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	OldiesGames.net - COLECOVISION SECTION We have about 211 Colecovision Games
		In August 1982, Coleco released the ColecoVision, a new $175 videogame system with graphics and sound superior to both the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision.
		The ColecoVision had quite a few great games; its game library was primarily a collection of overlooked (but fun) coin-op ports.
		The ColecoVision didn't really have many revolutionary new games, since most of its popular titles were arcade ports.
	www.oldiesgames.net /coleco.htm (597 words)

	Coleco Colecovision
		Colecovision games weren't exactly "arcade perfect", but they were close enough that the public didn't notice the difference.
		Overall, the Colecovision helped to establish the idea in consumers' minds that home consoles should be able to closely replicate arcade hardware - in fact, the system helped cement a link between consoles and arcade games that never existed before (but that persists even now).
		The Colecovision is also probably the first system to have had available some truly high quality and useful peripherals that actually ended up as marketplace successes - its Turbo Wheel and Atari expansion module proved quite popular, and the latter opened the flood gates for future system emulators.
	www.cs.newcastle.edu.au /~comp3320/history/gaming/colecovision.html (367 words)

	ColecoVision Information
		The ColecoVision offered arcade-quality graphics and gaming style, the ability to play other home consoles' video games (notably the Atari 2600), and the means to expand the system's hardware.
		The ColecoVision controller design was rather similar to that of Mattel's Intellivision (introduced in 1979), but had a stubby 1.5 inch joystick instead of a disc pad.
		The ColecoVision was discontinued in the spring of 1984.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/ColecoVision (1205 words)

	Play ColecoVision games online. FREE! Brought to you by Triplets and Us. Tapper,Football, Jungle Hunt, Baseball, ...
		ColecoVision was, in the early 1980's, one of the best game console systems available.
		The games are ROM files of the actually ColecoVision cartridges.
		ColecoVision Emulator for Windows compliments of Neal Danner.
	www.tripletsandus.com /80s/80s_games/coleco.htm (195 words)

	Retroland \| ColecoVision
		ColecoVision stuck primarily with established arcade hits in the early going-Mouse Trap, Venture, Lady Bug, Donkey Kong Jr., Carnival, Zaxxon, Pepper II, Looping and others-but the system also introduced a feature that expanded its game library by the hundreds.
		ColecoVision held on for another year, but by the early months of 1985, Coleco halted production and sold its rights to Telegames.
		In the end, the ColecoVision's day in the sun was a short one, but for a time, it was the envy of kids around the globe, the Holy Grail of home video game systems, the ultimate status symbol for an emerging generation of arcade fanatics.
	www.retroland.com /pop_view.php?eid=2578&cid=7&decade=1980 (744 words)

	ColecoVision
		During the early 1980's, the ColecoVision was quite popular but home computers were overtaking the game consoles because they were more justified in the eyes of the parents.
		ColecoVision was clearly beating out the Atari and Mattel systems and would have been the choice in 1980's have the crash not happen.
		ColecoVision was eventually acquired by Telegames which bought much of their stock.
	members.shaw.ca /kaidon/cpsc509/13_ColecoVision (513 words)

	Dark Watcher's Console History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Colecovision was released in 1982 and boasted amazing specs for it's time which showed in it's arcade conversions.
		The ColecoVision's Expansion Module #1 was essentially an entire 2600 which fit into the Coleco's expansion port.
		ColecoVisions were also marketed in Europe by CBS Electronics and sold under the CBS name.
	darkwatcher.psxfanatics.com /console/coleco.htm (315 words)

	GameSpy:
		ColecoVision was quite the amazing machine for its day (the Precambrian era -- circa 1982), able to crank out near coin-op-quality graphics and faithfully reproduce the arcade experience at home.
		ColecoVision's big strength was its arcade translations, which usually stood head and shoulders above those on competing consoles.
		Here was another area where ColecoVision shined, for situated boldly on the front of the console was an expansion port.
	www.gamespy.com /articles/488/488708p1.html (788 words)

	ColecoVision Frequently Asked Questions!
		ColecoVision, the video game player introduced last August, is one of the most popular consumer products around.
		ColecoVision's pictures were also better than those of Intellivision, and the retail was $35 lower." "To make ColecoVision even more attractive the company gave away with each unit a $35 Donkey Kong cartridge.
		A second catalog with a mixture of ColecoVision and ADAM items appears to have been released shortly before the death of both systems, as it appears to include nearly all of the late ColecoVision releases.
	www.videogames.org /html/ColecovisionStuff/CVFAQ.shtml (15083 words)

