CBS ColecoVision Questions

[ColecoFan1981]

While I know our NTSC ColecoVision had Donkey Kong as a pack-in cartridge, for the world outside North America, didn't the CBS ColecoVision (PAL) also have Donkey Kong as the pack-in cartridge?

 

I mean for those CBS ColecoVisions marketed in the U.K., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, wasn't Donkey Kong the usual pack-in cartridge? Some other territories (continental Europe) had Mouse Trap as the pack-in cart instead.

 

~Ben

[TPR]

Of all the different boxed consoles I have in my collection from the US, all over Europe, Australia, and S. America the only two pack-ins I've seen are Donkey Kong and Mouse Trap.  Unless you want to get super obscure and count Meteoric Shower for the Dina!  

[RGDiRocco]

[ColecoFan1981]

1 hour ago, RGDiRocco said:

I didn't realize Carnival was the pack-in for the Spanish edition.

 

~Ben

[ColecoFan1981]

I think what would have been cool is if the CBS ColecoVision, if sold in Ireland, would also have had bilingual English and Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic) text on its package designs (both the system itself, cartridges and other accessories). That also should have been the case for those Atari Video Computer Systems/2600s sold in that country as Atari itself actually had an Irish subsidiary.

 

~Ben

Edited June 21 by ColecoFan1981