[GeronL]

Intellivision, Colecovision and a bunch of other systems competed with Atari didn’t they?

[nascarnation]

Now that's a name I'd forgotten:

[Sawdring]

I had the Coleco when I was a kid. I was checking out the items in my parents attic and found my old Coleco with a bunch of games for it. I brought it home and checked out what people were selling them for and then threw it up in my attic when I found it wasn’t worth anything.

[Dr. Sivana]

Intellivision, Colecovision and a bunch of other systems competed with Atari didn’t they?

Those were the days. The best job I ever had was being a video game reviewer and writer for the old mags (Video Games, Videogaming Illustrated) until the great crash of 1983-84.

Other systems available: Atari 5200, Bally Astrocade, Magnavox Odyssey 2, Emerson Arcadia, GCE Vectrex, numerous 8 bit computers.

[CommieCutter]

I remember always seeing that Slave Zero game but never played it.

Intellivision, Colecovision and a bunch of other systems competed with Atari didn’t they?

Yes. I believe you were able to play 2600 carts on the Colecovision. Not sure how they got away with that. Then you had a lot of non-licensed developers making games for the 2600.

I actually started out with the Vectrex as a kid. It was a D.O.A. system as it came out during the infamous 1983 video game crash. It was very Dreamcast like as it was ahead of it's time as well.