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Photo set of abandoned video stores is a chilling reminder of adolescence.

Flavorwire compiled a list of “ruin porn” images of abandoned video stores. Remember when you could rent a Super Nintendo? Yeah, I don’t miss that at all. Blockbuster Video – New Orleans, Louisiana Credit: Alex Gaidouk – – – Blockbuster Video – Adelaide, Australia Credit: Ryan Smith

Flavorwire compiled a list of “ruin porn” images of abandoned video stores. Remember when you could rent a Super Nintendo? Yeah, I don’t miss that at all.

Blockbuster Video – New Orleans, Louisiana

Credit: Alex Gaidouk

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Blockbuster Video – Adelaide, Australia

Credit: Ryan Smith

Games This Week: Sep. 9, 2026

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Visitors silhouetted inside the green-lit Espacio Memorial at the Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico City

Mexico joins a seven-country games policy program

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The Biosphere 3 title screen, a glass dome on a small island

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Games This Week: Sep. 9, 2026

Mexico joins a seven-country games policy program

A scanned house is the museum in Biosphere 3

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