I have never seen a VHS tape that shipped with a Mac. A promotional VHS is one thing. An instructional VHS obtained from a re-seller makes sense too. But shipped in the computer case? Definitely not by 1995 when CD-ROMs were standard. Every Mac I have from 1990s has either a CD-ROM guided tour or a pre-installed software guided tour. What is the source and content of such videotapes?
Also, your family obviously took the VCR movement seriously and bought only the best equipment, and treated it with respect. Indeed your problems tended to occur with the cheaper equipment you used, which was by far the most common for everyone else, and was also mistreated and taken for granted. My cassettes were mostly eaten by car stereos and auto-reversing decks ... And oh yes, Radio Shack products. My video tapes were eaten by my most expensive Super VHS decks as well as the cheapest I've used. by comparison, I have a top of the line 1996 Panasonic DAT recorder which is much more like a VCR than a cassette deck. I have lost far more DATs in it than any cheap cassette deck - on par with my VCRs.
I got rid of the last of the bulk of my VHS tapes 3 years ago. Take up waaaaaaaay to much room. Combined with the fact they don't even make blank VHS tape anymore, makes the format deader than a doornail, while the same cannot be said for audio cassettes. In fact some Indy labels still issue commercial cassettes to help combat piracy.