My family bought their first VCR in I think 87 and we'd just recently gotten cable so that very night I taped Pee Wee's Big Adventure off of HBO. I don't remember the first movie I rented because it was a year or two before we actually joined a video store (Video Paradise, in the parking lot next to the McDonalds behind the train station) They had this weird system where every empty box on the shelf (nobody shelved the actual tapes then because they cost something like $100 each on average for a store, because of the multi tiered pricing system for VHS) had a kind of POG size tag velcroed on to the front, and if a tag was there that meant the movie was available, so you could take the tag to the register and they would bring the tape out to you.

My first rental was "A Bridge Too Far". Then it became my first purchase.

I don't remember the exact year, but my family got our first VCR in the late 80's. It was a used top loader, like the one in Napoleon Dynamite. My parents let each of us pick a tape out at the store. My oldest brother picked Spaceballs, next was King Kong vs Godzilla, then Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (that was mine--I was about 5 or 6).

I also like him, because he always tries to be positive even when he doesn't like something. I like his friend the Obsolete Geek as well for that overwhelming joy in finding old electronics. Either most YouTube nerds are snotty and sarcastic or I'm watching the wrong kinds of videos.