E3 2006: Coleco Smurf Rescue
I had a Coleco when I was a little boy, and I absolutely loved this stupid game, and its screeching theme music, which is not the "tra LAAA la-laaa la la" music from the show. I'd find myself whistling this digital tune set all the time. Each section of the world had its own music that would cut in replacing the last bit whenever you switched backgrounds, which occurred every 2 screens or so. The musical bits were constructed of short, roughly 10-second loops, and so could conceivably annoy the crap out of parents if you played too long.
I had Donkey Kong there, too, but none of the other few on the table. One of the cool things about the Coleco was their Atari adapter, which they were eventually sued over. There's a port on the front of the Coleco, centered horizontally in front of the cartridge hole into which you could plug the wedge-shaped Atari adapter, and then you could stick Atari 2600 games into that, and it had its own reset buttons, etc. As such, I never actually had an Atari 2600, though I had original joysticks, and several of the games. It's weird, because I've ended up with strong nostalgic feelings for this other system I never actually owned.
E3 2006: Coleco Smurf Rescue
I had a Coleco when I was a little boy, and I absolutely loved this stupid game, and its screeching theme music, which is not the "tra LAAA la-laaa la la" music from the show. I'd find myself whistling this digital tune set all the time. Each section of the world had its own music that would cut in replacing the last bit whenever you switched backgrounds, which occurred every 2 screens or so. The musical bits were constructed of short, roughly 10-second loops, and so could conceivably annoy the crap out of parents if you played too long.
I had Donkey Kong there, too, but none of the other few on the table. One of the cool things about the Coleco was their Atari adapter, which they were eventually sued over. There's a port on the front of the Coleco, centered horizontally in front of the cartridge hole into which you could plug the wedge-shaped Atari adapter, and then you could stick Atari 2600 games into that, and it had its own reset buttons, etc. As such, I never actually had an Atari 2600, though I had original joysticks, and several of the games. It's weird, because I've ended up with strong nostalgic feelings for this other system I never actually owned.