American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and Donkey Kong?
combination, perhaps, but one that became a reality last week when the venerable communications giant hooked up with Coleco Industries, the videogame maker, in a join effort to make entertainment software available by telephone to 25 million owners of video games and home computers.’ ‘Under the plan, AT&T and Coleco will develop a “modem”, an electronic device that will connect a home computer or video game by telephone to a central data base. Coleco will supply the software programs, such as Donkey Kong or two of its other popular video games, Smurf and Zaxxon. The service will be offered sometime next year for about $20 a month; the modem is expected to cost $100.’ – 13 Sensory Grip Controller by Coleco. The Super Action Controllers were supposed to have a sensory feature, so that when (for example) Rocky threw a punch in Super Action Boxing, you would feel it in the handle. – 13 3.3) Review of the Telegames Personal Arcade by James Carter INTRODUCTION: TELEGAMES produces and sells a
