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| 1365 | Article | NLogan | Hoju, good read. Got the old memory burners started. I never ever bought the overpriced candy at the check out desk. I had forgotten you could rent a system in a suitcase. I never did. We stuck with Nintendo we had and occasionally rented games. Incidentally in 1989 Nintendo sued Blockbuster to prevent them from renting out the games instead of people having to purchase them to play (first sale doctrine exception to copyright act). They had done the same thing in Japan and won and were trying to block game rentals in the U.S. too. Another reason was Nintendo didn't want the competition to be able to demo their games and pirate them which was unlikely at best. They brought the suit under the guise of their trademarked instruction manuals being copied and distributed with the game rentals. Nintendo lost and Blockbuster continued to rent out their games paving the way for all future game rentals and future used game buybacks and sales with Nintendo seeing nary a penny. Nintendo did get the consolation prize however that Blockbuster could not photocopy the game manuals to include with the rentals as they were doing because the manuals were under copyright for purchase only and could not be redistributed, so the main thrust of their suit was successful even if they couldn't prevent rentals outright. I seem to remember some contest in the early 90s maybe 1990, 1991, or 1992 where you got a redemption code various ways on different products like under the caps of soda pop bottles or candy bar wrappers etc. You took the code to a scanner at the blockbuster video and did an in store redemption for free rentals, free Coca Colas, candy, shirts, hats, mugs, water bottles, etc. The adult (wasn't a kid) started yelling at my dad first, but all I remember was standing there wishing that awkward moment would pass. My dad's temper was legendary. They were both in the wrong he easily could have sorted it out without yelling and acting like kids. My dad received a bill in the mail for it and came unglued. He promptly went down to have it out with the manager. He was pissed that he was being charged late fees when he had in fact turned it in but their employee had not entered it. The actual cost of the video had been subtracted because they had "found it". When the manager looked up his rental history they tried to win him back by dropping all the fees and giving him free rentals but my dad is a principal of the thing kind of guy and we rented from various other places before Hollywood video opened up a store near us. My mom and dad were divorced and we stayed with him every other weekend it was standard operating procedure, go food shopping, rent videos, get dinner somewhere, rinse , repeat. Or as my dad would always say, "Let's go rent a pizza, and buy a couple of movies." Purposely said that way to annoy me. They lost out on a ton of money from my old man. | Oct 02, 2014 |  | |
| 1997 | Article | vkimo | Hoju, I knew something was going on between you and JujUbeme! | Remembering RetroJunk | Feb 13, 2015 | |
| 2742 | Article | onipar | Hoju, I knew you'd be a True Believer! :-) That sounds like you go all out. The chainsaw thing...yeah, I'd be afraid to do it these days. Thanks, Micky! Wow, that house sounds pretty killer! I kinda wish I could still go trick or treating. :-p | The Unsung Heroes of Halloween | Oct 02, 2015 | |
| 3794 | Article | Superman | Hoju, I'm enough of an oldies fan that I recognize all of those names. I bet they were a lot of fun to see. | Salute to the '60s | Mar 23, 2017 | |
| 3227 | Article | MarshMellow | Hoju, It's awesome that you are still in touch with your childhood buddy. I wish I could say that "Lacey" and I had kept in touch, but our parents split up when we were about 12 years old. She lived with her mom in a different town (this was before we had internet at home) so we never saw each other again after that. | Expl-ho-ho-ho-sion | Dec 16, 2015 | |
| 1639 | Article | Mr Magic | Hoju, we haven't had too many movie years like 1989 in the 21st century, have we? I remember the handheld game, btw. | Batman '89 Remembered | Dec 15, 2014 | |
| 2149 | Article | Ruespieler | Holy cow you wrote 3? Well done! My favorite shows and movies are always ones in which the locations become a silent character. You can't always go back to the bedroom you had when you were 6, but you can always go back to your old friend', locked away in their celluloid immorality. | Retro Rooms Part Deux | Mar 25, 2015 | |
| 111 | Article | Vaporman87 | Holy cow, I couldn't agree more. Now I actually purchased BOTH versions of MK; the SNES and Genesis versions. My personal thoughts were that, while the Genesis version stayed closer to the arcade in terms violent content, the SNES version had superior graphics and controls. But, that's just me. Oh, and Night Trap looks like it's going for anywhere from $150 to $400 still sealed. Yikes. | Joe Lieberman VS Scorpion | Dec 31, 2012 | |
| 1603 | Article | Vaporman87 | Holy cow! Apparently Spinjas are more popular now than 1990! | 1990 - The Year Santa Died | Dec 11, 2014 | |
| 4505 | Article | Vaporman87 | Holy Cow! Can you imagine how much such a magazine would cost nowadays, with every item having to be illustrated and colored? Ridiculous! I wonder how often they had to make returns because the customer felt that the artistic rendering of the item constituted false advertising or poorly represented? Also, which film featured Darth Vader's brother, Darth Vadar? | Super Hero Toy Catalog 1978 | Aug 06, 2018 | |
