Columbia House (1983)
I'm sure that just about every middle-aged Gen-X nerd like myself remembers the Columbia House music club where you'd get a bunch of records, 8-tracks, cassette tapes, or CD's for a penny if you committed to buying a certain number of others within the next few years. Some might remember that they had a video club where they offered a similar deal for movies on VHS, Laserdisc, and DVD. However, I'll bet that there are a lot fewer folks who remember that there was once a Columbia House Video Game Club that sold Atari 2600 and ColecoVision cartridges.
I'm sure that just about every middle-aged Gen-X nerd like myself remembers the Columbia House music club where you'd get a bunch of records, 8-tracks, cassette tapes, or CD's for a penny if you committed to buying a certain number of others within the next few years. Some might remember that they had a video club where they offered a similar deal for movies on VHS, Laserdisc, and DVD. However, I'll bet that there are a lot fewer folks who remember that there was once a Columbia House Video Game Club that sold Atari 2600 and ColecoVision cartridges.
Truth be told, I don't remember it existing in the 80's either, but I definitely would have bugged my family to join if I knew about it.
One of the perks of joining the Columbia House Video Game Club is the fact that they'd send order forms that had posters for video games with a place to write your high scores. Some of them, like the Moonsweeper poster above, have been archived by Digital Press. Click here to see them.
