Colecovision

Pros: ARCADE GAMES IN YOUR HOME!/ Gimmick controllers
Cons: Sound/Extra buttoned controller/Unproduced games

Think back to the early 80's. Reagan's in office, punk music and break dancing is the rave, and competition for the atari 2600......COLECOVISION! For the same creators of Cabbage Patch Kids comes one of the best home game systems EVER! With an...

Pros: Had a great assortment of games and with add on modules could be used to play the Atari 2600 games.
Cons: The controllers for the Colecovision were a bit odd and hard to use.

After the Odyssey 2 my parents bought a Colecovision. I thought it was the coolest and still think it is pretty neat or I would not have bothered to emulate it on my new computer.

The advantages of the Colecovision over the standard Atari...

Pros: great game library, tons of accessories, highly collectible
Cons: too big, poor original controllers

I present to you an in-depth look at the game machine that finally crushed the venerable Atari 2600 in 1982 and 1983. Yes, the ColecoVision was so hot during these two years that it outsold even the mighty Atari. Unfortunately it was then devoured by the...

Pros: Good graphics for it's time, Excellent replayibility
Cons: Clunky Controllers

I'll never forget the first time I saw the commercial for Colecovision on TV. I couldn't believe my eyes, the graphics were so good it was like you were actually bringing the arcade machine home with you. I was staying with my cousin that summer, and...

Pros: good games if you can find 'em
Cons: no scroll chip, stubby joysticks

In 1982 Coleco, the Connecticut Leather Company, released my favorite classic game console of all time, the Colecovision.
I was ten years old, and my family had owned an Atari 2600 for two years. While I still enjoyed the 2600's big blocky graphics,...

Pros: Good selection of games and addon parts, can play Atari with optional add on.
Cons: Connections are sometimes weak with older system, funny controllers.

I found one of these systems at a garage sale, and remembered the time when I was in school and I played one of these at a friend's house. It was great. For $5 I said I couldn't go wrong. I took it home and cleaned all the parts, the contacts on the...

Pros: It keeps getting better....
Cons: Blisters.

Growing up in the 70's, we didn't have all the fancy shmancy Voodoo this or 1 giga-that. We had these cruddy little console systems that were almost all impossible to play. The controllers for ninety percent of the consoles that came out between '75 -...

Pros: Great graphics, powerful console, good games.
Cons: Sometimes difficult controller, pricey in 1982.

I was the coolest 6-year-old on the block. A few of my friends had Atari 2600 consoles. A few others had the now forgotten Mattel Intellivision. I however had the uber-cool ColecoVision to call my own.

I remember the day I got it...

Pros: good graphics and sound
Cons: weak choice of games, horrible controllers

Back in the early 1980's, a measuring stick for how great you were was your video game system (at least in my neighborhood). Everyone had an Atari 2600, and a few people had an Intellivision. The Intellivision had good graphics, but boring games that...

Pros: Most exciting, powerful, best game system... of the 80's
Cons: No ending to most of the games, actually all of them.

I still remember going to our local video game retailer, back in the early 80's. That's when Colecvision and Ataris were the "in" thing. Just walking around in shock because of all the cool new games they had. It was like playing a cartoon and it was...

Pros: Great graphics; fantastic sound; wonderful games
Cons: Those awful controllers

I still have my little brother's old Colecovision that he got right before the famed "video game crash" of 1984. This system was the most advanced of its time -- great graphics, wonderful sound, expandability and more. However, it also came...

Pros: Groundbreaking graphics, wonderful sound
Cons: Lacking library of games, poor controllers

Oh baby! I just stumbled across this category and I am stoked! Like many people who grew up in the 1980's, video games, and the invasion of home console units mesmerized me. I was like a pint-sized addict in the throes of withdrawal whenever I passed...

Pros: Some good games.
Cons: Graphics not as good as the 2600, weird controllers.

I remember the first time I saw this machine. My Uncle Louis bought it, and we were all stoked about playing with it. He had 2 games, Donkey Kong and Zaxxon. So we played those for a while, and eventually we inherited the machine for ourselves.
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Pros: Awesome Technology
Cons: Not very popular

Its a 500lb Game in a 5lb box!!!

Oh the 80's. Aside from the tight pants and leather jackets, we had Arcade games! What kid didn't spend all his time and quarters, plastered to Mario Bros. or Donkey Kong in the corner of...

Pros: One of most advanced old school systems before the Great Crash.
Cons: Weak controllers, only about a hundred games here.

COLECOVISION (1982-1984) Coleco was well known back in the early 80's for some of it's famous toys like the Cabbage Patch Kids and other stuff like that but some people also remember their very own game system: The ColecoVision! The ...