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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! :)

digitalpress
04-24-2005, 06:54 PM
Good news is it's an extremely common item, so you won't have any problem finding one:

http://www.digitpress.com/DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=80

I haven't hit a 2600 game that doesn't work yet, but I believe there are some. I'll leave that part of the question for our esteemed members here.

Have fun with your new system!

VACRMH
04-24-2005, 06:56 PM
Good news is it's an extremely common item, so you won't have any problem finding one:

http://www.digitpress.com/DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=80

I haven't hit a 2600 game that doesn't work yet, but I believe there are some. I'll leave that part of the question for our esteemed members here.

Have fun with your new system!


Whoops, question 3 was about the adaptor that coleco gave out for 2600 games that wouldn't fit.

Good to know that so many games work though :)

Thanks!

Yago
04-24-2005, 07:24 PM
I have a couple of these and have not found a game yet that did not work. All the Sears games and Atari games will work fine. The only ones I think would ever have a problem are the rarer odd shaped 3rd party carts. Parker Brother games like the Star Wars games work fine as well. It is a fun little Adapter, enjoy it.

Keir
04-25-2005, 10:10 AM
Good news is it's an extremely common item, so you won't have any problem finding one:

http://www.digitpress.com/DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=80

I haven't hit a 2600 game that doesn't work yet, but I believe there are some. I'll leave that part of the question for our esteemed members here.

Have fun with your new system!Whoops, question 3 was about the adaptor that coleco gave out for 2600 games that wouldn't fit.
That, unfortunately, is damn near impossible to find:
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10998

VACRMH
04-25-2005, 10:15 AM
Good news is it's an extremely common item, so you won't have any problem finding one:

http://www.digitpress.com/DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=80

I haven't hit a 2600 game that doesn't work yet, but I believe there are some. I'll leave that part of the question for our esteemed members here.

Have fun with your new system!Whoops, question 3 was about the adaptor that coleco gave out for 2600 games that wouldn't fit.
That, unfortunately, is damn near impossible to find:
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10998

Ouch, but am I really missing out on much?

digitalpress
04-25-2005, 10:38 AM
Ouch, but am I really missing out on much?

Not for a player's side of things. This is really important only to those who collect!

Kamino
04-25-2005, 11:39 AM
one note.
I used to have the atari adaptor.
Any time I wanted to play CV games, I had to unplug that damn adaptor.
Things may have been dirty though......or I might just be nuts. LOL