20 Games That Defined the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo)
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- Опубліковано 12 тра 2012
- 20 Games That Defined the RadioShack Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo)
1980 Color Baseball (Tandy)
1981 Color Space Invaders (Spectral Associates)
1981 Polaris (Tandy)
1982 Ghost Gobbler (Spectral Associates)
1981 Frogger (Sega/Konami)
1982 Dungeons of Daggorath (Tandy/DynaMicro)
1983 Trapfall (aka Cuthbert in the Jungle) (Tom Mix/MicroDeal)
1983 The King (aka Donkey King) (Tom Mix/MicroDeal)
1983 Zaxxon (Tandy/Sega)
1983 Time Bandit (MichTron)
1984 Speed Racer (MichTron)
1985 Pitfall II (Tandy/Activison)
1987 [CoCo3] Flight Simulator II (subLOGIC)
1987 [CoCo3] Tetris (Tandy)
1987 [CoCo3] Thexder (Sierra/Game Arts)
1988 [CoCo3] Slipheed (Sierra/Game Arts)
1988 [CoCo3] King's Quest III: To Heir is Human (Sierra)
1989 [CoCo3] Arkanoid (Taito)
1989 [CoCo3] Rampage (Activision/Midway)
1990 [CoCo3] Crystal City (Sundog Systems)
#tandytrs80 #tandycoco #trs80games #radioshack - Ігри
Zaxxon was my favorite game!!
Dad still owns our old Tandy TRS-80 Color Computers With all the hardware "Tape recorders",
Rom Packs and all.. Can not remember now if they were COCO 1 & 2 Or One & 3 systems.
Then like 20 years ago, he got 2 more brand new systems, in box still.. lol
O boy, memories at 5 years of age, dad teaching me DOS on these while most people did not even know what a computer was..
We sat down and wrote a couple very basic games (well mostly dad did) I was there to supervise lol.. One being a tank that had to shoot a boulder that fell down in front of it in the right spot before it hit your Army tank.!!
Being he worked for GM but in Canada, they used acoustic modems & I would chat with people in the U.S at a GM (General Motors), warehouse, barley 10 years of age ..
Companies like GM had the first type of Social media you could say for public in the loop..lol
The servers were set up for ordering but we would chat back & forth..
To think that tech has come this far now is mind blowing..!!
Thanks for the memories!!
Think ill hook one back up now lol!!
Dungeons of Daggorath left such an impression. There has not been a game like it since. I remember a couple of 'friends' thinking it was worth a table conversation to discuss why they didn't like my Coco in comparison to the Commodore 64, pausing enough to force me to realize I'm genuinely set apart. Well, they were 19 at the time. I guess everyone is stupid at that age, but they demonstrated pretty fully. Granted, the Commodore had hardware sprites, but I learned a lot programming on the Coco in assembly.
Funny, I never played that game, but this video had quite some more comments stating that Dungeons of Daggorath left a great impression!
Dungeons of Daggorath was ported to Windows, and I think Linux, thanks to.the author releasing the source code
My father bought me a coco2 when i was 9 and put me on the path. He also subscribed me to a pc mag. I cant remember the name. I do remember copying programs out of it line for line some times a few hundred long lol....ahh good ole' DOS.
A three line "lock up" prog.
10 print; "haha"
20 on BRK goto 10
30 goto 10
Had the floppy drive and a few ROM games too. Lots of memories
Thanks for the video
I had no idea any TRS-80 was such an 8-bit gamerfest. The only one I had was a hand-me-down Model III. Wish I had this one.
I loved by TRS80. I taught myself to write programs on this computer. At the time, it was a great home computer. And mine was super fast because I upgraded it from 32k to 64k. lol
Good compilation, but one of the very best out of the CoCo2 ports was Buzzard Bait. It was a pretty darn good conversion and very closely matched the arcade.
+Raphael Hickenbick Oh yes! Me and my nerd buddies spent many afternoons having two player tournaments. Ah.
Really!
Pactac, warkings, birds, blochead. Love the C64 Movie Monster music
Still own this and several games , Dungeons of daggaroth was the shit!
Agreed. Amazing game!
Some fantastic games in this video. I would also include doubleback and outhouse - two very unique games that don't really appear on any other platform (although I do believe outhouse was originally part of the TRS-80 Model III line)
I had all the Cocos back in the day, and never heard of these two games. I just played them on the CocoSDC, and agree - very unique games. I'm glad found this post!
