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Blockbuster, Blockbuster Video, Video Store, video store history, video stores - February 2, 2026

IN THE BELLY OF BLOCKBUSTER: Interview with former VP of Development for Blockbuster Video Mike Beck

Interview with Mike Beck by Josh Schafer, Dec 1 2025, Raleigh, NC. Blockbuster Video is arguably the most divisive cultural icon of the 90s. For some, it’s the beacon of premium nostalgia, a literal sign of the times that offered countless movie nights at home, making memories of glory days gone by. To others, the blue and gold ripped ticket represents an evil corporate giant, censoring content, and stomping out the small town Mom and Pop shops that created the foundation for the video rental era. This is the classic example of both things being true. They...

“Watch What You Want When You Want” Home Video Slogan and Icon Was Created by the VSDA [Video Software Dealers Association]

When video revolutionized home entertainment in the 80s and 90s, the message and mission was clear: Watch What You Want When You Want. Today in Lunchmeat Land we’re going to examine and explore the origin of this official slogan and ephemeral icon, created by the Video Software Dealers Association. The VSDA was an entity founded in 1981, created to support independent video distribution and rental rights. They’re a huge part of home video history, and I do encourage you to look more at what they did. I had seen this WWYWWYW...

LUNCHMEAT and SATURN’S CORE Proudly Present VHS Fest 9 at Mahoning Drive-In Theater! [Tickets and Event Info]

Yo, Tapeheads! It’s time to announce the most rewind-radical party of the year! Drive-In VHS Fest 9 IS ALIVE!! GRAB TICKETS HERE! Let’s put reality in the rewinder and get ready for another stack of sizzling slabs on the big, BIG screen when The Mahoning Drive-In Theater, Lunchmeat, and Saturn’s Core present the most awesomely analog event of the year, Drive-In VHS Fest 9! THREE nights of boffo big box beauties and clamshell classics from the hazy ‘n crazy glory days of the video store, projected onto the massive Mahoning screen from original VHS tapes! From Friday, July 11th...

Interview with Perry Stratychuk - Director of Obscure Dystopian Sci-Fi Gem SAVANNAH ELECTRIC [EXCLUSIVE]

By Billups Allen Once a month, we turn The Lamplighter Lounge in Memphis, Tennessee into a 30-seat movie theater for the purposes of showing director/distro-approved documentaries, psychotronic, horror, sci-fi, and repertory movies under the banner of OFF THE MARQUEE. Recently we showed the 1985 low-budget masterpiece Savannah Electric, a movie I first heard about through Lunchmeat. ED NOTE: the LUNCHMEAT Savannah Electric VHS release is available HERE. Savannah Electric is a lost classic of low-budget sci-fi. The story involves a bounty hunter tracking an escaped worker across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The escaped worker is part of a factory run by The...

VHS IS LIFE Set to Revolutionize Mold Removal for Videocassettes with the Release of New Cleaning Machine!

By Josh Schafer Tapeheads who frequent Lunchmeat Land are surely familiar with the classic mold removal tactics we’ve published in the past, but nascent rewind-inclined entity VHS IS LIFE is ready to revolutionize that process with a machine made expressly to eliminate mold from our favorite format. Here are the basics you need to know about the VHS IS LIFE mold removal machine: The cost is $100 per machine. There is also a vacuum attachment (recommended) that will minimize any mold or dirt particles escaping into the air – that vacuum attachment is available...

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IN THE BELLY OF BLOCKBUSTER: Interview with former VP of Development for Blockbuster Video Mike Beck

“Watch What You Want When You Want” Home Video Slogan and Icon Was Created by the VSDA [Video Software Dealers Association]

LUNCHMEAT and SATURN’S CORE Proudly Present VHS Fest 9 at Mahoning Drive-In Theater! [Tickets and Event Info]

Interview with Perry Stratychuk - Director of Obscure Dystopian Sci-Fi Gem SAVANNAH ELECTRIC [EXCLUSIVE]

VHS IS LIFE Set to Revolutionize Mold Removal for Videocassettes with the Release of New Cleaning Machine!

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