Thread 718732886

You now remember Blockbuster.

>>718732886 (OP)
>Meeting a friend whilst borrowing a 8 year old PS1 horror game and some B grade horror movies
I want to go back

>>718732886 (OP)
Blockbuster was for cucks. Small town video stores were the real deal.

>>718732886 (OP)
>We're not renting a video game, anon!

>>718732886 (OP)
When you think about it, this was piracy.

it's not blockbuster, it's blockblister!

>>718732886 (OP)
Rental places like that fucking sucked huge fat dick. Charge you for another 5 dollars for a fucking movie or game.. Haha.

My biggest regret was being born too late to be the kinda smelly, crusty chubby dude that works at Blockbuster and gets to tell all the kids where you can catch the rare Pokemon and shit.
That should've been my fate, now all you can do is be a fuckin' gamestop employee or some shit.

>>718733183
and piracy is literal rape

>>718733216
There was a Nintendo Power hotline where you just spent all day answering kids' dumb questions

about half my N64 games still have "property of blockbuster video" stickers on them

>>718732886 (OP)
omg yesss blockbuster thread haha...
what did you guys like best? the smell?

maybe the tactile feel...mm...the plastic rental boxes...

I want to go back...

Would you believe me if i told you i even rented 3ds games there?

>>718732886 (OP)
I miss it.

>>718733334
>I want to go back
you can never go back

>>718733083
This
>ran by people who actually liked games
>would recommend shit to you
>could hang out there, trying games or just watching them play something

>>718732886 (OP)
I remember working there

>exhausted mom brings in 3 kids, then excitedly go pick out games and movies
>she drops off a stack of returns
>i check them in
>her kids come back with 5 movies/games
>"Sorry miss, you owe $42.60 in late fees before you can rent again"
>"but....they were due today..."
>"They were due today *by noon*. It said so on your receipt. You DID read the receipt right?"
>watch her die inside

They deserved to burn.

>>718732886 (OP)
Blockbuster was great for dates back when I was in high school in the late 90s, picking up the gf, walking around together laughing at obscure movies and weird boxes, grabbing a pizza or burger, then going back to my room to "watch the movie" which really meant hardcore smooching and feeling her up. God those were the days.

>>718733508
You personally killed Blockbuster with this shit.

>>718732886 (OP)
I remember trying to flirt with my the qt blockbuster cashier while looking for Disney Infinity add-on discs
Of course she never took me seriously since I was 14 and she was 25
>>718733083
Yeah I remember thosw too, weirdly enough mine had boxes similar to those in comic stores so browsing comics right now just reminds me of looking through movies.
>>718733216
Same and I want to believe that working on a comic store would feel the same but comics are just shit right now, there's a few exceptions here and there.

>>718732886 (OP)
We didn't have a Blockbuster in Covington WA, but we did have Hollywood Video, which was conveniently right next to a Papa Murphy's.
Yes, I painfully miss that ritual, and streaming just doesn't fill the void, but progress stops for no one I suppose.

>you'll never walk through the horror section and look at all the cool cover art of movies you know are going to be shit.
Ahhhhh. Youth.

>>718733083
>"Oh, you want to rent a video?"
>"Well then you need to pay to open an account, fill out this form. And pay us $50 so we can do a credit check. And another $50 deposit"
>4 weeks later
>"Whoops, we have exactly ONE copy of every movie, so naturally only the shit films are in stock. You need to wait another month to see Terminator 2 because our copy got stolen AGAIN"

>Get off work at 5
>Pick up a pizza on the way home
>Hang out and play vidya until 1 AM
>Go grocery shopping
>Get a shower and go to bed
>Wake up Saturday at 8 AM and do nothing all weekend but clean and play vidya
It's a simple life

>>718733731
Fellow Washington faggot here. We had both where I was. Hollywood video blew blockbusters out of the water.

In general DVD stores started dying around the same time Blockbuster did. The moment people realized they could buy them at places like Walmart, Target or even grocery stores (Redbox) is when they couldnt beat the competition. Gamestop and other places as well but now thats dying too.

>>718732886 (OP)
For me it was Hollywood Video

I'll always remember when I discovered Resident Evil. I rented the GameCube remake (I didn't know it was a remake) and the Blockbuster guy commented on how weird it was to have 2 disc's. "Must be a pretty long game!".

It wasn't lol but it's an all time top 10 for sure.

>>718733334
Why is it elmo

>>718732886 (OP)
considering the current state of streaming services (ad-free viewing being locked behind a more expensive subscription tier, variety of titles on a single platform nowadays being absolutely pathetic compared to early netflix, etc.), I'd gladly take rental stores compared to what we have nowadays. at the very least, going to a store and picking out a movie to watch feels infinitely more engaging than mindlessly scrolling through your subscription service(s) of choice to watch something halfway decent

>>718733754
My dad almost rented Jack Frost '97 thinking it was Jack Frost '98 but he stopped when he saw the lenticular cover, I thought it looked pretty cool but I'm glad I didn't watched that goofy rape scene when I was 6.
And the funniest part is no one remembers jack frost '98

>>718732886 (OP)
>memories of renting movies and games from my local video store with my dad
>he'd burn the dvds so we'd have a huge stockpile of movies
>streaming takes that away
>movie store closes
>become a shitty vape shop
i think we're just in the wrong timeline honestly

>>718733956
nigga likes elmo

>>718733956
He likes that a hand is shoved up his ass

>>718733206
return your rental on time

>>718733985
The scrolling is the worst part. Every time I sit down to watch something with m'lady (tips fedora) there is going to be at least an hour of no... no... not that... no... scroooooooolling, it drives me insane.

>>718732886 (OP)
Only 30 here. I don't remember Blockbuster. Must've been before my time.

>>718733037
Fpbp

>>718733985
I've canceled most of my streaming. Most of it is Bullshit made for women to binge watch while they stare at their phones anyways. The only one I have is prime.
I'd actually go to a video store right now and rent something if I could.

>>718732886 (OP)
>now remember
I never forgot, I think about it all the time. Going to get burgers with my parents and renting a movie to watch and a game for the week will be a feeling that never leaves me.

>>718734078
my local store became a community collage

>>718734020
Trying to imagine all the families that wanted a cute movie about a father getting reincarnated into a snowman and trying to bond with his family one more time, and getting the one about a serial killer reborn as a snowman going on a murder spree.

>>718733334
Unless there's a checkout computer and counter that uses your blockbuster card, it's not the same.

>>718732886 (OP)
I very much unironically miss Blockbuster.
Being a kid, being allowed to rent one video game a week to play while the parents pick out a movie, trying out all kinds of titles I might not have even looked at if I had to buy it full price and finding out it's actually amazing (maybe even fully buying a sequel with my very limited money)
I guess GamePass is KIND of touching on that, but it's not the same

>>718734218
Mine became a pawn shop, for the first few years there was Block Buster branded stuff in there.

>>718733985
>>718734163
just pirate everything. it's not hard
>get a VPN if you're in a 3rd world country like america (like me)
>go to 1337
type in your movie or series name
>download the torrent
It's that easy. And for newer shit, you never EVER have to worry about if a certain site has it or not.

>>718733985
>>718734127
We have so much yet are the poorer for it. Im retired millionaire with infinite free time and freedom and its very much pic related.

>>718733508
They want them by noon so they can put them back by the time people start coming in after work/school

>>718734078
just start seeding dude. make your dad proud.

>>718734135
>Oldest zoomer is 31
>Block Buster died in 2014
Nah nigger you are just poor.

>>718734317
That's just free streaming with added steps. I'd rather go rent a movie from a store.

>>718734218
Maybe you ahould sign up for an english class. Just a suggestion.

>>718734317
Soulless.

>blockbuster
You had to go to a real local video store to get non-kiddy movies

>>718734135
You aren't 30, zoomie

>>718732886 (OP)
Our Blockbuster had a gumball machine with random gumball with FREE RENTAL printed on them. I won and was excited to get a second game, but then my brother kept the money our parents gave us. He used it to buy cigarettes.

I remember Blockbuster and other rental stores.
Here's a picture of me as a child in the late 80s.

Edit - Oh. Apparently 4chan won't upload bitmap files.
So, instead, have a picture of when Reese's tried introducing "Christmas Trees." Probably 20 or 30 years ago? Eggs and Trees are the superior Reese's peanut butter cup since they were larger, had higher peanut butter to chocolate ration and I enjoy seasonal food more than regular.

>>718734354
>>718734459
It was the going itself that was pleasant. It was a cheap, fun little sidequest. We have optimized our way out of everything pleasant in the name of convenience, a convenience so all-consuming that it is turning everyone into miserable shut-ins.

wtf are you all talking about? I just went to Blockbuster a few weeks ago

>>718734087
No don't tell me what to do.

>>718734617
Chocolate + peanut butter has always been the GOAT combination, I can't resist it in any form. I started on Reese's cups and pieces, but have long since moved on to higher quality stuff. Trader Joe's makes fantastic little dark chocolate almond butter cups, highly recommend.

>>718734301
Kids today don't get it.
We used something called "cash" 30 years ago. We had metal in our pocket that WASN'T "a phone."

Room for Game Crazy in this thread?

>>718734420
nta, but it was much less widespread by 2014. it wasn't a matter of them being as prevalent as they've been in the past then just suddenly stopping all over.
It was a very long drawn out death.

>>718734617
>>718734734
Im such a hopeless PB/chocolate addict I buy premium chocolate chips and mix it into a jar of Jiffy peanut butter.

>>718734621
>wtf are you all talking about? I just went to Blockbuster a few weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxzGP9bVXuk

>>718734734
>Agrees with PB being amazing
Good on you; I'll take you up on your suggestion and check out those dark chocolate almond butter cups. I'll admit, I've probably had them, I just haven't shopped at a Trader Joes in probably 14 years. My town's got like, 3 of 'em, I'm sure, though.

>>718733083
the guy in my town was an autsitic movie collector and had 1 of every movie ever made that he could get his hands on. his store was like a library it was huge.

>>718733083
I remember mine. Used to have popcorn there for a quarter a bag, and it was pretty big bags of pretty damn good popcorn, so every week I'd come home with Gauntlet Dark Legacy and basically a trash bag's worth of popcorn.

>>718734843
Hey, there's no shame being in love with peanut butter, bro. My favorite iced cream is literally
>ANY "chocolate chip cookie dough"
>then a giant spoonful of peanut butter from the jar mixed in bite-for-bite
So, good on you for loving peanut butter. And bacon.

>>718732886 (OP)
I remember going to the grocery store with my mom and sister and we'd stop at blockbuster to pick out a couple movies. It really did have an incredibly pleasant vibe wandering the isles looking at movie cases. Then on the bus ride home eagerly anticipating the movie or tv show I picked out. It's hard to even imagine now being so excited just to watch a couple movies, not even new releases. It's weird how nostalgic you can be for little inconveniences.

>>718732886 (OP)
When did your local video store of choice shut down? Memories of my childhood are admittedly pretty hazy, but I recall mine going under during my latter half of elementary school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgzqDCt4D1w

>>718734770
Been to EB games, been to Funcoland. I could never find a Game Crazy for some reason.

>>718734619
Truth

>Go to Blockbuster one day for whatever the fuck when I was 6 or 7
>Neopets were still new and EVERY kid had one
>Have black Gecko on me if I remember
>See some little girl my age leaving and saw a blue and star covered Neopet of that dog with long ears on her backpack
I've no idea why I remember this. It's as stupid as me when I was 4 when I blew into an ash tray and had all the ash enter my eyes with me screaming bloody murder at what I just did.

