14 New ColecoVision Games at Classic Gaming Expo

[digitalpress]

Best of all, they're ALL ON ONE CART!

 

Good Deal Games will be publishing Daniel Bienvenu's "ColecoVision Game Pack #1", Fourteen original games on a single cartridge, complete with full-color labeled cartridge and a 16-page manual!

 

For screen shots and details about this release, check HERE!

 

Or get yourself out to Classic Gaming Expo and pick one up the day it's launched

 

[Atari2600Lives]

Awesome! I am picking one up for sure!!!!!!!!!!

[Vic George 2K3]

Interesting packaging. Reminds me of the collaged illustrations used in one of David Ahl's BASIC programming game books.

[tyranthraxus]

Looks like a nice collection but why make clones of games that already

exist on the CV ie Toads/Frogger amongst others?

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

 

Daniel Bienvenu's "ColecoVision Game Pack #1"

 

Hm... judging by the screenshots and the gameplay of some killer titles like "Nim", I'd suggest "Daniel Bienvenu's "Coleco Crap Collection" for a more appropriate title...

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[digitalpress]

Hm... judging by the screenshots and the gameplay of some killer titles like "Nim", I'd suggest "Daniel Bienvenu's "Coleco Crap Collection" for a more appropriate title...

 

Greetings,

    Manuel

 

That's pretty rude. Daniel spent a great deal of time putting this package together. The least you could do is respect his effort, even if it doesn't seem like a game you'd want to buy.

[Snider-man]

I'd suggest "Daniel Bienvenu's "Coleco Crap Collection" for a more appropriate title...

 

Greetings,

    Manuel

 

Wow, kidding or not, I can't believe you'd post something this insulting in a public forum about a fellow retroprogrammer. Please post that you were just being goofy and were not at all serious, Manuel. The smiley face you tacked in doesn't cut it if that was the "tag" you used to show you were just being goofy. I find it unfathomable that you of all people would "dis" the efforts of another Xype programmer like this. (Space Invaders Deluxe for CV was accepted as a Xype title, right?)

 

Damn, guy. Just....damn.

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

 

Hm... judging by the screenshots and the gameplay of some killer titles like "Nim", I'd suggest "Daniel Bienvenu's "Coleco Crap Collection" for a more appropriate title...

 

That's pretty rude. Daniel spent a great deal of time putting this package together. The least you could do is respect his effort, even if it doesn't seem like a game you'd want to buy.

 

Uhm... I fail to understand this. Just because someone spent a lot of time on it, I may not say the rather obvious, that this looks like a quantity over quality release?

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[Tempest]

Hm... judging by the screenshots and the gameplay of some killer titles like "Nim", I'd suggest "Daniel Bienvenu's "Coleco Crap Collection" for a more appropriate title...  

 

Hey man that's not cool. I'm sure Dan spent alot of time putting these games together. It's all too easy to look at a game someone has made and say that it looks bad, but just try programming one yourself. I found that out when I attempted to program the 2600, now I'm in awe that ANYONE could do anything with that system. I imagine the Colevision wasn't much easier to work with.

 

And even if you were some elite Coleco programer, it's not cool to criticize someone elses work publicly. Try showing some respect.

 

Tempest

[Snider-man]

Hm... judging by the screenshots and the gameplay of some killer titles like "Nim", I'd suggest "Daniel Bienvenu's "Coleco Crap Collection" for a more appropriate title...  

 

Hey man that's not cool. I'm sure Dan spent alot of time putting these games together. It's all too easy to look at a game someone has made and say that it looks bad, but just try programming one yourself. I found that out when I attempted to program the 2600, now I'm in awe that ANYONE could do anything with that system. I imagine the Colevision wasn't much easier to work with.

 

And even if you were some elite Coleco programer, it's not cool to criticize someone elses work publicly. Try showing some respect.

 

Tempest

 

Well, Manuel **did** program Gunfight for the 2600, so I give him retroprogramming kudos. But I believe he should show the same kind of respect for Dan's works as folks show for his own. How incredibly pompous.

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

 

Well, Manuel **did** program Gunfight for the 2600, so I give him retroprogramming kudos. But I believe he should show the same kind of respect for Dan's works as folks show for his own. How incredibly pompous.

 

Uhm... I fail to understand this either. Just because I managed to program a game myself, I'm supossed to be all "hooray!" about everything else anyone else does?

