Drove By The Old "Blockbuster" Building :0(

We used to go seems like every Friday afternoon to get a movie and/or video game for Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, or N64. During Lent we’d then grab the most delish shrimp poboy from down the street.

Simpler times.

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Worked at Alfalfa Video in Time Plaza in Lafayette back in the early 90's.

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rented many NES games from there

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Anyone remember those old glory days?

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Friday nights, walking in the door with a couple of pizza boxes with the video rentals sitting on top of them. Kids excited because I'd got the new releases they'd wanted.

Good old days.

Hastings came before blockbuster in my town. New releases came out on tuesdays and during summer i would make my mom drive me up there at 8am when they opened so i could get 1 of maybe 30 copies that wouldnt be available for weeks otherwise.

I'd go with report card money and get 20 games for 2-5 bucks a cart.

I grew up in a town 3000 and over the course of my teens and early 20’s we had 7 movie rental places. Movie Gallery was the largest. The rest were mom and pop stores. The last one closed about 8 years ago. I can still drive around town and point out where every one of them were.

The advent of internet streaming services has made things easier, but there is not nearly the satisfaction.

I have the same nostalgic reaction towards video/game rental stores that others on here have, but we never seem to talk about the wasted 45 minutes walking through the store only to walk out with nothing because they just didn't have anything worth getting or all of the new releases were already sold out

There was nothing more frustrating than seeing an entire shelf with rows and rows of the same movie box cover with no actual videos behinds them.

or how about renting a game, taking it home, and realizing that there's something wrong with it and it won't play no matter how many times you blow into the cartridge or wipe down the disc.

Netflix and chill > Blockbuster

Picking a movie together at Blockbuster was too much of a commitment. Netflix and chill is just messing around and seeing where it goes

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The last one closed about 8 years ago. I can still drive around town and point out where every one of them were.

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There is still one in my hometown; I don't know how/why and what it's purpose is for still being open.

It was opened in 1985. It still has VHS tapes on racks along with DVDs. It's like a museum. I assume it must be a hobby store for someone bored with money like the used record store that sells maybe 1 record a week. Because I don't know how the owner could still pay rent if this was his serious source of income.

That area of the county is full of old people though - and just like you still see them use checks at the Supermarket - maybe there is a segment of the population still renting VHS in a video rental store.