Mike Harris

Something I have never seen... A CBS Roller Controller with a CBS Slither. A little wear on the box and the shipping box it came in. If it's all legit then here you go. https://www.ebay.com/itm/CBS-Coleco-Vison-Roller-Controller-Original-Box-Complete-Rare-Gaming/293262246058?hash=item4447cac0aa:g:DqUAAOSwxoJdh1Rj

If you look through what he is selling it might be possible he is making his own custom work? I see Daniel's Barney game in there as well. I received another Coleco cart shipment today and they guy threw in an extra rom with no case. Turned out to be Ghost Manor for the A2600. Nice little bonus I guess.

OK...I'll bite... What's the difference between this; Rocky Battles the Champ and Rocky Boxing other than somebody wants to hock this Very "RARE" and "OLD" Collectorvision game for $400. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rocky-Battle-The-Champ-ColecoVision-Game-Very-Rare-Old-Collectorvision-game/274038350027?hash=item3fcdf560cb:g:wdwAAOSwGEFdl1zn This guy, bless his ambition, is a nut case "in MY opinion" You don't have to agree. But here he's laid out the collection of all time in all it's glory if you want it. Personally, I would prescribe Lithium and heavy counseling.

Once you play Star Raiders none of these other games matter. I eventually got so good I could beat the highest level on both the A2600 and the A5200.

WOW...Last update 2014 and I am just now finding out about this. I just picked up an EPYX style case for PitStop and I thought I was either mistaken or taken for a ride. Being that I already have PitStop in the normal case I remember from the 80's I decided to look it up on AA...

Mad Magazine was outrageously expensive and that is why they failed in this era of digital media. Even when it was somewhat cheap Me and my brother would just read it in the book store and fold the last page to look at the picture. You could probably download every issue at this point but what I would really like to see is the entire Farside series in digital format.

Here we go, and I pretty much knew this was the end result... https://www.ebay.com/itm/ColecoVision-Console-NEVER-USED-MINT-COLLECTORS-ITEM/333349158257?epid=109437726&hash=item4d9d287d71:g:Hk8AAOSwXKddlh2w If I am correct, this guy won this bid sometime a week or two ago for around $400 and is now asking for $1600. I may be wrong on the winning bid by a few dollars and the more power to this guy...he did nothing wrong but I just wanted to pass a long what I see are those out there that have zero interest in the community and more to over inflate the value and prey on collectors. Here are the pictures from before he won it that I save to my desk top.

If I get my way....New life is coming to the community and that is all I am saying because I don't want to announce something and it become vaporware. However, the Coleco scene has kind of died down a bit so it is time to keep it alive just a little longer. Case in point, my kids could care less about Coleco so it is my generation that this may end with.

I was the first bidder on that. The guy tried to sell it for like $2300 then marked it down to around $1700 and then had some bidding war. I bid on like 7 things and held firm, someone wanted them more than me and I was grateful too. After I put my bid in on most of it I had second thoughts. I mean, I wouldn't MIND having a Telstar but I'm not dishing out $100 bucks for one. I would rather go Scuba Diving instead of a sealed Colecovision on my shelf just for it to go to the good will once I'm dead.

I want to say up front I am not implying anything against this guy. I needed an example and he's selling these games. It does seam however that after buying them at discount bulk he then marks them up like $20 beyond the price from buying it direct from the manufacturer. Hey, that's his thing....

Don't you love topic starters. How we can just discuss things civilly without making a mountain out of a mole hill. My thing is more of a licensing and/or ownership dispute more than stealing others work. Nintendo has been cracking down and I would hate to make a port and be jumped on after spending countless hours if not days on it. "BTW, I would like to see a few homebrews and originals hacked: Sydney Hunter and the Sacred Tribe with jump straight up; Vanguard with SNES button pattern for firing for Phoenix; Spy Hunter, Car Fighter and that similar one with the EM2 driving controller; etc." Original content and games from scratch are not the same as ported MSX. THAT is one line I would never cross. I spent countless nights on my mapping system for my Super Adventure game and I would be pissed if someone stole the code and made money off it.

Thanks, I wasn't trying to imply that, I apologize. So basically I can do exactly what Collectovision does which is take an MSX game from the 80's, including this one, hack it then sell it under my brand. Just trying to figure out the rules, not trying to make waves.

Just looking for more great deal on EBay but I am seriously puzzled. This guy https://www.ebay.com/itm/ZANAC-for-Colecovision-ADAM-Cart-NEW-CIB-SUPER-GAME-MODULE-REQD/333347651812?hash=item4d9d1180e4:g:tu8AAOSwrYBc1tBB Who legally owns these games from the early 80's? This is an MSX game that was hacked to run on the Colecovision. I'm seeing these all over the place and was just curious because I would love to get in on this action. If all I have to do is hack a bit of code then slap it inside a cartridge with a label then I am all in brother...

An interesting thing but I can send commands to the Arduino, the Arduino sends commands through the WIFI which can change the temperature on my thermostat. I may have made history but I know there used to be a device to turn lights on and off using your ADAM through a serial port so maybe not. Now I am trying to figure out how I can receive the time from the DS1307 RTC board on my Arduino and use it someway on my ADAM. Just toying around here. Very primitive and no solid interface. ADAM is basically acting like a push button while the Arduino does all the work.

Here I thought I was the only one being smart. Instead of buying brand new cases I just recycle old Coleco Carts in lots and try to make the best deals possible. I go through what has the worst cases as far as labels and set the good ones aside. I just picked up some 25 Donkey Kong with the labels literally falling off for around $30. So one trip into the dish washer and they are brand new for my own projects.