 

I respect Daniel for everything he did so far for the Coleco scene and I sure hope he has more sense of honesty than you who are attacking me.

 

BTW: Anyone remember Firebirds "Don't buy this!" compilation for the Speccy? I think it was the best selling title for a whole month in the UK back then...

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[Snider-man]

Ugh. I give up. Manuel, I am truly disappointed that's the way you feel and hope that other programmers don't take this kind of attitude with others of their ilk. "Sense of humor," indeed. If there was anything funny about what you said, perhaps.

 

Have a Happy Ego!

[oesii]

well if you really fail to understand the problem you should look up these American sayings:

 

Discretion is the better part of valour

 

and

 

If you don't have something nice (or constructive) to say don't say anything.

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

 

well if you really fail to understand the problem you should look up these American sayings:

 

Discretion is the better part of valour

and

If you don't have something nice (or constructive) to say don't say anything.

 

Seems like I prefer "honesty" as a concept.

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[oesii]

I'll stick with Valor and Respect , though I guess honesty should follow those two around

[Gregory DG]

Back on topic:

 

I think it's cool to have a new collection of games, especially on one cartridge. (Even though I don't have a CV.)

 

My question is: Why do the screenshots (Except for 2 of them) have white backgrounds while the shots on the box have a black background?

[DeV0]

I like it! So who wants to post a copy to Australia?

[moycon]

Why do the screenshots (Except for 2 of them) have white backgrounds while the shots on the box have a black background?

 

This was the first thing that crossed my mind when I checked out the screenshots. I personally think they look much better with the black background. Hopefully Joe can clear this up when he visits again.

[MegaManFan]

I think there's a fine line to walk here between honesty and tact. I honestly respect what Daniel's done, because programming for any vintage console is a challenge and putting 14 different games onto one cart is even moreso. I tactfully suggest that visually, a few (not all) of those 14 games seem a bit underwhelming. Does that mean I don't respect the programmer? Of course not. Does that mean I won't buy the product? I'm undecided. Actually, what I need to do is send Daniel a money order for one of his OTHER products, something which I keep forgetting to do time and again - must get it done this week.

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

 

See, calling the thing "Coleco Crap Collection" was a serious and constructive suggestion - of a wicked idea. That's why I put the at the end. That way it'd at least win my respect in sense of both clever and honest marketing. Maybe I'd even buy it then.

 

In the end, no matter how you put it, 14 mostly sub-standart mini games will never make one excellent.

 

So if it's "Coleco Crap Collection" that offends everyone, how about "Greatest Misses"? "B-Side Collection"? "O2 Simulator"? "Don't buy this! 2"?

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[Marco]

Manuel,

 

I think you realise yourself that you won't make any friends with these statements. What you did, is break a taboo in classic video game collecting, by saying something ugly about homebrews. The way you said it, which was clumsy to say the least, prevents the discussion you want to have from happening.

 

You're either very brave, or foolish :wink:

 

Cheers,

Marco

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

 

You're either very brave, or foolish  :wink:

 

I think I'm rather too straightforward and, maybe worse, no born diplomat

(And in certain occassions I just can't keep my mouth shut)

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[Snider-man]

(And in certain occassions I just can't keep my mouth shut)

 

Huzzah. He finally gets it. It's like this, Manuel. What you did/said was the same as walking up to an overweight gentleman and saying, "You're fat. Lose weight. No woman is ever going to want to be with you and you'll die soon. Why are you so mad at me? I'm being honest here. You KNOW you're a fat, fat-so, fattypants, right?"

Oh yeah, let's add this ---> <---There, that makes it better.

 

Honest? Sure, I guess. But completely without tact and completely without any degree of the feelings of the person you insulted. And you opinion wasn't even requested. You just felt that this fat guy should be told he was fat and it was your honor-bound duty to tell him so. THAT'S that point. Whether you believe you were being brutally candid is completely beside the point. You were just rude.

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

 

You just felt that this fat guy should be told he was fat and it was your honor-bound duty to tell him so.

 

That "fat" comparission thingy is nonsense. Please repeat what you're wanting to say in the context of the real issue here.

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[moycon]

Hmmm reading throught this thread is like a visit to the Twilight Zone.

I had no idea a human being could be so rude and honestly appear to not be able to grasp the error in his actions/words.

 

That "fat" comparission thingy is not nonsense, if you can't "get" that I fear there's no hope.

 

Hopefully the question as to whether the back ground is white or black won't get lost in all this.