45 ColecoVision Homebrews & Conversions!!

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Wow, I had no idea there were so many ColecoVision homebrews and conversions! So here's 45 of them that I tried out, most of them were INCREDIBLE!!!
Games Featured: Aerial, Arno Dash, Astrostorm, Battlot, Bejewled, Bomb Jack, Booming Boy, Bootskell, Boxxle, Cavit, Champion Pro-Wrestling, Children of the Night, Circus Charlie, Cold Blood, Commando Returns, Dacman, Danger Tower, Flicky, Flipper, Frontline, Gauntlet, Get Booty, Ghostblaster, Goonies, GP World, Gulkave, Insane Pickin Sticks 8, JETPAC, Kevtris, Knight Lore, Kung Fu, Lift, Mario Bros., Mecha 9, Ninja Princess, Operation Wolf, Pitfall II Arcade, Quest for the Golden Chalice, Ruptus, Space Hunter, Space Invasion, Spelunker, Star Castle, Txupinazo, Wonderboy
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@realtrisk Год назад

I'm always impressed by how good Colecovision games looked. It was a really great console that got shafted by the US videogame crash.

@The_Real_DCT 7 месяцев назад

Not just the crash but also Coleco dumping so much money into the Adam.

@realtrisk 7 месяцев назад

@@The_Real_DCT Yeah, as usual for situations like these, the real explanation is often more nuanced than a single reason.

@thedinobros1218 3 месяца назад

It was not the crash, it was because the Coleco Adam sucked.

@ordinaryk 2 месяца назад

@@The_Real_DCT It was a double whammy; the failure of the Adam, and the runaway success of the Cabbage Patch Kids. Coleco, instead of developing more games for the already successful ColecoVision, abandoned it at the first sign of market instability and put all its eggs in the Cabbage Patch basket, which really bit them in the butt hard when that craze died off. Coleco went belly up in 1988.

@johndeaux3703 18 дней назад

@@thedinobros1218 The Coleco ADAM didn't suck at all. It's basically the same as the successful MSX computers. A lot came from the factory with miscalibrated tape drives that ate tapes. If you had one that worked or you used a disk drive you were fine. They came out late and couldn't attract developers away from Atari/C-64/Apple.

@wkrick 11 месяцев назад

Frontline is an official release and it's designed to be used with the Colecovision "Super Action Controller".

@discopants68 11 месяцев назад

Yes, I had it, and that’s exactly how it looked and played. You spun the wheel on the SAC to rotate your arm and aim the gun.

@themidcentrist 11 месяцев назад

I love seeing a late 1970s or early 1980s console playing a modern homebrew that it shouldn't be able to handle but somehow does anyway. A lot of these games look like they could be early NES non MMC chip games.

@bitwize Год назад

Bootskell, Cavit, and many of the other games where you say "the graphics are kinda plain" all appear to come from this one Japanese developer who did ports of all his games to all sorts of obscure computer and game systems: Sharp X1, NEC PC88, VIC-1001 (Japanese VIC-20), etc. An interesting little corner of RU-vid I stumbled across a few months back. Looks like he's doing the ColecoVision as well. The plain graphics enable him to reuse assets across games and ports. And as you say, the gameplay is very good. So we have one dedicated Japanese guy keeping gaming alive on all these niche little systems.

@IntoTheVerticalBlank Год назад

Yes this is true and he's awesome!

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Some interesting concepts for games!

@The_Real_DCT 10 месяцев назад

Most of these are ports from Japanese games that wrestling game was a port from the Sega SG 1000, the vampire one is a MSX game.

@Rocky1138 11 месяцев назад

I really like the colour palette on the ColecoVision! It's shown really well in Children of the Night at 8:05.

@pabloarucas1185 Год назад

My fav Collecovision game is lady bug 🐞 I wish they made a version for the gameboy/gameboy color that would be amazing! Thanks for all the suggestions some of these are great conversions and super impressive for the system! ❤😊

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Definitely a CV classic.

@CooChewGames 11 месяцев назад

Knight Lore is a version, and it looks like a pretty good one, of the Ultimate Play the Game, (later to become Rare) games for the ZX Spectrum. The 'Filmation' technique of the 3d caused a massive wave of clones and variants thereafter. You have to find the cauldron; this will tell you the ingredients you need to find to place in there to make a cure for your lycanthropy. It was the third in a trilogy of Sabre Wulf and Underwurlde.

@Wasabialt 11 месяцев назад

I was going to comment that.