>>718734770
Ha. I managed a bunch of these in the DC area in my early 20s. I stole so much stuff from them and my entire shift was just playing games with kids who chilled in the store every day and talking about Smash and Halo with people my age. I miss that era so much.

>rent Pacman Fever
>return it
>rent Mario Party 5
>parents burst into my room
>Blockbuster employee says that the case was empty when I returned the game
>my logic was that it was a terrible game so why would I steal it
>they don't believe me
>was never allowed to rent a games again

>picking up a fest of boneless wings and fries
>installed Stalker 2 and Ark Ascended
Why don't you just do it yourself in 2025, anon?
Yeah, it's not the same, but at least I don't have the dread of my homework due on Monday.
Just the dread of paying rent and not having a meaningful career because I was so depressed, I dropped out of college and now it's difficult to find the motivation to pick up the pieces.

>>718735337
That was the weird thing about going back to play really old games, why it felt so much more difficult than I remembered it.
I used to read the game manual before I played the game, and the game manual actually contained useful information you were expected to know without the game itself telling you.
Easy to forget how important those manuals were.

>>718735337
I still read them while the game installs from the disc.

>>718735337
>you
no FUTURE GENERATION will ever experience that
The gutter trash unfinished and buggy AAA games that need a day 1 patch to even be playable will be the first games some people ever play.

>>718735572
kek I remember being 3 years old and touching the leftover burnt pieces from fourth of july sparklers. Then I cried and watched the Muppets pirate movie. I still have the mark on my thumb and finger.

>>718734770
>GameCrazy sold broken shit all the time
>Still went there
>It was in a Hollywood Video
>Remember there being a giant painted T-Rex on the wall from Jurassic Park that I was terrified to go near
>Hollywood Video became a Mexican Church that's still there almost 20 years later
>Blockbuster that was more down the street became an Emergency Hospital thingy that's everywhere now

>>718732886 (OP)
>Friday or Saturday night
>sleeping over at my bro's house
>his parents bring us to Blockbuster, we can get 1 movie and 1 game
>we drop by Domino's on the way back

Bring me back

>>718734459
>free streaming with extra steps
lol, as you get your retinas raped with all these soulcrushing ads

>>718735676
The clock never stopping and the eternal dread of watching my days off tick down until the inevitable return of starting another work week. I don't hate what I do and my work days do go by pretty fast, but I just cannot get into things like I could when I was a kid.

>>718735676
Man, that feeling when there was nothing to worry about besides monday morning eventually coming around. Like the future of growing up was so impossibly far away that it would never come

>>718735743
>The gutter trash unfinished and buggy AAA games that need a day 1 patch to even be playable will be the first games some people ever play.
Whoaaaaaa. Its like hearing zoomers who've never known anything but online dating.

>>718735608
Wonder what happened

>>718734610
>He used it to buy cigarettes
Your brother is a punk ass nigger. I bet he's hooked on fentanyl or some shit.

>>718732886 (OP)
>rent some 16-bit games
>buy a GamePro while there
>read about all the cool new games coming out
>rent them the next time you're there
Kino cycle, now lost to time.

>>718735891
Yes, that was the blockbuster model.

>>718733083
Man I remember there was on by my place. Great store but they absolutely spamfucked the shit out of their games with every sticker in the known universe. Not one surface of the box or disk was without some sticker
Whenever they went out of business I picked up a bunch of favorites since they were liquidating and the cases and discs are a blight on my eyes.

>be 12
>dad sees i'm getting into anime and tries to bond with me
>rents me a copy of Ninja Scroll

i dont as i was born in 1997 and am european

>>718735891
It used to be that renting was actually a consumer friendly option, not just a way to eternally wring money out of people to keep using shit they already paid for.

>>718733183
the library does the same thing, but for free

>>718735743
It was far worse in the mid 1990s to late 2000s, at least for PC games not by Blizzard in terms of buggy releases.
Console games, sure.

>>718734363
They want them by noon to trick people into paying late fees for returning things on the date listed on the receipt.

>>718732886 (OP)
>Have a whole wall for new releases
>All of them rented out
Thanks Blockbuster

>>718732886 (OP)
I remember Blockbuster, but I also remember a different video rental store in my town where I used to rent N64 and Gamecube games. The last one I remember getting was a licensed basketball game from like 2005 that I was only interested in because it had Mario characters.

>>718732886 (OP)
only real headz remember renting a snes rpg and playing the hell out of it then renting it again a month later hoping nobody erased your save

>>718734617
You can convert bitmaps to png in ms paint

>>718732886 (OP)
Can you find a photo of your old small town rental store haunt?

>>718736182
How is Ninja Scroll? My barber recommended it to me but I couldn't make heads or tails of it.

>>718733083
The Blockbuster near my house was based, they didn't give a fuck about breaking street dates and I was playing GTA SA, MGS 3, FF12 and other big titles around that time a week before release.

>>718736182
Kek. Second anime I ever watched after Evangelion. It was perfection to a 15 yrold.

>>718734593
>You aren't 30, zoomie
The oldest zoomers have hit 30 years old retard

>>718732886 (OP)
There was a regional chain called Family Video that outlasted Block Buster.
Their secret was in family values like doubling down on porn then being a vendor for CBD and vapes.

The video ezy in my town is a plumbing store now
the independent video rental store that used to have a huge backroom full of porn just behind where the ps1 games were is now a womens only gym

>>718737234
kek, perfect irony

>>718733334
What sort of mind works like this. Who builds some hollow shitty reminder of a thing that you have to wear horse blinders while looking at? To confuse an autistic boy with vague feelings of nihilism that he isn't mentally there enough to navigate, in exchange for a twee little photo for the internet? Is this what normies are like?

>>718736676
Fucking hell that was me. Breath of Fire 2.

>>718737430
Parents of autistic kids will do anything for a moment of silence.

>>718732886 (OP)
For me it was Hollywood videos and gamecrazy

>>718736992
It was babby's first "hentai" if you heard about it and Kite/Mezzo Forte from the cool geeks in school in the late 90s-early 2000s. Visually it holds up, the story is kinda forgettable though.

>>718737463
Was your save there!?
>>718736676
I was just too young for that. Oldschool.

>>718736861
I know, but I'm not willing to take 5 seconds to do that so you can see a nearly white-haired blond kid in 1989 holding a NES Zapper. It's fun for me, but fuck the Internet in 2025, really.

>>718736949
yeah, thanks googlemaps
also noticed they used to clean the concrete footpaths but don't anymore we are literally living through the fall of an empire

>buy pc game
>try to install it
>failed to install
>turn pc on and off
>failed to install
>update drivers
>failed to install
>boot it in dos mode
>failed to install
>try a blood sacrifice ritual whispering the names of fallen angels
>failed to install
>resort to staring at the box and manual fantasizing about playing the damn game

Blockbuster was a good vibe. Also those asian owned rental stores where you rent movies or games for $1 a day were awesome too. Randomly bumping into neighbors and friends at a store was peak good times.

>>718737860
>part1.zip
>part2.zip
>goes on past 30
>they're all megaupload links
>finally get game to work
>boots up gamespy ad

>>718737781
>Was your save there!?
Luckily it was yeah, but I was stressed out about it the entire time until I could rent it again
I started prioritizing buying RPGs with what little I could buy and renting other genres after that just due to sheer length

>>718738282
That final dungeon was the hardest grindyest thing Ive ever done in a rpg too. Racing against returning it must off added to the stress.

>>718738675
Not exactly the same, but I was burrowing a friend's copy of FF2 on the SNES. Apparently it's battery in the cartridge was fucked up, so if you turned the SNES off, the save files would be lost.
I kept my SNES on for a week and a half to beat it.

>>718739121
Well historically correct you calling it FF2 triggers me.

The world feels so soulless now. I turn 31 in a few days and I swear that I feel like the world wasn't meant for such conveniences. I don't know how to go out and meet people. People don't congregate anywhere anymore. The COVID sham killed off a lot. Now nobody bothers socializing and everyone wants to be left alone.

And I missed out on all those opps being a social outcast who thought I didn't need people. Now that I crave it, it's too late. Damn.

>>718733183
when you think about it, studios owe money to pirates

>>718739283
I wouldn't normally, but it's sort of an oldhead thread so figured it was fine

>>718737430
Hes autistic and likely a burden on everyone around him. And no I don't mean the 4chan/reddit definition of autist I mean like to the point where he can never operate in any tangible level of society without causing disgust, strife or annoyance.

>>718739347
STILL talking about covid in 2025. Grim.

>>718732886 (OP)
>You now remember Blockbuster.
I remember living in a 99.9% white community
I remember games having ZERO wokeshit or scam practices in them
I remember games being good

>>718739669
I miss Daikatana.

>>718739535
Yeah just stop talking about the single most impactful event that kicked off the decade with effects that are STILL rippling through the world today socially, economically, politically, and culturally.
I'll never forgive what you freaks did to the world.

>>718739535
It's not too weird. People are still getting covid here and there.
had a relative get it a few weeks ago. they were actually old, so it was a concern for a bit.

>>718733083
Had a local video game store right next to my old apartment many years ago when I was a teenager. They would let me grab Coke/Mountain Dew from their fridge and pay the next day or whatever. They let me chill there any time I wanted and I saw GTA IV gameplay for the first time there, a magical moment I will always remember. I came in second place at a Guitar Hero competition they hosted there, and then years later my girlfriend and I were planning a threesome with her hot friend, and the plans were ruined when her hot friend started dating the random guy who came in first place at that Guitar Hero competition.

>>718736182
>this but Bible Black
jk. my parents basically ignored me and I raised myself on the internet so I did watch Bible Black early and am a total gooner forever. For some reason my friend's mom bought him a Playboy subscription thinking it would keep him off the computer porn. LMAO BIG MISTAKE. We were in 6th grade. I still remember using ebay doujin previews to find porn in my earliest days. Limewire was way too risky even I knew what viruses were. I remember liking Limewire way more than Napster. I remember accidentally seeing beastiality as some of the first porn I ever saw.
Those early internet days were wild. I regret deleting a terabyte of porn when I got my first gf. Tons of that stuff is gone forever. Never deleting my stash again.

>>718739728
>>718739738
Remember, tons of people thought wearing a mask wouldn't slow down the spread of an airborne illness you breath out of your mouth. Those people are allowed to vote, too.
We need a lib Hitler voted in.

>>718737776
>ninja scroll was babby's first hentai
What? No, it wasn't. It was the first anime I saw that I knew was an anime, it aired on Cinemax. My mom bought it for me at Suncoast. It has some tits and that one rape scene but that's it. It's just violent.

The fuck is this shit, this motherfucker says Ninja fucking Scroll is babby's first hentai. The fuck is the matter with you? Fucking kill yourself, I'm ashamed on your behalf and the shame I'm feeling would drive a man to suicide.
>the cool geeks in school
The motherfuck? That shit did not exist in the 90s. God fucking damn I am sick of these fucking zoomers pretending to be an even more mind broken generation like the goddamn millennials because they want to be somehow more cool by saying shit like this.

I'm mad. I'm mad as hell. Next thing this motherfucker is gonna say is that Wicked City was hentai because it has a spider pussy in it.

I remember getting my ass beat

>>718740517
I don't think it's a matter of legitimately believing it, it was far more a tribalism thing.
When push came to shove, relatives who were down that rabbit hole still got vaxxed just to be safe and kept their distance. The lack of mask was silly, sure, but as long as they were keeping distance it was still something.
The Japanese have been doing the mask thing for air-borne sicknesses forever, even incredibly minor ones just to avoid spreading in general.

>>718733985
I don't stream but my reason is a lot simpler than that.

My internet can have a shit at anytime. The resolution is always fucking shifting. I can't stand this. Sometimes it's like I'm getting the authentic 56k Realplayer™ experience.

