so many wonderful childhood memories....RIP Dad.

@JasonMontell2501

3 жыл бұрын

I miss my dad too

@TECAgain

2 жыл бұрын

I know losing someone you love is hard, and I feel that. I wish your father's soul to rest well. But in the meantime, get a Coleco SGM. Having new games on the CV with the MSX AY-8910 sound chip would be like a Colecovision future.

@manupman945

2 жыл бұрын

F

@carlosfranco7282

2 жыл бұрын

te comprendo bien hombre vive siempre honestamente en memoria de tu padre un abrazo fuerte

@wyldshot666

Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

As a kid I never got as excited over a Christmas present as I did with the Colecovision!

Coleco was ahead of it's time!

An amazing time in gaming in which Sega, Nintendo, and Atari games could all be found on the same console. The most amazing thing to me during that time was that an adapter was available to play Atari 2600 games on the Colecovision.

@mattharper1242

4 жыл бұрын

Funny enough for awhile now you can also find sega, nintendo and atari on the same consoles

@SirCaco

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattharper1242 Well, as long as they're a Nintendo console...

@mikelitoris9610

3 жыл бұрын

I had the adapter

It is amazing how versatile this console was. It was leagues above a 2600, but was 5 years newer hardware. So, it's literally like comparing two separate generations.

Wonderful times...thanks for helping me relive my youth...

Frenzy with it's music brought me back, it was one of my dedicated games.

I’m getting a Coleco off ebay to relive my childhood with my little boy🍻

@fleshanthos

3 жыл бұрын

Just sold mine from 1985. Will do the emulations!

@robertsaladino

2 жыл бұрын

He'll hate you....

Awesome choices, totally demonstrates how good a system the Colecovision was for its time.

@65Gamerguy

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Just my favorites I am sure others would pick different games. And I agree about your comments well.

@geraldford6409

3 жыл бұрын

Cv was da shiznet pre 1985, coulda held its own against nes if coleco had kept going.

@geraldford6409

3 жыл бұрын

Biggest issues were no smooth scrolling and monochrome sprites, though a home brew ms Pac-Man for the cv appears to have overcome the monochrome moving characters

@geraldford6409

3 жыл бұрын

Hated using joystick for trackball games like centipede Top games that could be played for hours, especially mr do, ladybug, space panic

@gwynthegnome2050

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, got me so nostalgic. I grew up playing all these games! The only one u left out I wish u would've included was Smurf. Otherwise, great list :)

The Colecovision was home to so many great games! Thanks for showing this.

@65Gamerguy

6 жыл бұрын

It was a bit of a challenge to figure out which games I wanted to include. I finally just sat down played the ones I wanted and limited it to 25. Thanks for watching.

I remember having thus game system and the games back when I was young and living in Terrace, B.C. In the 80s. I was born in 1970.

excellent list! I'd add Looping and Cosmic Avenger....Time Pilot was my favorite back in the day!

The good old days keep up the great content

I smiled the entire 14 minutes! I also loved Smurf, Cabbage Patch Kids, Mr. Do's Castle, James Bond 007, and of course...CAMPAIGN 84!!!!

@Grillenheimer

2 жыл бұрын

I never had the Smurf game but heard it was really good.

@steveharvey2102

Жыл бұрын

Thunbs up for Campaign 84! Lol Imagine if they made one nowadays. They could call it, Storm the capital! Lol Imagine the possibilities!

The Colecovision was a great gaming console.

Such a fantastic time to be a kid!! Awesome memories ❤

I had Congo bongo. Burger time. DK JR. Popeye. Zaxxon. Qbert gyruss and a few others. I loved Coleco

Awesome picks! Those Pac Man games look awesome and sound great.

@65Gamerguy

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I think so too. Thanks for watching.

Great list! Takes me back to childhood memories for sure. My favorite was Jumpman Junior.

