Yeah, the ColecoVision actually has an impressive homebrew library all things considered and the relative (and I do mean relative) ease with which games from the long-lived MSX 1 platform can be ported is a huge plus (and often with enhancements!). It's like the MSX 1 platform showed the promise of what the ColecoVision could have turned into had Coleco not been forced to pull out. Obviously the TI-99/4a is very similar in audio-visual capabilities to the ColecoVision as well, as well as other systems, including the Tomy Tutor. Certainly though ports from those (and let's face it, really on the TI-99/4a would be worth it) are not as straightforward, which is why we haven't seen any. It's also a shame that the Coleco Adam was built so relatively poorly and ultimately failed despite high initial interest, as that took the best of the base ColecoVision platform and gave it a HUGE boost in RAM, which is really the major deficiency of the ColecoVision outside of poor scrolling capabilities, which can sometimes be overcome with clever programming tricks/techniques.

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