So next is one I just spoke about and I have talked about on many different occasions and that is none other than
Star Video 
When We moved and the likes of
Mr. T's & Movie King was going under We found a new video store and it turned out to be a great one. I have a ton of memories from this place and most are really, really good. Unfortunately they have been out of business for a long time since the late 90s but they actually made a comeback of sorts in Lemay. They are on Face Book but I have no clue how they compare now to when they were in their prime. Here is a quote from good'ol FB:
Brian Gross
Wish there was some pictures of the Loughborough Store. I practically grew up in that one.
15w
Star Video
Brian Gross I'll see if we can dig some up
15w
Brian Gross
Star Video that would be awesome
Now see, that Brian guy says he grew up there, now that is WHAT I LIKE TO SEE & HEAR from people on SM instead of selfies and other bum-steer nonsense. The location he is talking about is THE one on Loughborough that I went to countless times. Unfortunately they never "dug" up some pics which you'd think they might so apparently even by them it has fallen into oblivion I mean is been nearly four months since that very small conversation

If they got the pics they must not care about their own past, shows you how "great" future generations can be especially if their no relation at all to the people We once knew

However, here an old flyer from their FB page that I captured. Now here is MY OWN
STAR VIDEO BAG that I had in My storage..yes I STILL have a bag of
Star Video and notice their location is Loughborough
Update 3/6/24: They had many monster & Kaiju videos. Some I never seen or even knew about which back in My day I was always looking for
Godzilla, Gamera among other monster films that I never watched or to see different, "uncut" versions of them. My most memorable one that I found over at
Star Video was none other than
1966's War of the Gargantuas. I was like oh boy look at this, this looks awesome...I gotta see this one

I found this over at
Star Video in around late
91 perhaps
early/mid 92. The picture in the middle is the one that got My attention as that was the picture on the
VHS

Now like the other places MiMi made a ton of deals here as well. We were very loyal customers for years until they closed their doors. I gotten a ton of stuff from them thanks to My Grandma and I think I could tell the current/new generation of
Star Video a thing of history or two. Again, this was also runned by a woman, an older blonde with glasses that reminded Me of
Ally Walker. MiMi got kinda close to her as a friend. She made deals with her a lot. I got a lot of Video games there that I have showcased in My great Video Game Topic. Many that they didn't want to sell and others that they did to move their inventory up from
NES to SNES & Sega Genesis for an example but I have a lot of movies too, I will show some of them here now

Amazing She discovered
The Burbs over at
Movie Mogul yet She bought it for Me over at
Movie King so as said earlier on in My
Movie King section I rented the
Back to the Future Trilogy a lot over there. Well sometime later My Grandma cut a big deal with the owner of
Star Video and she got Me the
BTTF Trilogy which is weird like I just said a second ago but it's just like I wanted...I was so thrilled

I always loved how
Star Video actually used the included
VHS box cover and placed it within a hard protective shell. Of course the rental price tags are on there and it was a bit of a nuisance when I was a youngster but now I don't look at it that way as I look at it as HISTORY, PURE HISTORY


Here is the inside of the boxes and you can see the VHS tapes within them

Far out,
BTTF 1 actually still had a special little offer flyer in it, LOOK AT THAT

She came through for Me once again with
Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation and even
Batman Returns which both were in
1992 which is 30 years ago THIS YEAR

I remember I was really a jerk to her about them though for whatever reason. I got in one of My stupid @$$ moods which i believe was over the boxes and I made her feel not good about it and still to this day I feel really bummed about it

I think I made up with her about it a while after that. I loved that
Tiny Toons film so, I couldn't stop watching it so she eventually bought it for Me and she loved it too especially
Plucky Duck & Uncle Stinky. I have already expressed My loved for it in PB's great cartoon topic. I also expressed My love for
Batman Returns in his great Movie Trailers topic as well.
92 was so good and these are two examples as to why that is

