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Canada 1 - The Bilingual Arcade-Cabinet Box

Canada · 1982-1983

Canada 1 ColecoVision box - reference example
Reference example
Canada 1982-1983 55 titles catalogued
How to identify it The Coleco 1 box - white border, black field, arcade cabinet, yellow starburst - with every claim printed twice: The Official / L’Authentique, PLAYS LIKE THE REAL ARCADE GAME / FONCTIONNE TOUT COMME LE VRAI JEU D’ARCADE, HIGH RESOLUTION VIDEO CARTRIDGE FOR / CARTOUCHE VIDÉO À FINESSE D’IMAGE INÉGALÉE.

Canada did not get the American box with a sticker on it. Coleco set the whole front twice, in English and in French, inside the layout the 1982 US boxes used - and registered its marks under Canadian law, which is why the ColecoVision wordmark here carries MD (marque déposée) next to TM where the US boxes carry TM alone.

If a Canadian box shows the arcade cabinet and the yellow starburst, it is a Canada 1. If the artwork runs to the edges and the starburst names the ADAM, it is a Canada 2.

Almost none of the Canadian catalogue has had its generation recorded yet, which is why the great majority of the titles below sit under “not yet recorded” rather than under Canada 1. They are all Canadian releases; a photograph of the starburst settles each one in seconds.

55Titles
2Confirmed Canada 1
46Box scanned
54Playable here

Classified Canada 1

Recorded in the catalogue as Canada 1 packaging.

Same line, box design not yet recorded

These belong to the same product line, but which box each one shipped in has not been recorded yet - they are listed here because this is where the line lives, not because they are known to be this design. If you own one, the museum would like a photograph of the front.

Canada 2 The Coleco 2 restyle in two languages, with the title itself often translated and the starburst naming the ADAM. Coleco 1 Coleco’s own first-generation North American box: white frame, black field, a photograph of the arcade cabinet, and the yellow starburst.

About this list

These records come from the museum’s ColecoVision catalogue, so this page grows as the catalogue does. Box scans, release years and rarity are the catalogue’s; the classification on each card is either the box variant recorded against that title or, where none is recorded, an attribution taken from how the release is filed.

Box classification is a collectors’ convention rather than anything Coleco or CBS ever printed on a box, and reasonable references disagree at the edges. If you own something listed here that does not match what you see, or a box that is not listed at all, please get in touch — a photograph of the front is worth more than any description.
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