Coleco Gemini
Coleco's return to the gaming market after the Telstar was a shaky one. The introduction of cartridge systems forced the company to dump over a million obsolete Telstar machines at a
loss of 22.3 million dollars. It's no wonder they gambled on copying the Atari 2600 which was the most successful console of it's time.
So the Coleco Gemini was created in 1982. It was an exact clone of the 2600 system, which Atari could do nothing
about (Since the court ruled that the Atari technology contained no patented material, was made up of all "off-the-shelf" hardware,
and no copyrighted software). So Coleco marketed the Gemini slightly cheaper then the Atari 2600, and
capitalized on the Atari success.
 FACT: The only thing slightly different about the Coleco Gemini other then it's outward
appearance were the controllers. Coleco combined the Atari's joystick and paddle controls into a single controller.
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