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<center>''"The arcade quality video game system."''</center> |
<center>''"The arcade quality video game system."''</center> |
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In fall 2014, AtGames Digital Media released a plug-and-play console they deemed the ColecoVision Flashback. The Flashback contains an ARM chip that emulates 48–49 games licensed from Coleco Holdings and 12 homebrew titles. (Note: a special edition of the Flashback, exclusive to the American chain Dollar General, includes ''Antarctic Adventure'' as its 61st title.) Due to licensing issues, not all of the system's core titles made it onto the Flashback; did anyone believe Nintendo would allow Donkey Kong on another console these days? Indeed, only a subset of the games in the below list are included in AtGames' release. |
In fall 2014, AtGames Digital Media released a plug-and-play console they deemed the ColecoVision Flashback. The Flashback contains an ARM chip that emulates 48–49 games licensed from Coleco Holdings and 12 homebrew titles. (Note: a special edition of the Flashback, exclusive to the American chain Dollar General, includes ''Antarctic Adventure'' as its 61st title.) Due to licensing issues, not all of the system's core titles made it onto the Flashback; did anyone believe Nintendo would allow Donkey Kong on another console these days? Indeed, only a subset of the games in the below list are included in AtGames' release. |
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|Run and Gun |
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|'''Included in ColecoVision Flashback''' |
|'''Included in ColecoVision Flashback''' |
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− | The more difficult sequel to the 1980 arcade hit Berzerk receives its only console port. Frenzy expands upon its prequel by offering two types of walls (one that reflects shots, and one that is composed of destructible blocks), two different varieties of enemies (skeletons and tanks), and different rooms in between the mazes. The ColecoVision port is quite accurate to the arcade original, although the original's voice samples have been replaced by an original musical score. |
+ | The more difficult sequel to the 1980 arcade hit Berzerk receives its only offical console port. Frenzy expands upon its prequel by offering two types of walls (one that reflects shots, and one that is composed of destructible blocks), two different varieties of enemies (skeletons and tanks), and different rooms in between the mazes. The ColecoVision port is quite accurate to the arcade original, although the original's voice samples have been replaced by an original musical score. |
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!Ms. Space Fury |
!Ms. Space Fury |
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+ | |A joke on two arcade classics at once, Ms. Pac-Man and Space Fury, this is a homebrew effort. This game is a really solid, two-player platforming title with 20+ levels to explore. Despite it being on the ColecoVision, it has a lot of features you'd see in the more high powered arcade games back in the day including a title screen and a high score screen. |
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!Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle |
!Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle |
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+ | |FUCK YEAR SMURFS! One of the most memorable and worthwhile titles for the system. A solid early example of the platforming genre. |
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+ | 20 Games That Defined the ColecoVision |
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[[Category:Second Generation]] |
[[Category:Second Generation]] |
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Latest revision as of 00:16, 26 February 2018
This early console was much beloved for its bright pastel graphics, almost-perfect arcade ports, and optional adapter that allowed you to play Atari 2600 games. For comparison, that would be like Nintendo releasing an adapter that allowed you to play Xbox games on the Wii. You'd think something like that would be illegal, and as it turned out, it was. But anywho, the ColecoVision had a decent library, some games of which are listed below.
In fall 2014, AtGames Digital Media released a plug-and-play console they deemed the ColecoVision Flashback. The Flashback contains an ARM chip that emulates 48–49 games licensed from Coleco Holdings and 12 homebrew titles. (Note: a special edition of the Flashback, exclusive to the American chain Dollar General, includes Antarctic Adventure as its 61st title.) Due to licensing issues, not all of the system's core titles made it onto the Flashback; did anyone believe Nintendo would allow Donkey Kong on another console these days? Indeed, only a subset of the games in the below list are included in AtGames' release.
The list[]
Videos[]
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Consoles | Emerson Arcadia 2001 - Atari 2600 - Atari 5200 - Epoch Cassete Vision - ColecoVision - Fairchild Channel F - Mattel Intellivision - Magnavox Odyssey² - Bally Professional Arcade - Sega SG-1000 - RCA Studio II - Interton VC 4000 - Milton Bradley Vectrex | |
Handhelds | Entex Adventure Vision - Nintendo Game & Watch - Milton Bradley Microvision | |
Computers | Apple I - Apple II - Apple III - Atari 8-bit - Acorn BBC Micro - Commodore PET - Tandy TRS-80 - Tandy TRS-80 CoCo |