What memories do you guys have about renting video games at places like blockbuster or hollywood video

[Lg42inchtv]

This question is probably going to make me sound young af (I'm 19) but I thought it would be decent idea to ask this question

 

[What's His Face]

I was in line to rent some movie, when this kid comes up to his grandmother behind me in line and asks if he can rent this game he was holding. The grandmother just absolutely, frothingly, freaks out, shouting at the poor kid about how much she hates video games and all the violence and shooting and just lays into him for even wanting to touch a video game for a full five minutes, the kid crying after just one. Everyone's watching, just waiting for her to start smacking the kid.

I got fed-up with the bitch and asked her if she was done traumatizing her grandson yet. She lays into me, and I cross my arms and roll my eyes at her, then ask her why she hates SOCCER GAMES.

The kid was holding a freaking SOCCER game. Bitch told me to fuck-off and stormed out of the store, dragging the kid by his elbow behind her. I felt bad for that kid.

 

[Lg42inchtv]

I was in line to rent some movie, when this kid comes up to his grandmother behind me in line and asks if he can rent this game he was holding. The grandmother just absolutely, frothingly, freaks out, shouting at the poor kid about how much she hates video games and all the violence and shooting and just lays into him for even wanting to touch a video game for a full five minutes, the kid crying after just one. Everyone's watching, just waiting for her to start smacking the kid.

I got fed-up with the bitch and asked her if she was done traumatizing her grandson yet. She lays into me, and I cross my arms and roll my eyes at her, then ask her why she hates SOCCER GAMES.

The kid was holding a freaking SOCCER game. Bitch told me to fuck-off and stormed out of the store, dragging the kid by his elbow behind her. I felt bad for that kid.

Heh that reminds me of my own grandmother who used to think all of the video games I played were satanic

 

[Dyne]

My mom or dad would often bring us kids to the video store on Friday to rent a game or movie (we almost always chose a game) for the weekend.

I once rented this game called Chrono Trigger based on the cool looking cover art (a lot of the time thats all we had to go on. Couldnt google)
I couldnt believe how good it was! It was a Final Fantasy - type game game, and I loved those! I got pretty far in it but I had to return it in a couple days. None of my friends had heard of that game. They didnt really like Final Fantasy anyway.

Next Friday I looked for it and I rented it again. But my save file was gone. So I played again and tried to get farther than last time. I did this 3 or 4 times, only once or twice was my save file still there. Eventually I moved on to something else.

A few years later when I learned that I could play games on the computer using something called an emulator, Chrono Trigger was one of the first games I played.

 

[JPchicre]

We never had those franchises in Brazil but er had movie rental stores, I loved Them, i got to watch some old Hollywood classic movies there, Casablanca, Citizen Kane and such... One time i asked to rent the fifth Pink Panther movie from the 70s "The Pink Panther Strikes Again " wich in Brazil was launched with the title "A Nova Transa da Pantera Cor de Rosa" Wich translates to The Pink Panther New Sexual Affair or The Pink Panther New Fuck. I have no Idea they went with this title, but everyone in the store got really wakward when a teenager with his mother asked for that movie. Including my mother and the store clerk. She did ask me before hand if I was asking her to rent a porno, I was not. I just wanted to see a 70s crime comedy.

 

[Lg42inchtv]

We never had those franchises in Brazil but er had movie rental stores, I loved Them, i got to watch some old Hollywood classic movies there, Casablanca, Citizen Kane and such... One time i asked to rent the fifth Pink Panther movie from the 70s "The Pink Panther Strikes Again " wich in Brazil was launched with the title "A Nova Transa da Pantera Cor de Rosa" Wich translates to The Pink Panther New Sexual Affair or The Pink Panther New Fuck. I have no Idea they went with this title, but everyone in the store got really wakward when a teenager with his mother asked for that movie. Including my mother and the store clerk. She did ask me before hand if I was asking her to rent a porno, I was not. I just wanted to see a 70s crime comedy.

I'll add that there is actually a family owned video rental store near me that is still open to this day and they don't have any video games there

 

[MegaDrive1987]

I remember in 1995 I was in Blockbuster looking for some Mega Drive games to rent for the weekend and my Mum suggested Ristar as "it looks like Sonic" (her words). She didn't know it was made by Sonic Team. If only we both knew back then how much that game would be worth nowadays...