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

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.

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.

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🍻

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.

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

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

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

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

The Colecovision was a great gaming console.

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

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

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

The good old days keep up the great content

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

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!!!!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Nice trip down memory lane! Thank you!

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.

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

Thanks for putting that together!

Great list of games, will give them a try

Awesome! Thanks for the new vid!

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

Pitfall: seriously, go the other way.

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

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

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

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

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

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

these look amazing for games from the early 80s

colecovision had almost all bangers

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

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

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..

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

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.

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.

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

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.

My first memories of gaming as a little Little Kid

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Galaxian and pacman have always been my favorites 💓

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

I still have mine, in his original foam!

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.

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.

Good picks!

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

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

Good video, we miss you!

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

Art

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

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

That Ms Pacman was great!

Ms Pac Man was just about a perfect arcade port.

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

Great console

Wow ms pac man is almost identical to the arcade version

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

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

No Jumpman Jr., Space Fury, or Beamrider???

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

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

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.

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.

Great good old days

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.

I still have a Coleco..and an intellivision

Good times 👍🏻

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.

I loved my coleco...till the crash came....but wipe time pilot from this list please

wasn't colecovision the one with the controller that looked like a TV remote with a joystick or am I thinking of something else

12:45 I know that feeling...

Where was carnival ? That was a great game !

Back when computers were all fun and games ... and profits ! :-)

I loved montezumas revenge