Coleco (1932 - 1989) was a company founded by Maurice Greenberg as 'Connecticut Leather Company', selling supplies to shoemakers. In addition to becoming a highly successful toy company in the 1980s, selling toys such as the Cabbage Patch Kids, the company also manufactured two video game consoles: the Coleco Telstar and ColecoVision.
The Coleco Telstar was a dedicated game console released in 1976, based on Atari's PONG console, and featuring built-in games such as Tennis, Hockey and Handball. Coleco went on to produce a series of handheld electronic games, including a mini-arcade series of licensed video arcade titles.
Coleco returned to the video game console market in 1982 with the launch of the ColecoVision, which had the added bonus of being able to play game cartridges for the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision. They also introduced the Coleco Gemini, a clone of the popular Atari 2600.
When the video game business began to implode in 1983, Coleco's introduced the Coleco Adam home computer, both as a stand-alone system and as an expansion module to ColecoVision. However, the Adam failed to sell and Coleco withdrew from electronics early in 1985.
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