	Zophar's Domain: ColecoVision Emulators
		This Emulator stemmed from ColEm, it emulates the Colecovision and the Coleco Adam.
		Formerly known as Colem97, Virtual ColecoVision is a Windows 95 based emulator for the ColecoVision.
		A great emulator for Colecovision, written in assembler by Frogger, it runs 75% of all coleco games flawlessly, however you need an AWE32 or GUS soundcard for sound currently.
	www.zophar.net /coleco.html (155 words)

	The Video Game & Emulation Emporium (ColecoVision / Main Page)
		The ColecoVision was by far the most advanced system at that time, with 8-bit graphics and sound that rivaled the arcade.
		By 1983, the ColecoVision beat both the 2600 and the Intellivision in sales, but the market was beginning to change.
		The pack-in ColecoVision controllers are similar to the Atari 5200 controllers, because of the combination Directional Pad and Numeric Pad in one device.
	www.emucamp.com /vgee/coleco (682 words)

	ColecoVision (History, Specs, Pictures)
		The ColecoVision (short for Conneticut Leather Company Vision), released in 1982, came into the market as a strong competitor to the almost infallible Atari VCS (2600).
		Despite Atari's disgust and its filing of several unsuccessful lawsuits, the expansion module was a hit with players and greatly expanded the console's library of games, most of which were arcade ports.
		The ColecoVision retailed for $175 and over 6 million units were sold in both the US and Europe up until production stopped.
	www.cyberiapc.com /vgg/colecovision.htm (311 words)

	Intellivision Classic Video Game System / Colecovision
		When releasing a game for Colecovision (or Intellivision for that matter), you had to be able to prove you figured out what is in that ROM by yourself (a procedure known as reverse-engineering), or be open to charges of industrial espionage (as when Mattel sued Atari for $40 million for hiring away several Intellivision programmers).
		They had reverse-engineered the Colecovision themselves and were selling the information (for $50,000 we were told) to companies who didn't want to go through all the trouble of (a) deciphering the code and (b) documenting that it had been done legitimately and legally.
		The key to their idea was that the cost of the General Instruments speech synthesis chip had dropped to the point where it would be practical to put a synthesis chip into every cartridge.
	www.webcom.com /inty/bluesky/games/credits/coleco.html (1649 words)

	Game Revolution - Colecovision Emulator Download
		The Colecovision burst onto the scene, outselling both the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision.
		Dubbed the "third-generation" console system (Atari 2600 and Intellivision were first and second), the Colecovision scored a major coup when it convinced Nintendo to license Donkey Kong as the pack-in title.
		With hardware that dedicated more memory to graphics than any other machine on the market, the Colecovision quickly climbed the charts and was the best selling console system in 1983.
	www.gamerevolution.com /oldsite/download/emulator/coleco.htm (358 words)

	Colecovision: That PS3 Is Fatter Than ColecoVision - Kotaku
		If the Xbox 360 is the Dreamcast, then the PS3 is the ColecoVision and I'm a pilgrim.
		BY NYLATENITE AT Actually, the ColecoVision was either $175.99 or $199.99 at launch and was a smashing success for Coleco - it was when they suspended production on it and pushed forward with the ever-so-faulty Adam Computer - which was $600, that the company faltered as the crash of '83/'84 came along.
		BY KNUKLEUR AT A friend of mine had a Colecovision Adam computer with a dot matrix printer (Adam had a word processor).
	www.kotaku.com /gaming/colecovision/that-ps3-is-fatter-than-colecovision-209906.php (903 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Galaxian for Colecovision at Epinions.com
		Colecovision, of course, had it's share of popular arcade titles, but the system also had some odd-ball games which didn't exactly rule the gaming world.
		Believe it or not, the Colecovision version of Galaxian is actually a bit better than the one in the arcade for one simple reason -- the aliens are easier to hit.
		The poor Colecovision was stuck with some of the worst controllers ever made.
	www.epinions.com /content_98539507332 (618 words)

