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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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. 😉
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.
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!
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.
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.
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🙂
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)
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! :)
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.
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.
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. 😁
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
A few other games I loved to play include BC's Quest for Tires, and Centipede (which used the Roller-Controller add-on to great effect.) By far the coolest game was Dam Busters, allowing you to recreate the famous WW2 bombing raids over Germany, playing the roles of pilot, gunner, bombardier, navigator and engineer. Epic! The super controller add-on made this system truly awesome, and allowed you to play some really great games like Combat, and Baseball. The original controllers gave me severe hand cramps after only a few hours of play, but the super controllers that you put your hand inside like a gauntlet and which had a proper arcade style joystick on top were/are truly superb.
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
That game was frickin awesome. Way better than Intellivision which were the best sports games of the time. Those super controllers were incredible. We had the wheel too. Mom n dad must have spent a fortune lol.
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.
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!
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was surprised how good my CV looks with just the adapter on the end that lets me screw right into the cable without the box switcher thingy. I have it hooked up to a nice CRT my neighbor threw out like 5 or so years ago. I also have my NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube hooked up threw a S-Video switcher, and I bought 3 S-Video cables(NES doesnt have a good way to use S-Video so I just use RCAs with a Y splitter for the audio) with the Nintendo multi out that work the SNES, N64 and the GCube. I also have a Genesis hooked up and I switch out the Cube with a PS1/2 so I can play my GunCon games, which was a big reason I wanted a tube TV. Im happy with the quality of the S-Video, especially for the price compared to something like a FrameMeister or modding all the systems for RGB/etc.
Yeah, dumping the old switcher boxes really helps with the signal quality. I'd still like to get a composite mod some day. CRT is the way to go, I love playing light gun games on it. :)
@@PlayerOneStart PS1 is the console for Light Gun games IMO. PS2 has some good ones too. The GunCon is also a big part of what makes them great. Theres even weird, less known gun games like Judge Dredd(PS1) that are worth playing. The Point Blank series are a blast as well.
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.
Nice video, sweet memories... But the real cause for colecovision to go bankrupt wasn't the 1983 crash (as you say at 1:20), but the complete fail of ADAM computer.
I spent a LOT of time playing Ladybug. In order for the letters to "count" towards completing the words the ladybug has to eat them when they're the right color; if you eat them when they're blue you just get points. Hearts, in contrast, SHOULD be eaten when blue to advance the score multiplier. The gates really make it a different (and better) game than Pac-Man. Also liked Venture a lot, but the hall monsters will charge into the room if you take too long in there, and the delay before they show up gets shorter and shorter. I could usually complete the first two floors before the hall monsters would start showing up pretty much the instant I walked into a room, and after that it's basically all over.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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).
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.... :-(
Love the ColecoVision...I had to work really hard to recreate the collection of technology we had from when I was a kid. Some unscrupulous people lied to my parents, causing them to lose everything they'd worked for over 30 years of marriage in the mid 2000s. I'll never rebuild everything, which included thousands of records, all of our old video game systems and computers, a library of books, an expensive classic stereo system, and everything from my childhood...yet I hope to rebuild at least the electronics, and a few memorable items outside of that (such as some VFD games by Coleco).
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.
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
My buddy had the Coleco and I only had the Atari 2600. When I saw the Coleco and especially Lady Bug I was hooked. Another great game was Smurf. I was not into Smurf cartoons but the game was great.
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.
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.
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.
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!
good list brother...i would add Spy Hunter,Burgertime,Time Pilot and the 4 from AtariSoft which is ironic since these were the best home ports of those games. Centipede,Galaxian,Defender and Moon Patrol which was never released but i got a copy from the original programmer on Ebay. It is almost a clone to the arcade version as are the other AtariSoft games...
I had a Coleco, great experience‼️ I got it in its last year didn’t regret it. It was a much better console than the 2600. It was as close as you could get to the arcade experience at the time. Good video, brought me back👍🏽
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.