Defined?? So where is Buzzard Bait ! Loved it!
I used to play clowns and balloons. My favorite game back then! I was probably under 5 years old.
"Times, they are changing". :{
This music is awesome. I'm re-watching the video just so I can hear this awesomness again.
I remember back in 1984 when my friend got a Coco while I had a ZX-81. Damn those colors were so hypnotic! Loved it!
Dungeons of Daggorath was definitive, as well as Downland. Unfortunately, I can't think of any other defining games.
I grew up playing _Color Baseball_ . Was it pretty? No, not even for the time. But, it was functional enough and actually had pretty decent gameplay.
LOL. I wasted my childhood with CoCo 2 and 3 before I went with Amiga.
I remember the "Rainbow" magazine dedicated to CoCo.
My kid cheesed the hell out of Color Baseball (he'd strike every side out by running his catcher up to the pitcher, and hurriedly throw the three strikes before the catcher was even near the batter), and at some points, I didn't think he'd ever stop playing Temple of ROM long enough to ever leave his room
I had a TRS-80 and never realized till now the same developers that made games for Atari also made games for Tandy? I guess it makes since, game developers are now making 1 title plays on all for Nintendo, Xbox, Sony, PC and Mac.
I *LOVE* my CoCo2, and the 18 cassette games I saved my pocket money for aged 11-15. I bought a CoCo2 a year ago. Spent ages finding all my old games. It's nostalgia overload.
*Dungeon Raid* (wow! 16k shooter. Supposed to be like River Raid, but I don't see it)
*Electron* (addictive. Similar to the arcade game Tron, with the 4 mini games)
*Phantom Slayer* (awesome, creepy 3-D maze stalking. Credited as the 1st color FPS)
*King Tut* (superb, tense, original 5 LV platformer. The timer is a candle that dims then plunges you into darkness if you don't get back to the surface in time)
*Athletyx* (based on Track And Field, but with an extra event)
*8-Ball* (great pool game which lets you control spin and power)
*Crazy Painter* (paint screen as 'enemies" mess it up. Bonus LV's catching drips)
*Danger Ranger* (fun original 2 screen platform game)
*Android Attack* (clone of Berzerk with upgrades. Speech needs 32k "Intruder Alert!".
*Planet Invasion* (a truly great Defender clone)
*Devil Assault* (a bit like Demon Attack on the Atari VCS)
*Racerball* (similar to Pac-man)
*Katerpillar 2* (clone of Centipede)
*Cuthbert In The Jungle* (a faithful clone of the great Atari VCS's Pitfall)
*Cuthbert Goes Digging* (clone of Space Panic)
*Cuthbert Goes Walkabout* (based on Amidar. Make lines to color boxes. Bonus LV's)
*Cuthbert In Space* (collect stuff under attack, return to mothership, defuse bombs!!)
*Cuthbert In The Mines* (like Frogger but In hell with a demon throwing Fireballs at you!)
Heheh I eventually beat Dungeons of Daggorath many times...but it was a major challenge the first time, such an unforgiving game.
Why are they playing 'The Movie Monster' game music (Commodore) for a video about TRS-80 games?
This was my first computer. Ironically we only had one tv in the house at the time, and it was black and white...
Spent most of my time playing pitfall and lunar rover.
It was my first computer too, i remember pitfall 2 that you see here.
The graphics were pretty good for its time.
The colours on the Coco always looked strange to me. I'm sure I never saw a pallette quite like that on any other computers. I can't put my finger on why.
0:48 ZAXXON i used to play the shit out of!
A nice list of popular titles from coco1/2 to coco3 and played them all then.
wow sérieux jai joué a tout ces jeux quand jétais jeune trop de souvenir
love all this game
Speed Racer was one of my favorites
Surprised Download was not on that list
*Downland
Yeh, good game.
The first "new" computer I ever owned (CoCo 3), some good memories from ages ago until I had gotten an Apple //c that better suited my early experience in computer programming.
One horrible bug I that I ran into actually had the potential to completely "brick" a CoCo 3 with one entry on the command prompt. First I thought it was just a coincidence and was exchanged but the replacement had failed the same way. All due to some unconventional design choices with a mechanical relay forcing the system into a endless feedback loop that wouldn't clear out with a power cycle or any other known break methods.
