The 1st VHS you watched

TheDriver · 15-09-2011 9:37pm #1

Can remember the Dad renting a video machine about the mid 80s and having lamb on video, seriously depressing crap. It was a top loading video player that had no recording function!

BluesBerry · 15-09-2011 9:40pm

I remember smokey and the bandit was the only video we had and watched it a lot

TheDriver · 15-09-2011 9:42pm

remember pressing the "tracking" button where white lines would go up and down the screen!

ancapailldorcha · 15-09-2011 9:42pm

Winnie the Pooh when I was a kid. Ah memories.

wolf moon · 15-09-2011 9:43pm

Commando or Dawn of The Dead - can't remember which one first..

Cicero · 15-09-2011 9:44pm

Rocky (1)

The Internet Explorer · 15-09-2011 9:44pm

I remember fondly the smell of the humble Video Cassette.

Nodin · 15-09-2011 9:45pm

TheDriver wrote: »

Can remember the Dad renting a video machine about the mid 80s and having lamb on video, seriously depressing crap. It was a top loading video player that had no recording function!

Quadrophenia, Arthur and Life of Brian, all in the one day.

Dangerous Man · 15-09-2011 9:45pm

VHS was great. I had a video recorder up until recently and would, every now and again watch some of my favourite old movies on VHS - they just feel better than DVD / Blue Ray.

TheDriver · 15-09-2011 9:47pm

What kind of music do you have here? We have both kinds Country AND Western!

Caveman1 · 15-09-2011 9:47pm

Found a porn video on the way home from school one day, wasn't the 1st one I seen but definitely the most memorable

drunkmonkey · 15-09-2011 9:47pm

Porky's - Only one mate had a video player and we all piled into to watch it. First time I remember selling boobs on the TV I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghsuk6GiEN8

TheDriver · 15-09-2011 9:48pm

Caveman1 wrote: »

Found a porn video on the way home from school one day, wasn't the 1st one I seen but definitely the most memorable

Debbie does Dallas?

TheDriver · 15-09-2011 9:48pm

I remember a mate had Revenge of the Nerds with the famous scene of looking through the peepholes shouting BUSH BUSH BUSH

Dangerous Man · 15-09-2011 9:49pm

TheDriver wrote: »

I remember a mate had Revenge of the Nerds with the famous scene of looking through the peepholes shouting BUSH BUSH BUSH

I had that too - good old bugger.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 15-09-2011 9:49pm

Popeye with Robin Williams

DEFTLEFTHAND · 15-09-2011 9:49pm

I had a Thomas the tank engine video that I used to watch religiously 3 or 4 times a day as a child. The parents used to always rent videos on a Saturday night and the odd time id be allowed to stay up and watch too, would never manage to stay awake till the end though.

TheDriver · 15-09-2011 9:51pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The parents used to always rent videos on a Saturday night .

Thank God for Internet Porn, no need to rent the "saturday night video" anymore.........:D

youtube! · 15-09-2011 9:51pm

life of brian and some film with george burns and john denver cant remember what its called but it was good.

Caveman1 · 15-09-2011 9:52pm

TheDriver wrote: »

Debbie does Dallas?

Debbie does darndale it was a home made one

slavetothegrind · 15-09-2011 9:52pm

can't remember the first but Phantasm had an impact, a classic if i say so myself.
Also remember toploaders and jugs of water on top so they worked!!!

My friend when i was young was the first to have a player and his dad backed betamax so we endured an ever diminishing choice of movies until he relented and got a vhs.

abouttobebanned · 15-09-2011 9:52pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbRBhK1MaBo

eyeball kid · 15-09-2011 9:53pm

Rocky 4 was the first one I ever saw on VHS. We had to rent the video player from the shop. Took ages to get it tuned in and working.

mookishboy · 15-09-2011 9:53pm

E.T on Betamax about 6 months before it hit the cinema at a neighbours
no idea how he got it but it was pretty cool at the time

whatsamsn · 15-09-2011 9:53pm

Rambo 2

My dad bought a VHS player in 1989. Its freaky how I remember that. Was only a few years old.

Oddly enough the first DVD I watched was Cobra when I bought a ps2. Whats with the sly stallone movies?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 15-09-2011 9:54pm

TheDriver wrote: »

Thank God for Internet Porn, no need to rent the "saturday night video" anymore.........:D

Christ, now I know the reason for the times they wouldn't let me stay up and watch..:eek:

El Weirdo · 15-09-2011 9:55pm

Poltergeist. Top-loading video recorder, too. Loud cluck when you loaded the cassette and lots of clunking and whirring when you pressed any button.

Where To · 15-09-2011 9:58pm

BluesBerry wrote: »

I remember smokey and the bandit was the only video we had and watched it a lot

Are you my brother?

TheDriver · 15-09-2011 9:58pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Christ, now I know the reason for the times they wouldn't let me stay up and watch..:eek:

I hope your username isn't anything to do with sneaking down to watch it later..........

