>>508152669 (OP)
It was like a library, not that you know what a library is because you're an illiterate zoomer retard.

>>508165513
I managed to beat the game. It's just that it's not fun. I played the first level of MM on N64 and then pirated the 3DS version and switched to emulating that because the updated camera controls made it so much more fun to explore the worlds.

The only other Zelda game I was interested in was Wind Waker, because the boat idea seems interesting. Never bothered to try it though. And I can't seem to get into any video game anymore anyways, new or old, WW3 is simply too close, too many happenings and shit IRL.

>>508152669 (OP)
Not just boomers; I just turned 30 and we used them up until about a year before they went out of business. They got rid of late fees in 2010 or thereabouts but by then it was already too late.

Our main video store was an independent place next to a 7/11, so we always got to get some candy, too.
>>508152916
Oof
>>508152929
I never understood renting games. I had 10 or so back then for my Xbox and maybe another 20 on my computer and it was more than I ever needed. I can only think of one game that I bought on Xbox that I didn’t get any replay value out of. They were cheap in the 2000s, too; $30 for most games. Occasionally $50 for a bigger IP like Star Wars, but when the prices got to be that high I had moved exclusively onto PC games and pirated what I couldn’t cheaply buy. What was the motivation to rent? How much did it cost to rent a game?

>>508152669 (OP)
Why didn’t they just torrent stuff off of Pirate Bay like everyone else?

>>508164582
How is MM not a zelda game? I have literally never heard anyone say that (and before you say that it's because zelda doesn't appear in MM, recall that she does appear in the game in the form of a flashback)

>>508164019
Renting a bad game was such a disappointment and there was so much shit. Dragon's Lair on Sega CD ruined my fucking weekend.

>>508152929
>>508160417
I rented "Gun" and finished it in a single weekend. Couldn't put it down. It was from the same guys who made Tony Hawk Skateboarding and then suddenly they were making a western third person shooter. It was a small open world with 0 filler and was totally balls to the walls fighting injuns and cowboys and ex confederate outlaws. It was better to me than any other western that has come out since, Red Dead Redemption has nothing on Gun. It's literally a perfect vertical slice of life of a western all in one small package. Extremely fun.

>>508153727
Meanwhile young people have coom brains and aren't capable of forming lasting human relationships

>>508154230
We had Hollywood Video and they had a back room

>>508153061
Did Blockbuster even exist in Argentina? I thought most thirdies just had open air piracy markets like in China and Afghanistan.
>>508152940
I forgot about the Sunday returns. It was always a pain when some movies were 2 day rentals and others were 7. I can remember that a few times when we were on vacation we would only get be able to get the 7 day rentals so we could keep everything until the end of the trip.

>>508165833
>Dragons Lair

>>508164582
never heard this take before.
To me MM improved on everything from OoT.
Also considering the time period it was made is crazy.
I first played it as a child when a game like MM was actually pretty challenging and I had no guide or anything to help, so I would have to really think about how to accomplish tasks.
I also vividly remember first entering the Astral Observatory. That song is still the best song I've ever heard in a video game

>>508153688
Like an optical drive? I still do. I hardly ever use it anymore, though. Next computer likely won’t have one.

>>508152669 (OP)
Millennials used to go to these and then use Nero.

>>508165696
>never understood renting games. I had 10 or so back then for my Xbox and maybe another 20 on my computer
Renting games was a big thing for PS1/N64 era and before that. You could still do it in the PS2 days but it lowered in popularity and rental stores were slow to get new releases, mainly because the OG Xbox could just rip a game straight to the hard drive so people were pirating rentals. My cousin had like 100 rentals saved on his HDD and it blew my mind when I went over to his place and found out for the first time. Now I have 1000 something games on Steam and I only play 1-2 with any regularity.

Also the motivation to rent was because your parents were kinda poor, so you only had between 5-10 games on your PS1, and you have played them all a million times over so were starved for content, and renting was cheap as fuck. So whenever your dad went up to rent a movie for the weekend you'd beg to get a PS1 game as well, and basically just try out new genres and series you might not otherwise have gotten to touch. Rent stuff you hear friends at school talking about and such. Occasionally you'd rent a game and it would be so good you'd go save up and buy a copy so you can finish it.

>>508153726
They just charged you a restocking fee if you kept the DVD for more than a week and refunded it when you returned it. I think they also charged for however many days you went over your original rental though. Phone lines were like this too back then and you could rack up thousands in overages quite easily.

>>508165833
Dragon’s Lair is kino as fuck tho

>>508154770
Based oldfag. Video stores were such a pain with the two sections, I'm glad VHS won out.

I used to rent games for $2, depending on the game it could be 1 day, 3 days or a week
DVDs were $1 each
My parents only let me go on the discount days which was fine

>>508166334
There's a VERY specific way that you're supposed to play that game, and unless you learned exactly how to do it, you're screwed.

>>508153930
Thank God those times are over
Sent from my iPhone

>>508166455
Kinda sounds like Elden Ring, and all of the other From Software games desu

>>508166178
>so I would have to really think about how to accomplish tasks.
Now this is a completely lost art. Nowadays everything is so braindead and easy this never ever happens, but before that, retards couldn't help but google shit or watch a YT walkthrough and ruin it all anyways.

