My love for games was born in the arcades and except for Space Invaders and a couple of other exceptions, the 2600's ports were lackluster and often atrocious. While I do give it credit for original titles at the time like Pitfall and Adventure, I never wanted one and just found myself back in the arcades plopping in quarters.
It wasn't until Colecovision that I could actually play great arcade ports at home that were leaps and bounds better than anything on the 2600 or Intellivision (hadn't played a 5200 yet). Centipede, Gorf, Galaxian, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Q*Bert... so many great arcade titles. I still never had one and I didn't like the controller, but none of the home console controllers were good to me until the NES. Needless to say, Colecovision gets my vote.
Top 5 Colecovison games:
1. Frogger
2. Burgertime
3. Galaxian
4. Donkey Kong Jr
5. Donkey Kong
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