10 Amazing ColecoVision Facts

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In this video I take a look at 10 amazing facts and pieces of trivia about the popular 8-bit ColecoVision console.
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@jackeldogo3952 Жыл бұрын

Never had a CV, but a friend did and, man, that was light years ahead of the Atari2600 at that time, now they are considered the same generation.

@TheLairdsLair Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I find it strange that the ColecoVision and Atari 5200 are considered the same generation as the 2600 despite coming out 5 years after, yet the Nintendo Famicom/NES is a different generation even though it came out just a year after!

@danielespeziari5545 Жыл бұрын

@@TheLairdsLair the whole generation affair is pretty nonsensical. First of all, as you said, it is absurd to put the 5200 in the same generation as the system it was meant to replace (although it ultimately didn't, of course). Then you have systems like the 3DO and Jaguar, which were meant to be next-gen compared to the Mega Drive and the Super Nintendo while, at the same time, they never really commercially competed with the Playstation or Saturn (or maybe just in the year 1995). The same goes for the Dreamcast, which is considered part of the 6th generation but actually competed against the PS1 and N64.

@alexxbaudwhyn7572 Жыл бұрын

@@danielespeziari5545 well said Been making similar arguments for years as a retro, vintage console fan. Wikipedia's console generation categories appear to be based solely on years released, not the tech specs, which imo is ridiculous. The CV and 5200 should be grouped with the nes and sms based on CPU, GPU, and memory metrics. Same goes for 90s consoles. The 80s and 90s were a time of non linear, rapid Innovations in the gaming world, both consoles and PCs. Using only time to classify them is erroneous. Historical console classification ought to be based solely on tech metrics, CPU, GPU, sound hardware and ram, ROM capacities, plus coprocessors and maybe storage tech, ie rom carts vs cd, DVD vs hard drives vs net play etc

@dragokills6990 3 жыл бұрын

Very underated system IMO

@kins749 3 жыл бұрын

I'm always impressed by some of the arcade ports, Congo Bongo in particular is outstanding and much better than the SG1000 port of the same game despite essentially the same hardware.

@ClassicTVMan1981X Жыл бұрын

Even though the CBS ColecoVision released in Europe, U.K., Australia and New Zealand had 50 Hz (PAL) output, unlike the later Nintendo NES there was no region lock and the games themselves were not changed from the original 60 Hz (NTSC) output, so consequently the CBS releases of those games play slower. This also means that if you use a CBS cartridge in the U.S. ColecoVision, it will play just fine because, again, the ROMs for the CBS releases were exactly the same as the U.S. Coleco releases.

@dreamcaster4754 3 жыл бұрын

Really interesting video, I didn't know much about the Colecovision but I do now!

@baroncalamityplus 3 жыл бұрын

I wish Coleco could have focused the Adam to be MSX compatible. I don't think that was ever on the table but its an interesting what if.

@TheLairdsLair 3 жыл бұрын

I agree, it wouldn't have been hard to make the Adam MSX based and then have a second cartridge slot for ColecoVision games with a switchable BIOS.

@JesterEric 3 жыл бұрын

You can buy an adaptor for the almost MSX Spectravideo 328 (svi 603) that just plugs I and let's it run Colecovision games

@TheLairdsLair 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly! That's a good example of how it could have been done.

@johndeaux3703 2 жыл бұрын

IIRC the MSX standard was settled on after the ADAM was already developed.

@STR82DVD 3 жыл бұрын

Great stuff is always lad. I purchased my ColecoVision when it was originally released, I also purchased the steering wheel later but the bloody thing was released with the game Turbo and for some reason they chose this bizarre sticky material to use on the steering wheel itself and it left your hands black for days after playing. Oh the memories.

@TheLairdsLair 3 жыл бұрын

Never experienced it back in the day, but Turbo is a bloody good port.

@STR82DVD 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLairdsLair Agreed lad. A great port indeed.

@xeriland 3 жыл бұрын

You must be thinking of something else as there is no sticky material on the steering wheel that leaves your hand black. I am 100% certain of this fact.

@RetroDawn 2 жыл бұрын

@@xeriland I have a similar experience as you (and I not only owned one at release, but own 5 or 6 now). Must have been a UK market value add. ;)

@jayme69 Жыл бұрын

Another great video. Keep up the awesome work :-)

@cessnaace Жыл бұрын

I used to have this friend with a ColecoVision. In the 90s I tried to talk her into selling me her ColecoVision but she refused every attempt. I'd like a CollectorVision Phoenix, a ColecoVision clone with the Super Game hardware built in. A lot of homebrew ports for the ColecoVision require the Super Game Module hardware, The first two batches of the Phoenix have sold out. I've asked CollectorVision to let me know when it's again offered. They have two offices, one in Montreal QC and (fittingly) Phoenix Arizona.

@rahkuaschount 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: The Nintendo Famicom was *this* close to being a ColecoVision clone (compatible). Coleco was riding high at the time and the two companies just couldn't make a deal.

