Topher
Identifies as young
Last edited:
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
My life is a lie. I think I've been pronouncing "Colecovision" wrong all these years
- Thread starter Days like these...
- Start date
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
I wonder whose fault that is...
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
I'm 51
DoubleClutch
Gold Member
Why do people come up with stupid spellings and then get mad when people mispronounce it?
If you want it to be said “co-lee” then don’t write it as “cole”. Write it as colee.
Same as someone with the last name Cook but then they add a random e to the end and bitch about how it’s “COOK AND NOT COOKIE”.
If you want it to be said “co-lee” then don’t write it as “cole”. Write it as colee.
Same as someone with the last name Cook but then they add a random e to the end and bitch about how it’s “COOK AND NOT COOKIE”.
Topher
Identifies as young
Eh....I get your point, but I've never thought about pronouncing Cooke differently than Cook. Is that common?
I'm 35.
Trilobit
Member
That's how I too pronounce it. I mean, Coleco is derived from Colorado Leather Company, so why the 'le' wouldn't be pronounced like the 'le' in leather beats me. I'll be continuing with my European pronounciation thank you very much!
DoubleClutch
Gold Member
Nah, it’s just the e is so redundant.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
spookyfish
Member
Coleco was initially stylized as CoLeCo (Connecticut Leather Company), so that might have helped you if they had kept it.
Topher
Identifies as young
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
Ask me how I thought Bucee's was pronounced up until a few years ago. Yup 
Humdinger
Gold Member
Oh, there are lots of words with a single "e" but the "ee" sound.
hero
vegan
legal
being
maybe
secret
female
rebuild
genie
these
theme
recipe
Resetera (that's actually a quadruple "eeee" sound)
Last edited:
wondermega
Member
Thread is degenerating into lunacy. I saw a post about Colecovision on Neogaf and immediately thought up was down..
Console was quite a thing to see in the early 1980s. Playing arcade machines, then playing Atari 2600 at home, and then playing this - it was pretty magical. Everyone looks at old Atari graphics and grimaces at how primitive they were (and deservedly so) but it was understandable that home games looked like that, at the time. Consumer-grade computers were still a very fresh idea and it made sense that something that you'd have running at home was going to be on the other end of the spectrum relative to what was playing in the arcades.
To see a game like Zaxxon or Donkey Kong at home, running on a Colecovision - originally this was very mindblowing. I am sure the image below speaks for itself..
Also the Coleco had plenty of cool gear. In hindsight, the controller had it's share of issues, but at the time it sure looked a lot more advanced than the (elegantly) simplistic 2600 stick with it's single action button, Coleco had a whole number pad plus a couple of action buttons and that base stick which looked pretty cool (don't recall how it actually handled!) You could get a steering wheel/gas pedal for a port of Turbo, which felt incredible - and the most criminal accessory of all, an expansion device that would let you just play 2600 games on it as well!
Console was quite a thing to see in the early 1980s. Playing arcade machines, then playing Atari 2600 at home, and then playing this - it was pretty magical. Everyone looks at old Atari graphics and grimaces at how primitive they were (and deservedly so) but it was understandable that home games looked like that, at the time. Consumer-grade computers were still a very fresh idea and it made sense that something that you'd have running at home was going to be on the other end of the spectrum relative to what was playing in the arcades.
To see a game like Zaxxon or Donkey Kong at home, running on a Colecovision - originally this was very mindblowing. I am sure the image below speaks for itself..
Also the Coleco had plenty of cool gear. In hindsight, the controller had it's share of issues, but at the time it sure looked a lot more advanced than the (elegantly) simplistic 2600 stick with it's single action button, Coleco had a whole number pad plus a couple of action buttons and that base stick which looked pretty cool (don't recall how it actually handled!) You could get a steering wheel/gas pedal for a port of Turbo, which felt incredible - and the most criminal accessory of all, an expansion device that would let you just play 2600 games on it as well!
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
Thread is degenerating into lunacy. I saw a post about Colecovision on Neogaf and immediately thought up was down..
