Emulation is better than modern gaming

[Phoenix219]

Atari is releasing a new 7800+, with a pack-in Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest game, and the NES style controller they sold in europe, but wireless. There are brand new games coming out for 2600 and 7800, including Caverns of Mars and Mr. Run and Jump for 2600, and 7800 ports of Frenzy/Berserk, Space Duel, Asteroids Deluxe and Bounty Bob Strikes Back. Champ Games has a fantastic line up of their own for 2600 as well.

 

[Phoenix219]

I remember ET. There is a great documentary about them finding the landfill where the excess cartridges were dumped.

Atari: Game Over (2014) ⭐ 6.7 | Documentary

1h 6m | Not Rated

www.imdb.com

I still love the Angry Video Game Nerd movie with the E.T. conspiracy quest. So bad, but sooo good. ahah.

 

[Phoenix219]

Then what Opcode games is doing for the Colecovision is just plain phenomenal.

Their Super Game Module adds some RAM and a sound channel.

This makes it almost a missing-link system, Colecovision 2.0 if you will, the stuff that bridges from the actual pre-crash era to the NES. They have an almost perfect port of Donkey Kong, and have released Moon Cresta, Goonies, Knightmare, Amidir and Gradius, with Time Pilot, Donkey Kong Jr, Jungle King, Pac Man DX and a few more coming down the pipeline soon.

Then the Collectorvision Club did Ghosts n Goblins, Demon Attack and Gyromite last year, along with ports of 1942, The Cure, R-Type and other high quality games like Ghost, Suite Macabre, Children of the Night, Zombie Incident and Chaos Begins.

I have entirely new collections of new games complete in cellophane with coverart and booklets and working cartrdges that run on original hardware. It is all pretty amazing.

 

[Phoenix219]

COLECOVISION

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[Richard S. Ta]

Dreaded Joycon stick drift? I ended up having to replace the joycons on my son's Switch. Things aren't cheap. Though you're in a bad spot there if you're sporting the Switch Lite.

That’s the one. I’ve actually been through 3 Switches over the years ‘cause of stick drift.

The plan for the ‘final’ one later this year is to buy a couple of actual pads with the OLED one and keep it for TV use only.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Honestly I am surprised the Colecovision hasn't had the nostalgia treatment... it was fairly popular, we had that instead of the Atari and we had an Adam with keyboard and printer. The coleco had a better graphics setup then the Atari 2600 and overall better sound.

Would definitely buy one if they did a nostalgia console of that baby

 

[BillJ]

Honestly I am surprised the Colecovision hasn't had the nostalgia treatment... it was fairly popular, we had that instead of the Atari and we had an Adam with keyboard and printer. The coleco had a better graphics setup then the Atari 2600 and overall better sound.

Would definitely buy one if they did a nostalgia console of that baby

ColecoVision Flashback Classic Game Console Collector's Edition | eBay

Collecovision Flashback Collectors Edition Game Console. See photos for condition.

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[Owain Taggart]

Honestly I am surprised the Colecovision hasn't had the nostalgia treatment... it was fairly popular, we had that instead of the Atari and we had an Adam with keyboard and printer. The coleco had a better graphics setup then the Atari 2600 and overall better sound.

If i remember correctly, there were attempts made via crowdfunding that fell through. I had always thought the Colecovision was more popular in Europe while the Atari was more popular in North America.

 

[137th Gebirg]

One of the bigger problems with Colecovision, to my recollection, is that it was one of the most expensive (if not the most expensive) gaming platforms of the era. I don't think this was because it was technologically superior to Atari and Intellivision (even though an argument could be made that it was superior to those others at many levels, based on a comparison of graphics & sound quality), but also I believe they also had to recoup their costs of licensing the most faithful reproductions of more arcade-style games from the manufacturers (Sega, Bally, Midway, Nintendo, etc. - maybe Konami?) than the others had, which weighed down on their non-R&D overhead costs. Atari had the licenses to a lot of their own coin-op games, which is pretty much where they started from and didn't need to go elsewhere, and Intellivision just made all their own stuff, with some clones of popular games, just renamed.

 

[BillJ]

I think Coleco, like Sega later, was overreliant on arcade ports in a quickly changing industry. They didn’t have much to hang their hat on, without licensed arcade games.

 

[Phoenix219]

Coleco had no problem with the licenses, and in fact, made just as much money off of their 2600 port of Donkey Kong as anything else. Colecovision was on an upward swing, and was head and shoulders above anything Atari was offering at the time. '82/'83 arcade ports were still extremely popular, and the CV was offering better ports then any other system. They went under because of all the time and money they wasted pushing the Adam computer, thinking that gaming was just a fad, rushing a broken system out by Christmas, and absolutely ruining their reputation and their company in the process.

Its no longer available, but Collectorvision made the modern Phoenix console a few years back for modern Colecovision usage.

The stuff Opcode is putting out puts previous ports of the games to shame; Donkey Kong Arcade, from Opcode, for the CV Super Game Module, has all of the levels, all of the animations, intermissions, the proper fonts and locations for score/info display, etc - absolutely perfect arcade ports. It is absolutely amazing what the CV is actually capable of doing. Just a tiny bit more RAM and one more sound channel is all it took. Highly recommended for fans of retrogaming (not emulation, its all real hardware.)

 

[Phoenix219]

I love the Colecovision Roller Controller and Steering Module. It really was the only true arcade experience at home.

I'll post some pics of stuff I have later, maybe.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

ColecoVision Flashback Classic Game Console Collector's Edition | eBay

Collecovision Flashback Collectors Edition Game Console. See photos for condition.

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Oh well there you go.

Tempting but I'll have to pass for now

 

[Phoenix219]

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[137th Gebirg]

Wow…. Had no idea that there were still people out there who made actual new game cartridges for that console. Very cool.

 

[BillJ]

Wow…. Had no idea that there were still people out there who made actual new game cartridges for that console. Very cool.

I think with most old consoles from the 70's, 80's and 90's, you can find new modern cartridges for. Even, Fairchild Channel F.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Yeah, for example there was recent remastered special edition NES version of Doom on cartridge announced just a few weeks ago.

 

[Rincewiend]

People still make new games for the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500\1200 and release them on tape or disk...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

People still make new games for the Commodore 64 and Amiga 500\1200 and release them on tape or disk...

That's amazing considering the rarity of quality tapes and players

 

[Phoenix219]

Yeah, for example there was recent remastered special edition NES version of Doom on cartridge announced just a few weeks ago.

Kind of.... its just a raspberry pi in the cartridge running Doom, and it uses the NES for the controller and the audio/video output. It LOOKS like Doom on an NES, but its not the NES running it at ALL.

But yes, you put a Doom cartridge in your nintendo, and it plays it.