Company | Coleco |
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Type | Video games |
Year | 1982 |
End year | 1984 |
CPU | Z80A |
Speed | 3.58 MHz |
RAM | 8 KB |
ROM | 8K/16K/24K/32K |
Media | cartridge |
Controllers | 2 controllers with joystick, 12-button keypad and two fire buttons |
Graphic modes | 259 x 192 |
Colors | 16 |
Sound | 3 tone channels, 1 noise (Texas Instruments SN76489AN) |
The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries' second generation home video game console and was released August 1982. The ColecoVision offered arcade-quality graphics and gaming style, the ability to play Atari 2600 video games, and the means to expand the system's basic hardware. Released with a catalog of twelve launch titles, with an additional ten games announced for 1982, approximately 125 titles in total were published as ROM cartridges for the system between 1982 and 1984.