Did anyone else ever join a mail order game rental scheme?

[Tickled_Pink]

It's weird, but from time to time I keep thinking back to the days when I used to rent games via mail order. Unlike today, you could keep a game for a week at a time.

 

Without game rentals, I'd have never had the chance to play something like Omnitrend's Universe back in the day. I can't remember the name of the company I used to use. They probably advertised in Atari User in the mid-late eighties.

[Tezz]

I used to rent stuff from Midland Games library back in the eighties. I can't remember anything about the company now apart from the name

[Pong]

Never lived in the 80s. Was it cool then? XD

[+Stephen]

Never lived in the 80s. Was it cool then? XD

The music was a bit shit

[Pong]

Never lived in the 80s. Was it cool then? XD

The music was a bit shit

I was talking about games other than Action 52 or Friday the 13th.

[Tickled_Pink]

Never lived in the 80s. Was it cool then? XD

The music was a bit shit

 

I hear people saying that all the time but I always think "compared to when? Now?" I can probably name just half a dozen songs from the mainstream chart last year that genuinely weren't a pile of dog shite.

 

 

Might have been Midland I was with, BTW.

Edited January 2, 2011 by Tickled_Pink

[FULS]

Hi,

I used to rent Atari 400/800 Games from 'Wedgwood Rental' in Fort Worth, TX. from about 1983 to 1987.

They were around $5.00 apiece for a week. I would order 10 at a time to save on postage.

They were really a great company.

[+Stephen]

Never lived in the 80s. Was it cool then? XD

The music was a bit shit

 

I hear people saying that all the time but I always think "compared to when? Now?" I can probably name just half a dozen songs from the mainstream chart last year that genuinely weren't a pile of dog shite.

 

 

Might have been Midland I was with, BTW.

Good point - I am certainly no fan of 99% of what's out there now. Guess it's easy to forget that most music sucks, from all time periods