Galaxian / Pac-Man (Coleco)

in retrogaming •  6 years ago  (edited)
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I love these things. I have all 5 Coleco ones released in this style, plus the Donkey Kong Jr. game that I've had since I was a child.

I don't have any of the Coleco ones though I'd like to pick a couple up one day. I do have a couple LED games from that era. The aforementioned 'Hungry Monster' Pac-Man clone and one called something like 'Fire Away' that's a Space Invaders clone. I love those LED displays even though they eat batteries. Much better than the black-and-white LCDs that became popular a little later.

I had a game called Fire Away as a kid. I played the heck out of that thing. Did yours look like this? Tandy-FireAway2000.jpg

Apparently I have the "Cosmic 1000" variant. I think I picked this one up at a yard sale in the mid 1990s sometime. It's the one in the middle of this pic:

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And if you're curious, here's Hungry Monster:

Tandy Hungry Monster.gif

I had forgotten that these were both Tandy games...

Yeah, these were awesome. I never had one either but I had a friend who had one as well. The whole miniature arcade look was just amazing.