> That's one reason I won't bother to seek out one of these units for nostalgia value.
IIRC, I had two of these when I was a kid: Donkey Kong Jr. and Zaxxon. Also IIRC, the battery covers have a notch cut in them which is intended to accept the lead from a battery eliminator. AFAIK, the battery eliminator was a Coleco accessory.
The battery eliminator consisted of two parts: an AC-to-DC adapter that terminated in a 9V battery connector, and a number of C- (or D-; I forget) cell batteries, one of which had the reciprocating 9V connector to the adapter. Connect them correctly, and the game would run as if it was on battery power.
To the best of my memory, the eliminator batteries were black with a yellow label containing the Coleco logo in red. As they were essentially just pass-throughs and did not contain actual cells, they weighed next to nothing. Can't figure out why Coleco went with this particular arrangement as opposed to just a straight AC-DC adapter, but there you go.
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