Video games from the early '80s had short development times. That meant programmers cut corners to complete on time. Coleco is finally starting to flex its muscle, and new games are surpassing the same titles on the NES.
Just bought one and still am having a blast like back in the day with popeye,congo bongo,donkey kong dk jr,burgertime,ladybug and mouse trap frenzy,wow
The leap from the Atari 2600 to the Colecovision was the greatest console leap in history. To this day. What I mean, for example: Nintendo consoles have improved over time, but the changes have been incremental. The CV was a sudden, light years jump over the 2600 in graphics, sound, and game play.
I'd argue that SNES to N64 was the biggest. The third dimension added a whole new layer to gaming. Colecovision had mostly the same games as the 2600, only better. In some ways the Intellivision was a bigger leap over the 2600 since many of the games were more complex than the arcade games that people have gotten accustomed to. Colecovision had this to an extent, but not at the level of Intellivision.
it wasn't ahead of it's time it was at the time of the technology, the 2600 was developed in the early 70's and released in 77. Colecovision had no library and had to add on a 2600 adapter in order to promote sales. He should have done a 5200 colecovision comparison. Graphics were comparable and the 7800 as a step up from both.
@Boswd the system was designed and developed in 1978, but at the time was too costly to produce. Plus the colecovision and it's capabilities was a influence on the Japanese console market, hell Sega basically cloned it to make the SG-1000 and the MSX standard 9:50 was based on a colecovision hardware with more memory. Even the Master system is a colecovision with a more powerful cpu and exrra ram since the master system is a upgraded SG-1000
Crazy that the Coleco Vision could have released in 1979 but Ram prices were too high, so they waited until 1982. if it had released in 1979 it would have been really successful with 5 full years on the market to mature and build a library.
Nice comparison/contrast video! Tough call for me as I own, play, and consider both to be great in their own respects. The ColecoVision definitely did the most arcade perfect arcade ports of any second generation home video game console. While the Atari VCS/2600 was iconic, prolific, and had a huge original game libaray. Liked, and subscribed.
The Colecovision version of Tapper does have dancing girls but they don't come at the end of the level. They come when you pick up a tip like the arcade version. The girls are a part of the game as they distract your customers who will not catch the beers you serve.
Comparing a 3rd generation consoles to a 2nd generation console (historically wikipedia and fanboys messed uop the generations 20 years ago you can find magazines and news print saying Colecovision/5200 were third generation consoles and the NES was inspired by the colecovision and even shared some games as the original famicom was comparable before they started adding chips tot he cartridges to enhance the famicom/NES abilities. It's very likely this comparison was made because he went off the Wikipedia miscategorization hat put everything before NES in america as a 2nd generation console, yet kept the Sega SG1000 third, despite it literally being a Colecovision clone.
Yes bizarre... but most of the UA-cam commenters have very little knowledge of the era. Heh... I still have my 5200 and all the video game magazines from the day. Sometimes I try to correct the myths these guys have now....
FYI, to use the "smart bomb" on Atari 2600 Defender you have to fly your ship behind the city and press the fire button. Destroys all enemies on the screen.
The Colecovision is a great console, but what I find most impressive about the 2600 is the way the system is being pushed to its absolute limits and beyond. Rarely do you hear someone exclaim " I can't believe this is running on a Colecovision!", but on the 2600 it happens quite often. The Coleco is very capable system, but it seems to be more constrained by its design than the Atari is.
Have you ever noticed how many smiley faces are in Berzerk? From Evil Auto to the exploding enemies, they all have smiley faces. Pay attention when you kill an enemy next time and you will see them explode into a smiley face...it's almost as if they want to die. Maybe that's why most of them run into the walls. I have a very dark theory that I wish to share with you... Think about this, your an evil robot trapped in an empty black space trying to kill the only free person alive (the player). Your directives would likely be equally as bleak and the only thing you know is violence. Your boss is a smiling psychopath that can move freely anywhere he wants without limitations. He alone gets to appear over and over again. Too make matters worse unlike Auto, your existence is fleeting. Once the screen gets cleared you get de-rezed or dumped from the RAM. The only bit of freedom you (as an evil robot) actually have is by choosing how you want to go. The question is, what about the robots that try to kill you? I believe they're attempting to live for just a few more precious seconds before being dumped. This is why I believe every evil robot smiles when they die...or the programmers were trying to save space, you decide. Addendum- Try playing with this as your storyline next time and I guarantee you it will mess with your head. Once you notice the exploding smiley faces it becomes impossible not to look at them as simple explosions again. ;)
In all fairness the Atari 2600 was released in 1977 and Colecovision was released in 1982... yes 5 years apart! That is a dramatic time difference in technology today, but things were changing very fast in those days, even two years made big difference, which leads me to my second point. Blame Atari for making the 5200 a console version of their 8-bit computers, but because it is just an 8-bit Atari computer, the guts of the 5200 were really developed and released in 1979 even though not released as the 5200 until 1982.
