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[boxpressed]

In another thread, I mentioned a recent purchase of Coleco sales kits from 1983. I have approximately 80 flyers of Coleco products, including unreleased games. Here are all of the scans of the unreleased Colecovision titles that I have. If there are any others floating around out there, please post scans here.

[Ransom]

IMO, the world didn't need yet another Wizard of Wor or Skiing, but the rest would have been very welcome indeed! Thanks for sharing.

[boxpressed]

No problem. The Skiing flyer is interesting because it appears to depict an actual screenshot, which may or may not be from a working game.

[Intellivisioner]

Thanks for sharing!
Great flyers
The "Dracula" screenshot was published in a german game magazine called "Tele Action".Will add a scan soon.
"Tunnels & Trolls" looks just gorgeous.
It´s so sad that they never hit the market.

[Vic George 2K3]

Papa Smurf's Treasure Hunt, also known as Smurfette's Birthday. Another interesting piece of vaporware. Thanks for the ad scan.

[ColecoFan1981]

Many of the games that were to be released as wafers had their catalog #s retained for their ADAM DDP media releases, such as for Zaxxon (#2623) and Donkey Kong Junior (#2629). The wafers from that promo that did not make the final cut were SubRoc, Turbo, Smurf Rescue and Time Pilot.

~Ben

Edited by ColecoFan1981, Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:17 PM.

[Intellivisioner]

"Dracula" announced in "Tele Action" issue April 1983:

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[retroillucid]

ColecoFan1981, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:15 PM, said:

Many of the games that were to be released as wafers had their catalog #s retained for their ADAM DDP media releases, such as for Zaxxon (#2623) and Donkey Kong Junior (#2629). The wafers from that promo that did not make the final cut were SubRoc, Turbo, Smurf Rescue and Time Pilot.

~Ben

Super Smurf was completed and playable but only as a wafer format , Coleco never made it for ADAM as DDP or Disk

[Ikrananka]

There were two editions for most of these unreleased game flyers (and others). Both appear to come from 1983 and seem to have been released at different events during that year. Interestingly Papa Smurf's Treasure Hunt was titled Smurfette's Birthday in the first edition flyer with exactly the same screenshot as the more common second edition.

I have previously scanned all of these unreleased game flyers for retroillucid (both editions) and hopefully these will appear on his coleco museum website. I have also scanned many others and cleaned quite a few up for reprinting and framing.

The scans are also on colecovisionzone's website (http://www.colecovis...e/presskit.html) but are watermarked.

Also, pboland has been scanning all of the flyers and cleaning them up.

I think we really need to have a coordinated effort to have a definitive set of high quality scans of all of these flyers for retroillucid to host.

I also have a set of unbelieveably rare 1982 ColecoVision flyers that I have scanned for retroillucid.

I'll post my list of flyers in the flyers list thread this weekend.

[retroillucid]

All flyers will apear on colecoindustries.com this year for sure!

Uh, and ALOT more rare goodies too!

[Ransom]

boxpressed, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:53 PM, said:

No problem. The Skiing flyer is interesting because it appears to depict an actual screenshot, which may or may not be from a working game.

Good point. A first-person perspective skiing game would have been amazing back then. 'Course it probably would have had a pretty low frame rate, but as long as it was still playable we probably wouldn't have complained much back then.

[pboland]

Ikrananka, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:36 PM, said:

There were two editions for most of these unreleased game flyers (and others). Both appear to come from 1983 and seem to have been released at different events during that year. Interestingly Papa Smurf's Treasure Hunt was titled Smurfette's Birthday in the first edition flyer with exactly the same screenshot as the more common second edition.

I have previously scanned all of these unreleased game flyers for retroillucid (both editions) and hopefully these will appear on his coleco museum website. I have also scanned many others and cleaned quite a few up for reprinting and framing.

The scans are also on colecovisionzone's website (http://www.colecovis...e/presskit.html) but are watermarked.

Also, pboland has been scanning all of the flyers and cleaning them up.

I think we really need to have a coordinated effort to have a definitive set of high quality scans of all of these flyers for retroillucid to host.

I also have a set of unbelieveably rare 1982 ColecoVision flyers that I have scanned for retroillucid.

I'll post my list of flyers in the flyers list thread this weekend.

Yes, I have cleaned up quite a lot of them. I believe I sent retroillucid scans of my flyers as well. I'm actually trying to sell cleaned up prints (12" x 16") of them. Here is the link to that thread.

ColecoVision mr. Do! Poster & Maybe More...


You'll find that I posted a lot of these images already in that thread. You might even find a few customs in the thread as well.

[retroillucid]

Ransom, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:27 PM, said:

Good point. A first-person perspective skiing game would have been amazing back then. 'Course it probably would have had a pretty low frame rate, but as long as it was still playable we probably wouldn't have complained much back then.

One day.... or it'll be a vaporware of mine
Seriously, I really have plan to complete it someday

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[retroillucid]

pboland, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:40 PM, said:

.... I believe I sent retroillucid scans of my flyers as well.

You're right Phil .... you're credited in the Museum

The more we have the better is!

Oh! And remember, nothing will be watermark on colecoindustries.com

[atari5200dude82]

Nice pics for the colecovison. to bad they weren't completed and released back in the day.

[boxpressed]

Ikrananka, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:36 PM, said:

There were two editions for most of these unreleased game flyers (and others). Both appear to come from 1983 and seem to have been released at different events during that year. Interestingly Papa Smurf's Treasure Hunt was titled Smurfette's Birthday in the first edition flyer with exactly the same screenshot as the more common second edition.

