My fondest memory of this era was renting Super Mario All Stars and Final Fight 2 from Blockbuster while simultaneously taping a Ren & Stimpy marathon.

1993 was probably the pinnacle of my childhood, playing Zelda Link to the Past, MegaManX and other classics for the first time.

There was nothing worse than going to the video store and all the good games were rented

Great video. I worked at Blockbuster during this era, and Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II absolutely dominated the market. I’d estimate that 90% of our SNES and Sega rentals were just those two titles. I’d love to see the numbers behind those GamePro charts.

I wanna go back to Blockbuster just for that dimly lit movie theater aura, and finding copies of sweet, sweet Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey

I definitely LOLed at "Is it a good game? Nope!"

Rock n roll racing to this day is still one of my favorite games across every platform. Super underrated, tons of fun! Rented that game lots.

Blockbuster Video, Bigfoot Pizza, and GamePro Magazine?! Erin, you’re definitely taking me back with this one! 10 year old Photon is thanking you for this kick-ass video!!

I still have my Blockbuster card! In Orland Illinois the Blockbuster lasted until 2008-2010 somewhere around their. The House of Video was in Oak Forest Illinois, all VHS tapes. It went out of business in the early 90s. Great video Erin! 👍🏻🇺🇲

Damn Erin, making me feel old. Man, a pizza and some rented games and movies. Classic weekends!

I wanted to rent Super Castlevania IV multiple times, so my parents eventually just broke down and bought it for me haha

Dude!I remember the bigfoot pizza. And I also owned Jurassic Park on SNES. I think the most rented game at my local video store was Super Metroid. Boy you really unearthed some treasured memories from my childhood, Erin. Great times.

My friends and I used to play a lot of Rock n Roll racing. The soundtrack really was pretty...rocking 😄😄😄

Omg, Erin, thanks for the trip down memory lane. I remember taking a full hour to decide what I wanted to rent for the weekend. I miss Blockbuster so much awesome video

I think the last game we rented from Blockbuster was in early 1993 (Jan/Feb), and that was Joe & Mac. After that, we rented from the local video store - Hit List - or Pharmhouse. We did rent two games from this list: Super Mario All-Stars, and the Genesis version of Mortal Kombat.

I worked at Blockbuster in the 90s. I bought their entire anime section (vhs) for 25¢ a piece (Discontinued price + employee discount) when they did their annual inventory/audit/purge one year. I still have them all in a storage bin, probably worth a decent bit today?

I had Rock N' Roll Racing! It was fun, but you're right about the announcer's voice. Forever seared into my brain is the sound, "Jake is dominating the race!" :)

Worked at blockbuster from 1993-1995. Was one of my favorite jobs ever. Having that type of power at 19 years old is intoxicating. lol

I rented World Heroes several times back then. It was one of the games that was in pretty much every Neo Geo MVS cabinet I saw as a kid. My friends and I played the arcade game a lot. It was nice to be able to rent it and not have to spend 50 cents a play. I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane to Blockbuster 🙂

I remember either the Bigfoot or the Little Caesars equivalent. I was upset the first time I saw it because it was at my cousins house. She had left it on her stovetop overnight because she didn’t have space in her fridge and didn’t put any effort in to save the leftovers. I wasn’t allowed to have any slices because they could have made me sick.

Nice video. I dont remember if Blockbuster rented videogames in Argentina. I dont think so. But, yes, we used to rent games (NES, SNES and Genesis, basically) in local videoclubs. Greetings!!! 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

I miss them days thank you for this kick ass content. Boss sauce

As a kid, we would go to block Buster couple of days a week. Not to just pick out movies in games but to look around. I live in Georgia and a rental company came called far more. You could rent 6 games for like $3.50 or 6 movies for $3.50. It was awesome.

Thanks for this neat Blockbuster video Erin!

Wow, I'd forgotten that Rock n' Roll Racing existed! I played Mortal Kombat (it seemed to be everywhere in '93) and I owned All Stars (although that was probably mid-90s; the result of a trade with a friend). Alien vs Predator is one I remember seeing in magazines but never came across in the wild, and World Heroes brought back vague memories, although I don't think I ever played it myself. This is another great piece of nostalgia, the early 1990s was a really great time for me!

