>Born too late to explore the earth
>Born too early to explore the unverise
>Born just in time to explore the new releases
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>Born too late to explore the earth. >Born too early to explore the unverise
I was an assistant store manager for a few years in the Aughts. Best job I ever had. Office career sucks wieners in comparison.
It was okay, but I got fired two weeks before my planned last day because the b***h manager was upset that my cash drawer was $10 short. Even though I told her about it at the end of shift
>mum lets u get two overnighters
decent
>exploring Blockbuster new releases
Not much of an exploration. Blockbuster was a turd store with no range.
sounds like yours was just garbage. You probably lived in Littledick, MI or some place nobody gives a frick about.
But it's true. They'd have 50 copies of the latest Adam Sandler movie and then sell 49 of those copies until they had 1 of everything in stock. So if you browsed for old release titles, it was a crapshoot. Actual good films like Terminator 2 were always out thanks to the local film autist that keeps re-renting the same things, and the ones that were in stock were likely garbage.
Before online reviews you had to go by the box
Your GM was just shit and your store manager was just shit. Every store a broad designation, and for eample mine was a hybrid Hispanic and African-American store (which is interesting because a lot of nigs don't live here). This meant that on top of the normal allocation of movies, we would get extras based off what our customers rented (so LOTS of copies of Tyler Perry stuff, LOTS of Mexican narco movies) and it was always spot on.
On top of that, ASMs and SMs had the ability to order product as needed, so if customers asked about product a lot, I could make it happen.
We always had tons of Jurassic Parks, Terminators, Back to the Futures, etc.
Our anime and foreign sections were also STACKED. in 5 years of working there, 5 free rentals a week, I didn't even get 25% through it and our foreign was like 75% Hong Kong and Japanese horror and suspense.
What he described was just about everyone else's blockbuster experience. Hence why everyone hated them (on top of them censoring titles and putting the independent film industry on deaths door) and why they were so happy to see another souless corporation in the shape of Netflix murder them. Sounds like you were the exception to the rule. Perhaps being in an ethnic area helped. In places like L.A. they were just complete worthless garbage. An entire wall of one junk film and then a couple dozen semi-new junk titles.
>Hence why everyone hated them
>busy as frick until the very end
hello zoomer, I love when you guys try to talk about things you don't know anything about
>>busy as frick until the very end
They were busy because they were selling everything including the signs and racks for 75% off.
If they were "busy as frick" they wouldn't have went from 5,000 stores to 50 stores in the span of 3 years
they died out because of corporate mismanagement, zoomer revisionist frickstain. They were already in trouble when Jim Keyes took over, and long before they made the fatal decision to pass on buying Netflix.
>zoomer revisionist frickstain
I actually see this a lot on this board
why do they do it
I worked at a Blockbuster for years, and yes there was an obvious decline in customers from 2004-2008. If business kept up then corporate mismanagement wouldn't have mattered. And passing up on buying Netflix didn't matter, they had the resources to set up their own mail and streaming service but fricked that up too
because mailing your disks in was dogshit and a terrible idea when Redbox (and there were plans for Blockbuster funded Netflix machines) existed
Redbox bridged the years until streaming became the norm, moron-kun
They died out because netflix happened. No one wants physical media, let alone rent it. Keep coping.
>mentions Netflix
>'but Netflix'
actual fricking mentally moronic poster
I'm 43. Wal-Mart is still busy. I should amend it - it's why everyone who liked movies hated them, but goyslop consoomers frequented them.
>busy as frick
Sure thing zoomie.
>images-2024
holy moron
lol
What's the moronic part?
>busy as frick
If they had remained busy-as-frick they would still exist. Zoomers and their fake nostalgia for a corporation anyone who was alive then hated is bizarre.
>no u r zoomer not me
get fricked zoomie
Pretending to have nostalgia for blockbuster is peak zoomer. Tell me about your liminal space game next.
pretending you were alive in the 90s and telling everyone about shit you did not experience is peak zoomer.
Tell me next how actually Playstation wasn't popular, moron
I do wish I wasn't alive in the 90s. Life would be better.
They were all garbage, by design. If anything, smaller regions may have been better because they might have been less beholden to corporate mandates.
1000%. Civic was a genuinely great franchise. I had a multi-storey one near me and going up to the top floor with all the weeklies was a great time.
this
>Go to Blockbuster to see what I can rent for the weekend
>1000 copies of FIFA, obvious shovelware and games I've already played
>After a while my go-to plan was to just grab anything on the shelf that didn't fit into those three categories, bonus points if it was the only copy remaining
>Ended up playing a lot of weird obscure shit, but also found some of my favorite all time games that way I may not have tried if Blockbuster actually had the notable games I wanted to play
Sort of worked out in the end, but I had a lot of weekends where I was stuck with complete crap.
Yeah there's that. Even though streaming services makes it easier than ever to discover obscure shit, you're still more likely to stick with what's familiar.
