Editing Coleco

|founded=1932<ref>{{cite|title=Coleco moves out of the cabbage patch|work=The New York Times|date=July 21, 1985|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/21/business/coleco-moves-out-of-the-cabbage-patch.html?&pagewanted=2|accessdate=December 23, 2024|author=Kleinfield, N. R.}}</ref>

|defunct=1988<ref>{{cite|url=www.techspot.com/article/2301-coleco/#google_vignette|publisher=TechSpot|language=en|title=Coleco: Gone But Not Forgotten|author=Jeffery, Cat|date=January 13, 2022|accessdate=November 11, 2024}}</ref>

'''{{wp|Coleco|Coleco Industries, Inc.}}''', also known as simply '''Coleco''', was an American video game and toy company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as '''The Connecticut Leather Company'''. It was legally permitted by [[Nintendo]] to port ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'' to home consoles and tabletops in 1982,<ref>{{cite|date=July 29, 1985|publisher=Justia|language=en|accessdate=November 11, 2024|url=law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/615/838/1515073|title=Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co. Ltd., 615 F. Supp. 838 (S.D.N.Y. 1985)}}</ref> and it was later offered the rights to ''[[Donkey Kong Jr. (game)|Donkey Kong Jr.]]'' Even though Coleco had the right to port these two games only on home consoles, the company also ported ''Donkey Kong'' and ''Donkey Kong Jr.'' on its computer {{wp|Coleco Adam}}. Coleco justified its existence in that it uses a {{wp|ColecoVision}} cartridge as opposed to a cassette or floppy disk. Coleco also created ''Donkey Kong'' merchandise figures.

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Coleco Donkey Kong tabletop.png|''[[Donkey Kong (tabletop arcade game)|Donkey Kong]]'' tabletop arcade game

Coleco Donkey Kong Jr. canceled tabletop.jpg|Ad for canceled ''Donkey Kong Junior'' tabletop arcade game

DKJr.Tabletopgame.jpg|[[Donkey Kong Jr. (Game & Watch)|''Donkey Kong Jr.'' Game & Watch]] Tabletop distributed by Coleco