>>718733083
The one in my town had a room for pornos and me and my buddy used to go there and laugh at the people sliding into the porn room

blockbuster had the best used games

>>718733083
>1992
>local video and game rental store
>has a small anime section
>one looks peculiar
>"what is a ranma 1/2?"
>parents let me rent it
>watch in my room alone
>quirky and weird characters with bad voice acting
>suddenly, bare breasts

what a time it was

>>718733216
Honestly being an adult in the 2000s and having a lot of vidya knowledge must have been cool as fuck.

>>718737776
>>718740610
>story is forgettable
Now hold the fuck up with that also. I remember the whole goddamn plot and I have brain damage. I played football and can't even tie my shoes but I remember that shit.
>intro
>ninja dudes running through bamboo like they do
>oh shit rock monster
>rips this dude's arms off
>shinobi screams, rock monster says hell yeah, drinks the blood outta the arms, rapes the bitch (this is important)
>ronin dude is walking around comes to a bridge gets into it
>slices a guy, turns out it's a guy on stilts, deus ex machina here comes wise gremlin man
>this badass demon guy is causing shit
>oh damn I know that nigga
>bumps into this big dude causing shit
>gets into a fight
>he laughs and transforms
>into rock monster
>fight
>oh fuck rock monster right my sword don't do shit
>rock monster hurls double sword at him, dodges
>ronin slices his fingers off
>rock monster freaks out, no fingers can't catch the sword, cuts his head in half
>blood out mouth, head slides down, streak
>moving on
>gremlin guy conscripts ronin
>ronin bumps into shinobi
>better not touch me, my touch is deadly, scared of getting raped maybe by the ronin
>he doesn't care just wants to fight the bad guy
>bumps into ninja master with no arms
>shinobi runs toward him
>IT'S A TRAP
>he explodes, sends shinobi flying
>wasp monster with gunpowder magic
>fight breaks out
>explosion
>time passes
>blind samurai master
>not a monster, just sworn to serve the bad guy
>honorabaru dueraru
>yoooooo intensifies, ronin wins
>getting close to the demon king
>shinobi lady suddenly wants to fuck the ronin because whatever who knows
>he just hugs her because he ain't got time for that
>this is a good thing because snake lady monster with a viper in her pussy
>slithers out, bites the ronin
>whatever, kills the bitch anyway
>oh no super poison
>shinobi has to fuck the ronin for him to live (they just kiss, I think, I don't recall)
>journey continues
>demon castle
>final fight amidst the flame

>>718740610
>That shit did not exist in the 90s
LMFAO nice try zoomer

I fucking worked at Blockbuster. Of course I remember the easiest job I ever had.

>>718735891
>digitalizes your VHS
nothing personel, boomer
>>718733334
>So many Elmo and Barney VHS
It's weird he doesn't have any of Thomas the tank engine or Bob the builder. Maybe I can't see them because the image has a very low res.

>>718733216
literally me
I wanted to be the toy store/vidya store owner so bad.

>>718741074
It really, really wasn't.

>>718732886 (OP)
Never returned my copy of mario party 6 and pokemon explorers of darkness when my local rental store closed down.

>>718733083
And now we don’t have even those anymore. The last one I had anywhere close was closed because of covid

>>718741114
>being a nerd was cool before myspace and facebook
No, you're an underage. Girls didn't use computers until mid 2000's.
It wasn't to the extreme of 90's movie stereotypes, but you definitely don't know what you're talking about.
Only fat girls and weirdos joined anime club. There was 1 7/10 butterface with big tits in every nerd group that every nerd was salivating over.
You definitely were not alive before 2000.

I'm almost 50 years old and I worked at blockbuster from 2001-2002 and then eb games from 2002-2006...right before the 360 came out. Shit was so much fun working ther

>>718732886 (OP)
>celebrating the end of the working week
what about blockbuster employees? how and when they got to celebrate?

>>718741524
>Girls didn't use computers until mid 2000's.
It was niche, but there were some.
There were a number of cheerleaders who were into Myst that I recall, and FF7 brought in a bunch of people who didn't previously game much including girls at the time. Lot of marketing on MTV's Total Request Live and such.

>>718741907
Being a nerd was not cool pre-2000. End of discussion.

>>718739484
Nta, but Final Fantasy 4 will always be final fantasy 2 to me

>>718732886 (OP)
The one near where I went to college had a 7 movies for 7 days for $7 deal. I watched so many fucking trash movies. So fucking great.

>>718733147
That shit was expensive.

You can bring back Blockbuster right now but streaming and smartphones all cease to function and exist from this point forward, until the sun burns out. Do you take it?

>>718741325
The hidden depth to this post is intimidating, I feel the jojo menacing lines coming off of it. What happened to you?

>>718741524
Nta but I have to agree, being a nerd was something to be ashamed of when I was in high school in the 90s. D&D, anime, that shit was for losers, and I was one of them. Most guys played video games, but it was sort of something you kept to yourself if you were anything resembling popular. The only game girls ever mentioned playing was Pokemon Snap on their brothers' N64s- girl gamers were basically non-existent. There were some girls into anime though, and they were fucking repugnant. I'm talking fat, greasy haired, bucktoothed types who wore dog collars, that kind of thing. Girls were universally terrible with computers, with the very rare exception (usually an MMO player).
It was only in the 2000s that the ship turned and "geek culture" became adopted by the masses.

>>718741960
Correct, was just commenting on girls playing games back then-thing.
It was the start of the transition, but still largely looked at as "exceptions"

>>718741524
>>718741907
>>718741960
I graduated high school in the 90s at a good sized school in a typical American suburb. It was every bit as kino as you can imagine...probably even moreso. It was exactly like the movie can't hardly wait. There was zero nerd culture. No one gave a shit or even knew about anime. There weren't closeted jocks or homecoming queens secretly playing nesticle or any of that shit. Everyone, even the dorks were out driving around and partying. There were no cell phones so people made their own entertainment in the real world with other people. The closest thing to nerd culture were groups like the one I hung out in who liked music like 311, Pearl Jam, Rhcp, tool, etc and were on the honor roll. God damn the world has gone to shit

>>718742060
I'm in my 40s, so I was an adult with a great deal of video game knowledge at that time. What this anon >>718740610 about there being no cool geeks is accurate, especially if you are from a rural area. You learn to hide your power level really quick, otherwise you're ostracized. I was bullied for knowing how to read in kindergarten, for example, and did not have friends until third grade when people found out I had participated in a martial arts tournament and got disqualified in the finals for punching the tournament guy's kid too hard (it made the paper, small town). That lasted about half a year until I forgot to hide my power level again. Then I started playing other sports and that was enough distraction to cause me from nerding out about various bullshit in school because if you play sports then you talk about sports. It consumes you in the same way whatever hobbies you had growing up consume you.

I saw the kids who didn't learn or were forced to hide their power levels subjected to worse fates. I ended up being rather popular, went to college, joined a frat, quit the frat after moving in with a football player, and whenever I would try to go hang out with the nerdy groups I couldn't stop myself from talking about football or basketball or somesuch and the reaction was the same as I got from the popular writ large back in elementary school. Nobody liked that sort of thing and I wasn't invited back out and I showed up it was made clear I wasn't welcome. So back to the normalfags I went.

There's a reason why every now and then you see people who are rather old posting on 4chan. It's not that we're here forever, it's just that we've got nowhere else to go. Everyone thinks they "belong" somewhere and if they aren't there yet then they'll find it someday, but some people know we don't.

It was not cool. It really, really wasn't. You don't talk about that shit in public if you know what's good for you.

>>718742138
There is a Halloween photo in my 2000 yearbook of, and I'm not even exaggerating, 20 girls dressed as Britney Spears from the Hit Me Baby One More Time video. That schoolgirl outfit with pigtails. Being a slut was what girls were focused on at the turn of the millennium. Showing up to school with Starbucks™ was cool. Wearing really low cut jeans and showing your whale tail. Definitely NOT nerd shit like video games or computers.

>>718733083
It was a sad day when mine closed down, I still regret not buying that sealed $20 Metroid Prime trilogy when they were selling everything. At least I got a copy of Cooking Mama with a shitty hand drawn replacement cover art.

>>718742659
Wasn't like that in my region. There were very definitely cliques.
People were definitely made fun of for playing Magic the Gathering.

>>718742659
>>718742138
>>718742719
We have to go back
>>718742703
I felt something similar growing up, using today's lingo I was somewhere between a failed normie and an ascended robot. Gave up games and D&D and all that in high school, joined sports and a rock band and ended up with lots of friends and a great gf. Then I sort of lost my footing as an adult and fell back into these autistic habits. I'm trying to find my way again but as you mentioned, in a way there's nowhere to go. Everything is so desolate now, it's like the fabric of society completely fell apart when the 90s ended.

>>718733216
>life is so shit now that you have to daydream about being a burnout loser 25 years ago

>>718742027
>Born in Y2K
>Didn't get a phone until 2021 (mostly for work but i've been using it more recently due dating with no matches 8 1/2 months in)
>Just have to get a blackberry to make calls now
>No more smartphones also means this website and many others will be barren for a time (especially with no jeets)

I'll live.

The discourse is going to be that it was cringe with some people replying that zoomies need to get out because (YOU)s is all that matter. Same old dance.

It was cool in the sense that less is more.
We have it better now but does not feel like it because much like porn, it is all so effortless and thus it is less rewarding.
Watching a nip slide in a movie or even 3 seconds of BOOBA required some work.
Finding the rare girl on girl scene on a cinemax presentation, if you could sneak and stay up THAT late, was incredibly satisfying.
Now I am one tab away from the most degenerate shit on the planet and it just feels meh.

Similarly I could order some snacks, download any game and movie of my choice or be even lazier and enter one of those malware ridden streaming sites hosted in russia with a VPN inside a virtual container with a free AV or a customized linux sandbox and have my fill of movies and anime, or be a paypig and actually pay for streaming if I am even lazier.
I could do this any day and any time.

So is not that it was all that great, it was the only way to access media and that was worth looking forward to.
You can make the discourse that maybe our dopamine receptors are fried and it is like fapping all the time.
We used to cum buckets when we first saw porn online, now vanilla stuff is like whatever.
Similarly we are a click away from any game or movie and we just don't care all that much because we take it for granted.

What does suck is that rental would be great for Nintendo games since that is the only pseudo-exclusivity left in the industry.
I feel Blockbuster was dead way before streaming, piracy is simply too rampant and easy. Streaming merely confirmed the time of death. Pity, loved the one that had a little living room to play vidya, even when it was rare to have a shot at it and even rarer to have time to play for more than a couple of minutes.

>>718742027
Brother I will take that option even without Blockbuster returning

>>718732886 (OP)
Why do yanks worship corporations?

>>718743271
>Y2K
Was working at a burger joint in college
One of the lower managers was a "prepper" religious nutter and had a "bunker" and thought the world woudl end on Y2k. Had his wife and kids in the bunker with him before New Year's Eve.
The day after, store manager called him and told him he needed to come in to work and that the world was still standing.

>>718733083
My local place made it to 2018 because it renegotiated a dirty cheap 10 year lease in the middle of the 2008 financial crisis. After that the jig was up.
Blockbuster didn't even make it to 2010 serves them right.

