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10 Essential Games for ColecoVision - Player One Start
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In this video I show my picks for 10 games I think every ColecoVision fan should play. These are not necessarily the most popular as this is NOT a ranked list. What games are they? Let's find out.
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In like 93 I was helping clean out a church and a deacon came out with 5 of these bad boys in the box, gave me one. Great console.
In '93 I would have died of delight if that happened to me. Just a year earlier, my dad made off with both my 2600 AND Colecovision and threw them in the trash. Not cool at all. I have since bought them on eBay of course, but this would have been a godsend.
Popeye was definitely a highlight on the system. Was a pretty faithful arcade port and one of my personal favorites.
Popeye was a great Colecovision game.
The ColecoVision had a licensed game based off of the movie "Wargames" starring Mathew Broderick which was really good, imo. It used overlays on the keypad, 8 difficulty settings and was a lot of fun. It was my favorite by far. Sadly, I mostly used my ColecoVision with the adapter to play the large number of Atari 6400 games I already had.
I had Wargames - I agree it was excellent
6400?
@@urlton The best!!!
glad someone actually remember it. it was my favorite game. I loved the you actually had to use the pad to play it
Yes, War Games was my favorite game (eventually beating out Zaxxon)
Smurf is definitely a must-have 😇 You've mentioned Turbo. I loved playing that as a kid. I think the console, my games and the steering wheel are still somewhere in my basement. For some reason these games are giving me more joy than many of the modern Playstation or XBox games.
I played Smurf before School daily and every chance I got after. Those big jumps were so fun as a kid.
I remember seeing a store display for Smurfs for Colecovision at a local toy store back in the day. I thought it looked like a cartoon. Could not believe what I was seeing. My next door neighbors had a Colecovision but didn’t have this game. It had some remarkable visuals at the time of it’s release. I usually despise games based off of cartoons with the exception of Ducktales and Ninja Turtles games for the NES. But that memory of seeing Smurfs is a moment to be remembered.
I had the Smurfs and Turbo.
I have to say, Mr. Do! was the game I played more than any other on Colecovision. I loved the arcade game, and the Colecovision version was so close to the arcade version that I no longer had to spend my quarters at the arcade to enjoy the game.
One game I would add to this list is Montezuma's Revenge.
Ah, good suggestion.
And Mr. Do! Challenging and satisfying. My Grandmother's favorite game in the world...and she was good at it!
I would make a diarrhea joke, but it's actually a decent platforming game.
My parents bought every one of the games on the list when I was a kid. I was a little too young to really understand them completely, but I have fond memories of the Coleco Vision. Venture scarted the hell out of me as a kid. When the music changed because the big bad thing was coming I sometimes would shut the game off in fear.
Thanks for sharing. I can see Venture being scary for someone young. Then again, I played Doom II on my PC at night with nothing but sound effects and the warm glow of my CRT monitor at the age of 8 or 9.... for some reason that never phased me.
ha... we used to call it Mark Gastineau
Whenever I think of Frogger, I think about George Costanza from Seinfeld. He bought a Frogger cabinet so he can preserve his high score, but then the cab got destroyed by a truck.
Classic episode!
He could of took a picture of his high score haha.
Donkey Kong came bundled when you originally bought the console. I also remember the trick where you started on the ladder, pause like half a second, and then climb again and you go up much faster. I spent so many hours on this machine and that game.
Nice, I don't think I ever knew about that trick.
I've gathered reputable reviewers' top ten lists over the years. To give you an idea of the variety, not a single reviewer had the same number one game.
Even more surprising, none of the games you mentioned did these other reviewers list as their top game. Here are the 16 picks for the number one slot: Spy Hunter, Oil's Well, Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, Tutankham, Fortune Builder, Antarctic Adventure, Tapper, Q*Bert, BurgerTime, Jumpman Junior, Carnival, Mr Do's Castle, Gateway to Apshai, Popeye, Montezuma's Revenge, and Frenzy.
When selecting a top game for this system, there isn't anything close to a consensus.
Thanks! I appreciate your comment. It does go to show how experience varies from person to person. I am always fascinated to see others' perspective.
That said, my intention with these lists is not to rank games, but to guide people as they get started. My personal "Top" or "Favorite" games are often not on these lists. And there are many others that would not say these are the best. These are just 10 games I think people would enjoy and shouldn't break the bank to collect.
