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Smurf: Rescue at Gargamel's Castle
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TekunoRobby
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'round this here parts it's a right of passage to become a manSaitoH said:
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
This was probably the first game I ever beat. Its a really short game but I used to play it along with Donkey Kong all the time (I was like 3). It goes something like this:
1. Leave Smurf house, jump over fence.
2. Walk through the field, jump over the patches of grass.
3. Enter a cave. Jump over some stuff and leave.
4. Walk through another field and jump over a stream.
5. Enter Gargamel's castle.
6. Walk through the castle and avoid the spiders.
7. When you reach Gargamel jump onto the table then jump again to save Smurfette.
I still have my Colecovision in my closet somewhere too.
1. Leave Smurf house, jump over fence.
2. Walk through the field, jump over the patches of grass.
3. Enter a cave. Jump over some stuff and leave.
4. Walk through another field and jump over a stream.
5. Enter Gargamel's castle.
6. Walk through the castle and avoid the spiders.
7. When you reach Gargamel jump onto the table then jump again to save Smurfette.
I still have my Colecovision in my closet somewhere too.
Daxter Too
Banned
Super mario bros was HEAVILY influenced by this game. Gargamel's castle = Bowsers Castle. The game was on a loop too, kind of like Mario Bros repeating castles. My cousin used to have it, it rocked.
Jumpman Jr.
Member
Somebody should make a Colecovision Anthology collection.
And somehow get that super awesome Smurf game in it.
Anyone remember the commerical for the Smurf game, with the father and his kids? I think the kids teach Dad how to play, and Dad gets hooked.
And somehow get that super awesome Smurf game in it.
Anyone remember the commerical for the Smurf game, with the father and his kids? I think the kids teach Dad how to play, and Dad gets hooked.
Warm Machine
Member
Smurf was the 2nd game I ever owned. The day we bought the Colecovision we hooked it up and I tried to play Donkey Kong with my brother. I kept getting killed by the barrels and couldn't time the jump. I cried my eyes out and got my mother to let me go back to the store with my cousin to pick up Smurf. We returned with it later and enjoyed much smurfing. The next day I woke up early in the morning and played Donkey Kong with much better success.
Smurf was where I learnt jumping skills that have lasted my gaming career!
Smurf was where I learnt jumping skills that have lasted my gaming career!
Stuggernaut
Grandma's Chippy
You must get Mousetrap, and Looping, and DK Jr, and Zaxxon...NOW
V
Vennt
Unconfirmed Member
I will never forget the day I bought a Colecovision & Smurfs, I returned home to find my idiotic step-brother had set fire to to one of the family dogs. (It was a pekinese & had a fabric dogs bed, he put it up on the cooker "out of harms way" for fear of treading on it, forgetting the fact that the cooker was on.)
Smurfs was the only game I ever managed to get for it, and subsequently was an expensive & regrettable purchase all around.
I now smell burning dog whenever I see a Smurf.
*goes to get the air freshener*
Smurfs was the only game I ever managed to get for it, and subsequently was an expensive & regrettable purchase all around.
I now smell burning dog whenever I see a Smurf.
*goes to get the air freshener*
MrPing1000
Member
That is so smurfing smurf, you smurf
CrimsonSkies
Member
I really liked the Coleco Vision.
Saint Cornelius
Banned
Yeah the Colecovision was the shit. I actually had rare-ass games for it too, that I won on the Starcade spinoff "The Video Game" - Tapper, Spy Hunter... some other ones too.
I miss those days of staying up all night and bugging out 'cause you flipped the score over.
There's this one game you gotta get... I think it's called "World War" or something like that... it's like a top down Missile Command with some RTS elements. And Cosmic Avenger, that was a great game as well.
I miss those days of staying up all night and bugging out 'cause you flipped the score over.
There's this one game you gotta get... I think it's called "World War" or something like that... it's like a top down Missile Command with some RTS elements. And Cosmic Avenger, that was a great game as well.
evil solrac v3.0
Member
fuck 3D. androgonious commies jumping fences is where it's at.
evilromero
Member
I always bust my ColecoVision out for some play only to find myself going back to my Famicom and its superior titles.
wipeout364
Member
That is actually a pretty good colection of games you got. You have most of the big Coleco titles. I was trying to think what you were missing and the only things that came to mind were Zaxxon and Turbo. Enjoy.
PS: since you already have the colecovision you might as well pick up an ADAM as well so you can play Buck Rogers. Iwill have to bring over my Colecovision so we can link up for some multiplayer Mr.Do.
PS: since you already have the colecovision you might as well pick up an ADAM as well so you can play Buck Rogers. Iwill have to bring over my Colecovision so we can link up for some multiplayer Mr.Do.
Tortfeasor
Member
This game has a famous easter egg. When you reach smurfette jump on the last platform near hear but so that you are facing away from her.
Get ready for some smurf nudity.
Get ready for some smurf nudity.
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
Tortfeasor said:
Thats not really an easter egg. Its a limitation of the hardware.
From IntellivisionLives.com:
Heh. Sounds like Surfette likes to FSUTA.
Kobun Heat
Member
Actually she takes her dress off if you leave the screen from the left hand side. But that always seemed like a glitch too, transformed into an "infamous easter egg" by imagination and wishful thinking...
Spectral Glider
Member
My all time favorite Colecovision game was Tarzan
Comfort_Eagle
Banned
The smurfs fucking rock. I wish someone would make a new smurfs game. It would be better than Halo.
Spectral Glider said:My all time favorite Colecovision game was Tarzan
I used to love this game, even though I had no idea what the object of the game was. I just liked walking around and climbing trees.
