20 Games That Defined the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo)

No Ninja Warrior?! Weak!

FUCK YOU!

I have played Color Baseball, Flight Simulator II, Thexder, Arkanoid,and Rampage,

I LOVE my CoCo2, and the 18 cassette games I saved my pocket money for aged 11-15. I bought a CoCo2 a year ago. Spent ages finding all my old games. It's nostalgia overload.
Dungeon Raid (wow! 16k shooter. Supposed to be like River Raid, but I don't see it)
Electron (addictive. Similar to the arcade game Tron, with the 4 mini games)

Phantom Slayer (awesome, creepy 3-D maze stalking. Credited as the 1st color FPS)
King Tut (superb, tense, original 5 LV platformer. The timer is a candle that dims then plunges you into darkness if you don't get back to the surface in time)

Athletyx (based on Track And Field, but with an extra event)
8-Ball (great pool game which lets you control spin and power)

Crazy Painter (paint screen as 'enemies" mess it up. Bonus LV's catching drips)
Danger Ranger (fun original 2 screen platform game)

Android Attack (clone of Berzerk with upgrades. Speech needs 32k "Intruder Alert!".
Planet Invasion (a truly great Defender clone)

Devil Assault (a bit like Demon Attack on the Atari VCS)
Racerball (similar to Pac-man)

Katerpillar 2 (clone of Centipede)
Cuthbert In The Jungle (a faithful clone of the great Atari VCS's Pitfall)

Cuthbert Goes Digging (clone of Space Panic)
Cuthbert Goes Walkabout (based on Amidar. Make lines to color boxes. Bonus LV's)

Cuthbert In Space (collect stuff under attack, return to mothership, defuse bombs!!)
Cuthbert In The Mines (like Frogger but In hell with a demon throwing Fireballs at you!)

I had a Color Computer 2, I wish I was exposed to these games. I never really got into it.

What about Cashman?

Pactac, warkings, birds, blochead. Love the C64 Movie Monster music

What about Dallas Quest? Lol 😂

Ezt a jó voltt......

Dungeons of Daggorath left such an impression. There has not been a game like it since. I remember a couple of 'friends' thinking it was worth a table conversation to discuss why they didn't like my Coco in comparison to the Commodore 64, pausing enough to force me to realize I'm genuinely set apart. Well, they were 19 at the time. I guess everyone is stupid at that age, but they demonstrated pretty fully. Granted, the Commodore had hardware sprites, but I learned a lot programming on the Coco in assembly.

Out of all that, the only game I need is rampage

tom mix's version of Joust was awesome.

uhh.... Whirlybird? Where is Whirlybird?

Zaxxon was my favorite game!!
Dad still owns our old Tandy TRS-80 Color Computers With all the hardware "Tape recorders",
Rom Packs and all.. Can not remember now if they were COCO 1 & 2 Or One & 3 systems.
Then like 20 years ago, he got 2 more brand new systems, in box still.. lol
O boy, memories at 5 years of age, dad teaching me DOS on these while most people did not even know what a computer was..
We sat down and wrote a couple very basic games (well mostly dad did) I was there to supervise lol.. One being a tank that had to shoot a boulder that fell down in front of it in the right spot before it hit your Army tank.!!
Being he worked for GM but in Canada, they used acoustic modems & I would chat with people in the U.S at a GM (General Motors), warehouse, barley 10 years of age ..
Companies like GM had the first type of Social media you could say for public in the loop..lol
The servers were set up for ordering but we would chat back & forth..
To think that tech has come this far now is mind blowing..!!
Thanks for the memories!!
Think ill hook one back up now lol!!

my first computer, 1984

That's not CoCo Thexder.

Why is everything so green in cocoland ?

Pegasus, Varloc, Laser Surgeon: Microscopic MIssion, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, Black Sanctum, Interbank Incident...

Never had one. But there is the bugs game, "WE GOTCHA!"

where's buzzard bait? it was a perfect joust clone. There was also another missile command clone better than polaris

I still play Dungeons of Daggorath.

I still have my Dungeons of Daggorath and Color Baseball

I had the UK equivalent - the mighty Dragon32, most of those games mentioned were on the system.

happy to say that I've owned almost all of those at some point. I have a coco2 but would love to get a coco-mini like they did with the C64

Missed all the Diecom games...

What music did you use?

Que épocas lindas

I had a Coco 2 and Coco 3. Some more great games were: Spidercide, Megabug, Shamus, Dr. J and Larry Bird Go One on One. Dungeons of Daggorath is hands down the greatest Coco game.

Wow, I'm surprised that the TRS-80 had Silpheed, King's Quest 3, and Arkanoid. I thought it was a dead system when those games came out. I had a Tandy 1000 EX at the time and was glad my dad went with it over the TRS-80.

At one point the programmers figured out how to get rid of the nausea-inducing green backgrounds. That's when the games got interesting.

I never bought any games for mine I just typed out all the programs in the manual. LOL

Ahh, Color Baseball. Just as shitty as I remember!

That Thexder game looks pretty neat for a CoCo. I had a CoCo 2, and I doubt it could have handled that with just 16K of RAM.

That CoCo 3 started with 128K of RAM, and it could be upgraded to 512K. That's a massive improvement.

Where is Cashman??!?!?! I noticed Baseball, Zaxxon, Pitfall.. but no Cashman? That was the best

You still can find plenty games and Coco2 on Ebay in 2022 !

Lol….Ghost Gobbler? Donkey King? Trap? Love how software programmers would get around copyright…..smh…Lol Lol Lol

I remember back in 1984 when my friend got a Coco while I had a ZX-81. Damn those colors were so hypnotic! Loved it!

Seriously, Crystal City was Sundog's Systems most influential game in here? Also no Diecom Products games which was one of the most popular gaming companies on the Coco. Knock Out deserved more to be on this list than most of these games.

Thexder, Dungeons of Daggorath, King Quest and Rampage.... hours and hour of game play. But maybe Downland, Koronis Rift and Mickey space adventure could be there too. Dungeons of Daggorath maybe need a remake these days, the atmosphere of fear, suspence and strategy is unique there... and only 16 kilobytes!

I miss my cocos 1,2 and 3. 😭

Speed Racer was one of my favorites

Stellar Life Line
and Star Blaze

My kid cheesed the hell out of Color Baseball (he'd strike every side out by running his catcher up to the pitcher, and hurriedly throw the three strikes before the catcher was even near the batter), and at some points, I didn't think he'd ever stop playing Temple of ROM long enough to ever leave his room

No mention of Expressway or Colorpede? These two games revolutionized the hacker's market after going Public Domain. You'd see countless hacks of Expressway published on countless magazines ("Driveway" from T&D Software being one), and Colorpede hacks like Megapede and Kingpede. Yes, Expressway and Colorpede were two important additions to be sure.

Wildcatting

This was my first computer. Ironically we only had one tv in the house at the time, and it was black and white...
Spent most of my time playing pitfall and lunar rover.

I'm surprised there wasn't a better version of Pac-Man.

Some others:

Phantom Slayer
Temple of ROM
Deathtrap
ATOM
Cashman
Megabug
Grabber
Canyon Climber
.. and many Scott Adams Adventures (Raaka-Tu, Ghost Town, Pirate Adventure, ...) even though these were not Colour Computer exclusives, they were memorable!

Some of these games look great for the time!