I have previously scanned all of these unreleased game flyers for retroillucid (both editions) and hopefully these will appear on his coleco museum website. I have also scanned many others and cleaned quite a few up for reprinting and framing.

The scans are also on colecovisionzone's website (http://www.colecovis...e/presskit.html) but are watermarked.

Also, pboland has been scanning all of the flyers and cleaning them up.

I think we really need to have a coordinated effort to have a definitive set of high quality scans of all of these flyers for retroillucid to host.

I also have a set of unbelieveably rare 1982 ColecoVision flyers that I have scanned for retroillucid.

I'll post my list of flyers in the flyers list thread this weekend.

The ones I posted are just small jpg files. I actually scanned each flyer at 600 dpi with descreening enabled. Each flyer is about 100 MB, which means that all of them would almost fill 2 DVDs.

[Ransom]

retroillucid, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:41 PM, said:

Ransom, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:27 PM, said:

Good point. A first-person perspective skiing game would have been amazing back then. 'Course it probably would have had a pretty low frame rate, but as long as it was still playable we probably wouldn't have complained much back then.

One day.... or it'll be a vaporware of mine
Seriously, I really have plan to complete it someday

That would be really neat!

[Tempest]

retroillucid, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:27 PM, said:

Super Smurf was completed and playable but only as a wafer format , Coleco never made it for ADAM as DDP or Disk

It's been found then? Or was it shown at a show or something? Other than that one screenshot of the mountain stage I've never seen any proof that it existed.

[Ikrananka]

boxpressed, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:46 PM, said:

Ikrananka, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:36 PM, said:

There were two editions for most of these unreleased game flyers (and others). Both appear to come from 1983 and seem to have been released at different events during that year. Interestingly Papa Smurf's Treasure Hunt was titled Smurfette's Birthday in the first edition flyer with exactly the same screenshot as the more common second edition.

I have previously scanned all of these unreleased game flyers for retroillucid (both editions) and hopefully these will appear on his coleco museum website. I have also scanned many others and cleaned quite a few up for reprinting and framing.

The scans are also on colecovisionzone's website (http://www.colecovis...e/presskit.html) but are watermarked.

Also, pboland has been scanning all of the flyers and cleaning them up.

I think we really need to have a coordinated effort to have a definitive set of high quality scans of all of these flyers for retroillucid to host.

I also have a set of unbelieveably rare 1982 ColecoVision flyers that I have scanned for retroillucid.

I'll post my list of flyers in the flyers list thread this weekend.

The ones I posted are just small jpg files. I actually scanned each flyer at 600 dpi with descreening enabled. Each flyer is about 100 MB, which means that all of them would almost fill 2 DVDs.

Superb - I used the same settings.

[retroillucid]

Tempest, on Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:38 AM, said:

retroillucid, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:27 PM, said:

Super Smurf was completed and playable but only as a wafer format , Coleco never made it for ADAM as DDP or Disk

It's been found then? Or was it shown at a show or something? Other than that one screenshot of the mountain stage I've never seen any proof that it existed.

It was tested for about 8 hours back in the 80s by a magazine guy, he explained everythng he saw and he also taked some screenshots photos
All tested with the SuperGame Module

[Tempest]

retroillucid, on Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:26 PM, said:

Tempest, on Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:38 AM, said:

retroillucid, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:27 PM, said:

Super Smurf was completed and playable but only as a wafer format , Coleco never made it for ADAM as DDP or Disk

It's been found then? Or was it shown at a show or something? Other than that one screenshot of the mountain stage I've never seen any proof that it existed.

It was tested for about 8 hours back in the 80s by a magazine guy, he explained everythng he saw and he also taked some screenshots photos
All tested with the SuperGame Module

Any link to that article? I'd love to see it.

[retroillucid]

Tempest, on Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:35 PM, said:

retroillucid, on Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:26 PM, said:

Tempest, on Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:38 AM, said:

retroillucid, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:27 PM, said:

Super Smurf was completed and playable but only as a wafer format , Coleco never made it for ADAM as DDP or Disk

It's been found then? Or was it shown at a show or something? Other than that one screenshot of the mountain stage I've never seen any proof that it existed.

It was tested for about 8 hours back in the 80s by a magazine guy, he explained everythng he saw and he also taked some screenshots photos
All tested with the SuperGame Module

Any link to that article? I'd love to see it.

I'll host it on colecoindustries.com

I think I have like 5 Super Smurf screens taken from a TV

[Tempest]

retroillucid, on Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:47 PM, said:

I'll host it on colecoindustries.com

I think I have like 5 Super Smurf screens taken from a TV

Looking forward to it. I'd love to read about Super Smurf and any other 'Super' game that never got released. I think there's a screen shot of Super Gorf and Super Turbo out there as well.

[Crapahute]

Tempest, on Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:35 PM, said:

retroillucid, on Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:26 PM, said:

Tempest, on Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:38 AM, said:

retroillucid, on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:27 PM, said:

Super Smurf was completed and playable but only as a wafer format , Coleco never made it for ADAM as DDP or Disk

It's been found then? Or was it shown at a show or something? Other than that one screenshot of the mountain stage I've never seen any proof that it existed.

It was tested for about 8 hours back in the 80s by a magazine guy, he explained everythng he saw and he also taked some screenshots photos
All tested with the SuperGame Module

Any link to that article? I'd love to see it.

There was a picture of Smurf in a French magazine :
http://www.colecobox...984_page105.jpg (see in left bottom corner).

[Tempest]

Oh wow, neat! I've never seen that picture before. Why did they not release this on the ADAM? Maybe the license had expired or something?