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So, one of my fondest memories was renting Bully (for PS2) from the Movie Gallery (it was a chain video store that mainly popped up in places too small for a Blockbuster, think like Dollar General vs Walmart) in my town. I played it over Christmas and had so much fun with it. I'd also usually get a Wonka Bar (they were graham crackers coated in chocolate) from there too, since it was one of the few places that sold them.

Other fond memories include the local video store that let their dogs and cats roam around. I also always vividly remember a frightening "Jack Frost" VHS with a lenticular cover that would shift from a friendly snowman to a vicious killer snowman. They had an entire wall dedicated to "North and South" (a mini series about the Civil War from the 80s) tapes.

Not so fond memory: the local video store (with the cats and Civil War tapes) put up a sign advertising that they would soon have PS2, GCN, and Xbox games for rental! This was circa 2002, so this was new and an improvement over the extremely stagnant N64/SNES offerings they had for years. Well, time passed and no new games showed up, so I asked an employee what was up. In the most snotty, bitchy, condescending tone she could muster, she told me that, "Kids scratched up DVDs, so we're not going to get those disc games." I later laughed when they got ran out of business by the Movie Gallery (which in turn got shuttered by Netflix and a Red Box in town). They always had terrible prices (two day rentals for like $5 on super old movies versus Movie Gallery offering five day rentals for the same or less) and that experience really soured me on them. When they were almost going out of business, they started selling their games and thus were left with pretty much just garbage. I rented some Spider-Man game for the N64 and the damn thing didn't even work. This was in the mid 2000s, when it should have still been fine and I knew how to get a stubborn cart to work. This thing was dead.