Anyway, Smurf was the second video game I've ever played (first was DK of course.) What an awesome game. The cave sections used to scare me.
I also had Smurf Paint N Play Workshop (still do, actually), which was kind of like a primitive Mario Paint for two players.
I see you have Venture. That's my favorite game on the Colecovision. I also recommend Antarctic Adventure and Super Cobra. Squish'em Featuring Sam too, but that one's rare I think.
Anyone ever play Wing War? That was another game I loved to play even though I could never figure out what I was supposed to be doing.
Edit - How bout FORTUNE BUILDER?!? That game was SimCity before SimCity was SimCity. And it was two players! Me and my friend used to just put arcades all over our town, even though it would get the parents all pissed.
FortNinety
Member
SaitoH said:
(In mint condition too)
You weren't fucking kidding, that system looks like it just got off the assembly line!
Spectral Glider
Member
Kevyn said:
Yeah, and I loved punching that stupid ape into the water. Or watching him run around the screen until he fell into one of the traps. Plus, you could press one of the keypad buttons to do the Tarzan yell. Back then, being able to climb trees and jump into the water and swim was just about the most freedom of movement offered in a game. I believe the object was to free all the gorillas. And there was that temple at the end of the game, I remember I used to die there most of the time.
Venture was pretty good. Wing War I think I remember too, my friend had it. He had quite the collection of coleco stuff back in the day, the sports controller, the Turbo module, the 2600 adapter....he always wanted but never got his hands on the track ball though. And another thing, anyone ever try to play Activision's Decathalon with those controllers? That was a new meaning of pain, lol.
Jumpman Jr.
Member
I love those multi-colored trigger buttons!
I remember my copy (or my Coleco) was glitchy, and so 99% of the time that I played it, I ended up walking through this black void with flickering grass sprites everywhere. Eventually, my Smurf would become a mass of distorted pixels and the game would freeze.
I also remember my favorite game was this 3/4 overhead game where you controlled a ship...Zaxxon, was it? That was lots of fun, and the graphics for the time were mind-blowing.
I also remember my favorite game was this 3/4 overhead game where you controlled a ship...Zaxxon, was it? That was lots of fun, and the graphics for the time were mind-blowing.
If you like Smurf, you might also want to check out the game "Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventure In The Park". It's a lot like Smurf mixed with some elements of Pitfall (swinging from vines.) Very fun, despite the fact that your character is a damn Cabbage Patch Kid.
What's that game with the blue label next to Ladybug?
Unfortunately, I don't see a Colecovision collection coming anytime soon. Unlike the 2600, where all the best games were made by either Atari or Activision, the CV was pretty much a third-party machine. Venture and Moustrap belong to Exidy. Donkey Kong and DK Jr belong to Nintendo. Ladybug belongs to Universal, etc.
Apparently these guys are going to release some sort of CV collection, but the games on it suck. Gut Buster and Campaign '84? Why bother?
What's that game with the blue label next to Ladybug?
Unfortunately, I don't see a Colecovision collection coming anytime soon. Unlike the 2600, where all the best games were made by either Atari or Activision, the CV was pretty much a third-party machine. Venture and Moustrap belong to Exidy. Donkey Kong and DK Jr belong to Nintendo. Ladybug belongs to Universal, etc.
Apparently these guys are going to release some sort of CV collection, but the games on it suck. Gut Buster and Campaign '84? Why bother?
Jumpman Jr.
Member
bjork said:
Well, we are talking about the Smurfs...
eso76
Member
Kevyn said:
WING WAR WAS GREAT ! Goreous graphics for its time and i loved the way you had to tap the button to flap the dragon's wings. It was kinda hard at first, but once you got used to it you could fly high and dive into those narrow caves at crazy speed.
I also could never figure what i had to do...i only remember you had to pick 3 or 4 gems (blue, from water, red from lava, yellow from....dunno, white from air) and bring them to your...nest ? and then what ? they became a 'super gem' ? I don't remember :\
You could do the same with eggs, which would grant you an extra life...i remember having to fight a demon in the caves and i remember there were strange creatures appearing in some areas for no apparent reason and with no apparent use. I never understood what triggered their presence.
Can't remember anything else...it was almost 20 years ago i think ?
Killkernal
Member
Bah, you rich kids and your Colecovisions. I still remember when I finally got my 2600 for Christmas, only to discover that the little creep down the street got the Colecovision with Smurf and Donkey Kong! Even back then I was a late adopter.
Screw all that, at least I had The Empire Strikes Back. I could shoot Snow Walkers for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and.....etc.
Screw all that, at least I had The Empire Strikes Back. I could shoot Snow Walkers for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and.....etc.
eso76
Member
Killkernal said:
Well, you know Colecovision had expansion module #1 and #2...
Now i don't remember which one was which---anyway, one of them allowed you to play Atari 2600 cartridges, while the other one was the first racing wheel in the history of consoles, and it was bundled with sega's Turbo. Or maybe it's the other way round. Or maybe not, since it only worked with Turbo anyway.
RazzleDazzleRB
Member
JC10001 said:
You know wayyy too much about this game. Kind of scary.
Johnny Konami
Member
Coleco ruled, my favorite game growing up:
It was a fun game, and tough, too! Though jumping in the smurfs was pretty tricky also..
It was a fun game, and tough, too! Though jumping in the smurfs was pretty tricky also..
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
RazzleDazzleRB said:You know wayyy too much about this game. Kind of scary.
That's cause I'm a Colecovision fanboy.
And I was wondering when you would start posting again. You know Atari has a collection coming out right? Wanna guess what's on it? Adventure!!!
