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Retarded_Clown_
Feb 18, 2012

Share your stories or funny moments that happened in Blockbuster before they closed down

ill start

one time i went to blockbuster as a kid and somebody had put a slice of pizza in the video return slot

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In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Retarded_Clown_ posted:

Share your stories or funny moments that happened in Blockbuster before they closed down

ill start

one time i went to blockbuster as a kid and somebody had put a slice of pizza in the video return slot

Lol

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

Nothing funny ever happened to me, other than the laughs provided weekly by Blockbuster's incredible selection of family friendly comedies.

Black Baby Goku
Apr 2, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
They used to have shopping baskets at my blockbuster until someone came in, took two baskets and filled them with movies and ran out the door lol

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!
I don't have any interesting experiences myself, but when I was in elementary school one of my classmates got banned from the local Blockbuster because he was trying to impress his friends by attempting a backflip while his parents were waiting in line or something and ended up wrecking their Pokémon Snap booth.

its all nice on rice
Nov 12, 2006

Sweet, Salty Goodness.



Buglord
An old lady brought up the Pirates soft core porn to checkout. I held it up to her and asked "are you sure this is the movie you want?"
"oh yes! The pirates one!" okay, power to ya, grandma!
She returned 20 minutes later to get "the one with Mr Depp."

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
I rented Planet of the Apes. My vcr ate the tape. I was mortified that Blockbuster would never rent to my family again. They ended up giving us a free rental. I think I got Friday the 13th VI Jason Lives from it. That movie owns. Best of the series.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec

Lumpy the Cook posted:

I don't have any interesting experiences myself, but when I was in elementary school one of my classmates got banned from the local Blockbuster because he was trying to impress his friends by attempting a backflip while his parents were waiting in line or something and ended up wrecking their Pokémon Snap booth.

I rented Pokémon Snap and went to the booth at Blockbuster and it took 30 minutes for the guy to print out my Magmar pic stickers. He said I was the first person to use the Snap booth.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


When I was in high school the equivalent of my local Blockbuster had an illegal video black market part. Basically the two guys working there had their own selection of arthouse videos that they would acquire from different sources or even record them themselves on cable. They kept a list locked in a drawer under the desk. In order to get to that list you needed to be introduced by a friend that already got introduced and then when you came in you had to give one of those two employees "the look" and they'd hook you up.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec

Palpek posted:

When I was in high school the equivalent of my local Blockbuster had an illegal video black market part. Basically the two guys working there had their own selection of arthouse videos that they would acquire from different sources or even record them themselves on cable. They kept a list locked in a drawer under the desk. In order to get to that list you needed to be introduced by a friend that already got introduced and then when you came in you had to give one of those two employees "the look" and they'd hook you up.

No videos for you! Come back 100 year!

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
There was only Rogers Video in my area ahen I was a kid. Not very interesting.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
The Rogers Video that I went to as a kid is now a shawarma place

try the new taco place
Jan 4, 2004

hey mister... can u play drums while I sing and play plastic guitar???
I used to watch whole movies on their TVs back when they just played random stuff instead of ads for new releases, and they never minded that I just loitered there while my mom shopped.

Yobgoblin
Mar 19, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Clapping Larry
Nothing really interesting happened at the blockbuster near me when i was a kid except when an angry driver yelled "gently caress YOU" at a random pedestrian before speeding off to a red light 30 feet away. When the blockbuster was going out of business, they were selling their gumball machine for $2500.00.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.










Also please make this the background of this forum thanks:

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

Lol

In Training
Jun 28, 2008


Haha

Retarded_Clown_
Feb 18, 2012

i made a thread about this a lng time ago and some ppl wrote some funny responses in their too:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3660738

Zuul the Cat
Dec 24, 2006

Grimey Drawer
I used to work at blockbuster. Funniest thing I've ever had happen at my store was a kid getting his arm stuck in the movie return box. His dad seemed completely uninterested in getting his arm out. Just kinda looked at his kid and shrugged. We eventually got him out with soap.

Second funniest thing was someone putting anchovies in the movie box overnight. Ruined like 20 movies.

Best parts of working there was: all the free poo poo we'd get. When I first started, employees got 5 free rentals a week, then that got increased to 10.

People would also just drop off old games in the Dropbox. Like, Xbox games they just didn't want anymore or something. Technically we had to keep them in the back in storage, but we'd all just rifle through them and take what we wanted.

Customers were incredibly stupid. They would regularly walk in, want to rent a brand new movie and ask where it was, despite there being a giant display and a 4 foot section of wall, from floor to ceiling, of just that movie. We'd point to it or say what aisle and they'd still say dumb poo poo like "I can't find it." Without actually looking.

Blockbuster sucked, but working there was pretty fun.

ScrubLeague
Feb 11, 2007

Nap Ghost
We owned a VHS rewinder and it was a pretty cool day when dad brought one of those bad boys home from the Circuit City.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
I rented an N64 from Blockbuster and played Pilot Wings. The trajectory of my life changed forever

Dinosaurs!
May 22, 2003

It was pretty tight when a popular movie got released and you'd go and see they still had a couple tapes left.

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
I kinda miss the experience of going to Blockbuster with no particular movie in mind, browsing around, and renting poo poo like The Mission or whatever just because it looked interesting.

