#334 – VHS
Posted on April 15, 2013 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
Star Wars was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I watched it all the time off a tape I made when it played on TV. In 1997 the “Special Edition” was released in theaters with updated effects and other changes. I left the theater amazed at how many differences there were. I later found out that a lot of the things I was amazed at were always in the film but cropped out of the square TV formatted version I was used to.
Tags: kids, star wars, tv
.. there were only four channels and you had to get up to change them!!!
You had four? I’m jealous. We had three and one of them was government-run.
I only had 2! And I had to eat coal for breakfast.
Coal? That’s nothing – we had to eat oatmeal for breakfast.
Oatmeal tastes great…once you douse it in brown sugar.
Oooo evil… Makes me wonder if my VHS still works?
I still watch all my Disney VHS tapes.
I showed my nephews the Atari 2600 versions of E.T. and Pac-Man. I regret nothing!
…pretty sure my own copy of Star Wars was just as bad as yours. Particularly because our VCR kept snagging the tapes, so they got worse with each showing.
And yeah, I also only got two channels growing up, and BOTH of them were government-run. THAT was the main reason I started reading as a child.