I do remember Blockbuster Video and West Coast video. I used to go and rent a tape after work on most weeks. It was right next to my workplace Blockbuster.

Its where I rented my SNES games, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. And where I bought used and new VHS tapes, and CD releases.

I remember when they rented DIVX and DVD and they were in competition. And some HD-DVD. Netflix and Redbox killed them they went out of business.

DVDs by mail killed them. Streaming wasn’t even a thing. Though piracy of DVD was an issue and so was illegal sharing of mp3 music files.

Now the Bestbuy and Walmart here pulled physical sales of discs. I do wonder if a retro video rental store would work.

I remember when VHS was king and Sam Goody and Suncoast were at practically every mall. I remember strawberry music and tower records. Even Newbury Comics is a shadow of what they once were. They at least still exist.

If we could get a repair shop that knows how to fix VCR’s we could keep the retro VHS era in continuance.