Atari 2600 was my first console but one of my best friends at the time had a ColecoVision and there’s no comparison. I’ll watch your video but I already know Coleco wins almost every time compared to the 2600!
@@SecondOpinionGames1 Exactly! As for a game comparison I'm not sure if you've already done it with The Smurfs: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, one of my favorites on Coleco that also came out for the 2600.
Yes, I'm okay with @Second Opinion Games giving the win to Atari for skiing because Coleco's version was something Telegames slapped together after the system was discontinued to make a quick buck. Otherwise, the ColecoVision dominates, and it's not even a fair competition.
@@chriscorsello It's true about the 5 years gap, however unlike the SNES and N64, both the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision belong to the same second generation of consoles.
This makes me more confused about the North American video game crash. Wasn't it partially due to hardware stagnation? The Colecovision clearly looks to be a few steps above the Atari both graphically and computationally, yet I see Atari's dominance stated as a reason for the market crash.
Gaming media have no idea what they are talking about and along with wikipedia and youtube have caused terrible damage to gaming history, back in the day Colecovision/5200 were third generation consoles, not second, the crash was due to poor and even good third-party games selling their titles at bargain prices. For example if Pitfall or games like Defender or Dig Dug were $60, and a similar game, especially if it was good, was $30 or $20 you'd most likely get that came, which forced developers to cut their prices. This is "primarily" what led tot he crash. However people ignore the term industry, the market was still buying games, the year video games were dead in 1985 Atari sold 1 million consoles without advertising, the CV was still sold until spring, software sales were up and new consoles were planned by multiple companies. Most average person saw some some retailers pull video games to cut their losses, but mostly just games at very cheap prices so you would be getting big titles that were $40 or more before at like $4-$8. A lot of it was spun over the years by the internet which was controlled by fanboys, this is why earlier internet consoles like the Intellivison and 2600 were 4 bit or 2 bit systems which was nonsense,. It's also where people gave too much credit ti ET and Pacman which weren't even real causes of the game crash the ET thing was caused by the burial of unsold stock which included a ton of games not just ET but people revised history, and Pacman was a best selling 2600 title for years with a low return rate and was never in papers as any cause for the crash until years later. It also doesn't help many gaming media internet sites like IGN were NES fansites or grew up during that time and had extreme bias. But even wikipedia while still having tons of issues, has fixed some of these issues now and the fact the ignorance is still prevalent is a big blow to gaming history.
It wasn't until secondary school I knew anyone with a ColecoVision and Andy Carrington lent it to me for a weekend. At that stage, I had moved on from the 2600 and owned an Atari 800 XL, but I instantly knew the ColecoVision was a powerful console. I still have a soft spot for 2600 Defender, flawed as it was.
Good video! I never had a Colecovision The Atari 2600 was my first game system I had! The Colecovision is a nice system! Better graphics. Nice comparison of the games! For each system!
Defender on the 2600 got glowing reviews from contemporary gaming magazines, which I NEVER understood, I thought it was UTTER GARBAGE. Colecovision Defender was MUCH better. BUT, very late in Atari's life, it got Defender II, a renamed Stargate, and it was SHOCKINGLY good. It also got a very fun version of the obscure Pac-Man Jr, in the best tradition of the very playable Ms, Pac-Man. Enduro on the Atari was BETTER than Colecovision Turbo, IMHO. Much smoother scrolling and just more fun. All that said, FAR AND AWAY most titles were better on Colecovision. I still have one with the Atari expansion module, so Best of Both Worlds....
Activision made some great games for the Atari, but I don't know about "saving" the system. Atari sold a ton of their own titles, and their were other 3rd party games that were also successful for the 2600 (like Imagic, CBS Electronics, and even Sega). Plus by the late 80s, they were STILL selling that damn system and Activision was giving them very few titles at that point.
