jblenkle

I bought a 7800 way back when and almost immediately got rid of it. Hated the controllers, didn't like the graphics compared to other systems, and a slow roll out of good titles killed it for me. Both machines have their strengths and weaknesses. Just have a look at the many locked "vs" threads for opinions from both sides.

Subroc - 184,900

I've think I've seen those guys pictures before...they are in my dictionary under "nerd"

One good strategy I've found is to keep moving right and fire twice right ahead of each pair of the boats that cross in front of you. You can get a lot of points that way. If you keep moving and stay in the water, the missiles don't track you 90% of the time. The only time I'll stop and move into the air is if a missile appears to be dead center coming at me. Then I'll eliminate it and go back to firing at whatever's in the water. Sometimes if there are no missiles coming, I'll go back left and also in the air and pick off some targets too, but going right non-stop always seems to work best.

Subroc - 154,200

OK, now that I've played Subroc on a real machine with a real joystick, the "*" key will restart a new game at the same skill level you were playing previously...the "#" takes you back to the player select and game option screen...and either one of those will get rid of the black screen.

I noticed that black screen too...even playing on an emulator...seems the only option is to reset. If you are talking about playing another game after finishing your last one, pressing the "*" and "#" seem to do it...I don't remember which is which, but one of them will take you back to the game option screen, the other restarts the same skill level game you were playing previously.

Subroc - 153,200 Whew! Finally...back over 100K several times now...

Subroc - 137,700 I'm surprised as I'm not finding this game very challenging until I get over 100,000 even at Skill Level 3. The missiles & mines seem to change their behavior a bit after 100,000 points and are much harder to avoid. Edited at 1:50 a.m. - Spoke too soon about Level 3 not being hard. I've been playing this all day and have yet to go over 100,000 again...usually to the 70 thousands...but once to 97,000...I need sleep!!!

Thanks for your hard work on this...seriously!!! Since I've joined in on this high score thing I've played my ColecoVision games more than ever before. I now realize back in the early 80s when I originally started playing I wouldn't challenge myself to do better at some of these games and in some, never got by the first few levels. Now I have a reason to try. Looking forward to Subroc...it should be a fun one!!!

Frogger - 21,220

Any thoughts on price yet? I might have to chip in for this one!!

Frogger - 17,930 A whole lot of hoppin' going on...

From the pictures it looks like everything is in really good condition...are those eproms marked at all as to what they are?

I would like to see Gorf redone...something along the lines of the Super Game which was planned for ADAM -- with either brand new screens unique to the CV, or at the very least an accurate arcade version (including the voice).

Frogger - 14,480

The controllers look like NES controllers, but the cartridge slot looks all wrong for NES games...anyone read Chinese? Don't know that things. But Chinese cloned tons of console generally with extremely bad quality. What i wonder see that console, is, if it is well a "colecovision" clone compatible with a real colecovision, how do you select "Skill level" ? It seems there is no numeric pad to do that. As there is pad instead of joystick , i think this console is from after 1985 . And the fact it is white confirm that. I'd think it would be more a SG 1000 clone than a colecovision. but i don't think Mr Do for SG 1000 exists.

Frogger - 11,750

Frogger - 10,750 *%&*@ Snakes!!!

I used to play Frogger in the arcades so much that the music is permanently embedded in my head. No problem. I'm trying to balance between games that haven't been played for a while, have been requested for this season, as well as previously requested as per the games index list. I know I can't please everyone but I'll do my best to strike a balance. Plus I love Frogger

Yah! I got the same problem...2.2...my phone won't even let me download it. AS they just gave us a 2.2 upgrade a few months ago, I don't expect 2.3 will be coming anytime soon.

Jumpman Jr. - 10,700

Yeah, that makes more sense...I always worried about editing an old post with a new score for fear it had already been recorded and the new score would be overlooked... Could I ask that everyone add a new post for each score (rather than editing an existing post) - makes it much easier for me to know when new scores have been posted (I don't get notifications when posts are edited). Thanks

Get one of these... http://atarimax.com/sio2pc/documentation/

Jumpman Junior - 6,425 8,500