The Hollywood Video near my childhood home got turned into a Planet Fitness. I got a year ban from Game Crazy for fighting the Black person kid from down the street after I beat him in Soul Calibur 2.
food, spirituality, religion, connection to the earth, and the chosen people. enjoy groveling up your slop at your local mall while you die in another pointless wars for your elite overlords!
Do you have a webm of the DAS RITE video? The one where Black Israelites are telling a israeli kid that the holocaust wasn’t a big deal, “Who cares about some crackas dying”.
I remember the small mom-and-pop video stores well. They had that section with the porno that was curtained off from the rest of the store. The Adult Section. It was almost like a rite of passage to sneak into that curtained area when the clerk wasn't looking and get a peek of what was in there, then go tell your friends what you saw while everybody giggled and snickered. And it was a small town, so if the clerk caught you peeking, your parents would hear about it next time they were in there to rent a video. Our local video store had a $1 movie night on Thursdays. You could rent anything besides new releases for $1 each. I'd get a tape right before closing on Thursday night, which would give me until closing on Friday night to watch and return it. Allowance was $2 per week. $1 went to a movie and $1 went to candy. What a great time to be a kid. I miss those days.
Oh shit! I grew up in Philly and we loved these. Moved to Oregon and Hollywood video with its long rental windows and cheap used video sales changed the game.
These places always had too many fricking windows and it was too open. There weren't enough rows of shelves. It seemed like everything was dumped in those metallic bins.
I bought my first CD there when I was 14 years old, back in the fricking mid 90's. It was picrel. I was given a $20 bill for my birthday to spend as I pleased, and I knew I wanted to buy an album to go with the new CD player I was just gifted. I went to the local mall where there was a Wherehouse, bought the CD there and then got a cup of Dippin Dots with the leftover change, save a quarter. In those days when you went anywhere as a kid you would have to make sure you had at least a quarter left to use the payphone to call home to ask your folks to come pick you up when you were done. My folks would drop me and some friends off at the mall on Saturday morning and we'd spend all day there. Haha good fricking times. Not a care in the world. Everything was so fricking simple and basic. I miss those days.
Never went to either of those as a kid, had a local one that was just called "The Best Videos" and was run by some very nice Asian folks. I would rent Gamecube games from there sometimes.
I visited my old childhood neighborhood and it is a Korean spa now. Bit of a gut punch but I don't know what I was expecting.
Hollywood Video was where I rented a film that ended up being the first time time I ever saw naked breasts in a movie. It's a memory I'll never forget. It was Beverly D'Angelo in National Lampoon's Vacation.
I remember pausing the VHS, getting out of the chair and slowly walking up the TV and almost pressing my face against the screen to get a better look at her breasts. The next few years were a magical time of movie nudity discovery in my life. I used to swap R-rated tapes with kids films and pray the employee wouldn't check.
Why weren't there ever any black people in Blockbuster? I lived in a town with two and can't remember blacks ever working there or even renting a movie. I do recall a little black kid running out of a Movie Gallery with a used game and setting off the door alarms however.
Same. No cable so $1 movie rentals were a lifesaver on Friday and Saturday nights. And I remember being happy though despite not having a lot. It didn't seem to matter because we always found ways to get by. It really was a different world.
Hollywood Video for games and movies that were out for a while, Blockbuster for new releases. Those were the strong points of each franchise and why it was good to have memberships for both. The only thing with Blockbuster was that when you returned your video in the drop box, they would take a few days to get around to scanning them all in and you would get dinged with late fees sometimes, which you would have to argue with them about, because they wouldn't let you rent anything if your late fees were over $10. You learned real fast to go in and hand the tape to the clerk, who would scan it in at that moment. I probably owed Blockbuster 5 or 6 dollars when they closed. Kek.
I remember Hollywood Video having a lot more variety than Blockbuster, at least where I lived. Seemed a lot bigger inside anyways.
My parents took me to Blockbuster only a couple times but we went to Hollywood Video pretty much weekly for years. They also had cool movie prop stuff hanging around the store
Good video game selection too.
