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Post by TromaDogg on Aug 10, 2022 22:15:12 GMT
What was your most used video rental store called...Venus Home Video
What's the first thing you remember renting .... Q The Winged Serpent 😂 My parents weren't that great at policing what I watched so if I liked the look of something and pestered them enough, they'd let me rent it out regardless of age rating, so long as it wasn't full on porn...even if there were bits of nudity and sex in it.
Do you ever miss it? Yep. Back then, I was too young to see most of the best movies at the cinema and if they were ever on TV they'd usually be on late at night, censored and possibly full of ads so a trip to the video store really was something special. That place got me into watching The Toxic Avenger, Evil Dead 2 and the Friday 13th movies amongst others, as well as all the big action classics like Die Hard, Predator and RoboCop. Had quite a big cultural impact on me, that place and I felt like a part of my childhood died when it finally closed.
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 11, 2022 11:55:13 GMT
What was your most used video rental store called...Venus Home Video What's the first thing you remember renting .... Q The Winged Serpent 😂 My parents weren't that great at policing what I watched so if I liked the look of something and pestered them enough, they'd let me rent it out regardless of age rating, so long as it wasn't full on porn...even if there were bits of nudity and sex in it. Do you ever miss it? Yep. Back then, I was too young to see most of the best movies at the cinema and if they were ever on TV they'd usually be on late at night, censored and possibly full of ads so a trip to the video store really was something special. That place got me into watching The Toxic Avenger, Evil Dead 2 and the Friday 13th movies amongst others, as well as all the big action classics like Die Hard, Predator and RoboCop. Had quite a big cultural impact on me, that place and I felt like a part of my childhood died when it finally closed. I am a massive horror nut, I review a lot of horror stuff, I loved Q the Winged Serpent lol , Evil Dead and Friday the 13th are film series I have massive love for. Is your nick Troma Dogg in refrance to Troma movies?
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Post by TromaDogg on Aug 11, 2022 13:23:33 GMT
Is your nick Troma Dogg in refrance to Troma movies? Yes, so was my old nickname ToxieDogg. Long story short, my first ever online username was Toxie, then I went by T-Dogg for a short while, then for whatever reason ToxieDogg just became a thing and stuck. I altered it to TromaDogg after a while though after some random twunt co-opted it and got ToxieDogg registered on Twitter and as a Facebook URL, it was even coming up as an already taken username on a couple of other online services I needed to log onto so I just went with TromaDogg as my new username instead.. It does pee me off slightly because that was an original nickname I came up with that meant something to me, but never mind. And Q The Winged Serpent is a belter of a movie 😂
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Post by learnedrobb on Aug 12, 2022 19:51:09 GMT
My family had memberships at 3 different video shops. One was on our road, and had so many names over the years, I can't remember them all. Another was a tiny little one about 5 mins walk away which always felt a bit seedy and "off", if you get my drift.
The main one however was called CHEC Video. It was a huge place, easily about 3 times the size of the other 2 combined. Had a weird layout where they sandwiched the kids/family films on the end wall of an alcove flanked by horror in one side, and Sci Fi on the other. Probably explains why I love both genres so much.
They branched out into games eventually. Rented a fair few Master System games from them. Also bought a "Scorpion 8" Famiclone from there.
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Post by thingonaspring on Aug 15, 2022 9:39:51 GMT
I remember borrowing one of the Nightmare on Elm Street films with a friend, from a little corner shop. 'For our parents', obviously. I think I was about 9, maybe 10. Same corner shop we used to buy our packets of Garbage Pail Kids stickers from. I only remember borrowing games from our local library, and even then, only once. Zorro, Purple Turtles, Bruce Lee, and Henry's House I think. All C64.
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Post by blucey on Aug 15, 2022 12:34:25 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 Most used video rental store - there was an off-licence in Streatham that my dad lived near. I'd stay with him on the weekends and he'd rent out whatever I asked for. So I saw all the '80s horror stuff then. Everything from Troll to Deadly Friend. First rental memory - this was from DC Video in Mitcham which was a proper film rental place. I rented Screamtime which was a UK horror anthology film. Pretty terrible. I had hoped it'd be based on the old Scream comic (it had one similar story). Do you ever miss it? - sure! Going in and walking out with CHUD when I was far too young, how couldn't you love it. I'd pick so many films based on the cover alone.