MOUSETRAP. That was our favorite game. I got the console Christmas of 1983 or 1984 if I remember correctly. We played Mousetrap all night that Christmas Eve.
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
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.
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.
I would include Montezuma's revenge, Spy hunter with steering wheel, Fortune Builder, Qberts Quebes, and cant think of anymore right now. You need to play those if you haven't!!
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!
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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.
Popeye was and is a great game. I wish Nintendo would release the arcade version for the Switch.
Yes
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.
@@frankschalk7790sorry that happened friendo but glad you kept your passion for gaming!
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.
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)
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.
The mode in Laser Attack that reminded you a bit of Tempest reminded me more of Gyruss.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That's a list that more closely resembles what I would have thought.
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
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.
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.
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
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. 😉
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. 😉
Wow what a stroll down memory lane. Qbert and smurfs were excellent games.
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!
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!!!!!
Gorf
@@Dangic23 nice. I still have my master system hooked up to a crt.
I didn't know turbo was on coleco, Sega Turbo?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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🙂
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)
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.
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!
Finally! Someone mentioned Tarzan. Loved that game. Had 8 on this list. And some more great games from the comments.
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!
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.
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
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. 😁
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.
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
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.
A few other games I loved to play include BC's Quest for Tires, and Centipede (which used the Roller-Controller add-on to great effect.) By far the coolest game was Dam Busters, allowing you to recreate the famous WW2 bombing raids over Germany, playing the roles of pilot, gunner, bombardier, navigator and engineer. Epic!
The super controller add-on made this system truly awesome, and allowed you to play some really great games like Combat, and Baseball. The original controllers gave me severe hand cramps after only a few hours of play, but the super controllers that you put your hand inside like a gauntlet and which had a proper arcade style joystick on top were/are truly superb.
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.
That game was frickin awesome. Way better than Intellivision which were the best sports games of the time. Those super controllers were incredible. We had the wheel too. Mom n dad must have spent a fortune lol.
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
I don't know how any list could miss Mr. Do!
If you do a part 2 I would consider Q-Bert, Bump N Jump, Spy Hunter, Oil Well and Burgertime. Great video.
I forgot all about Q-Bert! Endless hours on that.
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.
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 😀👍
I loved Zaxon, Looping and Frontline.
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.
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.
Back in the day my fave game on this console was choplifter.
Brings back memories. We had several of those games. I liked Miner 2049er the best.
One of my favorites!
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 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!
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.
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.
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.
I was surprised how good my CV looks with just the adapter on the end that lets me screw right into the cable without the box switcher thingy. I have it hooked up to a nice CRT my neighbor threw out like 5 or so years ago. I also have my NES, SNES, N64 and Gamecube hooked up threw a S-Video switcher, and I bought 3 S-Video cables(NES doesnt have a good way to use S-Video so I just use RCAs with a Y splitter for the audio) with the Nintendo multi out that work the SNES, N64 and the GCube. I also have a Genesis hooked up and I switch out the Cube with a PS1/2 so I can play my GunCon games, which was a big reason I wanted a tube TV. Im happy with the quality of the S-Video, especially for the price compared to something like a FrameMeister or modding all the systems for RGB/etc.
Yeah, dumping the old switcher boxes really helps with the signal quality. I'd still like to get a composite mod some day. CRT is the way to go, I love playing light gun games on it. :)
@@PlayerOneStart PS1 is the console for Light Gun games IMO. PS2 has some good ones too. The GunCon is also a big part of what makes them great. Theres even weird, less known gun games like Judge Dredd(PS1) that are worth playing. The Point Blank series are a blast as well.
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.
Nice video, sweet memories...
But the real cause for colecovision to go bankrupt wasn't the 1983 crash (as you say at 1:20), but the complete fail of ADAM computer.
