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b'GamerDude talks about how the only way to watch movies when he was a kid was either in the movie theater, or waiting for the movie to appear on network TV, or in syndication. He talks about how you never had control over what movies you could watch, or when. He talks about soundtrack albums from musicals as just about the only way to re-visit a movie, and about taping the sound from tv shows and movies so that he could at least listen to them.\\xa0 He tells the story about the first VCR in his family; he and his siblings pooled their money to buy a $400 VCR for their parents\' anniversary. GamerDude also talks about video stores; before Blockbuster, there was Hollywood Video, and West Coast Video, together with little mom-and-pop stores in every town, and in every supermarket. He talks about how picking a movie was a cooperative family event. And no story about video stores would be complete without reference to "the room behind the curtain" in the back of just about every video store.'