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All ColecoVision games of any region will work on any region console, as the ColecoVision has no regional lockout. However, many games were coded with an NTSC (60 Hz) ColecoVision in mind and were not optimized in any way for PAL (50 Hz) c…

1 min readUpdated Oct 9, 2026

All ColecoVision games of any region will work on any region console, as the ColecoVision has no regional lockout. However, many games were coded with an NTSC (60 Hz) ColecoVision in mind and were not optimized in any way for PAL (50 Hz) consoles. This means that games played on a PAL or French ColecoVision will run about 20% slower than intended and are letterboxed (vertically compressed). Below is a video showing the game Rocky Super Action Boxing on a US ColecoVision (left), and on a PAL ColecoVision (right).

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