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| | Coleco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | While the system was quite popular, Coleco hedged their bet on videogames by introducing a line of game cartridges for the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision. | | | When the video game business began to implode in 1983, it seemed clear that video games were being replaced by home computers. | | | While the dedicated game console market was short lived, Coleco continued to do well in electronics. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco
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| | Pong-Story : Coleco Telstar systems |
| | The only differences between the Coleco "pong" systems were the number of games, the way the difficulty levels were used, and the type of pictured (color or black and white). | | | "Telstar", Coleco's first video game system, was released in 1976 and played only three games with three difficulty levels. | | | The AY-3-8500 chip played six games with more difficulty levels, and the games could also be played in color. |
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http://www.pong-story.com/coleco.htm
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| | Vidgame.net: Coleco Colecovision |
| | Coleco also got the rights to produce the Donkey Kong game for their soon to be popular Table Top Arcades. | | | The Coleco Expansion Module 1: the Atari adapter allowed customers to play their Atari 2600 cartridges on the Colecovision. | | | Six months after the Colecovision had released, Coleco started to make the Donkey Kong game for competitors such as the Atari 2600 and the Mattel Intellivision. |
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http://www.vidgame.net/COLECO/COLVIS.html
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| | It adds more memory to ColecoVision and provides additional play variations." "Coleco's software approach was to go after licensed arcade games and to make cartridges for Atari's VCS and Intellivision in addition to it's own game player. | | | Greenberg proclaims that Coleco will increase it's market share in video game players this year from 8% to 25%, supplanting Mattel as No. 2." "Achieving such lofty goals may be difficult. | | | Coleco last year paid only $250,000 for the rights to Donkey Kong, but Atari later had to pay an estimated $21 million to license E.T. for it's coin-operated and home video games. |
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http://sen.zophar.net/filer/emus/colvis/cvfaq39.txt
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| | Coleco Industries |
| | Donkey Kong was Coleco's biggest hit and, ironically, was given away free with every game unit. | | | ColecoVision was Coleco's foray into the home video gaming market. | | | various game projects A lot of what Coleco did before ColecoVision was hand-held games. |
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http://www.stupahead.com/traces/resume/Coleco.html
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| | Coleco Games |
| | Coleco made some of the most memorable handheld games of the period. | | | So, in the heat of the DK craze (1982), here was Coleco with the ONLY 2 home versions of Donkey Kong available - one for the colecovision and the other their new tabletop version. | | | Here are the coleco games that I have, grouped by display type: |
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http://www.miniarcade.com/coleco/coleco.htm
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| | Intellivision Classic Video Game System / Coleco for Intellivision |
| | The word at the time was that Coleco was changing the game so that later copies of the cartridge wouldn't let you use the "duck" button in front of Smurfette. | | | The game became the cornerstone of Coleco's marketing strategy. | | | In 1981, Coleco started making deals with arcade companies for the home rights to their hottest games. |
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http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/colecoint.shtml
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| | Good Deal Games - Classic Videogame Games ARTICLE - The Coleco Story by Ralph Baer |
| | The the voice-over would then call for some simple button pushing by the child; the tape player would be paused by the Apple acting as a 2600 until the little game was over; then tape-player resumed playing while the next segment of the story-line would come on-screen, complete with voice-over and some music. | | | As I have reported elsewhere in the story of "How Video Games Invaded the Home TV Set", Magnavox' original Odyssey ITL100 home game was first announced to the public in May of 1972. | | | Thus Coleco became GI's first and preferred customer for the AY3-8500, a chip around which millions of off-shore games were built in Hong-Kong, Taiwan and in Europe- on all of which Sanders and Magnavox collected royalties, thank you very much! |
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http://www.gooddealgames.com/articles/Ralph_Baers_Coleco_Story.html
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| | Coleco. |
| | The Coleco Vision is a popular game system for good reason. | | | Coleco spared no shovel in piling on the hype for its little miracle. | | | Of course, Adam also has a ROM cartridge slot, and plays all ColecoVision games. |
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http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n3/65_Coleco.php