@@PlayerOneStart Yes, all those games above would fit your criteria. Probably every one could be purchased on eBay right now for a small amount.
Anyone who would pick Smurf/Gateway/Tutankhamen as the best in the entire CV library is on crack. Probably true of Fortune Builder, too. I’m surprised that no one picked Pepper ll or Lady Bug.
I had Colecovision as a kid and just recently acquired one for my collection. This is a very good list. If you do a part two consider Carnival, Mr. Do, Tapper, Jungle Hunt and Burgertime.
I still have the Coleco I got for Christmas 1983.
My favorite games were DK, Carnival, Smurfs, Turbo.
Still have all my games also.
Carnival was great. hated that damn duck.
@@Straight0uttaCrofton We ALL hated that damned duck!!!!!
I'm glad that you brought up "Lady Bug", and "Venture".
Those were 2 of my Favorites. Another one if I remember correctly was "Bubble Bobble"
I do have "Turbo" with the gas pedal, and steering wheel.
Thanks! Yeah, those are great games. Haven't played Bubble Bobble on Colecovision.
@@PlayerOneStart Yeah, I think I Brain Farted on the system. The last system I played it on was the Playstation 2. Which I still have along with the Commodore 64. I have the same issue with the Colecovision RF Switch. Either the cord is bad, or Colecovision just didn't make the RF out correctly.
I want to purchase another RF cable, but just haven't had that on my mind lately. Plus Where the Blank can you find one? 😉
I miss RadioShack.
@@Facelessman42001 Bubble Bobble wasn't released for the CV.
@@DiscoScottie I Brain Farted. It's been only 36 years. 😉
Two of my favorites are Mr. Do and Smurf: Rescue In Gargamel's Castle.
That smurf game was a great quick play through once you got it down. It was one of those comfort food games for me along with Gorf
I loved Smurf!!!!!
Love Mr. Do!
Smurfettes dress lifted when you went back...glitch? Or.....
I love Mr Do ! it started me off gaming back many many years ago and love ladybug
I had one when I was a teenager. It was light years ahead of the 2600. Zaxxon was my absolute favorite game to play back then. Donkey Kong was also well done except that it had only three actual levels instead of the four that the Arcade version had.
Wow what a stroll down memory lane. Qbert and smurfs were excellent games.
If you do a part 2 I would consider Q-Bert, Bump N Jump, Spy Hunter, Oil Well and Burgertime. Great video.
Sweet video Tyler! I appreciate seeing the Coleco ColecoVision featured some because despite it's rather short main retail lifetime it was one of the more notable second generation home video game consoles which I feel doesn't always get the respect, or recognition it should. Sorry to hear your original hardware has been having some issues. Perhaps you might look into something like the Collectorvision Phoenix from Collectorvision which uses FPGA chips to recreate the original capabilities of the original Coleco ColecoVision hardware capabilities, and then some. I found a pair of factory sealed still new Coleco Adam controllers to go with mine. I was able to test them with some other nine pin layout consoles I have, and despite being 30-40 years old they still work like brand new!! Not sure if it would be considered essential, but I really enjoy the game Evolution. It does a decent job of illustrating the concept being both somewhat educational, and a blast to play.
Just a tip for anyone playing Donkey Kong on the ColecoVision. When you go to climb a ladder push up then release and then push up again. For some reason, the system glitches when you try to climb a ladder after moving left and right in one fluid movement. If you let off the stick and then try again, Mario (Jump Man) will climb much quicker.
If only I had known that back in the day LOL
@@patsfan4life It doesn't happen every time but it does happen a lot. You can tell because the sound of his "footsteps" slow down climbing ladders. At first, it's seems the game is experiencing slowdown but, like I said, letting go and then hitting up again, restores his speed but the game itself never slows down or speeds up. Usually happens if you "roll" the stick from left or right to up. Rarely happens if you approach the ladder, let go, then quickly press up.
@@AtariBorn Yes I just wish I had known about this trick when I was 11
@@patsfan4life lol totally
Great list! As an original Colecovision owner from 1982, my personal favorites also would have included Tarzan and Carnival. I also have a personal connection to the Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, as me and my brother pooled our money to buy it! Thank you! :)
Thanks for sharing!