I spent a LOT of time playing Ladybug. In order for the letters to "count" towards completing the words the ladybug has to eat them when they're the right color; if you eat them when they're blue you just get points. Hearts, in contrast, SHOULD be eaten when blue to advance the score multiplier. The gates really make it a different (and better) game than Pac-Man. Also liked Venture a lot, but the hall monsters will charge into the room if you take too long in there, and the delay before they show up gets shorter and shorter. I could usually complete the first two floors before the hall monsters would start showing up pretty much the instant I walked into a room, and after that it's basically all over.
I would have included Jungle Hunt (as this version was better than the other consoles) and Space Panic (that really weird, but oddly really fun game)
Space Panic was great! As good as the arcade version.
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
I have Miner 2049r on my Atari 400/800XL, it was a fun game. It got pretty challenging at the higher levels.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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.... :-(
Love the ColecoVision...I had to work really hard to recreate the collection of technology we had from when I was a kid. Some unscrupulous people lied to my parents, causing them to lose everything they'd worked for over 30 years of marriage in the mid 2000s. I'll never rebuild everything, which included thousands of records, all of our old video game systems and computers, a library of books, an expensive classic stereo system, and everything from my childhood...yet I hope to rebuild at least the electronics, and a few memorable items outside of that (such as some VFD games by Coleco).
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.
I had all of those games when I had my colecovision, plus about 50 more...I wish I still had it.
It was such an incredible upgrade graphically from the Atari 2600!
Actually, in the opening cut scene of the arcade original Donkey Kong Jr, he is called “Mario”, and is no longer Jumpman.
Props for your appreciation of Pepper ll. A real gem.
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
Miner was a nice game. Also turbo was something special in that day. With the steering wheel.
Zaxxon. Yes. Ive wondered what game that was for like 40 years. Only played colecovision at one kids house a couple of times. Thank you
My buddy had the Coleco and I only had the Atari 2600. When I saw the Coleco and especially Lady Bug I was hooked. Another great game was Smurf. I was not into Smurf cartoons but the game was great.
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.
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.
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.
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!
This ColecoVision alone just got you a sub I had this all the attachments and literally every game you're showing with it
good list brother...i would add Spy Hunter,Burgertime,Time Pilot and the 4 from AtariSoft which is ironic since these were the best home ports of those games. Centipede,Galaxian,Defender and Moon Patrol which was never released but i got a copy from the original programmer on Ebay. It is almost a clone to the arcade version as are the other AtariSoft games...
I had a Coleco, great experience‼️ I got it in its last year didn’t regret it. It was a much better console than the 2600. It was as close as you could get to the arcade experience at the time. Good video, brought me back👍🏽
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.
Had tag team wrestling for the sega master system. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen up to that point in my sweet short life.
@seanbarnes1151 yes! The wrestling game was great! I can still hear that music..
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.😉
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.
Donkey Kong was the pack-in for the console in Canada. It was in mine and I bought mine when first released up here.
I liked Subroc, Popeye, and Carnival along with all these games for my Colecovision back in the day. Loved that system!
Great video!
Some I would have included:
Turbo
Time Pilot
Looping
Mr. Do!
Front Line
Smurf
Turbo was a definite ‘miss’ on the list
Jumpman junior is the game I played all the time, actually beating it. Mr. Do!, Carnival, & Burger Time were among the other favorites.
Wargames is probably my favorite Colecovision game! I still have the system and play it from time to time.
MOUSETRAP. That was our favorite game. I got the console Christmas of 1983 or 1984 if I remember correctly. We played Mousetrap all night that Christmas Eve.
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
WE ❤LOVE ❤YOUR ❤CHANNEL 😊 **************** Those were the days. The early 1980's. Great time to be a kid. 😊
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 of games. I am going to give them all a play👍
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.
I would include Montezuma's revenge, Spy hunter with steering wheel, Fortune Builder, Qberts Quebes, and cant think of anymore right now. You need to play those if you haven't!!
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.
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!
Mousetrap > Ladybug (imo)
feel like Carnival, and Burgertime (which Bob's Burgers basically did an episode about) deserve mention as well
Space fury. I always loved the idea that I got a power up to pick from when I beat a stage