@SinistarPro_Mike Год назад

I'm a little late to the party! A ColecoVision upload? ❤This came out of nowhere, and what a nice surprise indeed! So many hours spent on this system with notorious hand cramping controllers, all for the ultimate home version of DK! It's always great seeing the homebrews and anything new for a system so nostalgically awesome as the Coleco. While your videos always hit a home run, this one went out of the park for sure! I wish I still had my Coleco. 👍

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Appreciate the kind words! These homebrews prove the CV could do some awesome games!

@meetoo594 4 месяца назад

Knight lore (21:51) is an iconic sinclair zx spectrum game by Ultimate, who became Rare (yup, the starfox and donkey kong Rare). They held this game back for a year after it was completed so they could release a couple of more basic 2d games as they figured no one would be interested in them after seeing Knight lore. Amazing confidence in how far ahead they were in the industry that they could do that. They made a few sequels, Alien 8 and pentagon before developing a scrolling 3d isometric engine which was again hugely impressive for the zx spectrum.

@atmaweapon2803 9 месяцев назад

"The music [in the Goonies] is good enough..." I see what you did there...

@edburns00 Год назад

28:52 amazing Futurama reference.

@AstonsVintageTechnologyWorkshp Год назад

I'm impressed that they managed to port over 'Knight Lore' from the ZX Spectrum to the Colecovision. It looks like a pretty solid conversion. Anyway, that's where it's from by the way. 🙂

@AstonsVintageTechnologyWorkshp Год назад

P.s. I'm surprised you haven't seen any of the isometric speccy games from AGC and various others, there are dozens of them, and they're sort of famous and kind of on most of the 80's computers. 😛

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

The developers must have just reskinned a lot of those games since they seem so similar.

@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145 Год назад

Was it called "Knight Lore" on the specky? I don't know the system well & am aware many similar games 3xist but I thought this was Saberwolf..or is that just a similar looking game?

@Zoyous Год назад

@@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145 Knight Lore is one of the sequels to Sabre Wulf.

@AstonsVintageTechnologyWorkshp Год назад

@@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145 Nope,😁 Sabre Wulf was 2-D, whereas Knight Lore was isometric 3-D. Same company though (A.C.G. later known as Ultimate).

@robertgijsen Год назад

That Bomb Jack music is Magnetic Fields from Jean Michel Jarre, an epic song! How dare you call that annoyi... Ah well yeah it sucks monkeyballs in this game. Very nice video! Lots of MSX1 games in there indeed. I think I can name them all.

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

It’s always been the music for Bomb Jack as far as I remember.

@shaky6669 Год назад

Mario Bros Runs on stock Colecovision hardware. I got my rom when I got my Atarimax SD Flashcart as part of the purchase. The Homebrews on this system are SO Awesome. Very active homebrew scene for this console.

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Really? No Super Game Module needed? Wow!

@tursilion 11 месяцев назад

@@GregsGameRoom The Super Game Module doesn't add that much, really. It's just used for a lot of the more impressive looking titles because they are ports from the MSX, and the SGM adds extra RAM and the MSX sound chip to make the port more direct. ;) Mario was coded from scratch, no porting. Thanks for the kind comments!

@xeriland 4 месяца назад

@@GregsGameRoom The Super Game Module has zero ability to improve graphics. It has the MSX sound chip, so programmers don't need to redo the all the sound when porting games. Any game using the SGM could be made without it if they spent the time.

@PhillyMJS 6 месяцев назад

Just stumbled across this video. Kevtris was the very first homebrew game released for the Colecovision, back in the 90s. Only 100 numbered copies were sold, using repurposed Donkey Kong cartridge bodies. I’m the original and current owner of copy #20. It’s been a while, but I remember it being quite playable on the original hardware with actual Colecovision controllers. 21:08

@The_Badseed Год назад

Great video. Never had a coleco, had a 2600 and Intellivision. Cool to see all the home brews. And you can never go wrong with an all Rush mix tape

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Philip J. Fry would agree.

@AstonsVintageTechnologyWorkshp Год назад

The alien splitting into two thing is a 'Space Invaders II arcade' thing 😎

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Yeah I realized that afterwards. Still pretty cool update.

@johneygd Год назад

Yeah except that STUPID joke about space invassion to be not a space invaders clone while i could simply presume that it is a space invaders clone.

@lurkerrekrul Год назад

Spelunker - Yes, the original versions of this were brutally difficult. I'd try playing the C64 version occasionally, and always got frustrated with how easily I died.