Yeah. The one I went to was probably double the size of a blockbuster, although they shared the space with game crazy it just had way more of a selection.
I kinda always liked Hollywood Video more because they usually had video game I wanted to rent while Blockbuster would always be out of every copy for weeks.
That being said my friend worked at Blockbuster when we were older like 19/20yo before they closed down everywhere and he got to rent every new release for free so we would literally just watch all the new shit all the time.
Blockbuster Video was like McDonalds and Pizza Hut. It was the place where "other" kids went as opposed to Hollywood video, Burger King and Domino's Pizza which was where my family would always go. Course the rules loosened over time as we started going to Pizza Hut and Blockbuster Video more and more, but I still hate McDonalds.
hollywood video had the true kino, plus the one near me had a gamecrazy attached
The Hollywood Video near my childhood home got turned into a Planet Fitness. I got a year ban from Game Crazy for fighting the Black person kid from down the street after I beat him in Soul Calibur 2.
I really dont remember why but I had both right across the street from each other and I went to blockbuster. I can only assume it was price/value
is this the "white culture" i keep hearing about?
teach us about your kulcha
food, spirituality, religion, connection to the earth, and the chosen people. enjoy groveling up your slop at your local mall while you die in another pointless wars for your elite overlords!
>chosen people
Based Aryan brother
white people are babysitters while we achieve true greatness.
>t. second generation immigrant with a chip on his shoulder
No, this is
Do you have a webm of the DAS RITE video? The one where Black Israelites are telling a israeli kid that the holocaust wasn’t a big deal, “Who cares about some crackas dying”.
Yes and damn it, it was the best.
blockbuster had a certain smell that I associate with kino
it was the carpet
old anon is old
this
It feels weird that I haven't forgotten the smell even though it's been like two decades. I'm sure I've forgotten more important things.
>3 movies
>2 days
Who the hell has time to watch 3 movies in 2 days?
>he never had a horror movie date night in high school
Hi Timmy. If you turn your phone off and close your laptop, you can watch 2 a night, very easily. Hope this helps!
I remember the small mom-and-pop video stores well. They had that section with the porno that was curtained off from the rest of the store. The Adult Section. It was almost like a rite of passage to sneak into that curtained area when the clerk wasn't looking and get a peek of what was in there, then go tell your friends what you saw while everybody giggled and snickered. And it was a small town, so if the clerk caught you peeking, your parents would hear about it next time they were in there to rent a video. Our local video store had a $1 movie night on Thursdays. You could rent anything besides new releases for $1 each. I'd get a tape right before closing on Thursday night, which would give me until closing on Friday night to watch and return it. Allowance was $2 per week. $1 went to a movie and $1 went to candy. What a great time to be a kid. I miss those days.
bruh analog horror backrooms creepy face
Largest video store in the world. Permanently closed due to covid lockdowns.
Oh shit! I grew up in Philly and we loved these. Moved to Oregon and Hollywood video with its long rental windows and cheap used video sales changed the game.
Jesus Christ people can we talk about video stores in peace? Good Lord
Hollywood had anime port like La Blue Girl. fricking loved them
These places always had too many fricking windows and it was too open. There weren't enough rows of shelves. It seemed like everything was dumped in those metallic bins.
I bought my first CD there when I was 14 years old, back in the fricking mid 90's. It was picrel. I was given a $20 bill for my birthday to spend as I pleased, and I knew I wanted to buy an album to go with the new CD player I was just gifted. I went to the local mall where there was a Wherehouse, bought the CD there and then got a cup of Dippin Dots with the leftover change, save a quarter. In those days when you went anywhere as a kid you would have to make sure you had at least a quarter left to use the payphone to call home to ask your folks to come pick you up when you were done. My folks would drop me and some friends off at the mall on Saturday morning and we'd spend all day there. Haha good fricking times. Not a care in the world. Everything was so fricking simple and basic. I miss those days.
Blockbuster. But my local grocery store had a huge rental section. 5 movies for 5 days for $5. Good times.
