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There is a local Colecovision for sale nearby for 150. The whole system works, and there are only 5 games with it.. but one of them is quote unquote extremely rare. . bc's quest for tires. I've never owned a Colecovison, but played them when I was younger. Is it worth the money?
 
If it works, then it probably is worth the money. Colecovisions were notoriously fragile. Mine broke about a month after I bought it. I tried to take it back, but the store I bought it from had gone out of business. Coleco was swamped and wouldn't honor the warantee so I ended up fixing it myself. Broken trace on the cartrige socket IIRC.

There were a lot of fun games for CV. The one I remember playing the most was "Squish'em Sam". Sort of a Crazy Climber knockoff. The most notable thing about it was the main character said "Squish 'em!" when he would stomp something. Considering they didn't have digitized speech on consoles back then it was pretty awesome to get a game that said anything.

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There is a local Colecovision for sale nearby for 150. The whole system works, and there are only 5 games with it.. but one of them is quote unquote extremely rare. . bc's quest for tires. I've never owned a Colecovison, but played them when I was younger. Is it worth the money?

$150 seems kind of high. Did you check Ebay?
 
Prices on CVs are across the board. To me, $150 seems rather on the high end. Hell, I have one that I have been debating to sell with about 6 games, plus the Atari expansion, plus a bunch of Atari games, and the Turbo expansion. The last time I tried it, it had a graphics glitch playing the CV games (not the Atari) that extra lines etc were on the screen. Usually this is due to a dirty power switch or faulty power supply. Never got around to looking at it. But I would let all of go for much less than $150.

So I guess what I'm saying is that it seems a little high to me. Who knows, maybe it is me that is high. :dontknow:
 
That price is way to high. I would say $60 is about right with 5 games. BC game is uncommon, but not rare. I was able to pick up a nice clean unit w/dust cover and 60 games(15 boxed) for $100. It had quite a few rare games in there too. However that was a lucky CL score locally.
It is a must have system. My favorite of the classics system with lots of unique titles.
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Colecovisions are pretty easy to fix. Most failures are dirty cartridge contacts, bad power supplies, faulty power switches, cracked solder joints on the power supply connector, cracked solder joints at the cartridge slot, and bad RAM. Also, there are some chips that drive the controller ports that like to fail - so if you have a dead port, look into it. I think it's just a buffer chip, but I don't remember off the top of my head.

Not a particularly well made console, the Coleco. And nothing a well-versed arcade geek can't fix. And you might want to look into rust-proofing... these Colecos will rust up on you like that! <grin>

That said, they do seem to be harder to find than Atari systems. The weird thing is that I live in New York, not 30 miles from Amsterdam where the big Coleco plant was. And yet even I don't see Coleco systems very often. They probably all broke in the mid 80's and got thrown out...

That said, $150 seems a bit steep - only buy it if you really do want it, and that game it comes with is actually very rare.

EDIT: Just reread the post and saw what game you were talking about. BC's Quest for Tires isn't very rare - even I have that one. Way, way too high.

-Ian
 
$150 is absurd. Depending on the games, you can buy them for as little as $1 each. If she only has 5 games with it, they're probably all common. $35-45 for a complete, fully working unit is what they typically go for.
 
There is a local Colecovision for sale nearby for 150. The whole system works, and there are only 5 games with it..

Like the others said, pass on it. That's ridiculous.

but one of them is quote unquote extremely rare. . bc's quest for tires.

No it isn't; uncommon at best. Even better reason to pass.

(Colecovision is awesome, though.)
 
$150 for a ColecoVision with 5 games back in the mid-late 90's when collecting was in it's heyday was too high. I think I have a stack of 6 or 7 sitting in my crawlspace. You should be able to get one for MUCH cheaper than that.

Chris
 
I have a Colecovision with the Atari Adapter, Roller Controller, at least 10-15 Atari and Coleco games that I would dump for $50. I also have the connector to hook it up to a newer TV. The console works fine. I think the only problem is the one controller. $150 is ridiculous. I think I paid $120 when it was new.
 
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