Goonies, but it was recorded from TV and you had to switch tapes at about the pirate ship.
My family was pretty poor growing up, but we had cable. Back in the day there would occasionally be free weekends of Disney Channel, HBO and the like. Whenever there was one of those free weekends, my parents would buy a super long blank VHS tape and record hours of random movies. So for years every movie that I watched had an 800 number that would pop up every few minutes asking you to call and subscribe.
The more things change, the more they stay the same i guess. Sounds like just anout every streaming service out there today.
That’s what you get for recording in SP.
Police Academy 1-7 but mostly 4.
Dont sleep on Police Academy 3: Citizens on Patrol
Edit: C.O.P was 4. I feel shame
Yeah. 1 and 3 were recorded during one of those HBO free weekends for us.
That was number 4. I used to think the skating and “robot” scenes were the coolest shit ever.
You are correct. How could I get this wrong???
I only had 6. All I can say is “cigar scene”
I still yell “they’re not yielding!” when I’m driving
I had the same thing with video games. My dad got a free promotional copy of Morrowind from Fry’s. I didn’t have a computer/ laptop, but every summer, my dad would let me use his on our road trips. That game made me want to learn so much about anthropology, biology, history, mythology, etc… I played for hundreds of hours and never even came close to finishing.
Morrowind is one of my favorites of all time. I was into nag champa incense at the time, and so that smell will always remind me of Morrowind. Singing about the ambiance of Morrowind was kinda incense-y anyway, so it was the perfect combo
I love nag champa! The og smells so sweet, and the ashes are pretty/ easy to clean. I always think of headshops, though lol. They taught me the bottle trick, though. I like to use a key ring to hold the insence upside down in a glass bottle. It’s super clean.
Never heard of that! Thanks for the tip. Gonna try it
never even came close to finishing.
It is an Elder Scrolls game, you don’t finish those, the existence of the main quest is merely a theoretical thing from myth and legend.
My dad got a PS2 when I was six. There was Jak and Daxter, and there was Colin McRae Rally. Later I also ended up with Sly Cooper.
I didn’t have many friends to compare with so that was what I played. Everyone else played Crash Bandicoot, Pokémon, Mario games, etc. and I was like “have you heard about Ratchet and Clank”? Those series eventually got more popular but no one I knew had them at the time.
I had Sly as well! The soundtrack was awesome.
He’s my friend and a whole lot more! Ew.
Every few months, when the topic of obscure childhood bs comes up in conversation, my husband will always ask about my “made up dinosaur rock band show” from when I was a child.
I’ve asked so many people in my life, from different areas around the US, varying ages, etc, and only on the internet do I have proof that Denver the Last Dinosaur wasnt a fever dream. 😂
Thank you for my quarterly validation.
HE’S MY FRIEND AND A WHOLE LOT MORE
…wait what
DEN-VER! The last diiinosaur
My brain did the same thing. What the hell else is stored down in there??
I have finally found it, thank you stranger.
oh my god
I would tell people about Death Race 2000 and they’d look at me like I was crazy.
But have you seen its sequel?
No. I will not see it. They cannot improve upon perfection.
The Sandlot for me
“you’re killin me, Smalls!”
Several dozen? Rookie numbers.
Yeah. My VCR TV would automatically rewind and start playing again. I have no idea how many times some of those tapes were played but it definitely broke 100.
Did this with spiderwick and bridge to tarabithia but I wouldn’t call these particularly obscue.
Also did this with a movie that I can only describe as space jumanji as well
Zathura: A Space Adventure, great movie 👍🙂
Uncle Buck Great movie.
When I was a kid I wanted to grow up to be uncle Buck. Unfortunately my brother took that position (down to driving a shit car that randomly backfires) and I’m just a normal dude 😕
Milo and Otis, Toys, and The Goonies. Watched those 3 movies a thousand times.
Fellow Toys-kid here!
I remember watching that and being too young to understand why the one kid wanted to put the stuff in his pants. Was very confused about that part.
I’m still confused, who wants pubes that long and that abundant??
Me and the other Brave Little Toaster kids ended up a bit weird.
I really liked Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. My parents got it for me on VHS at some point and I watched it so much it literally wore out the tape. Then my parents got it for me on DVD.
Can’t even watch it on streaming because they only ever have the subtitled version, and the dub is vastly superior for the dialogue. The subs cut so much flavor and poetry out of the dialogue that it becomes super boring and just the basic gist of what’s going on.
Before that, the “obscure” VHS my parents had that I watched a lot was Monty Python’s Holy Grail. We spent years trying to understand what the “witch” says when she is found guilty and only knew for certain what it was years later when they released a special edition DVD and we watched it with the subtitles on. “It’s a fair cop.”
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is so good. I have to admit that I’ve only ever watched it with subs though. Maybe I’ll try the dub next time.
For me, it was What About Bob?
Fern Gully -WAM Sky Dancers -BOOM The Black Cauldron -HAZAA!