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

I really want to like it but dang…

@atariforever2002 11 месяцев назад

I'm sure you probably seen it already but if not check out a cool Moon Patrol homebrew called Matt Patrol. It's outstanding. And love your channel by the way. I'm subbed!

@MoviemaniaNick Год назад

I played this system years ago as a kid when my cousin had it. It was very interesting.

@retroarcadefan Год назад

Great overview of many impressive home brews! The wrestling game control scheme is the same as the arcade original.

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

I thought maybe it was an accurate port. Kinda weird.

@The_Real_DCT 10 месяцев назад

That pro wrestling game is a straight port of the Sega SG 1000 game of the same name.

@xTerrySunderlandx Год назад

I did had a coleco, but i didnt rememeber how good the games looked for time

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Some of these have the benefit of years of advancements compared to then.

@xTerrySunderlandx Год назад

@@GregsGameRoom yeah i lnow but it amazing to see the real capability the console had

@JustMe99999 9 месяцев назад

The Colecovision was such a great system for the time. Its only real Achilles Heel is that it doesn't do scrolling very well (evident in several of these).

@BURRITO44 2 месяца назад

Awesome video

@captainbeastazoid7084 8 месяцев назад

Most of these games are amazing for a Colecovision... The fact that some of these games are almost NES quality is amazing. It's 1982 hardware.

@legendsflashback Год назад

Very cool video

@mikewest6569 11 месяцев назад

Many nanoseconds of gaming enjoyment

@elektronzer3809 10 месяцев назад

Goonies did not come out on a offical NES cart but it was in the arcades in their Playchoice 10 machines.

@ArtoPekkanen 6 месяцев назад

Btw the Jetpack game seems like a conversion of the Section Z arcade game (which was also on NES back in the day). Check it out :)

@Pridetoons Год назад

Collectorvision also has a wide list of Colecovision games they sell in their Colecovision Collectors Vault.

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Yeah I saw a lot of good ones there I wanted (but couldn’t) try.

@Pridetoons Год назад

@@GregsGameRoom Yeah you got to get the Vault Collection.

@Pridetoons Год назад

@@GregsGameRoom Also Team Pixel Boy's WP has game on it too.

@Rocky1138 11 месяцев назад

Four player Boot Skell would be amazing.

@m1k3l1f3 10 месяцев назад

I only have the Coleco on a chip, aka the Colecovision Flashback. But even with that plug and play system being not amazing, it still made me really enjoy the spirit of the console. I want to get my hands on a real machine one day. 2024 update: Finally after waiting I finally was able to order a working console!

@Atarifan72 10 месяцев назад

Where do you buy these Roms? This is making want to purchase a Colecovision again. Great video!

@edburns00 Год назад

My pal Werner says at 26:49 "best adventure port i have seen so far". But does it have the secret dot and the Easter Egg?

@NorthWay_no Год назад

The SpectraVideo and Sord M5 were also platforms based around the same chips. I see lots of stuff I recognize from MSX screenshots from 80s magazines. Knight Lore is a ZX Spectrum original and this is probably a hostile port of the MSX version - the Stamper brothers were kinda control freaks on quality and access so I'm guessing this is a recent port (the only 6502 version I know of that they OK'd was the BBC B one).

@litjellyfish Год назад

For the king fu master it would be hard to have any background as then it would shine through the sprites

@CanKenMakeIt 10 месяцев назад

Front Line was an official game with the Super Controllers.

@PONTOCRITICO Год назад

I was really impressed with the ports of Children of the Night and Goonies. There are also several other good games like Star Castle that show how this hardware was still capable and differentiated in its generation, because it was very well made. Some consoles like the SG-1000 and the Atari 7800 that were from a later generation left a lot to be desired compared to the ColecoVision.

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Star Castle was awesome. Probably my new favorite home port.

@SevenCompleted Год назад

frontline used a dial like ikari warriors and you could fully rotate actually

@JustWasted3HoursHere Год назад

On a Colecovision controller, I think you can rotate the knob in addition to moving in the 8 directions. This is probably how "Frontline" is supposed to be controlled (just like the arcade version), but I don't know.

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Pretty sure it doesn't do that. The Fairchild Channel F and (I think) the Astrocade controllers twist.

@jamespaterson503 Год назад

As a Colecovision owner I can confirm that the knob doesn't rotate. There was a super action controller for the original version of Frontline.

@JustWasted3HoursHere Год назад

@@GregsGameRoom I never owned a CV but that knob sure looks like it could do that. I guess not. In any case, they missed an opportunity there!

