Coleco Industries, Inc. (/kəˈliːkoʊ/ kə-LEE-koh) was an American company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as The Connecticut Leather Company. It was...
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ColecoVision is a second-generation home video-game console developed by Coleco and launched in North America in August 1982. It was released a year later...
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The Coleco Adam is a home computer and expansion device for the ColecoVision by American toy and video game manufacturer Coleco. The Adam was an attempt...
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The Coleco Telstar brand is a series of dedicated first-generation home video game consoles produced, released and marketed by Coleco from 1976 to 1978...
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The Coleco Gemini is an Atari 2600 clone manufactured by Coleco Industries, Inc. in 1983. Processor: 8-bit 6507 CPU speed: 1.19 MHz RAM: 128 bytes Resolution:...
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Cabbage Patch Kids (redirect from Coleco Kids)
Patch Kids are a line of cloth dolls with plastic heads first produced by Coleco Industries in 1982. They were inspired by the Little People soft sculptured...
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The Coleco Telstar Arcade, commonly abbreviated as Telstar Arcade, is a first-generation home video game console that was released in 1977 in Japan, North...
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Donkey Kong (1981 video game) (category ColecoVision games)
persuaded the Coleco representative in Japan to sign without review by the company's lawyers.: 112 Coleco bundled the game with the ColecoVision console...
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Isaac Perlmutter (section Coleco)
influential investor in a number of corporations, including Revco drug stores, Coleco Entertainment, Remington, and Toy Biz/Marvel Toys. He is the former chairman...
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company has sold 2 million ColecoVision games since its introduction in 1982. Kleinfield, N. R. (July 21, 1985). "Coleco Moves Out Of The Cabbage Patch"...
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(born c. 1934) best known as the CEO of Coleco in the 1970s and 1980s. He began his career in law but joined Coleco, a family toy business, in 1966. He worked...
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of The Smurfs video games that have been published by developers such as Coleco, Infogrames, and Capcom. The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs) are a fictional group...
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The Coleco Adam is a personal computer developed by Coleco from October 1983 to January 1985. Coleco released the computer as a separate unit and as Expansion...
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Odyssey series (excluding the Magnavox Odyssey 2), the Atari Home Pong, the Coleco Telstar series and the Color TV-Game series. The generation ended with the...
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This is a list of games for the ColecoVision video game console. In total, the following games are known to exist: 129 U.S. releases 1 U.S. very limited...
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Mattel Electronics Battlestar Galactica Space Alert (1976) Blip (1977) Coleco Electronic Quarterback (1978) Merlin (1978) Alien Attack (1979) VTech electronic...
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Chameleon (console) (redirect from Coleco Chameleon)
originally called the Retro VGS then Coleco Chameleon prior to the loss of the Coleco Holdings (owner of the Coleco brand name) license, is a cancelled...
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Pong Coleco Telstar series (Coleco Telstar, Coleco Telstar Classic, Coleco Telstar Deluxe, Coleco Telstar Ranger, Coleco Telstar Alpha, Coleco Telstar...
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The Coleco Telstar Marksman, commonly abbreviated as Telstar Marksman, is a first-generation home video game console that featured a light gun. It was...
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game developers and to competition from console manufacturers Mattel and Coleco. Games grew to use four or more times the storage size of the launch games...
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producing the Switch console). Previous console developers include Sega, Atari, Coleco, Mattel, NEC, SNK, Fujitsu, and 3D0. The first video game consoles were...
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Additional video game consoles added to a crowded market, notably the ColecoVision and Atari 5200. Troubles at Atari late in the year triggered the video...
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Famicom was influenced by the ColecoVision, Coleco's competition against the Atari 2600 in the United States; the ColecoVision's top-seller was a port...
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Archived from the original on January 20, 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021. "Coleco Rolls Videogame Line". Arcade Express. Vol. 1, no. 2. August 30, 1982. p...
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Donkey Kong Jr. (category ColecoVision games)
Computer Disk System, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit computers, ColecoVision, Coleco Adam, and Intellivision. A BBC Micro conversion was made but unreleased...
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were scrapped in 1978, and it cost Coleco $22.3 million that year—almost bankrupting the company. ColecoVision:The ColecoVision reached 2 million units sold...
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decades. Other consoles released in the decade included the Intellivision, ColecoVision, TurboGrafx-16 (PC Engine) and Sega Genesis (Mega Drive). Notable...
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Zaxxon (category ColecoVision games)
the month. The ColecoVision version was also commercially successful. Zaxxon was Coleco's best-selling non-bundled cartridge for the ColecoVision up until...
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WarGames (video game) (category Coleco games)
WarGames is a strategy video game developed by Coleco for the ColecoVision and published in 1984. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore...
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between 1986 and 1990) Pac-Man Nelsonic Game Watch (1982) – 500,000+ units Coleco tabletop version (1982) – 1.5 million units Family Computer (Famicom) and...
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