Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man’s influence loomed large over the video game industry in the early 80’s so it should come … Continue reading Influenced by Pac-Man: Ladybug & Mousetrap

Data East’s BurgerTime was one of my go-to arcade games as a kid and now is my Colecovision game of … Continue reading Game of the Week (3/19/17) – BurgerTime

The three games from my collection I will be covering in this post are all games I had never played prior … Continue reading Games I First Played on Colecovision – Cosmic Avenger, Gorf, Pepper 2

Sega produced some quality titles for the Colecovision, one of them, Turbo, I already discussed. Two more titles, Congo Bongo and … Continue reading Colecovision’s Ports of Popular Arcade Games – Congo Bongo, Time Pilot, Zaxxon

Q*bert is of course, the classic isometric puzzle game where you play as a hard cursing fuzzy orange character with … Continue reading Game of the Week (3/12/17) – Q*bert

Atarisoft’s two titles for the Colecovision are marvels of what technology leaps could be made in a few short years. … Continue reading Atarisoft Titles for Colecovision – Centipede and Defender

The roller controller was another one of Coleco’s numerous expansions/peripherals intended to make their already graphically impressive console even more … Continue reading Colecovision Roller Controller with Slither

The Colecovision offered a number of peripherals and “expansion modules” despite the short life span of the console. Expansion module #1 … Continue reading Expansion Module #2 – Steering Wheel with Turbo

When Coleco chose to get into the video game hardware market to compete with the big boys, Atari and Mattel (Intellivision), … Continue reading Game(s) of the Week (3/5/17) – Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr

I’m going way, way back to 1982 and the second video gaming console generation for my console of the month … Continue reading Console of the Month (March 2017) – Colecovision