I remember the day my dad bought the Toshiba mutli system VHS player back in the early 90s. That was the shiit back then...super sharp quality. And we used to get our movies from Samaco in Yaba. When Cash n Carry on Broad Street used to sell movies for N50/N70, my Dad used to get the super sharp clarity VHS tapes at Samaco for N300. Chai! It was like DVD quality before DVD. Men!

My dad loved anything entertainment back then. We had all the latest movies...Some of my favorite movies back then were Above the Law (Yeun Baio), Dark Angel/I Come in Piece (Dolph Lundgren), Universal Soldiers (Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren), anything with Jacky Jan, all Roger Moore and Sean Connery James Bond movies, Lethal Weapon movie series (Mel Gibson and Danny Glover), Basic Instict (Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone)...etc

Sleekfingers:
The way our national video player heavy...no be small.....

Back then we have two....one for betamax video cassettes and the other for vhs....

Na for up you go slot the cassettes....back then it was fun....but not every home get am....na luxury....

My dad put them in his room...but we duplicate his keys....no be small thing ...

Exactly. My dad had ours in his room too.

kay29000:


Were you living in Surulere at the time? I remember back in the 90s getting to watch movies my neighbor sent out through video sender. The first day I got the signal, it was like I was in the future. I can't describe the feeling. I love technology.

this reminds of those days when our tv normally catch our neighbours blue film. We will tune the tv and if he is watching his blue film which he always watch, We will be in our palour watching it live.

Viruscod3d:
this reminds of those days when our tv normally catch our neighbours blue film. We will tune the tv and if he is watching his blue film which he always watch, We will be in our palour watching it live.

lol!

oshe11:
Lol....


We all have that Video Cassette that acts as "Head Cleaner" whenever the Video player is "Dirty"




Mine was DELTA FORCE






We also have Hand/Manual Rewinder

I damage some video cassettes with this reminded o cus I won’t know the thing has reach the end and I will still be rewinding with force

Explorers:
Head cleaner.

One can also uncover the player and clean with cotton wool/spirit.

You can also use the tip of the nail while still playing.

U sabi this thing die. Your write up giving me memories

I enjoyed it for like 2 years before it was overwhelmed by CD players. ,

Wiserock:
Na old guys full nairaland.

i tell u

Explorers:


Lol.......Nothing like lens bro, we call it head.

Video play head.

Lalasticlala

My guy.... Where I fit download those old naija moviEs

How time flies, God remember me o

kay29000:


Ahh! A whole Showdown in Little Tokyo. Dolph Lundgreen and Brandon Lee. Chai! You just took me down memory lane.

Not only that one... even 'ARMAGEDDON' . I broke the Disc.

Gone are those days. It can never returned again.

OMW...chai it is well! Thank You Explorers for taking us back to Dem good ol'days

AleksAndria:




Not only that one... even 'ARMAGEDDON' . I broke the Disc.

Only constant thing in life is change, nothing lasts forever. The reason man cannot put his mind on material things but on God in who there is no shadow or alteration of change.

Nothing lasts forever

Explorers:
Do you remember this?

I still have this. Its called SCART

That video sender was way before its time.

I bet it would still make sense with my gotv, because using a cable to loop to other room is so backward mhenn

emmanuelrabb:
Who else here didn't have the opportunity to use those Video players






Signify

Let's know ourselves

I still have the manual rewinder at home as I am talking to you. Yellow colour though!!

These are for the rich folks.

We had them, but it took some time.

We used black and white for a long time sef before buying colour TV.

That's why people should not chase vanity.

Suddenly it's old school... These days people no longer buy LCD TV again.

We still have all this electronics

Explorers:
Some movies we saw on vhs.

My guy, I remove my hat for you.

You were an action lover like us.

Kudos!

Wow!.
Thank God I wasn't in that era, I would have been mortified.

Damn this took me down memory lanes... Feeling all nostalgic and all. Back then we were the only ones who had a video player and colored TV in my neighborhood thus was treated like king by all the other kids lol

Kai..


Seems like yesterday.

