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The 1st VHS you watched

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,804 ✭✭✭oranbhoy67


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,804 ✭✭✭oranbhoy67


    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 !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    probably something taped off the tv


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭Mr Keek


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭jackie1974


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    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



  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.... :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    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!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    It was Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

    I wore that tape out :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    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'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,804 ✭✭✭oranbhoy67


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭ThOnda


    Neverending Story.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭jackie1974


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Darby O' Gill I think. :/ Remember the video piracy/rating warnings. :) "..scenes of sex or violence..". :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 410 ✭✭scudster


    Think the first one I seen was The Goonies. Classic!:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭7sr2z3fely84g5




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    I think it was 'Every Which Way But Loose'


    Waaaaaaahhh-wahhh-weeeerrrr-whahhhh-weeerrrr-whaaaaahhhhh




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Titanic
    1 hour 21 mins


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    Friday the thirteenth
    The breakfast club

    And my all time fave of my school years was The Outsiders.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    i think it was robocop, i loved it and still do


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    I'm pretty sure we had a Ferguson Videostar, top loader jobbie with the remote on a wire. No long play :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    It's one of my earliest memories.

    It was 1990 and I was invited to a birthday party with my sister to one of her friend's birthdays, and while the girls watched 'All Dogs Go To Heaven' on the brand spanking new VHS in the sitting room, us boys were supposed to play cowboys and indians or something outside.

    Well having reached the age of 4, & old enough to know that freckle faced Irish toddlers looked nothing like native americans, I snuck in behind the setee during a Coca Cola and lion-bar snackbreak for the girls, and lavished in my first ever experience of the glorious VHS.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 395 ✭✭Simon Adebisi


    Poison Ivy - Michael J.Fox in a summer camp. I remember it as being good but ive a feeling it was brutal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 342 ✭✭aido 1976


    Star Wars, can't remember the year. It was a pirated copy and watched it with a bottle of lemonade and a pack of crisps. In a well known Dublin 8 pub.
    I was only a nipper, but still remember it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    Can't remember the first, but I know we used to rent the VCR. We used to rent Simpsons videos too because we had 2 channels even in the early 90's. Used to rent Sega Megadrives too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 342 ✭✭aido 1976



    Super Movie,

    DL that recently, showed it to my kids, they didnt see the appeal.

    I F***ing loved that movie.

    Ah the memories...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    I think it was Zombie Flesh Eaters and I remember my older brother signing it out from the first Video Rental shop in Sligo.


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