I'll never forget renting Rock n' Roll Racing. A buddy and I were playing in the living room when my Dad walked by as Paranoid was playing. The chiptune version must have caught his ear, so he stuck around to give it a listen. "Hey, I know these guys." "Really?!" "Yeah, one of my bands opened for them back when they came to town." "Pffft. Yeah right, Dad." But sure enough, he came back a half hour later with an old newspaper from the 70s. Turns out Black Sabbath were late to getting to the venue so my Dad's recently formed band had little choice but to improvise a half-hour polka-infused Age of Aquarius. As the two bands sat backstage as the drums were being nailed in place, Ozzy broke the silence with "You kids are alright."

"It has a map so you can keep track of how far the other racers are behind you." NICE FLEX LMAO

Honestly I remember renting Mega Man X one time and never seeing it on the shelf after that so I ended up with something like Boogerman every time.

Cool Super Turrican music in the beginning! In 1992, I was just a little baby, so revisiting that period is always a nice way to catch up on what I missed. Great video!

ah, renting games back then... those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end 🥲

You forget that in the 90s, movies didn't come out on home video until years after they were in theatres. Jurassic park wasn't on video until late 1994

Seeing that Bigfoot pizza again unlocked feelings I didn't know I had.

These are why I subbed to you. That and the toy catalog vids. I could watch those all day. The shared nostalgia is strong 😂😂😂

I remember none of the local rental stores where I lived having MK available! I was so mad! lol I also remember EGM mags being loaded with upcoming SNES RPG releases that year. I remember renting Secret of Mana & 7th Saga many times & my dad getting movies to go along with a couple of Bigfoot Pizzas each Friday or Saturday. Great year of gaming as a kid. Great vid too, E! 😊

It's absolutely crazy to think about the kind of money renting these games created for video rental stores back in the day.

I so related to that Super Mario All Stars segment. It was a very common rental for me and my brother so when you say you’re whole weekend was packed, you’re not kidding!!

This is actually a really cool video idea. I always use vids to find random games to play... Great video

Great video Erin. I ended up buying Rock n Roll Racing. I still have that copy of the game and play it regularly. I do have to turn the announcer off and most of the time turn the music off eventually because you just hear them too much if you go through the whole game. If you don't know it has a bonus stage if you get through all of the other parts on warrior difficulty too. The bonus stage is a very metal looking lava world.

GOD I miss this. Just that excited feeling; Pizza Hut and Blockbuster, you knew it was going to be a kick ass Friday night. I was born in '92 so the first game I remember renting was Super Mario RPG. LOVED it. And then it was nothing but N64, from Mario Party to DK64.

I don't know if it was 93, but I most definitely rented Rock n Roll Racing. I love that game.

I actually played "World Heroes 2" before I was able to check out the first game, and it's definitely a pretty fun and enjoyable port that has more playable characters to choose from, including the two boss characters that are fought at the end of the arcade mode.

😄Very nice explanation, Erin. Here my memories: -I had no idea how Mortal Kombat was heavily censored on the SNES and only saw that version , it was my FIRST experience with Mortal Kombat universe. -I grew up with Super Mario Bros 1 and 3 on NES, i never saw SMB 2 until Super Mario All-Stars on mid 90s along with the unreleased difficult SMB2 from Japan.

Oh my gosh, Super Turrican! Never forget renting that one repeatedly!

Hey, Super Turrican music is always okay by me; as far as I'm concerned, Chris Hulsbeck is the only composer I'd allow to get their hands on sleigh bells. My memories of the '90s are a little spotty, so I don't know what I was renting in 1993 specifically (and we didn't have a Blockbuster anywhere nearby; we had West Coast Video, and even that was pretty far), but I do remember being pretty infatuated with Smartball and Super Valis 4 during the '90s, so I rented them quite a lot. That said, I did own Super Mario All-Stars (good investment) and Mortal Kombat (bad investment), and probably picked them up around this time.

I loved Rock n Roll racing. I would go into the options and switch the announcer off and on. He would yell "OUCH, WOAH!"

Thanks for the video Erin. In 93' I was renting Cybernator, Top Gear 2 and Robocop vs Terminator. I loved these games and they were always unavailable at the local retailers in my area, so I had to settle for renting them for a few days.

This video hit hard, kudos for the magazine page flipping, original footage and great commentating. Hell yeah

I was 13 years old in 1993. This description could not be more accurate. Thanks!

