I have to say, as someone from a PAL region, VHS didn't look like that when I was a kid. It also didn't look like that when it was new. That's after like 20 years or so of degradation. It reminds me of how sometimes in period movies you'll see a black and white film that's all scratched to hell. But the film wouldn't have looked like that back in the day, that's just what it looks like now.