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Earliest VHS memories

To kick things off, what's the one tape you remember watching as much as possible when you were a kid? I'd have to say mine was probably The Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers -- unlike most people I love the hell out of that movie, it's hilarious and the special effects are insanely good -- admittedly a few of the dirtier jokes were unnecessary, but that doesn't dampen things. I watched it, but my dad hated it -- not because of the critical response, but because everyone was screaming all the time in the film.


What're your "kid plays it every day and drives the parents nuts" tapes?


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Reply by Clone

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As a kid I was really into trains and my parents got me a collection called america's railroads which is nothing but footage and commentary about old train's and I would watch that nonstop and everyone else found it extremely boring lol.


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Reply by DragonStarPlanet

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As a kid,


Mostly Disney's The Lion King.

I also have a lot of recorded vhs tapes that I need them to convert to DVD.


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Reply by Zap_Rowsdower

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mine was watching a blue's clues tape that i'm surprised i didn't break from playing too much LOL


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Reply by ToriElectra

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I hear that. I had Blues Clues tapes too as a kid, I watched those all the time. I think watching them all the time is what gave me a fear of the Paramount "Feature Presentation" logo for years after -- I thought, between the bombastic music and the words zooming into the screen, that the logo would come out of the screen and eat me.


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Reply by XxObscurefruitxX

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I had a massive collection of Disney VHS tapes as a kid (still do in a box somewhere) and used to watch them every night before bed. 

One tape in that was particularly loved wasn't even Disney though, it was a little heard of film called "The Elmchanted Forest" It was one of the ones I watched the most. I remember particular scenes, especially at the beginning that were full of big grey bars of static floating down the screen. I grew out of its target audience at just the right time cause it was definitely on the way out!


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Reply by Howdy

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yoo, I had watched a blues clues vhs tapes too! I'm pretty sure my first crush was the nick jr face that would sometimes appear before an episode lmaoo, I also watched the animated Scooby-doo movies a whole bunch, but the movie I used to watch on repeat that annoyed my parents and siblings was actually not a vhs, but the finding nemo dvd XD 
 


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Reply by Marley Boy

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Well, I suppose the earliest memory I have of VHS are all those Blue's Clues episodes that were packaged on those tapes. It's hard for me to remember!


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Reply by Ree </3

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Scooby Doo: Alien Invaders and tapes with episodes of Dora, The Power Puff Girls, and Courage the Cowardly dog were some of my earliest. Also a tape my mom recorded Anne of Green Gables on for me (or so she thought) but my dad recorded the NBA finals over it lolllll 


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Reply by Davey Treen

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lol the live action Cat in a Hat was my no-no movie


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Reply by izzy

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omggg probably Little Miss Sunshine xD i don't remember anything from that movie except my mom hating how much i wanted to watch it for some reason


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Reply by C

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the 1998 Godzilla movie with Matthew Broderick. i wore out the tape when i was a kid.


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Reply by Kharua

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I didn't watch a lot of vhs when i was younger.

But i do remember watching a tape of the care bears every time when i went to my aunt.

Sadly, they got thrown out before i started my vhs collection :(


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Reply by Stev

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My earliest VHS memory was getting the ronald mcdonald cartoon casette tape when getting Mcdonalds one night. I loved rugrats and that was the same animation so I was stoked


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Reply by Naj510

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When I was young, every time I spent the weekend at my grandma's house, I would always watch Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. God that was my shit back in the day.


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Reply by [Dak]

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I am 30 years old, born in 1995. My very first VHS and Movie watched was the 1995 "faces" VHS copy of Star Wars: A New Hope. in 1997, My blind, single mother plopped it into the VCR for us to "watch together". It was my mother's favorite movie, even if she couldn't enjoy the visual element any longer (she did see all three of the original movies before losing her sight). 


Gave me a life-long passion for Star Wars, and opened me up to so many things, even my love for computers and tech originally stem from that night at our rented town-house.


We had a massive collection of VHS *AND* Betamax! Mom thought it was so cool when DVDs came out, but always struggled with putting it into the tray, (and she couldn't watch unless I was around to navigate the menus!) so we kept with VHS until they stopped making new VHS releases.


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Reply by xXx_Mikuru_xXx

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Hoo boy, tapes that I loved but drove my parents nuts eh? Well, I had a couple tapes of this old 80s cartoon called The Bluffers and I watched those tapes SOOOO much as a wee tot and my mom HATED it lol

Less annoying for her but just as good for tiny me tho was Disney's Cinderella. I watched that one a whole lot alongside Sleeping Beauty back in the day. I still remember getting a vhs copy of Cinderella II in my Easter basket one year and that was the last tape we ever got ^_^


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Reply by sadsatan

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I only remember one, and it was some sort of turtle animated show? I don;t quite remember. 


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Reply by Lalokupfer

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the first Land before Time was my favorite VHS ever

i distinctly remember watching it at my grammas on her old tv a lot of times

(i love dinosaurs :) 


And Robin Hood! We would watch that several times a year 

SO GOOD 


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