Coleco Adam Donkey Kong - Wikipedia Fix

[ColecoFan1981]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:C..._Kong_for_ADAM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_(video_game)

The way that these articles are presently written, it suggests Coleco never released Donkey Kong for the Adam computer as a result of Coleco allegedly delaying Nintendo's deal with Atari to distribute the FamiCom to the USA. However, that was ultimately not the case, as Atari's then CEO Ray Kassar was let go two months (August 1983) after that CES hot water moment.

Coleco's Adam version of DK does exist, and it was indeed delayed for a time, only finally getting its release in July 1984, when Warner Bros. sold off Atari to Jack Tramiel, thus rendering obsolete the original negotiation the two companies had signed with Nintendo back in 1981 (wherein Coleco was granted the license to publish the game for consoles while Atari had done the same for computers).

~Ben

[tom]

Of course it exists, I owned it when I used to own an Adam, tape version.

[Nz17]

A problem with WikiP is that it is so much easier to delete something than create something. A person can spend hours creating an article, addition, or correction, and all it takes is a few seconds for someone else to undo it.

In this case I don't know if it is a bunch of people writing an article who don't know any better or weren't around when all these events happened. Either way, another problem at the Wiki is that there is no way to assert, "I was there," or your extensive, expert knowledge override someone who doesn't have the right info or motive.

[tom]

A problem with WikiP is that it is so much easier to delete something than create something. A person can spend hours creating an article, addition, or correction, and all it takes is a few seconds for someone else to undo it.

In this case I don't know if it is a bunch of people writing an article who don't know any better or weren't around when all these events happened. Either way, another problem at the Wiki is that there is no way to assert, "I was there," or your extensive, expert knowledge override someone who doesn't have the right info or motive.

Very true, for years I'm trying to convince Wiki that the Atari VCS had the FIRST exercise mat (Exus Foot Craze 1983), not the NES, they just won't have it, obviously that page is run by a lot of NES fanboys....