10 Things Only 90s Wrestling Fans Will Understand

7. The Importance Of VHS Boxes

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Increased choice and availability plays a big part in this trip down memory lane, because it's insane to look back at the way things were a mere 20 years or so ago. Back in the '90s, fans couldn't fire up an app and watch every pay-per-view from history in HD. No, they had to rely on primitive VHS tapes that could bite the dust anytime.

Also, each one cost more than a one month subscription to the WWE Network.

Anyone who lived through the decade will recall agonising over which tape to buy. Pocket money wasn't limitless, and neither was the budget of parents who desperately wanted to treat their kid to "another Hulk Hogan video". You were allowed one, maybe two, and that was it for a while.

Worse, big events like 'Mania and Royal Rumble took months to come out on VHS. This guy, no joke, didn't see the 1997 Rumble until his birthday that November. Still, there was something magic about waking up early before school to rip the present open and watch it exhaustively with a bowl of cereal.

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