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Woohoo! Thanks for the shout out Rick! Glad you liked the shop! 😊

I was a Blockbuster boy myself when I was a kid. I used to love going there to rent movies. Sometimes I'd just go to look at the movie and video game covers. Man, I miss those days...

I was born in 91. I remember my parents bringing us to a mom and pop video rental store for years. Blockbuster and Hollywood Video did finally come to our area and put them out of business. I just remember when new release movies stopped renting as much, they'd only keep a couple copies and then put all the extras in a bin for 25 cents. They had toy/candy vending machines and ice cream, too! Those were the days.

I live in Wisconsin and I personally go to this guys store on a regular basis. Very honest and knowledgeable dude. Fair prices too

Glad you got your channel back

Born in ‘89. Here in Ireland there was a video game / movie rental shop called Xtra-Vision. Best part of my childhood going there

My local video rental place. A mom and pop shop. They new my name and i remember they called my dad once to ask if it was ok if rented The Terminator. 😂 (I was like 7) Of course he said yes. "Rent my son anything he wants - except whats behind the saloon doors" 😂😂

We had a place in my small town in Delaware called RC Video. We’d go so often that the guy who ran it would always let me and my siblings get an extra movie or game for free. Also introduced me to all the goofy 80s horror movies when I turned 13 that I still love to this day. So many fond memories that I wish my kid could experience. RIP RC Video and every other video store

My former neighbor (RIP Dave Hapner) started Dave's video in Indiana. He had several locations back in the I believe late 80s/90s.

I rented movies and games from Hollywood videos back when they had Gamecrazy with them. The best game store at the time, the employees were so nice and they clean a disc or two for free.

A Full Store TOUR PLEASE. With stories of where and how much some of the big items were acquired. Make it two three even four parts.....Absolutely OUTSTANDING GAMING STORE. Thank's for Sharing. We rented from a corner store that was across the road. We also had Jumbo & Blockbuster video in Ontario Canada.

80's kid here. Every Friday, my mom would take me and my friends to Music Plus. It was the big box retailer in my town that sold/rent movies and music on tapes and vinyl. Sometimes my mom would also grab a 45 for herself (yep..legit that OLD). Then we would go to my house and all gather around our 20 in TV and watch the movie on our VHS player (sweet set up right there.).

Love the Beatles drop at 7:39. Thank you editor!

I'm a kid if the NES/MS era. Before Blockbuster moved in, it was the grocery store, Home Video, and Family Video.

Our local video rental store was called Versatile Video in Dunwoody, GA. No chain, no big box stuff. Just a classic video rental spot with all the NES/SNES, Genesis and "other" video games you could handle. Loved it. Blockbuster eventually moved in down the street around 2000 but this video spot kept going well into the 2000s. I miss it dearly.

Sycamore Videos, and we had a Box Office video store. We went into Blockbuster 1 time, but never again when they asked for credit cards just to sign up. lol

We had a mom and pop shop called uncle Dave’s and it was amazing as a child. I could not wait till saturdays to go down there and pick out a game. Some saturdays my mom got generous and let me rent 2 games!!! My god that was a treat. Didn’t know what to do with myself having 2 new games to play in one day. Haha. The good ole days.

I rented vhs tapes from Video Land mostly as a teenager. The other two spots I would drag my mom to as a kid for renting a movie for me were Econo Foods and Randles, which were both grocery stores, so it was easier to persuade her.

I was a manager for movie gallery when they went bankrupt and closed all the stores. One the most fun jobs I ever had

I love overspending emotionally and being overwhelmed while shopping with you and Metal Jesus without spending a dime. Take us with you every time. I used to rent NES games from a Grocery store and also from the I can't say Blockbuster but whatever after getting a Little Caesar's PIZZA PIZZA! Long before the Hot N' Ready. Friday night was amazing when you're 8.

Later in life it was Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. As a kid I remember this place, Castle Video, or something like that. They had free popcorn popping in the front as you walked in and a play area for kids who weren't interested in the movies to play while mom and dad browsed. My favorite early memories of renting VHS and NES were at that rental place.

We had Hastings in Albuquerque, NM. RIP.

born in 1979. we went to a pretty big place called Home Vision Video in Geneva, NY. I remember renting video games and movies there vividly. We had a Sega Genesis.

Dude has two dark cloud 2 pieces (hanging cardboard and poster) visible from the counter. Respect! Store looks amazing

We had a local store that we rented from, and then our grocery store, Giant Eagle had rentals. After that we were a Hollywood Video family, but we did go to Blockbuster from time to time.

I was born in 1989 in the state of Maine! The "Go To" spot local to us was "Home-Vision Video" LONGGG Gone, But man... It was a blast going there as a kid renting Sega genesis games, Super nintendo games, And of course VHS movies!

I was a Video Manager at Hastings while going to college. I also rented from Blockbuster, Captain Video, Mega Movies, and even some of our local grocery stores rented out movies/games - good times!