@RailRide Год назад

@JustWasted3HoursHere Early protoyypes had a scroll wheel beneath the joystick, much like the Super Action Controller, but it was deleted from the production versions. If you open up the controller, you can see where the reed switches would have been mounted on the circuit board.

@richardadams4928 11 месяцев назад

@@jamespaterson503 So is this one some kind of remastered homebrew? Cruz I was just about to post that Frontline was NOT a homebrew, but a Coleco licensed release from back in the day. I had the commercial release back in the 80's.

@litjellyfish Год назад

For bejeweled what happens if you go to a jewel. Press and hold the button. Press in the direction you want to move it and release the button? Do that work?

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

It seems like you have to select and move at the same time. It was so quick which is why I thought the rapid fire was enabled but it wasn’t.

@Darkuni Год назад

Mario Bros FTW!

@NaderGator 7 месяцев назад

I think Goonies was originally made for MSX systems by Konami back in the day ..

@mazinz2 Год назад

Front line was given an official release on Colecovision back in the day. I still own it. I’m also positive it used the super action controllers which is how you could rotate the gun. So are you saying someone possibly then cloned it or maybe modified the game in some way for it to be in your video?

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Don’t know. It was included on a website that had homebrews. Maybe it’s re-coded.

@mazinz2 Год назад

Very possible then they may have changed, fixed or updated something with it. Def used the super action controllers becuase I remembered the camouflage covering overlay that fit on top of the controllers for button info (most games which used they controller had a similar overlay). Thanks for the video

@mazinz2 Год назад

Ps: sorry for the typos, “edit comment” isn’t working on the phone

@JustWasted3HoursHere Год назад

Does "Quest for the Golden Chalice" have the "Created by Warren Robinett" Easter egg in it?

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Good question!

@Blas4ublasphemy Год назад

1st game reminds me of Skykid by Namco.

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Or Looping.

@PuzZLeR_00 Год назад

Children of the Night. (yeah)

@lapalourde75 Месяц назад

Bonjour Très intéressant comme vidéo Il y a dungeons and trolls A very good game realised by Michel louvet Au plaisir Thierry

@intel386DX Год назад

5:55 this looks lice a CGA game :D

@BdR76 Год назад

0:30 "Aerial" looks like a SkyKid clone, and 2:21 "Battlot" looks a lot like Battle City

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

I figured Battlot was a clone of some kind.

@ridiculous_gaming Год назад

I wonder if Mario Bros was something created decades ago, but never released?

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Don’t know. It’s so good I can’t imagine it being that old.

@frankschalk7790 8 месяцев назад

What emulator are you using?

@3dtexan890 Год назад

I wish someone would have a way to install other games on the Colecovision Flashback.

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Tricky. There’s no USB access is there?

@mikebell2112 Год назад

Children off the night. What music they make.

@johneygd Год назад

If mario bros & pac man would,ve been released on the colecovision,it would,ve sold waaay more units.

@litjellyfish Год назад

About all single color enemies. I mean that is what you can expect with colecovision not so sprite powerful hardware really

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Mario is multi-colored. But I guess it was too much for the other sprites to be also.

@litjellyfish Год назад

@@GregsGameRoomhere is only single colored sprite. Mario is composed by several overlayed sprites (3 assume) problem is that it eats up a lot of sprites so usually only the main / most important sprites was made in several colors. If the sprites is more static so they don’t overlap vertically you can be a bit more generous. That is why the last game into the Clíp there is several rows with sprites that has three colors = using 2 sprites per row for those bull runners + 2 for the player = 4 sprites horizontally

@RailRide Год назад

@GregsGameRoom Colecovision could display up to 32 sprites onscreen, but no more than four could occupy any scanline, hence the sprite flicker anytime a fifth sprite lined up with any other four.

@litjellyfish Год назад

@@RailRide yup. I think he got it from what I wrote above but always good the state it several times. I feel this was a thing that REALLY hampered the Colecovision. It it had 8 sprites in a row like say C64 other systems it would be a very different story. Like 32 sprites in itself is not bad at all it could have been like 8 overlayed (3 color sprites) plus 8 sprites for bullets etc.

@ArneChristianRosenfeldt Год назад

@@litjellyfishI just cannot grasp how much silicon storage of 32 sprites takes. Or is 32 just the number of cycles in a scanline which can be used to check sprite y? So it is just subtract. While x compare needs to be much faster and is more expensive. Maybe the coleco vision cannot steal cycles from the CPU and has smaller borders and hence smaller and less patterns can be loaded?

@dallase1 2 месяца назад

Maybe BATLOT is a play on Camelot like Battle Camelot .

