Top 25 ColecoVision Games

[@chrismorring3352]

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

[@JasonMontell2501]

I miss my dad too

[@TECAgain]

I know losing someone you love is hard, and I feel that. I wish your father's soul to rest well. But in the meantime, get a Coleco SGM. Having new games on the CV with the MSX AY-8910 sound chip would be like a Colecovision future.

[@manupman945]

F

[@carlosfranco7282]

te comprendo bien hombre vive siempre honestamente en memoria de tu padre un abrazo fuerte

[@wyldshot666]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@lordmegatron4989]

As a kid I never got as excited over a Christmas present as I did with the Colecovision!

[@gametester8078]

Coleco was ahead of it's time!

[@IMDLEGEND]

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.

[@mattharper1242]

Funny enough for awhile now you can also find sega, nintendo and atari on the same consoles

[@Crit-Chance]

@@mattharper1242 Well, as long as they're a Nintendo console...

[@mikelitoris9610]

I had the adapter

[@MrSEA-ok2ll]

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.

[@pablopina8924]

Frenzy with it's music brought me back, it was one of my dedicated games.

[@PouchMaster]

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.

[@BESTO1215]

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

[@electricadventures]

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

[@65Gamerguy]

Thanks. Just my favorites I am sure others would pick different games. And I agree about your comments well.

[@geraldford6409]

Cv was da shiznet pre 1985, coulda held its own against nes if coleco had kept going.

[@geraldford6409]

Biggest issues were no smooth scrolling and monochrome sprites, though a home brew ms Pac-Man for the cv appears to have overcome the monochrome moving characters

[@geraldford6409]

Hated using joystick for trackball games like centipede Top games that could be played for hours, especially mr do, ladybug, space panic

[@gwynthegnome2050]

Wow, got me so nostalgic. I grew up playing all these games! The only one u left out I wish u would've included was Smurf. Otherwise, great list :)

[@lactobacillusprime]

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

[@65Gamerguy]

It was a bit of a challenge to figure out which games I wanted to include. I finally just sat down played the ones I wanted and limited it to 25. Thanks for watching.

[@michaelmckelley6685]

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

[@gen-x2939]

The good old days keep up the great content

[@wii1245]

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.

[@sledlen]

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

[@bignut1769]

I’m getting a Coleco off ebay to relive my childhood with my little boy🍻

[@fleshanthos]

Just sold mine from 1985. Will do the emulations!

[@robertsaladino]

He'll hate you....

[@chronofantasy1987]

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.

[@mperry0913]

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

[@antneyfatts665]

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

[@dbranconnier1977]

The Colecovision was a great gaming console.

[@dustinnunez5077]

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

[@murlthesquir]

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

[@tuurask1511]

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!!!!

[@Grillenheimer]

I never had the Smurf game but heard it was really good.

[@steveharvey2102]

Thunbs up for Campaign 84! Lol Imagine if they made one nowadays. They could call it, Storm the capital! Lol Imagine the possibilities!

[@TheKurtsPlaceChannel]

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

[@joeymas620]

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

[@65Gamerguy]

I remember seeing that and busting out laughing.

[@joeymas620]

@@65Gamerguy Kennys Dad we don't say fuck in this house Cartman I guess we don't say side dishes either

[@johnmartin2510]

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..

[@cowetascore8476]

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

[@gj7aj]

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

[@65Gamerguy]

Thanks, I think so too. Thanks for watching.

[@OriginalGrasshopper]

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

[@PouchMaster]

I'd get so freaked out playing Venture when you took too long in a room and one of those green monsters would come in to come after you! Scary game for a little kid!

[@mikehunt9884]

colecovision had almost all bangers

[@doctorx0079]

No Montezuma's Revenge?

[@SupremeNerd]

hell no

[@doctorx0079]

Why not?? 😡

[@SupremeNerd]

@@doctorx0079 not his favorite i guess LOL

[@mikeoleksa]

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.

[@steveharvey2102]

No school like old school ! ;) Cheers from Canada

[@PouchMaster]

Yeah I loved Venture. I was really little and when you took too long in a room and then one of the green monsters would come in! Man that was scary to a little kid! The tension was just unbearable at times!

