I forgot you are 25, I remembered you was around 20... well, when I was 11 it was 1982, and VHS was not in any home in Italy... at that time, I was "only" programming Basic with my old Spectrum... but this is another story... (^^,)
Keep going to mess with those VHS tapes, it was really funny when I used to mess with them myself... then I discovered the laserdisc, and the poor tapes went in a remote closet...