If you were born in the 1980s or 1990s, it's likely that your childhood was filled with warm memories of Friday or Saturday night visits to your local video store to pick up VHS tapes for movie night.

During the late ’70s and early ’80s, Disney made video store owners buy special boxed editions of their VHS tapes (blue cases were for rental copies, white cases were for retail). White tapes ...

Collectors often look for tapes with rental clamshell cases, original artwork, and distributor labels from companies like VIPCO, Intervision, and Thorn EMI. Some of the most sought-after pre-cert VHS ...

Canva/Century Films/Disney The biggest identifier ... the big “video nasties” moral panic in the ‘80s. A pre-certified (pre-cert) VHS tape is a videotape released in the UK before the ...