ColecoVision Arcade Ports always had the best boxes-Frenzy

[+Tarzilla]

I have always liked the way Coleco's arcade ports had a picture of the arcade cabinet on the front. My all time favorite arcade game was/is Stern's Frenzy. I managed to pick up one pre-Ebay for $250 22 years ago. I still have it in my home office. I've kept it as it was the first (and only) game I could play forever on 1 quarter and I played it lots as a teenager.

 

I just picked of an incredibly well preserved boxed copy of the ColecoVision port (Big thanks to PixelBoy!) Here it is next to the arcade inspiration...

 

A couple of things immediately struck me. No photoshop in the 80's so they would have photographed a real machine, but the one they used is different from mine and others I have seen in person:

 

The box machine is missing the side art.

The Frenzy logo is solid orange but the original arcade logo fades from yellow to orange as can be seen in both my marquee and the marquee on the box.

These are minor, but something else is missing that really annoys me for some reason...can anyone else see it?

 

My camera picked up some phantoms for this close up and makes the box look worse than it is (there is no scratch under the coin door on the actual box, nor is the CRT of the game speckled like the pic shows)

 

[SKELETOR68]

I agree with the boxes, having the Arcade cabnit on them was just plain cool!

[Pixelboy]

I agree with the boxes, having the arcade cabinet on them was just plain cool!

Yeah, I loved them too, and I was a little disappointed when they stopped using the arcade cabinet for the box art.

 

You know, I would definitely buy repro boxes with the arcade cabinets instead of the artwork Coleco used, just for the heck of it. CollectorVision already did it with Slither, Turbo and Galaxian, so why stop there? We could have:

 

- Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom

- Bump 'n' Jump

- BurgerTime

- Centipede

- Congo Bongo

- Defender

- Frogger

- Gyruss

- Jungle Hunt

- Mr. Do!'s Castle

- Popeye

- Q*bert

- Q*bert's Qubes

- Roc 'n Rope

- Spy Hunter

- Star Trek - Strategic Operations Simulator

- Star Wars - The Arcade Game

- Super Cobra

- Tapper

- Tutankham

- Up 'n Down

 

I think that's all of them.

 

There are also a few homebrews that could be given the arcade-cabinet-box-art treatment (CollectorVision has already done this for several of their releases):

 

- Astro Invader

- Bank Panic

- Circus Charlie

- Dragon's Lair

- Konami's Ping-Pong

- Ninja Princess

- Pac-Man Collection

- Pooyan

- Road Fighter

- Space Invaders Collection

- Spectar

- Star Force

- Track & Field

- Wonder Boy

- Yie Ar Kung-Fu

- Zippy Race

 

If not actual repro boxes, perhaps trading cards?

[Crapahute]

Jungle Hunt is ready for printing since a long time at Collectorvision.

 

For the rest I was not asked (yet) to make any box...

[ten-four]

Jungle Hunt is ready for printing since a long time at Collectorvision.

 

For the rest I was not asked (yet) to make any box...

Hi crapahute.

 

Do you also make the actual cardboard box ?

 

I wish to purchase missing boxes: like Strike It, Jungle Hunt, Tank Wars and so on.

[Crapahute]

I made all the boxes which are here :

http://colecoboxart.com/games-references.htm

except for Lord of the Dungeon, Kobashi and the US versions of Zombie Near, Pooyan and Zippy Race.

Edited June 22, 2014 by Crapahute

[SKELETOR68]

I made all the boxes which are here :http://colecoboxart.com/games-references.htm

except for Lord of the Dungeon, Kobashi and the US versions of Zombie Near, Pooyan and Zippy Race.

Now thats what I am talking about...

Arcade cabnits on Coleco Cart Games!