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| | Phosphor Dot Fossils Handheld Archive Pac-Man (Coleco) |
| | Coleco's Pac-Man features a version of the original arcade game, plus two Coleco-invented variations and a demo mode. | | | Despite the sound, one has to give Coleco a lot of credit - with incredibly limited audiovisual resources on their hands, the Pac-Man mini-arcade did a fantastic job of bringing the arcade game home (just like Coleco's commercial involving an arcade-bound Pac-addict and his long suffering ladyfriend said). | | | Head-To-Head Pac-Man, a nifty combination of the original arcade game and Coleco's trademark two-player games dating back to Head-To-Head Football, is a real hoot - provided players can keep track of whose Pac is whose. |
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http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/handheld/p.htm
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| | Coleco Mini-Arcade Game Reviews |
| | Of all the Coleco hand-held arcade games, Donkey Kong is by far the most difficult, and at times can be awfully frustrating. | | | It plays almost exactly like the arcade game, and is easily the most addictive of all the Coleco portables. | | | There are five games in the set, and all are huge names in video game history: Pac-Man, Ms. |
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http://www.videogamecritic.net/cp.htm
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| | Coleco...Suav'e! |
| | First, while each of the game's four rounds is a complete departure from one another, they're all pretty simplistic, and your intrepid explorer can only defend himself in one of them (whereas in Tarzan, you had freedom of movement and a mean left hook which could be used anywhere, at any time). | | | The interface in particular is highly reminescent of those primitive text-based games, with a view screen in the top right corner and the Enterprise's current condition on the left, but thankfully, the tedious task of entering paremeters has been replaced with real-time battles which require quick thinking and reflexes. | | | they've got that Coleco brand high pitch to them that ruins any hope of evoking a sense of urgency from the player, and the music that plays during Droid Force Eliminated notices is so silly it's guaranteed to make Omega Race purists retch. |
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http://grblitz.overclocked.org/coleco.htm
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| | Coleco Rarity List |
| | War Games Coleco 2632 R 3.9 U x | | | Front Line Coleco 2650 S 2.8 U x | | | Ken Uston Blackjack / Poker Coleco 2439 2.7 U x |
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http://www4.ncsu.edu/~awwatkin/ATARI/LISTS/Coleco.html
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| | Dark Watcher's Console History |
| | So Coleco marketed the Gemini slightly cheaper then the Atari 2600, and capitalized on the Atari success. | | | It's no wonder they gambled on copying the Atari 2600 which was the most successful console of it's time. | | | Coleco's return to the gaming market after the Telstar was a shaky one. |
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http://darkwatcher.psxfanatics.com/console/gemini.htm
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| | Coleco Gemini |
| | Anyway, Atari tried to sue the pants off Coleco because Coleco made an expansion module that allowed people to play Atari cartridges on their Colecovision. | | | Well, this whole ordeal did give Atari and Coleco another reason to hate each other. | | | They decided to make their own Atari-compatible stand-alone game system. |
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http://www.grantster.com/gemini.html
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| | Norman G. Sippel's ColecoVision Homepage! |
| | I'm under the impression that the Zaxxon game is the hardest to find (fortunately for me, it's one of the few I own!). | | | It's downfall, like Mattel's Intellivision and Atari's 2600, was sealed in the video game crash of 1984 because of its mismanagement. | | | Probably the only better arcade style NFL game out is Blitz. |
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http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~ngsippel/cv.html
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| | Coleco Sound I? - AtariAge Forums |
| | It appears to be a later release when Coleco was trying to really grab some of Atari's market share as it included not one, but two pack-ins (Donkey Kong and Mouse Trap). | | | On the back of the box, it shows what seems to be Coleco's version of the KidVid "controller" ("Coming Soon") -- basically it's a tape deck that plugs into the VCS (or Gemini of course) and plays KidVid games (and apparently was to be bundled with Bearnstien Bears). | | | Sears Heavy Sixer and Rare Coleco Combat Game @ Ebay |
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http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=37585
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| | Coleco Adam computer |
| | The printer has to know where all of the characters are located on the daisy-wheel, otherwise it wouldn't know when to strike it. | | | SmartBASIC is one of many applications and games available on "Adam High Speed Digital Data Pack". | | | Released in October 1983, the Adam was available in two versions, as an add-on to the very popular ColecoVision game system, or as a stand-alone home computer system, as seen above. |
