>it's 1998 what are you going to rent tonight?

Tomb Raider 3


Just played the Pizza Hut demo and want to give the full game a try.

the matrix

>>85563952
The Shining on VHS underage because I was there too much

>>85563952

Probably gonna grab some shitty Skinemax direct-to-video flick so I can beat off.

Sometimes I miss the Shannon Whirry/Shannon Tweed era

Am I 2 years old or do I just go back in time as current me?

>>85564257
fuck off toddler

>>85563952
some cheesy 80's b-grade horror film that I will decide on solely because of the cover

>>85563952
It doesn't matter, the funniest part of the night is browsing the selection of kinos with my little brother

>>85564031
Fuck you

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I wasn't alive yet

>>85564598
id fuck that cat

>having a movie/game in mind beforehand
>not just browsing and picking a hidden gem based on the box art

>>85563952
Men Behind the Sun.

>>85564759
is that the jap one where they rip off the ladies arm?

>>85564726
That's how you end up with a Godfrey Ho.

>>85564776
Yeah!

I remember I saw the killer klowns from outer space cover in a block buster and I had nightmares about it for weeks man. That movie still gives me an uncanny feeling

Star Wars Episode 1... wait, damnit.
The Matrix... fuck. Fight Club then?
It's almost like there weren't any good movies in 1998.

>>85564598
>there are people here born after 1998
>they aren't underage
Jesus fucking Christ, where has the time gone

>>85563952
Strange Days

>1998 was 19 years ago

It hurts

>>85564843
You have the choice of anything released up until that point that was available on VHS.

You know, like in a video store.

Either a Friday the 13th movie, TCM, or The Shining for the billionth time.

Those are generally what I rented more than any.

>>85564922
The Blockbuster in my town didn't have too many old movies, it was tiny and it was shit. Either way no good movies were made before 1999.

Starship Troopers. Tits, Gore, Verhoeven.

>>85564958
>didn't have old movies
How? Did they just get rid of them once they were a year old?

>>85563952
Nothing. My dad doesn't believe in paying a place in order to borrow a movie for a day or two. He pays for all the major cable movie channels, and buys me the movies I really want.

>>85564958
They don't have to be old for 1998, realistically they'd be from between 1997 and 1987.

Why do you spite cinema with your last sentence, you fucking bastard?

>>85564987
They only had movies from the recent years (90s), no 80s or 70s. I had to go out of town to rent Star Wars.

I used to work at a Blockbuster. Cured me of ever wanting anything more to do with the place.

>>85563952

I remember borrowing REC when I was about 11

Never been scared by a movie since.

>>85565016
Okay fine! I'll rent Crimes and Misdemeanors then.
What do you mean you don't have it?
Independence Day then. Oh it's out?

>>85565024
Oh OK. What movie would you rent from the 90s if you were in... the situation mentioned in the OP?

>>85565024
Lol what the fuck? where did you live? I grew up in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, <4000 people and we had a huge video shop full of all the great kinos.

Let's rent flubber again

>>85565073
Well I never saw Con Air so I guess Con Air. People say it's good.

>>85565064
Cool, luckily we DO have it!

Also we have more than one copy of Independence Day.

The game wasn't "what would you get the specific, inch-square Blockbuster in your crummy neighborhood", you can have the out-of-town one.

>>85565086
Suburbs near Buenos Aires, Argentina. You mean Blockbuster™ wasn't just a small room with only 90's movies in the US?

>>85565094
Cool!

I've never seen that myself. I should rectify that.

>>85563952
Final Fantasy 7.
My disk is scratched so I'm going to carefully peel the sticker off the rental and swap them.

>>85563952
wasn't even alive

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>>85565113
Oh then I changed my mind, I'm taking Star Wars Episode 6. And giv some MnM's pls and a diet pepsi

>>85565143
I'm in Australia and it wasn't blockbuster, but no, the video shop was a huge building, I think it's a plumbing store now

>>85563952
Dumb n Dumber for the 4th time

>>85565185
I see, the one here turned into an electronics store which later closed down and I think there's nothing there now, just a closed shop.

>>85565185
Is VideoEZ a thing in australia? Our ones still going.

