Thoughts on Blockbuster

One thing I was thinking about tonight was the old days. Man I miss my childhood even though it sucked, being an adult especially a black adult is worse. You just always feel like you don't belong to society and shit, it sucks man...

Back as a kid I always rocked blockbuster. Ask Chris Stuckman from youtube, he's the white version of me...

We did the same shit, always going to blockbuster as kids. I LOVED blockbuster, motherfucker. I mean just the feel of the fucking place, being surrounded by hundreds of awesome stories and badass games to play. I looked forward to nothing else as a kid but going to blockbuster at some point to grab up some popcorn buckets, candy, and a good ass movie or videogame.

Now all that shit's done, son. It's all gone, and that pisses me off. I miss browsing for movies in a store and all that jazz.

That's how I discovered the Super Mario Bros movie as an 11 year old. I just saw it on the shelf and was just like OMG this exists?

Rented it out of the store, budget blockbuster just so ya know. VHS rentals were a HUGE thing during the 90s. It was really big business because there was no internet, people HAD TO get movies from rental stores if they wanted to see movies. Now it's all internet downloads...

Everything was like that. I wonder now how the industry is going to change as everything is going to become digital. And it will, there's no going back to browsing for anything digital in stores anymore. They will indeed evolve to the point where physical media will be phased out completely, I have no doubt of that.

I mean I'll personally miss the phsyical media because that's all I had as a kid, going to the toy store and seeing and feeling the new yoshi island game that came out or whatever. I can't imagine actually just zippity downloading it real fast to my game boy in seconds.... Been buying games traditionally all my ass fucking life, son...

But all that shit's going down the tubes. as much as we want to hold to this ancient idea of getting off your ass to go buy somthing, the simple fact that today a game can be beamed to your console directly from the computer of the company making the games means that whole fucking BluRay etc disc will become obsolete.

Even when I was watching them come out with the blu Ray etc to replace DVDs, I was thinking, this won't matter. the internet is getting faster and faster and soon there won't be any need for physical media. Maybe for backup purposes but 5 years from now, there won't be physical game media, or even movies sold on discs anymore...

Kinda sad to me, I still remember the days of watching power rangers on VHS and all that shit, man. I don't want to let go, but when DVD came along I was like WOW sweet as fuck, don't have to rewind shit anymore!!! I gotta say as a kid rewinding a VHS was torture!!! DVD was like crack to me when that shit came along...
So now don't even have to put a disc into a disc drive anymore. Not bad... I mean what's the big deal if things change?