Never forget.

>>83098975
no one on this board is old enough to remember, anon

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>>83100370
I loved Blockbuster. Fuck off, anon.

>>83100370
I'm old enough to have worked at Blockbuster

i never rewound my tapes

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>>83098975
Pic related is one of the best aisle posters

>>83102035
You're why they went out of business.

what happened to all their stock?

>>83102318
It was sold, destroyed, or both.

>>83102318
I got 8 games and 12 movies for 10 bucks.

Sold 5 of the games for about 3 bucks each

>>83100370
I remember and I'm only 19.

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>>83101964
>Hook

>>83098975
i used to go there, search for interesting movie descriptions and then go home to torrent it

I used to rent N64 games, didn't care about movies back then

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>Rent movie a decade ago
>Just never take it back

Call the cops, i don't give a fuck

>>83104686
If they get you they can make you pay like 20k lol

>>83102318
>what happened to all their stock?

I worked at a Blockbuster during the great VHS-to-DVD upgrade.

We were ordered by corporate to take all our VHS tapes, hit them with a hammer to make them inoperable, then toss them in the dumpster out back.

It was fun. Most of us kept a few tapes if we could sneak it past the manager (who was a shit head).

Most fun was watching all the people dumpster diving once they found out we were throwing away tapes. They didn't know we'd smashed them, so they were crawling around in garbage for nothing.

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>>83104659
I remember renting MGS 2 and getting frustrated by how difficult it was. I was only 10 when it came out and never played the first one. The box just looked cool.
>>83104686

>>83102318

They sold it off.

I went to my local blockbuster and bought some kino before it closed.

I worked at a mom and pop video store in Hippieville USA, Ocean Beach, San Diego and dvd cases and discs constantly came back caked w/ keef and coke /blog

I had completely forgotten blockbuster existed until the autistic started spamming their nostalgia for their childhood by way of blockbuster

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I honestly miss Blockbuster but I don't miss VHS tapes at all. Nobody ever rewinds their tapes.

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>>83105273
>tfw parents made me pay for the tape that got eaten in the VCR because I picked out the movie

It was kinda-sorta sad to see those video stores closing doors and selling their stuff.
Same shit with ghetto arcades and cyber cafés. Technology marches on.

>>83098975

I remember the sticky floors.

>Parents are out
>Raid dad's naughty box for a porno tape
>Pop it in the VCR
>Get my groove on if you catch my drift
>Headlights in the driveway
>WTF they're home early
>EJECT EJECT EJECT
>Tape does not eject
>VCR is not complying
>Smash it open, breaking it completely
>Take the tape out and get it back to naughty box just in time
>'Uhh, something happened w/ the VCR, it just like, broke...'

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>>83101964
>when you are so NEET you don't even know what month it is

>>83106120
The one in my town was carpeted

>>83098975
Blockbuster made me pay $35 for a late VHS copy of Gladiator

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>It's a dad tells you to stay in the kids section while he goes behind the curtain for a while episode

>>83105975
>cyber cafés

I miss this shit so much, my town used to have like 50 of them, 10 in the same plaza all right next to each other. That was a glorious time for gaming.

>>83105072
>hey guys let's have nostalgia over a penny pinching corporation that sees us as dollar signs
>bahhhhhh

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>>83106229

>>83100370
>only 20
>literally went there all the time as a kid

>>83106650
Communists are niggers who need enslaved to the wealthy.

blockbuster video was so easy to shoplift candy from.

probably the easiest place ever.

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Post the movies you ran past by because the covers freaked you out

>>83100370
Oh but I do. I remember the absurdly marked up candy and popcorn, I remember the one veiled off section in the back where people could get oldschool porn, I remember niggers stealing a bunch of VHS tapes and the employees being to stoned to even get up. They just mumbled "hey you stop that" and turned back to whatever movie they had playing on their own personal monitor

>>83107849
Shoplifting is a pathetic crime.

Why are these always blockbuster threads? Did you have terrible parents? Have a mediocre mid-2000s job brimming with ennui?

M O V I E G A L L E R Y

>>83098975
what did the blockbuster nearest to you turn into? mine was a vacant space for a while, but now its my doctors office

>>83109509
>>83109509
Gym

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>>83098975
Who remembers taking their parents with them to pick out a game and a movie, but taking over an hour deciding what to choose? I wish I could go back.

>>83109509
Payday Loan mart.

I miss the small video rental store that my grocery store had. My mom rented SW: ESB and Planet of the Apes when I was a kid from there. Now we have Redbox and Netflix, it just isn't the same.

>>83098975
how can i forget when these threads are posted every minute

>>83111111

>>83109509
torn down and became a Twin Peaks Restaurant.

>>83100370
I'm 22 and I remember going as a kid. I looked forward going after dinner on friday nights every damn week. Fuck off.

>>83107849
>>83102035
kill yourselves

>>83109509
Chinese food restaurant. It's pretty good actually.

I want to rent Donkey Kong 64 and Dude Where's My Car with my friend again

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>>83107941
>The you were brave enough to rent it but fell asleep 20 minutes in, then years later rlm reviews it and you realise the only thing scary was the box art

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>>83111399
Same here man, same here...

Blockbuster was shit. Our local video stores were far better, with wider selections, better prices, and longer rental periods plus no late fees for members. Only time I went to blockbuster was when I got a free rental under a soda cap.
Fuck Blockbuster, I'm glad they're gone.

