Topic - Video Store Memories

[@CRL365]

Video stores and Arcades were paradise to a kid in the 80’s and 90’s. It was a great time to be alive

[@MLK-KAEFENTERPRISES]

I also worked at a video store at one time and it was Blockbuster Video. It was a lot of fun and a great atmosphere. Streaming is ok but cruising down an isle, picking up the films and holding them in your hands was just an experience. The atmosphere was just so positive and fun and the people were generally in great moods that bled over to everyone. Too freaking bad that they are almost all gone now...GREAT VIDEO.

[@James.Sunderland]

I miss video stores. I will always have the memories of going to these mythical type stores filled with all these random movies I've never seen before. I wasn't lucky enough to be there for the 80s and 90s greatness, but I did enjoy the 2000s a lot with stores like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. I loved the last decade of these stores. Great years.

[@austinwillcut4919]

I definitely lived during the 90's greatness of video stores; it was like a kid in a candy store. The VHS era was way better than the DVD era of video stores.

[@dong.corleone]

@@austinwillcut4919 I still have one video store left in my province called Black Dog Video

[@austinwillcut4919]

@@dong.corleone Very cool

[@shadowleon659]

I too miss video stores. I will always remember the days in where I would rent movies and video games for about two to three days.

[@creasemason6347]

Yeah Matt, I get what you mean. Actually going in to a video store was like going to a magic atmosphere where you could talk to people about movies. It was a great and more innocent time.

[@spiffy8576]

Literally everything was better before streaming and social media. Quality mattered more, going to buy a new record on CD, Cassette or Vinyl is an experience in itself. When you buy a film on Blu Ray, it's yours, you have it, you own it. People weren't living their life looking at a phone screen 60% of their day. Most can't see how chained they are to it and how it's basically a form of slavery.

[@catfightparadise]

People still acted like people back in the day. Now everyone acts like social inept parrots. Social skills have gone out the window and it seems like being negative and angry is the new normal. Sad state of the world if you ask me.

[@youarebait9609]

Video Hut was my local Video Spot in Los Angeles. They knew me and my dad by name, they saved the new releases for my dad and I. Whenever i walked in to rent a game they would show me their new releases and would offer to call me when the game was ready to rent. I miss that Video store so much.

[@reesepacker7983]

"Please Be Kind And Rewind" ....there's generational expression /memory lol....i love that the RLM guys do the little VCR repair shop skit and that for some of there younger current fans probably dont get all the ref's ..even with the old analog tvs too

[@wiinterflowers4277]

I miss video stores! I remember when I was little, there was a Family Video up north and it was the only video rental place up there and we'd rent tons of movies. Sadly, it closed down last year. Even down south, we had a Movie Gallery video store not far from my house and that place was so small but so cool. Sadly, it's closed down and abandoned. Blockbuster, Family Video, Movie Gallery, I miss them all!

[@awoz3204]

As a kid this was my reward for being good and getting good grades. On the weekend I was allowed to rent a few movies or games every weekend as long as I was good that week. It was also my punishment. If I had a bad week, no movies or games that weekend.

[@wiinterflowers4277]

Family Video had this thing where if you got good grades on your report card, you were allowed a free rental. Good times, good times.

[@awoz3204]

@@wiinterflowers4277 We had a family video like 2 blocks from my house until I was about 10

[@user-cz7rc1sc8c]

One of the FIRST memories I have is going to a "Video Town" with my Mom and seeing the boxes for Halloween 5 on the shelf and wondering which one we were going to get: "The vhs or the betamax" because they had both versions and we had both kinds of vcr's at home-I think that's why I STILL love Halloween 5 despite EVERYONE seeming to HATE it now- it's literally one of the FIRST movies I remember watching- Is it GOOFY, over-the-top and does it make little to NO SENSE-YES-and I still love every moment of it! 📼 🎃

[@stonercrazyclips222]

This was a nice story! Especially the working in the video store bits!

[@theflyingninja1]

I never worked at a video store, but loved going to them as a kid, especially the small independent ones. I would see the posters for gory horror films and have nightmares.

[@firebirdfreedom8452]

I miss the good old video stores. The good old days…

[@umbrellaunderdog]

I miss BlockBuster. I miss the human interaction of it the physical aspect of it. I feel like these days we're moving to a more artificial less human-esk environment where we're out of touch with our humanity. Granted I wasn't that social to begin with and hated crowds but I digress. It was exciting to see physical locations being there.

[@bas6628]

One of the joys of video stores was the journey to the video store going with friends discussing what films were out. Where I lived it was a 20 Min journey. Once inside I felt like I was in another world

[@reesepacker7983]

Ive got that book too picked it up at second hand book store back 97 or 98,,,love those kind of books....same with baseball , football and hockey year in review books

[@Emulous79]

I remember going to one called Video Kraze 2 (God knows what was part 1) and some Indian bloke ran it who would let me hire out anything. I was maybe 7 years old when I first went there. Lots of weird horror movies in there with all the original hand-painted covers. Everything had a musky smell of smoke and carpet cleaner. I even remember the cardboard cut-outs of films like The Fly and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

[@DarkCloudNC]

The video store we had in my home town is still vacant. And the crazy part is the Movie Gallery wasn’t in some random isolated area. It was a huge store within a shopping center, and while that shopping center is continuing to thrive. That giant store area is still vacant 12 years later. Maybe the rent for that particular area is too high but it’s kinda odd seeing a store empty for that long in such a busy area.

