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Coleco Adam

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Life

PC World is run­ning an arti­cle about the 10 Worst PCs of All Time and as a whole the art­cle is a refresh­ing trip down nos­tal­gia lane. How­ever I must strongly dis­agree with their top third choice, we had one of these Coleco Adam com­put­ers when I was a kid and it totally ruled. We never had any of the prob­lems men­tioned in the arti­cle and that Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom game was sooo rad. I mean after you beat the game once; you got to flip the cas­sette tape over and play the game all over again. Only on the sec­ond time through, you got a dif­fer­ent color space­ship. Beat­ing it a sec­ond time got you back to your orig­i­nal ship. Beat­ing it repeat­edly let you keep switch­ing between the two col­ors of ship. I wasted spent hours of my youth play­ing that game and I don’t con­sider one minute of it wasted. So if Dan Tynan keeps spout­ing all this nonense of the Adam being a crappy com­puter; he’s going to get his arsed kick some­thing fierce! :p

Note: The image used in this arti­cle was found under the Coleco Adam arti­cle on Wikipedia and was released under a Cre­ative Com­mons Attribute-ShareAlike 2.0 license by Andrew Lih.

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