BONUS ENTRIES from My
Video Game Topic!!!
I have been thinkin' of My vintage video games and while I have a massive collection for many systems, there is really only a handful that is on My mind to talk about and these 2 are
Super Godzilla for
SNES and
Predator 2 for the
Sega Genesis 
I loved both systems back in the day and there will never ever be another time like it when they were in their prime. Today's competition of
Playstation & XBOX is good but IMO it doesn't even come close to be near as fun as it was back then! I always had a debacle who was better but really Sega was My fave most of the time
So My Grandma got Me these classic games way back from our favorite local video store called
Star Video. She rented so many games for Me from them and We always asked them if they were gonna put them out for sale and sometimes they would just sell them for a price then sometimes We would have to wait. Sadly like so many stores & companies from yesteryears, they went out of business in the late 90s due to the video store competition of
Blockbuster & Hollywood Video which the latter took the place literally of
Star Video 
Today's generation basically only knows all of this digital stuff and not how it was back them.
Super Godzilla for
SNES: Back in the day, like I had previously said about Godzilla in My great Vintage Action Figure topic, it was hard to obtain Godzilla items because of the importations. Same thing with games but us Americans were lucky at that category in some ways however in the early 90s it was very difficult to keep up with the new Godzilla movies in the Heisei era till the middle/later 90s when the web was in full force and it was exciting looking at these new kaijus and not really seeing them in action nor knowing anything about them. You were lucky if video stores had imported the new movies at the time. This game was great and the boss was
Bagan, an awesome character that was supposed to be in
Godzilla 1985 but ultimately he was scrapped but he wasn't totally ignored as he made it into this game, that's one of the many fun beauties of video games that I love :bounce: This has one of My fave instruction booklets and look at the Godzilla stamp on the box, remember, if a Godzilla item doesn't have it then it's not official










Predator 2 for the
Sega Genesis: This was really a surprise when I first played it. I loved the film so playing a game inspired of it was a treat to behold! If you read My in-depth write up of
LJN & Acclaim in My Vintage Action figure topic then you'll know I am a big fan of
Arena and company! This great rail shooter came out in 1990 :shock: Yeah, while
Nintendo was still doing 8-bit and only in the early days of the
SNES,
Sega was already established as a true competitor with their 16-bit
Genesis 
One thing was Sega's booklets were always good but in black & white as opposed to
SNES' colored booklets, this was kinda an issue for Me back in the day but I got used to it and it was all good and fun





From
My Video Games Collection Topic!BrandonDaCollector wrote:Ghostbusters Sega Genesis Game: Oh gosh, this is one of the most underrated games of all-time IMO. This was one of My favorite games to play on the
Sega Genesis and it came out in
1990! Like many games that are inspiration or even coincide with their movie counterparts, there is some elements of all kinds like characters, locations, music, etc. that wasn't in the films and this great classic has a lot of that cool bonus stuff! My Grandma got this for Me in the later part of the 90s before our local
Star Video went out of business thanks to
Blockbuster Video down the street &
Hollywood Video literally taking
Star Video's place

Another thing I loved about
Sega's games was their
protective cases, this is something
Nintendo really lacked for decades! In fact, Nintendo was quite behind on certain things till later...I consider
Sega like
Kenner & Nintendo is like
Hasbro, Hasbro "borrowed" so many concepts from
Tonka/Kenner and the rest is history!



So it was
1993, a big year for the
WWF while many fans do not think so but I beg the differ here but I will elaborate on that later in the
WWF wrestling section. They were advertising to ask your video retailer to get special
WWF Stamps free when you rent any new
WWF Coliseum Video. So after a few attempts they didn't have'em in but then one fine day
Star Video had the
Special WWF Stamps in. We rented a
WWF Coliseum Video which was probably
WWF King of the Ring 93 which was so memorable for many reasons, some are personal as well. I got the whole set and put them around My door, they are still there after nearly 30 years
NOTE: I got
Post Cards & Bookmarks there too around the the same time, if you go back and look at My
WWF Coliseum Video Poster from Verna's Mr. T's you can see on the side there a
Bookmark on the wall from
Star Video of
Bret "Hit Man" Hart plus these guys ALL AROUND it