I prefered holyywood video as a kid, but I dont remember why
Never went to either of those as a kid, had a local one that was just called "The Best Videos" and was run by some very nice Asian folks. I would rent Gamecube games from there sometimes.
I visited my old childhood neighborhood and it is a Korean spa now. Bit of a gut punch but I don't know what I was expecting.
Hollywood Video was where I rented a film that ended up being the first time time I ever saw naked breasts in a movie. It's a memory I'll never forget. It was Beverly D'Angelo in National Lampoon's Vacation.
I remember pausing the VHS, getting out of the chair and slowly walking up the TV and almost pressing my face against the screen to get a better look at her breasts. The next few years were a magical time of movie nudity discovery in my life. I used to swap R-rated tapes with kids films and pray the employee wouldn't check.
Are there any left?
nope
near the end, they increased their sales staff so much. Seemed like they always had more salesmen than customers roaming the isles.
Hollywood video was probably better for movies but I preferred Blockbuster because I could also rent good SNES or N64 games
I grew up with a Blockbuster and Hollywood Video across from each other.
I can’t say I prefer one over the other. Blockbuster definitely had the wider selection of video games that’s for sure.
I always viewed Hollywood Video as a pale imitation of Blockbuster.
my local video store that only charged 2 dollars to rent a movie for a week was better
Why weren't there ever any black people in Blockbuster? I lived in a town with two and can't remember blacks ever working there or even renting a movie. I do recall a little black kid running out of a Movie Gallery with a used game and setting off the door alarms however.
It was a better time
You never heard of BlackBusterCritic?
Those are both for poofs. The real answer is here.
For me? It was the United Video near our ghetto.
this tbh, but 10 times bigger, they had breaka girls in swimsuits giving out free shit when ours opened
>that one kid that rented from Civic
Judging by those posters, it's still around, SO WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?
(Plus they were based dumbarses that used to rent out PC CD games before they had copy protection)
Civic Video was formed in Australia in 1985. As of 2022 only one store remains, located in Windsor, New South Wales.[1]
Hollywood Video was the superior experience
Video ezy
Movie Stop
My dad used to take me to HV and we would rent movies and vg every weekend.
We were poor and couldn’t afford cable so having something to watch or do on the weekends was mandatory.
Same. No cable so $1 movie rentals were a lifesaver on Friday and Saturday nights. And I remember being happy though despite not having a lot. It didn't seem to matter because we always found ways to get by. It really was a different world.
Hollywood Video for games and movies that were out for a while, Blockbuster for new releases. Those were the strong points of each franchise and why it was good to have memberships for both. The only thing with Blockbuster was that when you returned your video in the drop box, they would take a few days to get around to scanning them all in and you would get dinged with late fees sometimes, which you would have to argue with them about, because they wouldn't let you rent anything if your late fees were over $10. You learned real fast to go in and hand the tape to the clerk, who would scan it in at that moment. I probably owed Blockbuster 5 or 6 dollars when they closed. Kek.
I remember Hollywood Video having a lot more variety than Blockbuster, at least where I lived. Seemed a lot bigger inside anyways.
My parents took me to Blockbuster only a couple times but we went to Hollywood Video pretty much weekly for years. They also had cool movie prop stuff hanging around the store
Good video game selection too.
Yeah. The one I went to was probably double the size of a blockbuster, although they shared the space with game crazy it just had way more of a selection.
>$1 tuesday night @ network video
I kinda always liked Hollywood Video more because they usually had video game I wanted to rent while Blockbuster would always be out of every copy for weeks.
That being said my friend worked at Blockbuster when we were older like 19/20yo before they closed down everywhere and he got to rent every new release for free so we would literally just watch all the new shit all the time.
the true GOAT were the Mom & Pop video stores with the porno in the room behind the beaded curtain door
Reminder these were never sterilized when returned.
West Coast Video
Blockbuster Video was like McDonalds and Pizza Hut. It was the place where "other" kids went as opposed to Hollywood video, Burger King and Domino's Pizza which was where my family would always go. Course the rules loosened over time as we started going to Pizza Hut and Blockbuster Video more and more, but I still hate McDonalds.
Miss both!