>>718743367
>We have it better now
You never lived in a world where in public places people were not ALL looking down at their phones to avoid talking to each other.
We had to at least pick up a magazine or ask other people questions like "Where is the nearest gas station" because you couldn't just google everything.
Mapquest was amazing when it came out. We had to actually know where we were going before that shit.
Society is very shitty now.
Back then, people were also smarter because they had to get news from reliable, checked sources instead of Twitter retards.
We would laugh at the fake newstand paper with "Local Woman Has Alien Baby!" headlines.
Some people get ALL of their news from social media fake bullshit crap and believe it, too.
It wasn't like that 20 years ago.
You think we'll be better off with doctors growing up cheating on their tests having AI write their essays? Then using AI in the doctor's office because they are barely high-school educated and can't think a single thought themselves?
LMAO get fucked with that opinion.
I've got idiots using AI to write their emails at work because they are fucking stupid themselves and we aren't even 5 years into AI.
20 year olds with zero work ethic complaining they can't work from home.
FUCK OFF.

>>718732886 (OP)
Imagine being nostalgic for rentals

Stores are all shit now. It's all fucking restaurants. No man gives a fuck about going to a restaurant unless a woman is dragging him to one

>>718743114
its wild to me that 30 years ago i could be the same burnout i am now and own a house
you had to really be a complete piece of shit in the 90s to fuck up

>>718743839
You are an idiot being nostalgic for an era that never was and possibly you are a zoomer because everything you are saying is completely wrong.
I had to delete my initial post because it exceeded the character limit.

No, people were not more sociable.
No, people were definitively not smarter.
Finding an address was time consuming and frustrating.
Getting lost is NEVER fun.
News outlets were not more reliable.
Tabloids are still around but turns out the pedo allegations were legit.
Oh yes, doctors were so reliable, did you know they used give pregnant women scans with x-rays back then dumbass?
>MUH AI MUH AI MUH AI

Doomer bot or zoomie, either way KYS.

>>718744204
Eh, I prefer going to a restaurant for things like hibachi or sushi

>>718744269
k

>>718742027
That is one Monkey's paw wish right there.
What the fuck am I supposed to rent? Minecraft, Thunderbolts?
I lose communication capabilities I use everyday for work and emergencies so I can rent a game that costs more than buying the Steam version? Are you insane?

Any millennial who doesn't miss Blockbuster or Dave & Busters has no heart.
Anyone who wants it back has no brain.

>>718744332
I have better things to spend my money on than a $50 plate of sushi that disappears into a blackhole in my gut. I like sushi too but I'm not going to buy food at the prices they want now.

>>718744523
Prices are the reason retail failed when you think about it.
It is cheaper to buy online, more accessible, maybe not the best option for clothing if you are a fatass but for any normie why would you waste time on driving, money on gas and parking, then pay extra because the store needs electricity, security and employees?

Amazon and company dealt a killing blow with Walmart only surviving because buying groceries online still sucks and yet...
If the pandemic did not confirm that working from home was a massive blow to productivity, we could be living that hermit life.

>>718744523
Well not at the prices as they are now, but it WAS the reason I'd go

>>718733308
BASED

>>718744705
>If the pandemic did not confirm that working from home was a massive blow to productivity
that isn't true across the board, it was heavily dependent on the field
the biggest push towards "return-to-office" was real estate

>>718744705
Amazon prices used to be amazing, 10, 15 years ago. The last 5 years the prices have gotten worse than chain retail stores. The "free shipping" is built into the price of the item. You can find cheaper items, like USB cables or something similar cheaper at retail stores now.

>>718744204
I really only go to a restaurant if I know its something I'm too lazy to try and cook. Stuff like what this anon says here >>718744332
>44 like hibachi or maybe even thai food. Even then thats once in a blue moon. Other than that I just make everything I want, saves way more money, time and stress.

>>718732886 (OP)
I bought GTA IV from a Blockbuster, and the dude handed me a framed screenshot from the game. I miss that weird place.

>>718735337
It was so cool when they would do something special with the manuals too.
Pardon the reddit image.

>>718733870
VHS and DVD used to be retardedly expensive. then they weren't. rental stores didn't need to exist anymore.

>>718734127
that's women in general. if you literally just put anything on, she'll watch it

>>718736949
in my area there was a chain called family video, and their trademark look was a green roof with a glass obelisk in front. its funny seeing the buildings that used to be family video because a lot of them still have the obelisk.

I went to university in a European country, and before I left I went and rented a bunch of games from Blockbuster and kept them.

Like a year later Blockbuster was bankrupt.

I was mostly just pirating back then, but I figured since I'll be gone for a few years it won't matter not being able to rent at Blockbuster anymore.

>>718745386
God, I wish. I'd say our taste overlaps only about 5%, I really do not want to watch true crime, old musicals, and relationship dramas, and she doesn't want to watch anything with violence, sci fi, or fantasy.

>>718744808
>that isn't true across the board, it was heavily dependent on the field
Most people did fuck around plus it was a massive cybersecurity risk.
I still remember all the squealing from when everyone had to return to the 9/6 traffic like a child being told they have to return to school after summer.

>>718735337
I hate Limited Run Games so fucking much, every edition sucks and NONE of them have a manual. The only edition with a printed anything is the $200 one. EVERY. FUCKING.TIME.
I also hate their faux nostalgia
"Uh remember pogs, uh trading cards, pins, bean babies and cassettes?"
Oh why yes I do motherfucker. I remember those being included for the most part with gum and snacks for a couple of bucks not $80 dollars, and cassettes? You are combining two eras, asshole.
Give me CDs...oh wait, you fucked that up too.

Someone ITT had all of his posts deleted. I noticed this a few times where mods delete everything you posted instead of the offending post.

>>718734317
Sadly that is the way to go, that and the rare private tracker invite anon drops like scraps of food to the starving anons down below. Studios have been violently ripping apart movies with each subsequent release and streaming often fucks the ratio, color, or outright censors content randomly for whatever reason.

Blu-Ray is so fucking gay.
Soulless menus
Literally less content than its DVD counterparts, who knows why?
Worse color and shitty upscaling
Studio versions where they "digitally restore" content that just ruins the movie, see Alien and The Matrix.

>>718732886 (OP)
I don't miss it. It introduced me to some great games, but that is about all I liked about it.
>>718744204
Some places are good, but I rarely evee want to sit down in said reaturaunt.
The prices are getting insane for most resturaunts though, especially fast food.

>>718746229
Are you saying you don't want these AMAZING higher resolution versions of your favorite films? Pic is real btw, wish it was a joke

>>718732886 (OP)
>tfw parents used to rent games for a week
>Older brother played it for 6 days and then made me pay him my allowance to play the last day
Now bro wonders why I don't speak to him anymore

>>718741074
>Honestly being an adult in the 2000s and having a lot of vidya knowledge must have been cool as fuck.

everyone one saw you as a massive loser
the fack that normies stole vida games from nerds after oppressing them for so long makes my blood boil

>>718740958
>That one weird video/ book store combo
>Get La Blue Girl because it was on the cultural section and it looked like an action anime
>Parents do not think anything of it
>Watch it alone at night with low volume as to not get teased
>MFW

>>718746205
Happens usually when you get banned

>>718746407
quite possibly one of the worst remasters ever

>>718746407
wtf is that

>>718746229
i hate that they made lotr green in the home releases

>>718746618
https://youtu.be/BxOqWYytypg?si=HcrmV8SsR7RVCyxF

My local blockbuster had DVDs of the Super Mario World and captain N cartoons, so they were cool to see. Otherwise my dad made a huge collection by burning copies of the DVDs from the store.

>>718746558
This was me except I knew it was porn and the black girl cashier said "Ooh la la" when she saw it. I was really embarrassed but in hindsight she might have been flirting.

>>718732886 (OP)
Blockbuster always had a shit selection if you didn't want something brand new. And they always tacked on fees when they could. Hastings was the best rental store by a wide margin. Even Hollywood Video was better than Blockbuster.

>>718743839
you know what? Even though the life was harder, it was more satisfying, fuck this smartphone dystopia

>>718746407
I wonder if the phenomenon that happened to CRTs will happen again to LCDs where I will have to keep my 720p monitor to enjoy old media.

When I was a teen I begged my parents to get a 1080i tv to replace the old CRT because newer consoles were allegedly going to be all HD (Xbox 360 and Ps3). Not only that CRT is now worth hundreds of dollars (sadly we threw it away because Teh Future) while that LCD is possibly worth about a $100 tops now used but no console game ever ran at 1080p natively, they were all upscaled from sub 720, Halo 3 was upscaled from some weird resolution.
Thinking about it, console games still don't support 1920x1080 natively and the industry is pushing 4K when even the series RTX5090 can't run games maxed out at 4K at more than 40 frames.

I remember the pre-redbox days where grocery stores had over the counter rentals. My mom rented out the MTV spiderman show from an Albertson's and I got to see spiderman and MJ hard make out at the age of 6.

>>718747092
This is already happening since most newer TVs don't have component anymore or support lower resolutions. I'm keeping a 1080i TV that has component, composite, s-video, VGA and HDMI for use with my older consoles.

>>718747813
Same.
Finding parts will be a bitch for older tech and I hate how tv manufacturers cannot develop an in house solution to offer backwards compatibility but I guess it is a niche compared to sports fags who absolutely need 16k to watch...Golf

>>718734127
For me it's the other way around. I scroll, she watches. However she never gets annoyed because she's an angel.

>>718732886 (OP)
>never once rented a game in my whole life
My parents would pick a shitty arthouse movie or documentary, and that was that.

>>718747158
>Go grocery shopping with mom
>Play some of the arcade games there
>Grab some of those caramel squares that was at the candy section you would fill in bags and pay for
> Walk around reading Disney Adventures books
>Rent a movie before you leave

>eating pizza every week
do americans really?

Sounds like a lot of people miss the social experience of blockbuster rather than the service.

>>718732886 (OP)
I don't miss it, personally. Rather I don't feel that the concept of browsing a library of games has gone away for me. I do the same thing now with online stores.
The concept of needing a physical space just isn't with me.

>Megaman X was always rented out
>Get Tasmanian devil snes game instead
>Eat lil' chooks
feels bad man. also rented bubsy it was ass
>Rent rollerball movie
>absolutely brutal they killing eachother causing grievous bodily harm
>one guy tries to cross the border and escape to mexico, they kill him with a sniper rifle
>ride my pushbike to return it the next day
We used to there sometimes but i don't have very fond memories. My mum purchased Starship Troopers on VHS for my bros birthday it was kino.
>Later rent out Starship Troopers 2, woah there's a sequel!
>Go to my friends to make a night of it, it's total shit there's barely any bugs
>Just brain hijacking spiders or somethin

What was really nice was my brother coming home from a Bali holiday with his cricket team, bunch of camrip DvD's of movies only at cinema. Haunted mansion etc

You can never go back, anons... But at least we were there.

>>718751821
>KB Toys with shit all over the floor everywhere and totally fucked
SOUL
I specifically remember going there the day Furbies came out to see those little fuckers in person.
I got so many army guys with parachutes at Aladdin's Castle.
I still have a box of like 100 army guys. I finally have a nephew, so I'm glad I held on to some of this stuff.

>>718751821
We still have electronics boutique but they have tons of red posters over their storefront looking like a rug store going out of business.

Then you go in and nothing is on clearance, it's all full priced games & $150 headphones, total ripoff

>>718751821
They rebranded the gamestops in Canada back to EB Games.

>>718732886 (OP)
>go to block buster for SNES game
>All good games check out
>pick random crap
>doesn't work
>stuck with busted game until mom brings me back

>go to block buster for PS1 game
>check out game I want to play
>disc is scratched to shit
>doesn't work

New York city block busters were mid at best. Fond memories of seeing the giant earthbound snes box on the shelf but the game was never there

>>718732886 (OP)
>born in 1991
>Never been to a Blockbuster
>Never rented a movie or game
Why are people so nostalgic for this?

