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OK guys, a friend of mine at work and i are fighting over which one of these systems was better back in its day,and i would like to know what ALL you guys think,so PLEASE give me your input on this so i can shut him up!
I like the ColecoVision,and he says the InteleVision was better,i think he is drinking Drano LOL,so what do you guys think?
ColecoVision or InteleVision?
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I have limited experience with both, but I would choose ColecoVision over InteleVision. Also whats wrong with drinking drano?
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Personally, I prefer Colecovision and Liquid Plumber myself.


Anybody ever heard of the Sinclair Spectrum?

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Colecovision.
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Originally posted by: Nanner Split
Personally, I prefer Colecovision and Liquid Plumber myself.


Anybody ever heard of the Sinclair Spectrum?


I have had some fun with the Spectrum ZX, still pretty limited.

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I dont know if ive ever played the ColecoVision, name rings a bell though. I have played InteleVision as one of my brothers friends used to have it.

I know someone that drank Pine Sol once...pretty funny story...i can tell it if you guys want

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Colecovision had better graphics, but Intellivision had more games, if I remember correctly. But I've always been partial to the Atari 2600 myself.
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Colecovision always had the better rep in my experience. I liked playing it at my friend's house, but you could only get so many games for it. Hence why I had the Atari 2600 and the 7800... more games. To me, as a kid, quantity was much better than quality. It would have to have been considering what an addict I was for Pong. Only way to explain it.
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Colecovision always had the better rep in my experience. I liked playing it at my friend's house, but you could only get so many games for it. Hence why I had the Atari 2600 and the 7800... more games. To me, as a kid, quantity was much better than quality. It would have to have been considering what an addict I was for Pong. Only way to explain it.


I was a Pong addict too, which led to many, MANY long battles of the addicting 2600 game 'Warlord'.

Atari Paddlers UNITE!!!!!
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Atari Paddlers UNITE!!!!!


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Intelevision. I had one. Well, actually my dad bought one, I used to play it since I was born until I got a nintendo, back when I was around 7. It was not only an amazing game console, the whole history behind it is very cool. So my vote goes for INTELEVISION...

Games I had:

Soccer
BurgerTime
Pitfall
Triple Action

and some other games I can't recall right now.
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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
I dont know if ive ever played the ColecoVision, name rings a bell though. I have played InteleVision as one of my brothers friends used to have it.

I know someone that drank Pine Sol once...pretty funny story...i can tell it if you guys want

-Darth Simon


Would love to hear/read it?
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yes the Atari 2600 was great,you know guys,you can re-live ALL those games from Atari 2600,ColecoVision,Genesis,TurboGrafx,SegaCD,Nintendo,Super Nintendo,Nintendo 64,and many many others on your XBOX,i have a shitload of all them old games on mine,I love the Wizards and Warriors games,the Ninja Gaiden games,and my all time favorite the CASTLEVANIA games all the way up to N64.
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It majorly helps having a 120gig HD on my XBOX.
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That was the main reason I bought an XBOX, long since been replace by my MAME Cabinet.
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That was the main reason I bought an XBOX, long since been replace by my MAME Cabinet.

Very cool. I've been interested in them but not techie enough to build one on my own (plus the money). Did you build it yourself or buy it?

EDIT: Referring to the MAME cabinet.
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Well an old friend gave me an old tron cabinet, really just a shell. From there I had to clean it out, take off the old beat up side art and other art work, search for nice looking tron parts (ebay). Once I had all the parts I started to look for the PC parts I need, keyboard encoder, monitor, buttons, fans, that stuff. Once I had everything I need it was time to do some wood working, just making sure everything fit right and stuff, configuring the computer and what not. Nothing is really that hard to just very time consuming. Anyways not sure if any of that made sences so here are some very helpful links:

http://www.projectarcade.com/sample.html (!!!Buy the book!!!)
http://www.mameworld.net/
http://www.ultimarc.com/
http://www.phoenixarcade.com/art.htm
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I was always partial to the Atari systems. Coleco's and Intellivision's controllers sucked, and the whole "you can turn your game console into a computer" schtick never did anything for me. I tried playing Buck Rodgers on the Coleco ADAM; what a joke!

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Colecovision always had the better rep in my experience. I liked playing it at my friend's house, but you could only get so many games for it. Hence why I had the Atari 2600 and the 7800... more games. To me, as a kid, quantity was much better than quality. It would have to have been considering what an addict I was for Pong. Only way to explain it.


I was a Pong addict too, which led to many, MANY long battles of the addicting 2600 game 'Warlord'.

Atari Paddlers UNITE!!!!!


HELL, YEAH !!! WARLORDS WAS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE GAMES.

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I can't belive I'm the only one backing up Intellevision... Why am I always a lonely voice in a multitude of disagreement?
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Hey.....anyone remember the Virtual Boy? *smiles knowingly*

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no its all about the Vectrex!
DJ

The Vectrex was a fine system. I wish I could've got the 3D headset for it.

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Hey.....anyone remember the Virtual Boy? *smiles knowingly*


Not only I remember it, I've played it. I've played every single nintendo console since the NES.
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering