One button, one Smurf, endless fences to hop: Coleco’s gentle platformer sent a Smurf through fields and forest to rescue Smurfette, and charmed a generation of younger players.
Universal’s clown digs his own maze, drops apples on bad guys and spells EXTRA with diamonds. The ColecoVision version is the classic home port of a genuine arcade masterpiece.
Exidy’s Pepper II stitches four mazes into one sprawling chase, arms you briefly with pitchfork fury, and puts the devil himself on patrol. The ColecoVision’s most frantic maze game.
Exidy’s treasure-hunting oddity sent a smiling hero into monster-filled chambers years before dungeon crawlers were a genre — and the ColecoVision version keeps every room and every Hallmonster.
Universal’s spinning-door maze chase was the ColecoVision’s secret weapon in the Pac-Man wars — a brighter, cleverer maze game that many players preferred to the famous one.
Sega’s isometric fortress run was the ColecoVision’s great visual flex in 1982 — and the home version kept the altitude gauge, the fuel pressure and the robot finale.
The ape is in the cage this time: Donkey Kong Jr. swaps girders for vines and chains, and its ColecoVision conversion is every bit as assured as the famous pack-in.
The cartridge in the box was the whole argument: ColecoVision’s Donkey Kong brought Nintendo’s arcade giant home in 1982 with three of its four stages, the pink girders and the attitude intact.
On 31 May 2018, ColecoVision owners were given a date to circle. Less than four weeks later, on 25 June, a brand-new cartridge called Risky Rick in Dangerous…
Most homebrew games are lucky to exist on one machine. Grail of the Gods exists on at least five. In February 2018 it completed a hopscotch run across three…