>>718754123
>be you
>never experience something
>ask why people are nostalgic for experience you missed

You are retarded

>>718732886 (OP)
There used to be Blockbusters and Hollywood Videos around every corner where I lived, but I honestly rented from the library way more often. It was free, they always had the most recent movies and they had tons of manga. Never really rented games since I only had older consoles at the time and all those games were cheap enough to buy used.

>>718754256
You didn't answer my question.
You just got upset for some reason. Why?

>>718754353
because you are a retard. Retards should shut up and stop deflecting topics with their retarded questions.

>Rent shaolin soccer
I am steel leg, he's iron head.
Kung fu is great woah yeah! .. It's sooo greeeat
Kung fu is my faaate!

>>718732886 (OP)
Only because of the south park episode. I've never been to a bluckbusters

>>718754447
I'm not.
Why are you so upset? We're all friends here, kid.

>>718732886 (OP)
I worked there and despite it being retail, it was more fun than my 'career'

>>718754596
I was there when we ended VHS. I started working there at the tail end of VHS and the amount of copies of stuff kept getting smaller and smaller until they did away with it.
Then there was the Blu Ray push

>9 or 10 years old
>mum says I can buy a game not rent
>choose bubsy 3d as I hadn't played it

>>718733083
mine had two literally opposite sides of the street that kept competing with each other over who had a more appealing library or did better deals and cheaper rentals.
the one mogged the other so bad that it bought the shop next door and basically was twice the size and the other shut down. He rented out consoles (and a free game rental) for $25 a night with a $300 deposit in case you don't return it too which was pretty based. $50 for a weekend playing a new console+new game was pretty great. Of course it was a scam because after two months you've spent enough you could have just bought the thing yourself.
of course the owner cashed out pretty early when the profits start to dry up.

>local grocery store had a section in the front for vidya and movie rentals
>could rent entire consoles too
>mom recently died so money was tighter
>relied on N64 rental every weekend
>fond memories of going to get games and movies with Dad and him watching me play Bomberman
Eventually got my own N64 and got some real trash games on it like the Rugrats Mario Party ones. Movie wise I got mostly Kaiju stuff.

>>718732886 (OP)
>System that steals your whole life at birth
>System that works you and uses you up, tires you out
>System that then rewards you by giving you back crumbs of your own life, that you were born to, in the form of weekends
>Crumbs that you are too tired to use in any meaningful way so you just crash

>System that takes everything from you, and then keeps you too tired and sedated to ever think or do anything about it
>This is to be celebrated

OOOOOOOH I MISS BLOCKBUSTER SOOOO MUCH
KEEP ME SEDATED
I WANNA BE SEDATED

>>718736265
And now you know why the current gov and the corps are teaming up to shut them all down.

>>718755907
skill issue

>>718739493
>Hes autistic and likely a burden on everyone around him
>to the point where he can never operate in any tangible level of society without causing disgust, strife or annoyance.

>no I don't mean the 4chan/reddit definition of autist

>>718755907
You probably were not alive before everything was in the palm of your hand.
>The domain google was registered on September 15, 1997
A lot of us had many years and an entire childhood before you could just look everything up.
You don't know shit about that entirely different lifestyle.
Old folks do look fondly on the days before smart phones.
I still remember the first kid bringing an ipod to school and we looked at it during art class. The touch wheel was revolutionary and was legitimately cool. No touch screen. Just a wheel.
>oooohhhh le Apple product you are such a corpo!
Sucks you don't have memories like that.
Things used to actually be cool instead of just retards memeing everything.
Going to school and talking to your friends instead of chatting online or over the internet is a completely different lifestyle that you missed out on.
Imagine you legit can't talk to your friends unless you are at school or physically hanging out together.
No we didn't randomly call each other to chat.
My friend had a pager and none of us had a cell phone until high school.
1-800-CALL-ATT was actually used back then. I had to use the pay phone at school to call my parents to pick me up if I stayed late playing with friends.
It's a completely different dynamic and every single social interaction was more valuable back then.
Sucks to be you.

>>718739347
Yeah I've realized the same thing, now that normies all want to be shut-ins I don't.

>>718733216
blockbuster was a terrible job and if you want this sort of experience autozone is hiring right now

>>718732886 (OP)
When I was young I used to go here every other weekend with my dad, and we'd rent movies to watch together as a family. We'd buy caramel popcorn and Haagen Dazs ice cream in the little tubs that they used to have. I think he took me there to buy an Xbox 360 for my birthday too, or maybe it was Christmas eve. I can remember the layout of the shop and the carpets and everything. Man I just had a flashback to being like 8 years old.

>>718758630
>>718739347
Don't worry. Social stuff and what is "cool" goes in waves.
In a couple years it will be cool to reject AI and work-from-home and it will be cool to spend time out and about.
A lot of people already feel that way, but the majority or "mainstream" will reach that point eventually.
ChatGPT, for example, is already getting backlash and research is already proving it causes brainrot.
Have faith. Yes people are stupid, but a lot of them are not.
Especially kids watching their retard parents clinging to technology will definitely rebel against it.
Just give it time.
I have a gym membership and a bicycle and I play hockey.
Get some activities that force you around people and out of the house.
Every single time I play hockey, sitting on the bench we talk to each other. Even guys I've never met strike up conversation. I believe it's because we are in a good mood doing something we love. People like to chat.
Everyone's just a little shy, because we want to be liked.

>hated being a kid
>total loner in hs
>hated constantly being on the edge
>wished to be an adult and put all this bullshit behind me.
>went to college
>things making an up turn
>friends, future, family
>even when I dropped out land a good job that I thrived and enjoyed
>turn 28
>start losing everything year after year.
>now 34
>Completely broken and isolated
>now want nothing but to go back to hs

I don't understand what happened.

>>718759513
>>turn 28
>>start losing everything year after year.
You start drinking or did you never quit smoking weed?
Sounds like ya dun goofed here.
I at least started getting sober around 26.
Still fuck up constantly, but I know what I'm supposed to do. Just too depressed and bipolar to execute.
The amount of people in denial that they need to get sober is astronomical. I have some friends who I realized every single moment we spent together, we were getting fucked up. They still have a beer or wine every single time we go out to eat or do anything. Every single gathering has alcohol and most people drink it. It's sad, but they are functional so they think it's fine.
Can't do a single social thing without taking the edge off? Yeah..... totally fine...

>>718732886 (OP)
i never really went to blockbuster, i went to hollywood video, then when that shut down i went to movie gallery, then when that shut down i went to family video. then they shut down.

the family video was cool and shared a building with marco's pizza, so you could order a pizza and have it made while you were looking for movies to rent

For me? It was Mass Effect 2 on the Xbox 360 and a box of Sweet tarts

>>718751821
Man I just miss Fry's. It was such a cool store, shame their management was retarded.

>>718759948
Damn. That is awesome. Genius. Whole store probably smelled like pizza.

>>718733183
nintendo actually tried lobbying to make rentals illegal

nintendo lost

>>718732886 (OP)
We had a local place run by a boomer movie buff that lasted well into my adult life. Tons of foreign films and anime. Just looked him up and apparently the city library has the collection now.

>>718732886 (OP)
The good ol days when the world made sense

>>718733508
You did the right thing, brah. Gotta teach em bitches their lesson.

>>718733083
I went to both. If one didn't have a game in, the other sometimes did.

>>718734960
He was a good earner for the moviejews, no doubt about it.

>>718736219
You have my sympathies

>>718733508
You didn't have to enforce that shit. It is very easy to look the other way when company policy is needlessly fucking customers.

>>718740648
The japs are weak fags, they don't count.

>>718733083
Rental store in my town got replaced by a meat market

>>718733083
For me? It was Mr. Movies

>>718742138
>I'm talking fat, greasy haired, bucktoothed types who wore dog collars
Yep, sounds like my childhood. Surprise surprise, the average teenager isn't exactly hot or fuckable, who knew?

They took this from you

>>718737430
Mothers of severely autistic sons kinda have to worry about getting mauled to death, so it makes sense that you're trying to appease them.

>>718763453
I've never played any game in any arcade.
Saw plenty of them, but never saw the point in going there. I had better games at home.

>>718743451
The collapse is right around the corner, he'll end up having the last laugh.

>>718739347
>such conveniences
>having to spend an hour going somewhere, fiddling around and driving back
>compared to just clicking a button and playing 5 minutes later
You nostalgia-brained depressed retards. The sadness is your brain punishing you for being a whiny bitch.

how much it was to rent a video game or a movie ?

>>718763786
Depends.

>>718763786
Usually around $5. New releases were sometimes more and you could only have them for 2 days. Older stuff you could keep for a week.

Who the fuck went to Blockbuster instead of having a dad who worked in a factory with a rampant piracy ring among the workers? I had every single PS1 release on burned CD and a copied tape of any movie I wanted.

>>718764030
People who weren't you.

>>718764030
I didn't get my PS1 chipped because my uncle's PS1 literally exploded when he fucked it up.
I knew I couldn't afford a second Playstation if something went wrong, so I just bought second hand games.

>>718732886 (OP)
Everyone here was born after 2003

>>718764221
I used an action replay to launch pirated games for years before I actually got it chipped.

my strongest memory of blockbuster was renting DBZ Budokai and then it literally didn't work for some reason
second strongest is seeing a copy of pic related and being too afraid to ask my mom to rent it for me
only other real rental memories were renting some snowboarding game (not SSX) from hollywood video and buying marvel ultimate alliance from a local place when they were shutting down

>>718764030
You know anon, somebody had to be the ringleader. The guy who actually went to Blockbuster to rent the game and then burned copies of everything in his PC with two CD drives.
>tfw you accidentally touch the desk while it's writing the disc and now the process has to be restarted

>>718764357
There was an Action Replay for the PS1? Neat. I didn't hear about them until the Gamecube.
I still have mine for launching import games and homebrew.

we didn't go to blockbuster much, I think mainly because we had a local secondhand store that always had a pretty solid selection of DVDs and vidya for around $6-8 and at that point why pay more just to rent something right? The only real trade-off is those prices were for the older or worse stuff, we had to beg and plead if we ever wanted something like a kingdom hearts or a GTA because those were the expensive ($30) games

>>718733334
Me when i get (You)s

>>718734301
if i don't have to ride my bike across town and hope the game i want to rent is still there it's not the same

We can never return, can we?

>>718733770
>You need to wait another month to see Terminator 2
But you said the shit movies are in stock?

>>718745179
Never played these games much, but that is a really neat detail.

>>718741423
I'm amazed it lasted that long

>>718732886 (OP)
Ywn be a rental store clerk, chilling and talking movies with customers
I want to kill myself. I can't do the career rat race anymore. I just want a comfy shitty job that pays enough for food and rent.

>>718765339
>Comfy
Reddit.

>>718763786
I remember it was 2-4 euros per day for popular films, but you could get arthouse shit nobody else wanted to watch for half a uro in my local ones.

>>718736219
Well I was born in 1997 and I’m African and know what Blockbuster and Hollywood video. How? Well the fall of apartheid made life a living hell for my parents that we moved to America so we wouldn’t get killed by the… kaffirs…

>>718751821
Why is everything so gay and minimalist now? Its so fucking soulless. We used to have actual thought put into our spaces.
>>718757856
I miss the pre smart phone days. I think there was a good balance in the very early 2000s, before youtube. The internet was reserved for desktops basically, and it was more of a wild west thing, not everyone used it.

i'm entirely convinced that people missing blockbuster or other inconvenient, expensive rental stores are either A)zoomers pining for a past they never experienced crying they were born in the wrong generation, or B)millenials that have completely forgotten just how shitty they actually were

you know you can still go to a walmart and browse their DVD section if you really want a similar experience, right? but you don't do that, because it sucks. there's a reason redbox died and it's because nobody fucking wants to spend ten bucks to watch the best of a bad selection of movies when they could just go online and watch whatever they want.