I remember when colecovision came out in 1982, I was camping all day and night at GameStop to get this. Sweet memories.

Very nice video and fun to watch. Have a nice day.

In south park when kennys dad tells them they have a colecovision plugged into the black and white tv

@65Gamerguy

3 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing that and busting out laughing.

@joeymas620

3 жыл бұрын

@@65Gamerguy Kennys Dad we don't say fuck in this house Cartman I guess we don't say side dishes either

So nostalgic. Coleco vision was my first video game console ever and the original chunky Gameboy which I got around the same time or maybe a little before was my first handheld.

Nice trip down memory lane! Thank you!

@65Gamerguy

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it thanks for watching.

Venture just might be my all-time fave video game! That game alone made owning a ColecoVision worth it.

@PouchMaster

Жыл бұрын

I'd get so freaked out playing Venture when you took too long in a room and one of those green monsters would come in to come after you! Scary game for a little kid!

I really liked Destructor a lot. It was my favorite game. So many reviews think of it as crap, but it was the best, especially with the driving wheel, which was at the time required to play it.

Man I remember most of these games back in 80s every day My brother and I would do our homework and then play

I've been reminiscing about my old ColecoVision lately and watching videos about it. After a little over a week this is the video that finally made me download an emulator for my PC. LOL I miss a lot of these games. I loved Venture for some reason. DK Jr, Zaxxon, Mouse Trap, Super Baseball, Turbo and Pepper II were all favorites. What's funny is that I build PCs for a living and I even have close to $5,000 USD into my own. In the world where frames per second makes you king, I'm going to play emulated retro games.

@steveharvey2102

Жыл бұрын

No school like old school ! ;) Cheers from Canada

@PouchMaster

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I loved Venture. I was really little and when you took too long in a room and then one of the green monsters would come in! Man that was scary to a little kid! The tension was just unbearable at times!

Thanks for putting that together!

All great games. I would ad Carnival, Montezuma's Revenge, and Miner2049 as must haves.

Wow. Just...WOW.... I am remembering very vague and small tid bits of my time as a toddler playing some of these. 36 now. But just....good lord the games these memories invoke.

@65Gamerguy

4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully they were good memories. lol

Great list of games, will give them a try

Aww, Man! Good Times! I have an old ColecoVision in my basement and this brings back so many happy childhood memories! Wish there had been a TRON game on ColecoVision back in the day! Some of my faves were Donkey Kong, Popeye, Venture, Space Fury, Pitfall II, Zaxxon, and Subroc.

@65Gamerguy

3 жыл бұрын

All of your favorites are very good choices!

@lordschwann5417

3 жыл бұрын

I was almost always late for primary school cause id get up at the crack of dawn and put popeye on and not budge for hours. I was always told that next time i got caught by the bad guy that would be it over......i rarely got caught.

As a kid, we knew of only one person that had a ColecoVision. When we spent the night over at their house, it was like visiting the richest person in town. :D

Awesome! Thanks for the new vid!

@65Gamerguy

6 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for watching.

I wish I was born in the 1970’s what greatness video games started from! Colecovision is spectacular!

I really like the Music in Venture. The enemy music paired with the enemy sprites gives of a weird feeling

Good job and good souvenirs. I would add "war game"

So far emulating ColecoVision I think Montezuma's Revenge and the port of H.E.R.O. are the best games for the system but Mouse Trap beats them both by an inch. It's a seriously fun and unique Pac-Man clone and one of the best Coleco arcade ports aside from Zaxxon.

Good list. Pepper ll and Frenzy are my two favorites. A terrific game not on the list is Oil’s Well.

@Grillenheimer

2 жыл бұрын

We had Oil's Well on our Atari 400/1300 XE!! That was SO FUN! We called it Pac Man on a string!!

Pitfall: seriously, go the other way.

I've got to admit that those arcade conversions look pretty decent on the coleco.