[@CT-yc4gd]

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.

[@65Gamerguy]

Hopefully they were good memories. lol

[@fordprefect80]

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

[@steveharvey2102]

That's what the Coleco prided itself on. Many of the game boxes featured a picture of the actual arcade cabinet on the front. They were so ahead of every other, similar console of the time. The Atari 2600 was less expensive though, so they won that round of the console wars. Coleco would win in every other category, though. Cheers from Canada

[@spudboy56]

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

[@captainshid1342]

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

[@SupremeNerd]

yep and intellivision

[@clubredken13]

I remember my Colecovision controller would stop working. And you could take the screws out and try to fix them. Which would work... sometimes. These days controllers don't break. And fixing them would be like fixing your cellphone or tv.

[@JGKingCrusher]

Nice trip down memory lane! Thank you!

[@65Gamerguy]

Glad you enjoyed it thanks for watching.

[@silverfish1]

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

[@deanonessimo4052]

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

[@jamescooper3571]

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

[@Grillenheimer]

We had Oil's Well on our Atari 400/1300 XE!! That was SO FUN! We called it Pac Man on a string!!

[@neverenoughguitars8276]

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

[@SGman3000]

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.

[@theoriginal80sgamer39]

Great list of games, will give them a try

[@wyldshot666]

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

[@richj6596]

Where was carnival ? That was a great game !

[@retrokilroy2506]

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

[@Mindraker1]

Pitfall: seriously, go the other way.

[@jeffwolcott7815]

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

[@Grillenheimer]

There was a dentist place near where I grew up had a Ms Pac Man machine!!

[@chj2]

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.

[@65Gamerguy]

All of your favorites are very good choices!

[@lordschwann5417]

I was almost always late for primary school cause id get up at the crack of dawn and put popeye on and not budge for hours. I was always told that next time i got caught by the bad guy that would be it over......i rarely got caught.

[@davidbassenghi6547]

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

[@justincatman7235]

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

[@lordmegatron4989]

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

[@SemperCallide]

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

[@ADarkandStormyNight]

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.

[@PouchMaster]

Yeah Tarzan was excellent as was Smurfs! Destructor was my favorite Coleco game, but it's not on the list. It's terrible just how many of the best games are not on the Coleco Flashback!

[@SilverKnight16]

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

[@steveharvey2102]

It's actually a homebrew, not a member of the original Coleco line-up. Cheers from Canada

[@sabbathtribute]

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

[@TheGemini5]

I was gonna say! That Ms Pac Man woulda been a system seller for sure!

[@danielsilverstein9996]

My first memories of gaming as a little Little Kid

[@francescolavilla271]

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.

[@Grandizer8989]

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.

[@ieattofu68]

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

[@sawyerkosek-wheat8893]

It was the pack-in game with the system.

[@gabrielesal601]

SMURF, turbo, looping?

[@Yokimari]

these look amazing for games from the early 80s

[@musclemark2710]

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

[@mrmojorisin8752]

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.

[@steveharvey2102]

All of the content creators on youtube agree with you. Coleco definitely would have survived the crash, if it wasn't for the Adam. They lost millions on that piece of crap, and by 1988, they were bankrupt. What could have been.. ?? Cheers from Canada

[@STR82DVD]

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.

[@gorryman]

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

[@kristapskalinkasttttirrr]

Hm.. 2010. Must check it out, what is mission in this game

[@richardgregory3684]

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.

[@evildeceptigod3743]

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

[@Grouncontrol]

No offense, but, why no spy Hunter?

[@ieattofu68]

Coleco got permission to use Mario Bros too?

[@RequiemHomebrew]

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.

[@RequiemHomebrew]

@David Ruff That Mario Bros is not the Atari 2600 one. Also kinda weird to put atari games in a coleco top 25.

[@steveharvey2102]

It's a Coleco Homebrew.

[@carbonara2144]

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.

[@steveharvey2102]

Similar how? Do you mean by titles?

[@carbonara2144]

@@steveharvey2102 True, titles and characters. Ofc Coleco games were hugely more advanced.

