An advertised list reported that first-release VHS tapes of "Barney: Waiting for Santa," "Halloween," "Star Wars," and others were rare and worth good money.

Stock image of a VHS tape cassette being fed into a video recorder. The internet has cry-laughed at dogs Gigi and Barney getting "married" in the video.

After a long illness, the groundbreaking home-entertainment format VHS has died of natural causes in the United States. The format was 30 years old.