	Vidgame.net: Coleco Colecovision (Site not responding. Last check: )
		: Colecovision : Gemini : Quiz Wiz : Tabletop : Telstar : Telstar Colortron
		The Colecovision boasted smoother animation than the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision.
		Besides this, the Colecovision also had three channel sound, a 32 color palette with 16 onsceen at once, and 32 onscreen sprites.
	www.vidgame.net /COLECO/COLVIS.html (705 words)

	Colecovision
		Below the module three wafers are shown: They have the appearance of micro-cassettes, they are all fl and appear to have a door on the left rear of the wafer.
		The pause switch is incompatible with ColecoVision cartridges, so it is apparently used by cartridges which go in the second slot.
		Since the ColecoVision could not handle scrolling very well due its electronic design, the scrolling leaves Defender to be desired.
	www.maniacworld.com /game_console_history/Colecovision.htm (12262 words)

	Phosphor Dot Fossils ColecoVision Archive
		But Coleco also seized a golden opportunity by creating the high-end ColecoVision system, probably the most advanced home video game platform available through 1983, and continuing to license popular games from Nintendo and Sega - neither of which, at the time, had created their own home video game systems (almost unthinkable now, isn't it?).
		ColecoVision also appeared just in time to take advantage of another crowd of Atari 2600 users - those who were disgruntled with some of the more pathetic Atari 2600 cartridges on the market (namely Pac-Man).
		Though later attempts to add to the ColecoVision legacy capsized - namely the ColecoVision-compatible ADAM home computer - and though Coleco itself eventually went out of business, this is one of the more fondly remembered home video game systems.
	www.thelogbook.com /phosphor/coleco (196 words)

	Digg - Video: ColecoVision - The PS3 of 1982
		The ColecoVision had better graphics than the Atari 2600 or the Intellivsion but its controllers were murder after a few hours playing.
		I loved my Colecovision and T&T was one game I was looking forward to that always seemed on the horizon, but never released.
		Colecovision had the pimp steering wheel with pedals, the nearly arcade quality roller controller (trackball), the insane big "glove" controller for secretly choosing pitches and a roller to run between bases...
	digg.com /gaming_news/Video_ColecoVision_The_PS3_of_1982 (3203 words)

	ColecoVision Console Information
		By 1981, they had begun development on their new system (to be called the "ColecoVision") that would be superior to the competitors consoles as it would provide arcade quality graphics and gameplay (thanks to a Z-80A processor).
		The ColecoVision was given controllers similar to the APF Imagination and the Mattel Intellivision and even had the same onboard storage for them.
		Coleco stopped production of the ColecoVision in Spring of 1984 to focus on the ADAM computer, believing that they had a greater chance of surviving with the ADAM because of the latest predictions that computers would take over the console market (part of the reason of the crash).
	www.consoledatabase.com /consoleinfo/colecovision/index.html (569 words)

	ColecoVision - PlayStation Portable News - PSP Updates
		The ColecoVision gaming console of prehistoric era (circa 1982) is still very much alive despite popular belief.
		The machine of a homebrew coder that is Zx-81 has released another version of his PSPColem ColecoVision emulator for the PSP, updating it to version 1.0.2.
		I was a ColecoVision lover as a child, in fact, I still have my ColecoVision console in my closet, so this is really exciting for me! Venture, The Smurfs and Zaxxon were my favorite ColecoVision games when I was 10 years old.
	pspupdates.qj.net /category/ColecoVision/cid/1903 (1810 words)

	8-Bit Rot (Colecovision)
		I never set out to collect Colecovision stuff, it just happened to be dumb luck that I found out what a great system it really is...
		I was (am) an avid Atari collector and saw the Colecovision as a rival system so I never gave it a second thought.
		Then a few months later I came across a Colecovision game in a box full of Atari 2600 games I was looking through called Mr.
	www.msu.edu /user/reicher6/colecovision/coleco.htm (186 words)

	ColecoVision
		The ColecoVision should not be confused with Coleco's earlier copycat Atari 2600 clones (something Atari wasn't too pleased with btw), the ColecoVision is suppose to be a souped up Atari 2600-killer with stronger Ram, Colours, and lots more.
		The ColecoVision was meant to be a superior choice to the rival Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision back in the video games of 1982 and it had all the makings to be the best game system on the market, at that time of course.
		For example: The Colecovision was even featured in a early South Park episode named Chicken Pox where the poor kid, Kenny still had one on his old fl and white TV.
	ryangenno.tripod.com /sub_pages/ColecoVision.htm (709 words)

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