I was born in 83 so atari was old but I always thought atari was the best system I'm guessing I'm going to be proved wrong my buddy had something I don't think it was a colico tho
This is a weird video. You're comparing different generation systems. Is it any wonder that a newer generation system like ColecoVision has better graphics than an older generation system like the Atari 2600? If you want to compare apples to apples, you should compare the ColecoVision to the Atari 5200.
Was thinking the same thing. It would be like doing a comparison video between a NES and a Sega Genesis, or A PS1 to an Xbox. Completely different generations.
Omg I was so jealous my cousin back in the day was playing donkey kong like the arcade version on a colecovision.I bought two off ebay and 10 games and am having a blast with popeye and mouse trap,congo bongo,and ladybug wow what was I missing.😳😃👍
I like the Atari tapper because he has more of a classic feel to him the Atari tapper looks like he belongs in the old west where as the Colecovisson tapper looks like a soda guy from the early 1980s I do admit you are correct the Colecovisson version is very nice if the player is looking for updated graphics but for the game tapper I prefer the western Atari design 😁
You shouldn't compare 2600 to Coleco. It makes no sense. The Atari 5200 is the system that you compare it to. The 2600 competes with Intellivision, Odyssey, Astrocade, Channel F, etc. Many argue that Intellivision is too powerful to be compared to the weak 2600 and other systems. Yes, 5200 and ColecoVision were a different era. It was it's own generation. New school gamers just don't realize this. They don't understand the time frame of release. 5200 was the "Super Nintendo" for Atari. And ColecoVision was stronger than 5200.
@@SecondOpinionGames1 no again, lol. SNES, Genesis, and Turbo Grafix 16 go together, lol. Although I think I'm seeing what you're comparing. You are comparing one system from a previous era to another system from the era right after it. If that's your objective, then I give you an A+. I just prefer comparison video's from consoles from the same era. You did a great job with the video. It just would've been ten times cooler if you compared the 5200 to the Coleco. They were rivals. The 2600 was rivals with the Intellivision. The 5200/ Coleco era was the time period in between 2600 and NES. It bridges the two era's together. Coleco won the battle against 5200.
@@SecondOpinionGames1 Jaguar was a generation after the SNES. You would want to compare it to the N64, Sega Saturn, or the PS1. Those were the "rivals" when they launched in the mid 90s.
You're comparing one system that was developed back in 1976 released in 1977 to a system that come out in 1982. Not exactly fair that's a 6 year difference in technology span. This would have been a more believable video if you compared it to the 5200. and When the ColecoVison had to come out with an Atari 2600 adapter that should tell you something on why nobody cared about the ColecoVision.
Why do you need to inflate the dates using the developed year for the Atari as opposed to the release year of the Coleco Vision? Anyway, sure there was a gap, but at that point in time consoles did not change as fast as they do nowadays. Its a totally fair comparission since they both competed in the same market for a substantial period of time, recognised by most as part of the second generation video game home consoles. People compare the Sega Genesis and the SNES, and they have a 2 years gap difference. In 2 years obviously there is gonna be better and cheaper hardware, even more as moore's law made advancements way faster than at the beggining of the 80's. So, is it unfair to compare the Genesis to the SNES? Where do you draw the line? In regards to the "nobody cared" remark about CV, that changes nothing about how good most titles compare to the VCS counterparts. There are multiple reasons a system can be succesful or not, they don't need to be because of the quality of the games. At that point in time it was harder to compete in a saturated market and vs a cheaper option. Hell, Atari 2600 still sold good for the earlier years of the NES era if I recall correctly.
@@pepegrillo9722 what inflated dates? The Atari came out in 77 that's not inflated. If you were going to do a fair comparison he should have did on the atari 5200 since they came out around the same time and both consoles took advantage of the technology advancements. And the fact that ColecoVision had to sell an adapter to play the so called inferior 2600 games speaks volumes. What's next is he going to compare Xbox 360 to the original play station and brag how Superior it is? That would be awesome
@@Boswd "what inflated dates?" -- You said "that's a 6 year difference" You are adding the development year to the Atari timespan prior to the Coleco and even mentioned it (but ignored the development date of the Coleco in your dates comparison). The comparison is totally fair, as it would be vs the 5200 atari console too; and vs the intellivision and all similar consoles. The 2600 outlived its other 2 succesors so if you where in the market at that time looking for a video game console, chances are your options included Coleco VS 2600 (plus some others) for a big chunk of that generation. If you were a kid at that point (like I was) it was clear as day that you saw both consoles as competing. I sure did and I took notice of the differences at that time. Its totally fair to do justice to that timeline by reliving the expectations of the people that experienced as it was, not by some artifitial sand line people are trying to draw 40 years in retrospective.
