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ColecoVision v IntelliVision
I see there are some of these 'games bundled in' units and I'm thinking I might want one to throw in the garage.
Do F:ATties here have a preference between these two systems? Which had the better games?
www.amazon.com/ColecoVision-AtGames-Flas...tronic/dp/B00NM9R6GW
www.amazon.com/IntelliVision-Flashback-C...ellivision+flashback
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It includes Frog Bog, which ought to be enough for you. If not, it also has (don't quote me, but apparently) genericized versions of the AD&D games in the form of "Crown of Kings" and "Minotaur."
The Colecovision lineup isn't all that great, it doesn't seem to me. Donkey Kong is an unsurprising but obvious miss. Zaxxon is a decent implementation but relatively shallow, as I remember. Venture is quite good. The Coleco controls rather suck, and I say that as a onetime owner.
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I just passed on the Colecovision unit. Despite the superior system, the game selection for this collection is pretty weak. Further, some hard core, vintage game reviewers complain that the controller isn't terribly responsive.
I'll be waiting for a second iteration of the Colecovision (fingers crossed).
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Great Intellivision titles:
Burger Time
AD&D - the first game... the minotaur one is not so great
Bomb Squad
Night Stalker
AstroSmash
Pitfall
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My house was an Intellivision house growing up, and while I agree that the Atari stick felt better to use, the games on the Intellivision were creative and fun. Also note that the retro unit above DOES include Utopia, which was the first civ-like video game that I can remember playing if you don't count Hammurabi on the TRS-80. Utopia made this California boy learn to fear the power of the hurricane.
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Utopia was my favourite video game for years.
Sea Battle was fun too.
Baseball was a blast.
There were other good ones too.
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Also ... TRON Deadly Discs! I played the shit out of that one.
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I did play DK at a friend's house and he had a coleco. I remember being blown away by it. A few days later some other buddy told me they had DK for the Atari up at the PX (Post Exchange - like a small Kmart for servicemen). When I came home from school, I told my mom who let me call my dad at work so he could pick up one of the copies on the way home. This was back in the early 80s while living in Germany and you never knew when the PX would be able to restock from stateside. When he brought it home I thought we hit the jackpot! I mean, check out the box and cartridge. It's by the original makers, Nintendo, but for the Atari through Coleco. This checked everything!
Imagine the disappointment when this is what fired up:
Wow, is DK actually frowning here? How sad.
I wanna say it was those two 'stages' over and over...
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Colecovision graphics were much better than the intellivision.
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Intellivision was really a contemporary of the 2600. Colecovision was more next-gen.
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