The internet ruined SP gaming hard.

>mfw playing Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (1997) for the first time and just being in absolute awe at the scale and scope of the level design
>legit wondering if I am even supposed to be able to be in this part of the level
>"did the level designer really intend me for me to be able to get up here? Surely not"
>Turns out it's the right way to go and the feeling of being utterly lost is intentional

Kino game. Some of the best video game exploration I've ever done, and all done with a lightsaber and blaster in third person and shooting Stormtroopers and Jabba's thugs the whole time too. One of the best games ever made, and a kino expansion pack too.

>You now remember 1999 when Phantom Menace came out and we get loaded with a bajillion Star Wars games on every single console and PC
>All the PS1 exclusive Star Wars games competing with the N64 exclusive Star Wars games competing with the PC exclusive Star Wars games
>and then the kids with the handhelds also had their own crop of exclusive Star Wars games
>almost all the Star Wars games ended up being good to kino as well because made by fans
The good old days.

>>508152669 (OP)
The old mom-and-pop rental shops were the best. I used to beg my mom for a few bucks just to rent a game for sleepovers. I'd hop on my bike and ride like 5 kilometers, even crossing this dangerous bridge over the highway, Just to rent some N64 games. They’d even throw in free popcorn, which was awesome.

Funny thing is they also rented out porn, which Blockbuster never did. Kids couldn’t rent it, but they had this “secret room” in the back, and if you were sneaky, you could peek in and check out the covers with the naked ladies.

Looking back, I had no idea that was gonna be the peak of happiness. Everything went to shit.

>>508154212
We have an A&W like that here but haven’t been in a while. These places are a magnet for poor people and drug addicts so I feel like most people take the food home or eat in their cars. This is kind of a weird change now that you mention it. I can’t think of the last time I ate inside a fast food restaurant.

>>508152669 (OP)
Around here they even had another video store called Hollywood video, it was competition to blockbuster.

>>508152669 (OP)
The one thing zoomers will never comprehend about Blockbuster is that each store invariably had "that guy." An absolute film aficionado. Not only did he know every movie ever filmed, his encyclopedic knowledge could be called upon at will to find movies for yourself, your friends, that girl who's coming to your place to watch a movie, any scenario, this guy knew what to watch and you could just talk to him, no internet required. It was a great time.

>>508157603
Third Place is Reddit-coded.

>>508165991
Kek yea, we had tons of Blockbusters here, at least in Buenos Aires. I got some great memories there as a kid.

>>508152669 (OP)
I remember pizza hut

>>508152929
There were still games on the SNES that hadn’t yet introduced a save feature… you HAD to beat them in that one weekend.

>>508152929
I use to rent the games and butn them on CD. I had a ton of triple A PS2 games that were amazing to play. I paid for FF7 because you needed a hard drive on top to run the content.

>>508152854
dont get the candy they overcharged as much as the damn movie theater.
there was always a dollar store a 3 minute walk away where you could really load up on sweeties.

>>508152669 (OP)
yeah it was a pain but the traffic was nowhere near as bad

>>508166873
>We can't use a perfectly acceptable term because it appears on reddit, you guys. We'll have to come up with something else like "awayfromhomeandworkmaxxing" or "outsidemeetingplacepilled"

>>508152916
I buckled down saving hard and paid it off fag

>>508152669 (OP)
boomers didnt have vhs tapes you buttfisterfagget

you meant the 30 years younger generation gen x and millenials went there

>>508166619
>they also rented out porn
>I had no idea that was gonna be the peak of happiness
Man, going into newsagents back in the day and checking out the porno mags by slipping them into another magazine and taking it around the back was always so fun. But then nudity wasn't something normal and all women covered up way more. So seeing a nude chick was a real day brightening thing.

Same for the adult section in the video rental stores as you mention. Always had fun covers to have a peak at. I was never old enough to rent them out though before internet came along and deprecated it all. Though I managed to find some VHS torrents of all the classic VHS porn, and they made porn with much higher quality women back then. They had good standards, it's just low res but hot as fuck chicks doing things like riding Harley Davidsons around naked in the sunlight on some rural backstreet.

>>508153591
Zoomer detected. The blank tapes were much more expensive than just renting the movie multiple times, if you wanted to keep a movie then you just bought it used because that was much cheaper than a brand new blank VHS tape.

>>508167005
Fuck, Pizza hut was a fun restaurant to dine in at. I remember going a few times.

>>508166873
"X-Coded" is Glowniggerspeakpilled.

>>508152669 (OP)
>Blockbuster
gay as shit
garbage selection
Video Warehouse was much better and it wasn't even close
Blockbuster was when everything started getting gay, ultra corporate and soulless
Video Warehouse was back when gaming was lower budget, soulful and grimey

fuck u queers who started gaming with a Gamepube

>>508166865
Fucking this. The internet took that guys social role away from him and left him a loser without purpose or meaning. That guy used to be sociable and integrated.