Video games from the early '80s had short development times. That meant programmers cut corners to complete on time. Coleco is finally starting to flex its muscle, and new games are surpassing the same titles on the NES.
Just bought one and still am having a blast like back in the day with popeye,congo bongo,donkey kong dk jr,burgertime,ladybug and mouse trap frenzy,wow
The leap from the Atari 2600 to the Colecovision was the greatest console leap in history. To this day. What I mean, for example: Nintendo consoles have improved over time, but the changes have been incremental. The CV was a sudden, light years jump over the 2600 in graphics, sound, and game play.
I'd argue that SNES to N64 was the biggest. The third dimension added a whole new layer to gaming. Colecovision had mostly the same games as the 2600, only better. In some ways the Intellivision was a bigger leap over the 2600 since many of the games were more complex than the arcade games that people have gotten accustomed to. Colecovision had this to an extent, but not at the level of Intellivision.
@@OGBOBBY81not literally, but figuratively, I know what you're saying 👍
Gorf - To destroy the mothership in the Atari version, you have to shoot the gap. One shot there will blow it up.
Sweet.
Colecovision was just so ahead of its time. I never owned one as a kid but I have one now with the super game module and it’s really impressive
I need to get the driving one 😃
it wasn't ahead of it's time it was at the time of the technology, the 2600 was developed in the early 70's and released in 77. Colecovision had no library and had to add on a 2600 adapter in order to promote sales. He should have done a 5200 colecovision comparison. Graphics were comparable and the 7800 as a step up from both.
@@SecondOpinionGames1 I have it. It's okay, but undersized, a little flimsy, and requires C cell batteries.
@Boswd the system was designed and developed in 1978, but at the time was too costly to produce. Plus the colecovision and it's capabilities was a influence on the Japanese console market, hell Sega basically cloned it to make the SG-1000 and the MSX standard 9:50 was based on a colecovision hardware with more memory. Even the Master system is a colecovision with a more powerful cpu and exrra ram since the master system is a upgraded SG-1000
Crazy that the Coleco Vision could have released in 1979 but Ram prices were too high, so they waited until 1982.
if it had released in 1979 it would have been really successful with 5 full years on the market to mature and build a library.
Damn all my life I thought the 2600 version of Millipede was the pinnacle of home gaming. I was mistaken.
Yeah just off by a little 😃
Nice comparison/contrast video! Tough call for me as I own, play, and consider both to be great in their own respects. The ColecoVision definitely did the most arcade perfect arcade ports of any second generation home video game console. While the Atari VCS/2600 was iconic, prolific, and had a huge original game libaray. Liked, and subscribed.
The Colecovision version of Tapper does have dancing girls but they don't come at the end of the level. They come when you pick up a tip like the arcade version. The girls are a part of the game as they distract your customers who will not catch the beers you serve.
Comparing a 3rd generation consoles to a 2nd generation console (historically wikipedia and fanboys messed uop the generations 20 years ago you can find magazines and news print saying Colecovision/5200 were third generation consoles and the NES was inspired by the colecovision and even shared some games as the original famicom was comparable before they started adding chips tot he cartridges to enhance the famicom/NES abilities.
It's very likely this comparison was made because he went off the Wikipedia miscategorization hat put everything before NES in america as a 2nd generation console, yet kept the Sega SG1000 third, despite it literally being a Colecovision clone.
Agreed. I wish we could change the Wikipedia page info. 2600 and 5200/Coleco were different era's.
Yes bizarre... but most of the UA-cam commenters have very little knowledge of the era. Heh... I still have my 5200 and all the video game magazines from the day. Sometimes I try to correct the myths these guys have now....
FYI, to use the "smart bomb" on Atari 2600 Defender you have to fly your ship behind the city and press the fire button. Destroys all enemies on the screen.