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Post by sega2006 on Aug 15, 2022 14:05:51 GMT
Never really rented Games, I'd often get bought them cheap at PC fairs and Console wise I'd just save up and buy them.
While there was a Blockbuster in my hometown it was rarely there we'd rent from, at home we'd often use the Mobile Library as it would come round with a stack of tapes and at the Caravan where I'd spend my Summers there was a little Corner shop that did rentals and then a great wave of dirt cheap Video stores throughout the area (all but gone now sadly as you'd find some real gems lurking in them).
I do miss this kind of place though, more the atmosphere than anything.
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Post by learnedrobb on Aug 15, 2022 19:12:26 GMT
Never really rented Games, I'd often get bought them cheap at PC fairs and Console wise I'd just save up and buy them. While there was a Blockbuster in my hometown it was rarely there we'd rent from, at home we'd often use the Mobile Library as it would come round with a stack of tapes and at the Caravan where I'd spend my Summers there was a little Corner shop that did rentals and then a great wave of dirt cheap Video stores throughout the area (all but gone now sadly as you'd find some real gems lurking in them). I do miss this kind of place though, more the atmosphere than anything. Oh god's... A mobile video library! There used to be the "Video Van" that we used at my Grans. Always pot luck as to what would be left by time they got to your street.
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Post by lupogtiboy on Aug 16, 2022 11:33:00 GMT
I forgot about the mobile rental guys! We used to get a bloke in a rusty Fiat van come round, surprisingly all legit VHS's, nothing pirated!
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Post by greenberet79 on Jan 4, 2023 23:27:30 GMT
One of my most successful topics on the RG forum was about videotapes - it was (obviously) a nostalgic thread, but also I'd check in every now and again (I think I created it around 2010). I then got nostalgic for the forum post haha And now I find it's all gone :-0 Anyway, my first ever video rental was Back to the Future, Boxing Day I think 1987 (or maybe 88). Got it from the local newsagents. Good times
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Post by megamixer on Jan 11, 2023 20:25:15 GMT
we'd often use the Mobile Library Not films or games, but we had one of those here for books every second Friday. I've always loved reading so I used to love getting back from school just as it turned up on our street and checking out around 5-6 books at a time, usually horror stuff (I think at that age it was teen/young adult stuff like Christopher Pike, Fear Street, and Point Horror). I'd usually have the whole stack read in the first week and have to wait another whole week before the van came again lol.
Yes, I was a big nerd!
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Post by icemann on Jan 13, 2023 2:30:01 GMT
What was your most used video rental store called: Video Eazy. Over here in Australia, they were the main video store chain, for a fair while. Blockbuster didn't make it over till the mid-late 90's I think.
what's the first thing you remember renting: I didn't rent many movies. I remember as a kid renting Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System A LOT as I could never beat it, even in a week (I didn't beat that game until 10 years ago). Shadowrun on the SNES was the other. Movies wise, I remember renting most of the early Friday the 13th movies for one of my birthdays.
Do you ever miss it? Yes definitely. With Netflix and Piratebay it's not the same, as that feeling of walking through an actual physical store and having only the covers to go by, with other people walking about.
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Post by MadeMan on May 15, 2023 0:57:47 GMT
What was your most used video rental store called: Video Eazy. Over here in Australia, they were the main video store chain, for a fair while. Blockbuster didn't make it over till the mid-late 90's I think. what's the first thing you remember renting: I didn't rent many movies. I remember as a kid renting Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System A LOT as I could never beat it, even in a week (I didn't beat that game until 10 years ago). Shadowrun on the SNES was the other. Movies wise, I remember renting most of the early Friday the 13th movies for one of my birthdays. Do you ever miss it? Yes definitely. With Netflix and Piratebay it's not the same, as that feeling of walking through an actual physical store and having only the covers to go by, with other people walking about. Ah yes! Video Ezy was my local for a long time too. The first thing I remember renting there was actually pro wrestling tapes! Never really got to see it on TV, so used to rent the PPVs a lot in the early to mid 90s. I used to love renting a different Mega Drive game each week, although when Sega Saturn came out they quickly stopped stocking them since the system was so unpopular here. I had a brief time of being able to rent Dreamcast games, but that also didn't last too long sadly. Still, discovered a few awesome games through renting like Exhumed/Powerslave on Saturn and a handful of Dreamcast games like Speed Devils and Toy Commander!
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