Columbia House (1983)
The Columbia Record Club, which would evolve into Columbia House, was formed by Columbia Records 70 years ago. I'm sure that just about every middle-aged Gen-X nerd like myself remembers the deal where you'd get a bunch of records, 8-tracks, cassette tapes, or CD's for a penny if you joined their music club and 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.
The Columbia Record Club, which would evolve into Columbia House, was formed by Columbia Records 70 years ago. I'm sure that just about every middle-aged Gen-X nerd like myself remembers the deal where you'd get a bunch of records, 8-tracks, cassette tapes, or CD's for a penny if you joined their music club and 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 Some of them, like the Moonsweeper poster above, have been archived by Digital Press.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.