[@MrSEA-ok2ll]

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.

[@65Gamerguy]

You are correct both Pacman and Mario Bros are "modern" releases. But it shows what the system is capable of with the right person doing the programming without a time restraint to get the game released as soon as possible. Thanks for the comment.

[@djgmoney1009]

Mr. SEA I

[@Escanimations]

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

[@RenegadeSith]

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

[@pylonman509]

I still have mine, in his original foam!

[@Mokimanify]

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

[@clubredken13]

Oh. An unopened original Colecovision. You could probably trade that for a new car to someone.

[@claudehauper7629]

The Pac games were almost identical to the arcade versions. That’s phenomenal if we consider that even the NES and Atari 7800 versions weren’t that good. Were these recent adds?

[@65Gamerguy]

Yes the Pacman games are homebrews that came out several years ago.

[@claudehauper7629]

65Gamerguy, it would be interesting to see other homebrews for this system.

[@steveharvey2102]

There's actually a vibrant Homebrew community for the Coleco. You can find a lot of them on ebay, and I'm assuming other places. I stick to the originals in my collection so my homebrew knowledge is limited but a quick google search can get you started. Cheers from Canada

[@thejawbreakersbandofficial4243]

Wow ms pac man is almost identical to the arcade version

[@claudehauper7629]

the jawbreakers, I was thinking the same. I’m wondering if it and the other Pac game were recents adds. I don’t remember those being quite that good - especially when compared to the Atari 5200 or 7800 versions.

[@edstar83]

Top 25 without Spectron, Space Fury, Cosmic Avenger, Turbo?

[@wendaltvedt4673]

No Zaxxon?

[@bradkroboth5490]

I still have a Coleco..and an intellivision

[@RetroRogue.]

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.

[@65Gamerguy]

I agree. Some of the later games seemed to really show the capabilities of the console.

[@jeeperscreepers8902]

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.

[@dmoore0079]

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.

[@65Gamerguy]

I tend to agree with you. My thought is that they should have kept selling the ColecoVisions at a lower price point, say $79, that would probably allow more games to be developed, and kept the system selling. Then through the expansion port they could have sold a CVII module with more graphics and sound capabilities comparable to the NES or maybe better. From what I understand the expansion port of the CV is unique in that it allows the possibility of taking over every aspect of the original CV and allowing it to basically become anything that they wanted it to be.

[@MikeAngelCortez8845]

Q bert is stewie's old roomate.

[@fuzzywzhe]

Was Pacman actually released on the Colecovision, or is that a homebrew? I thought Atari had an exclusive license for it.

[@65Gamerguy]

Atari had the rights and made a fully playable prototype for the ColecoVision but never released it. The rom is readily available now and I made a video of it a few years ago. But the Pacman in this video was the one released by opcode which is a very well done homebrew.

[@fuzzywzhe]

@@65Gamerguy I did further research and found the original, it's not arcade perfect like the version you showed, which is close if not exact. It was Atari's "app killer" of the day. It showed up on many systems but I believe the only video game console it was available for was Atari 2600 back in the day. I think you should have demoed Jumpman Jr, that was popular at the time. I played the original Jumpman on a C=64.

[@UshabtiTheLipaugus]

What if Sonic looked like on the ColecoVision.

[@maaaguz]

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

[@RealmRabbit]

12:45 I know that feeling...

[@garagekeys]

Thanks for putting that together!

[@Grillenheimer]

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.

[@renobutters]

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

[@Degro76]

Space fury, cosmic adventure and Montezuma's revenge were my 3 favorite. Not one on the list. Bummer

[@crom19701]

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.

[@65Gamerguy]

Yes Pacman and Mario Bros. are home brew games.

[@Koexistence13]

That Ms Pacman was great!

[@65Gamerguy]

I agree they did a really good job.

[@Trent_Brooks1990]

Galaxian and pacman have always been my favorites 💓

[@GMT439]

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

[@mpk1028]

how did they come up with such an original game with Mousetrap?

[@tonialoconte]

It's an Exidy arcade game from 1981 - they also made Venture and Pepper II.

[@kiloali2004able]

Missing Gorf and Buck Rigers