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CoCo in the Movies

admin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:36:08 +0000

CoCo in the Movies

The CoCo ended up in some movies back in the day, and I bet you don’t even remember. This is a work in progress with more clips added as they are found.

Here’s a few clips to remind you of when you were a Nerd long before anybody else in the world accepted personal computers to be normal.

The first part of the video appears to feature Steve Bjork’s version of Zaxxon, although this is not comfirmed yet. I just loaded that game up and it looks like a match.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLHLThC6FuE

More Coco movies

marcool — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:30:32 +0000

I just found this site that has pictures of the Coco in
the movies, some we already know about.

[url]http://starringthecomputer.com/computer.php?c=34[/url]

Silver Spoons

marcool — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:28:40 +0000

In several silver spoons episodes, Ricky Schroeder has a coco.

The Heavenly Kid 1985 (Was: Original CoCo + TRS-80 Model 4)

djutc — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:46:34 +0000

Glad I came accross this forum.

Heavenly Kid! One of my favorite all time 80′s movies. This movie was made in 1985. Has an original Grey Color Computer 1 and also has a TRS-80 Model 4 shown in some of the scenes.

CoCo in Star Trek IV

larry — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:47:49 +0000

First of all, hi everyone, and a big wave to those who remember me from years past. I’ve been off the boards for many years, but still meet locally with some ex-CoCoers every month or so in the So Cal area here. I still have my CoCo though haven’t used it for a while (when I have time, I have a new disk someone sent me that I need to try it out!) Roger, I’m still playing the violin for a living. If you saw “Ratatouille” this summer I was playing in the studio orchestra (if you pick up the soundtrack CD, you’ll see my name listed inside under Violins). I still have my webpage up, with the CoCo section as well as the Fujitsu FM-7 section (the Japanese CoCo “clone”). It’s at: www.nausicaa.net/~lgreenf if anyone wants to take a look. I don’t know how much time I have to hang out here but you can always email me or reach me through my webpage.

Anyway, onto the subject. CoCo in the movies.
Well I’ve posted about this before in the old forums, but in case you guys forgot, a CoCo was “featured” in Star Trek IV — not onscreen, but in the sound effects. It happens twice in the movie. Where the group travels through time… as they’re slowly waking up after the time travel, the sound in the background is the audio of a CoCo cassette tape program (after the initial leader tones). Trust me on this folks, I have perfect pitch and listened to audio cassettes loading on my CoCo for half my life. It’s the only time I’ve ever heard this sound effect used in a film, but I guess the sound engineer had an old CoCo (or at least a CoCo software cassette) laying around somewhere and used it. So forget the song of the whales in Star Trek IV, listen instead for the song of the CoCo!

Tandy in a cartoon

vcc6809 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:04:42 +0000

There was a reference in Futurama to Bender’s uncle vladimir’s son “Tandy”
heres a pic
http://vcc6809.bravehost.com/Pics/futurama.html
Not definitely a coco reference but he is nuclear green.
BTW his chest says Euro TRaSh-80

In one of the Nerds movies

cgoulette — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:57:22 +0000

In one of the “Nerds” movies, they had a Color Computer (I think they were using the Spectral Analyzer cartridge).

Friday the 13th (one of them)

poco6809 — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:59:46 +0000

The one where jason gets reborn it think. Part 5 maybe 4 The kid was playing Zaxzon.

CoCo on TV

diego_bf109 — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:22:43 +0000

There was a TV show called [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083410/]“The Edison Twins”[/url]
In one episode, they use a CoCo (2?) and the “Audio Spectrum Analyzer” to identify the voice print of whoever they were after at the moment.
Anybody remembers the show? Is it out there on DVD/VHS?

What movies have you seen a CoCo in?

admin — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:12:10 +0000

Have you seen a movie that featured either a real CoCo or some sort of video monitor that displayed what appears to be CoCo-generated?

Post your movie names here and let’s get a list compiled.

For example: Revenge of the Nerds 1 obviously features a white CoCo being played as a keyboard by Lewis during the college challenge fest and the stage scene. “…and Lewis and Gilbert will be joining in…”, Lewis turns around and there’s our CoCo hanging at his waistline by a harnest and platform. Hilarious.

There’s a summer camp movie that I can’t recall the name of that features a boy in a cabin using a CoCo to get revenge somehow on some other campgoers.

Someone reported Spinal Tap having someone on the bus playing the Poloris game.

So can you confirm any titles that *you’ve* seen a CoCo in, or video that appears to be generated by a CoCo?