Pussy Quipped
Jan 29, 2009

I think I ended up renting way more nintendo games than movies from blockbuster.

Lumpy the Cook
Feb 4, 2011

Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

MeatwadIsGod posted:

I kinda miss the experience of going to Blockbuster with no particular movie in mind, browsing around, and renting poo poo like The Mission or whatever just because it looked interesting.

One of the reasons I miss movie rental stores a lot is because there really was an incentive to watch the movies that caught my eye as soon as possible, instead of now where I just pile them into my Netflix/Amazon queue do something else only to forget about them until long after they've been taken off the service.

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008


I had a friend who would "misplace" his lovely xbox/ps2 games for different games when he rented them.

The Rogers Video we used to go to had a kids play structure right in the middle of the place, also it had a popcorn machine right beside it.

A Festivus Miracle
Dec 19, 2012

I have come to discourse on the profound inequities of the American political system.

Blockbuster is a testament to people who seriously, truly believed that this internet video streaming thing was just a passing fad.

Also Redbox does pretty much everything Blockbuster could ever did, but much cheaper and easier.

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k
My mind was blown as a child when I realized that Blockbuster Video carried Gameboy games you could rent.




Problem was the nearest store was like 40 minutes away. God drat I wanted to rent so many of those tiny little things.

Dinosaurs!
May 22, 2003

A White Guy posted:

Blockbuster is a testament to people who seriously, truly believed that this internet video streaming thing was just a passing fad.

Also Redbox does pretty much everything Blockbuster could ever did, but much cheaper and easier.

Oh ya I forgot about all those streaming services in 1994.

Pimpcasso
Mar 13, 2002

VOLS BITCH
My video store growing up was a room in some old couples house

I remember renting universal soldier from them

Rip little darlins video

BigBallChunkyTime
Nov 25, 2011

Kyle Schwarber: World Series hero, Beefy Lad, better than you.

Illegal Hen
I never had a blockbuster membership. I just had little mom and pop places in my town. :(

ScrubLeague
Feb 11, 2007

Nap Ghost
My family paid late and re-rental fees of up to $80 to keep the cartridge of The Legend of Zelda that had our save on it.

Sdoots
Nov 3, 2013

I did this and could have stopped it, but nothing in nature ever follows a gaussian curve. Sure, they'll tell you that it does. They say that every five minutes someone dies in a car accident, but how often are there seven hundred and sixty one armless and legless corpses in one hangar?

Lumpy the Cook posted:

I don't have any interesting experiences myself, but when I was in elementary school one of my classmates got banned from the local Blockbuster because he was trying to impress his friends by attempting a backflip while his parents were waiting in line or something and ended up wrecking their Pokémon Snap booth.


If that booth was like the one I'm thinking of, it was around a bunch of store displays and candy racks. That kid would have taken out more than just the Snap booth.

Ours had a locked bathroom and they only gave the key to paying customers. The key was on a keyring they'd punched through a VHS rental case, and as a result it could be really awkward to try and unlock the door. I didn't want to deal with this, being something like 5 or 6, and just peed in my pants in front of the SNES games.

Pneub
Mar 12, 2007

I'M THE DEVIL, AND I WILL WASH OVER THE EARTH AND THE SEAS WILL RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF ALL THE SINNERS

I AM REBORN
My local Family Video has had a car crash through the same wall twice in like 5 years. It isn't even anywhere close to the road, and it wasn't a dvd hijacking plot as far as I know.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


Pneub posted:

My local Family Video has had a car crash through the same wall twice in like 5 years. It isn't even anywhere close to the road, and it wasn't a dvd hijacking plot as far as I know.
You could say that those drivers were quite the...block busters.

Sdoots
Nov 3, 2013

I did this and could have stopped it, but nothing in nature ever follows a gaussian curve. Sure, they'll tell you that it does. They say that every five minutes someone dies in a car accident, but how often are there seven hundred and sixty one armless and legless corpses in one hangar?

Palpek posted:

You could say that those drivers were quite the...block busters.

gently caress you

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

i never had a weird experience at my local blockbuster growing up, but i did remember that the comedy section had a DVD double feature of Thumb Wars and Thumbtanic. i never bit the bullet and checked it out

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

get that OUT of my face posted:

i never had a weird experience at my local blockbuster growing up, but i did remember that the comedy section had a DVD double feature of Thumb Wars and Thumbtanic. i never bit the bullet and checked it out

I watched the Thumb movies so many times as a kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQduN315etk&hd=1

Zuul the Cat
Dec 24, 2006

Grimey Drawer

A White Guy posted:

Blockbuster is a testament to people who seriously, truly believed that this internet video streaming thing was just a passing fad.

Also Redbox does pretty much everything Blockbuster could ever did, but much cheaper and easier.

Blockbuster themselves tried to get in on the rental box scene. They had their own version in the last 6 months before they closed down my store.

Still expensive though.

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Oh Don Piano
Nov 4, 2009
Some Friday night in the early 90's my dad brought me, my brother, and a friend of ours to Blockbuster. We were probably being loving retards, grabassing and whatnot. The friend showed me some game, and I remember saying, "that game sucks dicks". My dad overheard from a couple aisles over and came and told me that he raised me better than that, and not to use language like that, and probably some other Reagan-era bullshit.

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