CLASSIC GAMES REVISITED - Venture (ColecoVision) Review

[menacingshadows]

In defense of Venture, it had a creepy vibe that was wonderful. The music and characters really capture the imagination. The ghoul that enters after some time was horrific for a child. I remember really having the sense of penetrating deeper into a frightening dungeon.

[cjwright79]

I remember when I was about eight, I went over to a neighbor's house and started playing this. My friend left me alone and I just stayed there and played it for god knows how long. I think they were miffed that I did that, but hey, it was a great game!

On second thought maybe I just went upstairs to the landing and started playing of my own accord, I'm not sure.

[artman2oo3]

Wow. This brings back memories! My grandparents had Colecovision. I would play this whenever I was over there. Yeah it sucks but it has such sentiment and nostalgia for me personally.

[level505]

i would much rather hear the original sound bits of the game then some drab narration

[Jellogel]

wow, I'm really surprised by this review, Venture is an absolute classic, still very challenging and fun, the sights and sounds of the game are classic arcade style. Loved Venture as a kid, and if I stumble across it I'm always happy to play again.

[midgetgirl5]

oh shit i rember this game!!!

[msk578]

This is one of the most difficult games I've ever played. Yet I still play it for some reason.

[rsalek]

My friends had this; I had a texas instruments. Totally brings back memories

[valcarni1]

stop hating i liked this game

[bjggjb]

Not only was the main character poorly rendered, he was poorly named ("Winky"? With a name like that, growing up as a member of a barbarian tribe in the Cimmerian wilderness must have been a bitch.)

[littlemrsgrinninbarr]

The green wall monsters used to scare the hell out of me as a child!

[iscrapman]

One of my bro. used to work for coleco , and they could buy cartridges with damaged labels for cheap , we ended up with a massive video games cartridges collection , including that game , oh i loved that game so much !

[chaddsuper]

This was one of the first 2 games I played on ColecoVision-the other being,of course, Donkey Kong...thought it was way better than Atari....

[migueluspa]

those green monster skull scared the crap out of us

[ClassicTVMan81]

@sygo7g

The arcade version had more level songs than the CV version.

[slipknotfanalex21]

this was the first video game iv ver played

[vintagevideogamegeek]

You sound a little under the weather in this one!

[strictlysega]

im enjoying ur reviews, keep it up :) but i gotta say i don't agree with u on this one..

almost as many question marks there are rooms,, and the challenge gets really good as it gets harder,, its a good merger of berserk and adventure kinda..like u said but it adds the bonus counter for the hi score so u can have something to challenge ur friends..and u forgot to add when u shoot the corpses they stay longer.. so its best not to rapidly shoot the corpses blocking ur exit