ColecoVision System Serial Numbers

[retroillucid]

I'm trying to understand the ColecoVision System serial number

I already have a good idea how they works, but I would like people share their serial number label to compare

Please, take a photo of your serial number of your ColecoVision System(s) and post them here(or send them to me by email)

 

Here's some of mine

[Yurkie]

I'm trying to understand the ColecoVision System serial number

I already have a good idea how they works, but I would like people share their serial number label to compare

Please, take a photo of your serial number of your ColecoVision System(s) and post them here(or send them to me by email)

 

Here's some of mine

 

P for Purple #162, so where is the other 161.

[retroillucid]

I'm trying to understand the ColecoVision System serial number

I already have a good idea how they works, but I would like people share their serial number label to compare

Please, take a photo of your serial number of your ColecoVision System(s) and post them here(or send them to me by email)

 

Here's some of mine

 

P for Purple #162, so where is the other 161.

 

P stand for Prototype/Pre-Production

 

The other 161? .... might be lost/trashed sadly

[Yurkie]

I'm trying to understand the ColecoVision System serial number

I already have a good idea how they works, but I would like people share their serial number label to compare

Please, take a photo of your serial number of your ColecoVision System(s) and post them here(or send them to me by email)

 

Here's some of mine

 

P for Purple #162, so where is the other 161.

 

P stand for Prototype/Pre-Production

 

The other 161? .... might be lost/trashed sadly

 

 

You should take that CV that came with the Purple box a part carefully and look at the back edge of the PCB and see if it has a revision. If the CV is truly a prototype and the one that came with the box, I would think it would have no revision letter or and A or a B. I have seen several Rev. C's

[retroillucid]

 

You should take that CV that came with the Purple box a part carefully and look at the back edge of the PCB and see if it has a revision. If the CV is truly a prototype and the one that came with the box,

 

I'll check that

 

I would think it would have no revision letter or and A or a B. I have seen several Rev. C's

 

Not necessarly, since there was a 1st prototype, that the 2nd prototype

I'm pretty sure its the same board as a retail unit

 

 

Also: the same serial number is hand numbered inside the purple box btw

Edited June 22, 2011 by retroillucid

[retroillucid]

Its a REV.A board wich is what I was expecting

 

Looking at the purple and silver system box, the only thing has changed is only the controllers

So Coleco decided to removed the speed roller on controller, at that point (even before that) the SA Controllers were planned

The Exp#1 is also the 2nd prototype, wich mean they also went to re-design the Exp#1 at the same time they removed the speed roller on regular controllers

 

I guess it was only a question of marketting the system and accessories

Edited June 22, 2011 by retroillucid

[+5-11under]

What the board looks like in my mind:

[retroillucid]

What the board looks like in my mind:

 

funny

[NIAD]

What the board looks like in my mind:

PURPLE HAZE.... dude!

[retroillucid]

So to correct my own infos here's some updates:

 

- Black & white Console is the very First Proto console

- The Purple Box System (retail console with Speed Roller Controller) is the 3rd Proto

 

There's indeed a 2nd Proto! I just recently discovered this! and no its not a joke, I'll post pictures of the 2nd Proto console and also prototype games boxes (Blue instead of grey) on our upcoming Museum Website

 

Stay tunes!

 

 

EDIT: I also discovered that the Coleco Intellivision games boxes were the ColecoVision ones at first! ... Amazing!

What I mean is the Intellivision boxes were gray and the ColecoVision boxes were blue/purple

 

The CV Smurf box is different from the release

The CV Zaxxon box feature the old logo (seen in early press kit)

The CV Lady Bug Box have a different logo colors differences

Edited June 25, 2011 by retroillucid

[Jordiway]

 

I finally dug out my system and found that my sticker had fallen off so I had to glue it back on

[the80sgamer]

I found this post looking for the orientation of the sticker since mine fell off and I want to glue it back on. My sticker looks just like the prototype sticker but without a P number. I do have an early model though. My number is A0009090.