Reviewing *ALL 131* ColecoVision Games!!!

[@GregsGameRoom]

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[@DaisyAzuras]

Venture was the scariest game I have ever played as a kid. The hall monster freaked me out and I’d have nightmares about them hunting me in my house. God I loved that game.

[@show-me-retro]

Colecovision is the only retro console I'm currently collecting for. I absolutely love it and wi8i hadn't waited so long to finally get one

[@jbanks979]

It’s crazy how much better ports Atari would make for Coleco than their own systems

[@frostyhighway9011]

Yeah thats for sure pure funny that the competition COLECO is better then there own.

[@DoctoredGinst]

Dude, Ladybug is not pointless…it’s all about strategy and timing…utilizing the doors and skulls as well as the special and extra bonus opportunities. I still own this game for my Colecovision since I got it in 1982, and it’s one of my favorite games of all time! I remember I scored something like 436,000 points. None of my friends could best the score. Damn fine memories!

[@GregsGameRoom]

Glad you enjoy it.

[@bluewaterdiggers5970]

best game!

[@Koexistence13]

Ladybug intimidated me. Still does. Deeper than just a pac man clone

[@nerde1293]

My sentiments exactly. I'd love if they could get a Colecovision collection with this on it, among many other games from that system.

[@DoctoredGinst]

@ full-on!

[@mgratk]

Super Action Baseball was at least a decade, possible 20 years, ahead of the competition. You had control over your pitches, all the fielders, could choose which base to throw to. On offense you could steal bases, selecting which runner should go, and control the speed of your runners. The control over just about everything put it way ahead of the competition. It was way, way ahead of its time. And the super action controller even had a shield on the front that could hide your pitch choices from your opponent. Also, Ladybug was a masterpiece and at least three relatives bought Colecovision after playing Ladybug at our house. Controlling the position of the gates and picking up all the letters to spell "special" and the other key words made it more interesting. Liked looping but it was a very hard game. I personally hated the Smurfs Gargamel castle game, died on the fences too many times when I though my timing was good. ha Loved Donkey Kong Jr and liked Donkey Kong. We had the steering wheel and Turbo was a blast. Got hard pretty quick. Loved Venture.

[@GregsGameRoom]

I figured there had to be more to SAB.

[@teddym2808]

Greg I am 51 now and was 10 at the time I am sure, so my memory is not 100%. But seeing this whole video reminded me of a couple games I did also have, Carnival and Pepper 2, that was definitely it though, and I remember wanting the smurfs really badly and never playing it until recently on an emulator LOL. It's interesting how I almost have the exact same taste as you, the only difference would be I'd put Gorf in the I love it category. I wish I had the wheel still as I'd happily give it to you. I am going to check the old boxes in the garage this weekend just in case, but sadly I doubt it. It has to be *somewhere*, but when I moved out of home when I was 20, all that stuff stayed in my folks' attic, and they moved in 2015. I'll ask mum if she saw anything like it or has any idea and fingers crossed.

[@PeranMe]

Zenji and Ladybug are REAAAALLY great, you should give them a 2nd chance! Great video, I had NO IDEA River Raid was ported to the Colecovision! Time to find an emulator! ❤

[@secretysecret1551]

great video! hope more like this are coming around. Maybe for TG16?

[@GregsGameRoom]

Maybe. TG16 games are more complex.

[@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785]

​@@GregsGameRoom true, but the TG16 also has about half the library to cover 🤣

[@chrislaustin]

I can still remember the Christmas morning I got the ColecoVision and a ton of games, easily my most favorite system from a nostalgia standpoint. As it was the first console I owned that was all mine, and I had all the add-ons, 30+ games, and I finally sold it years later to buy an NES(but I played the hell out of it for years until that point). I love seeing the homebrew titles, as well as the Opcode Super Module offerings, as you see what might have been back in the day. The CV was so much better than the 2600 and Intellivision at the time, and is easily one of the best systems ever offered in gaming's history. If not for the market crash, I always wondered if they would have made a follow up system, and what it might have been, or if what we got was all there was ever going to be?

[@GregsGameRoom]

It's too bad the CV has been largely forgotten.

