The ColecoVision Thread

[TL]

I guess that was the trend of the times.  Even Atari did that, right?  The Lynx wasn't really created by Atari.

They didn't design the Lynx, 7800 or Jaguar.

[onthinice]

Is that the theory behind the failure of Atari?

[TrekMD]

Is that the theory behind the failure of Atari?

I don't think so.  All those machines had good hardware.  It was the software support that was the problem for these systems.  Never mind all the poor decisions made by Atari.

[onthinice]

Were they easy systems to code games at that time?

[TL]

Were they easy systems to code games at that time?

The MSX/Coleco hardware was very much set up to be fairly easy to code. It's one big downfall was that it was terrible at scrolling.

[TL]

I renamed the thread seen as we have gone off on a bit of a tangent.

Good review of the system by Classic Game Room:

[TrekMD]

Cool.  Nice review of the system by CGR. 

[dougtitchmarsh]

I remember going with my brother to one of those discount shops in the high street many years ago and he bought a ColecoVision with a couple of games dirt cheap. We played Zaxxon on it mainly until we got bored of it and it was put away in a cupboard until it got sold to someone as I recall.
Was a great fun console though.

[onthinice]

The Colecovision really has some stand out games. Trouble with older consoles is that it always has to compete with newer and updated consoles. A number of the games look and play better on the Nintendo Nes like Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Junior, Gyruss, Joust, Popeye and Q*Bert. Spy Hunter is still hard to beat on the Colecovision.

Are there more than two parts to the CGR video?

[TL]

A few of CGR's game reviews for the ColecoVision:

[onthinice]

Donkey Kong usually gets mentioned most often when talking about the Colecovision, but these three games really should get more credit. Nice videos!

Outside of the 32X was Zaxxon ever ported to any of the other systems? I know we have talked about Mr. Do on the Super Nintendo. Now thinking about it, I wonder why Venture was not updated?

[TL]

Donkey Kong usually gets mentioned most often when talking about the Colecovision, but these three games really should get more credit. Nice videos!

Outside of the 32X was Zaxxon ever ported to any of the other systems? I know we have talked about Mr. Do on the Super Nintendo. Now thinking about it, I wonder why Venture was not updated?

Zaxxon got lots of ports, see THIS THREAD!

Venture is one of those games that has sadly been forgotten though, shame because it was fun back in the day.

[TrekMD]

Mr. Do! is available for the Atari XL.  I've been trying to see if anyone who knows how to convert those to the 5200 could convert that version.  The XL version of Mr. Do! is fantastic and it would be great to play it on the console.  The ColecoVision version is also excellent.

[TL]

Seen as you mentioned CV Donkey Kong, here are a few more . . . . .

[onthinice]

I remember Zaxxon being on the computers and systems of the time. Checking the video again, it did not seem to make a splash on the later generation gaming systems. 32X is it until the compilation discs were released.