>>85565183
Cool, here you go sir.

WAIT. It's not called that. It's called Return of the Jedi, because nobody is taking Lucas's bullshit seriously yet, this being 1998 and all. Would you mind re-asking for it, using its real name sir?

>>85565218
The one were I liked turned into a 99 cent store, it was then robbed to shit and shut down perminantly, it's just an empty location. For rent.

>>85565220
Holy fuck, yeah I was struggling to remember the name, yeah we had videoEZ

>>85565185
>they took me to a warehouse with some tapes in it

Austrailia is tough

>>85563952
a nintendo 64 and rogue squadron

>>85565252
Fine. Can I have Return of the Jedi please?
And what do you mean nobody, they freaking anounced they are making an Episode 1 coming next year, Don't you have the internet?

An American Tail: Feivel Goes West.

>>85565341
>Internet in 1998
Well aren't you fancy.
I didn't have Internet until 2005.

>>85565252
Ugh why is renting a fucking movie so complicated? I wish there was some other way to get movies to watch at home. Oh well, maybe the wonders of the future will change things. I will certainly NOT miss renting movies at blockbuster.

>>85565341
you just blew your cover, kid, b&
Most people got internet in 2003 or so. Unless your dad worked at IBM or some shit, it's highly unlikely you had internet in 1998

>>85565341
Cool, here's your movie, M&Ms and Pepsi, have a nice day!

>>85565437
y-you too

>>85565370
We plan to rent DVDs too sir!

I always tried to get any sort of 80s action flicks because 98% of them had at least flashes of titties.

>>85565402
I had it in 1999, and my dad didn't work at IBM. The point is, George Lucas insisting people use the chapter titles, while it began with the special editions around this time, wasn't taken seriously until a generation had grown up with six Star Wars movies.

>>85565535
were you rich? or from new york or some other "top 10 cities in the world that will clearly get internet before anyone else in the world"?

>>85565564
No, I was in a pretty provincial locale, but in Europe.

>rent VHS using cash
>keep tape
>take a shit in the empty case
>return it through the outside slot after hours

I remember my dad rent Sphere and really liked it.

>>85563952
Some weird 1998 cp from the back "back" room

>>85565402
>Most people got internet in 2003 or so

Is this true? I had internet at least back in 99.

>>85565840
>millennial acting like he knew how Blockbuster worked

Git out

>>85565402
Anyone else remember stickdeath?
http://youtu.be/elj2m1x-oEk

>>85565914
We had internet in 96

Albeit it was pretty crude and all that existed was AOL chatrooms

>>85563952
Mom's gonna pick out a Monty Python tape and I'm gonna pick out something like SnowBoard Kids or Glover or one of the many Blockbuster fodder n64 games I'm weirdly nostalgic about.

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>>85563952
Either this, or Resident Evil 2

>>85565402
>his dad didn't show him hampsterdance.com back in the late 90s
That was my first exposure to the internet and has basically set the tone ever since.

Mimic (1997)

Was anybody else sort of sad when you rented an N64 game and all the save spaces were taken so you had to delete one to make room for your game?

>>85565951
yes, shit was awesome. http://youtu.be/74vM5EHaHkg

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Mostly for the shower scene.

>>85566098
If they really cared they'd rent the game again.
I always felt bad for the kids that couldn't afford more than a handful of games so they just had to rent games over and over again.

The Matrix

Terminator 2.

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>>85563952

It not and I refuse to pay the late fees on a Genesis copy of ROBO. Shit is mine and you aint ever getting your money nigga.

>>85566098
No, but I was pissed when I rented a PS1 game only to find it scratched to where it's unplayable, and the store didn't have another copy

>>85564891
Squandered. But there's still some time left anon.

>>85565914
I was a poor fag and didn'teven have a PC until 99, I got Internet 05/06 and it was still dailup.

>>85566234
Why would you even come here if you're older than 23?

>>85566270
>not knowing you're stuck here forever

>>85566270
I've been here since I was 17. Where do you think the edgy teens of 2009 went?

>>85566234
If you live to 80, after sleeping, school, and work, you only get 25 years. they aren't even your best years. you'll spend most of them wondering why you wasted your best years, no matter what you did.

