Canada 2 - The 1984 Bilingual Restyle

Canada · 1984

Canada 2 ColecoVision box - reference example — Reference example

Canada 1984 0 titles catalogued

How to identify it Artwork to the edges, no white frame, and a yellow starburst reading VIDEO CARTRIDGE FOR / CARTOUCHE VIDÉO POUR above ColecoVision & ADAM Family Computer System / L’Ordinateur Domestique. The game title is frequently given in both languages: WarGames is also Jeux de Guerre.

Canada 2 tracks the American Coleco 2 restyle of 1984 - the white frame goes, the artwork bleeds to all four edges - and adds the thing the US boxes never needed: a second language everywhere, including in the game’s own name. WarGames / Jeux de Guerre is the clearest example.

The starburst is the quickest test. On Canada 1 it advertises high resolution and the ColecoVision; on Canada 2 it names the ADAM Family Computer System alongside it, in both languages.

Very few Canadian titles have had their generation recorded in the catalogue yet, so this page is short. The rest of the Canadian line is listed on the Canada 1 page under “not yet recorded”, because that is where the line lives - not because those titles are Canada 1.

No titles are recorded under this classification yet. If you own one, the museum would like to hear from you — get in touch.

Canada 1 The Coleco 1 layout set twice over, English above French, with MD beside TM on the ColecoVision mark. Coleco 2 The 1984 restyle: painted artwork bleeding to the edges, no white frame, and the first Coleco boxes to name the ADAM.

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.