Comment Re:Commodore (Score 1) 37
Hell, yeah!
When I was a wee lad, my parents bought me a Colecovision ADAM computer. It was basically a Colecovision attached to a keyboard and tape drive, which ran a version of Apple's BASIC (called SmartBASIC, IIRC). It even had a daisywheel printer, and was a pretty nifty word processor/electronic typewriter. The case of the ADAM was pretty big. There was one tape drive included, and there was a space for an expansion drive right next to it.
The games were pretty damned good, as I recall. The graphics were easily 4x better than the Atari 2600. I even liked the funky controller, which consisted of a joystick, 2 "fire" buttons, and a numeric keypad all in a handheld unit.
My ADAM came bundled with a cartridge game called "BC's Quest for Tires", based on the newspaper comic strip. Great game -- I wasted away many hours playing it.
It also came with a tape game (ADAM only -- no Coleco cartidge version) based on Buck Rodgers. I can't recall the exact name of the game, though it might simply have been "Buck Rodgers". It was your basic 3/4 view scrolling space shoot 'em up, and had more levels than I had ever seen on any game at the time. The sound was superb, and the graphics were great.
I had a friend who also owned an ADAM, and he was lucky enough to own "Donkey Kong jr." (also on tape). It was, bar none, the BEST game I ever played up to that point. I simply could not believe that SO MUCH GAMEPLAY could be packed into a little tape. It was better than 99% of the arcade games at the time.
I'm not sure what happened to that ADAM, but I suspect that it was sold to a lucky person during one of my family's many garage sales (knowing my dad ~~ probably for the measly sum of $5).
When I was a wee lad, my parents bought me a Colecovision ADAM computer. It was basically a Colecovision attached to a keyboard and tape drive, which ran a version of Apple's BASIC (called SmartBASIC, IIRC). It even had a daisywheel printer, and was a pretty nifty word processor/electronic typewriter. The case of the ADAM was pretty big. There was one tape drive included, and there was a space for an expansion drive right next to it.
The games were pretty damned good, as I recall. The graphics were easily 4x better than the Atari 2600. I even liked the funky controller, which consisted of a joystick, 2 "fire" buttons, and a numeric keypad all in a handheld unit.
My ADAM came bundled with a cartridge game called "BC's Quest for Tires", based on the newspaper comic strip. Great game -- I wasted away many hours playing it.
It also came with a tape game (ADAM only -- no Coleco cartidge version) based on Buck Rodgers. I can't recall the exact name of the game, though it might simply have been "Buck Rodgers". It was your basic 3/4 view scrolling space shoot 'em up, and had more levels than I had ever seen on any game at the time. The sound was superb, and the graphics were great.
I had a friend who also owned an ADAM, and he was lucky enough to own "Donkey Kong jr." (also on tape). It was, bar none, the BEST game I ever played up to that point. I simply could not believe that SO MUCH GAMEPLAY could be packed into a little tape. It was better than 99% of the arcade games at the time.
I'm not sure what happened to that ADAM, but I suspect that it was sold to a lucky person during one of my family's many garage sales (knowing my dad ~~ probably for the measly sum of $5).
