ColecoVision | The 25 greatest games
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- Top 25 Colecovision Games. I’m completely new to the CBS ColecoVision console, I was aware of its existence, I briefly played on one back in the eighties, but didn’t walk away with any special memories. However, recently all that changed with the Top 25 ColecoVision Games.
What I’ve discovered needs sharing, not for those who already know about the system, but for those that don’t and missed out. I can’t think of a single 80s gaming system that consistently brought high-quality arcade ports to the home - Welcome to the Top 25 Colecovision Games!
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* Disclaimer notice. Guys! This is my own personal list of games that I’ve played and enjoyed and come back to the most. If you don’t agree. I’d love to hear your thoughts or watch your video.
I would further suggest Tapper, Antarctic Adventure, Space Panic, Carnival, Beamrider Oil's Well, Popeye, Q*Bert (you featured Q*Bert's Qubes), Rock'n'Rope, Venture, Beamrider, Gateway to Apshai, Keystone Kapers, Montezuma's Revenge, and Space Fury. Don't forget to try some homebrews such as the absoutelly incredible Mario Bros.
Last you may want to consider going the extra length to uy an ADAM, so that you can play super cassette titles.
@@MagesGuild Thanks for this, so many great games in your list, shocking how great this console is. I did buy one, but had nothing but trouble with it, so I’ve just bought the ColecoVision Phoenix which pretty much will play everything I throw at it, so really looking forward to it.
@@ClassicReplay What sorts of issues did it have? I am pretty sure that the Phoenix does not support the SGM but I may be wrong. The ColecoVision is not a terribly complex system, so I may e able to aid you in repairing your original.
atariage.com/forums/forum/117-opcode-games/
colecovision.dk/sem.htm?refreshed for more information on that.
Time Pilot & Cosmic Avenger!
@@MagesGuild no video signal and wavy lines
I got one as a kid when they first came out and I lived in Amsterdam NY where the Coleco factory was based, my sister worked there at the time and was able to get me tons of games. I remember her getting cartridges that didn’t have it’s casing yet and was just the circuit board still but they still worked. It was awesome. It was so much better than Atari. Tons of childhood memories with the ColecoVision.
Lucky so and so 🤣
Wow lucky you were! We in Germany Had to buy cartridge for about 130 bucks😮....anyway...Magic times
Best 8-bit system of that generation...an arcade port king.
100% all day
These games look amazing, my memory has truly fogged up from when I played these back in the 80s. Colecovision was the best of Gen2.
There are no words that can describe how much I always loved this console. The look of it alone is absolutely insane and second to absolutely none.
100% 👍🏻
Always wanted a ColecoVision when I was growing up. Had one friend that had it. Made him show my the Smurfs game. Hey I was into Saturday Morning Cartoons in the late 70s and early 80. Great video. Cheers!
I had a Colecovision back then. Everyone I knew had an Atari 2600. I remember getting a Colecovision for Christmas with my brother back in 1982. It looked like magic on that fuzzy CRT screen.
There was something magical about this console for those of us old enough to have experienced it back in the day. The combination of the era, the aesthetics and its obvious superiority over the available competition made it special.
Exactly how I feel, every word 👍
My friends and I all had Coleco's back in the day. Our parents coordinated game purchases so we could lend games to each other. It was an amazing system for the time.
I’m well jelly! Very lucky
in 83, having a Coleco was every kids dream in NA. Crazy part is, the Japanese we're already on the Famicom that year.
Lucky you, here in Austria the ColecoVision was super expensive...so I ended up with a crappy 2600.......and hated it.
This was my first ever games console. I loved it so much. It's still in my loft somewhere.
Seems your list is missing Venture though, that was a great game.
I'll check it out! Thanks
I had a Colecovision console back in the day. It was far superior to units like Atari and Intellivision. Graphics and sound were excellent. At the time, it was hard to imagine how anything could get any better. My son and I would spend countless hours playing all the machines. Apart from playing games, we enjoyed going to various stores that carried game cartridges to pick up the next new game. We had a mountain of games. Lots of fun.
I grew up with an Atari VCS but in the early 90s my mom and I picked up a Colecovision and Intellivision II at a garage sale with tons of games for cheap. It was the score of a lifetime. I was a kid in heaven!
Please tell me you didn’t sell it? Would be worth quite a bit these days.
This brings back memories. I had one of these when I was 8 or 9 in 1984 or 85. Played a few of the games listed here.
Very lucky, this would have been like having the arcade in your home for the time.
Track & Field was a great port from the arcade to the Colecovision console sound and all.