That’s just sick
The sheep is hidden in the score of the prototype version of moon patrol from Colecovision Also, my favorite Atari 2600 game is Solaris :)
Good job 👍. Also Solaris maybe the best game of that generation 😃
The Colecovision is a great console, but what I find most impressive about the 2600 is the way the system is being pushed to its absolute limits and beyond. Rarely do you hear someone exclaim " I can't believe this is running on a Colecovision!", but on the 2600 it happens quite often. The Coleco is very capable system, but it seems to be more constrained by its design than the Atari is.
I never saw it like that 😃
I was a HUGE Coleco fanboy, and the older I get, the more I feel they are sort of complementing each other. I'm warming up more and more to the 2600.
Have you ever noticed how many smiley faces are in Berzerk? From Evil Auto to the exploding enemies, they all have smiley faces. Pay attention when you kill an enemy next time and you will see them explode into a smiley face...it's almost as if they want to die. Maybe that's why most of them run into the walls. I have a very dark theory that I wish to share with you...
Think about this, your an evil robot trapped in an empty black space trying to kill the only free person alive (the player). Your directives would likely be equally as bleak and the only thing you know is violence. Your boss is a smiling psychopath that can move freely anywhere he wants without limitations. He alone gets to appear over and over again. Too make matters worse unlike Auto, your existence is fleeting. Once the screen gets cleared you get de-rezed or dumped from the RAM. The only bit of freedom you (as an evil robot) actually have is by choosing how you want to go. The question is, what about the robots that try to kill you? I believe they're attempting to live for just a few more precious seconds before being dumped. This is why I believe every evil robot smiles when they die...or the programmers were trying to save space, you decide.
Addendum- Try playing with this as your storyline next time and I guarantee you it will mess with your head. Once you notice the exploding smiley faces it becomes impossible not to look at them as simple explosions again. ;)
My mind is now blown 😳🤯
In all fairness the Atari 2600 was released in 1977 and Colecovision was released in 1982... yes 5 years apart! That is a dramatic time difference in technology today, but things were changing very fast in those days, even two years made big difference, which leads me to my second point. Blame Atari for making the 5200 a console version of their 8-bit computers, but because it is just an 8-bit Atari computer, the guts of the 5200 were really developed and released in 1979 even though not released as the 5200 until 1982.
I don’t say it was a fair fight 😀
Since you can play Atari 2600 games on Colecovision with an adapter, there's really no comparison necessary
It’s the best way to play 😃
The adapter was basically an entire Atari 2600 that just used the Colecovision for power and video output.
Atari 2600 was my first console but one of my best friends at the time had a ColecoVision and there’s no comparison. I’ll watch your video but I already know Coleco wins almost every time compared to the 2600!
And the Coleco has a 2600 adapter 🤗
@@SecondOpinionGames1 Exactly! As for a game comparison I'm not sure if you've already done it with The Smurfs: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, one of my favorites on Coleco that also came out for the 2600.
Yes, I'm okay with @Second Opinion Games giving the win to Atari for skiing because Coleco's version was something Telegames slapped together after the system was discontinued to make a quick buck. Otherwise, the ColecoVision dominates, and it's not even a fair competition.
Comparing the 2600 to the Colecovision is literally like comparing SNES to N64, there was a 5 year release date between both.
@@chriscorsello It's true about the 5 years gap, however unlike the SNES and N64, both the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision belong to the same second generation of consoles.
This makes me more confused about the North American video game crash. Wasn't it partially due to hardware stagnation? The Colecovision clearly looks to be a few steps above the Atari both graphically and computationally, yet I see Atari's dominance stated as a reason for the market crash.
This is the real deal 👍
Gaming media have no idea what they are talking about and along with wikipedia and youtube have caused terrible damage to gaming history, back in the day Colecovision/5200 were third generation consoles, not second, the crash was due to poor and even good third-party games selling their titles at bargain prices. For example if Pitfall or games like Defender or Dig Dug were $60, and a similar game, especially if it was good, was $30 or $20 you'd most likely get that came, which forced developers to cut their prices. This is "primarily" what led tot he crash.
However people ignore the term industry, the market was still buying games, the year video games were dead in 1985 Atari sold 1 million consoles without advertising, the CV was still sold until spring, software sales were up and new consoles were planned by multiple companies. Most average person saw some some retailers pull video games to cut their losses, but mostly just games at very cheap prices so you would be getting big titles that were $40 or more before at like $4-$8.
