When I was a wee lad, my parents bought me a Colecovision ADAM computer. It was basically a Colecovision attached to a keyboard and tape drive, which ran a version of Apple's BASIC (called SmartBASIC, IIRC). It even had a daisywheel printer, and was a pretty nifty word processor/electronic typewriter. The case of the ADAM was pretty big. There was one tape drive included, and there was a space for an expansion drive right next to it.
The games were pretty damned good, as I recall. The graphics were easily 4x better than the Atari 2600. I even liked the funky controller, which consisted of a joystick, 2 "fire" buttons, and a numeric keypad all in a handheld unit.
My ADAM came bundled with a cartridge game called "BC's Quest for Tires", based on the newspaper comic strip. Great game -- I wasted away many hours playing it.
It also came with a tape game (ADAM only -- no Coleco cartidge version) based on Buck Rodgers. I can't recall the exact name of the game, though it might simply have been "Buck Rodgers". It was your basic 3/4 view scrolling space shoot 'em up, and had more levels than I had ever seen on any game at the time. The sound was superb, and the graphics were great.
I had a friend who also owned an ADAM, and he was lucky enough to own "Donkey Kong jr." (also on tape). It was, bar none, the BEST game I ever played up to that point. I simply could not believe that SO MUCH GAMEPLAY could be packed into a little tape. It was better than 99% of the arcade games at the time.
I'm not sure what happened to that ADAM, but I suspect that it was sold to a lucky person during one of my family's many garage sales (knowing my dad ~~ probably for the measly sum of $5).
It's nice to see a gaming company support an older game, for no more reason than to keep making it better. They didn't need to (the game is far from bug-free, but it's still very playable), and it makes little economic sense to devote resources to it.
By most accounts, the 1.10 patch introduces some pretty amazing gameplay changes. It's almost like another expansion.
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When I was a wee lad, my parents bought me a Colecovision ADAM computer. It was basically a Colecovision attached to a keyboard and tape drive, which ran a version of Apple's BASIC (called SmartBASIC, IIRC). It even had a daisywheel printer, and was a pretty nifty word processor/electronic typewriter. The case of the ADAM was pretty big. There was one tape drive included, and there was a space for an expansion drive right next to it.
The games were pretty damned good, as I recall. The graphics were easily 4x better than the Atari 2600. I even liked the funky controller, which consisted of a joystick, 2 "fire" buttons, and a numeric keypad all in a handheld unit.
My ADAM came bundled with a cartridge game called "BC's Quest for Tires", based on the newspaper comic strip. Great game -- I wasted away many hours playing it.
It also came with a tape game (ADAM only -- no Coleco cartidge version) based on Buck Rodgers. I can't recall the exact name of the game, though it might simply have been "Buck Rodgers". It was your basic 3/4 view scrolling space shoot 'em up, and had more levels than I had ever seen on any game at the time. The sound was superb, and the graphics were great.
I had a friend who also owned an ADAM, and he was lucky enough to own "Donkey Kong jr." (also on tape). It was, bar none, the BEST game I ever played up to that point. I simply could not believe that SO MUCH GAMEPLAY could be packed into a little tape. It was better than 99% of the arcade games at the time.
I'm not sure what happened to that ADAM, but I suspect that it was sold to a lucky person during one of my family's many garage sales (knowing my dad ~~ probably for the measly sum of $5).
It's nice to see a gaming company support an older game, for no more reason than to keep making it better. They didn't need to (the game is far from bug-free, but it's still very playable), and it makes little economic sense to devote resources to it.
By most accounts, the 1.10 patch introduces some pretty amazing gameplay changes. It's almost like another expansion.
Way to go, Blizzard.
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