A Different Colecovision Collection!

[Bartsfam]

I dug out my original 1983 Colecovision out from the attic, probably five years ago, found AA, had Yurkie go over my console and controllers, and fell in love with the Colecovision all over again.

 

At first I said that I would only collect loose cartridges. That changed to CIB, but Coleco only, no other companies. After collecting about 100 loose cartridges, 40 CIB, and approximately 20 homebrews, my tastes changed again.

 

For the last year, I have been collecting any type of literature or press releases in regards to the Colecovision and Adam.

 

So here are some different things from my collection that are not just typical CV games: (I was going to scan these items, but the files were huge, and I would not be able to upload them all!)

 

The Colecovision Video Club Welcome Kit:

Includes the envelope, Welcome Letter, Iron on Patch, stickers, Colecovision Book Cover and Coleco Vision Score Pads. Also is the letter announcing the cancellation of the Colecovision Video Club!!

 

 

Coleco Adam Marketing letter in regards to the Adam Universal Interface with a publicity photo!

 

 

Here are the five Sunrise games, a group of us purchased from Ozama Wars in Italy, a couple of years back. I have never opened the game boxes, but I think the neatest thing is the original packing box from Sunrise Software!

 

 

And finally, it took awhile, but thanks to AA members here, I was finally able to get all three Colecovision Experience Magazines. I also threw in the Retro Gamer Magazine for the excellent article on the CV and it's history.

 

 

And of course..I was able to score a Super Game Module from Opcode on the first run. So far, so good with it, although due to financial reasons, I have been only able to purchase two games for it:

 

I also have numerous magazine and newspaper advertisements from the early 1980's for the Colecovision and Adam.

We will see what the future holds, as I think I'm going to go try and increase my CIB collection, and as always look for more Colecovision and Adam related publicity items.

Edited February 8, 2014 by Bartsfam

[RickR]

You have a cool collection.

[retroillucid]

Jim,

 

Don't bother to scans the flyers sheets , everything has been already scanned by the CV Brotherhood

If you need the scans, hit one of the members

[+cvga]

You have some great things! I really enjoy seeing things like the Welcome Kit. Thanks for sharing!

[thevnaguy]

Awesome collection!!! I am on the waiting list for the next run of the SGM definately want to add that to my coleco collection!

[SiLic0ne t0aD]

Very nice! I almost won a lot of 3 CV Experience magazines but I missed it.. I hope to get those for my CV collection at some point. Great collection you have there!

[Bartsfam]

My collection has grown quite a bit since I last posted, six years ago. 

My wife has asked me to downsize the collection, so it was a good time to take inventory and document what I've collected and thought that I would share.  

I still love to collect Coleco/Colecovision literature, advertisements, and paraphernalia. 

I ended up collecting two complete Colecovision Press Kits and half of another press kit. Also, thanks to members here at AA, and other sources, I was able to obtain some internal Coleco Industries documents and publicity photos. A couple of Colecovsion Video Club membership kits.  And any advertisements that  I can get my hands on from back in the day. 

 

 

I put everything into a couple of notebooks with protective plastic. Here are a couple of press kit sample pages.  

 

 

Some Coleco Industries internal memos and publicity shots.  Included is a Colecovision Game Test check list. 

 

 

Two complete Colecovision Video Club membership kits.

 

 

Some Colecovision fuzzy stickers.

 

Colecovision book covers.  They were included in the Video Club kit.

 

 

Any Coleco/Colecovision/ADAM advertisements I can find.  Here are a few samples. 

 

My favorite advertisement..where did they get these models in the 80's?  Must have been a low budget shoot!

 

A Colecovision Repro Book. From what I am told, it was a book sent out to local newspapers that could use the prints inside to advertise for the local stores that sold Colecovision and the games. 

 

 

Various coupons and promotions.  I like the Colecovsion/Disney world cross promotion advertisement.  And a Colecovision button. 

 

 

Some 1980's Video Game Magazines. Some I owned as a kid, some I bought within the last couple of years. 

 

 

And not Colecovision related, but a tin sign that I found in a dumpster after a certain video game store went out of business in our local strip mall. 

 

And last...something not video game related.  A quick story...when I was a boy I collected "Archie" comics, not superhero comics. We used to visit my Great Aunt Myrt in Maine. It took 5 hours to get there, and I always dreaded the visit, but I always admired a "Archie" artist proof that she had hanging on her wall. She told me that Archie comic artist Bob Montana used to summer in Maine down the street from her and they became friends. Bob Montana signed this "proof" to her and her husband, and she had it hanging on her wall for almost 60 years until she died.  If you look at it up close you can see the pencil marks, ink marks and erasures that he made. 

When Aunt Myrt died, she left me the picture to enjoy.  It still hangs on my office wall. 

 

 

Edited August 8, 2020 by Bartsfam