The Retro Vgs (now the Coleco chameleon)

The Retro VGS was a planned console that was to bring back the glory days of the cartridge based console and the promise of bug free games, a while back it was launched on the indie gogo for funding and it did very badly. I think looking back on the cartridge era can be a bit rose tinted though fact is they were certainly not bug free and while people may argue about loading times fact is if you are playing a retro game on a modern system loading times are not a issue at all.

So after the disaster of the indiegogo campaign they purchased the rights to use the name Coleco so it will be called the Coleco Chameleon and it was due to come to kickstarter the friday just gone but now it has been delayed.

Now a lot of this info is from what i have watched and read so take that as what you will ,what i have heard is the creators of it fired the engineer working on the Retro VGS and pretty much blamed him, now they have said they have gone to the drawing board and had a showing at a recent toy show now where a lot of the controversy has come in is the " Prototype " they have shown was running Snes games using a hardwired Snes controller and at the back it seemed to be a proprietary Snes video out and the Snes power port and a lot of duct tape to cover things, in some forums they have basically took apart a Snes Jr and put it in a atari jaguar shell and it looks the same and they have said they used the back of a Snes as it was easier but people are saying if the full console is supposed to be HDMI and having to connect the back of it to a FPGA as well as a hardwiring a snes controller how can that be easier then just a hdmi port and a usb connector, but as i am no hardware expert i really do not know.

That is all the things i have heard and seen so i have to take their words for it, but the things i do know is on there facebook pages they are deleting negative comments and failing to respond on what has been happening and it seems in the recent update comments are private.

Rumours are now that they are looking for investors and the reason they have not started the kickstarter was because there is not prototype.

Now at the start i did not believe it was a scam as the head guy Mike kennedy has been so much involved with the Retro scene and such a public face for it, i just believed that after the failed Indigogo they became desperate to get money to fund it, but if it turns out that it was a Snes JR in the atari shell then that is deception and i would class that as a scam.

In the end i think a lot of people would be very hesitant to buy into this, if at the start they just said it was a emulation machine perhaps along the lines of a retron 5 that would have been a better bet.


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