Same here, just cleaning and organizing when I came across my Coleco which I haven't played with in a while. No fan of RF but I haven't modded my console yet so who am I to complain. ;)
Not much can be done about vertical arcade games, they just didn't make TVs that spin, but they should have heh. Ah Jump Man, is he Italian, is he a plumber, we just don't know. ^_^
Zaxxon is kind of jerky, guessing it's using some kind of page flipping frame system rather than scrolling diagonal since the tilemap palettes wouldn't allow that.
That's a view zoom function in Venture, you're seeing more distance with a smaller graphics scale outside but you go inside the virtual camera is closer to the objects so things get larger and more detailed. The way you phrased that you made it sound like the game engine is broken or something.
Also Gorf is Frog backwards. I'd like to get Frogger eventually, can't go wrong with any version of that. :D True about Miner being a great fit for that hardware. I like Time Pilot, decent port imo.
I had a Colecovision but ended up with an Adam that I still have and works.
Some of the tape based games like Donkey Kong and Zaxxon were much more like the arcade versions.
Sadly my tapes have almost all been eaten.
Centipede in cartridge form was so much like the arcade it was hard to tell from arcade - I never had the trackball.
Some of the games that utilized the super action controllers were amazing - super action baseball was probably the best of those.
Still have all my Colecovision and ADAM games stored in parent's attic ... only ever problem I had with ADAM was that the power supply is integrated into the printer ... once that failed, pfft ... into storage and back to regular Colecovision gameplay. I can probably fix it now (probably just a blown fuse) because older computer systems had fuses in the power supply for overcurrent protection.
I was SOOO happy as a teenager to get that track ball that came with Centipede! Guess I'm going antiquing at my parent's tomorrow!
I've always told people how great the Coleco was. Venture was a unique kind of D&D and fun. Being a Cold War kid, War Room was fun if not macabre but it seemed very high tech and exciting trying to defend the USA from the "Evil Empire". Another one I found near the end of the system on clearance, was Jumpman Jr and had a great time playing that.
then the horrible realization that WE are actually that empire
@@sjustice5254 Revisionist thinking. No thanks.
Wargames
The evil robot in Zaxxon was the BANE of my childhood! I seriously HATED that stupid thing lol! One of the first boss battles in gaming at that!
Zaxxon for the Colecovision should have utilized that second fire button with a guidance laser, to shoot a bright, red beam in front of the ship, giving you an idea of what obstacles are in your path.
Transitioning form the Atari 2600 to the Colecovision was quite a leap. Even if the 2600 had fun games it could not produce the visuals the CV was capable of. Nearly every CV game I played was incredibly playable. Mr. Do, Pepper II, Venture, Mouse Trap, Cosmic Avenger, Lady Bug, Zaxxon, Turbo, Donley Kong... it came out at the right time, but a year earlier would have been better.
Some cool games i think was cool also for Coleco was Burgertime, Centipede, Popeye, and Carnival. I had my Coleco av modded, and a controller modded to use the nes controller for the action part of games, while using the keyboard on the controller to do keyboard functions. Made gameplay much better best of my memory (been a while since ive played it).
Thanks! Yeah, some narrowly didn't make the cut for this video. I used a Sega Genesis Controller for most if not all gameplay. (Natively Compatible, just don't press the "Start" button. It can have dire consequences.
Popeye!
Turbo with the Driving Module was outstanding, miles better than any other home driving game (not comparing it to Enduro however which is an absolute classic)
This video came across my YT feed, and as a ColecoVision kid growing up, and if you do a part 2 on this, Jumpman Junior is a must. Don't know how many hours I spent on that game growing up. great video though! Definitely brought back some memories.
Awesome! We had most of these as well as Hero, Slither and a Smurf one. My favorites were Venture, Ladybug, and Hero. Thanks for sharing 😎
Thanks for watching!
I loved Zaxon, Looping and Frontline.
Super-Action Baseball. That game made my jaw drop, the visual presentation of the three base runner positions simultaneous to the pitcher and batter. Perhaps you didn't include it because you have to have the enhanced controller because there is so many options as a player and that made a rather expensive. Still in my mind it represents some of the best that came out of the 8-Bit video game system of the early 80s
Yeah, I tried to stay away from games that required extras. However, I will have to try that out as I don't think I've played it. :)
That game was incredible with the amount of control the player had, decades ahead of its time.