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>Rent VHS from Blockbuster
>Person before me forgot to rewind it
>I now have the movie spoiled as I rewind it myself

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>Not going to Hollywood Video for their 5-movies-5-nights-5-bucks deal

i loved how they'd sell the games they weren't renting out anymore at cheap prices, however the property of blockbuster sticker they put on n64 catrdges triggers me whenever i want my play my copy of donkey kong 64.

nothing was more fun than when me or a friend had their parents rent a new game on a friday night.

>tfw billy invited me over to play "this game where all the guys from different games fight each other"

>>83100370
t.underage fag

>>83109509
never been to blockbuster but my local video store turned into a break room for the auto dealership next door.
>also: local video store>blockbuster

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>>83113604
What did you never have one of these?

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>>83113714
>tfw my buddy rented a madden game on Dreamcast and blockbuster used a wood burning pen to melt "Property of Blockbuster" directly into the disk.

>>83101964
Can you take that cover out and scan it? I want one for memories.

>>83114046
>>also: local video store>blockbuster
This, so much this.
The people ITT talking about how great Blockbuster was don't remember how shady they were about return times and late fees.

>>83114058
what is the purpose of this thing if the VCR does it?

>>83109509
Blockbuster in town is now a charity shop.
Local video shop that went a few years before BB was a storage unit for the Tesco in the same complex for years. Now it's a curry house. Pretty damn good actually. Fun to get seated and say "Ah, the old porno section."

>>83114798
So you can rewind something while you watch something else.

>>83114058
>tfw I broke 3 of these when I was little

2 times I shoved Hot Wheels in them and the last one I tried to launch my hamster of it like a catapult but he was too heavy.

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The true patrician's choice

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>>83113714
>>83114123
don't mind me, just triggering /vr/

>>83116277
Not at all, just because I hated Blockbuster doesn't mean I can't appreciate a great video game.

>>83116368
no i just mean fucking up the cartridge with an obnoxious sticker is like gore to that board

>>83114046
I don't think my family ever even rented from Blockbuster or any other big chain video store
was Hollywood Video a big chain? the way it was put together felt kind of small-time
I think the one closest to the last place I lived turned into a salon and then maybe a restaurant or a tax place or something
it's a real shame, it's nice to have it as an experience
there is still one rental place in the area, which I think is alive precisely because it's an experience and because it's the only one

>>83116609
Ah, gotcha. Honestly, after seeing what they did to that dreamcast disk I feel relieved whenever it's just the sticker.

>>83113604
what? you just stop and hit rewind, you don't see it and it's faster that way anyway
if it still shows it or you don't have that function then you just change the channel or even look the other way until it stops

>>83109509
London Drugs

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Every Blockbuster within a 30 mile radius of my house had this fucking movie, yet I've never heard of anyone watching it nor seen it discussed online

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Remember me?

>>83117102
It was the anime boom, so distributors probably had fucktons of them thinking they would sell like hotcakes

>>83117102
>>83117331
not a weeb but that anime aisle at blockbuster was something else

completely blew my little mind with all of the insane looking women and crazy scifi/gore shit on the covers

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Leave kino rental to me.

>>83109509
they all turn into eye clinics around where I live, it's a conspiracy

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>>83109509
a thrift store then a dentist's office

I went in during the thrift store phase and remember the whole place looked gutted
you could tell where they ripped out the front counter and there wasn't lighting or air conditioning
it was pretty eerie

>>83109509
Turned into a CVS.

Kinda shity since I worked out at a place just across the street from it for years. Then the blockbuster went out of business and the gym place moved twice so I never go there anymore.

>>83098975
>tfw you rent a movie and you get porn instead

>>83109509
Global Pet Foods.

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VHS is the king of physical media.

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>>83118683
And my TV.

What is dead may never die.

>>83109509
Mine has been out of business and deserted for over 4 years. No sign of anything replacing it.

>>83118683
What's anti monopoly?

>>83098975
Blockbuster was shit

>>83118683
>>83118729
Are you trapped in 2004?

take me with you

>>83118729
>The Indian and the Cupboard

I forgot about that movie for almost 20 years

>>83118729
>>83118683

Firstly,

why did you get that free portrait of the queen? Just because you could?

Secondly, how can you just... put in a VHS and watch it? There's not enough stimulation for me to just sit and wait to be entertained by a movie anymore. Maybe when I was a kid, but not now.

Third, I think the most recent movie you have on VHS is Spider Man 2. I always find it interesting to see how long they kept making VHS's by trying to find movies that seem to ME to have come out not that long ago... but yeah in SM 2's case, it came out 12 years ago. Doesn't seem like that long. Crazy.

>>83109509
mattress store

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>>83109509
Nothing, it's still open.

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

>Netflix offered themselves to BlockBuster for something like $50 million at one point
>They refused

Remember guys, wealth does not always equate to intelligence. So don't lose hope on striking it rich!

>>83119203
ITT: most epic blunders in history

>Einstein's cosmological constant

>>83119075
>why did you get that free portrait of the queen?
I'm a monarchist.

>how can you just... put in a VHS and watch it?
Because I don't have ADHD.

>>83119338

>CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U

>>83098975
na blockbuster are shitty kike family friendly trash

>>83109509
a sizzlers
and the hollywood video across the street turned into a orthodontist clinic

>>83114058
ye