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Post by kerr9000 on Jul 28, 2022 18:48:39 GMT
I'm sure most people of my sort of age used to rent videos in the 80s and 90's.... Maybe it was a big chain store or a small local thing, so lets talk about it, I will start with some questions and my answers.
What was your most used video rental store called... Mine was called Cabin Home Video
what's the first thing you remember renting .... Not sure exactly what it would have been but it was 50pence cartoons in the kids section Transformers, Force Five that sort of thing
Do you ever miss it? Yeah I kind of do it was so neat thumbing through the tapes and stuff but then look how cheap on demand stuff is and there are no late fees orhaving to go back to the shop in the rain
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Post by RetroBob on Jul 28, 2022 18:54:16 GMT
I rented the odd game from Blockbuster during the Xbox days, though mainly bought games. I think I rented The Thing for a bit then got in to it and bought it for real.
Also I might have rented the odd game from somewhere else, I don't think it was my usual place. It could have been the video rental place in Alsager. Think we might have rented Micro Machines.
I don't miss renting games purely because they are so accessible now, easy to download on GamePass, Nintendo Switch Online, or order and they arrive next day or two.
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Post by rossi46 on Jul 28, 2022 20:25:07 GMT
I remember VHS tapes from Global Video in our high street.
I only ever rented one game that I can remember - PS1 Omega Boost in a plain blue plastic case with no cover. I forgot to return it and still have it somewhere 🙃
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Post by kerr9000 on Jul 28, 2022 20:38:28 GMT
Before I owned one I rented a Megadrive for the weekend from my local Video Store Cabin home Video, Only time I have ever seen a console for rent to be honest.
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Post by AlexH on Jul 28, 2022 20:47:37 GMT
I don't think I ever rented films as a kid, because we didn't have a video player. We just watched what was on TV, and I didn't really get into films until my 20s (much-preferring gaming). I do now rent DVDs by post though and have done for 10 or more years. It's fun not knowing what exactly I'll get through the post (usually something in the top 10 of my list).
We did rent games. I remember renting Pushover on the SNES (a decent domino-pushing puzzle game) and ReVolt on N64 (a cool radio-controlled car racing game) from a games specialist shop. I don't remember its name, but it was in Stoke town centre opposite a Blockbuster (and not far from the Alsager that RetroBob mentioned above).
I wouldn't say I miss it, but there's definitely a joy to looking at stuff in a shop or rental store rather than online.
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Post by AlexH on Jul 28, 2022 20:48:55 GMT
Also, kerr9000 reminded me a friend and his bro' used to loan my bro' and I their SNES and all their games whenever they went on holiday!
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Post by Markopoloman on Jul 28, 2022 23:59:28 GMT
I've no idea what the name of our local video rental shop was called! But the first 'film' we rented out was for our new superduper Betamax. It was none other than Michael Jackson's Thriller!!!! As for game rentals, hell yeah! We had a shop called Kaltek about 10 mins bike ride from my paper round. I'd be there most evenings grabbing something to take home and errrr back up I'm sure the bloke that programmed Worms used to be in there quite a lot farting around on the Amiga.
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Post by kerr9000 on Jul 29, 2022 11:04:35 GMT
I've no idea what the name of our local video rental shop was called! But the first 'film' we rented out was for our new superduper Betamax. It was none other than Michael Jackson's Thriller!!!! As for game rentals, hell yeah! We had a shop called Kaltek about 10 mins bike ride from my paper round. I'd be there most evenings grabbing something to take home and errrr back up I'm sure the bloke that programmed Worms used to be in there quite a lot farting around on the Amiga. My older Brother had the MJ Thriller Video, I used to find it awesome and scary as a kid.
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Post by lupogtiboy on Aug 4, 2022 10:37:10 GMT
Videographic was the local vhs rental store when I was a kid. They had one of those forward projecting TV's in the entrance with the latest release playing. I was too young to rent a lot of films on my own back then, so my nan would rent us films on a Saturday morning. Robocop, Commando, Bloodsport, Aliens, The Terminator. Other than that it was Looney Toons videos, we had a favourite Wile E Coyote one we'd rent over and over, never got boring! That and DC Superpowers, Spiderman and His Amazing Friends, The Hulk cartoon, such good memories!
My nan used to rent her VHS players, the first one was a Ferguson Videostar with the top loading cassette tray, and the piano-style keys. That was the first VHS player I ever saw. We got one at home not long afterwards, but it was a more conventional Mitsubishi one.