>b-b-but muh experience ;_;
what experience? being dragged by your parents to a moldy run-down store so they can spend $15 to rent shrek 2 for the seventh time? you don't miss blockbuster, you miss being a kid.

>>718732886 (OP)
my blockbuster is a liquor store now, but it feels exactly the same inside as it did when it was a blockbuster.

>>718759914
Alocohol is a shitty, shitty thing that ruins lives. It is never needed.
>muh social lubricant
I've always hated that excuse that people use. Just don't be a social retard, the fuck?

>>718733334
The only bit of empathy I have is for the mentally disabled and this gave me quite the hearty smile.

>>718765757
You're a subhuman NPC golem that can't experience human emotions

>clod hoppers
holy fuck these were THE BEST CANDIES

We had this instead in Ireland

>$7.95 for one night

Blockbuster was a scam.

>>718765049
Yo wtf calling Terminator 2 a bad movie is too far man, take that back.

>rent jet force gemini
>get pretty far but dont finish it
>make a mark on it with a permanent marker to try to get it next weekend
>get lucky and get it
>my save file is over written

>>718765991
How are things in Ireland these days? I have not been in almost 20 years. It was nice when I visited, I thought.

>>718744239
Before the 2008 housing crisis, you really had to be a retarded piece of work in order to not even have a house or at least a steady apartment place to yourself by the time you were 30. Now you can do everything right and still not be able to have that just due to how fucked up the social and economic situation is around the world is, especially in Western nations.

>>718741074
Not really. Being a music buff with your own band or at least being able to play an instrument would've been a lot better. Not to shit on gamers of the time, but the world was a lot more vibrant at the time and I would've been hard-pressed to get into gaming as a serious hobby when there was a lot more people to meet and things to do IRL. Sure I would've played games, but I probably would've focused on other hobbies and interests where there's a skill and social componet like music a lot more.

>>718732886 (OP)
>Renting physical games
good
>Renting digital games
bad

what changed?

>>718732886 (OP)
>As a kid with my mega drive
>Every weekend Dad takes me to the local Blockbuster and we rent a game to play with my sister
>Sonic 3
>Cannon Fodder
>Urban Strike
>Streets of Rage
>Worms
>Rise of the Robots (Okay, they weren't all good)
I didn't know how good I had it.

>>718766517
The soul. Physical items contain a small imprint of the spirits that interact with them.

>>718766364
We've become a globohomo dumping ground with zero infrastructure outside of Dublin that only has any semblance of wealth because multinational corporations set up shop here to avail of lower tax rates. We're currently being filled to the brim with Indians/Pakistanis, have a never-ending housing crisis and have funded the most expensive children's hospital in the world priced at €2.2 billion which still hasn't even been opened yet. I expect a civil war soon.

>>718732886 (OP)
>>718733083
I always went to 'WOW Video' Half the price of a Blockbuster rental and you had it for a full week, not 3 days. They also had a standing deal of rent any two movies/games and get a third free. Movie and game rentals were the same price so you could mix and match. They also gave you a little bag of fresh popcorn for free* if you wanted it.

>>718741074
It was only cool if you were talking down to an ever more nerdy hopeless kid to seem impressive. But as soon as the cool friend showed up you shut up and just played basketball with him or whatever else he wanted to do.
>t. got in trouble for bringing Vampire: The Masquerade book to high school

>>718733083
Exactly. Blockbuster charged like 10 bucks to rent a movie or game for a week. My local store only charged 3 bucks.

>>718766364
ireland is a communist dump where they spam random migrants and jail people for misgendering

It's funny how the years pass and the more access we have to everything, the less their impact is on our joy
There's no carrot on the stick anymore, it's all a sea of genetically modified carrots that can rot your brain these days

For me, it was Lee's Video Library. Blockbuster had more new releases, but Lee's has every fucking movie and game you could imagine.

>be a leaf
>we have rogers video

>>718765049
I will take a shit on your mother

Being born in time to have fond memories of rental stores yet too late to be able to run one as a business really blows. Running a boutique dvd and game rental place is now my dream vanity job if I ever get insanely rich.

There's a movie theater near me that also rents dvds and VHS for free, while letting you pay a small fee to rent the players. Obviously they stay in business because of the movie theater part, but it's still cool to see. Unfortunately the place is run by teens who don't even know what they're renting out so it doesn't have the same atmosphere as the old rental stores

>>718732886 (OP)
Renting games was not a thing in my country.
Renting movies was though. Before the internet got fast enough, we would rent movies and copy them.

>>718732886 (OP)
>parents take me to movie rental store to get movies for the weekend while I grab a game
>they didn't have a big section for vidya, but large enough that I was able to get some childhood gems
>get excited for what I might find this time
>wall is just filled to the brim with 100 copies of FIFA and Madden
>maybe one row of games that aren't sports games and that's what I have to pick from

I don't even hate sports games, but why were so many rental sections like that? Even in the places other than the one my family frequented, it had way too many sports games taking up the shelf space.

>>718736182
What a cool dad.

>>718765757
nothing in the modern world appeals to me, these modern conveniences have done nothing to improve my life. suicide and chronic depression being at all time highs among youths must mean there's some objective truth to this.

>>718767351
That's one conclusion you could jump to, sure.

I remember I got in trouble with my dad because I rented Night at the Roxburrys and he said it was against God's plan for my life.

>renting out games
how didn't they get sued to death and shut down by publishers

>>718733334
Makes sense. Being autistic comes from watching too much TV when you're 1-3 so of course they're going to keep feeding him TV

>>718733083
>local pizza place
>buy a pizza, get self-recorded vhs movie for go

I miss the 90's, when nobody really cared about the copyrights.

>>718767554
they did get sued and got promptly laughed out of the court
best they could get them on was photocopying the manuals and renting those out

>>718767554
first sale doctrine was already established before video games. when a physical exchange of goods is made, the rights to that specific good, copy of a game in this case, transfers to the purchaser. so you're free to sell it or rent it out or whatever.
that's a big reason why everything went to digital, it was argued that the rights never transfer from the original rights holder to the consumer since no physical exchange is made, and you're open to be eula fucked as hard as they like.

>>718743839
>Back then, people were also smarter because they had to get news from reliable, checked sources instead of Twitter retards.
Bullshit, people were very clueless and lacked self-awareness, at that time. It was annoying.

>>718743367
This applies to everything honestly. I also liked it more when MMORPGs weren't that optimized and you had to actually play and walk the world to make friends and create parties, now dungeons and groups are 1 click away.

>>718746832
>clerks who knew you were buying some age inappropriate stuff but didn't care
Those were the days.

>>718767883
this is also why libraries get raped by book publishers and have to pay out the ass over ebook rentals, the publishers hold all the power and absolutely despise public libraries.

>>718765049
my fuckin sides

>>718733308
Kino. I actually have a game that was (apparently) from Blockbuster; got it at a yard sale just for the case alone. It's Destroy All Humans 2 on PS2, don't even care for the franchise.

>>718732886 (OP)
cant have sovl anymore
its to remind you that you will own nothing and you will eat ze bugz

Born in 89. Got to see the NES in its prime, the SNES on launch, the Playstation, the N64, Dreamcast, GameCube, PS2, everything - I saw Source engine, rise and fall of G4, the death of GameSpy and web forums... I watched people use webcrawlers and unsecured government and corporate databases to use Korean Social Security numbers in order to sign up for MMORPGs in Korea so they could play the new content early.

It's not just rose tinted. Things were so unfathomably good. You got to see shit actually develop and advance in real time, you got to fantasize and learn and see the internet reach public homes. I was one of the first people with a website. It was a Kingdom Hearts website. It had a story summary and fanfic and sprites and a visitor counter that hit 309 before I lost interest. It might have gone higher before the service expired. I can't express how good it was. It was so self-driven and the large companies didn't exist yet. It was so perfect. So good.

>>718763730
Yeah I'm sure this world of socially stunted individuals we have created with the only social outlet being the internet is well worth netflix

>>718767220
>but why were so many rental sections like that?
because couch co-op was huge back then

>>718758773
Autozone feels like a comfy experience too if you're a /o/fag

>>718768593
>libraries used to nab used books for $5 to $10, if not for free as they were donated
>depending on the book, they could last for several decades, if not much longer
>now that kike publishers have made everything digital, they charge libraries $50 a pop, and only for 50~100 loans, renewed every 6~12 months (kike publishers' so-called "average shelf life of a book" calculation, which makes no distinctions between different types or books)
governments across the world really need to abolish copyright

>>718766767
That sucks to hear. Everywhere just gets worse I guess

>>718746546
It was the same as being a kid in the 90s and 2000s, most other kids saw you as a loser too until halo and call of duty got popular, then it was cool.

>>718732886 (OP)
Having to go somewhere, rent something and then bring it back later was so much better than just buying some old game on Steam for $3. Is what I would say if I was retarded.

Suncoast and Sam Goody always had the best shit. I remember buying Boogiepop Phantom on a whim and loved the hell out of it.

>>718746205
this site, much like our blockbusterless world, is simply not the same anymore

>>718765757
>you miss being a kid.
true. and a part of me laments the fact that today's kids have all of their entertainment come from a single, curated jewish device

>>718760076
You can't describe how great Fry's was to someone who never went. I was there when it was still Incredible Universe. I have such fond memories of going to Fry's, buying games or PC parts and then going to the local LAN center to play WoW or CS 1.6 or DotA.
Hell, I went from where I live to the Irvine Fry's for the WoW midnight release, pic related. Met the devs, got back home around 2:30 am and the guy who worked at the LAN center did a special opening for that night and let everyone smoke (all Asians except the token whites (us), and the place was Korean so everyone smoked) inside so nobody had to stop leveling.
Truly magical. It was inevitable places like big retail stores for things people would mostly buy online and places like Arcades and LAN centers would close, but I can still be nostalgic for them.

>was a pervy kid that became interested in girls earlier than most boys
>too embarrassed to express this so i swapped some mary kate and ashley movie with the digimon movie at blockbuster and 'accidentally' got a girl movie so i could look at girls my age
>dad didn't question it but probably thought i was a faggot

>>718772371
>be in junior high in 1997
>anime is just starting to catch on and kids are trading bootleg VHS at school
>go here
>a single tape with 3 episodes was like 25 dollars
some things deserved to die

>>718772124
not a single person is making that argument you stupid fucking zoomer retard
kek

I removed so many of those blue cases and yellow locks (for the soft cases) over the years that I dream about it some times

>>718747158
I remember I rented Starcraft 64 and Snowboard Kids from a Shop N Save...

>rent game for a day
>crack it

For kids here, I don't think the thing people miss about rental stores is actually having to drive out and return things, it was just the selection. Imagine if instead of having a NetFlix algorithm showing you whatever slop they overpaid to produce EXCLUSIVE for them, it was just a big random selection of genre-sorted shit. It was a great way to find stuff you'd otherwise never hear about in a time when you couldn't just google "WHAT'S THE HIDDEN GEMS".

It was the same with games and movies, I used to find so much wild shit in rental places that even today I doubt I'd ever just randomly stumble across.

>>718773992
it was a product of its time, which is a concept zoomers can't grasp due to their lack of object permanence.

>>718759513
>didnt stop giving a shit in his mid 20s
rookie mistake

>>718774131
I think it's something you could replicate today even with emulators, it would just take a lot of work and some discipline. Just find some game database, pick 20 random games from it and only look at their cover/back art, then commit to only playing that game for a week.

I guess it might be hard now though since everybody has at least passing knowledge of like 90% of games. Might still be neat though.