Console was quite a thing to see in the early 1980s. Playing arcade machines, then playing Atari 2600 at home, and then playing this - it was pretty magical. Everyone looks at old Atari graphics and grimaces at how primitive they were (and deservedly so) but it was understandable that home games looked like that, at the time. Consumer-grade computers were still a very fresh idea and it made sense that something that you'd have running at home was going to be on the other end of the spectrum relative to what was playing in the arcades.
To see a game like Zaxxon or Donkey Kong at home, running on a Colecovision - originally this was very mindblowing. I am sure the image below speaks for itself..
Also the Coleco had plenty of cool gear. In hindsight, the controller had it's share of issues, but at the time it sure looked a lot more advanced than the (elegantly) simplistic 2600 stick with it's single action button, Coleco had a whole number pad plus a couple of action buttons and that base stick which looked pretty cool (don't recall how it actually handled!) You could get a steering wheel/gas pedal for a port of Turbo, which felt incredible - and the most criminal accessory of all, an expansion device that would let you just play 2600 games on it as well!
My favorites were Venture and Mousetrap
Your vision is our vision, Colecovision. Etched into my brain 40 years later. Co-le-co
It was a great console surplanting the aging Atari 2600 and the intelivision. The play-action controllers were great, the addons steering wheel, roller ball and atari 2600 converted, Fantastic.
The Adam. well lets not talk about the adam.
Say what you want about number pads, they were used well for some of these games back then. Mind boggling that the Jaguar 10-13 years later continued the trend.
Coleco shined bright for a small amount of time. The arcade conversions were mind blowing for the time. Donkey Kong Jr, Popeye, Gyruss, Burger time and so many more. I had a fairly large collection, especially when the crash happened, Picked up so many games for cheap $1 to $5.
It was a great console surplanting the aging Atari 2600 and the intelivision. The play-action controllers were great, the addons steering wheel, roller ball and atari 2600 converted, Fantastic.
The Adam. well lets not talk about the adam.
Say what you want about number pads, they were used well for some of these games back then. Mind boggling that the Jaguar 10-13 years later continued the trend.
Coleco shined bright for a small amount of time. The arcade conversions were mind blowing for the time. Donkey Kong Jr, Popeye, Gyruss, Burger time and so many more. I had a fairly large collection, especially when the crash happened, Picked up so many games for cheap $1 to $5.
Calico345
Gold Member
There is no "ee" in family.
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
Not sure what point you think you're making unless pronounce "family" fa mee lee weirdo
Calico345
Gold Member
You don't understand basic language and yet you're insulting me. Enjoy your topic.
Wheeljack539
Member
I remember friends that had this as well as a friend of my father's that we used to visit when I was really young.
The Donkey Kong was was pretty wild and even at 5 I knew it was cool.
Though speaking of it that friend of my father also had an Intellivision. I can't be the only one who was young enough to be freaked out by the Night Stalker cover art?
The Donkey Kong was was pretty wild and even at 5 I knew it was cool.
Though speaking of it that friend of my father also had an Intellivision. I can't be the only one who was young enough to be freaked out by the Night Stalker cover art?
wondermega
Member
Doesn't look bad to me, for the time. I guess if spiders give you the willies, you might not be too keen on it. The robots are terribly goofy looking (if angry).
I miss the old 70s/80s video game cover designs, we've lost something valuable!
Wheeljack539
Member
Doesn't look bad to me, for the time. I guess if spiders give you the willies, you might not be too keen on it. The robots are terribly goofy looking (if angry).
I miss the old 70s/80s video game cover designs, we've lost something valuable!
To a five/six year old it was terrifying, especially that one of the right. I remember being scared to actually open the thing in order to get the inserts to put into the controller.
I had been allowed to play so I wouldn't bother all the adults that had gathered for their get-together/party.
It's nothing now (and probably to those who were 10 and older at the time) but it's one of those things I remember from those years.
Similar threads
- Locked