I miss renting movies

[TheAdvocate]

Screw the video stores.

I miss bookstores/newstands. Not the megastores... the mom and pops and ths corner store. I still have a library in my house... classics.. grad school books... mental candy stuff. Along with my record collection in bookshelves... it is comforting.

And I really miss record stores.

Same visceral experience for both... walking in... tons of posters &displays... an orgy of cover art in amazing colors... teasing you w/ the awesome within... the bookstores especially had that new print smell. Will this generation ever know that smell or the joy of flipping through the used bin and unexpectedly coming across that rare album you always wanted to hear... and it's only $4.99?

I loved that.

I still remember coming across a "used" copy of radioheads the bends for about $3 at the local record exchange about a month after it came out. Some probably baked clerk misspriced it, and one broke college kid bummed a buck off his friend to go with the loose change in his pocket and spent the rest of the day in aural nirvana.


Now i just download off of amazon if i even pay for it at all. It is superconvenient

 

[TheAdvocate]

Maybe a little irony... couldnt finish or edit my last sentence.

Was going to say... super convenient... but antiseptic...

 

[ghost recon88]

I miss video games on cartridges And browsing down several aisles of video games at Toys R Us while they had their demo consoles out with full copies of games available to play. Screw this modern disk and internet-connected console business!

 

[Ichinisan]

I miss video games on cartridges And browsing down several aisles of video games at Toys R Us while they had their demo consoles out with full copies of games available to play. Screw this modern disk and internet-connected console business!

I just bought Super Mario Bros. 3: Game of the Year Edition with $100+ DLC included.

I would never buy it used because I wouldn't get the one-time-use code for World 9. I passed on the sale price at Amazon and paid full MSRP at Gamestop to get their exclusive level and power-up.

Games suck now

 

[Krazy4Real]

Be kind... please rewind.

 

[purbeast0]

I miss video games on cartridges And browsing down several aisles of video games at Toys R Us while they had their demo consoles out with full copies of games available to play. Screw this modern disk and internet-connected console business!

the whole experience of buying a video game at TRU when i was a kid was simply awesome. they had the full aisles of the artwork, where you could flip up the artwork to see the back of the box. and they had pretty much EVERY game, not just the few newer games.

then you find the one you want and pay for the ticket, then take the ticket to the glassed off room near the entrance and wait for them to find your game. such an awesome experience to do all of that as a kid, i don't know why but i have memories of that big time.

then you would have the lucky time where there was no ticket in the holder, but they had a copy back in the glass room.

 

[Kaido]

the whole experience of buying a video game at TRU when i was a kid was simply awesome. they had the full aisles of the artwork, where you could flip up the artwork to see the back of the box. and they had pretty much EVERY game, not just the few newer games.

then you find the one you want and pay for the ticket, then take the ticket to the glassed off room near the entrance and wait for them to find your game. such an awesome experience to do all of that as a kid, i don't know why but i have memories of that big time.

then you would have the lucky time where there was no ticket in the holder, but they had a copy back in the glass room.

Hah, I remember doing that. And the game you got would be so important that you'd play it like crazy all the way through, even if it stunk

 

[W.C. Nimoy]

I do miss a TON of experiences of our obsolete, objectively inferior ways in many respects; renting movies just isn't one of them for some reason.

Mainly knobs on everything, ovens/electronics etc. instead of buttons, and now more & more touchscreens. & granted some of the following is biased, or just not true:

 

[W.C. Nimoy]

& the counter, just as silly but fun: