- Coleco released a line of really cool tabletop and handheld games to match the
arcade coin-ops and the home conversions. Some of them are really sharp looking,
having been modeled after coin op machines and bearing really cool designs.
Catalog #1:
Coleco Hand Held Games catalog from 1982
This catalog shows some really cool hand held games. The Coleco hand helds
that were actually shaped like arcade machines are included in here, as are
their other flat handhelds that weren't quite as well known. Some of the
pictures are VERY cool, check them out!
Click on the thumbnail for the full image:
The cover, itself featuring little thumbnails of what's inside.
These handhelds are the ones that are shaped really cool. I personally
own the Pac Man one, and I think it's the more common one in existence. I
have never actually seen any of the other ones, so I can't comment on whether
or not they exist but I'm sure they do. The Pac Man doesn't play as cool as
it looks, though, and has a veryannoying waa waa waa to it.
Featured: Pac Man, Galaxian, Donkey Kong, Frogger.
The Telstar Marksman light gun game. Very cool!
The Quiz Wiz line of question and answer handhelds.
The Electronic Learning Machine, another one of Coleco's
handheld intellectual type games.
Some more of Coleco's handheld games, these being sports games. The
ones that featured the LEDs and the beeping sounds. Novel but hard
to play, in my opinion.
Featured: Total Control IV, Head to Head Electronic Boxing,
Football, Baseball.
The Bowlatronic, Alien Attack, and the pretty interesting
concept of AC adapters by Coleco, the Perma Power Battery
Eliminator.
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