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The days of Jagua, Living in bondage, snake in the monkey shadow, Chuck Norris, Showdown in little Tokyo, Enter the dragon. Good Ole days!!!

yyba:
why American and Indian films? Is Igbo films not worth watching?

stop asking stu..p...i.d question. That was the era of VHS and not VCD. Nollywood films came mostly in VCDs. Besides it was illegal to rent Nollywood films in video clubs. Anyone caught then was liable to be jailed.

These is really an old time memories where we do rent cds for 20 Naira and you will be given your neighbors to watch before retuning it.

The years of yore...the years of innocence.1994....things were relatively stable.

benuejosh:
I knew of someone that will buy a CD, go home and watch it. The moment he was done watching he will scratch it a little then go back to the seller and tell him the disc scratched and then exchange it and collect another one.

Mind you, he was able to do that only when the disc wasn't tested at the shop.

that someone will now be shouting Nigeria don't have patriotic leaders oo while he is not patriotic himself

Igbos were the biggest beneficiary of this piracy!

yyba:
why American and Indian films? Is Igbo films not worth watching?

Before 1990, that was what most Nigerians watched.

Then came living in bondage, and Nollywood exploded. 1990 was the year. Then followed by a host of other films like Glamour girls, Nneka the beautiful snake, and Domitllia...and Issanga.

(NTA used to show some good home made TV movies back in the day...during what they called their 'Telefest' week. One horror movie comes to mind...Reign of Abiku...which I did not see because my mother made that film verbotten for us kids back then..lol. Many of those filmakers went on to make films for Nollywood).

Beremx:
stop asking stu..p...i.d question. That was the era of VHS and not VCD. Nollywood films came mostly in VCDs. Besides it was illegal to rent Nollywood films in video clubs. Anyone caught then was liable to be jailed.

just answer simple question, is Igbo films not worth watching for you? Isn't that simple question

I know someone that operated this business upto 2022.

This business is still on at Aba.
But I wonder how the business thrived then with you giving out your CD's for rent .

When the person can easily run with h it

Mr spoke man just answer simple question, is Igbo films not worth watching for her ? Isn't that simple question

nairalanda1:
Before 1990, that was what most Nigerians watched.

Then came living in bondage, and Nollywood exploded. 1990 was the year. Then followed by a host of other films like Glamour girls, Nneka the beautiful snake, and Domitllia...and Issanga.

(NTA used to show some good home made TV movies back in the day...during what they called their 'Telefest' week. One horror movie comes to mind...Reign of Abiku...which I did not see because my mother made that film verbotten for us kids back then..lol. Many of those filmakers went on to make films for Nollywood).

Beremx:
That's a video club. Back in the days when we rent American and indian films. One video club was down my street and I rented films for 20naira.
Good nostalgic memories

Good ol days till them Buhari and Ttiffnubu came and destroyed everything.

onadana:
The years of yore...the years of innocence.1994....things were relatively stable.

1994 was a tense year...fuel scarcity. NADECO vs government, and a major threat of a strike that led to the government harshly clamping down on NLC and the oil workers union.

And the economy was bad as usual, and the naira was falling, and salaries were bad (My dad's salary as a lecturer was wack. My mother's salary as a lecturer was so bad that when she told a market trader how much she was paid, the man was speechless for several minutes. He thought ASUU was going on strike for nothing)

wunmi590:


Is not working anymore, alot of new social media where people download and watch movies for free has now taken over, Internet has kill!d the business...

I could remember when we were young, my mums family house, for those who kno island very well, most especially sangros, there's a man there we used to to rent new yoruba movies from for N100 for a full day, we return the second day...

So every year, the best customer the rent movies and returnd without defaulting wins alot of gift every December period, he has all his customers record...

Good old days

There's this saying you guys say that always irks me. Download and watch for free, is there anything you download online that's free?

Chilipepper:
The good old days! I was born in 1994, but I still remember vividly how there used to be a shop right opposite our house. Every Friday, we’d go there to rent movies for the weekend. Life felt so simple back then 😂😂

If you were born in 1994 you can't really talk about good old days. By the time you were 20 it was already 2014.

Lolz, the funny part is there's blue film in those shops but they won't display them. Just codedly ask for it and they will go bring out for you.

keymatt:
Good ol days till them Buhari and Ttiffnubu came and destroyed everything.

LOL...it;s easy to know a young nigerian

Those days were not good at all. 20 naira then was a lot of money, people grumbled about the economy, and about the fall of the naira then. And fuel scarcity was live...well well. Annual thing, and not just at december.

It was so bad that one state mandated that cars with plate numbers ending in odd numbers bought fuel on certain days, while cars with plate numbers ending in even numbers bought fuel on other days....

1980'S AND 90's Nigeria. I lived it.

I haven't even mentioned the religious crisis of those times. And Maitatsine. And yes, fulanis and farmers fought, only it was in the North.