You and I are the same age, and I do remember when my brother and I got the ColecoVision. It was so amazing. Our only issue was that borrowing games was more challenging, because I only knew one other kid who had it. Quite a few years ago I snatched up a console, bunch of games, joystick controllers, etc to give to my brother for Christmas. Brought back a bit of the old days!
ive hoovered around the edge of retro gaming for years. im that kid at school that was into PCs before anyone. im that guy. The coleco graphics at the start of this video - that was my childhood. Ive rarely seen the versions of games i played, in vids - ive just realised i must have had a coleco vision, or the arcade galleries around me were coleco - coz coleco is what i need to setup as a retro gaming setup. ive started to build a retro game machine a few times but given up as the software seems to be clunky but the realisation im team coleco means i need to honour it and build a coleco setup.
My family had one, I remember most of these games. I enjoyed it.
Cheers my friend, please share 👍
Loved my coleco very much. Mr do, mr do’s castle, Congo Bongo, had the baseball with the special controllers, time pilot is also so classic. Was great because I had the adapter and could play all my 2600 games on it as well.
Lucky or what 🍀
nothing like just being born and coming home to a Colecovision 😊
1982 Great year
Amen to that 👍🏻
We had this console and it was a blast! I loved Dig Dug, Mousetrap, and Smurf Rescue. Was telling my 8 yr old how far gaming has come and wanted to show him the games I played. Brought back some great memories. Thanks!!
That’s lovely to hear, it’s a great kid friendly system to start your eight year old on 👍🏻
I had a home-made wheeled rack with an Atari 2600, an Intellivision and a ColecoVision stacked on it back in 1983, but the ColecoVision got the most use. I would play Zaxxon for hours and never did get very good at it. Sold my ColecoVision and games for $200 on eBay and moved on to PC Gaming, but I still miss my ColecoVision.
All the games were good in their own special way, and bring back a TON of favorable childhood memories. I was just happy to get something new when I was a kid... Loved Activision's HERO. Thank you for this!
Hero just works, I don’t know how, but the formula never tires on me. You can just pick up and play in an instant. The Atari version with its limited graphics plays a blinder as well. But yes, all the games had there own charm, but the quality of arcade conversions is off the chart on the ColecoVision. The games might not always look the same, but they play the same and sometimes because of the absence on not needing coin after coin, flow better and play in a more balanced way.
oh yeah! Loved HERO
I'm almost 49 years old now and a stroke and cardiac arrest survivor and had a 2600 system when my brother Chris and I were kids, remember that my cousin Paul had this system it was great
Good health to you my friend, sorry to hear you’ve been through the wars at such a young age, here’s to another 49 years 👍🏻
@@ClassicReplay thank you I guess only 49 years LoL I was called a blue baby, was born with a whole in my heart. But really appreciate the good Cheer. Be safe wherever you are in this crazy world
Had a Colecovision as a kid. It was our first console and was so excited to have after years of being jealous of my friends and their Atari or Intellivision. Top two games were Zaxxon and Ladybug. On Ladybug, the later levels got LIGHTNING fast. You had the ability to flip the doors and sort of trap yourself safely just to catch your breath and get the cramps out of your hands. Still to this day my absolute favorite home console game of all time.
My next door neighbors had a Colecovision. The game crash hit not long after unfortunately. It was the best thing out there for gaming next to home computers. A few of my friends and myself had C64, Atari 800/xl, and TI994a and I can easily say Colecovision held up really well. Where Atari 5200 failed miserably Colecovision succeeded. Everything was about comparing Donkey Kong ports back then. And Colecovision had a really good Donkey Kong port. My TI994a had all 4 levels but the Colecovision had animation on the part of the gorilla and really good arcade quality like everything else they did. Zaxxon was a really big deal back then also. It looked and played well on this system. Did not know it had Q*Bert's Quebes on it.
Massively underrated system that should have been a world beater in sales. Fantastic arcade conversions. It must have been like having your very own arcade in the home 🏡
I had a ColecoVision as well. It was my first console. I don't recall the logo on the front of the machine saying "CBS" though. I had the super action controllers as well...I believe there was a game pack where it came with 2 super action controllers, as well as Baseball and Football. There were plastic overlays that went on the key-pad of those as well, which had the layout of the baseball diamond, etc. And, the faster you could spin the wheel on the super action controller, the faster your player would run. I'm pretty sure Jumpman Jr. was where "rage quitting" was born. Either that or Pepper II. Once you got up to a high enough level, it became darn near impossible. I had those games I mentioned already, along with Space Panic, Zaxxon, Donkey Kong, Smurfs, Burger Time, Q-Bert, Pitstop, Venture, and Time Pilot. Thanks for the fun video!