>>718774297
>I think it's something you could replicate today even with emulators
not really. with emulators you have entire finished catalogs. you don't get new releases to look forward to every week. and they aren't curated either, so you have to wade through a pile of 4000+ games

>>718774543
I cannot tell you how many people camped outside the store on Tuesday morning (new movie and game day)
People LOVED new release day.

>>718733645
>disney infinity discs
>blockbuster
You talking about the last remaining blockbuster stores? By November 2013 there were 300 left and disney infinity launched August of that year.

>>718735337
>don't get to play my games on the ride home because they don't make handhelds and I'm the adult driving myself
>last midnight launch i went to was fallout 4 and had two hours of downloading and installation before i could even play

>>718759513
Covid threw a spanner in the works for life and socialising in general. Find something that you are enthusiastic about is the best thing you can do.

>remember seeing ultimate doom and final doom boxes in the glass counter, next to the ghost face killer mannequin and curtain to the porn section
>Walk out and look at the cool train hobbyist shop next door
>Get orange push pop from gas station on walk home
I didn't know how good it was in the 90s

>>718774757
Yeah, im a Y2K zoomer, my local blockbuster didn't die until a year later in 2015.
It was a comfy place.

>>718775703
I never thought I would be wistfully thinking about going to the local pool hall arcade after school and playing pool and DDR and some Tekken
Are kids even allowed to go to a pool hall nowadays? Wouldn't they get kicked out around like 8pm or something?

>>718732886 (OP)
strangely I don't have a lot of nostalgia for places like blockbuster despite having gone plenty of times as a kid

>>718772990
>>dad didn't question it but probably thought i was a faggot

and he was right.

>>718736437
Reading is a trick?

>>718777024
I never said i confirmed he was thinking that

>>718766767
>>718766882
>>718766364
the north is pretty chill for now. but it will get worse and be like everywhere else in a few years. went down south recently and it was fucking shite. actual hell hole.

>>718759914
>You start drinking or did you never quit smoking weed?
It's call this world fucking sucks dude. You really don't have control over your life and shit happens back to back to back to back.

>Le drinking and smoking is bad!

Europe and Asia don't stigmitize either like America does and they have lower rates of DD and alcohol abuse.

>>718779729
if word gets out that you smoke weed in japan you're blacklisted from entire industries

>nearly 30 years old
>still can't drive and live with my parents
as a completely useless and anxiety riddled hikikomori I welcome the "have everything ordered to your door" age

>>718779729
Drinking socially and while knowing and reapecting your limits is fine. Getting shitfsced wvery time is for retards and addicts, and smoking weed is for turbofags.

>>718779937
I have been outside maybe 4 times in the last 5 years and one of them was to move.

>>718773992
i hear that modern young adults get decision anxiety when presented with a resturant menu. i think people becoming reliant on algorithms to feed them suggestions caused this. they can't curate for themselves and make decisions.
there's an algorithm for everything, social media feeds, online stores, food apps, advertisements.
with generative AI, i unironically think we're going to see todays kids go total autopilot for everything when they're adults, like an an llm just recording video and audio from people's phones or maybe smartglasses in the future, and just telling people where to go, what to say, what to do, everything. as though they're robots.

>>718733083
video game rentals were unprofitable from locally owned rental stores cause no one brought back their products. VHS tapes were cheap, SNES/Genesis cartridges are not.

My parents never took me to Blockbuster. I'd just get old used vidya and tapes.

>>718732886 (OP)
I don't we never had it.

>>718780295
When covid happened literally nothing about my life changed at all
My parents even got it and I'm so isolated in my room I never got it

>>718772990
being a horny preteen sucked because if you EVER expressed that you had interest in looking at anything "sexy" then you were rapidly doomed for a savage humiliation by other kids and adults, possibly even getting beaten, even if it was at a social function where the sexy thing was currently present. You learned quick not to say anything or trust anyone, so every interest had the aura of perverse taboo that you kept secret from literally everyone, even your "best friends" who would more likely rat you out too. So you got used to thinking of life as a nonstop survival espionage mission, survive each day without anyone catching you looking at or saying anything. You become really good at stashing contraband in forgotten places and hoping no-one ever found out.
Kids these days with their internet anime girls and omnipresent sex memes everywhere don't know how great they have it.

>>718766954
The BB in my old neighbourhood had a better selection than Rogers Video. Rogers can suck it

It’s more about missing your childhood than actually missing blockbuster itself.

Imagine having access to modern emulators and rom sites as a kid, that sounds 10 million times better

>>718780538
>i hear that modern young adults get decision anxiety when presented with a resturant menu.
This shit will never not be funny. The cheap Pho place near my house still has a paper menu that's 20 pages long and I almost never see groups of high school or college kids there anymore compared to 10-15 years ago.

>>718772990
Man they were prime jailbait back then.

>>718781512
It sounds better, but more convenient doesn't really equate to better. The paradox of choice boils down to "too much choice can lead to anxiety, regret and dissatisfaction" I think having a giant ROM collection can really emphasize this. A million games on hand, can't commit to any of them. Contrast that with waiting until Friday then renting one single game for the weekend- there's the anticipation of what to get, the activity of going to a physical location and browsing, then when you choose you don't feel any FOMO about other games because you are locked in, "married" to the game you chose and you go all in on it.
And then there's the dating aspect- Blockbuster used to be a great place to go on a date, it was a fun activity to take a girl and browse and choose something together. Much different than sitting on the sofa scrolling mindlessly through endless options, not quite happy with any of them because there might be something better if you keep scrolling.
Don't get me wrong, I love emulating games and think there has never been a better time to be a gamer than today simply because of the ease of access to the past via ROMs, but there was something really special and wholesome about going somewhere and picking something and being stuck with it and only it.

>>718763730
Shut it if you're a young blood.
Kill yourself if you're a non virgin.

>>718732886 (OP)
I am glad this closed. I enjoy seeing normies suffer. I wish they had 7 days work weeks and were whipped by machines.

>>718783167
That's why the patrician choice is a flash cart with a small memory card so you can only store a couple games at a time.

>>718783496
>normies
you mean like you, normalfag tourist?

>>718781263
It's not any different today. In fact i think it's actually a lot worse. Twitter is full of closet degenerate underages LARPing as "nsfw dni!!!" moral grandstanding puriteens who will mock, berate and cancel eachother for social media good boy points if they express any interest in erotic stuff.

>>718732886 (OP)
>you'll own nothing and you'll be happy
:/
>you'll own nothing and you'll be happy, 1990s
:O

>>718784494
The rental place didn't make you pay full price to not own it.

>>718784751
you could also just not return the tapes and keep them forever if you wanted. i think everyone had a few tapes they accidentally or intentionally never returned, and just paid off the fee or never went back to the store.

>>718784751
>Go to rental place
>Pay $5 for a week
>....
>Go to library
>The same movie is available to borrow for 2 weeks for free

aaaaaand /thread

>>718732886 (OP)

Shitbuster was normie tier trash and anyone who rented from there was a faggot like OP!!!FACT!!!

>>718786909
>normie
where do you NORMALFAG tourists come from? Go the fuck back

>>718787176
they come from Youtube, Tik Tok, and Reddit where they are not allowed to say the no-no fag word

>>718733083
>Blockbuster was for cucks. Small town video stores were the real deal.

100% correct where you could rent movies like Faces of Death, Corpse Grinders, Ilsa: She Wolf of the S.S., Goodbye Uncle Tom, Water Power, Nekromantik, The Toxic Avenger, Street Trash, Venus In Furs, Emanuelle In America etc.....

Cuntbuster was only good if you were an inbred piece of shit NPC with no sophistication and uncultured in the depths of degeneracy!!!FACT!!!

>>718760638
The Japanese in general were faggots about that which you can see in some design decisions in vidya and regional differences. Sometimes we got EZPZ stuff because they think we're dumb, sometimes we got stuff like the early RE games where you had to deal with hunters without auto-aim. You also have stuff like Sony going after Bleem!

Unfortunately Nintendo still seem to be faggots about this and streaming and whatever else, IDK if everyone else chilled out or just realized that it's a losing battle and they can step back and let Nintendo take the heat.

>>718787414
you type like an underaged faggot

>>718733334
God I wish I had this level of happy innocence again

>>718787176
>>normie
>where do you NORMALFAG tourists come from? Go the fuck back

I've been here since 2007 you know nothing niggerfaggot!!!FACT!!!

>>718787703
>normie
you still have to go back, kid

>>718787561
>you type like an underaged faggot

I guess you'd be an expert on that subject you homo!!!FACT!!!

>retarded namefag who uses a retarded post gimmick and is new enough to say 'normie'
no

>>718733731
There's something oddly comfy about adventuring through parts of the world through Google Maps and Earth.

>>718787749
>>normie
>you still have to go back, kid

Give me directions and I'll crawl into your filthy whore mothers stinking std riddled crusty sewer of a cunt that she shat you out of because her asshole was too bust getting knotted by a German Shepard!!!FACT!!!

>>718787831
>>retarded namefag who uses a retarded post gimmick and is new enough to say 'normie'
>no

"Normie" has been in use for about two decades you ignorant cocksucker!!!FACT!!!

>>718787905
>t.

>>718732886 (OP)
american life must be so bleak
why even bother working if it just continues this cycle?

>>718787998
>normie
lol newfag

>>718788042
humans like to live and it's not as bad as say, being a miller in the 1500s, or working in a coal mine 100 years ago

Local video rental stores > Chinatown bootleg negroes > Blockbuster

Your local rental is god-tier if it has a vidya and XXX section, back in the late 80s-early 90s it wasn't that blocked off and my 9 year old self plus friends and classmates first saw porn that way

It was the only time I saw actual cunny but my female friend got to see my tiny pecker

>>718732886 (OP)
I can't believe I passed up the chance to buy all those old weird obscure anime when my local video rentals closed down.
Can't find that shit nowadays anywhere.

>>718787872
>There's something oddly comfy about adventuring through parts of the world through Google Maps and Earth.

I know exactly how you feel.

Sometimes I'll check out old streets and cities that I use to live on/in that still haunt my memories, acting as a disembodied specter quietly observing the surroundings!!!FACT!!!

>>718787482
It sucks because ninty was mostly just clueless for a while and struggling to make a console that can use an internet connection but they suddenly ramped up the jewishness since switch 2 was announced

>>718788176
our Blockbuster had a massive foreign section that was most Korean, Japanese, and Hong Kong flicks to the point that it was made into an 'asian cinema' section. I saw all the good shit there like Ringu, Suicide Club, The Grudge, Wild Zero, The Master Swordsman, Infernal Affairs, Attack the Gas Station, just all around classic bangers
They were all 99 cents to rent and I don't think I watched everything I wanted before it closed, and I went there for YEARS

>>718740958
>mom takes out all the anime dvds the local library has because cartoons are for kids lol
>watch the entirety of Evangelion (naked Asuka/Rei)
>Also R.O.D. and some stuff with Elfen Lied clips for some reason, and Air
Thank fuck for poor western stereotypes of anything animated back then

>>718788278
memories of your dad raping you, namefag retard?!!!FACT!!!

>>718788551
No, his memory of liking it.

>>718788176
>I can't believe I passed up the chance to buy all those old weird obscure anime when my local video rentals closed down.
>Can't find that shit nowadays anywhere

I'll fucking tell you man, 20 years ago everyone was getting rid of their VHS tapes for DVD's, so every pawnshop was a fucking goldmine of cheap movies at .25-.50 cents while I still have a few....!!!FACT!!!

>>718788551
>memories of your dad raping you, namefag retard?!!!FACT!!!
>>718788638
>No, his memory of liking it.