Great choices. I love the colecovision. I need to pick up miner 2049er. I also really enjoy time pilot. Gonna hit that subscribe button this channel is up my alley.
Miner 2049er .... oh yes, you do need to pick that up1
Looping and Smurf at its hardest difficulty come to mind. Mr. Do also. Donkey Kong blew my mind seeing and playing at Macy's. That has to be 1 on any list.
My list (excluding the excellent choices already shown)...
1. Jungle Hunt †
2. River Raid
3. Jumpman Junior
4. Centipede †
5. H.E.R.O.
6. Defender †
7. Montezuma's Revenge
8. Galaxian †
9. Super Cobra
10. Squish 'Em
† You just can't go wrong with _any_ of the Atarisoft releases. 😉
The videogame crash, IMO, was due to the fact we were in a recession at the time. Parents back then were from the 70s on back, and they weren't particularly keen on upgrading every time a new console came out. Seriously, you couldn't even sell them on a Vectrex for $99 back then, even though it included a built in game and it's own monitor.
Oh, and the built in screen should have appealed to parents, since most video game consoles at the time required a connection to a TV, and most households at the time had ONE at best.
Considering 8 of these games were ones i immediately was able to rattle off when reminiscing about the ColecoVision with my brother last night, if say this list is spot on! GORF and Miner 2049er were the two I didn't think of, but I never had played the latter.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I’ve just gotten a colecovision for my birthday and just like my Saturn, I haven’t found many games for it and most are expensive. This is a great helper for me, thx!
Google search for colecovision flash cart. You'll be able to load all the original colecovision games and the neat homebrew that is available for it.
yeah i’ve seen those but i’m super skeptical
@@tylersbiggestflowerboy I had some flashcarts before I moved. I had the NES, snes, Sega Genesis, Atari, and gameboy/color everdrives. All were easy to use and worked well. The flashcarts are not cheap. Most of them cost me 150 to 170 dollars each. I will say that considering some carts cost 50 to 70 each, the flashcart is still worth it, especially if you have a Nintendo 64 like I do.
yeah i know those crazy prices, but i’ll look into them now. thanks 😀👍
This ColecoVision alone just got you a sub I had this all the attachments and literally every game you're showing with it
Brings back memories. We had several of those games. I liked Miner 2049er the best.
One of my favorites!
Actually, in the opening cut scene of the arcade original Donkey Kong Jr, he is called “Mario”, and is no longer Jumpman.
Great memories - miner 2049er was the one I spent the most time with back in the early 80s. I also played Rocky, one on one basketball and QBert a lot
I didn't care for the ColecoVision when I bought one at a yard sale in 1992. The games felt pretty far from the standard of arcade quality that Coleco had promised. But in recent years, the machine has experienced a renaissance, and we've gotten the kinds of games I was expecting it to play in 1992. Opcode has been a miracle worker with this system.
Nice video. You keep it short and give each game it’s due time. I suggest folks dig deeper into ladybug as that game has many different aspects and should be deemed more of an “original” than compared to Pac-Man. I see why you use the comparison.
Great and fair video! I had both a ColecoVision and the Atari expansion when I was a kid, and had most of the games that you reviewed. Despite the strangeness in controls, Venture was a favorite. LadyBug and Pepper II are great faithful ports, with the latter actually being much more polished than the arcade game it was based on. In the spirit of these two, Mousetrap is also quite fun, but gets really samey after a while.
One game that was a complete surprise to me, however, was the Cabbage Patch Kids game. I'm not a fan of the franchise, but the game was reasonably good.
I would just like to shout out "Artillery Duel" and "Super Action Boxing" for being the only two games on Colecovision that have simultaneous multiplayer.
Another sub man. I knew someone who had one back in the day, but i never played on it. There are some great titles here. Cheers.
If you want the arcade experience of the 80s a Colecovision and Atari 400 is all you need. Of course you’ll want a 2600 too for all the uniques.
My parents bought a Colecovision for Xmas in 82 or 83. We only ever owned 6 games but they were some of the best. We had the steering wheel and it had Turbo and we bought The Dukes of Hazzard. The other games we had were Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Pepper 2, and Looping. Looping was my favourite next to Turbo.