I couldn’t agree more, especially rage quitting in Pepper II 🤣 fantastic memories, thanks for sharing 👍🏻
I just discovered your channel this morning. I absolutely love it, man. A real gem.
Thank you so much! What a lovely thing to say! How did you find out about it just out of curiosity, TH-cam search, Google etc? Thx again 👍🏻
I mastered Lady Bug. One of my all time Colecovision favorites.
How about Mouse Trap that was a fun one also!
@@josephfrank1472 don't you have to have the plastic controler overlay to play the game to tell what buttons to press to open doors?.....i remember this....
Definitely agree with your number 1: _Turbo_ Great memories. A couple years ago, I checked to see what it take to play Turbo, like when I was a young kid. Like $450, for a working Coleco system with controllers, working steering wheel with pedal and the Turbo game itself, all used on Ebay. LOL Unfortunately, had to settle for the nostalgia in my head and $450 still in my bank account.
Unfortunately you can only play it with a wheel. Even emulation struggles to correctly emulate the steering wheel. I was lucky enough to play Turbo at a retro event back in 2018, played it for at least an hour. They really should have built in controller support. These days I play the arcade original, with spinner or trackball and it works a treat. Happy days though and thanks for watching.
On Donkey Kong - when going up a ladder - get on the ladder and press up twice in quick succession - and you will zip right up the ladder
I opened this video, looking down expecting it to be 11+ years old and it's from last year! 😂
Incredible.
Glad you enjoyed it! What’s your history with the ColecoVision, did you own one back in the day?
@Classic Replay I'm afraid my answer will probably be a bit lame for you, but I was a bit too young to experience the Colecovision in person. How I did experience these games however was that in the late 90's there were a lot of "X in one" cartridges for the Gameboy Color of questionable origin that would contain usually 100+ older games from other systems, and then maybe 1 or 2 current games or ROM hacks. I experienced many of these through that and still recognise them. Gyruss definitely left an impression on me with how different the approach was with the cylindrical movement axis, and also the sense of inertia in Defender.
And now coming full circle I've been looking at hardware that mimics the Gameboy and can emulate Colecovision, so was looking at what my options were!
Love the enthusiasm in your videos, though. It's clear they left a strong impression on you and blew you away at the time. I can certainly at least relate to that, going from Gameboy graphics, to 3d to the ray-tracing we now have on the latest games. Things have plateaued a little lately, but the fundamental advancements we were seeing back then quite frequently were mind-blowing!
I especially enjoyed hearing the voice of the late Willie Rushton. Very unexpected. Thanks, made my day!
Glad you enjoyed it
I bought the Colecovision back in 1985 with a few games from this list. Donkey Kong, Zaxxon, Burger Time, Q-Bert and Pepper II were my favorites. I had completely forgotten about Pepper II, lots of joy seeing it here.
It's a great system, must have been an amazing system to own back in 1985, good quality arcade conversions. Pepper 2 just does everything right, keeps it simple and plays really well even today. Thanks for watching ;-)
I owned a Coleco Vision console back in the day. I got it after it was popular. I can't remember the exact year, but it must have been around 1985/86. I got it from Woolworths for £29.99 and it came bundled with Donkey Kong. Once I bought it, I was bragging about it at school and one of my mates said ' I've got 'Zaxxon' cartridge for that, so I managed to buy it off him for £5. Both 'Donkey Kong' and 'Zaxxon' were near-perfect ports of the arcade originals. I also had a game called 'Pepper 2' which was a weird game where you had to do zips up around squares on the screen. It was weird, but very addictive!. Great console, it could well be still up the loft at my mums! gonna go round tomorrow and have a search for it.
Great story! Thanks for sharing. Long live these memories.
My family had this console. Sooo good. Lady Bug was a fun game. Same with Smurfs
Lucky or what 🍀
I saved up my allowance for months to get my hands on Q*Bert. Fought with my little brother over top scores all the time with LadyBug, Zaxxon and we used to have to cry to Mom when sister was hogging the console with Carnival.
Reading through the comments and seeing Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle reminded me that at the end of the level and if you timed your jump just right to get to Smurfette, your Smurf guy would pause looking like he had a little weenie. Thank you for this video and bringing back all these memories, I should go dig it out as I still have it somewhere.
Wonderful memories... Thanks for sharing. Now go dig that console back up, it still loves you.
Pepper II reminds me of the arcade game Qix
So, I grew up with the 2600 and then the C64. I was always jealous of the Colecovision owners collections, and now I finally have one on the way from eBay. Hearing you say you wish you had one back in the day sums up my past 40 years lol. Cannot wait until Monday arrives. Great game choices and observations.
