From: "Dale Wick" <dalew@gateway.truespectra.com>
To: jblenkle@calweb.com
Subject: Re: Hasbro did not buy CV & ADAM

USTelegames bought the rights to the ColecoVISION, but I under-
stand that the Adam was sold to another company.  If you look 
around on the web you'll see that USTelegames sells Coleco-
VISION carts, and have the rights to manufacture them.  For a 
while in the late 80s they issued a ColecoVISION compatible 
games unit (carried in Canada by Toys R Us among others). It
may or may not still be available.  Check their web site.
     http://www.telegames.com
Any Coleco manufactured carts are now made by that company. Neil
met the owner around 1988, and at the time he said that he did 
not own the rights to the Adam.  Many Coleco Adam products were 
released to the public domain, as collected by Rob Freidman, 
but certainly not all of them. 
I've heard rumors that the Adam and the prototype laserdisc
player system (for the "real" version of Dragon's Lair and Space
Ace) rights were bought by a company that intended to use them 
for kiosks.  I suspect that if that is true, nothing ever came 
of it.  It turns out that Coleco had a 3 year exclusive on
laserdisc games and had a prototype version with overlayed Adam
graphics over full motion video.  This could be translated into a
self-running kiosk that showed video segments, and current 
information on local attractions and events.  It seems that event 
today the prospect of owning such technology brings bidders -- 
the Amiga rights is now owned by a company that wants to make 
kiosks and "set-top boxes" for surfing the web or ordering
movies or displaying bulletins.

          Dale
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