Publisher: Coleco

Coleco made its own ColecoVision console, and it also published games for the Atari 2600. It held home rights to a long list of arcade games, Nintendo’s Donkey Kong among them, and many of its 2600 cartridges were versions of games it also released for the ColecoVision. Much of the 2600 work was done by outside programmers and studios: Garry Kitchen made Donkey Kong, and companies such as Individeo, Wickstead Design, Woodside Design Associates and CommaVid handled other conversions. By late 1984 Coleco had stopped making 2600 games, and Atari later reissued several of its cartridges under its own label.
The site has 14 Coleco games. Some places to start:

Donkey Kong (1982): two of the arcade’s screens, with the barrel-jumping intact.
Donkey Kong Junior (1983): play Kong’s son and climb vines to free his father.
Venture: explore a dungeon of treasure rooms, converted for Coleco by CommaVid.
Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle (1983): a side-scrolling jumping game that won an Arkie Award for its audiovisual effects.
Mr. Do! (1983): dig tunnels, pick cherries and drop apples on your pursuers.
Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park: a finished but unreleased 1984 game, found on chips at a flea market in 2008.

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Looping

Looping is an unreleased 1983 Atari 2600 port of the arcade game of the same name, programmed by Ed Temple for Coleco. Coleco advertised it, but the cartridge never reached the shops, and the prototype stayed lost for…

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Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600 is Coleco's 1982 conversion of Nintendo's 1981 arcade game, designed and programmed by Garry Kitchen. As Mario, you climb sloping girders and dodge barrels to rescue a girl kidnapped by the giant…

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Donkey Kong Junior

Donkey Kong Junior is Coleco's 1983 Atari 2600 version of Nintendo's 1982 arcade sequel to Donkey Kong. This time the roles are reversed: Mario has locked Donkey Kong in a cage, and you play his son, who climbs…

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Cabbage Patch Kids – Adventures in the Park

Cabbage Patch Kids: Adventures in the Park is an unreleased Atari 2600 prototype from 1984. Coleco planned it as a conversion of its ColecoVision game based on the popular dolls, and the 2600 version was programmed by Ed…

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