With even Blockbuster on the ropes, it’s probably only a matter of time before video-store scenes, a staple of youth-oriented movies since the 1980s, will be appearing only in period flicks like next week’s “Take Me Home Tonight.”

Playing — like video-store workers in oh so many movies — a loser, Topher Grace is employed at Suncoast Video, a defunct chain whose remaining outlets were folded a couple of years ago into f.y.e.

Keeping with the tradition of these scenes, this movie, set in 1988, features only era-appropriate VHS boxes of movies from Universal, the intended distributor of “Take Me Home Tonight” (the one with an orange background is “Biloxi Blues” with Matthew Broderick — you can also make out “Firestarter” with Drew Barrymore on the cover).

Universal ending up selling the movie, which was shot four years ago, to co-producer Relativity Media along with Universal’s former Rogue label.