As a special UPDATE on 6/6/24, that
Coliseum Home Video just may have been the great
1993 WWF King of the Ring 
Oh I remember that We rented it over at
Star Video. I wanted to see a lot. I recall We were watching it late at night, My Grandpa PoPo had to go to early for work at his
A&M Bike Shop so Me, My Grandma MiMi and My Mom all watched it together and they thought it was a very different event..I thought it was extremely fun and I still do to this day

Now this is arguably the most important video of My entire collection and perhaps the most crucial item I have in My entire arsenal regardless of genre and that is My
Kindergarten Cop VHS Tape. I loved the film to begin with in 1990 when it first came out. However, times struck hard on Me when I was only 13 in 1994. I got bad, I mean really bad sick. I didn't know medical stuff or anything like that, I was still a kid. It was hereditary from My Father Buddy, when the sickness hit it changed My life forever, it is the reason why I am the way I am today. I didn't have a chance to have or even know My teenage years because when this happen I was 13 for a few months then I went straight to early adulthood mentally but I stopped growing. Remember in My
WBF showcase when I said I was going to
GNC at Crestwood Plaza and thinking about doing
ICOPRO, well all of that was cut short

During this early unfortunate time in 94. I say how great the 90s was but many times it wasn't great to Me

There was somethings that would help Me cope. Of course My Parents were wonderful during this time. Wrestling, video games & action figures was a huge help but there was one movie that helped Me a lot and that was
Kindergarten Cop. MiMi rented it for Me from
Star Video. I hadn't seen it since 1990. I watched it over and over again at the hospital, I never got tired of it so She kept on renting it for Me. So it would be in mid 1995, I would finally get better and recover. When I did MiMi asked them and if she could buy it for Me in celebration. So she worked out a deal like she was so good at. She surprised Me with at the hospital while I was recovering. Remember when she surprised Me with the figures of
OSTM'S WCW's Jimmy Hart, Harlem Heat & The Nasty Boys from
Target and the fantastic autographs from
Yokozuna & his figure, Owen Hart & Sting 
Well this was during this time in different months in
95 as well. My Grandpa PoPo reminded Me so much of
Arnold because he was big like him, dressed like him and was such gentle man, so kind and made Me feel so good. So here is My
Kindergarten Cop VHS Tape with
MY NAME ON IT plus a special receipt and the VHS is STILL the way it was when I got 27 years ago, I took care of it and never changed it whatsoever


Here is
MY NAME on the VHS that the owner of
Star Video wrote on there herself so that nobody would mistakenly take it

Here is the receipt with
Star Video's logo and the info. They wanted $8.99 so it was only $9.61 with tax. MiMi did good

Notice that it was Charles, I believe he was the manager of the store manager, he had very long, bushy hair always in a pony-tale and wore glasses. He was a nice guy. I hope he and the rest of the crew are still at it

Here is the title of the
movie plus
Star Video's address & info like they always put on their boxes.

As a special update on 6/6/24 --- I recall one day Me & My Grandpa was looking at Star Video's new release book cause that's how it was then (I've been looking for them off & on, I hope to locate one soon, they were so fun to look at & read). We saw the little poster (the one below!) in it and we're like oh man that looks really good. We read the description and we're like yep, that's right up Our alley

He's says hey, Hydester, wanna go to Star Video now and see if they got it for rent

I was like heck yeah, let's do it PoPo

We went there and lo and behold they had it right in their new releases section. That moment has been there with Me ever since

When We watched it We really liked it and were amazed by a lot that was it in it. It's really one of the best & last films of it's kind

As a special update on 11/3/23 I have been really thinking about some of the great times of seeing wrestling videos over there at
Star Video and there is several
WCW event that I recall renting which I could wait for
WCW Uncensored 95 was such a must see...

and so was
WCW Fall Brawl War Games 95...
and oh man I couldn't stop looking at
WCW Halloween havoc 95 I mean I was quite euphoric over this one....

