Coleco

Eighties console manufacturer

Coleco was an American toy and electronics company, best known for the ColecoVision video game console (1982) and Cabbage Patch Kids dolls.

The name derived from Connecticut Leather Company, its original incarnation.

The company declared bankruptcy in 1988, a casualty of the video game crash and overexpansion.

My brother still has his old Coleco in the basement.

nostalgia

childhood

Life's earliest phase

  • memoriesStored past experiences
  • 1980sFourth-to-last twentieth-century decade
  • retroEvoking recent past

vintage · flashback · throwback · reminiscence · toy store · Sears catalog · Christmas morning · fondness · bygone era · generational

gaming

Donkey Kong

Nintendo's barrel-hurling simian

  • TurboExhaust-driven compressor
  • FroggerAmphibian traffic navigation game
  • cartridgeSealed container for supplies

controller · joystick · graphics · gameplay · high score · multiplayer

1980s

Cabbage Patch Kids

Plush dolls with signatures

Frogger

collectibles

Cabbage Patch Kids

Plush dolls with signatures

auction · memorabilia · collector · retro · limited edition · cartridges · resale value · restoration · eBay · trade shows

products

Cabbage Patch Kids

Plush dolls with signatures

  • TelstarEarly communications satellite
Opposites
corporate survival in the toy/game industry

ColecoHasbro

American toy conglomerate

Mattel · LEGO · Nintendo · Fisher-Price · Apple

video game console market positioning

ColecoNintendo

Japanese video game company

Atari · Sega

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Mostly American · Concrete · Rated G