Cmosfm
07-30-2004, 11:35 AM
Why do I love such a small miniscule company? Let's start with the personal reasons...
When I was little, we we're a lower middle class family. Meaning mom and dad couldnt very well go out and plop down 50.00 for a new game when I wanted one. We didn't go to Toys R Us, We went to Toy Liquidators. If you don't know, this was where all the misfit...errr...non-selling toys wound up. You'd find the old Cow Boys of Moo Mesa toys, or Bucky O'Hare toys here (had a whole Bucky set!).
Anyways, Toy Liguidators seemed to be the #1 carrier of Color Dreams and other Non-hit title games (Videomation, Bayou Billy, etc). If I recall correctly, they had the Color Dreams games priced at anywhere from 10.00-20.00 which was affordable to our family. Some of my fondest memories are of getting Captain Comic, Bible Adventures, Pesterminator and other great games. Great! I said it....GREAT! I loved these games to death. I still remember the first time I showed my best friend Brian the cool light blue cartridge. He was so jealous!
Now, the professional reasons...
First of all, they actually had the balls to backward engineer and illegally produce games for the NES. Gotta give em some credit, they did it, and could have faced major charges for it. But didn't, and there STILL in buisness today (Star-Dot Technologies - www.wincam.com) Selling Digital Cameras!
They had 3 divisions, Color Dreams, Bunch Games & Wisdom Tree. Wisdom Tree possibly being the most successful, since they are still in buisness and selling games today(www.wisdomtreegames.com - Go grab a copy of Sunday Funday). It was the only division to produce a Super NES game! Super Noah's Ark 3D. I love the fact that they felt religious games were needed, thus giving kids the ability to learn about the Bible while playing games! Who knew Noah could pick up 3 animals and raise them over his head and never break a sweat! God DOES work in mysterious ways!
One of the most talked about unreleased game is Hellraiser, a cartridge with it's own 8-bit processer that would work alongside of the NES's 8-bit process for a 16-bit experience! They scrapped it due to problems in manufacturing and the horrible price they'd have to sell it for ($99)
Here's the complete list of there games...
Color Dreams
Baby Boomer
Captain Comic
Challenge Of The Dragon
Crystal Mines
King Neptune's Adventure
Master Chu & The Drunkard Hu
Menace Beach
Metal Fighter
Operation Secret Storm
P'radikus Conflict
Pesterminator
Raid 2020
Robo Demons
Secret Scout
Silent Assault
Bunch Games
Castle Of Deciet
Galactic Crusader
Mission Cobra
Moon Ranger
Taggin Dragon
Wisdom Tree
Bible Adventures
Bible Buffet
Exodus
Joshua
King of Kings
Spiritual Warfare
Sunday Funday
That's about all for my rave on Color Dreams, I hope you enjoyed learning of there history and are urged to check out more.
-Cmosfm (Standing up for the little guys)
When I was little, we we're a lower middle class family. Meaning mom and dad couldnt very well go out and plop down 50.00 for a new game when I wanted one. We didn't go to Toys R Us, We went to Toy Liquidators. If you don't know, this was where all the misfit...errr...non-selling toys wound up. You'd find the old Cow Boys of Moo Mesa toys, or Bucky O'Hare toys here (had a whole Bucky set!).
Anyways, Toy Liguidators seemed to be the #1 carrier of Color Dreams and other Non-hit title games (Videomation, Bayou Billy, etc). If I recall correctly, they had the Color Dreams games priced at anywhere from 10.00-20.00 which was affordable to our family. Some of my fondest memories are of getting Captain Comic, Bible Adventures, Pesterminator and other great games. Great! I said it....GREAT! I loved these games to death. I still remember the first time I showed my best friend Brian the cool light blue cartridge. He was so jealous!
Now, the professional reasons...
First of all, they actually had the balls to backward engineer and illegally produce games for the NES. Gotta give em some credit, they did it, and could have faced major charges for it. But didn't, and there STILL in buisness today (Star-Dot Technologies - www.wincam.com) Selling Digital Cameras!
They had 3 divisions, Color Dreams, Bunch Games & Wisdom Tree. Wisdom Tree possibly being the most successful, since they are still in buisness and selling games today(www.wisdomtreegames.com - Go grab a copy of Sunday Funday). It was the only division to produce a Super NES game! Super Noah's Ark 3D. I love the fact that they felt religious games were needed, thus giving kids the ability to learn about the Bible while playing games! Who knew Noah could pick up 3 animals and raise them over his head and never break a sweat! God DOES work in mysterious ways!
One of the most talked about unreleased game is Hellraiser, a cartridge with it's own 8-bit processer that would work alongside of the NES's 8-bit process for a 16-bit experience! They scrapped it due to problems in manufacturing and the horrible price they'd have to sell it for ($99)
Here's the complete list of there games...
Color Dreams
Baby Boomer
Captain Comic
Challenge Of The Dragon
Crystal Mines
King Neptune's Adventure
Master Chu & The Drunkard Hu
Menace Beach
Metal Fighter
Operation Secret Storm
P'radikus Conflict
Pesterminator
Raid 2020
Robo Demons
Secret Scout
Silent Assault
Bunch Games
Castle Of Deciet
Galactic Crusader
Mission Cobra
Moon Ranger
Taggin Dragon
Wisdom Tree
Bible Adventures
Bible Buffet
Exodus
Joshua
King of Kings
Spiritual Warfare
Sunday Funday
That's about all for my rave on Color Dreams, I hope you enjoyed learning of there history and are urged to check out more.
-Cmosfm (Standing up for the little guys)