The idea of Columbia House selling it's own Atari 2600 clone on which to play games from the Columbia House Video Game Club sounds a bit peculiar. You can view a few issues on the Digital Press site. The reverse side had a poster featuring a game like Donkey Kong Jr., Q*bert, MoonSweeper, etc. There weren't a lot of selections, so nearly each title had a box-cover photo. Perhaps the demographic of the early 80's was more youth oriented, but the Video Game Club mini magazines were pretty cool. Often it was produced as a poster that had game selections on one side and a poster featuring a game title on the other They would visually highlight certain offerings, but the Video Game Club was different. Many of the clubs features mini magazines containing the month's available selections.
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Around 1983 Columbia House was offering Atari 2600 games as a video game club and a software club that offered Atari Home Computers, Colecovision & Adam, Apple, and Commodore 64 games. Somewhere between LPs and CDs, Columbia House was hawking software and video games via a "club". To this day, the Columbia House brand is alive and selling DVDs online. I'm sure this was financially beneficial to them, but they offered various selections on media formats that were no longer commercially available in stores - usually for about 4 or 5 years. One of the often forgotten benefits of Columbia House was their commitment to media types. I began with the Record Club and still remember the day my buddy & I came home from school to find Van Halen's Fair Warning had arrived - Awesome! I tried again with CDs, but the model was a hassle and I gave up. I always forgot to send the cards back and wound up shipping all sorts of musical atrocities back to them in Terre Haute, Indiana. The premise of these clubs were based on a dubious business model called, negative option billing which lets customers agree to automatic delivery of products (music in the case of Columbia House) which they must pay for unless they decline the delivery in advance. By 1063 they accounted for 10% of the recorded music retail market. The Record Club dated back to 1955 as a direct-mail experiment for music sales. The Columbia House Brand was started in the early 1970s when Columbia Records organized their various music clubs. The notion of getting 13 albums for a penny seemed like a sweet deal! That initial shipment was a "Christmas morning" sort of event. Reel-to-reel, cassettes, 8-tracks, albums, video games, software - they had it all! They went on to have VHS, CD and DVD offerings. When I was a kid, Columbia House had a club for every type of media you could imagine. Well done!Ĭolumbia House “Clubs” had everything from LPs & cassettes to video games & a branded Atari 2600 clone This looks like a properly planed holiday release. The enclosed trading card bares the same image. There is a zigzag pattern ont he cardboard backer that is reminiscent of Easter eggs. The clear plastic around the figure is egg-shaped as opposed to the square shapes for other figures. So, we're stoked to play Easter Trigger Happy! :)Īctivision made a lot of fun changes to the packaging for Springtime Trigger Happy. All people are different in various ways - letting religion dictate a holiday greeting is idiotic. It reminds me of how some people prefer "Happy Holidays" to "Merry Christmas" to avoid awkward situations with those who don't celebrate Christmas. I keep saying "Easter" even though he's labeled as "Springtime". He's one of our favorite Tech characters, so it's good fun to be able to play his Easter variation.
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Springtime Trigger Happy has a pink/purple skin tone and rides an Easter egg bomb - all of which appears in-game while playing! This is a welcome discovery for such a fun character. My son and I played the original Eye Brawl and Halloween version simultaneously. Some people were quite surprised and disappointed by this. He still looked the same as the original Giant's figure, proving that he wasn't explicitly programed into the game. Last Fall's Pumpkin Head Eye Brawl was an awesome figure, however, his Halloween look did not appear in-game.
So, finding an Easter (labeled as "Springtime") festooned Trigger Happy Skylander was awesome! Springtime Trigger Happy is available for Easter! Politically correct “Spring” comes to the Skylanders and Trigger Happy is poised for EasterĪ random trip to Toys R Us led to my discovery of an Easter Skylanders figure for Swap Force! I'm a big fan of holiday variants - in all forms.
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