A shame too, the CoCo 3 was a decent little machine.
happy to say that I've owned almost all of those at some point. I have a coco2 but would love to get a coco-mini like they did with the C64
I had the CoCo2 with the modem that stuck in the game port. The modem was so slow, when you logged into a BBS, the characters would appear on the screen one at a time.
No MegaBug? That game was always running on the system at my local Radio Shack. It's the first game I think of when I hear TRS-80.
tom mix's version of Joust was awesome.
I have played Color Baseball, Flight Simulator II, Thexder, Arkanoid,and Rampage,
I still have my Dungeons of Daggorath and Color Baseball
Honestly ... if you haven't played these games, then you really haven't lived !!!
Donut Dilemma was the best, and definitely should have been included here.
And what about all of the classic Adventure Games (text or graphics based)?
Chad Cunnington I am 15 years old...and I am so happy to be Old School...nobody beat the Old school
I miss my cocos 1,2 and 3. 😭
I remember having a used TRS-80 awhile back ago, bought it cheap from a thrift store i believe. I downloaded this one racing game that was 3D and open world... it blew my frickin mind that i was running that game on an old computer. The frame rate wasn't that great but man... it just blew my mind completely. I forget completely what the game was called but if anyone knows, let me know.
I think that was probably Pitstop 2.
my first computer, 1984
No mention of Expressway or Colorpede? These two games revolutionized the hacker's market after going Public Domain. You'd see countless hacks of Expressway published on countless magazines ("Driveway" from T&D Software being one), and Colorpede hacks like Megapede and Kingpede. Yes, Expressway and Colorpede were two important additions to be sure.
Dungeon Raid is the game i remember the most for the TRS-80.
Yes! Brilliant vertical scrolling shooter which ran on just 16k.
So addictive, and great how you can drift about and slow down or speed up incrementally with the analogue joystick. I didn't use analogue sticks again until the late 90's with F1 '97 on the PlayStation 1.
Most of these are just ports, not anything i would say "defined" the coco platform. Downland, Wildcatting, Dungeons of Daggorath, even titles like popcorn or clowns and balloons are what made the platform unique and "defined" it.
Wow, I'm surprised that the TRS-80 had Silpheed, King's Quest 3, and Arkanoid. I thought it was a dead system when those games came out. I had a Tandy 1000 EX at the time and was glad my dad went with it over the TRS-80.
You still can find plenty games and Coco2 on Ebay in 2022 !
Missed all the Diecom games...
What? No Rescue on Fractalus? That game was _butch!_ Having one of those angry alien pilots jump up and start beating on your windshield was always good for a jumpscare. :-D
(But Dungeons of Daggorath will always be my first love. Poltergeist wasn't far behind. :-) )
OH MY GOD!!!!! I haven't seen these games since I was 5 years old!!!! I remember all of them!!!! Such major nostalgia!!!!! Please, someone, where can I find one of these computers and all of these games!? Is there a universal disk with all of them?
Check on Ebay as you can usually find both coco2 and coco3 computers. You might also find the games there.
Try the Coco group.
groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ColorComputer/info
No universal disk but many things are possible.
Coco 3 games looked and played as well as IIGS and ST games. I need to find an emulator.
I still have all my coco hardware.
+Brian MetalHead I will buy a CoCo 3 and a CoCo 1 :) (Im 15 year old)
I never bought any games for mine I just typed out all the programs in the manual. LOL
Thexder, Dungeons of Daggorath, King Quest and Rampage.... hours and hour of game play. But maybe Downland, Koronis Rift and Mickey space adventure could be there too. Dungeons of Daggorath maybe need a remake these days, the atmosphere of fear, suspence and strategy is unique there... and only 16 kilobytes!
One word: Poltergeist.
I still play Dungeons of Daggorath.
Que épocas lindas
si! totalmente de acuerdo
At one point the programmers figured out how to get rid of the nausea-inducing green backgrounds. That's when the games got interesting.
Probably due to hardware limitations.
Pegasus, Varloc, Laser Surgeon: Microscopic MIssion, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, Black Sanctum, Interbank Incident...
Oh man! there are so may... "Tut's Tomb", "Shock trooper", "Calixto Island", "Sizigy", "Time Bandit", "Sam Sleuth", "Donut dilema"; Sheeh Just in adventure games alone there's gotta be 20
Never had one. But there is the bugs game, "WE GOTCHA!"