I wish you all the best, especially with all the available homebrew. Since you grew up on Atari, let me recommend your next watch ☺️ Atari 2600 th-cam.com/video/Pm0j78U3Bag/w-d-xo.html
@@ClassicReplay thank you! I will watch next. I subscribed and am looking forward to your videos. Take care.
By the way, two tips for Donkey Kong on Coleco. One, tap twice up or down to climb the ladders at twice the speed. Two, on the first screen, go to the half ladder, go up, go down, take two steps left (I think), and jump right- you will fall through the floor and after a few second land next to Pauline and Donkey Kong. I got these from a gaming magazine I read at the time. The scene skip is kind of pointless except for the novelty of it, but the double speed ladder climb is really useful.
Cheers 🍻
I had Colecovision back in the day. Time Pilot, Venture, and Mouse Trap were some other great games for it.
Great games there…
Destructor, Heist, and Wing War I played so much back in day.
What a system, massively underrated
@@ClassicReplay Yes it was.. now I got the Colecovision mini and it is the next best thing!
@@jadams7433 I’ve just purchased the CollectorVision Phoenix Video Game System, well chuffed 👍🏻 collectorvision.com/shop/colecovision/collectorvision-phoenix/
@@ClassicReplay wow this is awesome.. Definitely going to read more into this thanks.
Jumpman Junior was a rare gem.
The best! I'm on the lookout for an affordable copy ;-) It's a great console to collect for.
To this day I still can't believe this was a pre-nes console. You would never think it came out in 1982. I think many of the arcade ports like Q-Bert, Frogger, Centipede and Galaxian almost look better than the arcade machines...
I have to agree, it’s as though they built the perfect console, but nobody realised until it was too late. I played a few games this evening and came away once again shaking my head in disbelief as to how good this console and the games are. I’ve said it already, owning this console on release with a handful of games would have been like unleashing the arcade in the home.
So fun to sit around talking the same way we did in '83.
83 is just a number 👍🏻
@@ClassicReplay yes & ronald reagan was just a president
@@popeyejones9256 A better actor
Great video man, thank you!
My pleasure! Check out my latest Coleco vid here ;-) th-cam.com/video/0DMQumIKfqA/w-d-xo.html
Thanks so much for the video!
No worries, please share to reach more like minded people ☺️
Awesome video I had most of the games this was my first video game console and this brings back memories and makes me want to get one now ! 😂thanks for the video
I’m happy you enjoyed watching. I’ve done quite a few ColecoVision vids, here’s my latest th-cam.com/video/0DMQumIKfqA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=DNPY80NxcWDSW0Oo
I had a Colecovision in its day. And it _was_ great, it was the best thing going in its time.
100% agree! Especially for the time...
Where is Venture??!! Loved that game!!! The green "wow-wow" man (as my sister and I called him) scared the crap out of us though when he appeared on the screen! LOL!
There was another console called “Odyssey” you should look in to. Their big game
was “Q-Bert”. I can’t put a year on the when the consule came out, believe there was also an Odyssey 2.
Thanks for this. I will look into it, sounds familiar, I think I saw one in a catalogue as a kid 👍🏻
I owed this system back in the day. it was amazing! I had several of the games you reviewed, too. Watching this makes me want to re-buy it on eBay :) Thanks for sharing, this was a fun trip down memory lane!
Don’t do it, I’m already I’m my wife’s bad book for buying one and can’t stop playing it 🤣
Galaxian was my favourite space shooter arcade at the time, with Galaga a close second. If only I’d known I could have had an arcade perfect conversion to play at home. I had an Atari VCS, which I loved, but damn the Coleco looks amazing!
I know, feel exactly the same way, we missed out big time 😢
Frontline was absolutely awesome on Colecovision. Super Action Baseball was lots of fun too
@Neb6 ya the super action controllers were super fragile.
Mi primera maquina tambien fue el amstrad cpc en 1988, pero mi vecino tubo un par de años antes un clon de la atari 2600 y no se parecia a esto en nada. Es increible que en esos primeros 80s hubiera una maquina con esas excelentes conversiones de arcades. La de monedas que hubiera ahorrado si hubiera crecido yo con esto,jajaja. Great video. Thanks so much, my friend.
I had a ColecoVision in the early 80s and still have one in my collection. It was ridiculously better than any other console available at the time and is still my favorite retro console to play today. The only drawback was not nearly as many games were released as other consoles like the 2600. Unfortunately the NES came out after a couple years and obsoleted ColecoVision.
