Every week CDFreaks looks back and remembers the time when technology wasn’t as advanced as today. This week we take a look at your first movie.

After watching a little football, drinking a few beers, analyzing the match and shouting at the referee a friend of mine decided to change the subject. ‘My first movie?’ A few guys laughed and started a conversation about yesterday’s unrated. While they continued I got myself in an alcohol-based trance and went back to the nineties. Lassie, the world’s most popular dog, was a box office hit and many kids wanted this loyal creature to be theirs. With Christmas and my birthday being far away I hoped that my parents were interested in a weekly investment, called an allowance.

First I asked for a real Lassie look-a-like, but my parents were not interested in a fluffy, barking animal. After a conversation about money and priorities I lost all hope. It took one week before my parent’s priorities shifted and I started saving some cash. I resisted a new Action Man, GI Joe and survived the consumer frenzy before I bought Lassie The Movie eight weeks later. The leading ‘human’ actor was a young bandana-wearing kid that could do a backward flip. A new idol was born and I decided to spent my next allowance on a bandana.

I still have the dusty movie in my room, but no longer have a VCR. I remember the emotion after Lassie’s disappearance and amazing re-entrance. Probably many didn’t spend their first dollars on Lassie The Movie, but bought another memorable box office hit. Maybe more blood and gore or even in black-and-white, please share it with us!