No Mutants Allowed

Not sure if I remember it but Hong Kong Action was my teenage period.

Same here. A Turk friend of mine was the kid with the dad who owned a store, family was loaded, so he had anime and HK movies and Playstation and games galore (his dad finally ditches his whole family, and took off to invest in real-estate around the world, the capitalist swine)

Back in my day the VHS was king. The videostore was even a place where small bumfuck town dwellers like myself could congregate

Plus it had arcade machines and pool tables.

Oh for sure, dude, did you guys have "movieboxes"? Those red plastic briefcases for VHS players? Some of us were shabby enough to not even have one, so we had to rent the player as well
That's what makes my friend's access to movies and anime so impressive - especially in retrospect, at the time I took it for granted