Yes, brilliant console. I never personally gelled with the NES, wasn’t all that popular in Europe.
one of the best christmas gifts i ever received. had just about every peripheral except the 2600 expansion pack.
My god, you must have been born into money 💰
@@ClassicReplay just my father got more into playing it than me, so i'm pretty sure he was buying games for himself :P)
@randyval2 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I had a Coleco Vision! But I’ve never seen some of these games!
Time to dust the old gal down and go back in 👍
Spy Hunter with the steering wheel is the best way to play it! It made it feel like the actual arcade game.
I'm yet to find a steering wheel, I'm desperate to play this and Turbo properly, as intended. But still waiting for my Colecovision to arrive.
Fantastic video, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
My cousin and I had the Coleco Vision as kids and my other cousin had the Intellivision. I had the Atari adapter and Super-Action Controllers. My cousin had the Steering Wheel and Roller Controller.
I recall the advertisements said “experience the arcade at home”. I’ve read articles since about how they acquired the rights to Donkey Kong (the president said he wouldn’t come back without the rights but Nintendo said here’s the deal, take it or leave it- he took it). The Coleco Vision probably would have survived the video game crash of 1983 and dominated if not for how buggy their Adam computer was. Technically Intellivision survived, but Mattel dumped it and an employee took it, but they seemed to focus on NES games and compilations of their old games. Meanwhile Nintendo forayed with their own console and asked Atari if they would be the international distributor outside of Japan- Atari declined- and Nintendo took a chance and dove fully in. And thus the old era ended.
I do miss it a little. Atari, Coleco, and Intellivision were a blast for the time.
Great times!
We had Turbo, Donkey Kong and Zaxxon for ours in the early 80's. We wanted more games but the cash flow wasn't there. Brilliant Console ✊
Not bad though, three of the best, although didn’t Donkey Kong come built in with the console?
@@ClassicReplay
Yeah well I must admit, Zaxxon I was in love with! Turbo was like a racing game that only the Gods could produce and Donkey Kong I played till my hands literally had calluses.
I saved for 25 school days to buy Zaxxon, my Mother gave me $2 a day here in Australia for lunch so I went those 25 days without lunch to buy Zaxxon, the game cost $50 AU over here.
And actually no, Donkey Kong was a separate Cartridge, not a single game at all was built into the Coleco it was standalone Cartridges. My brother who was 4 and half years older than me bought the Coleco (He's 51 now) and I'm 46 as I think you also mentioned you're the same age in this video, so cool 😎😎
Oddly enough my next system was the Atari 2600 (a downgrade) then the C64, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200 and then PC.
Anyway, enough of my waffle brother, you've gained a sub from me.
Great video ✊✊✊
@@ClassicReplay
Forgot to mention as well, when we first got our Coleco, both Donkey Kong and Turbo were bundled with it, but we had to buy the Steering Wheel setup for Turbo separately.
@@perihelion7445 honestly, it’s great to hear these stories. Shocking how you went back to a 2600, but from then on you smashed it with pretty much the best system from each generation. I think we all have that one system or game we love the most, I have so many fantastic memories of my first computer. Zaxxon is a work of art on the ColecoVision as is Turbo. How did the steering wheel perform, I’m thinking of getting one for Turbo and Pole Position 👍🏻
Zaxxon was my personal favorite. I was one of the spoiled kids. I had the atari and coleco at my house...the intellivision at my grandma's. The Coleco was head and shoulders my favorite. Time Pilot was another great game. 👍 Love your video!
Better to be lucky than Rich 🍀
Space Fury, Mouse Trap, Popeye, and Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle were also good.
Thx for letting me know 👍🏻
Loved mouse trap
I remember when my parents asked my sister and I which console we wanted for Christmas, the Atari or the Colecovision. We both said Colecovision because it looked better. We played our Colecovision so much we burned the thing out and our dad had to get us a replacement. 😆 Fun fact: Coleco made an expansion module that allowed you to play Atari 2600 games, which obviously didn't sit well with Atari. They took Coleco to court and eventually entered an agreement where Atari would licence out some of their games to Coleco. So that's why there's Atari games on the Colecovision.
That would have been an amazing Christmas present, I’d have loved the ColecoVision growing up. You were lucky to get a replacement 😉
The games I love on the colecovision are buck Roger's, wing wars, burger time, and zaxxon
I will have to make a new ColecoVision video. Love this console and its games.
i had the colecovision ADAM while my neighbors had a 2600... i never understood the atari hype when my console blew theirs away
Excellent video!! Subscribed to your channel:)
Atari made good faith effort to put quality ports of arcade games (both their own arcade games and others' arcade games for which they secured the home rights) to rival consoles and computers. So they made high quality ports for Intellivision, Colecovision, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, etc, even though those platforms competed against Atari consoles and computers.
