Entertainment movies vhs This memory of renting a video on Friday nights will take you right back to the VHS glory days Poke Reporter . Updated November 16th, 2024 Share Tweet Kids today with their multiple streaming options will never know the magic of going to your local video store on a weekend night to rent a blockbuster you hope they’ll have in stock or just to take a punt on an unknown movie simply because you liked the cool VHS cover art . It’s a memory so evocatively conjured by the @SoVeryBritish Twitter/X account this week.
Shoutout to everyone who remembers going to the video shop on a Friday night to rent a VHS tape. You’d take the empty box of the popular new film up to the counter and they’d shock you by saying all the copies were out. “Well why is this box on the shelf then?” Then you’d end up.
.. — VeryBritishProblems (@SoVeryBritish) November 15, 2024 And people of, ahem, a certain age (y’know, us old people) are enjoying the trip down memory lane.
1. Was about 1982, family went to Cardiff to buy our 1st VCR, I was about 9. We trooped down to the local video shop, independent of course no chains in those days.
We got a lovely family film about rabbits called Watership Down. My brother was 4 -not sure he’s over the trauma yet. — Ashur (@AshurTrades) November 15, 2024 2.
Renting something based on an epic trailer...
only to discover the best scenes were the trailer. — Jim Osman (@EdgeCGroup) November 15, 2024 3. or get home to find a tota.