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http://oldcomputers.net/adam.html
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| | Coleco Cheat Codes - Kotaku |
| | But now, just in case you found it too hard to beat the mildly retarded Coleco AI at it’s own game, Techno Source just sent me a slew of cheat codes. | | | I’m already at a loss to explain why people are so enamored with the sub-8-bit graphic delights of Coleco games. | | | Now you can cheat while playing Coleco Baseball, Soccer, Basketball and Football. |
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http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/oddities/coleco-cheat-codes-108186.php
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| | Coleco Colecovision Product Catalog |
| | Play Coleco Game Cartridges (virtually indestructible plastic plug-in software on MicroChips) using Game Controllers (two 9 pin ports available). | | | Capable of capturing full screen s from other games and programs. | | | - The original program used by Coleco Programmers to create the artwork in Cartridge and Super Games. |
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http://coleco.freeservers.com/proddes.htm
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| | Retro-Gaming with Coleco - Hot Hardware |
| | They were a world leader in plastic above ground pool manufacturing in the 60's, and jumped on the video game bandwagon in the 1970s. | | | The only issue was how could kids take the gameplay home with them. | | | While Coleco may be a well-known name (think Colecovision), it's probably not well known that they started out as a company making leather craft kits for kids back in the 1930 and 40's. |
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http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=579&cid=9
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| | Coleco Vision |
| | No one in the world could take my Coleco away from me, it combines the very best of video game history, with some of the | | | Once you do this, there is no stopping you, you can make your | | | I have got the game and the controllers |
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http://www.playerschoicegames.com/colecovisionsys.html
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| | What ever happened to Coleco? |
| | When Coleco went bankrupt, it was natural for it to be bought up by a board game company, Milton Bradley. | | | Before the video game crash, Coleco bought the rights to the Scrabble board game and related properties. | | | After three years in the home video game industry, Coleco sold more than six million ColecoVision video game systems. |
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http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~ngsippel/cv/cv-what.html
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| | AtariAge - Companies - Coleco |
| | Coleco, otherwise known as the Connecticut Leather Company, not only made their own system but also released games for other systems such as the 2600. | | | Rumor has it that games they created for other systems were intentionally bad so that they would look worse when compared to the ColecoVision version. | | | Click on a column header to sort by that column. |
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http://www.atariage.com/company_page.html?SystemID=2600&CompanyID=15
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| | The Coleco Adam Home Page |
| | The Coleco Adam was designed by Coleco (makers of the Cabbage Patch Kid doll) to be an expansion on the COLECOVISION game system. | | | The MTAG (Metro-Toronto Adam user's Group) home page | | | The Coleco Adam is a Z80 based 64k computer with lots of expansion possibility. |
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http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/dmwick/adam.html
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| | INTV Funhouse - Coleco Games |
| | It seems that Coleco (did you know my spell checker recommended "colic" to correct that - how appropriate!) blatantly made an effort to release poorly made games for the Intellivision in order to provide fodder for the "Colecovision is better" engine. | | | Sorry if you're a fan of these games. | | | This has to be the saddest collection of Intellivision games by a single vendor. |
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http://www.intvfunhouse.com/coleco
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| | Pelikonepeijoonit - Coleco Telstar Arcade |
| | By then advanced game machines such as the Fairchild Channel F & Atari 2600 & Bally Astrocade and Odyssey^2 were already out and the Telstar Arcade died instantly which caused Coleco a 27 million dollar loss. | | | We worked on the Arcade and several other Coleco games of that year. | | | I also worked with them on a whole range of interactive video disk based game products that never made it all the way to production because Coleco's ADAM computer was a big flop and virtually killed the company...and aborted all of of those neat things on which we were working with them." |
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http://www.pelikonepeijoonit.net/cgi-bin/page.cgi?pkpcode=telstararcaade
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| | redkeyreddoor retrogaming :: Coleco and Intellivision: 20 years on |