WatchWolf · 15-09-2011 9:58pm

Backyard Sluts 9

Frank Black · 15-09-2011 9:58pm

E.T.

Must have watched that movie, literally dozens of times.

oranbhoy67 · 15-09-2011 10:04pm

1st video we rented were both karate kid & beverly hills cop i was 5.. cant remember which we watched 1st...but i remember in the video shop more than 3 walls were betamax videos with only a small space for VHS...which we had..though it soon changed the other way

Videos i always watched over and over when i was younger were The Blues Brothers , Lost Boys, & Pink Floyd The Wall Movie.. & the offical Italia 90 ROI world cup video & offical history of Celtic FC video 1888-1988

Professey Chin · 15-09-2011 10:07pm

Was a Disney cartoon. Either Robin Hood or Sword in the Stone.
Cant remember which I seen 1st

oranbhoy67 · 15-09-2011 10:09pm

i can actually remember the name of the first porno i watched..it was called 8 till 4 & was a porno version of the Dolly Parton film 9 till 5.. i was only about 9 & my friends big sisters boyfriend put it on... halfway thru his mum walked in ..laughed & walked out... my mouth was literally on the floor the whole time... when it came to "the money shot" scenes i never had a flucking clue what was going on !

Saila · 15-09-2011 10:12pm

probably something taped off the tv

ScumLord · 15-09-2011 10:14pm

I remember watching Robocop on the sly before it was returned. I got as far as the part where he gets shot to bits then had nightmares for the rest of that year.

Mr Keek · 15-09-2011 10:15pm

I remember myself and my parents got the bus to Dublin, Dad was too nervous to drive in there and VCRs were way dearer in Galway, there was only one electronic shop in Galway at the time and they took full advantage of the monopoly!

We got a Salora VCR and he never told me what it was, the first time I watched a Video was when I was watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and when it was over Dad asked if I wanted to watch it again!

First movie I watched was He Man!

I bought my Dad a Saorview PVR recently and he was like me on the day when I watched the Turtles! Pure excited!

jackie1974 · 15-09-2011 10:16pm

Watership down and a music video of The Stranglers singing Golden Brown. We sang Golden Brown in a shakey voice for years because the tracking was off and we thought that was the way it was meant to be

kfallon · 15-09-2011 10:16pm

Rambo - First Blood!

I remember we got a copy of Back To The Future and I watched it every day for about 3 weeks, everytime I hear this song I'm reminded of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK0z87WrhGo

Riesen_Meal · 15-09-2011 10:18pm

Back in my day before we could afford one we rented one for the first time ever for the weekend, I distinctly remember my dad having to give a 50 POUND deposit for the vhs recorder as an insurance thing!

Back then there was no xtravision, it was a video store, we rented Ghostbusters, Teenwolf and something else I can't remember, I remember even getting up at the crack of dawn to repeatedly watch them all again the next day.....

Good times....

Paparazzo · 15-09-2011 10:18pm

E.T. and we all cried.

jackie1974 wrote: »

Watership down and a music video of The Stranglers singing Golden Brown. We sang Golden Brown in a shakey voice for years because the tracking was off and we thought that was the way it was meant to be

I laugh every time I read that! Brilliant!

Giselle · 15-09-2011 10:29pm

It was Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

I wore that tape out

General General · 15-09-2011 10:32pm

Possibly Crocodile Dundee... first one I got out for myself, I think, was Angel Heart, so I could see Lisa Bonet in the 'all together'.

oranbhoy67 · 15-09-2011 10:37pm

jackie1974 wrote: »

Watership down and a music video of The Stranglers singing Golden Brown. We sang Golden Brown in a shakey voice for years because the tracking was off and we thought that was the way it was meant to be

haha i remember watching the video sledge hammemer by peter gabrile over & over & i mind watching watership down in school & everyone was in tears at the end

My brother had a bruce Springsteen video collection VHS too & i always thought it was the video that was distorting this song but having seen it on youtube & tv since i can now see thats the way it was supposed to sound

ThOnda · 15-09-2011 10:49pm

Neverending Story.

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 15-09-2011 10:54pm

Two memories from that era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhOb7SogssE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCvXb8cuUds

jackie1974 · 15-09-2011 10:55pm

oranbhoy67 wrote: »

jackie1974 wrote: »

Watership down and a music video of The Stranglers singing Golden Brown. We sang Golden Brown in a shakey voice for years because the tracking was off and we thought that was the way it was meant to be

haha i remember watching the video sledge hammemer by peter gabrile over & over & i mind watching watership down in school & everyone was in tears at the end
My brother had a bruce Springsteen video collection VHS too & i always thought it was the video that was distorting this song but having seen it on youtube & tv since i can now see thats the way it was supposed to sound

Id say the neighbours for miles around could hear us crying for those poor bunny rabbits, we were traumatised but still watched it over and over because we had nothing else to watch, haha.