It is pretty amazing, yeah. Naturally, the biggest flaw with the ColecoVision (which was corrected in the Adam 80 fold) is the lack of RAM, just 1K, so that limits what can be done on the stock console (though amazing things, like nearly arcade perfect Pac-Man conversions are still possible). This add-on and potential stand alone unit (100% ColecoVision compatible plus all of the new features) not only addresses the RAM issues, but also upgrades a variety of other things, making most 80's era arcade games near arcade perfect+ on the console. Of course the guy (to me, a genius) developing it is pretty much a legend in the Coleco community at this point, as he's already done amazing things. Him and a few others are part of a select group that are pushing the ColecoVision to unheard of heights, making it one of the top homebrew platforms in the process. The Opgrade Module can kind of be thought of as the never released (Coleco went with the Adam instead) Super Game Module from Coleco on steroids, so it's very much in the spirit of what might have been.
It is pretty amazing, yeah. Naturally, the biggest flaw with the ColecoVision (which was corrected in the Adam 80 fold) is the lack of RAM, just 1K, so that limits what can be done on the stock console (though amazing things, like nearly arcade perfect Pac-Man conversions are still possible). This add-on and potential stand alone unit (100% ColecoVision compatible plus all of the new features) not only addresses the RAM issues, but also upgrades a variety of other things, making most 80's era arcade games near arcade perfect+ on the console. Of course the guy (to me, a genius) developing it is pretty much a legend in the Coleco community at this point, as he's already done amazing things. Him and a few others are part of a select group that are pushing the ColecoVision to unheard of heights, making it one of the top homebrew platforms in the process. The Opgrade Module can kind of be thought of as the never released (Coleco went with the Adam instead) Super Game Module from Coleco on steroids, so it's very much in the spirit of what might have been.
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