This was my first arcade experimental project with my ColecoVision.
An CBS Colecovision in a homemade mini cabinet that also could be used as a little table, between me and the Television
Real stuff with player 1 and player 2 plus a real analog insert coin unit.
The project was made around 1987/88.

The ColecoVision was mounted inside this wood cabinet made of chipboard.
I made this for a very long time ago.

I have no picture of it, but some I still have parts of it, I found the parts for some time ago in my basement.

Before this project.
I knew Someone who worked at OK Automater with arcade machines from the 80's and he helped me with some parts.

Back then in the 70's, my cousin Jimmy and I had a few slot machines and a single pinball machine.
(Slotmachine: Aristocrat - Mad Melons,   Slotmachine: Bally - Extra Bonus   and   Pinball: Bally - Time Zone.)

The guy at OK Automater had helped me in the past with a used loose arcade joystick and 2 new red fire buttons with backlight as you can see below.
That was for an earlier Joystick project that you could sit with on your thighs in your armchair.

Unfortunately, I have no photo of the finished joystick, but I have made this drawing on left.
It was around 45 cm. wide and about 15 cm. in depth, and perhaps 9 cm. in height, and around 4 cm. at lowest point.
It was made of chipboard and covered with black self-adhesive velour.
This is the joystick, my cousins, my friends and I used to score the right high scores in the 80's.
Scores virtually unobtainable today, and that's now over 30 years ago.

This is what is left from the project in the 80's.
The box / mini table with the coin slot was thrown away sometime around 1999, I think.

Last updated:

August 24. 2025.
January 15. 2016.