| | On the Intellivision side, this year will see the launch of both a wireless version of the Intellivision 25, and a two-player Intellivision system featuring a batch of new games. | | | This year, you'll be able to get your fingers on the first range of new games stamped with the Coleco logo. | | | What Techno Source don't have, though, is the license to Colecovision -- Coleco's cartridge-based console that found its way into more than 6 million homes between 1982 and 1984, largely on the strength of superb versions of arcade favourites like Donkey Kong and Galaxian. |
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http://www.redkeyreddoor.com/index.php?p=43
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| | IGN: Coleco |
| | On June 1 1982, Coleco finally made a name for itself in the videogame market when the ColecoVision video game player began to show up in many American homes. | | | Based on this success, Coleco expanded into the home computer market. | | | The name Coleco is a contraction of Conneticut Leather Company. |
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http://games.ign.com/objects/025/025368.html
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| | COLECO, HASBRO, DANBURY, MATTELL CABBAGE PATCH DOLLS |
| | Coleco MIB, 2 dimples, blue eyes, red hair. | | | The box has corner rubs and small tears on the upper and lower left hand corners, but the cellophane is intact and not torn. | | | - Coleco 1983 Small green eyes, freckles,, OK on body tag, tan pony tails. |
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http://dollsale.com/COLECO.htm
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| | Vidgame.net: Coleco Home |
| | In 1984 they gave a free Cabbage Patch doll away with the purchase of a Colecovision and game. | | | By the 1950's Coleco had begun making plastic moulds and above ground swimming pools. | | | Coleco had picked up Xavier Robert's 'Little People' and marketed them into the Cabbage Patch Kids. |
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http://www.vidgame.net/COLECO/COLECO.html
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| | Welcome To ResQsoft |
| | I had to trim the tabs on the Jag case (through trial and error) to get the 2 halves to match. | | | In ay event, the keypad is fully functional and I have wired up two separate fire buttons. | | | I don't recommend this as it is kinda short (another gripe I have about the standard Coleco controllers). |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~resqsoft/coleco_jagpad_mod.htm
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| | Even more hours spent with the Atari expansion playing Atari 2600 games through the expansion module. | | | Soon after it's release, the crash of '83 occured, and the bottom fell out of the video games market, leaving Coleco, Mattel and even the mighty Atari running for cover. | | | The ColecoVision never got to become the system it could have been. |
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http://www.oldschoolgamer.ca/information.aspx?SID=20
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| | The Coleco Adam Pointer Page |
| | The MTAG Home Page -- the Metro-Toronto Coleco Adam User's Group | | | The Coleco Adam's House Home Page -- with an online catalogue of things you can buy for the Adam. | | | Ace Advanced Retro Computing entry on Coleco Adam |
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http://www.adamcon.org/~dmwick/adam
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| | Coleco Adam |
| | First Coleco was first and foremost a game company and a relatively newcomer to that arena to boot. | | | What they did not count on was the bottom dropping out of the video game market in 1983. | | | I think Coleco wanted to try to capitalize on the installed base of ColecoVision game consoles popularity to grab a niche in the home computer market. |
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http://www.myoldcomputers.com/museum/comp/adam.htm
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| | Coleco Adam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Coleco Adam was a home computer, an attempt in the early 1980s by American toy manufacturer Coleco to follow on the success of its Colecovision game console. | | | Some of the Coleco manuals also told the user to put the tape in before turning the computer on. | | | The problems with the Adam nearly drove Coleco to bankruptcy, and the Adam was discontinued in 1985, less than two years after its introduction. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Adam
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| | Coleco Adam |
| | The Coleco Adam was designed and built in the early 80s as a compliment to the Colecovision video game system. | | | The Adam was Coleco's all-in-one solution to home computing. | | | Custom Digital Data Packs that look surprisingly like audio cassettes (but aren't the same). |
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http://www.vintage-computer.com/adam.shtml
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| | Coleco Consoles |
| | Actual Coleco Consoles / Games For Sale Click Here | | | coleco consoles and retro games for sale buy information history and links | | | Turbo - (requires the steering wheel to play) |
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http://www.retro-trader.com/colecoconsole.htm
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| | Techno Source Poses Star Athlete Match Ups in Coleco Head to Head Survey |