My uncle introduced me to pc games on this it was a great little computer had a cool game were youre in a cabin haunted by druids similar to point andclick. Dr j vs bird dungeons of dagaroth were cool too you coud get free games entering hours of code from the magazines
If you still want to get your TRS-80 Color Computer fix you can these days.
Emulators -> www.colorcomputerarchive.com/
(VCC is really good, runs on Windows and Linux through Wine)
Hardware is still available to some degree. Mileage may vary obviously.
CoCo Hardware and refubs/repair
www.cloud9tech.com/
More Hardware Goodies
cocowares.com/
Who says you need Windows for good gaming?
Stellar Life Line
and Star Blaze
is there a way to get coco 3 games on my smartphone? I found some good old atari st games.
I had the UK equivalent - the mighty Dragon32, most of those games mentioned were on the system.
No popcorn? no poltergeist?
No draconian? No Black Sanctum? No Pole Position? hmmm need moar games here! MOAR
I had a Coco 2 and Coco 3. Some more great games were: Spidercide, Megabug, Shamus, Dr. J and Larry Bird Go One on One. Dungeons of Daggorath is hands down the greatest Coco game.
Ezt a jó voltt......
No Doctor J vs Larry Bird? The hell?
Yeah... and no Ninja Warrior, either!
lol i couldn't figure that damn game out as a kid.. doubt i could now
I had all those games! I don't think anyone ever won Dungeons of Dragolrath.
I did! "Behold! Destiny awaits the hand of a new wizard!" It was _totally_ worth slogging through five levels of Hell and getting kicked all over the place by Galdrogs to get there. :-D
(Late reply is late, I know.)
BloodyBay
provide VIDEO evidence...or I call BULLSHIT
What music did you use?
Where is Cashman??!?!?! I noticed Baseball, Zaxxon, Pitfall.. but no Cashman? That was the best
He didn't even include any Diecom Products games.
Is the music a Chiptune version of Rockwell's I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me?
I'm thinking the same thing!
music is from The Movie Monster Game probably from Commodore 64
Out of all that, the only game I need is rampage
Ahh, Color Baseball. Just as shitty as I remember!
That Thexder game looks pretty neat for a CoCo. I had a CoCo 2, and I doubt it could have handled that with just 16K of RAM.
That CoCo 3 started with 128K of RAM, and it could be upgraded to 512K. That's a massive improvement.
Fffffff, Dungeons of Daggorath, it was the only cart I had for the CoCo3 and scared the shit out of me as a kid. I don't think I ever got more than 30mins in.
+nullscan Me too. That shit gave me nightmares when I was 9 or 10. I could dominate the first level but not the second. I think I stumbled on to the 3rd level once and got destroyed
So funny. I still remember this game so vividly. It was line art but the sounds still hunt me. I remember a level I couldn't get past. There was a monster that stalked you and you could hear it coming for you. I remember having a magic ring I used on it and a sword. Nothing I could do would kill it. It still hunts me to this day.
+nullscan I remember I would see a ladder and be like nope I'm not going down one of those again
Aw, you missed out! Once you survive all five levels of hell, kill a bunch of Balrogs...I mean, _Galdrogs,_ then kill the Wizard and incant the Final Ring from his corpse...there's hardly a greater feeling than _that_ swelling of pride! ^_^
Seriously, Crystal City was Sundog's Systems most influential game in here? Also no Diecom Products games which was one of the most popular gaming companies on the Coco. Knock Out deserved more to be on this list than most of these games.
Should defensively add Kenneth Kalish's phantom slayer.
Zaxxon was da bomb.
All three CoCos can produce multi-voice music. Try out Grabber, Shock Trooper, and Shooting Gallery.
What song is this ?
Sorry, I forgot. Some file I found somewhere, cannot remember where...
These games look great. People make it sound like the Coco was crap at games
+therangersrule68 CoCo is a nice machine, old Computers are nice and have excellent games
Not in terms of games. Sound quality was shit though. BEEPER SPEAKERS SUCK. Nothing beats a dedicated sound chip like the Atari Pokey or the the Commodore SID chip
No Downland? No Wildcatting? :P
What is the music?
Weird that you used a Commodore 64 song for the background? :)
what was the music?
