My Blockbuster became a Hollywood Video, which then became a grocery store.
Only video stores left in my town are either Family Video or local stuff that branched out much more heavily into gaming.
mine's a military recruitment center
i wish blockbuster just said fuck it and became a streaming service
Ours is an auto-insurance office now
Nothing. The one next to the house I grew up in was just emptied out and nothing was ever done to it. Last time I saw it a year ago it was next to an empty K-mart and Payless Shoes.
There's still a rather active video rental place in my town and I'm sure that's true for other places in Australia. It's always funny to me personally seeing these places described as such an oddity or relic when they've always been a part of my life.
Mine turned into a Subway. I was unaware of their closing until it was too late as the last day of opening was simply me walking in and asking for two pairs of Red and Cyan 3D Glasses. How foolish i was to not realise the death of Blockbuster as i came for two pieces of visual gimmick.
my local video rental store still does rentals.
Pretty wild that.
Last memory I have is going to Blockbuster and trying to rent a game, hell if I remember what it was I think it was Soul Calibur II. Tried to play, CD didn't work. Went back to Blockbuster and got another CD, also didn't work. Was upset after that.
Ours is a Chick-fil-A now, but we had one that I think was privately owned until it turned into a movie gallery. Sometime before that they sold off their old video games which is how I got Sim City and StarFox for SNES.
Nothing like being the cheeky cunt with the modded PS2 n rentin games and having my dad copy em so i could keep them
i was in a shit town with like dial up so couldn't download em really
As promised here the current state of the Morley BlockBuster (or what's left of it):
https://imgur.com/a/YFaZnnk
Place has been gutted. There used to be a business to the side but they moved too. Place has been hit by a car and a tornado yet stayed open till a few months ago .
Man I still have vivid memories of trying out a demo of Super Mario 64 in our towns blockbuster. I remember the kid in front of me couldn't figure out the controls, and just kept trying to use the D Pad and was accidentally adjusting the camera nonstop instead, before finally giving up and handing the controls over to me. There was also these weird suitcases they had for straight up renting entire game consoles. That didn't last long and I can probably imagine why lol, but sadly I never rented one of those. I can also remember the absolutely massive game case for Earthbound that was sitting on the wall there. No idea why that game got one that was so huge compared to the other games, but amazingly it still wasn't enough to ever tempt me to rent it. I only just this year played Earthbound for the first time, fucking hell.
God I fucking miss that place. RIP
Ours got turned into a paint can store.
We also had video ezy and United video but those got shutdown and turned into sushi places.
Mine's a liquor store now
Little did they know that this was all a deliberate plan for Blockbuster to lay low and wait until the right moment to activate the genetically coded Blockbusterfier virus which rapidly transforms the stores back into Blockbusters and launches a surprise counter attack against Netflix.
I forgot they even did that at one point. I wonder how crusty those consoles were.
Nothing, it got split up and the store next to it took over the extra space. Its sometimes rented out as those quick popup charity stores or bootleggers but they never last more than a few months, the rent for the place is too damn high for the location.
Local Blockbusters shut in the late 90's, became another rental shop called "Drive Through Video" or something like that, only remember going in the Blockbusters once. That rental shop that took over shut in 2007 or there abouts, so it had a good run. It's just a crappy locally owned clothes shop now.
The blockbuster I used to rent n64 games from turned into a walk-in clinic.
The one in the town I currently live in turned into a quilting store. Rented plenty of original xbox games from there.
Another local-ish store turned into a pet store.
I had two Blockbusters near me.
One became a gym, and the other was split between a Marco's Pizza and a Jimmy John's.
Mine got turned into a anytime fitness
Mine turned into an Aaron's
Still even has the blue shade/tarp thing.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/2015/5d81d09f-bde6-4eb0-8ed6-8c0c37817911/image.png
oh my god even the paintings are gone?
One became a hardware store/paint shop, and the other became a dance studio I'm pretty sure. I've never seen it actually used.
Mine was bought by someone who kept it as a movie renting/videogame/candy store and called it "Blockbuster: Village" to basically keep all the customers of the previous store had, but it wasn't enough, the store first got smaller and then it closed, and now there's nothing there.
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