Retro Gamer

Matt Patrol

How the ColecoVision port rode again

“I worked really hard on it and felt like for Mattel’s console. “It was all done, even the manual. If Atari had just approved it for production, they would have issued me a big bonus cheque, like, a significant fraction of my annual salary. I made a few EPROM copies of a modded version I dubbed and gave them to friends at Atari, including a colleague called Selma. She got fired before I could give it to her so I kept that one. I hadn’t even done one for myself!” It was this sole surviving copy which became the basis of retro publisher CollectorVision Games finally releasing it in 2014 and you can still buy it at

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