atari2600land's Blog

Adam was the COLECO Computer that you could get as a separate standalone unit OR as an expansion for your Colecovision. And YES the flashback Colecovision and Intellivision do NOT work with the original consoles as default, they intended to originally and would have made them much more worthwhile but they scrapped the idea before release.

I bought an ADAM when they came out in the '80s because I was such a ColecoVision fan (which I also had, well,...I still have both ...It was an alternative to Apple and Commodore, but didn't program quite as easily even though the BASIC was very similar to Apple's...Like most I eventually thought of it as a ColecoVision that could play some higher end games (some games are made just for ADAM-Those often came on "Digital data Packs" which were like high speed cassettes)...Also with a special cable an ADAM puts out A/V with no mods, though the Coleco is easy to mod....Also neat for it's time was the ADAM came with a "Letter quality printer" which meant it had a Typewriter wheel, but the word processor could format your documents to look nice (neat margins)...Well, Have fun with it! I personally always liked the Coleco...And for single button games Atari joysticks will work.

GoldLeader, I hope you purchased it before December 31, 1984, so that you received a 500-dollar scholarship and Coleco put you through college! Well, Clown College, maybe.