ADAM Supergames
ADAM Supergames
Donkey Kong A+
This has EVERYTHING the coin op has, from the opening scene of Kong climbing the ladders to the conveyers and Kong falling AND it presented the screens it the right order. Magnificent!
Donkey Kong Junior A
Unlike DK, they used the Colecovision cart ROM as a starting point (DK was re-programmed from scratch), so the graphics are just okay, but the play is arcade perfect. Again, all four screens; Vines, chains, vines, jumpboard chains twice, THEN a cute intermission shows junior floating on balloons with the words "Keep going to Marios hideout!"; Again the best DKJR!
Zaxxon A+
BETTER than the coin op! It starts just like the cart but at the end of Asteroid 2 you fight ZAXXON JUNIOR!; beat him and there are FOUR MORE asteroids to fly through before you get to a mean ZAXXON! Beat him and-this may be a first, before NES- you get an actual game ending! Superb!
Dragons Lair A+
If, like me, you HATE the "real" Dragons Lair you will love this! Actual action screens (jump on ropes,swing over lava; use sword against green rats; fight SINGE in real time!) interspersed with three "watch the flash" screens-Skeleton heads, tentacle and bridge. The graphics, on a monitor, or MUCH better than ANYTHING I've ever seen on NES!-3 years earlier!
The following games are prototypes but complete:
Super Cabbage Patch kids C+
Good graphics and sound but I prefer the simpler cart. Probably stopped too soon, not "super" enough. The bees are cartoony and animation more fluid though.
Super Sub-Roc A
I never liked Sub-Roc 3-D but this game converted me! They again started with the cart ROM but added a LOT... more bonus ships, an underwater minefield, a BOSS mechanical Octopus and amazing 3-D scenes of planes and ships hitting you-OUCH!
All in all, you can see why I love ADAM so much! It was an amazing computer, somewhere between C=>64 and Amiga in capability. If you ever find one with these games grab it!
One more thing; the first 3 games came in boxes shaped like the coin-op cabinet-too cool dude!
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ADAM Supergames
hey alienblue. thanks for the reviews. i've been reading some of my old "video games" magazines circa 1983-84, and the mags had many articles related to the adam computer. coleco was planning a 'super games module' that was supposed to make the colecovision many times more powerful, and then dropped the device in favor of the adam computer. the problem with the adam computer is that when it first came out, over 30% were defective right out of the box. that negative response killed the system. 'video games' magazine and several others said that the the adam computer was a pretty good one, but it couldn't overcome the bad initial publicity from the early defects. it's too bad because i think colecovision was a really great system, and if it had played its cards right, it could have beaten out nintendo and the NES as the system of the 80's.