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[Shantai]

PICS COMING SOON!!!

Hello all, A while back I posted (On Digital Press's site) about a collection I received from a fellow APA Pool team member who worked at Coleco in the early to late 80's. I hadn't really followed up much on this collection until the whole Air Raid eBay fiasco got me wondering about my collection.

The post on DP is under this topic: "ColecoVision Discovery (Many Lab games!)"

Back when I used to play in the APA Pool league, one of my teammates heard I collected stuff, and when I told him about a recent garage sale where I bought a bunch of 2600 and CV games, he told me how he used to work at Coleco and still had all his stuff. One day when we had a party for winning the championships (I think it was the division?) (we lost the next round lol.) He gave me 3 huge boxes to take home filled with Colecovision and Adam stuff. Upon examining them at home, I knew something was weird. One long box was stuffed with white label carts. (I presume they are most likely copy carts) so I posted a week later on DP and scanned one of the rare carts. Time went by and I forgot or just stashed the collection away, never selling any of them or cracking any to look for EPROMS.

Well after seeing what happened with Stadium Events, and now Air Raid, I've decided to dust em off, open a few and take pics of this massive collection so my fellow collectors can possibly shed light on exactly what these are.

The collection consists of: (This is NOT an ad to sell, but merely a complete list of what I received from Barry )

--- CONSOLES ---

ADAM Computer System with the drive and extra ribbons, etc... (Complete with ALL the paperwork, just no box lol)

2 Colecovision systems (One missing the power supply)

--- Expansion Modules ---

#1 (Atari 2600 adapter)
#2 (Steering Wheel)

-- Non regular JOYSTICKS --

Roller Controller
SuperAction Controller x2

-- BOOKS -- (All ADAM books are true 1st Edition/1st Printings with the #s going to 1)

ADAM's Companion (1st print 1984) x2
Programming ADAM (1st print 1984)
The First book of ADAM (1st print 1984)
Word Processing with your ADAM (1st Print) x2

Programming the 6502 (3rd edition NO DATE) cover has tons of creases
Sprites, A Turtle and TI LOGO (1st Print 1984)

ADAM SmartBASIC revised edition Programming manual. (Pure white no graphic cover)

-- ADAM CASSETTE TAPE SOFTWARE -- (Does not include the "Blank" cassette tapes, as there are a LOT of them in the collection)

The ADAM Home Software Library (Complete with box)

Adventure Pack 1 (Victory Software Corp)
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (In game pack)
Family Fued
Flash Facts Flashbacks
Flash Facts Trivia
Flash Facts Vocabulator
SmartBASIC x4
SmartFILER
SmartLOGO
Zaxxon


NOTE: I am unable to test any of these cassettes due to the fact the Adam cassette drives don't work on my Adam , as well as the printer (Power works, just does not print) making it a $700 Colecovision lol!



-- The CARTRIDGES!!! -- (ALL work perfectly)

I've divided these into 3 sections (Regular, White label and Possible Proto reg labels)

REGULAR COLECOVISION CARTS (Basic retail labels, but haven't weighed them for EPROMS)

Burgertime
Carnival
Choplifter
Dam Busters, The
Frenzy
Frogger II Threedeep
Gorf
Illusions
Jumpman Junior
Mr. Do!'s Castle
Montezuma's Revenge
Omega Race
Smurf, Rescue in Gargamel's Castle
Space Fury
Space Panic
Subroc
Telly Turtle
Time Pilot
Turbo
Victory
Zaxxon

WHITE LABEL CARTS (I opened Burgertime and indeed it had an EPROM inside) (Protos or copy carts??)

Antarctic Adventure
Brain Strainers
Buck Rogers
Bump 'n Jump
Burgertime
Cabbage Patch Kids Adventure in the Park
Destructor
Dr. Seuss Mix up (No label, just says Puzzler 3 on the cart)
Star Trek
War Games

REG LABEL (Not the retail ones we all know OR the NTSC/Canadian or PAL) Matte feel

2010 The Graphic Adventure Game ("2010" is in white letters)
B.C.'s Quest for Tires II: Grog's Revenge (Regular yellow text, that looks airbrushed onto a negative before it was printed and has a small rectangular label under it)
POSSIBLE NEW DISCOVERY --> Fortune Builders (Matte label with "Fortune Builders" with an S! (NOT "Fortune Builder" as we all know it) on the label and IN THE GAME!


