Tuesday, October 03, 2006



Celestar soon came back into the market with the celeco jemini The introduction of cartridge systems forced the company to dump over a million obsolete Telstar machines at a loss of 22.3 million dollars.It's no wonder they gambled on copying the Atari 2600 which was the most successful console of it's time. So the Coleco Gemini was created in 1982. It was an exact clone of the 2600 system, which Atari could do nothing about (Since the court ruled that the Atari technology contained no patented material, was made up of all "off-the-shelf" hardware, and no copyrighted software). So Coleco marketed the Gemini slightly cheaper then the Atari 2600, and made more success than Atari's success.
Example of a game at the top.

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