I know losing someone you love is hard, and I feel that. I wish your father's soul to rest well. But in the meantime, get a Coleco SGM. Having new games on the CV with the MSX AY-8910 sound chip would be like a Colecovision future.
An amazing time in gaming in which Sega, Nintendo, and Atari games could all be found on the same console. The most amazing thing to me during that time was that an adapter was available to play Atari 2600 games on the Colecovision.
It is amazing how versatile this console was. It was leagues above a 2600, but was 5 years newer hardware. So, it's literally like comparing two separate generations.
Biggest issues were no smooth scrolling and monochrome sprites, though a home brew ms Pac-Man for the cv appears to have overcome the monochrome moving characters
I'd get so freaked out playing Venture when you took too long in a room and one of those green monsters would come in to come after you! Scary game for a little kid!
It was a bit of a challenge to figure out which games I wanted to include. I finally just sat down played the ones I wanted and limited it to 25. Thanks for watching.
I really liked Destructor a lot. It was my favorite game. So many reviews think of it as crap, but it was the best, especially with the driving wheel, which was at the time required to play it.
I've been reminiscing about my old ColecoVision lately and watching videos about it. After a little over a week this is the video that finally made me download an emulator for my PC. LOL I miss a lot of these games. I loved Venture for some reason. DK Jr, Zaxxon, Mouse Trap, Super Baseball, Turbo and Pepper II were all favorites. What's funny is that I build PCs for a living and I even have close to $5,000 USD into my own. In the world where frames per second makes you king, I'm going to play emulated retro games.
Yeah I loved Venture. I was really little and when you took too long in a room and then one of the green monsters would come in! Man that was scary to a little kid! The tension was just unbearable at times!
So far emulating ColecoVision I think Montezuma's Revenge and the port of H.E.R.O. are the best games for the system but Mouse Trap beats them both by an inch. It's a seriously fun and unique Pac-Man clone and one of the best Coleco arcade ports aside from Zaxxon.
So nostalgic. Coleco vision was my first video game console ever and the original chunky Gameboy which I got around the same time or maybe a little before was my first handheld.
Wow. Just...WOW.... I am remembering very vague and small tid bits of my time as a toddler playing some of these. 36 now. But just....good lord the games these memories invoke.
Aww, Man! Good Times! I have an old ColecoVision in my basement and this brings back so many happy childhood memories! Wish there had been a TRON game on ColecoVision back in the day! Some of my faves were Donkey Kong, Popeye, Venture, Space Fury, Pitfall II, Zaxxon, and Subroc.
I was almost always late for primary school cause id get up at the crack of dawn and put popeye on and not budge for hours. I was always told that next time i got caught by the bad guy that would be it over......i rarely got caught.
As a kid, we knew of only one person that had a ColecoVision. When we spent the night over at their house, it was like visiting the richest person in town. :D
Use to play mouse trap with my mom and she use to kick my ass...its the first console I owned until one day my mom walked up the stairs holding a grey box that said Playstation and a copy of crash bandicoot and destruction derby.....the rest is history.
Pac man was never released , officially , for the Colecovision, by Coleco Industries; It came out many years later when Opcode put it out as a homebrew..
That's what the Coleco prided itself on. Many of the game boxes featured a picture of the actual arcade cabinet on the front. They were so ahead of every other, similar console of the time. The Atari 2600 was less expensive though, so they won that round of the console wars. Coleco would win in every other category, though. Cheers from Canada
I grew up on the Coleco, but this list really saddened me as it seemed to miss all the games we were most into as kids in my neighborhood on this system. Literally did not include one of what where the most popular games in my area. Tarzan, Smurfs, Antarctic Adventure etc. Not saying they were masterpieces but they were what all the kids were excited to play, not sure why this list would be so different.
Yeah Tarzan was excellent as was Smurfs! Destructor was my favorite Coleco game, but it's not on the list. It's terrible just how many of the best games are not on the Coleco Flashback!
You know what. For the fact that this released 3 years or however many before the Nes(my favorite console) these graphics are amazing and would definitely be a system worth having at release. Frenzy looks awesome.
I loved my Colecovision. It blew away my original 2600 at the time and that went to my Dad. I still miss that chubby controller with it's keypad. And then there was the bloody Adam that really screwed the pooch for Coleco as their product release was a bloody catastrophy along with staggering quality control issues. The 83 crash meant a lot of companies didn't survive so that probably combined with mediocre sales and the huge returns of DOA or otherwise defective Adam computers meant that Coleco were one of the many cautionary tales during that era of gaming. RIP Colecovision.
It is crazy, when you think of the actual time span from things like this, ZX Spectrum etc..... through too the NES, then Amiga32, PS1, Xbox and now the power of gaming PC's and PS5, Series Comsoles.... it is nuts xx
Atari was the Ford, Intellivision was the VW, and Coleco was the Mercedes of its day. Problem was, it was late to the game, and people didn’t have the disposable income back then like they do know.
