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back when VHS and BETAMAX started becoming more coman place do you remeber your first Video.

Mine was a pirate of Robocop and the first i ever rented was Richard Pryor as "The Toy"

― james (james), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

It was some cartoony bit with a Teddy Bear that was thrown out of the factory 'cause he was defective and his adventures with a character named "Bananaman" and they were chased by a guy with villainous mustachios and a skeleton or something. (Oh brain, there was a time when you could do such a simple task as remember the name of a cartoon movie...what happened?)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I taped the 1984 Olympics for my dad off TV and Monty Python and the Holy Grail for myself. Yay.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

1st one I owned? no idea, never really bought any.
But the first three I rented were Incredible Shrinking Woman, Grease, and mothafuckin' Breakin'

― oops (Oops), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i think 'Total Recall' was the first film i bought on VHS

renting - don't really keep tabs on that, my local video shop (now a funeral service) used to let me rent 15s out as long as i had a note from my Mum, so it was probably something starring Van Damme, Lundgren or Cynthia Rothrock, ha

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it was an Iron Maiden one.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

stevem - we had a vidvan and they let me rent 18s when i was approx 10

― james (james), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

My mom bought me a shitload of those "Golden books" on Video when I was a tot. You know, stuff by Richard Scary, Mercer Mayer etc. Three or four stories per tape. I also had a few monster truck videos, one of which I'm told I watched everynight for two consecutive months. It had some rock songs on it, including Glen Frey's "It's Better In The USA", and a cover of "Slippin' and Slidin'". I still have all of these tapes stashed somewhere. The first video I bought myself, with my own money was several years later. It was "Trainspotting."

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, so the bear and Bananaman weren't even the same show. But here's Bananaman:

http://www.durham21.co.uk/images/2001-2002/epiphany/944/bananaman.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the first one my family owned was Top Gun. First movie I saw on VHS was Red Dawn.

― hstencil, Friday, 28 March 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

The Goonies. I can still recite the first 10 minutes or so of dialogue from memory, and several of the big speeches too.
"Up there...it's their time. But down here, down here it's our time."

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

super ted, nickalicious. his sidekick was 'spotty man.' he brought him to life. his enemies were tex [the cowboy-looking leader], bulk [the fat one] and bones [I think] [the skeleton].

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

well then an 'Eyyyyyyy yooooooooooooo guyyyyyyyyyys' to you Sir

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh. My. God.

Yes, Super Ted it was, that's the one!

And Nick, trust me brothah, you're not alone. At one of my band's most recent gigs, our guitar player had broke a string, and I was trying to make it not one of those big dull silences, so I recited that "It's our time! It's our time down here!" speech. (I was actually quite sloshed.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha! When I first started going to drinkin' parties in college, I got wasted and started reciting that speech, which all my friends thought was hilarious. Thereafter, they would always try to get me drunk so I would do it again, but it just made me surly.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:45 (twenty-three years ago)

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― oops (Oops), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:52 (twenty-three years ago)

A video of Betty Boop cartoons that I thought were pretty rub. My mom just assumed kids would like any old cartoons.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

the first I watched was Red Dawn, then American ninja. I'm surprised I've never killed anyone.

― chris (chris), Friday, 28 March 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Beta - M.A.S.H. (the movie) in English, with Japanese subtitles that covered about half of the screen.

Also on Beta - Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Space Camp.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 28 March 2003 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

The first thing I ever taped was the old Friday Night Videos show on NBC. We didn't get cable at my house so I was so psyched to be able to see videos. I distinctly remember Prince's "When Doves Cry" being one of the videos.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 28 March 2003 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

The inevitable pirate tape of ET was the first video I remember watching, and from the same source came a copy of Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom with Urdu subtitles.

The first thing I remember recording were episodes of the last series of Blake's 7 and I also recall seeing Flash Gordon on my next door neighbour's Betamax machine.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Friday, 28 March 2003 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I grew up in what had to be the only household in Montgomery County, MD, without cable, a VCR, or an answering machine. I didn't rent a video until after I graduated college, and if I remember correctly it was Say Anything.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 28 March 2003 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

First think I taped was a couple episodes of Showtime's "Rock Palace". Think it was R.E.M. and King Crimson (this was '84)

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 29 March 2003 10:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it was "You're the Greatest Charlie Brown"

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 29 March 2003 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

twelve years pass...

i wondered where else this should go but anyway this is great

I worked in a video store for 25 years. Here’s what I learned as my industry died.
http://www.vox.com/2015/11/20/9757186/netflix-video-rental-store

― piscesx, Saturday, 21 November 2015 16:28 (ten years ago)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKxjvMAM8qg

― how's life, Saturday, 21 November 2015 18:47 (ten years ago)

xp yeah that was good, thanks

― new noise, Saturday, 21 November 2015 18:59 (ten years ago)

Thanks for posting that, piscesx. I lived in Portland (ME) for about 6-8 weeks in 1998, and rented from Videoport all the time. I was reading Jonathan Rosenbaum's Movies as Politics and binged on Jerry Lewis and Ken Loach films. iirc, they had a whole Ken Loach section.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 21 November 2015 21:09 (ten years ago)

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