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    This is Mike. I'm sorry about this misunderstanding. Willie is a good guy and didn't deserve this kind of disrespect. I will try to think before I act next time. Sorry everyone.

    From companies, to consoles, to minicades, the test is pretty simple: Is this mine to take, no, OK I won't.

     

    This kinda reminds me of the time he cut and pasted Chris Cardillo's apology thanking Atari Age, difference is Chris meant it and MK was an unmasked Scooby Do character.

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    Mike apparently donated to Willie's Sandwich Fund (For Charity)

     

    "For the record. Once it was brought to my attention these were refurbished I immediately emailed the buyers and have since issued them both refunds. I also told Willie I would pay him for them but he insisted that he didn't want the money and to just refund the buyers. Over the many years Willie and I have given/traded many things back and forth and in addition, I've given him a platform to promote his Youtube channels and podcasts. When I give something to someone it is theirs to do whatever they please, no strings attached. Either way, this is an opportunity to make this right with Willie as I always intended once he contacted me privately about it."

     

    It's always a defensive half apology

     

    Now THAT is the MK I have come to know. If you parse that correctly it is a real shitty attack on Willie.

     

    First part ignores that he was selling someone else's stuff and goes right into how he was just trying to do the right thing.

     

     

    Over the many years Willie and I have given/traded many things back and forth and in addition, I've given him a platform to promote his Youtube channels and podcasts.

    Shades of I'm the only one here who has lost anything? Gave Willie a platform, what is his name really Mike Youtube? If he is referring to Willie posting on RGR that was a two way street with no need for a formal arrangement! Willie put our splash screens, credited us, and none of it was asked for or pay for play, we just like to mutually help our friends.

     

     

    When I give something to someone it is theirs to do whatever they please, no strings attached.

    Obvious charge being made here is that Willie did something inappropriate, good ol' indian giver Willie. Glossing over those being loaned items.

     

     

    Either way, this is an opportunity to make this right with Willie as I always intended once he contacted me privately about it."

    Right from the playbook, as Willie pointed out Socal went silent on him, classic MK move. Then he accuses the other person of not being communicative. "I'm working so hard to do the right thing but people keep tripping me up!"

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  7. Posted · Edited by Pipercub

    We shared a panel with Bobby Blackwolf and others at SFGE, super nice guy and we all had allot of fun. Yes, it was us showing off the replica and you should see the lights come on when people see it up close from any angle they want and get to hold it, any question it could be anything other than a SNES in a Jag goes right out the window. It was also fun just kind of standing around the booth and listening to people making up their own narratives, telling their friends about the tale from their point of view.

     

    We had a funny moment when we went to plug it up, see when I built it I grabbed a SNES mini from a box and was in too much of a rush to test it and never got around to it prior to being at SFGE because it was really intended as a proof of the geometry of fitting the SNES in the Jag. So the first time powered it up the damn thing didn't work! All of us present agreed that it was the only way that could have gone.

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    I took a lot of heat for this guy trying to be supportive, I could have been more "angry" in my rant video than I was, I was more hurt than angry that a guy I thought was a very good friend did all this and kicked me to the curb because I have a "close tie" to PiperCub and UKMike of Retrogamingroundup podcast. I never once passed on any information in conversations Socal and I had to anyone, but I was still kicked to the curb.... I am not going to give up a friend because another friend does not like them. I am a grown adult and can keep information separate between friends of mine that are on the outs. I dont like spreading rumors and such, I value family and friends over all else.

     

    It is such a shame this all went down, I dont think Socal realizes just how good a friend he burned and tossed away :(

     

    I am firmly convinced he believes the following:

     

    1. That he isn't doing what he is doing.

    2. After he trashes someone he can make up with them, that he can talk away the situation.

    3. That he has a louder voice and some sort of legitimate standing that others do not so when he speaks that will be the official version.

    4. The people he has gone through don't know about each other, won't connect and network, because he kept things so compartmentalized.

     

    I can vouch for what Willie is saying, we had frank discussions and I did tell him you could be next, learn from the pattern, but he never breaks confidence of others. What Socal would probably have a coronary over is HOW MANY people he thinks are friends who hate his guts and can't believe he doesn't know it. Probably 4 out of 5 people he thinks he's on good terms with are quite the opposite.

