What is worng with my COLECOVISION Flashback

[kcolg30]

I have a few questions.

 

1. When playing Mecha-8 the fire buttons are reversed. The game plays fine but reading the manual indicated that the fire is the left button. Mine fires using the right button.

 

2. For you Coleco Flashback owners, please look at the front white panel where you plug I the controllers. If you look in the center/top is your panel slighly beveled in the middle?

[+5-11under]

The buttons are reversed from what they should be (all games). You can open up the controller and physically move them to the opposite location, if you want.

[+nanochess]

My front white panel looks perfectly plane.

[Bill Loguidice]

I have a few questions.

 

1. When playing Mecha-8 the fire buttons are reversed. The game plays fine but reading the manual indicated that the fire is the left button. Mine fires using the right button.

 

Unfortunately, when I wrote the game descriptions in the manual, I was basing them off of how a real ColecoVision works, so all two button games (with distinct functions) are described incorrectly (fortunately, it's easy enough to figure out to do the opposite). There was a mix-up with engineering that, among other things, caused the reversed buttons.

[prOk]

How the heck does QA not catch something like that?

[RJ]

Was there QA?