VACRMH
04-24-2005, 06:51 PM
I should be getting a Colecovision in a few days, and it also mentioned that it came with an Atari adaptor. I googled and found this....
Atari 2600 Adaptor, retailing at $60. This expansion module allowed Colecovision owners to play all Atari 2600 cartridges. A great marketing strategy, this allowed Coleco to tap in to the Atari user base and also gave them a game library larger than any other gaming system. Atari of course, promptly sued Coleco for $350 million in December of '82, claiming Coleco ripped off propriertary designs to make their compatible expansion module. Coleco countered with a $500 million anti-trust lawsuit that claimed Atari was trying to discourage retailers carrying Atari products from also carrying Coleco. They also charged that Atari created an unfair advantage in the industry when it bought part of Pac-man inventor Namco, and that it violated anti-trust laws as well. Atari's claims remained unproven and dismissed, and both sets of charges were settled out of court by April 1983 when Coleco agreed to pay royalties. Not all cartridges fit properly in to the module, so Coleco provided an adaptor to anyone that wrote to the company to complain.
So now I have a few questions :)
1) Do any Atari games have a problem playing even if they fit? Could I just use this instead of getting a 2600?
2) What type of games don't fit?
3) How hard would it be to track down that Adaptor?
Thanks! :)
Atari 2600 Adaptor, retailing at $60. This expansion module allowed Colecovision owners to play all Atari 2600 cartridges. A great marketing strategy, this allowed Coleco to tap in to the Atari user base and also gave them a game library larger than any other gaming system. Atari of course, promptly sued Coleco for $350 million in December of '82, claiming Coleco ripped off propriertary designs to make their compatible expansion module. Coleco countered with a $500 million anti-trust lawsuit that claimed Atari was trying to discourage retailers carrying Atari products from also carrying Coleco. They also charged that Atari created an unfair advantage in the industry when it bought part of Pac-man inventor Namco, and that it violated anti-trust laws as well. Atari's claims remained unproven and dismissed, and both sets of charges were settled out of court by April 1983 when Coleco agreed to pay royalties. Not all cartridges fit properly in to the module, so Coleco provided an adaptor to anyone that wrote to the company to complain.
So now I have a few questions :)
1) Do any Atari games have a problem playing even if they fit? Could I just use this instead of getting a 2600?
2) What type of games don't fit?
3) How hard would it be to track down that Adaptor?
Thanks! :)