Moderators PowerButchi Posted June 9, 2016 Moderators Share Posted June 9, 2016 Best of WCW? I remember it being 2.49 in MVC for some reason. Then someone off here (Brownie or Magnum Milano?) sent it to me a few years ago and I festooned my pants with Jitler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted June 10, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted June 10, 2016 I picked it up for about £3 in Woolies.  My first tape was Survivors 1989 which I bought from John Menzies after getting mental excited over a lend of my mates Mania VI and Survivors 90. I thought it was awesome and hearing the pops for Jake, Demolition and Hogan in succession made me dry-jizz my 10 year old's Y-fronts.  My next tape was Rumble 93, also from John Menzies, then for my 12th birthday I was blessed with SummerSlam 88, Rumble 91, SummerSlam 93, WrestleMania The Greatest Hits (Soverign Series one), WrestleFest 93 and Invasion Of The Bodyslammers. I got told "choose 6" and that's what I went with. No idea what my rationale was, but Rumble 91 is probably my most-watched tape to this day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Zeus Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 That Best of WCW tape was given to Silver Vision by WWE when they bought WCW. With no more WCW there was obviously no more WCW Magazine, but they had thousands of those videos, so we released them under the Wrestle Vision label, which never got used again. Â My first wrestling video was Survivor Series 1988, which I ordered from a catalogue my mate had brought into an A-Level maths lesson. He took the request from me and his Mum ordered it - never have I watched a video so many times as that first gem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Big Benny HG Posted June 10, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted June 10, 2016 They were giving away copies of that WCW Best of the 90s tape with one of the WWF SmackDown PlayStation games one year. At least Toys r' Us were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daaaaaad! Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 That explains a lot! I thought it was weird my Dad buying me a wrestling video. I bet it was SmackDown 3, got that for Christmas 2001. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MungoChutney Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Mine was either the tape in the top right hand side of this pic:   Or it was this one:   The USA Championship wrestling tape was matches from one of the territories I think, probably Dallas or Mid-South. Greg Valentine was on it as was a young Brett (sic) Hart. The Von Erich tape was weird because he lost the biggest match on the tape and my 6/7 year old self was really confused by why a 'best of' tape had the guy losing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Guvnor Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Greg Valentine was on it as was a young Brett (sic) Hart.  This could be old age playing tricks on me, but I seem to remember Brett Hart was actually someone like Barry Horowitz using the name, rather than it being Bret Hart from Calgary.  Someone please confirm I haven't lost the plot on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MungoChutney Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Â Greg Valentine was on it as was a young Brett (sic) Hart. This could be old age playing tricks on me, but I seem to remember Brett Hart was actually someone like Barry Horowitz using the name, rather than it being Bret Hart from Calgary. Â Someone please confirm I haven't lost the plot on this one. Actually, you might be right. I think I've gone back and forth over whether it was 'the' Bret Hart. Don't think the tape is still at my mums or I'd have checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeRobertsParoleOfficer Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 "Wrestlemania 3" for me. I remember it was a choice between that and the "Best of Saturday Nights Main Event" vid. I picked the weaker one.  I got it from the old Virgin Records shop in Union Street in Glasgow. I remember it was packed with grappling stuff around 1992.  This was my first. Bought about 1991 from Woolworths. It was £14.99. Not a lot of money now but was then. I didn't have sky and only got into it because everyone else was.  Watching it as a 10 year old I had no idea who a lot were (no web back then) but what an event. Fab value as well as 3 he's long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buba3d Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 think mine was wrestlemania 4 double vhs which if i recall cost my dad just over 20 quid from john menzies then a few weeks later uk rampage 91 Â in the early 90's i was given two full boxes of unopened wcw cards and a vhs tape of europe vs usa? i think the last match on the tape was some sort of steel cage match involving fit finaly and st clare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Guvnor Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016   Greg Valentine was on it as was a young Brett (sic) Hart.This could be old age playing tricks on me, but I seem to remember Brett Hart was actually someone like Barry Horowitz using the name, rather than it being Bret Hart from Calgary. Someone please confirm I haven't lost the plot on this one. Actually, you might be right. I think I've gone back and forth over whether it was 'the' Bret Hart. Don't think the tape is still at my mums or I'd have checked.  I thought so. Something in the back of my brain just remembered reading it years ago somewhere.  Anyway, these were my first official tapes, ordered from Silver Vision for Christmas 1990....   Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted June 10, 2016 Moderators Share Posted June 10, 2016 I had a "Lords of the ring" or "Kings of the ring" tape, which had amatuer boxing, kickboxing, and 1983 or 4 JCP on it. If you love The Assassins and King Kong Mosca that was the tape for you. Mosca and his fucking son all over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted June 10, 2016 Moderators Share Posted June 10, 2016 Mine was either the tape in the top right hand side of this pic:   Or it was this one:   The USA Championship wrestling tape was matches from one of the territories I think, probably Dallas or Mid-South. Greg Valentine was on it as was a young Brett (sic) Hart. The Von Erich tape was weird because he lost the biggest match on the tape and my 6/7 year old self was really confused by why a 'best of' tape had the guy losing.  Going by the pictures of Wahoo McDaniel and Ivan Koloff on the covers, and the mention of Greg Valentine being on it, I'm led to believe it might well have been JCP you were watching on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Dem Wanz Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Adding that Undertaker poster to my 'retro wrestling shit I wish I own' list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Manforce Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 Â Anyway, these were my first official tapes, ordered from Silver Vision for Christmas 1990.... Â Â I have fond memories of this tape as a young 'un. Â As for the first one(s) I owned I got these two for Christmas in 1999... Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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