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| 1356 | Article | NLogan | Watching an episode of the Goldbergs a little bit ago I laughed as Adam and his dad had a run in with the proprietor of the video store. It was like he had stolen a page out of my life. Except instead of being banned for life because of the missing tape my dad banned himself but not before he got vindicated. We were told we owed nearly $300 bucks for a missing tape and late fees. My dad said he would just buy another copy at another store for $20 but they could not accept a non store copy. My dad blew up at the guy and demanded to know how many copies were in their inventory. "One", the clerk timidly replied. My dad then went to the shelves and found it on the rack and threw it at him. "If I never returned it then what the hell is that?" After that we always rented from the mom and pop stores and other seedy little dives with bead curtains and sun faded pictures on the rental tapes. | Oct 02, 2014 |  | |
| 1357 | Article | Hoju Koolander | @NLogan That is an awesome story. I assume the clerk was being a punk to your Dad? If not, I feel bad for the kid that was just reporting what the computer said. Either way he learned a lesson in "common sense" that day. | Timewarp: Blockbuster Video 1996 | Oct 02, 2014 | |
| 1358 | Article | vkimo | My brother and I had a strict rule where we took turns renting games. And on the car ride home whoever got to the TV first and turned on the TV had control of the game. I wish I could remember the last game we ever rented. It was definitely for the N64 though. My dad was a simple man when it came to movie rentals. It had to have fire on the cover. He usually picked out Steven Segals latest flick. My mom trying to instill culture into her heathenish offspring would get obscure documentaries or Oscar ladden titles that usually ended up with everyone asleep, her included. | Timewarp: Blockbuster Video 1996 | Oct 02, 2014 | |
| 1359 | Article | Vaporman87 | I rented tapes and games almost exclusively under the assumption that it would be returned late, and it usually was. Then on my next trip to the rental shop, I paid last times fees and repeated the process. I was better at getting them back on time to the mom and pop shops, because I knew the people there better and didn't want to do them wrong. Great trip Dr Timewarp! Thanks for getting us back in one piece. | Timewarp: Blockbuster Video 1996 | Oct 02, 2014 | |
| 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. | Timewarp: Blockbuster Video 1996 | Oct 02, 2014 | |
| 1366 | Article | Vaporman87 | NLogan I think your old man and my old man were cut from the same mold (though he has dramatically mellowed out with age and Effexor. I never really had to deal with a really bad situation at a rental store. Later on, when <url='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_Gallery'>Movie Gallery</url> showed up nearby, a friend of mine got a job there and we scored some good deals (and some late fee removal) several times. | Timewarp: Blockbuster Video 1996 | Oct 03, 2014 | |
| 1367 | Article | shakin steak | For sure, Vaporman. That's why He-Man gets the checkmark for "good guys". Bow and Razz and Kowl and those purple forest elves are awful! | New Eyes on He-Man and She-Ra | Oct 03, 2014 | |
| 1368 | Article | Hoju Koolander | Packed to the gills with Halloween goodness, the Creature would approve! Your love ofnthe holiday ismplain to see. Thanks for that odyssey of great costumes and memorabilia. I would have loved to have enjoyed classic Monster Movies in 3-D on TV, instead all we got were John Wayne films. But I was there at 7-11 to get my Hondo glasses nonetheless. Loved those spooky LPs. I had a Haunted Mansion record growing up that dramatized the ride, I can still hear the Raven's eery caw. Those orange monster books were a favorite for me as well, the one for Murders at the Rue Morgue was the only one I considered boring, so it only got one check out from the school library. Happiest of Halloweens to you and your family! | NLogan's Retro Halloween Overload | Oct 04, 2014 | |
| 1369 | Article | Hoju Koolander | You are as always the king of mood setting layouts, the 8 bit monsters in the borders were great. Poor Steve, it was always special to me when the adults handing out candy were dressed up, it really amplified the spirit of the night. The soda displays were always epic, especially when Elvira and the Universal Monsters were involved thanks to Pepsi and Doritos. Good stuff! | Flannel Cornucopia | Oct 04, 2014 | |
| 1370 | Article | NLogan | Simply Awesome. | Flannel Cornucopia | Oct 04, 2014 | |