As an employee I would check out 5 rando free movies each week, many from the "grindhouse" section that we experimented with in 2007. Also some made-for-TV movies. Most of them weren't "good", but they were still more memorable than current CG slop because they were sometimes offputting. Scenes would stick in my head for months because they were off-putting, and had me questioning WHY they were shot that way, or WHY they casted a 50 year-old guy to play the role of a main protagonist that was clearly meant to be 20
Seeing all that trash makes it so worth it when you walk in and find gold.
Still vividly remember that time decades ago now when I found my rental shop's only copy of F-Zero GX in the store. Played the frick out of that and did as many extensions as I could, but eventually had to return it and never saw it on the shelves again. Thankfully I got a proper copy for my birthday that year.
favorite games such as?
Was Blockbuster a locally-owned franchise-owned thing, like McDonald's? Because I absolutely lived in a Littledick, MI. like
mentioned and the Blockbusters in my area were all consistently baller. It didn't take until the 2000's for Hollywood Video to finally start catching up.
I still had to go to Hastings if I wanted to rent a whole-ass console, though.
>Was Blockbuster a locally-owned franchise-owned thing, like McDonald's?
Both, there were franchise-owned and corporate-owned stores
So it was real fun explaining to customers why rules weren't uniform across all stores
>Yes ma'am I've seen the "no more late fees" commercials. They don't apply to us. You actually owe us $53.95 in late fees before you can rent again
Yes. It sounds like the smaller and further away from civilization you were the better it may have been, in fact. The blockbusters where I lived (both U.S. and Australia) were the McDonald's of movies. No selection, wouldn't carry any porn or unrated movies, and of course censoring movies. The one thing they did, their entire mass appeal, was that they carried dozens of copies of the latest (plot twist) blockbusters so you could almost be guaranteed to get a copy on friday night and keep the kids happy. Which is enough for 99% of renters. If you were an autistic homosexual in the other 1%, like me, you would only go because blockbuster had bought one of your stores out and you were too lazy to go to another.
This shit was the best.
>blockbuster trips every other day
>get to play every new SNES game that came in
>sometimes, find that really great game
>mom lets me keep it for a whole week
I miss it, bros. I still treasure my laminated card to this day.
civic shits on blockbuster
hell yeah
my local always had a new selection
>picking a game to play just based on how cool the cover was
a simpler time..
>He didn't have a gaming magazine subscription and use that to help avoid garbage when rent/begging parents for vidya time came
My parents didn't get internet into the house until 08, so EGM saved my ass more than a few times. Also fricked me over sometimes, but nobody's perfect.
Even though Nintendo Power was a company-owned shill magazine they never did me wrong
>Wow, a new Mario game? Where he goes back in time!? This sounds freakin' awesome! Instant rental, I wonder why Nintendo Power didn't tell me about it.....
For me, it was GamePro.
>First console was the Xbox
>Dad got me an OXM subscription along with it
>Barely read the things, just replayed the demo discs they came with ad nausem and would ask my parents for the game I enjoyed the most
Fricking loved those things.
>be poor growing up
>parents can't afford much fun things for us to do
>is summer
>mom or dad takes me and my sis to Hollywood video every weekend to pick out a few movies for us to watch together.
Best summer ever.
>Hollywood video
kill me pete
Hollywood Video was better, with regards to big chains.
It was fun to go around this time back in '04. I wish I could describe how social people used to be to you zoomers. I don't mean to talk shit. I genuinely feel sorry for you gays. It's why I try to be kind when I encounter you guys.
*time of night that is
>zoomers who were not alive in the 1990s are trying at this very moment to gaslight me into thinking nobody liked Blockbster
lol
I think it's because they're furious that there was a legitimate Golden Age they missed out on. Everything in their lives is remakes and reboots of things from said Golden Age, so they are constantly reminded how they missed out and are living a pale shadow of what was.
What was this golden age?
>80s shit
>90s shit
>2000s shit
>2010's really shit
>2020's really shit
Zoomers have it better than I did because they had the internet from the get go. People having nostalgia for like 3 fricking years at the end of the 90s, which was just goyslop central are sad.
>Zoomers have it better than I did because they had the internet from the get go
>modern internet
>good
sorry about your clinical depression, fat homosexual.
How did you know I was fat?
There's a good reason you're still on this website vs being on Tik Tok and it's not because the modern internet is good lmao
The sort of people who have nostalgia for blockbuster are like the sort of people who will have nostalgia for tiktok in the future.
The sort of people who talk about things they weren't alive for as if they were there are the sort of people who actually USE Tik Tok and make Twitter threads.
WRECKED
Blockbusters were busy right up until Dish bought them and the gig was up
Yes, it took years to die out but I didn't think people actually thought the stores all closed up on the same day at the same time like it was aNew Year's Eve countdown, my mistake
blockbuster was alright but my town had a rental place run by two dudes who just bought copies of games and rented them out of a little hole in the wall shop and even until the mid 2000s these dudes were still renting out games all the way back to the nes days. i was sad when they eventually went out of business because they had all sorts of obscure games for older consoles that you would never find at a normal rental place.
Oh hello, looks like you have a late fee on your account. Sorry, we can let you rent anything new until it's paid off.