ColecoVision Coming Back! - Video Games Forum

marksman · #1 (**permalink**) 11-04-2005, 07:03 PM

Woohoo this is the greatest news ever!

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Look out, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo! Coleco, the company behind the Colecovision console of yesteryear, have promised that they’re working on a new version of the console. No other details are available, so for now, don’t get too excited. It’s probably not what you think it is.

The Colecovision brand is now owned by Chicago-based River West Brands LLC, a company started in 2001 by former Kraft executive Paul Earle Jr. The company’s business model is to revive dormant brands that still have a significant amount of mindshare. For instance, the company purchased the Nupriin name then released a new over-the-counter painkiller bearing the Nupriin name. That’s what the company plans to do with the Colecovision relaunch.

In the words of the company’s founder, ”’Old’ has become ‘classic,’ and classic has become cool. Unless hundreds of different marketers are all wrong, the conclusion must be that brand revival works” (source).

That means that we’re not likely to see any major technical feat with the new Colecovision, whenever it comes out. It’ll be a low-tech retro relaunch that appeals to fans of the original Colecovision. It may very well offer an authentic Colecovision experience, but don’t expect a next-generation or HD experience and you won’t be disappointed.

http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000110066601/

Gameiac · #2 (**permalink**) 11-06-2005, 09:49 AM

what is a colecovision? is it like an old gameboy or something like that? why would they make an old system now without hd and stuff. that makes no sense.

marksman · #3 (**permalink**) 11-10-2005, 03:50 PM

It is the best.. I loved my colecovision. I remember playing the smurfs on that thing. It was state-of-the-art graphics. It was the console that ended the atari/intellivison era.

brainhurtseyes · #4 (**permalink**) 01-12-2006, 10:48 PM

AHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA!
That is brilliant news. My cousin had Colecovision and I used to do anything I could to get invited over to her house to play on it. O f corse, she knew how badly I wanted to play and she'd never let me. Same thing went for her Star Wars action figures. Somehow she had a much larger collection than me and would only let me lay with the ones I already had.

Anyway, I'd buy a Colecovision in a friggin' second!

lpstong · #5 (**permalink**) 01-24-2006, 12:07 PM

Man I use to love playing on my friends system. I also liked their handheld systems also(the football and baseball the most). But I looked the company up and here is their official site.
http://coleco.com/