That does not mean Buhari and tinubu were good leaders or are good leaders, mind you.

yyba:
Mr spoke man just answer simple question, is Igbo films not worth watching for her ? Isn't that simple question

I have answered your qiueston

Nigerian language films were not as numerous back then as they are now. IT was after 1990, that they became numerous.

Also, you don't need to be rude.

lionshare:
The "good old days" weren’t always that good—especially compared to today’s convenience. Those times were often stressful. So why the nostalgia? In many ways, the present is better. Life is meant to move forward.

Today, I can binge an entire season of Suits from my couch; back then, I had to keep swapping CDs. Creatives used to be exploited by middlemen, but now platforms like YouTube let them monetize directly. These so-called “bad days” have actually spread opportunities and income to far more people.

I'm from this generation as well where there's a "Video club" in almost every corner of a street. I revel in the nostalgia but I certainly don't miss it. I don't know about Nollywood movies but as far as foreign movies goes back then, I remember the likes of Prison Break, Legends of the Seeker, Lost etc which I have no doubt they are all 100% pirated, that touches on your assertion that creatives were being exploited.

But I'll tell you, last week I paid £30 (excluding shipping) for a Lagbaja "We before Me" CD album, which is a bit of an irony. If someone told me back then that I'll buy one single CD album for more than 60,000 Naira in 2025, I'll sure laugh.

Chilipepper:
The good old days! I was born in 1994, but I still remember vividly how there used to be a shop right opposite our house. Every Friday, we’d go there to rent movies for the weekend. Life felt so simple back then 😂😂

It was simple but killing the actors.

Their movies were being pirated

Thank God for streaming platforms n cinemas today

Chilipepper:
The good old days! I was born in 1994, but I still remember vividly how there used to be a shop right opposite our house. Every Friday, we’d go there to rent movies for the weekend. Life felt so simple back then 😂😂

The global population was lesser than it is now and technology was taking a giant leap as of 1994. I started using the Internet in 1995 through dial up connections with Netscape then faster forms of Internet connectivity came up and Microsoft Internet Explorer gradually replaced Netscape in popularity.

That's the cyclical nature of life for you.

nairalanda1:
I have answered your qiueston

Nigerian language films were not as numerous back then as they are now. IT was after 1990, that they became numerous.

Also, you don't need to be rude.

kids everywhere with free bonus data just to quote senselessly, next time read and understand before rushing to quote. Okayyyyyyyyyy

This was how I started by sojourn into porn

The scarlet pictures on those DVD covers were just too enticing for me to let go

Kalulu44:
Lolz, the funny part is there's blue film in those shops but they won't display them. Just codedly ask for it and they will go bring out for you.

And wrap it wella for you.
.

Just a few years later, I started seeing it being displayed boldly, na then I know say things don cast...

SMH

yyba:
kids everywhere with free bonus data just to quote senselessly, next time read and understand before rushing to quote. Okayyyyyyyyyy

Good evening, and have a good day, and remember, that life is always a swim in the park

Also...the below is for you,


Grow up.

yyba:
just answer simple question, is Igbo films not worth watching for you? Isn't that simple question

and who told you I didn't watch Igbo movies? I watched a lot while growing up okay?

Kalulu44:
Lolz, the funny part is there's blue film in those shops but they won't display them. Just codedly ask for it and they will go bring out for you.

blue films were displayed in Video clubs. In fact it had a section called X-rated movies. Different types of blue films and movies with sex scene

Army arena shopping complex Lagos, toymax and olasco.... Lol

nairalanda1:
1994 was a tense year...fuel scarcity. NADECO vs government, and a major threat of a strike that led to the government harshly clamping down on NLC and the oil workers union.

And the economy was bad as usual, and the naira was falling, and salaries were bad (My dad's salary as a lecturer was wack. My mother's salary as a lecturer was so bad that when she told a market trader how much she was paid, the man was speechless for several minutes. He thought ASUU was going on strike for nothing)

So that's where your penchant for critical analyses came from. That's impressive.

Perhaps your father was the one you posted about last week who brought mangos to give some of his students back in the 1980s due to the bad state of the economy. I had very brilliant buddies (from the very early 1980s whose parents were Uni academics from many countries such a as Ghana, Jamaica, United States, UK, India, Bangladesh, etc, who came as expats to work in Nigeria during the oil boom era BUT left Nigeria for greener pastures from the tough IBB military dictatorship years of the Structural Adjustment Program or SAP).

In more advanced countries, they had a shop called Blockbusters....... 🤣😂😊

Beremx:
blue films were displayed in Video clubs. In fact it had a section called X-rated movies. Different types of blue films and movies with sex scene

Some do display but not all display them or instead hide them

Chilipepper:
The good old days! I was born in 1994, but I still remember vividly how there used to be a shop right opposite our house. Every Friday, we’d go there to rent movies for the weekend. Life felt so simple back then 😂😂

Life was simple for you because you were not paying any bills...you parents wouldn't have seen it that way...same way you children will say life was simple during 2020 to 2039...just because they don't have any responsibility...