@steveharvey2102

Жыл бұрын

That's what the Coleco prided itself on. Many of the game boxes featured a picture of the actual arcade cabinet on the front. They were so ahead of every other, similar console of the time. The Atari 2600 was less expensive though, so they won that round of the console wars. Coleco would win in every other category, though. Cheers from Canada

I'm 50 years old now. But the memories got me high

When I see Ms. Pacman, I will always think of my childhood dentist. They had a cabinet in the waiting room.

@Grillenheimer

2 жыл бұрын

There was a dentist place near where I grew up had a Ms Pac Man machine!!

I like how 4 of these were just different flavors of Pacman

Pretty good list I would have had Miner 2049er Gorf and Space Panic on the list.

these look amazing for games from the early 80s

colecovision had almost all bangers

Good picks!

@65Gamerguy

6 жыл бұрын

I am sure others would pick different games, but it's all good.

Bump & Jump, Rocky, Antarctic Adventure, Turbo, Baseball and Football were all games that I had in addition to some of these.

Pac man was never released , officially , for the Colecovision, by Coleco Industries; It came out many years later when Opcode put it out as a homebrew..

It is crazy, when you think of the actual time span from things like this, ZX Spectrum etc..... through too the NES, then Amiga32, PS1, Xbox and now the power of gaming PC's and PS5, Series Comsoles.... it is nuts xx

Use to play mouse trap with my mom and she use to kick my ass...its the first console I owned until one day my mom walked up the stairs holding a grey box that said Playstation and a copy of crash bandicoot and destruction derby.....the rest is history.

Good video, we miss you!

@65Gamerguy

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@lilibethbaldwin132

6 жыл бұрын

Jason Rotbergs k

People still use Frogger to describe crossing a busy street

My first memories of gaming as a little Little Kid

Great list, I have to say I was super disappointed that Time Pilot does not have the space ship level. The only games on your list I do not have are Galaxian, Tapper and Jungle Hunt, your video makes me want to fix those omissions. I am assuming that Pac-man and Mario Bros. are home brews, I don't currently collect home brews outside of the occasional Atariage purchase.

@65Gamerguy

6 жыл бұрын

Yes Pacman and Mario Bros. are home brew games.

Coleco was the shit back in the days !!!! We need a Coleco compilation already!!!! Or do whut atari has done with the 2600+...

Clips of two ColecoVision versions of Donkey Kong and Q-Bert are featured in two Earplay segments of Braingames in 1985.

I grew up on the Coleco, but this list really saddened me as it seemed to miss all the games we were most into as kids in my neighborhood on this system. Literally did not include one of what where the most popular games in my area. Tarzan, Smurfs, Antarctic Adventure etc. Not saying they were masterpieces but they were what all the kids were excited to play, not sure why this list would be so different.

@PouchMaster

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Tarzan was excellent as was Smurfs! Destructor was my favorite Coleco game, but it's not on the list. It's terrible just how many of the best games are not on the Coleco Flashback!

I have a unopened ColecoVision my grandmother got for opening a bank account way back

@clubredken13

3 жыл бұрын

Oh. An unopened original Colecovision. You could probably trade that for a new car to someone.

What about jumpman Jr??? That game was a classic!

I love how some of them are some remakes of some Atari games

I loved my Colecovision. It blew away my original 2600 at the time and that went to my Dad. I still miss that chubby controller with it's keypad. And then there was the bloody Adam that really screwed the pooch for Coleco as their product release was a bloody catastrophy along with staggering quality control issues. The 83 crash meant a lot of companies didn't survive so that probably combined with mediocre sales and the huge returns of DOA or otherwise defective Adam computers meant that Coleco were one of the many cautionary tales during that era of gaming. RIP Colecovision.

That Ms Pacman was great!

@65Gamerguy

3 жыл бұрын

I agree they did a really good job.