Nice List!
My List
1: Donkey Kong
2: Donkey Kong Jr.
3: Venture
4: Mr. Do!
5: Lady Bug
6: Carnival
7: Ken Uston Blackjack/Poker
8: Pepper 2
9: Zaxxon
10: Smurf
I was the best at Mr. Do! , Lady Bug and Venture. Rolled the score in Mr. Do! which happens at 655,000 or so. So many memories!
I don't know how any list could miss Mr. Do!
Props for your appreciation of Pepper ll. A real gem.
One of the problems CV had compared to the 2600, that made the 2600 much more popular, was the CV's library was almost all arcade games - which was fine for the marketing at teenagers who often visited arcades but was extremely limited when marketed at adults and younger kids who rarely did and did not possess the hype arcade titles held. Atari's greater library of party games, strategy games, simulations, etc. made the system more popular with wider groups of people. As an example, the CV did not even have a chess game.
The Colecovision was the first game console for my family. We didn't have a lot of money but did got like 35 games starting with Donkey Kong, DK Jr, Popeye, Venture, Zaxxon, Mr. Do, Cosmic Avengers, Mousetrap. Later got the steering Wheel and Turbo. Read in a magazine that the game designer for Gorf got the name from that he likes frogs and is the backward spelling of frog. Interesting.
I had a colecovision growing up, and we had several games for it, a few that were on this list. My favorite arcade port was far and away Qbert. I was really good at it at the time and the home version for the Colecovision had excellent graphics and practically duplicated the game play of the arcade, something I really appreciated even at the tender age of 9.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
Miner was a nice game. Also turbo was something special in that day. With the steering wheel.
My personal favourites for the ColecoVision were and are still:
H.E.R.O., a superb action game. Greatly underrated as it never shows up in these lists. Same version as the MSX, it's a blast to play.
Tarzan. Quite complex game for the system. Also underrated in my opinion. Great atmosphere in that game and on higher levels it's rather difficult too.
Frenzy. Not much to say, great successor to Berzerk. Played that alot with my dad.
Pepper 2, for all the reasons you told. Just great pace and flow, I can still play that all day.
Smurfs, well it's short but it's the Smurfs 😃
River Raid. Not complex but very challenging and very smooth scrolling which is pretty impressive for the system.
I'm probably missing out on a few but those are the most important I still play quite a bit🙂
Back when your console was as valuable as the version it had of Donkey Kong. My next door neighbors had a Colecovision. Multiple friends had Atari 800. One had a Commodore 64. I had a Texas Instruments Home Computer. All decent versions of Donkey Kong for all of these systems. The Texas Instruments version had the cement factory level and the changing level order more like the arcade. Didn’t have the animation of the gorilla or springs on the elevator level. The Colecovision I like for the visuals. It was a great pack in game for the console. Always wondered what could have been if Colecovision continued for at least a couple more years.
I have Miner 2049r on my Atari 400/800XL, it was a fun game. It got pretty challenging at the higher levels.
Man, I miss my Coleco Vision. My parents bought one back in the day and we had the Atari adapter, as well. The console sat on a shelf in my bedroom for years and when I bought an 8 Bit Nintendo, the Coleco Vision got sold in a garage sale or something. We had Donkey Kong, Zaxxon, PopEye and Q Bert....Not sure if we had any other Coleco titles..We had a bunch of 2600 titles, too. I recommend getting Popeye if you can find it. It was so fun.
Thanks for sharing. Ah yes, I’ve lost many of my childhood items at garage sales. Somehow my childhood NES escaped it by hiding in the attic for 15 years. 😁
One thing that always gets me is why the US version of Donkey Kong had the levels in the wrong order, a search on the internet says it was to extract as much money as possible from the players pocket
We got the Colecovision for Christmas in 1982 I was12 back then and I played Venture over and over I truly enjoyed that system those were great times! I also remember playing Mattel Electronics Hockey in handheld that was awesome back then with of course Merlin and the RubicsCube!
my top 10 are
10. Mouse Trap
9. DK JR.
8. Cosmic Avenger
7. DK
6, Buck Rogers
5. Miner 2049er
4. Venture
3. Ladybug
2. Jumpman Jr.
1. Frenzy
I think anyone who plays old consoles or even old classic PC games like The SSI D&D games, they must take into consideration the tech at the time.
