Topic: Coleco Chameleon scam

[Crying Freeman]

Mike Kennedy. Aka scumbag. I'm sure you all now what's going on with this system. Basically these guys acted unprofessional on multiple occassions and twice now they've tried to trick the community through fake prototypes. Plus Mike has messaged YouTube ppl like Pat and Ian of CUP and ReviewtehUSA, calling Pat and Ian drunks and threatening to flag Reviewtech's video talking about it. They've also deleted pictures proving their shit and comments talking bad about them.

I just think it's great that we have so many people willing to dig deep into things and find out that they were trying to lie to everyone about having a prototype. There are tins of companies riding the retro gaming bandwagon nowadays, but when you have the shitheads like Mike trying to take advantage of people he thinks are all dumbasses, they deserve to have their business ventures die.

SNES: https://mobile.twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/699662592218787841

Capture Card:
https://www.gamingconviction.com/coleco-chameleon-caught-using-capture-card-in-fake-prototype/

[TheTextGuy]

I've been hearing a lot about this from Pat and Ian's CUP.  It basically is a scam.  They tried to get away with no prototype with the Retro VGS as well (the thing the Coleco Chameleon was called before), so that's a red flag too.

[theANdROId]

I hadn't seen anything about this yet.  Not in the right circles I guess.

[Crying Freeman]

I hadn't seen anything about this yet.  Not in the right circles I guess.

Basically this guy Mike (owner of gamegavel.com and retro magazine) bought the molds for the Atari Jaguar console and cartridge shells. He decided that, with ONLY his console molds, that he was gonna make a new system that played games through cartridges. He teamed with a guy called Kevtris who made the console's board, an FPGA that could emulate multiple systems, so homebrew devs could easily port their homebrew NES, SNES, Genesis Atari games etc.

Since Kickstarter requires hardware prototypes, they decided to fund on indiegogo witha  $2 million goal ( ), the system costing like $300 - $400. It failed and like a month later Mike bought the rights to use the Coleco branding and restarted the project as Coleco Chameleon, promising there'd be a prototype at this NY toy fair. Buuuut SNES controllers were hard wired into the system, Mike claiming their main gamepad wasn't working (ok...), but they were only play SNES games on it (yeeeaaaahhh), the SNES/N64/GC proprietary AV connector was on the back (Ok, no!!), there was duct tape all over the back of the console and the cart port on the system was identical to a SNES one.

After the heat they got from this, they kept denying it was a fake, so they released these newer pics, and someone compared the board in the console to an internal capture card, so they tried to trick everyone again.... so fuckin filthy lol. They could've just said it was a proof of concept, and that there was a SNES in the console. Everything would've been fine, but they still claim it was their hardware and the real thing.

[Crying Freeman]

I've been hearing a lot about this from Pat and Ian's CUP.  It basically is a scam.  They tried to get away with no prototype with the Retro VGS as well (the thing the Coleco Chameleon was called before), so that's a red flag too.

Yeah, their kickstarter is DOA. Plus I heard the holders of the Coleco brand are gonna pull their name from the console if they can't make a prototype soon lol