A lot of it was spun over the years by the internet which was controlled by fanboys, this is why earlier internet consoles like the Intellivison and 2600 were 4 bit or 2 bit systems which was nonsense,. It's also where people gave too much credit ti ET and Pacman which weren't even real causes of the game crash the ET thing was caused by the burial of unsold stock which included a ton of games not just ET but people revised history, and Pacman was a best selling 2600 title for years with a low return rate and was never in papers as any cause for the crash until years later.
It also doesn't help many gaming media internet sites like IGN were NES fansites or grew up during that time and had extreme bias. But even wikipedia while still having tons of issues, has fixed some of these issues now and the fact the ignorance is still prevalent is a big blow to gaming history.
ColecoVision competes with the 5200 graphically "edit: and sound". So the 2600 is a step down.
It wasn't until secondary school I knew anyone with a ColecoVision and Andy Carrington lent it to me for a weekend.
At that stage, I had moved on from the 2600 and owned an Atari 800 XL, but I instantly knew the ColecoVision was a powerful console.
I still have a soft spot for 2600 Defender, flawed as it was.
Not sure how this is a comparison test as the Colecovision was designed to be more powerful and compete with intellivision.
Ok maybe I should do Atari vs ps1 😃
Conclusion - no comparison on any level
I have a 2600.
And I have to admit..
COLECO is the future.
But can you use a Genesis controller on the Vision? Nope only the 2600 handles 16 bit controllers. Jk they just happen to use the same plug
That's NOT QBert for the Atari 2600
It’s the very expensive not common version. It did get up to 1,500$
Good video! I never had a Colecovision The Atari 2600 was my first game system I had! The Colecovision is a nice system! Better graphics. Nice comparison of the games! For each system!
and coleco is also backwards compatible with 2600 games and controllers.
Colecovision ftw
Sorry it’s just fun to play 😃
The Coleco skiing game reminds me of Ski Free
*ColecoVision
QBert's Quebbles? It's spelled Qubes and is pronounced "Cubes"
Really 😳. I didn’t know
Defender on the 2600 got glowing reviews from contemporary gaming magazines, which I NEVER understood, I thought it was UTTER GARBAGE. Colecovision Defender was MUCH better.
BUT, very late in Atari's life, it got Defender II, a renamed Stargate, and it was SHOCKINGLY good. It also got a very fun version of the obscure Pac-Man Jr, in the best tradition of the very playable Ms, Pac-Man. Enduro on the Atari was BETTER than Colecovision Turbo, IMHO. Much smoother scrolling and just more fun.
All that said, FAR AND AWAY most titles were better on Colecovision. I still have one with the Atari expansion module, so Best of Both Worlds....
Activision saved the Atari from being a total failure. Atari games overall were pretty bad.
Activision made some great games for the Atari, but I don't know about "saving" the system. Atari sold a ton of their own titles, and their were other 3rd party games that were also successful for the 2600 (like Imagic, CBS Electronics, and even Sega). Plus by the late 80s, they were STILL selling that damn system and Activision was giving them very few titles at that point.
I was born in 83 so atari was old but I always thought atari was the best system I'm guessing I'm going to be proved wrong my buddy had something I don't think it was a colico tho
There was a lot of systems then 😀
@@SecondOpinionGames1 hi
@@Boswd hello.
This is a weird video. You're comparing different generation systems. Is it any wonder that a newer generation system like ColecoVision has better graphics than an older generation system like the Atari 2600? If you want to compare apples to apples, you should compare the ColecoVision to the Atari 5200.
Was thinking the same thing. It would be like doing a comparison video between a NES and a Sega Genesis, or A PS1 to an Xbox. Completely different generations.
Thank you
So many of these games seem very playable if you would get some instructions for them, dude! #KnowledgeIsPower
All of these are very pick up and play 😃
Plus instructions are effortlessly available online.
Omg I was so jealous my cousin back in the day was playing donkey kong like the arcade version on a colecovision.I bought two off ebay and 10 games and am having a blast with popeye and mouse trap,congo bongo,and ladybug wow what was I missing.😳😃👍
Sooo many good games on the coleco
@@SecondOpinionGames1 It's ColecoVision lol.
I like the Atari tapper because he has more of a classic feel to him the Atari tapper looks like he belongs in the old west where as the Colecovisson tapper looks like a soda guy from the early 1980s I do admit you are correct the Colecovisson version is very nice if the player is looking for updated graphics but for the game tapper I prefer the western Atari design 😁
ColecoVision is just the US SG-1000 and 2600 is just color TV game but with more games.
