TPR Posted May 20, 2016 Author Share Posted May 20, 2016 Posted a new video! Mouse Trap fans check this out: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted June 8, 2016 Author Share Posted June 8, 2016 Mail call this week was a fun little addition... Sammy Lightfoot! While maybe not the best platform game in the world, I'm partial to this genre and this was most certainly one of the early ones. Was happy to find a CIB version in pretty good shape! Speaking about early platform games, if anyone has a US boxed Donkey Kong they want to get rid of please let me know! (Not a repro version!) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarilovesyou Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Thanks for all the great videos, man. I appreciate them! It does get quiet around here at times but please keep 'em coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldgame Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 Dont know if you have this homebrew. Bought it a long time ago.It was fun looking through your collection. MN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted July 3, 2016 Author Share Posted July 3, 2016 I've bid on a couple of these in the past but didn't bid that high since I'm not a huge fan of the clamshell boxes. But that's awesome you have one! Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted July 21, 2016 Author Share Posted July 21, 2016 It's been a busy summer for us but I do have some new updates coming soon, and while not all directly "ColecoVision", most certainly "Coleco" related! Here's a little teaser... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Kewl acquisitions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroillucid Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 It's been a busy summer for us but I do have some new updates coming soon, and while not all directly "ColecoVision", most certainly "Coleco" related! Here's a little teaser... image.jpeg Awesome!!! I would kill to get a custom Venture or Mouse Trap one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted July 21, 2016 Author Share Posted July 21, 2016 Here's a little video I put together showing off the Tabletop Ms. Pac-Man with MAME running on a Raspberry Pi inside: For more info about these units, check this FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/oldmadenew/ 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted July 22, 2016 Author Share Posted July 22, 2016 So I just realized I can re-create pboland's awesome Coleco Tabletop poster in real life! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+5-11under Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 It's been a busy summer for us but I do have some new updates coming soon, and while not all directly "ColecoVision", most certainly "Coleco" related! Here's a little teaser... Some of these were non-released, right? Which ones, and what's inside them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted July 22, 2016 Author Share Posted July 22, 2016 Some of these were non-released, right? Which ones, and what's inside them? That's correct. So ALL of them are either re-furbished originals with new (if needed) decals & cleaned up hardware, re-productions of the prototypes, or re-imagined with a Raspberry Pi. Here's the rundown: Re-furbished originals w/ original internal hardware: Donkey Kong Pac-Man Galaxian Frogger Zaxxon Re-production units (Non-working): Berzerk Donkey Kong Jr. (The insides were from other units. One was a Galaxian, one was a DK. I can get these two converted to run a Pi inside of them, though.) Re-imagined units that now run a Raspberry Pi: Ms. Pac-Man (running PiMAME) Omega Race (running RetroPie w/ Emulation Station - This one also has a Horizontal screen in it, so I'm going to add CoolCV to ES!) Overall, I'm super impressed with the work these guys did restoring them all. Their FB group is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/oldmadenew/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+5-11under Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Thanks for the info. Cool collection to display! I see these were the ones made by Coleco back in the day... Pac-Man, Galaxian, Donkey Kong, Frogger, then Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Junior, and Zaxxon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClassicGMR Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 (edited) Holy hell I would love one of these. They look really good and the display is nice and crisp for the size. I don't see anything specific on their site but I assume the switches are all replaced (or rebuilt). Would love to see a "guts" shot someplace. EDIT: Had no idea this has been going on for a while also. Edited July 22, 2016 by ClassicGMR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted July 22, 2016 Author Share Posted July 22, 2016 Holy hell I would love one of these. They look really good and the display is nice and crisp for the size. I don't see anything specific on their site but I assume the switches are all replaced (or rebuilt). Would love to see a "guts" shot someplace. EDIT: Had no idea this has been going on for a while also. Here's a pic he sent me of the Omega Race work in progress. As you can see there is a ton of work put into it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClassicGMR Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Thanks for the gut shot. That looks really nice! Didn't think there'd be THAT much room inside! