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[[File:300px-Colecovision.jpg|frame|Also available in a huge white edition.]]
 
The Colecovision was one of the more powerful systems of its era when Coleco Toys introduced it in late 1982. In fact, it was actually much closer to the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] in terms of overall power than any of its competitors in the pre-Crash video game market. It was expandable, had a fast CPU and a Texas Instruments [[GPU]] with its own video memory, and had a decent assortment of attachments ([[Vaporware|at least on paper]]). It's probably more famous now for being the machine that brought the first truly faithful port of ''[[Donkey Kong]]'' to the home user, and for getting sued by [[Atari]] over the "Expansion Module", basically an [[Atari Twenty Six Hundred|Atari 2600]] in a box that could attach to a port on the console.
 
Like the [[Intellivision]], the Colecovision used a controller that combined a joystick with a 12-key keypad (which allowed games to include overlays to show how the buttons would be used). Unlike the Intellivision however, the controllers were detachable and could be replaced by third-party alternatives.
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=== Games available for the Colecovision included: ===
 
* ''[[Antarctic Adventure (Video Game)|Antarctic Adventure]]''
* ''[[Artillery Duel (Video Game)|Artillery Duel]]''
* ''[[Boulder Dash (Video Game)|Boulder Dash]]''
* ''[[Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom (Video Game)|Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom]]''
* ''[[Burger Time (Video Game)|Burger Time]]''
* ''[[Cabbage Patch Kids]]: Adventures in the Park'' (a [[Licensed Game]] based on the toy line sold by Coleco at the time)
* ''[[Centipede (Video Game)|Centipede]]''
* ''[[Chuck Norris Superkicks (Video Game)|Chuck Norris Superkicks]]''
* ''[[Congo Bongo]]''
* ''[[Defender (Video Game)|Defender]]''
* ''[[Donkey Kong (Video Game)|Donkey Kong]]''
* ''[[Berzerk (Video Game)|Frenzy]]''
* ''[[Frogger (Video Game)|Frogger]]''
** ''Frogger II: Threeedeep!''
* ''[[Galaxian (Video Game)|Galaxian]]''
* ''[[Gorf (Video Game)|Gorf]]''
* ''[[Gyruss (Video Game)|Gyruss]]''
* ''[[Jungle Hunt (Video Game)|Jungle Hunt]]''
* ''[[Lady Bug (Video Game)|Lady Bug]]''
* ''[[Miner 2049 er (Video Game)|Miner 2049 er]]''
* ''[[Mr. Do (Video Game)|Mr. Do]]''
** ''Mr. Do!'s Castle''
* ''[[Pitfall (Video Game)|Pitfall!]]''
** ''Pitfall II: Lost Caverns''
* ''[[Popeye (Videovideo Gamegame)|Popeye]]''
* ''[[Q Bert (Video Game)*bert|Q Bert]]''
** ''Q*Bert's Qubes''
* ''[[River Raid (Video Game)|River Raid]]''
* ''[[Rocky]] Super Action Boxing''
* ''[[The Smurfs (Franchise)|Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle]]''
* ''[[Space Panic (Video Game)|Space Panic]]''
* ''[[Star Wars the Arcade Game]]''
* ''[[Scramble (Video Game)|Super Cobra]]''
* ''[[Tapper (Video Game)|Tapper]]''
* ''[[Time Pilot (Video Game)|Time Pilot]]''
* ''[[Video Game/Turbo|Turbo]]'' (packaged with steering wheel and gas pedal controllers)
* ''[[Tutankham (Video Game)|Tutankham]]''
* ''[[Video Game/War Games|War Games]]''
* ''[[Zaxxon (Video Game)|Zaxxon]]''
 
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