A few years ago I listed my favorite Royal Rumble boxes produced by Coliseum Video from best to worst. Now that August is here it’s only fitting that I follow up that piece by giving SummerSlam the same treatment. Although SummerSlam is probably considered the WWF (e)’s second biggest event of the year behind WrestleMania, historically I … More Ranking SummerSlam’s By Box Art
For most of my life, my family has had a huge video collection. When I was growing up, we had such a large collection of VHS tapes that it wouldn’t have been a stretch to invite people over and charge to rent out movies, turning our house into a makeshift video rental store. As the … More In Defense of Physical Media
From 1985 until 1997 all of the official World Wrestling Federation home video releases were distributed by Coliseum Video. This period was a golden age in both professional wrestling as well as home video as the rise of VHS coincided with the 1980’s professional wrestling boom. As video stores popped up in every neighborhood, Coliseum … More Coliseum Video Rewind: Invasion of the Bodyslammers (WF117)
When I was growing up, Friday was my most anticipated day of the week. Once school was over on that day, it meant 3 days of freedom. One of the things that became a ritual during those Fridays was a visit to the local video store. The world has changed so much since the video … More Remembering the Video Store
I’m not the biggest Bond fan out there. In fact I’d say I’m nowhere in the vicinity of being considered a mega fan. Since I was introduced to the franchise though Goldeneye and later became a fan through the Goldeneye video game I have thoroughly enjoyed the franchise and would catch the films on TV every … More BOND 50 (MGM, 2012)
Televisions today are flat panels either mounted on a wall or sitting atop a stand. Owners want it to be large, visible, and yet at the same time they want it to take up as little space as possible. In my younger years TV’s were much smaller in screen size and yet typically much larger and … More Console Television Sets
I loved collecting WWF Coliseum Videos back when I was in high school, and my favorite pay per view event has always been the Royal Rumble. Add the two passions together and of course I owned nearly every Royal Rumble VHS tape produced. Today I’d like to take a trip down memory lane and rank … More Ranking Royal Rumble’s By Box Art
I’ve always been a collector of something, accumulating large quantities of various items that have interested me for years. Be it Lego sets, comic books, action figures, trading cards, it seems I was always pursuing a new addition to one of my various collections. Of all the things I’ve collected over the years I look … More Smack ‘Em Whack ‘Em (Coliseum Video, 1993)
Twenty years ago in August of 1995 Star Wars fans were at a pivotal crossroads that few of us would actually have believed at the time. 20th Century Fox and Lucasfilm announced that they were going to release the original Star Wars trilogy for the home market one last time. The release was in the … More Star Wars THX Home Video Release (1995)
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