>>85563952
>>85563952
>ahem-um sir, could you please direct me to the "back room?"

Make a beeline for the Foreign section and rent as many Godzilla and Jackie Chan films my mom will allow.

>pops out of the vagina
>*borns*

>>85563952
>try to rent graphic slasher movie
>settle for Transformers movie (it is never in) or Ghostbusters II

>>85563952
>glances quickly at pornography section, hoping to see some skin

the fifth element

>>85566596

if there was a significance attached to it, i'd prefer that it didn't happen in the first place.

Then all our genitals could be magic.

>>85566663

Rented out for sure and now you can rent that shitty game that you didn't want to play!

>NHL 98

Canadians don't even like this, fuck you.

>>85563952
>implying half of this board was even already born then

Ninja Scroll

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>>85566649
Are you me?

Back then even looking at the cover of Showgirls or Striptease was enough for me to pitch a tent.

"Japanese cartoons? I'll try this one...Akira."

>>85566794
I am you yes

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>rent the family version of Jack Frost w/ Michael Keaton along with the cheap horror version
>switch the dvds then return them

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My earliest rental memory was getting this

>>85566877

Holy shit. Are you me too?

>>85567071
We are all fragments of the same soul

spawn and ken griffey's home run derby for n64

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This.

>>85565402
I was born in 95, my family was comfortably middle class and we got our first pc in either 99 or 2000 with internet. My mom wanted me to grow up with the new technology since she knew this was where everything was heading towards. Look where that got me

>>85563952
Idk I was only like 2 years old LUL

>>85565943
Do you even know what a millennial is? They aren't just the kids born in the late 90's. It's the kids born in the mid 80's to the late 90's. They're basically the generation that reached adulthood within the first 15 years of the new millennium. You're probably one too unless you're some late Gen Xer born in the early 80's.

>>85565367
>11yo

Probably some action movie

>>85563952
blockbuster still exist in alaska

>>85567641
My town had 3 video stores, two shut down last year and ones still going.

>>85563952
Either Akira, Batman Returns or ninja scroll. Even in the 90s, anime and capeshit prevail over all

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Hi. Yeah I'm the guy who rented Epis... uh Return of the Jedi earlier today. Yah, it seems like you gave me the wrong tape. I wanna return this and get the correct one if possible. And a Crystal Pepsi pls. Thx.

What's Blockbuster?

>>85567851
it's the name for the new cluster missile developed by the us military

>>85565564
I had internet in butt fuck no-where Canada in the late 90's. 56k/s my man WEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I was 7, so probably de Lion King

I'll binge Godzilla, Men In Black, Fifth Element and Starship Troopers i pirated two days earlier.

>>85568973
Binge.
Pirated Movies.

IN 1998. NO. Broadband hardly existed. and pirated movie files well except for small clips hardly existed. Oh my sweet summer child,

>>85568973
Now that you mention it, how did people pirate movies in the 90's? Did people somehow copy the VHS tapes and sell them?

>>85569073
Yep. Tape to tape transfer machine. It existed. But you had to know a dude.

>>85569073
Recording them off tv and selling on black markets. Anime had a similar thing back then too, with people copying others japanese vhs tapes to send to others and make fansubs for them

>>85568973
>10gb hdd
>pirating movies
leave and stay leave

>>85564916
my choice too, the ultimate 90s movie

>>85563952
its actually 1994 and im watching the two time back to back blockbuster video game champion in the online gaming community win his second in a row with these guys. And honestly? It feels so damn good.

>>85564598
want to lick her pussy

>>85569252

14 gigabytes was plenty of space for one time watches.

>>85569065
>Broadband hardly existed

Multi-channel ISDN did if your family weren't terribly poor.

Do you serve crab legs here?

Jennifer 8 Lorenzo's Oil.

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>it's a movie with a spooky cover episode

Nothing, i just spent all week downloading a movie and a game iso, gonna watch that and play the game until next week.

i was only 1 year old at the time

>>85566016
Okay anon. I wanna come to your house now. Also I'll bring my copy of Evil Dead 2.