Coleco had a different policy. Having secured the Donkey Kong home console rights, they intentionally made crap versions for Atari and Intellivision. lol
Speaking of Donkey Kong, Atari got the home computer rights, and made quality versions for their own computers as well as Commodore 64.
Atari did violate its own policy for one game, which was the Colecovision version of Pac-Man. The programmers made a great port of that game for Colecovision, but Atari refused to release it (it got leaked in later years), and instead tried to use Colecovisions lack of a quality Pac-Man against it relative to the Atari 5200's version. In fact, Atari put out an ad saying, "This is the 5200 version of Pac-Man (shows high quality port), and this is the Colecovision version (shows 2600 version of Pac-Man, the only official Pac-Man Colecovision could play, via its 2600 compatibiity add-on).
That’s a funny story, made me laugh. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻
Lady Bug = Greatest Maze chase game (Pac-Man genre) Ever created
Mr Do also greatest Dig Dug variant ever
That’s one of the things that made the cv so great- Coleco bought rights to lesser known, overlooked games, a great move since there were so many innovative gameplay arcade machines during the Golden Age pre crash. The Atari’s Segas and Midway/ Namcos of the world got all the attention, but there was always a Gottlieb or Universal gem tucked away in the dark smelly corner of the mom and pop arcade circa 1982
I'm a bit more familar with the Colecovision of late, agree 100% with the games you mention. A fantastic console for the period.
I'm delighted to hear that the Colecovision can impress a new player so many years on. As you know, many of the games let you play at level 1,2,3,4 (4 being the hardest). You might not think it from the title, but a game you should try is Smurf Adventures, especially on level 4. That plus a sequel to Frogger called "Frogger 2 Threedeep"
Yes, I’m not sure technically if this is a great console or not, when compared with others, but the programming of games feels masterful, you can tell the majority of games were carefully crafted and as I’ve mentioned before, it feels like an arcade machine in the home. I’m just sad I didn’t own one back in the day 😢
@@ClassicReplayWhen it came out was the closest to arcade games you could get at home, nothing in the 8-bit scene came close.
@@jimbotron70 every word 100%
thx 4 your compilation, Zaxxon does look incredible, I got my C64 in december 1984, so I missed out on Colecovision, but I remember one friend who showed me some games on his colecovision (?) durin' the summer holidays of 83(?), and i kinda felt jealous.
Exactly my point. I felt the same way.
Colecovision is what I had at the arcades back in the time (they were rented by time). I remember playing a LOT of Jumpman Junior (called Jumpin' Jack Flash in america?) and River Raid
River Raid still plays a blinder, fantastic arcade conversion. Thx
Pepper II was always my favorite
I got ColecoVision for Christmas when I was 13. It blew away the other systems at that time. Seeing Zaxxon brought back a few memories. The memory is a bit hazy, but I seem to remember flipping that game over a few times, but then I seem to recall it would get to a point where you'd go so far the screen would freeze.
I’m so jelly, I’d have loved one of these as a kid. Arcade in the home. I get home from work and the second I’ve got an ounce of free time (very rare) I play on my Collectorvision Phoenix
@@ClassicReplay Not to make you even more jealous, but I remember getting Turbo with the steering wheel and pedal, and a different controller that's a bit difficult to explain. You held with one hand and there were buttons for each finger, and you'd use your other hand to control the joystick on top. Yeah, good times.
@@RichAraujo sounds amazing! I definitely missed out growing up. I bet it’s worth a small fortune if you still have it.
@@ClassicReplay I stupidly throw it and the games away years ago. The boxes in which they were stored were mistakenly kept in a shed in the backyard. Years later, I found them and realized the heat had done quite some damage. It wasn't easy to toss, and I should have kept it despite its condition.
@@RichAraujo oh no 🙊 that’s awful 😢 I think I’d have been devastated
I had the Adam which was the computer version of the Coleco vision. Buck Rogers and Rocky Boxing were my favorites. Wish I still had that and my Intellivision.
Was it a good computer? Pros/cons?
@@ClassicReplay I was pretty young at the time, so I don't remember much about the computer part, but I mostly used it for games. I played Buck Rogers non stop. I remember my Dad bought it at a store called Zayre's. It was on clearance for I think $599. Which was a lot back then! I remember getting the steering wheel and gas pedal and playing Turbo. Also those goofy controllers you stuck your hand in with the 4 different color buttons. I played Baseball and Rocky a lot also! Good times!
