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Author Topic: ColecoVision Championship - Actual (Embarrassing) TV Footage from 1982  (Read 1639 times)

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Heres an embarrassing and hopefully entertaining (at my expense) story for everyone. Enjoy.

Anyway, When I was 14 I was lucky enough to win a regional ColecoVision championship, then then the State Championship and finally the Australian National ColecoVision Championship which was held in Sydney.

The event was covered and Broadcast on TWT (Terry Willisee Tonight) which was a current affair TV program.

CBS Told me that they fly me to New York for the World ColecoVision championship but then the Video game crash happened and it all fell through

The National championship was determined by the highest aggregate score from 3 games which were each played one after another for 8 minutes each.
1st Donkey Kong, 2nd Zaxxon and finally Time Pilot.

CBS had told everyone that we would play three games, Donkey Kong and Zaxxon and a third mystery game which turned out to be Time Pilot. Lucky for me Time Pilot was one of my favourite games at the Arcade.

I remember leading after Donkey Kong, Bombing badly on Zaxxon but still narrowly leading the comp, and then kicking ass on Time Pilot to win .

I have held this video from anyones eyes for almost 30 years as I feel a bit embarrassed by it. Oh well, at least I didnt come off as bad as the Gold Caped self proclaimed "Super Hero of Video Games"

Apologise for the video quality, it was off an old (almost 30 years) VHS tape.


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Re: ColecoVision Championship - Actual TV Footage from 1982
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2011, 08:52:31 am »
Hahaha well done Vic!, thanks for sharing  :cheers:

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Re: ColecoVision Championship - Actual TV Footage from 1982
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2011, 10:43:05 am »
Well done my man! Beam me up, Terry :)

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Re: ColecoVision Championship - Actual TV Footage from 1982
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2011, 10:49:47 am »
That's very cool.   :cheers:

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Re: ColecoVision Championship - Actual TV Footage from 1982
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2011, 07:33:28 pm »
Anybody that can do anything with a p.o.s.  colecovision controller deserves an award in my book.  ;)

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Re: ColecoVision Championship - Actual TV Footage from 1982
« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2011, 01:43:48 pm »
30 years past due, but congratulations! :applaud:


I'd say you are deserving to be heralded as the "Captain Spock of the Silicon Chip" but I don't quite know what the guy meant... :dizzy: He was just throwing out every Star Trek/Star Wars reference he could muster.  :lol


I have to laugh at the VG hero as well. I swear he should be unveiling the ingredient of the day in Iron Chef.

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Re: ColecoVision Championship - Actual TV Footage from 1982
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2011, 02:25:15 pm »
VGH kinda looks like Michael Scott in "The Office".
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Ive tried searching for Jim Welch (aka Video Game Super Hero) but cant find him, maybe someone who's got better searching skills and who likes a challenge can find him.