ColecoVision emulators

For other emulators that run on ColecoVision hardware, see Emulators on ColecoVision.

ColecoVision

Developer	Coleco Industries, Inc.
Type	Home video game console
Generation	Second generation
Release date	1982
Discontinued	1985
Predecessor	Telstar series
Emulated	✓

The ColecoVision was the second-generation video game console produced by Coleco in August 1982 before being discontinued in 1984, partly due to the ongoing crash in North America at the time. It retailed for $174.99 and had a Zilog Z80 CPU at 3.58 MHz with 8 KBs of RAM. Notably, it provided gamers with experiences very much like the arcade versions of games, as well as having Donkey Kong as a pack-in title to showcase this, although the Atari 2600 and Intellivision could do the same with the respected hardware. It shares largely the same underpinnings as the SG-1000. Indeed, a clone of the SG-1000 known as the Dina 2-in-1 (sold in the United States as the Telegames Personal Arcade) had support for both SG-1000 and ColecoVision games, though compatibility with the latter is spotty due to the lack of an expansion module interface or a second numeric keypad, rendering two-player ColecoVision games unplayable.

Emulators

Name	Platform(s)	Latest version	Adam	libretro	Retro Achievements	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
PC / x86
BizHawk		2.9.1		✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
ColEm		5.6	✓	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
E.mul T.wo		git	✓	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓
ADAMEm SDL		git	✓	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓
ADAMEm		1.0 (MS-DOS)Acorn	✓	✗	✗	?	✗	✓
DSP		0.22		✗	✗	✓	✓	✓
ares		v137	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓
FinalBurn Neo fbneo_libretro		WIP builds libretro core	✗	✓	✓	NC	✓	✓
CoolCV		0.6.9		✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
MAME		0.264	✓	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓
Mugrat		0.5.0		✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
Snepulator		git		✗	✗	✓	✓	~
Pantheon		13.640		✗	✗	✗	✓	~
Phoenix		2.8.JAG	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	~
vdmgr		0.2.6		✗	✗	✗	✓	~
blueMSX blueMSX_libretro		2.8.2 libretro core	✗	✓	✓	✓	~	~
Retro Virtual Machine		2.1.10		✗	✗	✗	✓	TBD
JollyCV		1.0.1		✗	✗	✓	✓	TBD
higan (火眼) byuu (謬/view)		v110	✗	✓	✗	✓	✗	✗
Clock Signal		2024-01-22		✗	✗	✓	✓	✗
Bee		2.4.3		✗	✗	✗	✗	✗
FreezeSMS		4.6		✗	✗	✗	✗	✗
MEKA		0.8-alpha (2023-08-26)	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗
DarcNES		9b0401/9b0313		✗	✗	✓	✗	✗
Mobile / ARM
ColEm+		5.6.4 (Android)	✓	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
NumPadPlayer		1.0.5	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
fbneo_libretro		libretro core	✗	✓	✓	NC	✓	✓
MSX.emu (blueMSX tech)		1.5.77git Pandora build 15 1.5.46.02	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓
blueMSX_libretro		libretro core	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓	~
Consoles
fbneo_libretro		libretro core	✗	✓	✓	NC	✓	✓
blueMSX_libretro		libretro core	✗	✓	✓	?	✓	✓
ColEm		2.6.1	?	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
WiiColEm		0.3	?	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
ColemPS2		2.0	?	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
AdamX		v4	✓	✗	✗	?	✗	✓
(D)ColEm		0.99	?	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
CollisionGC		1.01 b1		✗	✗	✓	✗	✓
ColecoDS		9.7	✓	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
CoG		0.9.7 beta		✗	✗	✓	✗	✗

Adam

Adam

Developer	Coleco
Type	Home computer
Generation	Second generation
Release date	1983
Discontinued	1985
Emulated	✓

The Coleco Adam is a home computer and expansion device for the ColecoVision by American toy and video game manufacturer Coleco. The Adam was an attempt to follow on the success of the company's ColecoVision video game console. It was available as Expansion Module #3 for the ColecoVision, converting it into a home computer, and as a standalone unit. As such, it had the benefit of being entirely compatible with all ColecoVision games and peripherals. The computer came with 64 KB of memory, a tape drive for a proprietary medium called Digital Data Packs, a daisy wheel printer, and productivity applications, along with two DDPs for SmartBASIC and Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom Super Game. It was released in October 1983 with the initial price of $700.

See also

• First and second generations of video game consoles