As the Atari 2600 and the Mattel Intellivision was getting on in years, toy manufacturer Coleco, who had already dabbled in electronic games such as plug-and-play Pong clones and licensed single game ...

Retro games publisher and developer Rantmedia Games secured the rights to the ColecoVision arcade console brand and is launching a Kickstarter campaign this morning to port its library of games to ...

Back in 1982 Coleco brought the ColecoVision console to family rooms, the console was mildly successful at best which lead Coleco into financial crisis in the late '80s. Fast forward to 2005 and ...

The upcoming cartridge-based console Retro VGS may have failed its crowdfunding attempt on Indiegogo last year yet it’s proven to be down but not out. It’s now got the backing of Coleco (thanks ...

Who's up for a quick history lesson? While Donkey Kong is purely Nintendo's furry, banana-breathed baby, the company originally granted Coleco rights to produce console and tabletop versions of the ...

Time Extension recently got the chance to speak to Coleco exec Bert Reiner about the history of the American toy and console maker. According to his account, there was a time when Nintendo almost ...

Few things are more satisfying than finding an old, forgotten piece of technology somewhere and bringing it back to life. And while it’s great to see a rare sports car or an Apollo Flight Computer ...

Classic console company Coleco has announced that it is re-entering the video games market, in partnership with a crowd-funded retro gaming project which failed to meet its goal. Founded in 1932 as ...

Related reads:Nvidia: Upcoming Games Like Forza Horizon 6, and More Set To Launch With DLSS 4 and Multi-Frame Generation Support In a partnership with Retro Video Game Systems, Coleco has announced a ...

is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. Coleco was behind some of the earliest ...