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted August 13, 2016 Author Share Posted August 13, 2016 I got in quite a few items over the past few weeks but the most important one to me was finally getting an original boxed release version of Donkey Kong (not a repro) as this now completes my collection of "boxed games by Coleco." I'll post pics of the whole collection at some point, but it was cool to finally get one of these! I'm assuming that a boxed version of this was released for two reasons: 1. As a replacement in case someone lost or broke their pack-in copy of DK. 2. For ADAM users where DK was not the pack-in game. Is there any other reason why Coleco release a box version of the game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Teams Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 2. For ADAM users where DK was not the pack-in game. If that was the case, you'd think the box would say something like "For use with ColecoVision and ADAM." Congrats on finishing the collection - let's see some pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoDan Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 If that was the case, you'd think the box would say something like "For use with ColecoVision and ADAM." Congrats on finishing the collection - let's see some pics! There were people that said they were produced for the colecovisions that were sold with mousetrap or a different game as packin. Some countries I guess did not have the pack-in donkey kong. That is probably why it says coleco and not adam because they probably produced them early on for those areas with the different pack-in game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 There were people that said they were produced for the colecovisions that were sold with mousetrap or a different game as packin. Some countries I guess did not have the pack-in donkey kong. That is probably why it says coleco and not adam because they probably produced them early on for those areas with the different pack-in game. Nope, that explanation doesn't stick: Those regions had their own versions of the Donkey Kong box (namely the CBS box in Europe). Also, the arcade cabinet box art was seen only in North-America. The very existence of that DK box is still puzzling to me to this day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted August 13, 2016 Author Share Posted August 13, 2016 If that was the case, you'd think the box would say something like "For use with ColecoVision and ADAM." That was my thought as well. I am going to *assume* that they originally made the boxed version as a replacement cart for ColecoVision owners but then later it became a title available for ADAM users, but for whatever reason never they never printed a new box (unless one that also says ADAM on it does in fact exist?) There were people that said they were produced for the colecovisions that were sold with mousetrap or a different game as packin. Some countries I guess did not have the pack-in donkey kong. That is probably why it says coleco and not adam because they probably produced them early on for those areas with the different pack-in game. But this package was specifically a US released box, and as far as I'm aware, Donkey Kong was always the pack-in game for ColecoVision systems sold in the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroillucid Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Look at the date behind the box... They were simply already printed Coleco just sold them instead of trashing the boxes Probably before Coleco secured the deal with Nintendo, so DK could be the CV Pack-in game (in US/Canada) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted August 14, 2016 Author Share Posted August 14, 2016 Look at the date behind the box... They were simply already printed Coleco just sold them instead of trashing the boxes Probably before Coleco secured the deal with Nintendo, so DK could be the CV Pack-in game (in US/Canada) I had thought that might be the case as well. But then again, having a released version of Donkey Kong is no weirder than any other system that also released their pack-in games to retail shelves.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPR Posted September 6, 2016 Author Share Posted September 6, 2016 Woo-Hoo! New hotness came in the mail from CollectorVision today! Here's a little video of the game in action: NOTE: This game was published without sound. This should be considered a "prototype" release of a homebrew game. All the gameplay is there, but the game was created without sound. Order the game here: http://collectorvision.com/product-category/colecovision/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tkat5200 Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 That's correct. So ALL of them are either re-furbished originals with new (if needed) decals & cleaned up hardware, re-productions of the prototypes, or re-imagined with a Raspberry Pi. Here's the rundown: Re-furbished originals w/ original internal hardware: Donkey Kong Pac-Man Galaxian Frogger Zaxxon Re-production units (Non-working): Berzerk Donkey Kong Jr. (The insides were from other units. One was a Galaxian, one was a DK. I can get these two converted to run a Pi inside of them, though.) Re-imagined units that now run a Raspberry Pi: Ms. Pac-Man (running PiMAME) Omega Race (running RetroPie w/ Emulation Station - This one also has a Horizontal screen in it, so I'm going to add CoolCV to ES!) Overall, I'm super impressed with the work these guys did restoring them all. Their FB group is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/oldmadenew/ I can't find him on here and I want I WANNNNT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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