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But now, that $5/week in allowance would afford me WWE Network and XBox Game Pass, effectively putting the wrestling and video game rental portions of my beloved childhood video stores in the home. Going into those stores felt like there were endless choices and for so cheap. Wrestling was my thing and renting those tapes was the way to get my fix. Joe) or pulling the moves off on a pillow, occasionally busting a hole in the wall of my bedroom. I’d get to know those tapes so well I’d spend the time watching them recreating the matches move for move with my LJN figures (or sometimes He-Man characters or G.I. As a very young kid, I could ride my bike down, talk to Doug or Kevin behind the counter, grab a couple wrestling tapes and rent a Genesis game ($2/night) and have a dollar left over from my $5 weekly allowance. This was important to my wrestling fandom as there was a large cardboard stand that served as the “wrestling section” and those tapes were $0.88 per night.
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Growing up about two blocks from our very small downtown meant I was a short walk - or more likely a bike ride - away from The Movie Zoo. There are something like five Family Videos still chugging along within an hour’s drive of my house, two mom and pop joints and a laundromat that is also a video rental store. Here in the comfort of the midwest, I’m still surrounded by the places. The world is down to a single Blockbuster Video and it seems as though everyone is in mourning over the loss of the video rental outlets they would likely not frequent even if they were able.