Retro VGS Game Console

[Gentlegamer]

I'm now convinced Mike Kennedy is a mad scientist who is actually creating a doomsday lulz machine.

He's like Lex Luthor.

[Gredler]

This is amazing. It has to be scripted, this can't be random occurrences, he can't possibly think someone wouldn't make the connection between the capture card and his "prototype" no one can be that naive and shady at the same time, it can't be possible, can it?

[mickcris]

Both Piko and Collectorvision said they are going to release some more info. Both finally have admitted to being duped. Should be interesting to see some of what was going on behind the scenes.

[esteban]

Both Piko and Collectorvision said they are going to release some more info. Both finally have admitted to being duped. Should be interesting to see some of what was going on behind the scenes.

Aha!

[SignOfZeta]

How can anyone smart enough to program a video game be "duped"? I saw through it in seconds and I'm too stupid to use Excel without screaming like a cave man every 15 min or so.

Actually, I know exactly when I saw through this. It was in that Podcast mentioned earlier in this thread where he first announced the thing. It seemed like...like he actually made the choice to announce the POS at that moment and then proceeded to announce it, a mistake he's still sticking with.

The dude likes to announce that he's making things, isn't so good at the actual making. Terrible, in fact. I'm pretty sure I could make a better fake system than they have in my spare time, and they're actually trying to make a real one.

Frankly, I wish I had time to make a good fake machine. It sounds fun.

[mickcris]

They are taking a while, but here is where they said it

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/247145-coleco-chameleon-hardware-speculations/page-164#entry3455198

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/247145-coleco-chameleon-hardware-speculations/page-165#entry3455257

the collectorvision guy seems extra pissed
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/247145-coleco-chameleon-hardware-speculations/page-166#entry3455315

[KingDrool]

Like a f*cking train wreck, this thing.

[NightWolve]

They never recovered from the breakdown of relations with Kevtris, who seems like he was qualified enough to get some kind of system going since he had been working on a console idea YEARS before these incompetent hacks showed up, not that I think we really need this, but yeah, they haven't found a qualified hardware guy(s) in the aftermath and they wanted a big pile of money upfront to pay for that much later (I guess)...

[SignOfZeta]

I don't know. At this point Esteban's performance art theory makes as much sense as anything.

I say this because...the Jag case is pretty big. You can easily fit an entire Windows PC in there with an emulator for everything on it. Don't put it in a clear shell and nobody will be able to ID the parts. Pay some 20-year old $500 to make or modify an existing front end...there you go. That's like a week of work. These idiots couldn't even install dummy USB jacks into the thing, something easily doable by anyone who can solder and glue things. There just isn't any excuse for these guys to suck so bad at this thing that is aparently their life's work.

[SuperGrafx]

I'm really not surprised at this point.

While I don't know much about this Mike Kennedy fellow, I will say that he would be more at home at a neighborhood bar in Boston than being a figurehead of a retro console revival.
He looks like some kind of Irish-American drunkard. 

[780racer]

This dude is like... Worse than EA. At least normally they produce something.... This guy just straight up wants your cash and I bet would run to Cuba or something and retire.

[SignOfZeta]

At least it'll be made in the good ol USA, right? That's still happening, right?

I guess the shells were recast in the US...so...as much as this thing can be said to exist at all, it can be said to be "American".

[780racer]

At least it'll be made in the good ol USA, right? That's still happening, right?

I guess the shells were recast in the US...so...as much as this thing can be said to exist at all, it can be said to be "American".

Efff that.

made in the USA means it has to actually be complete. Which this is not, and will not by my predictions...... ever.

At least we get something fun to talk about, haha.

[Mathius]

Wow my largest thread ever! Kinda wish it was about something more enticing though hehe

[MrBroadway]

Wow my largest thread ever! Kinda wish it was about something more enticing though hehe

What, fraudulent clusterf*cks aren't interesting?