The Colecovision console from the early 1980s ... considerably reduced by the use of a Texas Instruments TMS9118 video controller instead of a 9918. Had we been building it we would probably ...

Other systems, like the Intellivision (1979), had a disc-shaped pad on the bottom half of the controller and a 4-by-3 numeric keypad. Similarly, the ColecoVision (1982) featured the same type of ...

The Colecovision was a state-of-the-art game console back in 1983. Based around the Z-80, it was almost a personal computer (and, with the Adam add-on, it could serve that function, complete with ...