I just got a Blockbuster rental case for Donkey Kong Country to add to my Blockbuster collection! The case is from 11/21/1994 and somehow has been floating around all these years til it made it into my hands. 🙂I hope I can find Super Mario All Stars and Mortal Kombat for SNES to add to my collection some day. Thanks for making these videos it is interesting to hear what were some of the most rented games for a year.

I loved that "river of diarhea" description

Super nostalgic ❤😊Love this! My go to rental was that TMNT fighting game and UN Squardron.

Love the inclusion of the commercials within the video. Really adds that extra layer of nostalgia.

1993...what a great year to rent SNES video games! I lived thru that year so much!

Me and my family used to get the Bigfoot pizza back in the day every Friday night. I also used to have that issue of GamePro when I was a little kid. Probably just a coincidence I'm seeing it here. Of course everyone rented Mario All-Stars in '93. Lost Levels was a big curiosity at that point and of course all the classic Marios in 16-bit. Love the TMNT/World Heroes joke

Ooh man talk about the older days! Lol damn I’m old! Love this channel Erin!

Wow. I rented Rock and Roll racing so many times that I could’ve purchased it. The nostalgia is real seeing these amazing games.

It may sound cliche, but I really do miss the 90's. If I could live again during that time as a kid with no knowledge of the future, I'd take it.

Dude, heck yeah that rock ‘n’ roll racing game was a must it was so awesome to actually hear video games trying to play rock while you’re racing

I remember going to Blockbuster video and that's when I saw Street fighter 2 for SNES and I also love the jingle the Blockbuster commercial as well

Pretty good video, Erin! Its fun looking back on the rental era. I remember many tough decisions had to bee made deciding which game to rent for the weekend.

A great year for renting Super Nintendo games at Blockbuster Video😉👍. Love Rock N' Roll Racing, Mortal Kombat and Super Mario All-Stars!

Bigfoot pizza! Pizza hut used to be the SPOT! Dark inside, arcade cabs in the corner, actual waiters, free video game demos, and book it free pizzas! God I miss the 90's!

Good old days. My mom used to let me and my bro both rent a game every Friday night.

Great stuff. Would love to see more vids like this!

the silverlining is that since all the popular games were never available, you would take a chance on other games and often find a gem.

Rock & Roll Racing was my all time favorite game growing up for the SNES and really needs to be brought back

great video! I really like this series, I hope you do more soon 😀

Man, I wish it was Friday night in 1993

a highway over a river of diarrhea LMAOOOOOO subbed

I miss these days. My Dad and his G/F and her Son would do this every weekend, we would watch one family movie then we would go to the kids room watch the movie we rented and then play rented SNES games all night, my favorites were Mario all-stars, and DK Kountry

I am hooking up a 27" Sony Trinitron Right now that someone had thrown out on the CURB!!!! My first game is Gonna be a Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis Game! I'll watch your video while I Hook it to my Computer Somehow...

My brother was a big fan of aliens vs predator, the original Japanese had a versus mode too; the soundtrack of that version is amazing though… the different aliens you have in the game are pretty creative and the cutscenes too

Yeah MK2 at the top baby! MK2 and 3 on SNES were Godlike. Ahh good memories, good times. I miss the 90s. So many MK clones too at the time too. I actually felt the AVP beat em up gsme for snes was underrated, it would have been better if it was 2 players but still a fun game imo.

Street Fighter II: Turbo was another good rental. This version had both "Turbo" and "Tournament Edition", with the expanded roster that added the bosses as playable characters.

As someone who always rented a game every weekend on Friday afternoon after school, this video was a blast to watch. Thanks Erin!

The music for Rock N Roll Racing was licensed from an elevator musak company rather than the original songs. That's how they could afford to have all those songs.

Great video! Thanks Erin!

I miss getting paid and going to the video store. Try telling all the youngins we actually had to GO TO the store to rent our movies and games. Plus the movies came on a VHS tape. (or even Beta Max, Christ I'm old)

I remember hunting down RPG games rather then any of these regulars. I think Mario World and Actraiser were the first games I managed to rent, so my tastes were driven towards Platformers and Action RPGs. Definitely a good time for renting something that would one day be a classic

I was dying for a 16-bit console really early and I remember renting a TG-16 system with Bonk and Splatterhouse and on a different weekend renting a Genesis console with Forgotten Worlds and Ghouls 'n Ghosts. I probably would have been pretty close to buying a console if I had just not rented them and not played any arcade games. By this time I had a SNES and Genesis at home but didn't get my own TG-16 until it was a dead system a few years later for practically nothing at a garage sale. There were so many great games in 92 and 93 that I'd read every game magazine and still be surprised at the rental store that they'd have new titles I had never heard of.