Art

I went 2600 to Atari 600xl after that, but this machine was a powerhouse in the day if 1982...some of these titles especially pacman titles I think are more recent versions...the same goes for Mario Bros...still, very impressive Z80 hardware.

@65Gamerguy

6 жыл бұрын

You are correct both Pacman and Mario Bros are "modern" releases. But it shows what the system is capable of with the right person doing the programming without a time restraint to get the game released as soon as possible. Thanks for the comment.

@djgmoney1009

6 жыл бұрын

Mr. SEA I

I still have mine, in his original foam!

Atari was the Ford, Intellivision was the VW, and Coleco was the Mercedes of its day. Problem was, it was late to the game, and people didn’t have the disposable income back then like they do know.

Takes me back! I'd just started work and so could afford games consoles, first the old Atari and then a ColecoVision to the envy of my friends. I had Q*Bert, Donkey Kong and DK Junior, Zaxxon looked stunnign but wasn;t a very engaging game really, also had Turbo (with the wheel and footpedals!) and the Smurf game, which again, was visually stunning for the time but otherwise not a good game to actually play.

You know what. For the fact that this released 3 years or however many before the Nes(my favorite console) these graphics are amazing and would definitely be a system worth having at release. Frenzy looks awesome.

@65Gamerguy

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. Some of the later games seemed to really show the capabilities of the console.

Galaxian and pacman have always been my favorites 💓

Oh I SO enjoyed the Colecovision! Had Mousetrap, Venture, Donkey Kong, Ladybug(my grandfather was addicted to Ladybug), Carnival, BC Quest for Tires, Donkey Kong Jr, Montezuma Revenge, Popeye, Q Bert, Frogger, maybe had Pac Man.... but don't remember having it. Can not believe Montezuma Revenge or BC Quest for tires weren't in the list. They were SO fun, but every time I think I got to the end of the game, the game would crash coming out of the last cave. Oh crap I had Antarctic Adventure and was addicted to it!! It was so FUN! And was learning piano at the time. My mom had the music so I worked on it, memorized it (or thought i had), surprised my piano teacher with it... who not only was SHOCKED I learned something ON MY OWN on top of the stuff she was teaching me, (also noting I only memorized half the piece....oops), and then called my mom and said, "he needs a new teacher. He's beyond me teaching him." I was only taking from her because she was down the street and mainly a VOICE teacher who could play a little piano and help me through my theory and basic piano book at the time.

Great console

The PAC man and Ms. Pac man did not come out back then. They are home brew..Mario Bros too

@TheGemini5

3 жыл бұрын

I was gonna say! That Ms Pac Man woulda been a system seller for sure!

Wow ms pac man is almost identical to the arcade version

@claudehauper7629

4 жыл бұрын

the jawbreakers, I was thinking the same. I’m wondering if it and the other Pac game were recents adds. I don’t remember those being quite that good - especially when compared to the Atari 5200 or 7800 versions.

I have a Colecovision rom disc with all the games for my dreamcast. I never owned a Colecovision at the time, but had the amazing Commodore 64, so life wasn't that bad for me.

I've ALWAYS heard about coleco vision back in the way day but never ever really saw one or games. Atari games were every where.

@steveharvey2102

Жыл бұрын

That's one of the main reasons for the video game crash of 83. It was the wild west and anyone could make a cheap Atari game. These games flooded the market and since there was no real quality control, most of these games were garbage. The community got sick of spending good money on bad games and the rest was history. Cheers from Canada

Good times 👍🏻

My top 25 would have had The Smurfs (my very first videogame!) And GORF -- my favorite for that console ;)

Great good old days

@65Gamerguy

3 жыл бұрын

I have fond memories of playing these old games when I was much younger.

It was very good for it's day. I bet it was expensive too.

OMG, MS PAC MAN SOUNDS AND FEELS LIKE THE ARCADE GAME

It's wild how much better it looked than the Atari

Ms Pac Man was just about a perfect arcade port.

