VHS STILL EXISTS!

Well i've had most of these since i was 7 or 8 years old, i can remember going into the video store where we lived then and seeing a whole shelf of these tapes. Boy i feel old!!!

I still have VHS Tapes and a VHS/DVD hybrid at home. :(

Man, VHSs, I feel so old now. Never did I imagine, back in the day, we'd be watching movies off discs or let alone in the palm of our hands. I remember my 3rd grade teacher always brought a tape of Pokemon to class to let us watch an episode when we finished our studies early. I remember my very first episode being Battle aboard the Saint Anne.

Yup i know right, i know that most of these came from the Blockbuster or Movie Gallery near where we used to live, alas they both closed down many moons ago. I still remember when my dad would buy some from these places, heck i remember when stores like Wal-Mart still carried these.

Fuck'n Blockbuster, man. Another thing from the 90s I really miss. Each trip was it's own adventure, you go there for something without really knowing if it was in stock or not, and sometimes came home with something else and had just as memorable an experience. I even remember playing Pokemon Stadium on the N64 kiosks there for hours on end with random kids.

Well, at the time, distributors were still very used to the VHS format, and the DVD format was still kinda new. So it's no surprise they cost a bit more. Nowadays, you can get DVDs for $10 whereas the BDs cost almost five times as much.

Yup that was the late '90s/early 2000's for you, as it wasn't until a few years in that DVD caught on and started slowly becoming the majority format.

Oh yes, all those video stores were something else back in the day. They've all but disappeared over the last few years.

Even physical media is starting to decline in favor of digital content delivery. The future is convenient, but so boring and tasteless.

Yup, stuff like Netflix have slowly but surely risen in popularity.

Oh yeah, i remember when our Blockbuster had demos for the GameCube and original Xbox around the time they came out.

I know these releases came out on both VHS and DVD, and in our area i recall the VHS versions actually being cheaper than the DVD's. I think these were about $15 whereas the discs were around $20 a pop. Of course my dad always got the tapes.

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