Watching:
Commando
Rambo
Cyborg
Hard way the only way
Delta force
In the line of duty
No retreat no surrender
King of the kick boxer
Equalizer 2000
Expendables
7 lucky kids
The good, the bad and the ugly
Hammer house of horror
Man with the golden teeth (007)

Drunken master
Snake in the monkey shadow
Tiger claw
7 commandments of kungfu
Shaolin master
One armed boxer

Snake girl
Mad
Sunita

Living in bondage
Rattle snake
Love without language
Jagua
Willi willi
New masquerade
Tales by moonlight
Story time

Voltron
Duck tales
Super ted
Pinocchio
Block man

Super mario
King Kong (Gameboy)
Street fighter
Pac man
Contra
Mortal kombat
International super star soccer deluxe

staggerman:
Kai..


Seems like yesterday.

Watching:
Commando
Rambo
Cyborg
Hard way the only way
Delta force
In the line of duty
No retreat no surrender
King of the kick boxer
Equalizer 2000
Expendables
7 lucky kids
The good, the bad and the ugly
Hammer house of horror
Man with the golden teeth (007)

Drunken master
Snake in the monkey shadow
Tiger claw
7 commandments of kungfu
Shaolin master
One armed boxer

Snake girl
Mad
Sunita

Living in bondage
Rattle snake
Love without language
Jagua
Willi willi
New masquerade
Tales by moonlight
Story time

Voltron
Duck tales
Super ted
Pinocchio
Block man

Super mario
King Kong (Gameboy)
Street fighter
Pac man
Contra
Mortal kombat
International super star soccer deluxe

Well done bro, the list continues

Raid on Entebbe
The Great Escape
The burning train
Mard
Najin
The man with the golden gun
Romancing the Stone
The Red Scorpion
Jango
The Jango kills
Hard Target
Showdown in little Tokyo
First Blood I, II and Rambo III
Death wish 1,2,3,4
Red Heat
Code of silence
BEVERLY HILLS COPS
A view to a kill

Those are days that you are a king among your friend if you have a vhs system at home..

Explorers:
Upper loaders.

The heaviest of them all.

indeed, gone are those days. Even the smaller vhs was called bettermax. Tracking to the next street to watch video movies. Childhood of the 80's and early 90's was real fun. Thanks for sharing.

How the world changes. Our first video machine was for films recorded on NTSC signals. The result was that we could watch a lot of American films and few local film which were mainly recorded in PAL. We had to buy another more advance machine that could pick the three common recording signals of the time. God is wonderful!

Those where the days. the nostalgic feeling is something else right now.

mikron:
CHAI PERSON DON OLD O. i passed through this era, the era of rambo, commando, nagin the snake girl, bruce lee. voltron, superted, tales by moonlight, samanja, ripples, after the storm, wili wili, mortal combat
choi..........
what a gbelu gbelu
good old memories

our house was the assembly for all kids then whenever we put on our Sony color TV watching some of these movies.. nagin,toofan, most Bruce Lee films, Chuck Norris etc ,commando, Rambo etc...I just reminisce those days bro..
robin Hood, Dr WHO. those memories linger on... I cant say much...I was reading comments and I was laughing with ecstasy that I enjoyed my childhood.. unlike these indomie generation...

my Papa no gree buy VHS for us.. the man go still get mind dey warn us make we no dey go people house go watch film... the only time him buy na.. scrab Wen him hear say them dey convert am to decoder... ;Dmy Papa no gree buy VHS for us.. the man go still get mind dey warn us make we no dey go people house go watch film... the only time him buy na.. scrab Wen him hear say them dey convert am to decoder...

Kaycee7:
Ah! Explorers be taking us on a trip down nostalgia lane. You have not known frustration and rage until you use spoon, yes spoon, to rewind a video cassette. Only to come back and discover your siblings have watched the movie and left the cassette like that. At that moment, nothing is more painful.


BTW, if you had a room like the one below as a young man, you were the real MVP

I can still remember that red multi-purpose Rechargeable latern/radio with places to put those mini music cassette of tony tetuila(you don hit my car) and the likes. Chai! Time flies sha!