What's the 1st VHS You Bought?
12-31-08 | 04:35 PM
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i probably owned 25 actual movie VHS' in the day and the first was 1 of many from Columbia House offer. i think "Face/Off" was one of them.
12-31-08 | 04:39 PM
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I can't remember the first one I bought, but the first pre-recorded VHS I owned was "Making Michael Jackson's Thriller". I got it for Christmas in 1984.
12-31-08 | 05:31 PM
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I owned several VHS tapes before I paid for any with my own money. In 8th grade, I was on the wait list for a trip to Chicago, and I had to save money to get to go if someone canceled or was disqualified. That never happened, so I bought my very first VCR, a Sanyo. To go with it, I also bought Batman Returns and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze. Batman Returns was the first one that I watched on my new VCR in my room for the very first time.
12-31-08 | 05:34 PM
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I'm pretty sure it was E.T. back in 1986.
12-31-08 | 05:34 PM
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It was an Abbot and Costello double feature with Africa Screams and Jack And The Beanstalk. I can't remember why I bought it, but I selected it from some bin in a grocery store. I also remember the first movie I rented, The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking.
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12-31-08 | 11:24 PM
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I purchased more 'used' VHS tapes than I care to recall, however, my first was Dogfight with River Phoenix - or - The Last of the Mohicans'. I'm almost certain that it was Dogfight.
01-01-09 | 01:05 AM
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1990: Evil Dead and a coupla Bruce Lee flicks.
01-01-09 | 10:53 AM
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Top Gun
01-01-09 | 11:09 AM
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None. I always saw them as another "tape" product. I never had luck with cassette tapes (played fine one day, next it was bad) so I never wasted my $$$ on VHS. DVD was the first movie media for me.
01-01-09 | 11:43 AM
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The first one I ever got was Batman (1989) that my Dad bought me for X-mas. The first ones I can remember buying were the 3 Indiana Jones movies at McDonalds when they were $5 each.