VHS RENTAL COMMERCIALS OF THE 1980s

THE BEST OF TIMES

[@waivedwench]

Back when the days when renting movies was a treat saved for the weekend!

[@illiamdeebe7579]

Jumbo Video was the ultimate. I miss video stores in general and they were a great job for teens. Clean, not too high-stress, taught valuable vacuuming skills. Definitely one of my favourite jobs growing up. Worked for National Video in their prime.

[@ClintScottFischer]

And that free popcorn!!

[@TrainmasterCurt]

Ah the good ol’ days! Pick up a xl Slurpee, some pizza flavoured Hostess crisps, Pac-Man Mac&Cheese, play the arcades, and take home a VHS/Beta movie! 🍿 📼

[@mightyfilm]

Dude, if Rick Moranis comes into your store to rent videos, you better the hell have those videos in stock. If I was working there, I'd give him ALL the videos. It's Rick freaking Moranis. Come back to movies, Rick! We all miss you.

[@williammatthews693]

Rick was the man! If only we knew how good we had it with you Rick.

[@mightyfilm]

He came back for a mobile phone commercial and he's supposedly returning for a Honey I Shrunk the Kids Disney + thing. It's not much, but I'll take it.

[@thecandyman9308]

Loved this. Thanks for compiling & posting!

[@andreiandrosoff1327]

2:58 "got any 8-tracks?" love how he's making fun of an obsolete media format.

[@andrewschumm1848]

R.I.P. BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO 1985-2022!!!

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

Jumbo Video was such a big deal when I was a kid!

[@illiamdeebe7579]

@Paul Mall That was where we went too. I loved taking the parents' car in the middle of the night, grabbing free popcorn and browsing the horror section.

[@overthemountain90]

Yeah man I hear that. When I was a kid my parents used to go to to the one at Leslie and Lakeshore in Toronto. I think it closed in 2001. The popcorn was a bonus, but seeing all the "new" movies and video games was always pretty fun.

[@CSGraves]

Man, I'm hoping one day someone will unearth & upload the old TV ads for Video Pros... I can remember the jingle after 35-ish years.

[@davidsavage5630]

I grew up in the 80s and I have zero recollection of there being anything like Red Box back then..

[@multismartmove]

I had a retro causeality/ Mandela effect moment. The technology wasn't around????😮😮😮Right???😳😳😳

[@rhymeandreasoning]

Dad would not allow us to get a video machine. He said once you kids are older and move out, THEN your mother and I will get one. He was like if we get one now you kids will never not be infront of the tv, and he was not having that. So us kids got older and we moved out, and he and mom got a vcr AND A TV DISH. We originally only ever had 2 channels.

[@nat0106951]

now everyone just infront of their screen phones

[@edwardbliss8931]

The adult section would always be in a separate room to the side with swivel doors

[@danielm8151]

Edward Bliss you've revealed too much.

[@junkboxxxxxx]

The elephant was stroking his trunk and going to the bathroom

[@HT-ww3zg]

7-Eleven? I only rented movies from joints that had a section in the back, hidden by a curtain! :-)

[@TrainmasterCurt]

@ 2:34 Oh yes, Jumbo-Video! They had the best designed stores with the neon signs and colourful decor!

[@ChrisRoth1972]

I remember The Video Station in the early to mid 80’s in Columbia SC although that’s interesting that Video Station was in Canada although all I remember was they rented and sold VHS & Beta only.

[@autofox1744]

My town used to have no less than 3 video stores within walking distance of my house; Blockbuster, Movie Gallery, and Cinema 93 (the local independent and my preferred choice). Within 3 years of each-other, they were all gone.

[@ericcalvert1982]

i remember farm fresh rented movie 1980 and we have curtis mathes

[@r655321]

This is solid gold. National Video was my jam. There was one located at a strip mall on the north east corner of Markham and Lawrence. The time I spent in there as a kid just looking at all the (mostly horror) video cases. Rented my fair share of Atari games from there too.

[@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue]

Is that Rick Moranis in the Jumbo Video ad?

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

Back in my day (the 1990s-2019), we had Blockbuster Video, Hollywood Video and Family Video. All three of them were the major video rental players in town. Of course, we had a few independently-run local video rental stores, in addition to supermarkets and gas station mini marts with in-store video rentals... In addition to movies, some video rental stores even rented out video games, a practice in North America and other parts of the world Japanese video game manufacturer, Nintendo, tried to stop, as renting out games the same day they released in stores ate into potential profits for the company. Nintendo sued Blockbuster Video, the video rental king, for the rental of their games, in addition to copyright violations made when photo copying the instruction booklets that came packaged with each game cartridge...those lawsuits hurt Nintendo in the end, while their biggest rival, Sega, on the other hand, was more tolerant of their game cartridges being rented out... Some local video stores are still limping along, while Blockbuster Video's last location in Bend, Oregon continues to draw in tourists. Netflix tries so hard to replace video rentals, but they won't replace trying to find out-of-print films in a dimly-lit local video store. Small boxes that resemble the little free libraries that hold VHS tapes, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs started appearing in neighborhoods and communities recently, they are known as Free Blockbuster boxes and are painted blue and yellow, the colors of the former video rental king. Public libraries also rent out movies (some even rent out video games) for free with the use of a library card...

[@nicholaswoodall3840]

i would always rent the movies during the weekdays because they were only 99 cents each and the movies were always there all the movies were rented on the weekend

[@Watcher3223]

2:33 Rick Moranis! And I'm glad they finally arrested the bastard who punched him.

[@JonathanLeon]

Video Machine The original RedBox

[@williammatthews693]

Do you feel the warm embrace of nostalgia? Well do you?

[@HughMacEachern]

I only accept space age materials in MY vcr, thank you!

[@inversion66]

I wonder when the ad business began to realise describing something as having space age whatever was getting kind of dated.

[@Anarchist86ed]

And they're all long out of business.

[@whaler3232]

The guy who got the popcorn in the second commercial got crewed out of a seat!

[@BigDickCheney]

What a goof!

[@dannewnam2701]

4:05 Ladies and Gentleman, This is the pre-Netflix Era.

[@inversion66]

I always referred to the Saskatoon outlet of Jumbo Video as Jumble Video. I was never very impressed with the place or their selection.