Visiting a video shop was an experience, amazing childhood memories of going on a weekend to pick a film. So much more than just pressing a film on Netflix where you don't even leave the house, get the experience or interaction with others. Arcades brought people together gaming and although it's fun to play online you're not actually with them. Having friends round or going in their houses on a wet day in the summer holidays to play games. It's the experiences and interactions we've lost with the internet, we're connected but are we really? Maybe I'm stuck in the past but I knew life prior to phones and the internet and it was so much better.
Anyone else pick up on the "Photo behind the curtains" in the cinema room? It's not a photo of people at the cinema, but in fact the photo of the ballroom full of people shown at the end of The Shining with Jack Nicholson. Love,love,love this place, absolutely amazing retro 80's/90's vibes!!!!
Great video as always. I have to visit. I used to spend all my first job wages on VHS. I still have over 1500 tapes some with the original £12.99 price tag on them. I watch them on my trusty VHS player linked to a projector. My wife hates them as she says they take up too much room. I love the old trailers before the main movie or if you are oldskool "main film"). 😂
I knew this would happen, i ditch all my vhs tapes that i had bought since the 90s when i moved home 7 years ago to a smaller flat, and now they becimes collectable, just my luck, but i have a fallback, my philps cdi, this will make me milllions one day.........soon........hopefully. lol
Brings back memories of video rental places. Rented many NES & 16-bit games from these sorts of places. Also, just like the films of the era, cover art was better crafted across the board back then, so it was always a treat to go to a real place to rent.
Not copying but I also had a convo with my kids about how we used to watch films - then we had a debate as to whether or not a retro style video shop would work…… THIS is fabulous
Looks amazing! Those pictures behind the curtains in the cinema room are actually a blowup of the famous spooky photo from the very end of the shining, where it shows Jack has "always been the caretaker"! Incredible detail.
I always remember Karate Kid. Kid was always asking why you teach me painting wall, because the final fight is approaching. And then later he realized that master was preparing him to defend from kicks and strikes
That looks like a special place, love the passion. Our town had video store, except it was in the basement of a music store. They had to call our parents whenever we wanted to rent a film that was above our age rating. Great memories.
Now this is something I honestly never would have believed I would see again today, let alone somewhere I live right next door to! What an amazing place. So now we have a retro game shop in Derby, a vinyl shop in Langley Mill and now a video shop in Alfreton too! My nostalgia couldn't be more indulged.
I almost forgot to mention there's a retro game shop in Heanor as well, though I'm not as familiar with it now as when it used to be run by a different owner who ran it for easily 17+ years. And before having an actual shop, ran it as a stall in the small Cosy Market throughout the '90s. God bless you Carol wherever you are now!
Cool 80's video store :) Brought back memories, when we didn't have yet our own VCR, sometimes my parents rented an Esselte rental home video player and some movies with it, I think they were VHS cassettes. Then later in the 80's we bought our own VHS vcr, mostly used it to record shows from TV though. Bought myself a Philips VCR in 2003, and I still have it, basically in working condition most of the time, but sometimes it has some malfunctions.
Definitely nailed the aesthetic, they were always upstairs or in the back of a petrol station. Never expensively fitted shops like the later stores such as Blockbuster.
Back in the late 80s to mid 90s my mum used to work at a video shop,it was right on the corner of the street.I got to see basically anything and everything.I would have been around 7 at the time,born in 1981 watching things like robocop,terminator,running man,total recall,aliens,rambo ,rocky,star wars and a hold load of schlocky 80s horror movies like childs play,return of the living dead,evil dead,later on the shop started to rent out mega drive games.Then blockbusters came along and that was that.I did love blockbusters though,I used to hire the games out for my mega drive and cough,cough copy them onto my floppy drive thingamajig.good times...........
Wow these guys know their stuff. Spot on with reminding of my 80s childhood and early teens. Plus actual vhs tapes. Just how the video rental shops were in the early to mid 80s
I remember hanging out in places like this an hour or so before closing. Folks would begin returning movies and games at the last minute to avoid a late fee. Hang out around the return counter so you could go through those returns if you hadnt found what you wanted on the shelf.
I frickin love this store, this made a young 40yr old very happy & nostalgic. Followyed them on Instagram, this would so be worth a trip down from Scotland to visit. Great video, thanks for the tour...👏💙📼
Great video, I love that these guys are doing this and I really hope the store works out for them. I'll be sure to drop in when I'm in the area....looks like a little piece of my childhood.
That is an amazing video. So much retro goodness. I'm 43 so hits the heart strings I had so many vhs. Hahaha Auto tracking And people not rewinding videos
Great video Gemma, thanks for showing and can see why it's a fave:) Favourite movie was 'Adventures in Babysitting' (1987) and I just re-watched the 'Babysitting Blues' song for some foot-tapping music fun:) Cheers again.
I kid you not, if I were rich, I would open something similar. Probably sell more things, but also have many places for people to play old games. If I were rich. Right now I can't pay the bills lol. Thank you for a very interesting video and good luck.
Rob is one of my favourite people in the world. He's such a pleasure to hang out with. I'm yet to meet Chris but he clearly has taste. I couldn't make it to the opening night of the shop but will be heading over soon to worship at the VHS altar. Rob was kind enough to have me on the STV radio show once and also a Patreon episode of the STV podcast (which is an essential listen every week). So fun. I first met him at a cinema screening of the VHS documentary Adjust Your Tracking and have adored that gent ever since. This is one of my favourite videos ever on your lovely channel. Huge respect for bigging up the 80s video shop! BTW if you haven't already, check out That Weird Shop in Nottingham City centre near the arena. Very cool place.
Awesome! I hope you guys are still open and doing good buisness. I pray for the return of video stores. Such a huge part of my growing up and this streaming just isn't the same.
OMG this has brought back so many memories. I used to love spending time in Video stores. My small town had 3 i think, plus someone who had tapes in the back of his car! I still have quite a few tapes from back in the day.
I went to a video rental store in the 90's and rented Mega-lo-Mania for the Megadrive. When I got home Sonic the Hedgehog booted up. The previous renter swapped the labels and kept the game. To this day, I still have never played Mega-lo-Mania. The End.
@@TheGebs24 I remember going in once a month buying loads movies popcorn and jelly beans those flavours ones renting ps1 games loved it, told my lad about it he 9 and just went but we can just do on xbox .... yeah times change its convineint but it's not same
Great stuff, Gemma. I had that "What Are You Looking at Dicknose?" bumper sticker back in the day. Also, did Jess go to Penn State? I didn't go there, but I had several friends who did and I DJ'ed their parties back in the mid '90s.
It is a funny old world...... Companies expanding and spending millions on new tech. Digital consoles, digital games, NanoCell, QDot, Oled, wireless controllers, 4K Blurays.... the talk of 8K gaming and 8K TV's. Yet what does everyone yearn? 8Bit, 16Bit, CRT TV's, Videos, Vinyl (because it does sound better!) and just a more easier time. Tech and new tech is great, but sometimes you just can NOT beat a bit of old skool.
Absolutely amazing! Such a cool place by the looks of things. I could have watched this all day. So much cool retro stuff. Even a cinema😂Great video as always Gemma
Love it! Would definitely like to visit this place some time 🙂 I think I had a similar feeling of elation when I visited the flipper/arcade museum in Krakow, Poland. Need to shout out that place cause it's beyond awesome!