I liked Subroc, Popeye, and Carnival along with all these games for my Colecovision back in the day. Loved that system!
I remember trying to tell people that I played Donkey Kong jr. When I was a kid and literally none of them even knew what the ColecoVision system was here's my proof
Oh my god, PEPPER II! I've been trying to remember the name of that game for the longest time! The only thing my dad and I remembered was that there was a game we had that we called the Zipper game, but that's all we remembered!
1:56 THAT, THAT right there shows you its main competitor was the 5200, because that adapter was EXACTLY what the 5200's was (the ability to play 2600 games). It was doing what the 5200 was doing through the use of an adapter, showing how the 5200 was its direct competitor.
Check out Jumpman Jr. It's somewhat similar to Miner 2049er, but I feel the sheer genius of the stage design places it above that game. Possibly my favorite game on the system and one of my favorites from that generation (It's great on the Atari 8-bit line of computers, as well).
Thanks! and Perhaps that will be one I feature on another system, or a part 2 to this video.
Yes, Jumpman Jr. became an obsession with me until I completed all levels (on speed 3). I loaned it to my friend and he completed in on speed 2.... :-(
Wargames is probably my favorite Colecovision game! I still have the system and play it from time to time.
I remember buying ColecoVision at Caldor with my family in the early 80's. Actually Donkey Kong came with the system, it was a huge selling point. I was happy to see you included Venture, as it was one of the best ColecoVision games. The version for ColecoVision was one of the best. One game I think you missed out on, as it was really good on this system was Mr.Do!. Something about the CV version, it just played really good, and was a lot of fun. I saw one person in comments mention that you should have included Montezuma's Revenge. I would have to disagree, by far the best version of that game was the Atari5200 version. It was good for CV, but not one of the essential 10. For the 5200, it is one of the essential 10 though.
I played my colecovision non stop pretty much throughout it's short life and even after..i absolutely loved H.E.R.O. , Bump n Jump, Lady Bug, Venture, Smurf Rescue from Gargamels Castle and Roc N Rope! Great video, loved it. If I might add..after the videogame crash, I wanted a new system but it looked like the NES was it...I didn't think it was a big jump from Colecovision so I waited. Then I saw a Sega Master System on display at a local department store and was like "wow". I got a Master System Christmas of 86. That was such a fun time.
Great video!
Some I would have included:
Turbo
Time Pilot
Looping
Mr. Do!
Front Line
Smurf
Turbo was a definite ‘miss’ on the list
The Zaxxon port was quite epic. Maybe the best port I ever played. Congo Bongo ports were kind of a nightmare because it was such an advanced arcade game at the time. Zaxxon was very well done and it looked and played smooth.
Pepper II is definitely the game with the most replay value in this list. Played all of these as a kid and P2 was the one that i went back to the most, perhaps outside of Donkey Kong Jr.
I dont know if Dukes of Hazzard was good, but i remember loving it as a kid. Also Smurf.
Smurf was incredible back then.
This is a good list of essential ColecoVision games. If I may add an essential of mine, it is Parker Brothers' Montezuma's Revenge.
The same developer of miner 49 er “ micro fun” also developed a game called “ the heist “ a lot of fun you steal painting and avoid boogie traps you need keys to unlock doors and have 3 levels escalators and elevators to figure out how to pass the level by collecting all the paintings if you mess up you can get trapped requires agility and memory very entertaining and addictive , never did beat it , because my controllers broke back in the 80s before eBay gonna get a coleco just to beat that game
I had a colegovision too...the games as mousetrap, venture, pepper II and donkey kong(junior) I like the most...when will it come on retro systems like super console X?
Carnival was also fun. As I was a kid at the time too I thought the Smurfs game with the skulls was weird for a kids game.
I had all of those games when I had my colecovision, plus about 50 more...I wish I still had it.
Space fury. I always loved the idea that I got a power up to pick from when I beat a stage
Still have mine Colecovision with the Atari module and 46 cartridges including the steeringwheel. Its in a big box with my old commodore 65, amiga 500, sega saturn and n64.
