The Rewind-O-Matic 3000
Hold to rewind, watch the reel spin, eject, and get the next one in. The machine takes one tape at a time, so on a busy night the returns pile up fast.
Run the counter of a 90s video shop on its busiest nights.
A rush-hour game behind the counter of a 90s video shop. Rewind the returns, rent out what people ask for, buy in new stock, and keep the queue from walking out the door.
Customers bring their tapes back, and each one goes into the Rewind-O-Matic 3000 until it is back at the start. Hand a renter a tape that hasn't been rewound, or the wrong film, and they pay less.
Meanwhile the queue grows, the clock runs down and the shelf needs stock. Every shift ends with your takings and a rating, from Needs Work all the way up to Legendary.
Hold to rewind, watch the reel spin, eject, and get the next one in. The machine takes one tape at a time, so on a busy night the returns pile up fast.
Some customers are returning a tape and some are after a particular film. Find what they want and send them home happy before their patience runs out.
Spend your takings on new titles from the catalogue. When a genre is hot, its rentals pay extra, so the right purchase at the right moment pays for itself.
Every film on the shelf has a cover of its own to flip through, from Radical Rex to Ghost Cop.
A quiet morning with a few regulars, then the evening rush, then the graveyard shift, with the most stock and the most customers of all.