I loved blockbuster me and the cousin use to go all the time! In 1995 my family moved to Arkansas for a bit and we had a video store called Hastings! Great thing about Arkansas was games very very rarely was checked out and they kept multiple copies of each! I got lucky and in trouble when Mortal Kombat 2 came out grabbed a copy it just hit the rack I think I ended up buying it from never taking it back lmao my parents was pissed with good reason!

Those were some good times. Me and my 2 stepbros would get together on the weekends pizza video games. I had the Atari, Nintendo, Super NES, and Sega. We would play all night long and my dad was just glad that we werent out getting into mischief. Just startig Highschool. Wow.. these games take me back. Especially Mortal Kombat. It was definitely a different time.

Lmao bigfoot pizza famn haven't heard of that in forever. Great video though, loved it! Subbed!!

I most definitely remember renting Rock n Roll Racing, specifically in 1993, with my best friend and we loved it. That weekend was actually the last time i ever played it and i've always wanted to go back and try it again. Yeah, that announcer was a cool touch at first but "Holy Toledo!!" got old quick. I'm pretty sure i had that issue of GamePro aswell 😂!

I think I rented about every game on that list (except for Rockin' Roll Racing) at some point. The best of the list was definitely Mario Allstars.

Game PRO, Pizza Hut, and fresh video game rentals from Blockbuster. It was heaven then and I knew it. I relished every moment of it.

Wait, drive down? 30 minute walk to my local NE Philly Blockbuster video for me pre-driving life. ;)

The bigfoot pizza was THE BEST ever pizza any chain pizza restaurant had. Pizza hut could rescue itself just over bringing that back and doing it EXACTLY the way they used to. Man that was some tasty pizza. Now they use mostly fake and subpar ingredients. Their pizza doesn't taste any better now than the cardboard box it comes in.

So many memories! I definitely rented AVP back then, but I don't think our town had a Blockbuster just yet in 1993. Also, I'd seen Predator but not Alien at that point, so I didn't quite understand what was going on, but as a diehard beat 'em up fan I didn't really care. And Little Caesars was THE BEST back then, especially the crazy bread! I remember my mom got me a bunch of pizza from there and let me binge watch Sci Fi channel all day when I was stuck home with chicken pox.

Fun fact, Reggie Fils-Aime was the senior director of national marketing at Pizza Hut, where he launched the Bigfoot Pizza.

This was such a fun concept for a video. Loved it!

I remember renting Rock and Roll racing for sure, loved the music as I grew up listening to it anyway, so having it in a racing game was awesome. I had a late fee as I kept it until I beat it, you get really powerful late game, its a blast.

"Rock n roll racing was good for a weekend rental but not to own"???? Are you nuts??? So fun to keep playing and upgrading, and if you have 2 or more other people, the fun is endless

1)Super Metriod, 2)Megaman X, 3) Super Mario World, 4) F-Zero, 5) Super Castlevania, 6) Axelay, 7) Mario RPG, 8)Killer Instinct, 9) Chronotrigger, 10) Street Fighter 2, 11) Mortal Kombat 2, and 12) Turtles in Time. Are my top 12 favorite snes games in no particular order

My most rented SNES game in 1993 was almost certainly Batman Returns from Konami since I loved the dark Christmas atmosphere from the movie and the excellent rendition of the Denny Elfman Batman theme. It wasn't from Blockbuster, though, Blockbuster didn't arrive in the Montreal area until 1995.

I traded AVP and $40 for FF3 on the SNES back in the day at a place called, "Play Me" in West Edmonton Mall beside the ice rink. I still own that cartridge to this day.

nicely done erin as always

Great round-up. ♥ 1993 was a great year, Jurassic Park came out. 😃 (And 'Falling Down')

awesome blockbuster super nintendo rentals video erin!!!!!!!!!!!

In 93 I had a Genesis... and I had just bought a Sega CD with my first paycheck. The funny thing is I don't remember actually renting any sega cd games.. but I must've because I know I played games than I never owned.