Store that let you rent pc games back in the mid 90's.

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#1 ryanweinmann
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I remember when I was young, and wasn't really much into pc gamng. There was a store name "Hasting", which let you rent pc games. I'm just curious if there were any store that let you rent pc games. Oh yeah, this was around mid 90's.

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#2 MonsieurX
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Not anymore,since most of them have an unique cd-key or must be enabled on Steam.
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#3 ryanweinmann
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Not anymore,since most of them have an unique cd-key or must be enabled on Steam.MonsieurX
I'm not talking about today, but like back in mid 90's.
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So basically you're asking if other stores in the 90s let you rent pc games, before CD keys were a thing? Yeah, probably.
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I remember when I was young, and wasn't really much into pc gamng. There was a store name "Hasting", which let you rent pc games. I'm just curious if there were any store that let you rent pc games. Oh yeah, this was around mid 90's.

ryanweinmann
Well, obviously a place like that existed if you went to it? What are you asking us here...
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#6 Andrew_Xavier
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Blockbuster used to :P There was another game store...when I was like 5...was awesome.

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If you know of one, and listed it, there obviously was a store that did that.
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#8 ryanweinmann
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If you know of one, and listed it, there obviously was a store that did that.FrostyPhantasm
I was just wondering if any of you guys have store that let you rent pc games.
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#9 PiscesChick93
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Blockbuster

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Not anymore, PC games are now free :)
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Blockbuster

PiscesChick93

When did blockbuster ever rent PC games? I practically lived in blockbuster back in the 16bit days and never saw anything PC.

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[QUOTE="PiscesChick93"]

Blockbuster

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When did blockbuster ever rent PC games? I practically lived in blockbuster back in the 16bit days and never say anything PC.

To be honest, I wouldn't know, I was only a small kid in the 90s lol. I just guessed as Blockbuster pretty much rent anything entertainment wise :P

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I remember renting Sega Mega Drive games from the video rental place.
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I didn't know of any for PC games because almost all of them started to require a cd key after a certain point.
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Pharaoh was the bee's knees.
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[QUOTE="PiscesChick93"]

Blockbuster

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When did blockbuster ever rent PC games? I practically lived in blockbuster back in the 16bit days and never saw anything PC.

Mid-90s in Toronto...
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#17 ryanweinmann
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I didn't know of any for PC games because almost all of them started to require a cd key after a certain point.BranKetra
When they started to use cd for the games, they didn't have cd keys. I just remember my dad got me and my bro a Packard Bell computer with windows 95 on it. I just remember going into hasting, and renting I believe it was "Theme Park" game. Also, I didn't really know to much about computers.
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#18 xXDrPainXx
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The local library would let you check out PC games and even ones that had the early days of serial keys but could be still activated unlimited times. My buddy and I used to just stroll in grab whatever titles we wanted go home install them/rip them/copy them.
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#19 djshowstopper87
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Aw the 90's anyone remember when Blockbuster use to let you rent SYSTEMS ( like N64 systems, PS1, etc).

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#20 branketra
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[QUOTE="BranKetra"]I didn't know of any for PC games because almost all of them started to require a cd key after a certain point.ryanweinmann
When they started to use cd for the games, they didn't have cd keys. I just remember my dad got me and my bro a Packard Bell computer with windows 95 on it. I just remember going into hasting, and renting I believe it was "Theme Park" game. Also, I didn't really know to much about computers.

I also had pc-cd games that didn't have cd-keys. It wasn't until around 2000 that I first encountered one.
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#21 ryanweinmann
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Aw the 90's anyone remember when Blockbuster use to let you rent SYSTEMS ( like N64 systems, PS1, etc).

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LOL, yeah. I remember my mom rented a ps1 for me, for my birthday. I rented Die hard with it. Also, I remember I was piss off b/c I didn't how to save, and didn't know that you needed a memory card. lol
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You sure you remember you did this? Never knew PC games could be rented, even in the 90's. Im sure I would have been all over that then. Maybe it was a small business rental place?
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#23 ryanweinmann
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You sure you remember you did this? Never knew PC games could be rented, even in the 90's. Im sure I would have been all over that then. Maybe it was a small business rental place?KittenNipples
Almost positive. It's weird but I can remember thing that I did back when I was 2. The thing is that PC game didn't start using cd key around end of 90's also which you can use the cd key how many times you want. I didn't really rent them b/c I didn't know to much about computers but I knew that you can rent them.