modojo.com — Handheld gaming didn't begin with the GameBoy - Coleco was WAY ahead of the curve, releasing portable versions of Zaxxon and other classics way back in the 80s. Modojo takes a detailed look back (with pics) at Coleco's VERY oldschool handheld videogames. A cool read.
Jun 20, 2006 View in Crawl 4
k_doggJun 21, 2006
Coleco Head 2 Head Football was the best!Although the games pictured in this story look a good bit more spiffy than the old head-to-head unit I remember:<a class="user" href="http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Coleco/H2HFootball.htm">http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Coleco/H2HFootball.htm</a>Man this sure does bring back some memories!
Closed AccountJun 21, 2006
I had Donkey Kong, Frogger, and Pac Man.I sold them all on Ebay for mega $$$$If you find them at a thrift store, have a quick nostalgia trip, and cash in!
kjbetzJun 21, 2006
I had one of those Microvisions too (well my dad did) and remember playing that thing for hours... Bowling, Super Breakout and some type of land to air shooting game... oh the memories!
trekkieJun 21, 2006
I have the green 'Football II' and my Dad and I would play that for hours. I also got a Tron and Scramble that were similar in look to the Coleco one mentioned in this article. I think they were made by Tomy. I think i was cleaning out boxes last fall and sold the Scramble and Tron on ebay.
abiding99Jun 21, 2006
Venture was good times, but I was all about Montezuma's Revenge, played that game for hours upon hours, just kept repeating level 9.
permanent4Jun 21, 2006
Oh, man, the memories. I used to have a Merlin as a little kid and eventually got the Q-Bert tabletop game, though I really beat the hell out of it and ended up selling it at a garage sale for a buck. Kids at one of my elementary schools had both the Coleco tabletop Pac-Man and Entex Pac-Man 2, which let one player play as Pac-Man and another play as a ghost.I also had Pac-Man and Q-Bert watches at some point in my life, but I lost both of them. In my last year of elementary school, I would get together with a couple of other kids with game watches once a week, and we would trade watches and play each others' games on the monkey bars during recess. Ah, memories...