nearly the same thing for
WCW World War 3 1995...
however I believe the last one I recall was
WCW SuperBrawl 6, it seemed like things were really changing by this time but like I always say,
96 was the year of change so

After Me & My Family actually saw it on the
Fourth/4th of July at the theater of 1996, I got
ID-4 VHS from Star Video several months after

Sadly this was one of the last things I ever got from
Star Video because they went under not to long after but I am very fortunate to get this stuff, to know all about it and to have experienced all of the wonderful times

So where was
Star Video 
Well it was right here. When We just found them in around
1991 which they had only been there short while beforehand, they were in a small section of Loughborough plaza that has a lot of history which I will express in more detail in a while. I really liked their early days. It was a super refreshing take on going to a video movie outlet. As
Mr. T's was gone and
Movie King was basically it while a young
Blockbuster was moving in on Gravois Avenue which I will get to soon, it all looked so good with the aforementioned video boxes and even a huge Popcorn stand that was of equal to a big theater at the time. They had a lot of great stuff to choose from most of every genre and video games for the
NES. I remember they even had a Adult Section as well. As a youngster I kinda sneaked around to it as this was a time I was really getting interested in women. I remember this one particular VHS cover of a very large boobed babe with her boobs far out, I believe she was doing some sort of hand-bra

I think all of their tapes were like
Playboy possibly softcore, I don't think they had any hardcore/XXX films but I can't be to sure about that

I would sneak to this section often but what boy who isn't girl crazy at this tender age wouldn't

It was kinda similar as to how I would sneak a peak at the nude babes over at
Judy's Superstore which I have superbly expressed My love and showcased Her in My Vintage showcases cause She was the best but I was younger then and I miss Her dearly

Again, I wasn't one of these kids you see going into trans or teenagers who don't know who or what they are and they become They/Them, I was a very curious boy whom just liked girls & women and I still do and I am quite proud of doing and knowing so

During this time there was a
Beauty School right next door to
Star Video. I do not recall the name of it. My Mom enrolled there as she had a passion for this. She became like a pro. Many, many times while Me & My Grandparents went to
Star Video, We'd stop by there and say hello & to see how She's doing. I'd show her what We just rented. I recall one moment when I rented
Konami's Super C/Contra II for the NES. She was kinda surprised about it cause she got Me the first game for the
NES years prior. So
Mom's Beauty School was moving to South County a few blocks away from
TRU and wouldn't you know,
Star Video moves in right in there as it was much, much bigger

As much as I loved their original incarnation, this one really grew on Me. However, the removed their Adult section but I got over that in time. They would have an even bigger selection of video games. They were getting rid of their
NES games for the room for
SNES & Sega Genesis games. They had a huge selection of Wrestling tapes too and I especially loved it when they got the new ones in predominantly the ones of
WCW. I loved the year of
1995 for so many reasons, I remember when they got in
WCW Halloween Havoc 95 I was astounded for it. I also loved how they would have new releases on the whole of Horror films. In fact when We rented spooky films from
Star Video it always seemed quite fun and & unique. There was one moment I largely recall with My Grandpa PoPo when We wanted to rent
1995's Christopher Lambert's The Hunted. We were quite excited about that. We had so many great moments over at
Star Video, there is too many to tell. Like I said above, I could teach the current generation of
Star Video in Lemay a thing or two

So they went out of business in around
97/98. Seemed like when
96 came around so much changed. They went out of business because of the aforementioned
Blockbuster down the street around the corner on Gravois. Here is picture of what used to be
Star Video and
My Mom's Beauty School. See where
Discount Smoke Shop & Edward Jones is, that's where the
Beauty Shop was. See where
Pizza Hut is, that is where
Star Video's first location was then they moved in the larger area I just said then soon after
Pizza Hut moved in there in
Star Video's old first area. We would order them countless times for a couple decades and this pic is quite recent so they are still there but so few people know all of this and I hope there is others out there like Me who will never forget how great this plaza was with the fun of
Mom' Beauty School and the awesome times of
Star Video