You don't want to hear a TRS-80's sound. :)
TRS-80 just used a standard Beeper Speaker much like the old IBM and compatible PCs before the soundcard was invented. Trust me, you DO NOT want to hear those "tunes"
Why is everything so green in cocoland ?
LOL trapfall
Played the hell out of Color Baseball and Dungeons of Daggorath...AR AR AR AR AR AL AL AL AL AL M M M M M M M rinse and repeat
I had a Color Computer 2, I wish I was exposed to these games. I never really got into it.
How could you leave out Project Nebula?
Yes! Loved that game!
the las ones in the video... it was a coco 3? coco2 i dont thik so...
Learn how to spell
AND IDIOT, THE TITLE SAYS COCO, NOT COCO 1, 2, OR 3. IT MEANS ALL THREE VERSIONS OF THE COCO, DUMBASS
I'm surprised there wasn't a better version of Pac-Man.
I don't really think that most of these games "defined" the TRS-80. I had a CoCo 2 as a kid. Maybe Dungeons of Daggorath was in some way definitive, as I don't recall it being released for other platforms. And the Color Baseball I remember... but most of the other games are ports.
What about Cashman?
So the system was largely defined by arcade ports and clones?
It had a lot of them - but what really defined the CoCo was the programs in Rainbow Magazine - some of the games in there were great - including Zonx (look it up on youtube). Also had some interesting originals like Pooyan, Dungeons of Daggorath (shown and one of the most remembered games by anyone that played it), Catacombs, etc.
It was a fairly powerful computer despite the fact that Tandy doomed the thing to failure by going out of their way to mismarket it and put it in such an unassuming package. It ended up being a tinkerers computer seeing it was easy to build hardware for, mod, and had a really workable assembly code. It also could multi-task and OS-9 was a very modern posix like system of it's day. I used it to run a multi-line BBS having up to 8 instances running at once. Pretty impressive for the time.
I think most of the CoCo users had a chip on their shoulder because most of them knew the capability of the thing, but it was never taken seriously and never gained mainstream support. I remember when my father got me mine - I was pissed - I wanted an Atari 2600. "How am I going to play missile command on this?" - which I later found out I could. But I had no cassette recorder or disk drive, so I had to type them programs from the magazine in, and hope the power didn't go out once I had one running. It led me to my career in all things IT. Glad my father was right about the hunch he had about computers taking off.
Thanks for the information. I have a CoCo 2 and cassette deck that I haven't used much, so I came to this video specifically trying to find some software that was more or less unique to the platform. My comment was one of disappointment that the 20 games seemed to mostly be ports of arcade and console games or knock offs there of. There's nothing wrong with that of course (Donkey King looks better than the official port for my Apple II or Intellivision), but I was hoping for something like killer app, exclusive titles. Dungeons of Daggorath fits the bill, but not a lot of the others.
I looked at Zonx. It's impressive for a type-in game, particularly the music. The gameplay alludes me, though. I couldn't quite tell if they were trying to hit the rocks or avoid them.
Joseph Newberry Look up the Color Computer Archive - it has just about everything - including all the Rainbow Magazines and emulators to run everything on a PC. Dungeons of Daggorath got a faithful port to windows. Not sure if it's still around though. It probably doesn't hold true today - but for it's time it was an adrenaline rush of a game. I never beat it.
Joseph Newberry Oh - and as far as Zonx - you did both - first avoiding then catching (or maybe it was the other way around) - considering it was a page long program written entirely in assembly it was impressive. Some really tight coding was going on back then.
There was a healthy community of enthusiasts also, magazines were published, and you could type in the (usually BASIC sometimes ASM) programs (or buy the cassettes) and get some quite decent games or little apps going.
What about Dallas Quest? Lol 😂
What's that cool chiptune music?
It's from the C64, not sure which game though
The Movie Monster Game. One of the best on the C64. :-)
where's buzzard bait? it was a perfect joust clone. There was also another missile command clone better than polaris
"The Crystal City," a game published in 1998, came out for a computer made in 1977? I'm surprised Rampage can run on this computer as well. Apparently a 1.774Mhz processor and 46kb of memory can go a long way.
+InfiniteUniverse88 When progammed correctly it can be, even the Apple ][ is nice, I have to admit this computers are still usable and really nice today and forever
Donkey king really ???
There was actually an arcade game called Donkey King that was a clone of Donkey Kong.
uhh.... Whirlybird? Where is Whirlybird?
He flew away?