[@chrislaustin]

@@GregsGameRoom Very true, and while it was the best system at the time, once the market crashed(and the ADAM failure), Coleco threw in the gaming towel. Atari has always stayed in the spotlight to varying degrees, as did Intellivision(sadly for the wrong reasons currently), but the CV fell mostly through the cracks. I think it got a few of those cheap plug & play systems, but the market for anything CV is so niche now a days. Which is rather sad, as I've yet to see anyone try it for the first time in recent years, and not sing its praises in regards to how much better it was in comparison to the competition of the time. That's why I always support videos like yours, as it keeps this amazing console in the public eye, even if it's only for a moment.

[@therzepkoidian3140]

I had Linking Logic for the C64 as a kid and played it all the time. XD Basically the goal is to place all the objects around the room in strategic spots, then once the objects are placed, the boy or girl starts at the top and automatically walks from left to right and has to make it all the way through the room to the bottom without falling in any of the holes using the objects you placed. :)

[@GregsGameRoom]

I figured it was something like that. Thanks.

[@mikemayberry7121]

I really like this video format. I hope you do one for the Atari 5200.

[@GregsGameRoom]

I definitely will!

[@rickarmstrong4704]

Thanks for going through all these Greg! I am 66 and this was bought in that time way back it was, I have these in order of most use, Ladybug, Donkey Kong, Space Fury, Carnival, Zaxxon, Quest for Tires, Blackjack/Poker and thats all there ever was, it all still works and today is the first time in a decade or more it has seen some use mostly to see if it still works I Need a dongle of what ever sort that is to port RF to a monitor but mostly think it is a comfort to know it sits in a drawer and thats that, I do wish to say Ladybug is a great Game and I had played it on the coin machine and I think it was the reason for buying the unit! It is a totaly differnt world now when put up against back then it is, Cheers! from not so sure but the name still stands for now from Canada

[@MCastleberry1980]

People often talk about the jump from the 2nd to 3rd generation of consoles as if it was straight from the Atari 2600 to NES and forget that in between you had the Atari 5200, Intellevision and ColecoVision bridging that gap and having increasingly better graphics and sound. ColecoVision especially was much closer to the Famicom/NES (at least the black box era) than the 2600.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Probably because those systems weren’t runaway successes like the 2600 and NES so it’s easier to forget about them.

[@patsfan4life]

Atari 2600 and Intellivision were the same generation weren’t they?

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

Sammy Lightfoot, just run off the platform on the first jump. I loved that game on the C64

[@GregsGameRoom]

I'm a dolt.

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

@@GregsGameRoom LoL!

[@charlesajones77]

I still have my Colecovision, with the Roller Controller and 2 Super Action Controllers. Never had the steering wheel though. I have a copy of the broken North American version of Victory. The Quarks are never released. Even though they appear on the radar, there isn't actually anything there. Real shame, because it's actually a decent game otherwise. How on Earth the game was released like that is beyond me. I found out decades later that a fixed version was released in Europe. I'd love to get my hands on a copy of that.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Sounds like they were in a rush to get games out.

[@CokerCulture]

This was a little before my time; so honestly not too surprised that I’m not familiar with any of the games. But you hit the nail on the head with the Penguin game, that would’ve been a home run on any system!

[@VideoGameOwnage123]

I was waiting for this vid. Colecovision is super underrated. My personal favorite of that generation along with the SG-1000. The atari platforms are still better but for me it's the Colecovision if a game shared between them is on there.

[@GregsGameRoom]

This system had way more games than I originally thought!

[@teddym2808]

Wow. Thank you. This was my system as a kid, and I had the steering wheel and turbo, donkey kong, popeye, gorf, and that was it for the entire time I had the console. I loved them all though and played Turbo for so many hours my eyes started to burn into the screen LOL.

[@GregsGameRoom]

I remember playing it with my cousins when it was new. I was always jealous of that steering wheel!

[@frostyhighway9011]

This was my first game console even before ATARI VCS, I loved this system and games.

[@TheDuke013]

I thought my atari 2600 was awesome as a kid until I played a colecovision. Still on the hunt to find one, but had no idea they had that many titles.

[@gleaming999]

Awe man, the music in looping is still stuck I'm my head.

[@jeremyswanson236]

The Sega Genesis controller works on Colecovision, same as with a 2600., and vice versa . When I was a youngster, with Genesis only including one controller, trying to play Toe Jam & Earl with one Coleco controller and one Genesis, didn't work out well with one controller having only 2 buttons, I had hoped maybe one of the keypad buttons would work as a 3rd, but no.

