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Gizmodo marks the 30th Birthday of VHS and invites readers to share memories, some of which are kind of amusing...

My parents purchased a Magnavox VCR in 1977 for something like $1200. It was the first on the block. Top loader, two head(no stereo)and it came with the ultimate accessory, a remote. The romote came with a twenty foot cord so whenever someone walked through the living room, they would trip on it, pull out the plug from the front of the VCR, and render the thing useless. Good times, Good times. Oh,cubensis, my brother still uses this same VCR on a regular basis

My parents got a Betamax player, though I think when we got ours, VHS was pretty close to winning the format war. I remember trekking to the video store where there was one small wall devoted to Beta that never seemed to have the movies we wanted to watch, unlike the aisles of VHS.