FrozenToaster's Finds
So basically I've been wanting to make a thread for sometime but didn't feel my finds were "big" enough but the past two weekends have been pretty interesting and I think worthy of a thread.
First up are some things I got for free from my girlfriend and her dad. I was pretty stoked about this becuase this was roughly around late February when there is just nothing to be found in my part of Ohio.
Next up, a long dry spell until about last weekend, as the garage sales have actually been quite plentiful.
picked up all 11 CIB for $45
The same day came across this at another garage sale for $5
And now to this weekend, I picked up my first funtastic n64 for $12 at the local flea market
I was having a good enough day just finding that, but I made a stop over at my local volunteers and found an intriguing two boxes full of coleco stuff. The boxes were a taped down, jumbled mess, so I was basically just diving in for a gamble. But the price tag on the box said $10.10 for both boxes, so I was willing to press my luck. This is what came out after the $10 and some 70 odd cents of investment
A grand total of 51 games, a couple of expansion modules, and those intense gauntlet like joysticks.
Now I know next to nothing about coleco, so any information about what all is included would be greatly appreciated.
First up are some things I got for free from my girlfriend and her dad. I was pretty stoked about this becuase this was roughly around late February when there is just nothing to be found in my part of Ohio.
Next up, a long dry spell until about last weekend, as the garage sales have actually been quite plentiful.
picked up all 11 CIB for $45
The same day came across this at another garage sale for $5
And now to this weekend, I picked up my first funtastic n64 for $12 at the local flea market
I was having a good enough day just finding that, but I made a stop over at my local volunteers and found an intriguing two boxes full of coleco stuff. The boxes were a taped down, jumbled mess, so I was basically just diving in for a gamble. But the price tag on the box said $10.10 for both boxes, so I was willing to press my luck. This is what came out after the $10 and some 70 odd cents of investment
A grand total of 51 games, a couple of expansion modules, and those intense gauntlet like joysticks.
Now I know next to nothing about coleco, so any information about what all is included would be greatly appreciated.
Comments
You also have 2 of the 3 expansion modules. Expansion module 1 connects to the base colecovision through the expansion port and allows you to play Atari 2600 games on the colecovision (could you imagine if any systems did that today...). Thats why the box had some Atari games with it. The other expansion is the Expansion Module 2, the driving wheel. The pack-in game was the driving game Turbo.
Some of your games also state Coleco "ADAM". This was the third expansion which turned the Colecovision into a full computer system called the Coleco ADAM (surprise surprise). There may have been another box somewhere with it in and they didn't know it went with the Coleco Vision.It really wasn't that successful at all.
The system itself was around from 1982 until 1984 when the video game crash took its toll on sales. It was actually a superior system to the Atari 5200 at the time and sold fairly well on its release. I've got one myself and they have some pretty cool games. Not many original titles since they licensed many of their games from other companies and made a bunch of ports from other systems of the time, including the Intellivision. Donkey Kong was the original pack-in game with the system, licensed by nintendo. Other big license companies were Konami, Sega, and Universal (Atari had exculsive Namco rights at the time).
I loved playing Zaxxon and Donkey Kong myself.
Actually, better. MonkeyShines is relatively uncommon.
I'm interested in Odyssey 2 at the moment, though. If you're looking to sell any of it let me know.
And to Kioti thanks for the info, the thing that the controllers are sitting in is some kind of trackball controller which can toggle between trackball and the main controllers (which look like they have been moved from the main unit to this peripheral)