This game about running a '90s video rental store is the first job sim to really grab me since Schedule 1

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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter I’ve played a bunch of retail job simulators, and something you can almost always count on is a bit of a slow start. Your store is empty, you have a limited budget, you have sparse inventory options, and there’s a learning curve that means it takes a good half-hour, at least, until you’ve got your bearings.But Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator gets rolling immediately. Order some random VHS videos from your old computer and they’re delivered instantly. Plop down a couple of shelves and stock them with weird sounding movies like “A Scientist and his Sailor” and “The Dessert that Followed You Home.” Open the doors and people begin strolling in immediately to rent some tapes. Within a minute or two of starting the game, you’re already up and running.And the 1990’s themed video rental store sim is a welcome throwback for me because I worked in a video rental store in the ’90s, which is neither as much fun nor as boring as it sounds. Yeah, I could watch movies while I worked, but my coworkers had terrible taste in films—and there honestly wasn’t that much time to watch them anyway because renting movies was pretty much all people did every night in the ’90s. The store was always busy.Article continues below You may like Change the course of history in Rewind 99, a nostalgia-infused retail sim where you’ll fight back against streaming services as the last remaining video rental store on the planet Nothing beats putting all my little stuff on my many little shelves in a super cozy shop sim like Thrifty Business I thought the Midnight Ramen Shop demo might s