Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Last week on Friday Plays, VENTURE on the ColecoVision showed just how much of the arcade game’s personality could make it home.

But a lot of viewers told me something interesting: their version of VENTURE wasn’t on ColecoVision at all. It was on the Atari 2600.

So in this video, I go back to VENTURE again — this time on older hardware, in a much more limited 4K cartridge conversion — to see how much of the adventure survived.

It was never going to be a one-to-one match for the ColecoVision port, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still a real game here. I look at what made it home, what had to be left behind, and why this version still deserves a fair look.

#retrogaming #atari #arcade #genxgrownup

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