Can someone explain the link CBS Soft / Coleco ?

[lucifershalo]

Can someone explain to me the link between CBS SOFTWARE and Coleco

are they completely different companies?

and CBS distribute Coleco games in Europe?

 

 

[zzip]

I believe CBS Electronics was related to CBS the broadcaster/ Columbia pictures (now Sony Pictures).

 

I don't think they were related to Coleco at all (could be wrong)

[+Psionic]

CBS Electronics was a subsidiary CBS/Columbia, as stated above. They developed and published some of their own software titles and also had a licensing agreement with Coleco to distribute their products (including the ColecoVision console) outside North America. CBS and Coleco were separate entities and there was no connection between the two companies beyond that.