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My uncle had a vhs player many years before we did. He had 2 movies.
Smokey and the bandit probably more then 100 times in total. The sting probaly around 40-50 times.Beyond The Mind’s Eye was my jam.
Children definitely still experience something similar via small/unknown YouTube channels, games, Roblox games, fandoms, etc. Sure everyone knows the big famous stuff, but that’s the same as pre-2000s kids too.
Soft of, but it’s not the same as watching golden child and half of jewel of the Nile 100 times.
Yeah, obscure interests are hardly anything new. If anything it’s only gotten stronger, people of all ages can now be sucked so far down the fandom rabbithole that they lose sight of it being their obscure interest.
Although the way it used to be like that you have access to that one obscure thing, so now it’s your new interest has changed. Kids now get much wider choice.
yeah but they’re choosing to watch that out of millions. It’s not because that was literally just what was in the house so it was that or nothing.
We got cable when I was about 10. In my country even on cable we had very few channels. Game changer! Those Saturday morning cartoons!
Children of the DVD era also know this life
That’s pre-streaming as well. I recently volunteered on a film festival and was surprised how many people still watch DVDs when I worked at the merchandize.
The Robots DVD radicalized me
I’m in-between both. As a little kid I watched Bambi and Winnie the Pooh etc on tape and then later we hired all kinds of dvd’s in the library and that’s how I discovered Star Wars. Good times.
You kids with your fancy “tapes!” In my day we had to watch whatever the hell was on the three or four channels we could pick up with the rabbit ears, and we were damn glad to have it!
Once a year they’d show a Bond movie or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, or maybe even that Willie Wonka movie. Such an event!
VCRs didn’t exist until I was a young adult. Doggone spoiled kids!
I vividly remember being a teenager and channel 5 coming out. It was a huge deal
Hosted by the spice girls?
Yes! I remember the posters.
We had to get a VCR in order to get our fifth channel - it was on UHF which our National Panacolor TV could not receive.
Is it not batshit insane that we were throwing movies around via radiation before video tapes at home?
Turns out it is, so much so that we decided to bury light across the country to make movies get here faster.
It’s crazy what we do, and to think most people have no clue of all the crazy physics that has to happen for some of their most basic activities everyday.
Back in high school, a buddy of mine mused about something that still itches my brain.
When they built the first computer. How the fuck did they figure out how to “make it turn on”? Like… the first boot cycle.
Really makes you appreciate some of the insanely complex stuff that we take for granted.
I’m not really sure what you mean. The first computers didn’t have an OS or anything. They just took the input and applied the assigned operation.
This gets more advanced when you want a BIOS loaded first, but it’s not particularly complex. It does the same as above, but the first instructions jump to the BIOS, which itself is just another set of instructions that initialize things.
It would’ve been, but I didn’t get it until the mid/late 2000’s. First I lived in Herts which only got it if you had Sky, then just before it came out there, I moved to Brighton, where it wasn’t allowed because it interfered with radio signals along the north coast in France. Still not sure if I’ve ever watched anything on Channel 5.
You didn’t miss much. It was a bit shit
I was so confused when i found out not everyone had channel 5. And we had the vhs tuned to 5 on the tv so channel 5 was on 6…
We must be about the same age. The VCR was a game changer. As I recall, the answering machine came just before it, and it’s kind of amazing how fundamentally that changed things, too. People from more recent generations just don’t get what a different paradigm it was when you couldn’t necessarily contact your friends. You’d call their house, but if there wasn’t an answer that didn’t necessarily mean much. They might be outside, or maybe not home. Maybe they were on their bike heading to your house.
“You think boredom is your ally, but you merely adopted the boredom, i was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t even see the invention of VCR till I was a man, by then it was nothing to me but unknown technology!”
I grew up with The Legend of Zelda. “Well excuuuuuuse me, princess”
Tremors FTW!!
During the 80’s I remember watching Clash of the Titans on Saturday morning TV repeatedly.
The stop motion monsters still hold up.
We had a tape that had Asterix in Britain followed by the Only Fools And Horses feature-length episode where they go to Florida and Del-Boy gets mistaken for a mob boss.
To this day, I can probably quote both from beginning to end.
The Master of Disguise.
I uhh, can’t really say its good tbh.
Was he not turtley enough for you?
The entire movie is immersion therapy for those who suffer second-hand embarrassment.
Except one character that was genuinely fun. And a crack to the didgy-donch!
The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Like, the shitty one with Grounder and whatever the chicken robot’s name was… Had like the whole collection of those when what I wanted was the more anime like series where Sally Acorn came from. 😔
on saturdays the local station would broadcast scifi b movies. we’d record them and keep the good ones.
Ah yes, Harry and the Hendersons.
Also The Great Outdoors
i assume thats some kind of parody/joke website?
Yeah, it’s The Onion’s internet culture / clickbait site.
The Court Jester (1955)
My grandparents had it on vhs, recorded from a tv broadcast. We watched (and quoted) it obsessively every time we went to visit them.
your grandparents had taste