I didn't know Donkey Kong was licensed to Coleco...

@sawyerkosek-wheat8893

3 жыл бұрын

It was the pack-in game with the system.

Where was carnival ? That was a great game !

Until the NES hit the stores, this system was it. They did a phenomenal job getting a lot of arcade titles on the system, and most were very good translations - especially the many Exidy games that were ported over (Venture, Pepper II, etc.) It really is a shame that the Adam ultimately killed the system, since it had a great deal going for it. It would have had some serious competition once the NES was released, but I think they could have kept some decent market share as long as they were able to release a more powerful, backwards compatible system and maintain the 3rd party software development they had.

@65Gamerguy

2 жыл бұрын

I tend to agree with you. My thought is that they should have kept selling the ColecoVisions at a lower price point, say $79, that would probably allow more games to be developed, and kept the system selling. Then through the expansion port they could have sold a CVII module with more graphics and sound capabilities comparable to the NES or maybe better. From what I understand the expansion port of the CV is unique in that it allows the possibility of taking over every aspect of the original CV and allowing it to basically become anything that they wanted it to be.

A lot of of the games are similar to LCD Game&Watch games from that era. I had Donkey Kong, Popeye, Snoopy and some others.

@steveharvey2102

Жыл бұрын

Similar how? Do you mean by titles?

@carbonara2144

Жыл бұрын

@@steveharvey2102 True, titles and characters. Ofc Coleco games were hugely more advanced.

12:45 I know that feeling...

I loved montezumas revenge

i love pitfall. i wish they would remake it. games now are too complicated. just give me a regular pitfalll game with cool graphics.

@steveharvey2102

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, but Pitfall needs to remain simple, without too many complicated mechanics. Pitfall on the NES is proof of that. Lol

The Adam computer killed Coleco. Remember, they were making tons of money of Cabbage Patch dolls at that time. I must have shipped six successive defective Adam computers back to Coleco between November of ‘83 and March of ‘84. They finally got the computer working just fine by March, but it was too late. I wonder if Coleco could have survived the crash had they released a working Adam in Nov. ‘83.

@steveharvey2102

Жыл бұрын

All of the content creators on youtube agree with you. Coleco definitely would have survived the crash, if it wasn't for the Adam. They lost millions on that piece of crap, and by 1988, they were bankrupt. What could have been.. ?? Cheers from Canada

Mario Bros is homebrew (2009) and there is no Miss Pac-Man on Coleco as far as I know (?). It can only be found in "Pac-Man collection" which is also a homebrew.

@RequiemHomebrew

3 жыл бұрын

@David Ruff That Mario Bros is not the Atari 2600 one. Also kinda weird to put atari games in a coleco top 25.

@steveharvey2102

Жыл бұрын

It's a Coleco Homebrew.

Carnival and cosmic avenger too.

@Robert_MacCready

4 жыл бұрын

Oh and the Smurf’s

I was so happy when I got a Coleco as a kid. It was a upgrade from my Atari. Pitfall, Q*Bert, Centipede, Mr. Do, Popeye, Galaxian, Frogger, Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Pac-Man were my favorites

@steveharvey2102

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree with your picks, but I should mention, Ms. Pacman was a later, homebrew game. You're probably getting it confused with the Atari 2600 port. That port is one of my top 5 Atari 2600 games. An amazing port, and it shows what Atari Pac-man could have been, if they hadn't rushed production. Cheers from Canada

Does anybody know the jump backwards through the brick wall hack in coleco pitfall ? The timer stops and you can go through all the screens

Space fury, cosmic adventure and Montezuma's revenge were my 3 favorite. Not one on the list. Bummer

Q bert is stewie's old roomate.

Oh my god, I forgot Mario Bros was on the Coleco Vision. Strange to see it now.

@steveharvey2102

Жыл бұрын

It's actually a homebrew, not a member of the original Coleco line-up. Cheers from Canada