[@redjaysgaming]

There were a few in my small va town. Last one called video connection went out in 2018 we had a movie gallery inside a grocery store and a few store around the down before my time it’s a damn shame everything has become fully digitalized and we’re lucky to have gotten to go to these paces bc now it’s a memory no other generation will ever experience this

[@p.c.v.m9999]

I miss the days of going into a video store as a kid it's always felt magical like walking into a toy store you see tons of movies same thing with video games now everything feels different the last time I been in video was when I was 8 blockbuster before they now I'm 18 we still got places like fye but it's doesn't feel the same

[@LALakers4life34]

100% bro on how long it’s gonna be there for streaming. All movies on stream are contracted to stay on there for a specific about of time, until the contract expires.

[@rharms_]

video stores were pretty much paradise on earth... as a kid i could only go w my uncle so it wasn't often but it was always an event, but you had walls to walls all colorful stuff lined up with crazy coverarts , all the jaws or police acacemy movies lined up, my eyes were bulging out as a kid, my favorites were movies like ROBOTJOX or FLASHBACK (dennis hopper) etc etc , i even remember the 1st adult rated movie was oddly enough SPACE MUTINY , which my uncle allowed cause it seemed to be a battlestar galactica (our favorite scifi) ripoff from the coverart

[@JoeRuizLordoftheRings]

I used to love going to Cub foods and they had in the front cover a little video store. Those were the days! I also enjoyed block buster and Hollywood Video walking around almost like being at a coffee/ book store. That was the Golden years of VHS. And i used to work at block buster lol. P.S. love your walk down memory lane! 😀😁😇 God bless you Mr. Mr.Rambo 🙏 ❤️

[@squallleonheart3020]

I miss Block Buster so much,buying candy and renting movies excited to watch it when you got home.

[@user-si9fx4xb6v]

Loved going to the video store growing up. Rented many great movies, more than a few of which I purchased copies of for my personal collection. Regardless of which genre I rented, it was fun to walk down the isles and look at all the different titles each store had. I had both a mom and pop video store and a Movie Gallery in my town, so I rarely had difficulty finding what I was looking for. Plus, I rented many video games during my teenage years and in between working my job and going to college. My dad and I used to do a thing where if my mother and older sister were away for the weekend, we would hit up the video store on Friday night and rent movies from genres we liked (these included action, science fiction, and comedy mostly but occasionally other genres too). I recall seeing the James Bond series during this period of my life amongst many other notable titles.

[@vicenteguerrero1433]

i will always miss video stores forever. it was great spending time looking around for in my case wcw and wwf tapes or horror, even low budget porn was great as in so low budget there are no opening and closing credits. low rate action movies were fun too

[@piercebrosnan9528]

I enjoyed this very much, I miss Blockbuster, I remember going there on it's closing weekend. Got some good stuff but It was a nice environment. Used to rent xbox games from there also.

[@Rorschach97]

I miss those days when you can rent a movie or a video game at a video store.

[@JoeDredd2012]

0:47 Yeah I still remember the ''SHIT BIRD'' story you told bro LOL. 1:08 BOOTLEG mafia clowns? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 19:49 Yeah that's what helps make the whole 9 to 5 daily grind painless IMHO. A very awesome job on sharing your history with the video stores and about your old job working at one too bro!

[@clownshoe69]

I worked at 'Blockbuster' and 'Choices' here in the UK... Both miss them and were 2 of my fave jobs.

[@michael101591]

Always loved going into a video store, sad that streaming has killed some of them and put them out of business. I used to love going into Blockbuster and buying movies just the experience going into a video store was something amazing.

[@bas6628]

One of our video stores had a cool horror section that was in the downstairs basement and in that basement has two arcade machines. Renegade (double dragon beat em up) and shinobi and guantlet. The video store also sold movie posters and I remember getting American ninja 3 bloodhunt poster.

[@HardestTargett]

Thanks for the showing the book as much as you did.

[@metalheart3334]

Streaming is nice and convenient but I prefer the days of the Mom and Pop videos stores then later on Blockbuster and Hollywood video. I even remember the days before having a VCR renting them and vhs tapes together for a weekend with my parents.Renting was a special occasion and made it more special. One thing that's become unhealthy is people dont get out of the house enough anymore. I still prefer buying physical media....I dont even need cable tv I have enough films to keep me entertained for a long time.Great video of your memories!

[@JackalGoldKick]

Good video. It's a shame video stores are gone I remember being to a blockbuster here n there was a cool environment filled with movies and candy.

[@vicenteguerrero1433]

ironic that Netflix today is this huge streaming service. but when they first started there was talk of selling to blockbuster or hollywood video

[@hotdog5178]

I remember in the early 80's before VCR's were a standard thing that people owned, most of the video stores rented them out too along with your video rentals. VCR'S were also pretty big and bulky, not as compact as they eventually would become.