| | One and two-player Plug and Play TV systems are also available for $12.99 and $19.99 respectively and offer up to a variety of twelve sports and arcade games. | | | The brand new Coleco line features a keychain assortment, as well as one and two-player handhelds featuring titles such as Head to Head Football, Baseball, Basketball and Soccer. | | | About Techno Source One of the fastest growing companies in the toy business, Techno Source is a privately held, toy company based in Hong Kong and New York. |
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-17-2005/0004090033&EDATE=
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| | AdamCon - Coleco Adam Convention News and Adam News Archives |
| | Official Coleco Adam annual AdamCon news source: AdamCon.org | | | AdamCon - Coleco Adam Convention News and Adam News Archives | | | Welcome to AdamCon.org, your guide to information about the Coleco Adam Family Computer System, its current users and their yearly gatherings. |
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http://www.adamcon.org
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| | eColeco Supporting Scooter Parts and Coleco Colecovision Game Systems |
| | eColeco Supporting Scooter Parts and Coleco Colecovision Game Systems | | | We formed our company in 1987 to help customers of the late Coleco Industries using hard to find parts, video games, and software they supplied us. | | | In 2000 when electric scooters became popular our quality scooter parts were the first available for customer support. |
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http://coleco.freeservers.com
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| | Daily News Record: Coleco, two subsidiaries file chapter 11 petitions.@ HighBeam Research |
| | Coleco, which is based in West Hartford, Conn., manufactures a variety of toys and games, including ALF plush dolls and Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. | | | Daily News Record: Coleco, two subsidiaries file chapter 11 petitions.@ HighBeam Research | | | Search for more information on HighBeam Research for. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:6489690&refid=holomed_1
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| | This Week With My Coleco ADAM HTML Archive |
| | The original articles were (and continue to be written as) plaintext, suitable for the Coleco ADAM mailing list, the monthly A.N.N. (ADAM News Network) distribution disk, and USENET newsgroups like alt.folklore.computers and comp.os.cpm. | | | While the publication frequency has been variable (up to 2.5 years between articles), my intent is to keep to a regular schedule, weekly as much as possible. | | | I hope that there will be something which appeals to you, or is relevant to your own ADAM experience and usage. |
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http://junior.apk.net/~drushel/pub/coleco/twwmca
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| | coleco headmoulds |
| | Coleco, only used the #1, #2, #3 and #4 head moulds, during the first two years of production. | | | Coleco licensed, four other foreign manufacturers: Jesmar (Spain), Lili Ledy (Mexico), Tri-Ang Pedigree (South Africa) and Tsukuda (Japan) to meet the demand of the foreign markets. | | | The Coleco, #6 HM Edition ~ Include: The (Regular) 16" 'Kids, Popcorn Girls, Cornsilk Girls and 12" Babies! |
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http://www.cpkobsession.com/coleco_headmoulds.htm
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| | Coleco Music (–– Retroforward Radio ––) |
| | Bio: Coleco Music is a project in the true sense of the word. | | | It's a way of projecting something, a sense, a meaning, a thought. | | | Coleco Music think that the new material has a more minimal view than the things they did in the past |
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http://www.retroforwardradio.com/artists/6_3/coleco-music.shtml
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| | New Music Canada Artist: COLECO |
| | coleco is a five member pop outfit that formed in the summer of 1999. | | | They have just put the finishing touches on their self titled debut and should be released the first quarter of 2003. |
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http://www.newmusiccanada.com/genres/artist.cfm?mode=longBio&Band_Id=9370
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| | Cabbage Patch Kids (Coleco) |
| | This site is in no way affiliated with Coleco. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/mychildhood/cpk.html
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| | TheAutobahn.com - View Profile: Coleco |
| | Coleco is not a member of any public groups | | | Home > Porsche Zone > Forums > View Profile : Coleco |
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http://www.flat-6.net/forum/member.php?u=1262
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| | ADAMEm distribution site |
| | ADAMEm is a portable Coleco ADAM and ColecoVision emulator, written by me. If you want to write additional drivers for ADAMEm, please, contact me first. | | | Utilities to convert bitmaps to PowerPaint format and vice-versa. | | | My very own classic system development page features some ColecoVision and Coleco ADAM productions. |
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http://www.komkon.org/~dekogel/adamem.html
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