@AngryCalvin Жыл бұрын

Sega SG-1000 wasn’t all too different. I think the ram was enhanced and of course the cartridge slot. Glad Nintendo took a different route. Colecovision was cool but it’s time was short. Atari released the 7800 a couple years late and should have never released the 5200. Otherwise they would have given Colecovision quite a battle. I wasn’t disappointed to have a Texas Instruments Home Computer at the time despite a lack of titles. My neighbors had Colecovision, Atari 800, and C64 but everyone wanted to come to our house to play video games.

@alexxbaudwhyn7572 Жыл бұрын

@@AngryCalvinspot on re 5200/7800 Other than the sound chip, the 7800 bests the NES in gpu, sprite specs easily. 7800 didn't get the quality resources for game, cart dev the nes got since Nintendo had huge coffers as the nes took off coupled with the typical Japanese long game approach to business, markets and products. Re 7800 late launch, I give that an unfortunate pass due to the market crash and sale, changeover of Atari from Warner to Tramiel, and subsequent business plan changes, some for the better like the st line and relaunch of the 8 bit lines. To further demonstrate the console generation nonsense, the xegs is classed as 3rd gen, even though it is identical hardware and tech as the 5200, classed as 2nd gen !? Demonstrates how Jay Miner's GPU, video designs from the 70s were ahead of their time

@cd-lf8xm 2 жыл бұрын

LOL “Anna Lee” Quagmire would be proud

@timhaskett1733 Жыл бұрын

Loved every arcade port although the steering of the plane/ship in Time Pilot is blocky. Actually prefer the Frenzy and Ladybug ports to the arcade versions

@richardadams4928 9 ай бұрын

I remember the first time I used the pause function (* key) in Frenzy. Took a moment before I recognized the pause music as 'Rites of Spring) by Stravinsky, which famously induced street rioting at it's Paris premiere by the Ballet Russe. Now THAT was a genuinely sophisticated and witty jest! Still cracks me up.

@phantomharlock999 3 жыл бұрын

When I was little we had a pair of official Atari paddles and a pair of Gemini branded paddles that we used with our VCS.

@ridiculous_gaming Жыл бұрын

Does someone like Mr Do?

@rottmanthan 2 жыл бұрын

i had one but with the adapter for atari 2600 games. my atari at the time died and i got the coleco vision at yard sale, so i just used all my atari stuff with it, lost that in house fire of 99 but have since got another 2600 and nes which i also had.

@TheLairdsLair 2 жыл бұрын

Must have been awesome at the time, sorry you lost it all.

@lesterjeffries2467 3 жыл бұрын

Have you try the atari joy sticks they work great, the both use the same 9 pins.

@simodo11 4 ай бұрын

Very impressive for the time ,made the Atari 2600 look like a joke,just to add ,Atari did come out in 1977, so apologies Atari, it in 5 years,1982, it was arcade quality ,very impressive for the time

@blengi 2 жыл бұрын

lol, "..Tarzan the original swinger.."?

@ichemnutcracker Жыл бұрын

I am virtual certain that the ColecoVision predated any and very MSX and/or MSX predecessor by a margin large enough to say that they copied its standard instead of saying that the CV was just one of many copies of the same thing..

@TheLairdsLair Жыл бұрын

The ColecoVision was the first machine to come out based on the initial design , which was partly taken from the Texas Instruments TI-99 from 2 years earlier but with a new much cheaper and easier to program CPU.

@the40yogamer Жыл бұрын

I played the f*** out of this thing in the joysticks held up

@ITGuyinaction 3 жыл бұрын

🤔🤔🤔🤔 Interesting how much view on retro computers differs depending on country. In mine, ColecoVision was almost "not existing", while Atari, Commodore and ZX Spectrum computers (and in case of Atari also consoles) were extremely popular...

@TheLairdsLair 3 жыл бұрын

It was the same in the UK, I never saw a ColecoVision anywhere back in the day, although I know it was sold here.

@ITGuyinaction 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLairdsLair Which models were the most popular in UK 30-40 years ago?

@TheLairdsLair 3 жыл бұрын

Early 80s it would have been Atari 2600, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and BBC Micro. Then Atari ST and Amiga (and to a lesser extent the Master System) before the consoles started to take over in the early nineties.

@ITGuyinaction 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLairdsLair Here in Poland it's quite similar with exception of BBC Micro which is almost unknown. Instead we had our Polish Elwro junior however it didn't gain too much popularity. I didn't know that we had so many in common with British guys...😎

@SMARTBoardSBMInchInteractiveWh 3 жыл бұрын

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@johneygd 2 жыл бұрын

Well am actually if the colecovision was really responsible for nintendo’s inspiration for the famicom because 1 the project gamecom to develope the famicom started in june 1982 while the colecovision was released in august 1982, hack even in october 1982 nintendo only had a alpha version of their famicom in it’s infency state,so how could the coleco could,ve inspire nintendo to make a famicom whey they started it’s gamecom to famicom project 2 month’s early before the colecovision was ever released??? Personally i would be not surprised if nintendo already wanted a cartride based game console once they saw atari & mattel with their game console in the late 70’s and early 80’s.