>>718733083
True but you'd be lying if you said didn't still go to Blockbuster sometimes. Plus I have some fond memories of Blockbuster too, since sometimes you ended up going there with friends/family and getting what you needed. And I enjoyed making Pokemon Snap stickers and things like that.

Blockbuster always smelled nice, often nicer than the local places, I'll give it that.

>>718733770
Too real. So many things I have nostalgia for were actually pretty shit at the time

>>718769419
>>718733554
based chad boomer blessed by the captcha

>>718760638
>>718787482
>>718788476
Nintendo really needs to fire those two fucking jewtards Shuntaro "EU Pokefaggot" Furukawa and Doug "EAjew" Bowser, fire all the fucking accountants from the top spots and shit-can the fucking (((shareholders))) and bring back the fun, caring folks that think like Reggie and Iwata did

>>718733770
meanwhile at Blockbuster, it was free although you needed an ID and to put a card on file
Late fees were brutal though

>>718781263
Damn anon you raise a good point. I had to stash physical porn all over my room but all of it got found one way or another. Even the computer printouts of the playboy girls i hid between volumes of naruto.

>>718789362
Vidya companies in general are beholden to business faggots and it sucks because a large part of why vidya was ever good was randos making art through adversity. For instance Iwata was a calculator jockey but he's also the reason we got Kanto in Gold/Silver/Crystal. It seems like those days are just plain gone.

>>718734770
Based. I still have my copies of F-Zero X and Ocarina of Time that my dad bought from there.

>>718789881
I miss those days, anon. They need to come back because these businessfags are a fucking jew-tier cancer upon the gaming industry, especially in regards to Nintendo. The Switch 2 is polarizing as fuck because of its price point (especially here in my country of Canada. The goddamn thing is $700 just for the fucking bundle.), among other problems, of course. I hope they can course-correct, but it'd feel like I'm holding my breath for nothing but hopium/copium.

>>718733334
Good thing. I build a website for my autistic uncle where he can read his books (fantasy shit). Because all websites that he was using get banned.

>>718733216
please consider the genius of this holographic meatloaf joke.

>>718745978
>every edition sucks and NONE of them have a manual. The only edition with a printed anything is the $200 one. EVERY. FUCKING.TIME.
For a bunch of cunts that play on the nostalgia at a premium price you'd think they would throw a manual in as part of the bare min. Merchant level antics right.

>>718745978
Faggoted Run "Games" is jewy as fuck and I don't have a fuckin' clue why WayForward continues to use Jewy Run "Games" as a sort of host to put out the Shantae games. Fuck's sakes, they need to shake those faggots and find a distributor that isn't fucking scummy and Jewy as LRG.

>>718790217
>9/11
Is just a bunch of jews bombing a plane in to a tower, whats so scary about it

>>718737063
>The oldest zoomers have hit 30 years old retard
you are a fucking moron, no zoomer is 30 years old.

>>718791335
Locking the manual behind a $200 price gate is peak hooknose behavior. What used to be an industry standard that even AA and bargain bin games did is now seen as a luxury for high rollers. Fucking pathetic man if you are going to do a job right don't half ass it with garbage like that.

My parents actually bought me shit while the neighbors' kids were my personal little Blockbuster cucks that I'd use to see what I didn't have.

>>718791357
How they convinced the boomers to completely tear down our society and turn it into the soulless hellhole police state we now live in.

>>718732886 (OP)
I had Hollywood Video. We had tiny Blockbuster in town for a few years but Hollywood Video drove them out of business.

>>718792439
If a little hand book is anything to go by Hell is far worse than the current reality where is escape is not possible. When an animal dies the spirit is consumed by the void. When a human goes they burn for eternity regardless of their origin and creed. Not even their false gods will save them.

>>718791357
It ensured complete and utter safety for Israel while snuffing out the switch to nuclear for good.

>>718792689
>while snuffing out the switch to nuclear for good
Fusion is kill?

>>718784494
>Disingenuous faggot
The difference is you were intentionally renting your shit with a clear idea of how long you had before it had to be returned. Now you pay 70-80 dollars for something companies have the right to revoke your access to whenever they feel like. Rental stores had a lot of things you can criticize them for but you choose something fucking stupid on purpose.

>Rent Paper Mario TTYD on Friday
>Get to the shadow queen at the end
>Go to bed after she kicks my ass once
>Go to school Monday
>Come back
>Game gone
I didn't actually beat that game until like 2022.

>go to game store
>get some genesis or snes games based off of the box art alone
>buy latest old Sonic Archie comic volume, when sally was stark naked all the time
Those were the days. I think the internet should have never became popular. It should have stayed small. It ruined everything. We weren’t meant to live our lives glued to a phone screen.

>>718791612
Agreed, anon. Fuckin' jewy behavior, I'd love to see nothing more than the absolute downfall and complete annihilation of LRG for all time.

>>718758909
That’s the thing, we’re not allowed to work from home. That was the one good thing about it all. And we can’t do it because real estate investors want their sheckels

Everything is online. Except work. You have to drive into the office on your own time and money so you can rot in Jewish daycare for 8-12 hours a day

>>718766321
>be me 5-6 years old
>Mon rents me Zelda ocarina of time
>play a save that was there
>it was already very far in the game
>i didn’t underfund shit about it so i delete it
>get bored and set it back

Someone has to have curse me really hard that day.

>>718732886 (OP)
My first job was at a blockbuster. You'd be surprised how many people got late fees.

Reminder that dating a single mother is like renting a game from Blockbuster and continuing someone else's save file.

>>718796217
The only way some people will ever see what comes after the part they're stuck on?

>>718791357
retard

>>718781263
I got bullied by a group of girls because I was caught looking at one of them too long.

>>718746546
i grew up in the early 2000s (elementary school) and in my "european" school i was one of 2 (two) people interested in computers. the other was a moroccan guy who wanted to be a DJ. i liked playing vidya, but he could play soccer so i never spoke much
everyone else was just playing soccer

>>718779729
>>718780286
denial

>>718733083
mah nigga

>>718732886 (OP)
We had a really fucking amazing pizza next to the blockbuster that was still pretty cheap considering the taste and quality and amount of cheese but when blockbuster closed the store lost most of their costumers and had to sell

>>718732886 (OP)
You are allowed 1 game, 1 movie and 1 candy /v/ what will it be?

>>718798773
Star Fox 64
Highlander
Buncha Crunch

>>718734770
I preordered Halo 3 ODST for me and my cousins here. Also bought my xbox 360 here.
>I think we are all still banned until the year 3000 for things we said and did on xbox live.

>>718760638
They were actually very successful in removing their best games from video rental stores iirc. You'd rarely see good games like Mario Kart and Goldeneye after a while. Best you could get after a while was shit like Chameleon Twist and Bio Freaks.

>>718733083
I came here to post mine.

>>718734867
Oh fuck, the cut to stan watching him shouting at nothing really got me. That was a good episode.

>>718799447
they found other ways to get back at the video rental stores, like how they sued blockbuster for copyright infringement when they would photocopy instruction booklets so they could replace damaged ones.

>>718798773
Bomberman 64: The Second Attack (Local place still had the same save file I was working on)
The Goonies
Screw the candy, give me one of those popcorn buckets.

>>718733083
Dalton’s Video, a purple trailer on the side of the road. Half the place was porn behind a drab curtain, the other half was VHS and vidya. I got a full guide to Jade Cocoon 2 there. I read the entire thing and didn’t get the game until a few months later because my mom couldn’t find it. Fuck I loved that place

>>718737095
My Family Video that had been there since I was a kid finally died a few years ago and got turned into a used car dealership

>>718775920
>Are kids even allowed to go to a pool hall nowadays? Wouldn't they get kicked out around like 8pm or something?
They don't even exist outside of major cities and even then only adults frequent things like that nowadays. Shit is so fucked. Kids can't even find places to hang out any more and have fun.

>>718798773
Diddy Kong Racing
Atlantis
Oreo

>>718733083
i agree for movies but it was usually better for games

>>718732886 (OP)

Remember? I´ve never been able to forget. Fuck Netflix and chill, give me back my movie & pizza night.

>>718737095
>>718800995
My Family Video never had porn. It eventually closed down and became a Dollar General.

>>718737095
i stopped going to family video a few years before they closed, but when i saw the CBD signs i knew it was over for them, like how gamestop became a funkopop store in its final months.
mine's a red cross now

Hollywood video/Game Crazy wagie here.

I lived this for a couple years. I don't miss any of it and i regret letting it be my life for so long. if i could go back i'd get out of hollywood as soon as GC opened up, get to middle management in GC and then fuck off somewhere else as soon as they started rotting.

having said that, sunday/monday evenings when i had finished stocking the trade ins, sorting everything and no one was coming in was very, very slow, so you basically fucked around on the demo consoles. I didn't have to buy a PS3 because every game i watned to try i beat at work, even shit like Last of Us and MGS4.

Hollywood was less free, but the cutest girls worked there, so it was nice eye candy, at least at my store. My boss wasn't a total ass, and the assisstant, while being a man hater, was kind of afraid of me because she was 300 pounds nad 5'5" and i'm 6'3".

People with late fees were trash, in every case.they didn't mark them late till 4 am, so unless you dropped them off after we closed, it was your fault for getting them.

>>718764428
I rented this from blockbuster. couldn't beat it in the rental period, there was one real frustrating area I got stuck on. I remember the background music looping in a bad way as I failed to make this particular jump over and over again.

>>718732886 (OP)
It was pretty cool. I used to go to it as a kid and rent movies to watch with my dad. But still fuck blockbuster. We rented a game that went missing and instead of letting us pay for it they kept charging us late fees. The late fees were more than the games price. I'm slightly glad that place is gone lol.

>>718734617
>SUPER COOL SCAN 5000
lol I had a compaq presario, but what the fuck is this

>>718736129
Post pics plz
>>718739964
Lel
Your video game store sounded like an awesome place to hang out. We used to have one but like 30 minutes from where I live. They sold a lot of older gen games. They had consoles and computers in a dark room that people could just come in and play. I watched my little elementary aged brother beat a bunch of highschoolers and above in call of duty hahaha

>>718735337
This was peak + reading it by bedlamp light (if it's a more complex game). Felt like getting fully immersed into it and hyping myself up to be ready

>>718733083
movie gallery

>>718732886 (OP)
We actually didn't have a Blockbuster in my little podunk town.
We had a Family Video and the grocery store also had a section for renting videos.

>>718732886 (OP)
>GameStop blowjob Half Life 2 tshirt.mp4

>>718734493
Na. Only mexicans get to go there for free

>>718793173
True, true. Those were the days.

>>718798773
Fable
Tommy Boy
M&M's

>>718732886 (OP)
I miss the 90s and early 00s so much. I hate smartphones. Ruined the world.

>>718732886 (OP)
>You now remember Blockbuster.
I remember when Xbox came out and I'd go to blockbuster to swipe 100+ 1 month live trial cards, back when they stacked, so I could play Xbox Live for free. Good times. Also their 6 dollar a month unlimited rental thing where I could go and swap games whenever. Then I modded my Xbox and ripped every game they had to my Xbox's drive and cancelled.

>>718733508
You are a douchebag

>>718806962
Sweet. You just can't do shit that rad anymore with modern consoles.

>>718807527
They left the trial cards in the display cases and only took the games out. So it is just free as far as I could tell lmfao. Not like I'd have got in trouble as a kid anyway.

>>718733508
Fucking cunt. I wish I was there so I could beat the living shit out of a faggot like you.

>>718780720
>unprofitable from locally owned rental stores cause no one brought back their products.
thats why you have a credit card on file to charge for stolen or lost items

It was a nice thread :)

>>718798773
GoldenEye
Jurassic Park
Peanut M&Ms

>>718732886 (OP)
I never forgot