[@kurtmager1626]

I'm surprised you didn't rate WARGAMES higher. It was one of my favorite games back in the day. Basically it's Atari's Missile Command played simultaneously on 6 screens that you toggle between.

[@GregsGameRoom]

I wanted to like it but it wasn’t intuitive to me.

[@crazyivan030983]

Cool video :)

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@alkohallick2901]

War Games was great too!!!!

[@SoulforSale]

Supercross Force was mind-blowing for its time

[@patsfan4life]

Couple things: (1) Turbo with the Driving module destroyed all other driving games for many years. (2) DK did NOT hold up well at all over the years, while Dk Jr did

[@blackenedheart9592]

That system had so much potential. It was already leaps and bounds better than the Atari VCS and intellivision for sure. But just think if the developers had more time per game and it had a better controller it would've probably been an early contender with the NES! It has amazing 8 bit power. It's a shame how some systems were capable of amazing games but nobody was able to really implement that. The Atari Jaguar for example. Wasted potential all because of cooperate greed.

[@GregsGameRoom]

The controller is probably it’s biggest detriment.

[@patsfan4life]

There's a Frontline ROM hack that allows you to play it without the Super Action Controller

[@Pawnband]

22:37 😂

[@GregsGameRoom]

Very weird game.

[@jessragan6714]

Opcode's DK Arcade is so much better than the Donkey Kong pack-in, it hurts. Also, different strokes and all that, but I think Zenji is a brilliant puzzle game. I catch myself playing it every time I turn on my ColecoVision. (The mocking faux-Asian soundtrack doesn't do it any favors, though.)

[@GregsGameRoom]

Yeah, I know the CV can do better than the DK port we got. Makes me wonder... which version of DK was actually crippled? ;-)

[@RayPruitt-ji9jx]

4:47 Maybe the ducks took the phrase "bite the bullet" literally.

[@stankykong8506]

Antarctic Adventure was Hideo Kojima's first game.

[@SatoshiMatrix1]

It's a shame the 5200 didn't do better than it did. It's arguably more powerful than Colecovision, and its pallet is considerably stronger than the 16 fixed colors Colecovision has. The 5200 also had analog controls built in. Problem was, the 5200 controller didn't self-center, was very fragile and most games of its era were designed for digital, not analog. Still, I like the 5200 more than the Colecovision and am jealous the Colecovision saw 131 releases where the 5200 only cracked 69.

[@juiceweezer]

Down with SoccerMoms!

[@lurkerrekrul]

I never had a Colecovision myself. It was always a mythical system to me, with arcade perfect graphics. Of course that was when I had the 2600. By the time I actually saw the games in person, I already had a C64, and so I really wasn't all that impressed with them. Don't get me wrong, I like some of the games, like Pepper II, they just weren't as impressive as I originally thought. I found a Colecovision in the trash several years ago, but it didn't work properly. It had the system changer module with it, to let you play Atari 2600 games. That worked, just not the Colecovision in native mode. Gyruss - The home ports are better than the arcade version in one respect: You can hear the music better. I find that in the arcade version, the sound effects drown out the music most of the time. I used to play the C64 version for hours. I could roll the score 2-3 times in a single game. Then my hands would start cramping, I'd get tired, and start making mistakes. Pitfall 2 - I once played through the game on the C64. It took me quite a while because I kept getting hit and being sent back to to the health stations. By the time I was done, I HATED that music. It sounds nice at first, but after listening to it for a couple hours, I wanted to drive ice picks in my ears. Zaxxon - Nice graphics, but the high-pitched whine in the background gets on my nerves. Also, why did they change Zaxxon himself to look like a pair of gas tanks?

[@josephb4086]

I enjoy old school games and systems only. The new generation of systems and games arent for me.

[@luisreyes1963]

Didn't realize that the Colecovision has as many bad games as they have good ones. 😅

[@MrRetroNerd]

A very awesome console for the time, sadly the controller it's awful, excellent games tho

[@GregsGameRoom]

In competent hands the games can be great!

[@rob4222]

I tried the controller on the C64. It worked but it was awful

[@dacueba-games]

"Sorry, you can't donate in this country or region yet." Sorry m8

[@GregsGameRoom]

What country are you in?

[@dacueba-games]

@@GregsGameRoom Brazil

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