My movie was princess and the goblin. I watched it on a 10x10 in monitor that had the VHS in while I worked at my family’s business where I did labor at 10 years of age 30+ hours a week. Good times
Back in my day
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PatFussy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Tell that to my daughter watching that soviet cartoon about penguins I had as a video tape over and over again on youtube
VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Dude I remember getting so pumped up because of specials on Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network. In high school I loved being home to catch my favourite shows.
bighatchester@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I really liked the movie titan AE and had it on VHS . When looking it up recently aparen it was really bad . Still might give it a rewatch some time though
A7thStone@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It isn’t bad. The story and characters are a bit tropey, but the animation is gorgeous. I’d recommend watching it again. The nostalgia will probably more than make up for what it lacks.
daikiki@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t let the haters get you down. Titan A.E. is a classic
Marcumas@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Saw it in theaters. Still like it.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How obscure are we talking ? Mine was Gandahar (1987). Try to beat that !
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maximum overdrive. We didn’t tape it, but it was saved to our DVR for years.
chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Aladdin
kokopelli@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Rikki Tikki Tavi!
recently_Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Mine was Scamper the Penguin.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For me it was The Boy Who Loved Trolls, The Boy Who Could Fly, Flight of the Navigator and the Rainbow Brite episode/movie that contained this song: youtu.be/zPRWuegS8l8?si=OYJ3x4vSSyWg2eNO
TMPinSYR@lemmy.world 11 months ago
100%!!!
I co-host a podcast focused on superhero movies. Over breaks (summer and winter holidays) we’ll typically do something different than our usual. This past summer we did a Jeff Bridges sci-fi double feature - Tron (the original) and Starman.
For this holiday season we just recorded an od pairing that I think could be called “what random VHS tapes does you grow up with?” The movies? Roadhouse and The Pirates of Penzance!
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It was a direct to VHS release called “Berenstein Bears visit Sinbad in Shazam!”. This was pretty close to Ironton. My mom said I had such an imagination with it and it was all static.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Jungle Book starring Sabu. The only VHS my family owned from when I was 5 - 9.
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The obscure movie for me was… Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. I still know every line of dialog from beginning to end any time I happen to see it on.
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Ha. My dad’s copy of star wars was just star wars, no episode, no hope. I’m old.
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I thought the “Episode IV” was always there? I’m talking the early 80s. I’m not exactly young either…
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Same but Phantom Menace for me
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Say what you will about the prequels, at least they’re not the sequels.
tslnox@reddthat.com 11 months ago
My aunt had a big cabinet full of home recorded tapes, our most favourites were the ones with BTTF, Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the one with one and only episode of The Adventures of Sinbad.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Alaska, I really wanted to pilot that yellow Piper Cub.
Also something Tom&Jerry related.
Also something Mickey Mouse related.
Can’t remember much, TBF, because later there’d be a few DVDs with Master&Commander, LOTR, SW: RotS, making me forget everything before.
BromSwolligans@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m gonna have kids just so I can make sure to raise them on the correct media diet. They’re getting all the classic video game consoles, in order of generation, so when they get to something like Elden Ring they have the context all the way back to Space Invaders to appreciate it. And we’re going to be a home of physical media, god damn it. We’re not streaming things. We’re putting CD’s and vinyls and blu rays in their respective players. No iPads. Only books, comics, coloring books and notebooks.
How the fuck did parents start giving their kids iPads, anyway? Nintendo Switches? My first Gameboy cost $90 and I bought it with my own birthday money. A children’s book from a young reader series cost $6 new in the 90s and is probably not much worse now. Less, if you buy it used, which is much easier now. And people are just like, “here, my 12 year old child, have an Xbox Series whatever, and an iPad, and a Galaxy phone. They’re all pre-connected to your YouTube account. Don’t let your other parent know that I told you we’re getting you a gaming PC, Logitech C920, condenser microphone, wireless headset, gaming chair, scissor arm, and LED lighting array so you can chase the completely impossible dream of being a professional streamer. Can I kiss your feet while I’m at it? Will that make this a good half-birthday for you?” Unfuckingthinkable. Knock it off.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I can’t recall my family having obscure movies. Don’t remember what it’s actually about, but I at least remember we had one Home On The Range VHS. Don’t recall ever watching it once, but this post made it come to the forefront of my memory
Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Judgement Night and Speed. I guess I got lucky, all my aunt had in the middle of fucking nowhere. Now two of my favorites
PowerGloveSoBad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That soundtrack was unreal. One of my first CD purchases as a little dude – got it in the Columbia House 0.99 “deal” lol.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Little Monsters and a Herbie movie.
macisr@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
We could say the sme thing about music.
ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Mine was The Point. 🎵 Me and my Arrow 🎵
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For me it was a VHS of the first four episodes of the Swamp Thing animated cartoon
Jaytreeman@kbin.social 11 months ago
'Holy Moses's
An absolutely stacked cast about Moses brother. Somehow very medicreaesthelete@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Captain Ron fam checking in!
NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I’m just barely old enough to relate to this
DagonPie@kbin.social 11 months ago
I still watch these movies that I used to own just on their respective streaming platforms. I cant tell you how many times I've rewatched the same handful of movies I had as a kid but in my adult years.
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Yeah, about half the time when I sit down to watch a movie, it’s one from my childhood. It’s oddly comforting to me.
Cyclist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My wife and I used to have Parents with Randy Quaid on VHS. I love that movie but I haven’t seen it in 20 years.
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
for me, that will be the random movie my brother asked me to download to my jellyfin server years ago.
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Psalty iykyk
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
An American Tale for me and my closest(in age) siblings. Bonus because while my older brother and I were American born, we moved out of the country when I was 2, and my younger sister was born outside the states. We saw the movie first overseas, then often when we came back to the US (7 for me).