ATARI 2600 CARTS (Reg retail)

KID VID Smurfs Save the Day (Cart and 3 cassettes, no system)
KID VID Berenstain Bears (Complete in box!)

WHITE LABEL CARTS (Protos or Copy carts??)

Roc n' Rope
Wing War (Imagic)

AND my two favorite items:


3 ring binder FROM the 1984 CES show STUFFED with ads, order forms, line art, prices, activities of the day, floor plan layout for Coleco!!, presentations, etc...

ADAM DIAGNOSTIC CARTRIDGE!!!! (NM/MT and works PERFECTLY!)




I have dubbed this this the Barry Hausman collection in his honor (He is listed in the 3 ring binder as a sales rep) and wanted to share this wonderful collection with my fellow collectors.

And yes once everything's figured out, I will be selling many of the rarer pieces It's time to share it with the world

PICS COMING SOON!!!

Edited by Shantai, Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:10 PM.

[Shantai]

Here's a pic of the ADAM Diagnostic cart I found from a site I posted it to a while back

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[Lendorien]

This could be a great find, though I wonder if this might be better placed in the Colecovision/Adam subforum under Classic Gaming.

[Shantai]

Lendorien, on Wed Apr 14, 2010 1:36 AM, said:

This could be a great find, though I wonder if this might be better placed in the Colecovision/Adam subforum under Classic Gaming.

Good idea! Should I post a link to this topic there?

[Wonder007]

"WHITE LABEL CARTS (Protos or Copy carts??)

Roc n' Rope
Wing War (Imagic)

AND my two favorite items:


3 ring binder FROM the 1984 CES show STUFFED with ads, order forms, line art, prices, activities of the day, floor plan layout for Coleco!!, presentations, etc..."

I would be interested in the above items..... Please PM me if you plan to sell those. THANKS!!!

- Wonder007

[Shantai]

Wonder007, on Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:54 PM, said:

"WHITE LABEL CARTS (Protos or Copy carts??)

Roc n' Rope
Wing War (Imagic)

AND my two favorite items:


3 ring binder FROM the 1984 CES show STUFFED with ads, order forms, line art, prices, activities of the day, floor plan layout for Coleco!!, presentations, etc..."

I would be interested in the above items..... Please PM me if you plan to sell those. THANKS!!!

- Wonder007

Wow! alotta people seem to want that CES binder lol.

Most likely it will end up on eBay to give everyone an equal chance, and I will be posting scans for all to see whats inside

[TheRedEye]

Shantai, on Fri Apr 16, 2010 3:25 PM, said:

I will be posting scans for all to see whats inside

Hooray! That's very cool of you, I'm a junkie for stuff like this.

[Shantai]

TheRedEye, on Sun Apr 18, 2010 9:49 AM, said:

Shantai, on Fri Apr 16, 2010 3:25 PM, said:

I will be posting scans for all to see whats inside

Hooray! That's very cool of you, I'm a junkie for stuff like this.

Take a peek in the classic gaming section under coleco. I posted a bunch sofar

[Dr Manhattan]

I used to buy a lot of vintage gaming stuff from a guy in Schenectady, NY. He sold me at least two or three of these white label Colecovision carts. I always wanted to know the truth about them. I assumed they were carts for retail demo units. I still have them in my collection but unfortunately my stuff is in another state. I know one of the games was Smurf and the other might have been Cosmic Avenger.

[Rom Hunter]

Shantai, on Fri Apr 16, 2010 3:25 PM, said:

Wow! alotta people seem to want that CES binder lol.

Most likely it will end up on eBay to give everyone an equal chance, and I will be posting scans for all to see whats inside

That would be fantastic.

I'm very curious about the VCS part of that binder.

BTW:

Do the two white label VCS carts look like these:
http://www.atarimani...g-war_7294.html
http://www.atarimani...rope_11770.html

If so, then they're not proto's.

Edited by Rom Hunter, Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:32 AM.

[yuppicide]

Think we all are.

Rom Hunter, on Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:29 AM, said:

I'm very curious about the VCS part of that binder.