@RainerK. 11 месяцев назад

"pseudo 3D graphics" aka "isometric" :)

@dallase1 3 месяца назад

Is this on a emulator or real hardware?

@BaccarWozat 10 месяцев назад

Pitfall 2 didn't have an arcade game. It was on consoles and computers.

@robertofortuni6886 Год назад

the goonies guy is a copy of the Elevator Action character

@rameybutler-hm7nx Год назад

Just a question? If your not playing on a coleco, why are you playing them?

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Because I want to?

@rameybutler-hm7nx Год назад

@@GregsGameRoom duh. The homebrew games lose some of their appeal if not using the o.g equipment. Do you have a coleco? There great machines very simular to the sega master system but after a while they do need tlc, but emulation doesnt do it justice. I grew up playing a coleco i loved it.

@BBfanfun Год назад

FrontLine is one of the original Coleco releases for the "Super-Controller" (4 buttons) late release , not really Fun. better stick with Commando or Ikari Warriors ...

@axtrifonov 11 месяцев назад

31:51 it barely manages to display even single color mallets! (I hope you know what Colecovision can do and what it can't)

@xeriland 4 месяца назад

It can do way more than that. Check out DK Arcade that puts 16 sprites on a scanline.

@siriokds Год назад

HI. it would be more correct to divide real homebrew from game hacks taken from other consoles. Effort is different Don't you think?

@dallase1 2 месяца назад

What's wrong with the Wrestling game requiring you to select moves from a list bad? That make it easier to know what moves you are executing. Gauntlet couldn't have come out for Colecovision because it came out after the North American Home Video Game Crash and the Colecovision was discontinued the same year Gauntlet came out in the arcades? The Ghost Blaster game is playing a simplified version of the song Ghost Busters.Front Line is not a home brew game it's a n official Coleco game that requires the Super the Super Action Controllers.

@jadams7433 Год назад

The first game is more like looping for colecovision check it out homie

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

LOL, I said the same thing in another comment reply!

@jadams7433 Год назад

@@GregsGameRoom LOL I was like this is a looping clone.. good stuff buddy

@seethransom Год назад

As an eight-year-old child I knew that Dick Cavett was streets ahead of Carson.

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Hah! Glad I’m not the only one who remembers him!

@dalecummins689 9 месяцев назад

Definitely Mario Bros is the best

@Mrshoujo Год назад

Ikari is pronounced "Ih ka ree." Not Eye Cah Ree. Ikari in Japanese means Anger or Angry.

@crich95 Год назад

Angry Warriors Tracks. You'll be ok.

@MisterSplendy 10 месяцев назад

Super nice delivery, casual videos. Love it. New subscriber. I have a question. What emulator did you use? I am trying some of these on RetroArch and I get a "Super Game Module" error. How did you get past that?

@johndeaux3703 9 месяцев назад

There's no such thing as PAL or NTSC Colecovision games. They're the same worldwide. It's the systems that were NTSC or PAL. It's not like Atari 2600.

@braillynn4903 8 месяцев назад

I play Get Booty in real life 😏 I'm not good at it 😒

@twh563 Год назад

Homebrews should be pushing the limits of the systems. Most of these aren't even VCS quality.

@GregsGameRoom Год назад

Well, I appreciate anyone who can make a game for these old systems.

@The_Wandering_Nerd Год назад

Not everything can be a visually-astounding tech demo. What's important is the gameplay, and having something else to play on your ColecoVision when you're bored of the small number of official releases.

@xeriland 4 месяца назад

Dumb. Many of these are free ROMs. Still that are plenty that blow away anything the VCS can do. He only showed a small portion of Children of the Night. It is a massive game with an incredible graphics and soundtrack. It beats Zelda on the NES, which is often touted as the best game on that system.

@teddym2808 11 месяцев назад

The bomb jack music was actually a terrible version of the C64's Jean Michael Jarre music (which was also on a small loop but sounded amazing).

@ThePbrook1967 7 месяцев назад

Mario Bros. Yes you need an SGM (Super Game Module) Shame they couldn't make the SMS light gun work on Operation Wolf

@xeriland 4 месяца назад

No, Mario Bros. does not require an SGM. Why comment when you don't know?

@Nebulous6 3 месяца назад

A real homebrew stand-out is Risky Rick (a Rick Dangerous clone); it really pushed the ColecoVision to the max. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IiUEyliXFXA.html Frontline was an original game on the ColecoVision back in the day. Works well on the AdamEm emulator for the original XBOX. Try the triggers or B and X for left and right rotation.