The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries ' second generation home video game console which was released in August 1982.

Coleco licensed Nintendo's Donkey Kong as the official pack-in cartridge for all ColecoVision consoles, and this version of the game was well received as a near-perfect arcade port, helping to boost the console's popularity.

Although Coleco presented a mock-up of the SGM at the 1983 New York Toy Show, that product was never manufactured.

Coleco prototyped a fourth expansion module intended to provide compatibility with Mattel's Intellivision, but this was never released.

Coleco was infamous for its vaporware offerings.

It was released under several brands including Coleco and PlayPal.

The ColecoVision version, designed by Coleco staffer Lawrence Schick, was the first home version to use the isometric graphics.

Topps was sued by the makers of Cabbage Patch Kids, Coleco, for trademark infringement.

At $ 669 and up, however, the PCjr cost more than twice as much as the Commodore 64 and the Atari 8-bit family, while inferior to both and the Apple IIe for games ; its price was close to that of the Coleco Adam, but the Adam also included a tape drive, a printer, and software.

The Plus / 4, unlike the C64 and most other computers of its time ( with the notable exception of the Coleco Adam ), was equipped with ROM-resident application software ( developed for Commodore by TriMicro ).

A portable version of Berzerk was planned by Coleco ( similar in design to its Pac-Man, Frogger, etc.

A notable exception to this policy was Coleco, which from its very start separated the function of design and programming.

It was ported to three home systems by Coleco ; Coleco's ColecoVision, Mattel's Intellivision, and the Atari 2600.

Like most arcade games of this era, this game was ported to many home systems, including the video game consoles NES, Family Computer Disk System, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari XE Game System, ColecoVision, Coleco Adam, Intellivision and BBC Micro.

The principal designer was Coleco staffer Thomas Fulton.

The HAL circuit portion of the game was designed by Rob Harris, a programmer at Coleco at the time.

The game is based on Rocky III and was designed by Coleco.

When Coleco unveiled the Adam Computer, running a port of Donkey Kong at the 1983 Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, Illinois, Atari protested that it was in violation of the licensing agreement.

The principal designer was Coleco staffer Joseph Angiolillo.

" Though the two companies reached a tentative agreement, with final contract papers to be signed at the 1983 Summer Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ), Atari refused to sign at the last minute, after seeing Coleco, one of its main competitors in the market at that time, demonstrating a prototype of Donkey Kong for its forthcoming Coleco Adam home computer system Although the game had been originally produced for the ColecoVision and could thus automatically be played on the backwards compatible Adam computer, Atari took the demonstration as a sign that Nintendo was also dealing with Coleco.

He was founder and president of Lazer Microsystems, which wrote SmartBASIC, ADAM calc " for the Coleco ADAM.

Coleco also popularized lesser known arcade games, such as Venture, Cosmic Avenger, and Mr. Do !.

Later Coleco continued adapting newer successful arcade games like Subroc, Time Pilot and Frenzy, the company also made inferior ports of many of these games for the Atari 2600 and Intellivision, in an effort to broaden its market.

Would-be renegade publishers could not publish for each other's lines, as Atari, Coleco and Mattel had done, because in order for the cartridge to work in the NES, the cartridge had to contain the appropriate key chip for the lock inside the console, and the publisher had to also acknowledge its license to Nintendo in the copyright notices.

Coleco ( originally Connecticut Leather Company-later the toy / video game manufacturer ), and Sikorsky Aircraft, a division of United Technologies, also had operations in West Haven.

Coleco also released stand-alone Mini-Arcade tabeletop versions of Frogger, which, along with Pac-Man, Galaxian, and Donkey Kong, sold three million units combined.

Coleco also ported Mouse Trap to the Atari 2600, simplifying graphics and gameplay.

Coleco also released stand-alone Mini-Arcade tabeletop versions of Galaxian, which, along with Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Frogger, sold three million units combined.

Coleco also released stand-alone Mini-Arcade tabeletop versions of Donkey Kong, which, along with Pac-Man, Galaxian, and Frogger, sold three million units combined.

He also licensed his name to Coleco for the ColecoVision game, Ken Uston's Blackjack / Poker.

With the government-funded grant money, Springfield Elementary are able to afford a Coleco, a 1980s home computer.

Over the next 18 months, the Coleco company ramped down its video game division, ultimately withdrawing from the video game market by the end of the summer of 1985.

At the time of the U. S crash, there were numerous consoles on the market, including the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Bally Astrocade, the ColecoVision, the Coleco Gemini ( a 2600 clone ), the Emerson Arcadia 2001, the Fairchild Channel F System II, the Magnavox Odyssey < sup > 2 </ sup >, the Mattel Intellivision ( and its just-released update with several peripherals, the Intellivision II ), the Sears Tele-Games systems ( which included both 2600 and Intellivision clones ), the Tandyvision ( an Intellivision clone for Radio Shack ), and the Vectrex.

* Coleco Industries releases the Gemini home console, an Atari 2600 clone.

By Christmas of 1982, Coleco had sold more than 500, 000 units, in part on the strength of its bundled game.

The Telstar is a series of video game consoles produced by Coleco from 1976 to 1978.

Magnavox and Coleco abandoned the video game business entirely.

In 1984, Coleco made versions of Root Beer Tapper for their proprietary ColecoVision game console, as well as the Atari 2600 console and the Commodore 64, Apple II, and IBM PC ( DOS ) computer systems, designed by David James Ritchie.

GameLine tried, but failed to obtain licensing agreements from the largest game makers, such as Atari, Activision, Coleco, Mattel, and Parker Brothers.

* Atari files suit against Coleco, claiming violation of Atari's patents on the Atari 2600 video game console.

The previous year, Coleco released a peripheral device that made it possible for Atari 2600 game cartridges to be run on the ColecoVision console.

Nintendo licensed the game to Coleco, who developed home console versions for numerous platforms.

He included language that Coleco would be held liable for anything on the game cartridge, an unusual clause for a licensing agreement.

Coleco did not offer the game cartridge stand-alone ; instead, they bundled it with their ColecoVision.

Unlike the Coleco game, Combat had color graphics and numerous gameplay variations.

The song " Live to Love You " features both the ' tackled ' sound from the Coleco Electronic Quarterback handheld electronic game, as well as the Trouble " Pop-o-matic bubble " sounds from their 1979 hit " The Logical Song ".

WarGames is a 1984 video game developed by Coleco for the ColecoVision, and later ported to the