When I go to shops like that with large "not for sale" displays, it helps to just think of it as a small museum piece. Even though I can't go home with it, just being able to see some incredibly rare items in person is a treat.

Gamestores are the definition of escapism. It's nice to see stores have a variety of items.

Hollywood Video and Hastings here. There was a Blockbuster, too, but only went there when we couldn’t find what we wanted at the other two.

The 90s was the BEST decade ever!

This store just became a bucket list stop. This place is a dream.

What an awesome looking store. All those display cabinets were wild! o_O So many nostalgic pieces in that place!

I remember there was a Hollywood Video Store where I grew up with a Game Crazy attached to it and of course Blockbuster where my dad would take me to

The way you just passed up on the VFD games as "some arcade joystick cabinets" breaks my heart man. I strongly suggest you get into VFD games, they're unlike anything you've seen, trust me. If you do get into them, play them, don't just collect them.

I grew up on The Navajo Reservation and we had little to choose from growing up. Sadly the rental in my home town burned down and was forgotten. Loved going down and renting a vhs without having to travel 35 mins to the nearest city.

I grew up extremely rural so we had no big brand name stores that did rentals. However we did have one restaurant in town that did them. They had a small wall that had a variety of N64 and SNES games, and would rent them out to people. I remember renting out the Mario Party games quite often, but the real core memories from there lie in my repeated rentals of Mischief Makers for the N64, and Kirby's Dream Course for the SNES. We rented that Kirby game so often the lady that owned the restaurant asked us if we just wanted to outright buy it from her instead. We did. I still love that game to this day.

Yooooo im pretty sure the guy who bought the very first Nintendo switch (CND) used to work here a long time ago

Wow.... That guys shop is crazy!!

I used to rent movies at blockbuster when I was a kid

Probably the best store I’ve seen any retro collector go to! 🔥

I went into that shop last summer! Absolutely love it! Definitely want to go back!

This video made me smile too much. It reminded me of the movie rental store I used to work at called Budd Street Video, in Sharon, PA. It sold games and VHS and everything else. A local Ma and Pa store that was like a second home for me, I was there so much. I remember working there one day and Dragonquest 3 AND 4 came into the store and I was able to buy it at a fair price from the store. It was awesome. Later, I worked at West Coast video, then Movie Gallery, and finally Blockbuster. Then I worked at a movie theater, so yeah... you could say life was all about the entertainment mediums back in the day. I love Rick's insane transformation into a little kid when he came to this store. You can see his passion so clearly as he is in awe of what this ridiculously awesome dude has done with this store (I'm tempted to get on a plane and fly there to check it out!). I love especially the big TV with the Super Mario Bros waiting to be played. So so so retro! Anyway, glad you shared this one Rick. And the only advice I think you need is twofold: 1. Pay more attention to the people commenting on your videos. You always ask us to comment but then I never see any kind of reply from you in the videos you make, like referencing what we all tell you. I think it would be cool to see some more interaction from you with your fans. 2. You really should consider putting your store online and sell items on a Retro Rick webstore. I'd be happy to help you set it up, as I'm a website developer and game programmer. I think you would be selling a heck of a lot more that way and also even get new items possibly that way too. Consider it. I'm here to help you if you need. Good work guys!

I have never been to store like this in my life. It’s simply amazing!

I've been meaning to get up to Madison to check out the stores in that area, now I know I've been missing out. Thanks for sharing this.

Those displays were WILD! Glad you got your channel back, AGAIN 😂 So we really didn’t rent at Blockbuster because my town was a lot smaller back in the day but we DID have a game/video rental through my grocery store King Soopers(an offshoot of Kroger in the West) and we used to rent games and videos every Friday it was glorious 😊😊

My grandma and grandpa had a sweet shop and they also had a rack of VHS cassettes to rent. It was like heaven and we'd get our pocket money in pick-n-mix sweets!

We used to rent games and movies from Hastings all the time! Miss those places.

As someone that grew up in the 80s and 90s I have absolutely no nostalgia for Blockbuster. Don’t think I ever set foot in one either. I grew up pretty poor so my parents took us to the hole in the wall video store run by a nice Korean couple. Tapes were $1 each to rent and their selection was AMAZING. Lots of weird and obscure horror stuff and of course the adults only section that I would always try to take a peek when my parents were not looking.

There was a Palmer Video a couple blocks from my house, so that was my go-to rental spot. I spent a whole summer playing Sonic 2 on their Genesis demo unit, and I once had my bike stolen outside the store because I spent so much time playing their Marvel Super Heroes arcade cabinet that I didn't even notice my bike was gone. Eventually, its name changed to West Coast Video and a Hollywood Video opened a few blocks further up the road.

Born in 95 and we had Blockbuster, Hastings, and Family Video. Good times

Glad you got your channel back in a reasonable timeframe this time

We used to have a Rental store called Jumbo Video. They had fresh free popcorn at the door so you could snack while you looked around. It was amazing.

For me, blockbuster was on the other side of town. So we went to a few mom and pop stores throughout the years. One used to do 5 movies, 5 days, 5 dollars. It was awesome.