My aunty used to have a Philips VHS2000, and she had Thriller on that! I remember the sticker on the front that it cost around £150!
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Post by rednoggy on Aug 7, 2022 14:15:04 GMT
My dad used to rent from Ritz video when U was a kid. Remember him bringing Batman home only for it to have an adult video in it. Never seen him move so fast. When blockbuster took over I rented loads of snes games. I did regularly rent movies from there up until it closed in the early tens. While I do miss it, I know I wouldn't use the service again. The time has passed.
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Post by whazeboo on Aug 8, 2022 17:56:29 GMT
What was your most used video rental store called... Mine was called 'Ster Videotheek', a franchise of video rental stores in The Netherlands. The one in my hometown was active until 2018 and was one of the last surviving stores in the country. Even people from Amsterdam (over 180 kilometres away) traveled to my home town just to rent a DVD. In its twilight years they were mostly selling ice cream, soda, CD's and photo's.
what's the first thing you remember renting .... Probably 'Police Academy III' or 'Police Academy IV' on a Philips Video 2000 cassete.
Do you ever miss it?: Oh yes, renting a video was a ritual thing. So many things I like... - The idea of playing a movie at your house you watched three months ago in cinemas. - Genres were located in physical parts of the store: If I wanted to rent Horror, I had to go near the counter, comedies were found in the middle, family-friendly movies on the bottom shelf and smutty movies on the top shelf. - The dilemma of how to spend my money: I had 10 Gulden pocket money (Dutch currency, approx 4.50 Euro now) for which I could rent two older movies and keep them for a week or rent 1 brandnew movie for 7,50 and keep it three days. - The different people visiting the rental store: the ADHD-kids playing Sega Master System games, the families, party-goers, the elderly guy doing a sandwich rent (a smutty movie sandwiched between two 'normal' movies) that hopefully no-one sees. - The shopkeeper exclaiming I should rent 'Critters 4' for being the best movie EVER since sliced bread.
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 8, 2022 18:55:30 GMT
What was your most used video rental store called... Mine was called 'Ster Videotheek', a franchise of video rental stores in The Netherlands. The one in my hometown was active until 2018 and was one of the last surviving stores in the country. Even people from Amsterdam (over 180 kilometres away) traveled to my home town just to rent a DVD. In its twilight years they were mostly selling ice cream, soda, CD's and photo's. what's the first thing you remember renting .... Probably 'Police Academy III' or 'Police Academy IV' on a Philips Video 2000 cassete. Do you ever miss it?: Oh yes, renting a video was a ritual thing. So many things I like... - The idea of playing a movie at your house you watched three months ago in cinemas. - Genres were located in physical parts of the store: If I wanted to rent Horror, I had to go near the counter, comedies were found in the middle, family-friendly movies on the bottom shelf and smutty movies on the top shelf. - The dilemma of how to spend my money: I had 10 Gulden pocket money (Dutch currency, approx 4.50 Euro now) for which I could rent two older movies and keep them for a week or rent 1 brandnew movie for 7,50 and keep it three days. - The different people visiting the rental store: the ADHD-kids playing Sega Master System games, the families, party-goers, the elderly guy doing a sandwich rent (a smutty movie sandwiched between two 'normal' movies) that hopefully no-one sees. - The shopkeeper exclaiming I should rent 'Critters 4' for being the best movie EVER since sliced bread. Yep I agree about it being a ritual, it was just a cool thing to do to go and flick through loads of films picking out what you wanted seeing everyone around you doing the same thing, thanks for sharing your memories I found it really interesting.
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Post by necronom on Aug 8, 2022 19:17:04 GMT
We used to sometimes rent a film, but I've never rented a game. I suppose you only did that with consoles, and I didn't even know you could rent games until it was probably not done anymore. It usually takes a week or two to finish a game, so I didn't even think that would happen. We got films from either the local village video shop, or later a van used to drive round and we'd get them from there. I remember we got a dodgy rental of ET from "Peter's Records" in a local village, when ET was either still in cinemas, or wasn't out yet to rent.
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Post by oldtimer on Aug 10, 2022 18:36:34 GMT
First Video i rented was Star Trek the movie on Betamax!!!!
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 10, 2022 19:47:07 GMT
First Video i rented was Star Trek the movie on Betamax!!!! Never rented anything on BetaMax but my Dad once brought a BetaMax from an auction with a pile of tapes and one was Star Trek the Movie, another was Enter The Dragon, we watched them a bunch but at the time he had hundreds of VHS so then he sold it for a profit.
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