Even then it was nothing but promises in an empty shell.
Well, a shell with an SNES motherboard inside, and then a DVR capture card later... Not exactly empty, but yes...
Ah man, so many lulz, so little time to explore them all.
Like you, I don't believe they were scammers, but definitely dopey and greedy (
and capable of lying to not miss marketing opportunities and buy more time, then repeat lying when called on it with fake mockups)... When you don't even know exactly what you're gonna put inside, and thus the building cost per unit, yet the first things you're coming up with are collectard "special edition" gold-colored consoles and $350 pricepoints, f--k you, frankly!!! Never seen such a blatant cart before the horses example such as this... But yeah, it was a "
give us money now, we'll build it later" thinking process that started it and having to build
something now per Kickstarter's standards was too much of a curve-ball for them after the IndieGoGo failed miserably...
Definitely, I'd like to see Mike Kennedy's playbook in areas of marketing/promotion/etc. I dunno how a guy who seems so "dumb" pulled this off... He's not dumb in all areas is the thing. Somehow, he had the right email addresses to contact, he traveled when necessary, shook hands, made the right pitches that were just appealing enough, etc. to get a pretty powerful marketing blitz going in gaming news media for something that was so specious from the start... On the way down it made it to my Facebook trending list, so not exactly the "making it big" he was envisioning, but I am impressed how he and a few of his "beer buddies" pulled this off!!!
I think they'll be writing about this for years, how did this f--king guy pull this off to have even gotten as far as he did ?? That's kind of fascinating to me...