Born in 95 and we had family video growing up! Loved that place

Reminds me of a store in Columbus, OH near me. Play It! Games, Movies, & Music / Play It Trade It (High Street location). Tons of Vintage. Glad to see shops like this in other places.

I grew up in a small town in the 80s. By 1990 I was 13 but we didn't have any big franchise rental stores. All our rental places were mom and pop shops.

Video Home Movies was where it was at. Hastings as well later in life. Keep up the great work my guy!

This is a store to my heart. Metal Vinyl and Games ♥️

me and my buddy frequent this store alot! Lance is such a cool dude!

We lived in rural Nebraska and grocery stores were our main supply for video rental. One town a guy rented VHS for $1 a night or 100 empty 12oz soda/beer cans!

I used to work at a Hastings! I was bummed when I went to visit the fam one time and it had closed, it was the best book and game collection spot in our small town.

I thought the gaming stores in my city were amazing....THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STORE I EVER SEEN...what a selection of everything i love it...i am drooling lol

I was a Family Video kid. I’d just call it “the video game store” until I got older lol. A lot of great memories! Now unfortunately the Family Video is a Dollar General. The back right corner with the games that I’d run straight for, to trying to make sure no one else there got the game I wanted that week😂 that corner is now filled with cheep kitchen ware… so sad… the 90s and early 2000s were just great! Love my generation! The gaming memories are endless!

My family and I always went to Hastings! Man good memories!

I think this is my favourite store that you’ve visited based on the video. Looks fantastic, unreal collection

It’s cool that Michael told us about video places he used to go to back in the 50s!

Wow that shop looks insane!!

What a store, dang!! So many great things I wish I had in my gameroom.

Shoutout @CollectorsLuck, great call, I'll have to visit this place next time I'm in the area. I just bought some zelda games of Jordan today.

I rented from a local small town video store called Vans video growing up… used to browse VHS titles for hours sometimes before deciding what to rent

That shop was amazing!! I can't believe he found all that in 5 years 😮

Where we rented our VHS in late 80s and 90s was Video Library in Lenexa, KS.

Loved Movie Gallery! Earlier we rented for Red Rooster.

Growing up we used to go to 4 video srore and they were blockbuster, Hollywood videos, movie gallery and a small mom and pop video store

We rented movies and games at a local joint. Forget the name, but VIVIDLY remember going to it every. Single. Friday.

One of my favorite gaming stores in Wisconsin. There is also some good ones in Appleton, De Pere, and Sheboygan, WI.

When I lived in Tijuana I rented from a small rental place near my house, moved to the States and started to rent from Longs Drug Store, eventually got a Block Buster card a few years before they went under. Then Netflix mail in rentals.

There was a Movie Gallery right down the street and I lied about being 18 on the application so I could rent R-rated stuff. But our main place was Arlene's where my mom and sister tanned. Great memories.

we had a huge place called Video Land when I was super young in the early 90s. then in about '97 they walled off 2/3rds of the store and it became a tiny Hollywood Video

I remember we had a video van calling round our neighbourhood like the ice cream man

I am so jealous of those cases. NGL. But yeah the main please my folks would get videos and games form was Good ol' Blockbuster. We has a Hollywood video as well in town but it really didn't last very long.

Wow, I lived in WI for 8 years and never knew this place existed. I’ll have to check it out whenever I go back

i love your channel. thank you and keep making these great videos!

We had Blockbuster, movie gallery, video update, family video, funcoland. I miss them all!

best video game store ever I have known lance for over 30 years.he is awesome

We had a local store in my little town of less than 2k, Video Country, where we used to rent movies and games.

Now that’s an interesting thumbnail

Back in the day in Nebraska, we had a Captain Video. Then we moved and it was Movie Gallery.

Awesome store!

Jumbo Video! Some still exist in Canada. The Free Popcorn was so sweet.

I use to rent from the grocery store at the grocery store. Our Albertsons had a room next to the customer service you rent movies and games from. I remember specifically renting child’s play on vhs and glover on the 64 when I was a kid in the 90s

I remember going to "Mr. Movies" as a kid... Miss that place

Remember stopping at Family Video rental growing up in the Mid West area

We'd jump around to each one then end up owing money then jump to the next one. Giant Eagle grocery store's video rental was probably the funniest tho. "Iggle Video"

Showtime Video, but then Food City opened up a movie rental place and it destroyed all the moms and pops video stores. I miss those days for sure.

Blockbuster and Hollywood Video here - for a while it was just Blockbuster, but they later opened a Hollywood Video store not too far from us, so we would alternate occasionally, but I gravitated towards Hollywood Video because they later had another store they opened up within their store called GameCrazy. Loved to buy retro games there while looking for rentals.

I love that store! I have been there a bunch of times. Lance is great!

"world of nintendo" sign would be perfect for the store 💯

Mainly for our movies from multiple mom and pop video shops. A variety store and a chain called Jumbo Video. Which ironically still exists in one location close to me. 🎉