"ColecoVision is just the US SG-1000"
It's the contrary!
Bro it's buTTon
Sure it is 😀
You shouldn't compare 2600 to Coleco. It makes no sense. The Atari 5200 is the system that you compare it to. The 2600 competes with Intellivision, Odyssey, Astrocade, Channel F, etc. Many argue that Intellivision is too powerful to be compared to the weak 2600 and other systems.
Yes, 5200 and ColecoVision were a different era. It was it's own generation. New school gamers just don't realize this. They don't understand the time frame of release. 5200 was the "Super Nintendo" for Atari. And ColecoVision was stronger than 5200.
I think they share way to many games not to compare them that’s why part 2 will come out tonight 😃. Maybe later I will put the Coleco against the NES.
@@SecondOpinionGames1 that's an unfair fight too, lol. NES, Sega, and 7800 are the one's to compare to each other.
Sixx1980 I think it would be fun. Video games are fun and we need to enjoy them. What about the SNES vs Jaguar 😀
@@SecondOpinionGames1 no again, lol. SNES, Genesis, and Turbo Grafix 16 go together, lol. Although I think I'm seeing what you're comparing. You are comparing one system from a previous era to another system from the era right after it. If that's your objective, then I give you an A+. I just prefer comparison video's from consoles from the same era. You did a great job with the video. It just would've been ten times cooler if you compared the 5200 to the Coleco. They were rivals. The 2600 was rivals with the Intellivision. The 5200/ Coleco era was the time period in between 2600 and NES. It bridges the two era's together. Coleco won the battle against 5200.
@@SecondOpinionGames1 Jaguar was a generation after the SNES. You would want to compare it to the N64, Sega Saturn, or the PS1. Those were the "rivals" when they launched in the mid 90s.
No contest
Atari was just crap on all levels.
No. Lots of good still playable games on the system.
You're comparing one system that was developed back in 1976 released in 1977 to a system that come out in 1982. Not exactly fair that's a 6 year difference in technology span. This would have been a more believable video if you compared it to the 5200. and When the ColecoVison had to come out with an Atari 2600 adapter that should tell you something on why nobody cared about the ColecoVision.
Yes they competed in the market at the same time 🤔
Why do you need to inflate the dates using the developed year for the Atari as opposed to the release year of the Coleco Vision?
Anyway, sure there was a gap, but at that point in time consoles did not change as fast as they do nowadays. Its a totally fair comparission since they both competed in the same market for a substantial period of time, recognised by most as part of the second generation video game home consoles. People compare the Sega Genesis and the SNES, and they have a 2 years gap difference. In 2 years obviously there is gonna be better and cheaper hardware, even more as moore's law made advancements way faster than at the beggining of the 80's. So, is it unfair to compare the Genesis to the SNES? Where do you draw the line?
In regards to the "nobody cared" remark about CV, that changes nothing about how good most titles compare to the VCS counterparts. There are multiple reasons a system can be succesful or not, they don't need to be because of the quality of the games. At that point in time it was harder to compete in a saturated market and vs a cheaper option. Hell, Atari 2600 still sold good for the earlier years of the NES era if I recall correctly.
@@pepegrillo9722 what inflated dates? The Atari came out in 77 that's not inflated. If you were going to do a fair comparison he should have did on the atari 5200 since they came out around the same time and both consoles took advantage of the technology advancements. And the fact that ColecoVision had to sell an adapter to play the so called inferior 2600 games speaks volumes.
What's next is he going to compare Xbox 360 to the original play station and brag how Superior it is? That would be awesome
@@Boswd "what inflated dates?" -- You said "that's a 6 year difference" You are adding the development year to the Atari timespan prior to the Coleco and even mentioned it (but ignored the development date of the Coleco in your dates comparison).
The comparison is totally fair, as it would be vs the 5200 atari console too; and vs the intellivision and all similar consoles. The 2600 outlived its other 2 succesors so if you where in the market at that time looking for a video game console, chances are your options included Coleco VS 2600 (plus some others) for a big chunk of that generation. If you were a kid at that point (like I was) it was clear as day that you saw both consoles as competing. I sure did and I took notice of the differences at that time. Its totally fair to do justice to that timeline by reliving the expectations of the people that experienced as it was, not by some artifitial sand line people are trying to draw 40 years in retrospective.
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