I have always been curious as to why you never see home brew of that credit card type Sega Master System cartridge... That must have been a really flat chip or they just laid the chip out on the board itself and dipped it in plastic. I don't see it practical but it looked cool as hell.

Actually, when I look up "Coleco COOPER" it leads back to Atari Age. Either way....I'm done being Indiana Jones and looking for what could be just a flooded market of custom variations instead of original "Classic" product..

Can someone explain these Variants or are they just bootlegs of someone creating some type of box and slapping an old cartridge in it. You guys would know the foreign market and history better than I do. I've been seeing these things screaming of Taiwan lately. This is the only one I have brought up as of yet. https://www.ebay.com/itm/LOT-3-SMURF-RESCUE-BEAM-RIDER-GATEWAY-TO-ASPH-COLECOVISION-COOPER-80-S-NIB/143398907153?hash=item21633dad11:g:YRQAAOSwLwtdkoqt

Every time I learn something new my direction changes. Now I'm experimenting with interfacing an Arduino and controlling my WIFI thermostat from my ADAM.

Here is a link to port from Coleco TO MSX. If you can go one way you should be able to do it in reverse. Just ask OPCODE Games....Team Pixelboy for any additional thoughts. https://www.msx.org/forum/development/cross-development/colecovision-msx

Do you have $50K? When you type in Coleco even the extreme filters through. I can only suspect that this guy woke up one day or worse did NOT wake up and this is his next of kin selling.... But here we have what I CALL a wasted life. Hear me out, you may have a different opinion. The value of anything on this planet is whatever you put on it. I value my wife and kids.... Regardless, this person is selling this collection...I hope whomever had a great life but I learned early on that software is NOT a commodity and does not value with age. Everything is artificially priced high with terms of RARE...VINTAGE...ONCE IN A LIFETIME... Just look at every rom you can get free online and run from your phone the next time you want stuff like this. How much wheeling and dealing...How much money I wasted on this very thing back in the 80's and 90's. So, if you have 50K and a house to put it in. https://www.ebay.com/itm/VIDEO-GAMES-COLLECTION-LOT-NES-SNES-GAMECUBE-SEGA-GEN-PS1-N64-ATARI-PS2-WII-XBOX/264472147360?hash=item3d93c4b5a0:g:p0kAAOSwSaJdg8s0

For those that think the Colecovision doesn't have enough ram they forget about Pitfall, Pitfall 2, Montezumas Revenge, The Heist, Miner 2049er, BolderDash... I have a working game that can go up to 255 individual screens. Most people around here write in C and use RLE with compressed full screens. If that is their deal then go for it. But to save space you use raw Z80 Assembly Language and with a little memory management you can work wonders. Outside of that one can argue that the only reason they created the SGM module was to port and sell high end MSX games that use the extra memory and sound chip. I have yet to find any other function for the device. More power to them. If you go over to MSX.ORG you can find detailed instructions on how to convert Coleco Carts to MSX and no doubt you can do it in reverse provided that they have the same chips and if I am not mistaken it has to be the MSX 1. Tony at Electric Adventures has a great series on programing the MSX, Coleco and Spectravideo being as they all have the same architecture. Here is a link to part 16 in his play list. Plenty of resources out there but outside of these tips I never got into the specifics, Tony can most likely tell you what you need to know. When I port a game I write it from scratch and fit it to the system in a way which it will run with stock equipment. I personally do it for fun and learning but back in the day when you worked for a company you would port to the most popular systems as you could to make that sale. In today's emulation environment it makes no sense, to me, to port a game that already runs fine on another system. I see nothing nostalgia or classic about it. It is not an original Coleco game nor is it new or gives you something new. Where are the new levels? Saving your initials? Expanded Game Play... Some may argue my Adventure port "Super Adventure" is being hypocritical but if you look at the code it is 100% scratch, my own invented mapping system and expanded world based off my own ideas and it is not for sale but free. I have other ports from Intellivision and TI994/A that I am working on which are also 100% scratch, just think of the scroll routines YIKES! The Atari 2600 colors are way better than Coleco and the Intellivision sound is far superior and the TI addresses memory different. Nope, the MSX is change a few ports, slap it on a rom and market it as a new for a high "COLLECTORS" price basically for doing as little work as possible just like Star Wars the triple, super secret diamond edition. But, at the end of the day it is still just Star Wars where Han Solo shot first.

If you got $1700 to spend...Forget that mortgage payment and your kids college fund because you can own the Wizard of ID complete. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wizard-of-Id-Wiz-Math-ColecoVision-Video-Game-Complete-in-Box/143358503249?hash=item2160d52951:g:ZyIAAOSwvFNdWCg~

This is one I never knew. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Colecovision-Video-Game-Cartridge-ONE-ON-ONE-Irving-vs-Bird-by-Micro-Fun/323914810384?hash=item4b6ad3c410:g:2uIAAOSwPmldfBmw:sc:USPSFirstClass!33584!US!-1 This is the first time I found out that One On One was done by Micro-Fun and it is the first time I have seen it in cartridge form. I would buy it because it seems rare but not for that much. Maybe one of you guys???

Picked up a bunch of new carts....finding them for around $2.50 a piece now. Anyway, came across this crazy sale.... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Colecovision-Front-Line-Standard-Controller-Edition-SCE-New-Limited-1-of-75/283601028395?hash=item4207f0452b:g:XNEAAOSw3k5da~03 Anyone you guys know? I would like to recommend an eye dropper of lithium every 8 hours to cure this madness.