The Qbert version i had on my Colecovision look nothing like the one in your video... Its was way better. Mr Do was another great game on the Colecovision , which was hand down the best console of its time. Great memories !
@@mikaelvilhelmsson1484 I think you meant to write that the game in this video presented as Q*Bert is actually Q*Bert Qubes so (s)he actually had the original Q*Bert.
Omg. Cosmic Avenger, I’d forgotten about that one.
You and me both! Brilliant!
This was one great system! Nice colors, fast graphics, good sounds! I don't see this wasn't a huge hit back then.
It came out just before the Videogame Crash of 1983...
Thanks for sharing it. In my opinion some essential titles are missing: HERO, BC's quest and BC's quest II. They are simply incredible.
I agree! But couldn’t fit them all in. Plus I personally believe that Hero is better and best played on the Atari 2600.
@@ClassicReplay Great version, one of the best Atari 2600 games! It is true that there are versions that don't play the same, for example the Atari 5200 version plays much worse. However, the Coleco version plays practically the same, play it for a while and you will see that it is also very pleasant to play.
No doubt, but I’m flawed with nostalgia 😉 The C64 version looks a mess, but plays great and the Atari 800xl from memory plays good as well. Same for Amstrad
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Thank you for your support. I’m currently making a new ColecoVision video 😉 almost there 👍🏻
Great list! I highly recommend Venture as well.
Here’s the problem, I’ve not played a bad game on the ColecoVision from memory. Compiling a list of best games is ridiculous, can’t be done without upsetting someone 😉
I loved Gorf and Turbo. We had the racing wheel and it was awesome.
Very jelly! I’d have loved Turbo with the wheel as a kid 👍🏻
@@ClassicReplay It was cool but it stopped working after a short time. It was neat when it did work tho
The Smurf’s was an awesome game too seriously 😂
I need to properly sit down and play it. Thanks
We never had a Atari 2600 and my best friend down the street got this system the first day it was released back in 1982 and his dad bought the steering wheel and sports controllers that were great for baseball and Rocky. We unfortunately got the Atari 5200 and had a ton of games but the damn controllers just broke after about three months of use. About a year later in 1984 we got a coleco vision with 25 games and two sports controllers. I still have it and should break it out. Then 1985 happened and Nintendo was the new great thing. I never got one of those but I gravitated towards the Sega Master system I still have and I do have a Nintendo that I got about 15 years ago still works and such great times growing up in the 80s playing coleco vision. I never forget when my dad went to buy the new Atari 5200 I was telling him to get the coleco vision and he would listen to me I was only 9 but I knew the coleco vision was better but he thought the 5200 because it was newer and more expensive was the machine to get. After about three months of that damn machine and horrible controllers breaking it went into the closet. That thing was huge 😆 the power supply was like a brick and it got hot. The rf switch was godawful too. Just horrible setup.
OMG! The 5200 looks horrendous, I've purposly steered clear of it for as long as I can remember, that was a right cock up from Atari. The Atari 7800 was a fabulous little console though. I'm so jelly you managed to secure a Colecovison in 1984, especially with 25 games, that's amazing. I can't imagine switching to any other console if I'd have owned a Colecovision back then, probably would have waited until the Sega Megadrive or SNES came along, as personally, unless the games dried up, I'd have been more than happy with a colecovision. I think the NES and the MasterSystem were great consoles, I own both today and play a lot of their games on real hardware and emulation, but I can't quite put my finger on it, I still enjoy the colecovision just as much.
I remember playing LadyBug and DonkeyKong Jr. back in the day when it came out on the Coleco.
I remember driving to sears just to see the Colecovision & 2600 new game demos at that time there wasn't any mall or video games stores in my area at that time. I was a young adult.
Both Q*Bert games were released for this console, and would probably make a top-6 list of my personal favourites, otherwise my list would include Jumpman Jr; Ladybug;; Gyruss & Mr. Do!
There is a prototype Atari Pac-Man game for this system, it plays great too
Didn't Tengen make Pacman for this console at one time? The Mr Do game looked as good as the nes game.
Tengen released Ms. Pac-Man for several systems including: Megadrive, SNES, and possibly NES but nothing for Coleco. I haven't seen Mr. Do! for NES before but I have played it for SNES, which is a near arcade perfect port.