Here is my list of great Coleco games (in no particular order):
* Mr. Do (a favorite)
* Star Trek (a favorite)
* Space Fury
* Time pilot
* Popeye
* Cosmic Avenger (a favorite)
* Zaxzon
* Defender
* Turbo w/ controller (a favorite)
* War Games (My personal favorite)
* Venture (loved Evil Otto)
* Slither w/ roller controller
* Mouse Trap (packman clone, but better)
* Berserk
* Frogger
Anyway, this is what my old mind can remember.
Ive never seen one with the CBS branding, Im familiar with them and the 2600/etc games they published with their khaki colored carts.
Yeah, my unit is originally from Canada. CBS distributed the Colecovision outside of the U.S.
Donkey Kong was the pack-in for the console in Canada. It was in mine and I bought mine when first released up here.
Just FYI the crash had zero to do with Coleco going under, in fact they reported increased profits during 83 and 84 while everybody else was losing, it was the ADAM that broke Coleco. They spent a ton developing and marketing the ADAM only to find the market dominated by the $99 Commodore VIC and $199 C64 and there was no way to sell ADAM that cheap and make a profit so they ended up with a warehouse filled with unsold ADAM units.
Not watched the top 10 yet... but "Jumpman Junior", "Smurfs" &"Hero" are MUST plays!
Ladybug was my fav!!! had a coleco when i was like 6 and i could get far enough in the game back then that eventually there was just no way to outrun the enemies. years later in my late teens/early 20's i got into console collecting and once again was able to have fun playing Ladybug. unfortunately i couldn't get any farther in the game than i did when i was 6.
Great list. I was a Coleco owner and wish I still had it. The only game I’d add in this list is Mr Do. Like a fast paced dig dug with firepower.
Mr Do! and Pepper II. They were amazing arcade conversions.
I almost got a ColecoVision for my game collection but I got an Atari 7800 instead but I may get one in the future
Thanks Jimmy! It's the best of that generation, imho.
They both are nice to have and can play 2600 games.😉
Scramble was actually a popular arcade game. I'd often see my father and his brother playing it when we went to the arcades when I was young.
I think I have scramble for the Vectrex. If not something like it. Good game.
@@PlayerOneStart No, you're right it was released for the Vectrex. When my dad had one he would play it and Mine Storm all the time. :)
Donkey Kong on Colecovision only had 3 levels (no cake factory), which always annoyed me. Same thing with the NES edition.
Oh snap, did you know they still make NEW games for the ColecoVision? Well they do... ruclips.net/video/s4zzQT8RClc/видео.html
NES was much more like the arcade in graphics, sound, and game play than ColecoVision. The Coleco port didn't even have springs on the elevators board.
SuperDK had the conveyors - maybe it was for ADAM though. i played it on an emulator so not sure. we just had the old school 3-level version when i was a kid.
Ladybug was my thing! I could sit and play it for hours.
That and venture!
Yup, Colecovision was ahead of its time. Not until I got my Genesis was I blown away again. Then 3DO. Then Playstation. Then XBOX. The HD Devil May Cry - Balrog creature. Then Skyrim. Then Ratchet & Clank PS5.
What a journey! 👍
We had River Raid for our system but didn't have Zaxxon. But they gameplay seems similar looking at your coverage here. One is top-down, and the other is isometric or whatever Zaxxon was. But basically very similar besides that. So I'd say having one OR the other is probably good enough. One thing I loved about that console was how it left room for quirky games like Fortune Builder, which was a bit like Sim City. That kind of game hadn't been done at all on consoles. Maybe on actual computers like a C64 or Apple II, but this one worked great on Coleco literally decades before I ever played anything like it on Windows PC.
As a kid of the 70s and 80s, if we were lucky, we had a 19" CRT analog TV with a barely usable reception, so when we saw those ads, they looked as blurry as the source footage. And that made the Colecovision look better (line doubling, smoothing, etc).
I had an Atari, while a friend had the Coleco. In 1982, it was capable of creating some fantastic arcade ports. However, Frogger looks best on the Atari 8 bit computer. Pepper II, was my favourite memory on the Coleco system.
Montezuma's Revenge, Jungle Hunt, Popeye.... Good stuff. I LOVED my Colecovision! We need them to release a compilation on the XBox, PS, and Switch.
I played that Smurf game to death when it was released, loved it!