I went 2600 to Atari 600xl after that, but this machine was a powerhouse in the day if 1982...some of these titles especially pacman titles I think are more recent versions...the same goes for Mario Bros...still, very impressive Z80 hardware.
You are correct both Pacman and Mario Bros are "modern" releases. But it shows what the system is capable of with the right person doing the programming without a time restraint to get the game released as soon as possible. Thanks for the comment.
Oh I SO enjoyed the Colecovision! Had Mousetrap, Venture, Donkey Kong, Ladybug(my grandfather was addicted to Ladybug), Carnival, BC Quest for Tires, Donkey Kong Jr, Montezuma Revenge, Popeye, Q Bert, Frogger, maybe had Pac Man.... but don't remember having it. Can not believe Montezuma Revenge or BC Quest for tires weren't in the list. They were SO fun, but every time I think I got to the end of the game, the game would crash coming out of the last cave. Oh crap I had Antarctic Adventure and was addicted to it!! It was so FUN! And was learning piano at the time. My mom had the music so I worked on it, memorized it (or thought i had), surprised my piano teacher with it... who not only was SHOCKED I learned something ON MY OWN on top of the stuff she was teaching me, (also noting I only memorized half the piece....oops), and then called my mom and said, "he needs a new teacher. He's beyond me teaching him." I was only taking from her because she was down the street and mainly a VOICE teacher who could play a little piano and help me through my theory and basic piano book at the time.
Great list, I have to say I was super disappointed that Time Pilot does not have the space ship level. The only games on your list I do not have are Galaxian, Tapper and Jungle Hunt, your video makes me want to fix those omissions. I am assuming that Pac-man and Mario Bros. are home brews, I don't currently collect home brews outside of the occasional Atariage purchase.
That's one of the main reasons for the video game crash of 83. It was the wild west and anyone could make a cheap Atari game. These games flooded the market and since there was no real quality control, most of these games were garbage. The community got sick of spending good money on bad games and the rest was history. Cheers from Canada
I have a Colecovision rom disc with all the games for my dreamcast. I never owned a Colecovision at the time, but had the amazing Commodore 64, so life wasn't that bad for me.
the jawbreakers, I was thinking the same. I’m wondering if it and the other Pac game were recents adds. I don’t remember those being quite that good - especially when compared to the Atari 5200 or 7800 versions.
Takes me back! I'd just started work and so could afford games consoles, first the old Atari and then a ColecoVision to the envy of my friends. I had Q*Bert, Donkey Kong and DK Junior, Zaxxon looked stunnign but wasn;t a very engaging game really, also had Turbo (with the wheel and footpedals!) and the Smurf game, which again, was visually stunning for the time but otherwise not a good game to actually play.
Until the NES hit the stores, this system was it. They did a phenomenal job getting a lot of arcade titles on the system, and most were very good translations - especially the many Exidy games that were ported over (Venture, Pepper II, etc.) It really is a shame that the Adam ultimately killed the system, since it had a great deal going for it. It would have had some serious competition once the NES was released, but I think they could have kept some decent market share as long as they were able to release a more powerful, backwards compatible system and maintain the 3rd party software development they had.
I tend to agree with you. My thought is that they should have kept selling the ColecoVisions at a lower price point, say $79, that would probably allow more games to be developed, and kept the system selling. Then through the expansion port they could have sold a CVII module with more graphics and sound capabilities comparable to the NES or maybe better. From what I understand the expansion port of the CV is unique in that it allows the possibility of taking over every aspect of the original CV and allowing it to basically become anything that they wanted it to be.
The Adam computer killed Coleco. Remember, they were making tons of money of Cabbage Patch dolls at that time. I must have shipped six successive defective Adam computers back to Coleco between November of ‘83 and March of ‘84. They finally got the computer working just fine by March, but it was too late. I wonder if Coleco could have survived the crash had they released a working Adam in Nov. ‘83.
All of the content creators on youtube agree with you. Coleco definitely would have survived the crash, if it wasn't for the Adam. They lost millions on that piece of crap, and by 1988, they were bankrupt. What could have been.. ?? Cheers from Canada
Mario Bros is homebrew (2009) and there is no Miss Pac-Man on Coleco as far as I know (?). It can only be found in "Pac-Man collection" which is also a homebrew.
I was so happy when I got a Coleco as a kid. It was a upgrade from my Atari. Pitfall, Q*Bert, Centipede, Mr. Do, Popeye, Galaxian, Frogger, Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Pac-Man were my favorites
Totally agree with your picks, but I should mention, Ms. Pacman was a later, homebrew game. You're probably getting it confused with the Atari 2600 port. That port is one of my top 5 Atari 2600 games. An amazing port, and it shows what Atari Pac-man could have been, if they hadn't rushed production. Cheers from Canada
