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[Desh]

This whole fiasco is literally going to provide years of lulz.  I still think they're just stringing us along as a joke... I mean this really can't be real.

[Gentlegamer]

So it's now the Colecovision name on an Atari Jaguar shell with a SNES inside. Doesn't get anymore authentically "retro" than that

Wait, wut?

*goes to Atari Age, subscribed to Coleco Chameleon thread*

*175 notifications*

Oh, this gonna be good!

[Lost Monkey]

Ok, so it (apparently) was a SNES mini in the Jag case yesterday...

Mike has proven to be the type that will do ANYTHING to keep the charade going, so I propose that what he may do today,  is have a different console inside the Jag so that he can demo something else.   He'll make up some excuse as to why the SNES controllers are no longer working with it etc...  If he has enough tape he may be able to get an N64 in there...

Of course if he does this  - it will be 100% for the people discussing the POS online and not for the people at the toy fair...

[mickcris]

i took a pic this morning of an snes mini and put a jag shell on top cause someone asked for it.  judge for yourselves.  mine is on the bottom:

[Lost Monkey]

Didn't have time for the electrical tape? lol

So sad.

[esteban]

i took a pic this morning of an snes mini and put a jag shell on top cause someone asked for it.  judge for yourselves.  mine is on the bottom:

I love that you created this "prototype" in a matter of minutes. .)

[mickcris]

Yeah. No tape. Didn't want to have to clean up the mess. Would have also had to remove a little bit of plastic if I wanted it to fit exactly like they have it. I don't have an endless supply of jag shells like them though.

[Desh]

i took a pic this morning of an snes mini and put a jag shell on top cause someone asked for it.  judge for yourselves.  mine is on the bottom:

Congratulations.  You officially already own a Coleco Chameleon!

[Sarumaru]

i took a pic this morning of an snes mini and put a jag shell on top cause someone asked for it.  judge for yourselves.  mine is on the bottom:

Congratulations.  You officially already own a Coleco Chameleon!

I didn't read any of this thread, and I don't have to because this thing stinks of scam. Just develop for shit that already exists. There's a billion clone consoles out there. Make some snes or genny games ffs. Still think people are trying to just cash-in on the retro thing but whatever.

[ClodBuster]

Are you sure want to miss out on 44 pages of amusement, embarrasement and enjoyment?

[NightWolve]

It all gets weirder! 

So the new Coleco Chameleon "prototype" is now on-display the the New York Toy Fair, and it's looking suspiciously like what they're showing is a SNES-clone motherboard, and that the "prototype" cartridge is actually an SD2SNES or a Super Everdrive.

The new KickStarter campaign starts in 2 weeks.

I didn't think that there was any way that this whole saga could possibly get any stranger! 

Sure looks like an SNES connector to me.

"Look everybody, so this is how things worked in the old days! You see that cartridge slot? Now look in my hand, this is a cartridge, and I'm going to push it into said slot, and power our console on! OK, here we go! Magic, isn't it??"

OMG, even if you didn't recognize that flashcart, his gamepad is clearly SNES! Hahahaha! This is for real, right before our very eyes ? And it basically was a part II presentation of their former engineer's "Power goes in, video goes out!" deleted video... 

[SignOfZeta]

Yeah, I found the whole "this is a cartridge" thing a pathetic attempt at super obvious misdirection. Nobody has forgotten The Cartridge. We have have 3DS, digital cameras with SD card slots, USB drives, etc (as well as SNES). You'd thing they're trying to bring back the steam engine or something. 

Hopefully the millionaire heiress engineer of their dreams is paying attention to Toy Fair this year or our hilarious saga maybe finally conclude.

[SignOfZeta]

Hang on, has anyone mentioned Underpants Gnomes? I ask because that's exactly they these tools are. They have the idea "A game system somehow invented by us so that we get all the money", but the important part where they actually figure out what the spec is...that's just completely ignored by them and they don't seem to have a problem with it.

[Gredler]

Yeah, I found the whole "this is a cartridge" thing a pathetic attempt at super obvious misdirection. Nobody has forgotten The Cartridge. We have have 3DS, digital cameras with SD card slots, USB drives, etc (as well as SNES). You'd thing they're trying to bring back the steam engine or something. 

I keep assuming they are going to put a sd card equivalent in a large plastic case and call it a cartridge, that'd seem to be the cheapest manufacturing option.

[esteban]

Sadly, I recognized the first game he played simply by the music.