ColecoVision was and is a great console. We all have our favorite games, for different reasons. Here’s my list: Star Trek, Burgertime, Ladybug, Cosmic Avenger, Space Fury, Time Pilot, Tutankham, Donkey Kong Jr, Pepper II, Mouse Trap, Galaxian, Venture, Frenzy, Defender, Frogger, River Raid, and Centipede. Gyruss,Threshold, and Jumpman Jr are runner-ups, but I like them better on the Atari 800. Getting a reliable, working Colecovision in 2021 is a challenge, but well-worth the effort and expense. Get a WORKING Super Action controller FOR true Colecovision greatness. I always thought it was interesting that Atari made superior versions of Centipede,Galaxian, and Defender for the Colecovision. They actually beat out their own 400/800/XL products in those three cases. Atari 800 Donkey Kong beats the Colecovision version, though.
Great list 👍🏻 agree 100% about sourcing a reliable ColecoVision, there’s a lot of scoundrels out there, I’ve been burnt already. I’ve simply opted for the Phoenix now instead, just have to wait patiently. The Atari 800XL is one of my favourite computers, probably only the Amstrad CPC or C64 betters it, but that’s more likely me talking out of loyalty to those latter systems. But what a great computer, I have experienced so many great games on that computer
We had the relegates pong, didn’t even know you could play pong in your home (we were like 3-5yrs old). Dad would bring back consoles after going of to sea (navy). We had Telegames, oddessey 500, odessey2, colecovisoln, commodore64....other consoles we got for Xmas or bought ourselves.
These old consoles were part of my childhood (born 1969, navy brat until 1987).
Colecovision was my system in high school. It wasn’t super popular. I was one of only a handful of guys that had it. Men a pal with geek out in study hall income over the colecovision magazine. I’m still disappointed the Dracula game never did come out.
I know it was popular in the US. But that was it I believe. Completely bombed over here in Europe 🤷🏻♂️
Got my original for sale if anybody wants - with 4 carts D Kong, Zaxxon, Q Bert and Lady Bug - the 4 best IMO. I was in my late 20s when I bought it because it clearly was the only system at the time that had arcade quality - especially the isometric view Zaxxon. 💥
Tubo and Zaxxon were arcade quality. Lady Bug was brilliant. How much are you looking for it, what condition is it in and how much. You can private message me or contact me on my classic Replay Facebook page in the video link information.
@@ClassicReplay I'm not on any social except LinkedIn - (old fart syndrome) but I'll try to get your contact or E from FB somehow. Last it was plugged in was DECADES ago but everything worked; I remember you had to jam in the carts a 2nd time sometimes because sometimes a perfect connect wouldn't happen because if you remember the carts have a gazillion pin contacts that have to match up inside the slot. None of my old stuff was abused and it's been in dry Cali air since the 80s; I would like to TEST the unit but how? It has the original cable with the little box that switches between TV/Game with a little flat antenna lead sticking out - but what TV uses that today? If you have any ideas let me know - the carts are in the box with the ColecoVision unit - I believe I even have the little booklet instructions for at least a couple of the games. 🎸
Colecovision's version Donkey Kong is still one of the best conversions of that game ever.
100% brilliant for the time!
@@ClassicReplay Weak version of Donkey Kong I think. Looks good,but have played much better versions. D2K for Intellivision is way better. Colecovision is my favorite system.
Troll on 🧌
No Troll here. Have had various Colecovisions since 83. DK is a good game,great graphics,but the Elevator level without the springs was disappointing. My favorite CV games are Turbo Montezumas Revenge Miner 2049er Centipede Galaxian Q Bert.
Let’s agree to disagree. I agree about your other game choices. If you want to see the best home port ever of Donkey Kong, check out the Amstrad CPC conversion.
Had this system back in the day - plus the expansion module to play Atari 2600 games. Pretty much gaming bliss until the NES came along.
One word… Spoilt 😉
@@ClassicReplay Definitely, although my parents both got plenty of time on it as well. I think they bought for themselves as much as for us. Not unlike what I do these days for moderns systems.
The Coleco was really impressive for it's time could of been alot bigger if it weren't for the controller
You don't have to use the standard controller, but for some games it works quite well. SNES pad all the way.
10:56 This is Monaco, given the track map on the left! 👍
Coleco Adam had great games too.
Time pilot. Mr. Do. Dragon's Lair.
I’d like to do a video on the Coleco Adam. I need to find someone with the hardware 👍
Great video! Two words: Venture. I don't have a second word. Just Venture. 😊
I love ColecoVision
I had one of these systems growing up, you have to play the Smurfs game and the Popeye game. A really under-appreciated console!
I will, thanks for the recommendation 👍🏻
Had It. Ķnew it was special way back when.
I used have a colecovision. I used to like the game called BC's Quest for Tires
Great game, played it recently and still fun