[@stevenwells7621]

I miss the days you go to a video store rent games or movies the fun to find a movie you find to rent

[@bas6628]

I prefer physical media and I love video stores and libraries

[@dong.corleone]

I miss renting films from the video stores such as BLOCKBUSTER and ROGERS. If only I lived in Alaska because there is a BLOCKBUSTER still alive there

[@JCVDfan4life]

I heard Blockbuster is coming back as a streaming service lol. Also heard Michael Bay is producing The Raid remake with Patrick Hughes the hack who directed Expendables 3

[@micjoseph6250]

I grew up in the 80s and our first vcr was beta , I remember there always being more VHS and it would piss me off cause my fav movies would always be out cause never enough copies of beta , beta were smaller tapes and used more in production studios and were the first into the video rental market along with laser disk, I watched many movies on beta and then finally went to VHS. Once we got to the 90s Blockbuster and it was even more fun almost like a night out, go wallk around grab some junk food and browse the store. I still have DVDs with block buster logos on them from when they sold the DVDs I miss those days .

[@bigtechisbigbrother8690]

The all-digital environment we have today is not how humans were meant to live. And certainly the rise of social media has not been positive. People should not be spending half their lives staring at their phones like zombies. I think it's got a lot to do with the collective mental illness gripping society today.

[@Chaz4543]

I dont know if it was like this everywhere else but independent video stores weren't very reliable. They would always close down within a few years or less it seems. Im talking about in my area btw. It had nothing to do with Blockbuster putting them out of business because the nearest Blockbuster was a long ways away. Most of my video store memories are from Hollywood Video. That place lasted quite a while.

[@jackko21]

I remember when my video ezy was closing down I raided the place when they had their closing down sale and try to buy just about everything I could

[@richarddavis3157]

Awesome video Matt!! :) paid request for a movie theater experience/memories video? :)

[@ryanh603]

The last Blockbuster on earth remaining is in Bend, Oregon.

[@FurbyParade226]

Everytime I went into a video store to rent a game I SWEAR I was the only one in the store. Either that or there was like 1 other person. I have not 1 faint memory of a video store being packed. At least in my neighborhood.

[@vicenteguerrero1433]

if video stores were still around today it would be alot easier finding c and d rate horror from writers and directors like Lucifer Valentine or Bill Zebub. i first discovered Ulli Lommel movies on dvd at BlockBuster

[@andybrown8457]

When I was a kid I loved going to the movie stores renting renting games and getting candy

[@bas6628]

Physical media better because as a movie fan you want the special features and it's tanageble unlike streaming

[@justintahair7128]

great memories matt and when i use to rent movies from the video store i never paid attenrtion in those days to the raitings my parents let me rent up to rated r anyways lol

[@Cinema9Podcast]

Back when if you wanted to watch a movie and it was “out”, you didn’t get to watch it. Kids just don’t understand nowadays.

[@DJDonnelly]

21:00 to 21:36 yeah I remember you telling us that story lol

[@mrdude822]

Streaming is okay until the internet goes out. That’s why I like the physicality of VHS, DVDs, and blue-reys. Because if the internet goes out but the electricity is still working, you still have something to watch. As far as video stores vs. streaming, there’s just something about the experience of going to the video store with your friends or family and running around and seeing all of the movies you can choose from. The excitement has been sacrificed for convenience IMO.

[@Ratchet299]

I don’t miss movies freezing up halfway through because a previous customer scratched the DVD.

[@marceezy6983]

Hey Rambo do u have Tubi streaming. There's many good old horror and action movies also modern ones

[@hasakubuwasakubu7210]

Great video Matt what is that book called please I might purchase one

[@ramboraph4life]

Mark Satern's Illustrated Guide to Videos Best.

[@Stewieboy1995]

Video stores are better like Netflix puts some stupid cover art for the movies like use the theatrical posters or DVD cover or something. I’d like to read the back as well and check out the pictures as well and see if I’m interested. Too many movies I pass on, on Netflix because the cover just doesn’t interest me. Maybe if they could show the movie cover it would be easier to give other movies a chance

[@moonman2467]

We had tower records here in CAli.

[@TheRealKnightFuryPremiere]

I missed video stores.

[@marceezy6983]

In blockbuster I miss that u could rent video games

[@ryanhopt6732]

miss blockbuster good memories

[@RadioSnakeInvasion6333]

To be honest I wish I was born in the 70s so I could experience the 80s growing up :p

[@splixson9126]

I'll be honest, I miss Hollywood video.

[@RadioSnakeInvasion6333]

It seems like the world was more friendly back then what happened??? XD

[@jackko21]

I have memories going to video ezy with my mate he would say have you seen this that's how I got introduced to child's play the saw movies I don't remember which one it was all I remember was it had that guy from that band that got popular in the early 2000s his back is trap to the car seat and he is screaming in pain trying to get out of the car seat

[@marceezy6983]

In video stores you see hot chicks . You could make conversations with women