> It's Blockbuster night and you're going to rent some cartoon VHSes What you choosin>bonus: you got the blue gumball so you get a free extra rental
Don't hurt me like this, Anon.
>>150520144You know there was no animation section. If you were lucky they would have a couple of animated movies, but before DVD's, I don't remember Blockbuster carrying any tv shows.
>>150520144It’s funny you think my older brothers would let me pick. We’re gonna watch Dusk til Dawn and The Matrix
>>150520192My blockbuster had a whole section dedicated to cartoons and anime I rented a couple of DBZ and Sonic X episodes, Shrek, and Toy Story 2 about 20 times and ignored all the rest I don't know why you got shit luck
>>150520144Mine only had TMNT and Skydancers. So that.
>>150520240I do remember a couple of vhs for Dragonball, but not the whole series.Then again there were a bunch of local rental store with actual anime selection (specially with subs). Man those were the days, waiting every month for the new volume release to finish watching it. Hell, that's how I got into Cowboy Bebop, before Toonami or whatever it was released on CN. It might been Adult Swim.
>>150520144the hell is a blockbuster? idgi
>>150520144My Blockbuster was split halfway with a Gamestop. It was fun trying to sneak games between both stores. >What you choosinLast I remember getting was one of the Madagascar movies.
A lotta boomers in this thread tonight
>you can pick out a candyMy parents NEVER let me have the candy and got angry when I asked, don't lie to me about my past.
>>150520720They were right. The candy was crazy marked up.
>>150520678Get it right.Millennials grew up going to Friday night weekend rental at Blockbuster. X geners were already in in the workforce and Boomers where the ones that didn't let their kids buy candies with their rentals.
>>150520144In 1999? Blockbuster had Pokémon VHSes aplenty where I lived Nearly the entire first season
>>150520144Gotta be honest here. There so much nostalgic going to places like this. It's a shame how we're never going to live this on anymore.
>>150521552I swear on my life I found the full first season DVD of Billy and Mandy at Blockbuster or Hollywood Video about 20 years ago but I could never find it again
>>150520192Worked in one on the last year, they had a kids section and an anime section over next to the foreign and kung fu stuff.
>>150520267I remember this tiny indy video store in my town had an anime section long before anyone else ever really knew what anime was. But my parents would never ever go there thinking it was a seedy porn rental store. We always stuck to Blockbuster and Hollywood who only had really tiny superficial anime sections many many years later.
>>150520494That was Gamerush, Blockbuster had a plan to make a new and used games store breakaway back in 08-ish. But then Dish Network bought them and stopped all of that. Everyone's gift cards they were storing all their sold Blockbuster credit on was immediately voided. Some people had hundreds on those from years of trading in their shit.
>>150520478Loooooong ago before the days of Netflix, YouTube, and AOL.....
>>150520144My Blockbuster had a closing down sale, and I completely forgot about visiting until after it ended. So many obscure titles. Still regret it to this day.
My Blockbuster had a PS1 demo system with Battle Arena Toshinden in it until 2004.
>>150520144>what you choosinNot my first, second, third, fourth, or even fifth choice but probably settle for something I’ve already seen a thousand times because I got there too late to get anything good. But then end up leaving with nothing because of a late fee from a year ago. >Blockbuster wasn’t better being younger was better move on with your life and look forward not backward
>>150520144Kid's movies were free rentals at Family Video plus they had an anime section that they didn't realize was hentai.
>>150523750Ironically, the more you look at what actually caused Blockbuster's downfall, the more you learn it had less to do with the rise of Netflix and more to do with piss poor management>Late fees count for an enormous chunk of your profit>Cancel them for a publicity moveThey'd even identified Netflix as a proper threat the moment it but just pissed themselves trying to adapt
>>150523933Late fees and overpriced snacks were most of what made the stores money.
>>150520144I rented the Sonic OVA (Sonic The Movie) like 5 or so times. It was my go to rented video. So it'd definitely be the first thing I rent again.
>>150520144I don't remember what movies I ever rented from blockbuster. We did, I just don't have any that particularly stand out. I'd rent more games than movies from there, I used to love renting Sheep, Dog, n' Wolf for the PS1. I also rented out Spyro. I do remember when the apartment complex I grew up in decided to try doing movie rentals for the tenants, where you could go in to the manager's office and they had a rack of movies you could sign out. My mom rented us the anime Street Fighter movie. Boy were us kids surprised when we got to the shower scene and got our first exposure to anime tiddies.
>>150524009STRAAANGE ISN'T IT?