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  9. Posted · Edited by Pipercub

    Every time I think this thread couldn't get stranger, it gets stranger. Did a founder of GameGavel really sell things on a competitor's site? That'd be funny if it weren't for some of you being invested in it (I believe?).

     

     

    Well in Socal's words I am a "small minority share holder for a minimal amount of money that doesn't matter" (AKA the only friend who bought into his company) But even though that is the case, this is still funny, not Willie's stuff being stolen but the Socal hyjinks.

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    By that logic Willie is the new Mr Lee!

     

    Ok so which is it, is he a brilliant captain of industry, a CEO of a network of serial entrepreneur ventures that the vast gamer conspiracy is out to get, Or, is he a dopey lovable little fuzzball who got suckered by a con artist and just plain forgot that he was selling things on loan to him?

     

     

    And what about that Mr Lee business, if there was one charge, citation, summons, or other document associated with those charges surely MK would be crowing those to the world, but NOPE (if I may borrow that) nothing has come of it.

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  12. Posted · Edited by Pipercub

    Ask anyone that has 3 kids or more, separate them and question them after there is a broken or missing item, two stories will agree and one will be the off the course. Same here, and speaking of participants only.

     

     

    Stories that match

     

    Clay

    John

    Scott

    Even Sean

    Eli

    Gamester

    John Carlson (granted he was not told about previous members)

    BTB

    Chris Cardillo

    UKNike

    StopDropRetro

    #Cupodcast

     

    Vs Socal

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    You polled your listeners and they told you "more of the same" because they are the ones who stuck with you. Missing from those results are the people who quit because it's too. damn. long.

     

    I have tried many long podcasts, and always abandon them, RGR included, in favor of tightly planned, more concise episodes or publishers who break things up. Unlike some of your listeners, my listening time is finite, and I don't give it out indiscriminately -- there's too much good stuff out there for me to waste time on formats I don't enjoy.

     

    This is just my opinion, I'm not trying to be mean or single you out particularly. When I see a massively long podcast, it's a sign to me that it hasn't been edited thoughtfully and probably won't respect my time.

     

    So keeping it topical with this thread, we did a long form interview with Eli from Pico and BTB where they were to tell the whole story which answered so much and continues to give Ah-ha moments and also, there were a ton of quick concise talking head youtube episodes and main stream press articles that guessed and speculated almost always incorrectly and provided a ton of false info. Some people enjoy a multi course meal at a upscale restaurant, others want McDonald's drive through, were not serving the junkfood market, we made our choice and stand by it. The majority of the shows I listen to, Penn's Sunday School, Game Escape, Super Podcast Brothers, StopDropandRetro, etc. all take the time needed to tell the story so there is certainly a community for that content. There is some quality short form content too, don't get me wrong, #CUpodcast is very good at entertaining in a concise way.

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    I'm doubting Mike Kennedy didn't see the insides of the prototype. The controller in the image has even been resized (smaller) to accommodate foreshortening. Who plugged in the controllers if they didn't fit through the holes? 13007221_597634777057763_211191223919069

     

     

    Your just missing one part of the puzzle, the controllers plugged onto an extension that was plugged into the SNES, the controllers did not have to pass through that hole, only their plugs. That said, you can totally see that it is an intact SNES just by looking through the space around the extension cables and the back of the unit.

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  15. Posted · Edited by Pipercub

    I had that same monitor in the early 90's a Sony trinitron out of an Army comms van that was getting scraped, I watched allot of Sky TV and MTV Europe on it, great memories. Not much to do with a video game system in 2015 though

     

    And I made a habit of tossing Retro mag into the trash and sharing the pic, but I threw out the CC advert, I would have framed it!!!

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    A question occurred to me, lets say it wasn't opened, what could one see without opening it? One of the benefits of owning a replica of the toy fair prototype.

     

    You can see allot more than the picture shows, but from these you can easily recognize the SNES extensions plugged in, and the back is very recognizable. And so much for the theory it was hardwired, a quick peek shows it is not.

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    Clicks and ad money? Ask pipercub. I write there for FREE, I make NOTHING from there. I write there because I enjoy it. And that article was written because I considered Mike a friend at one time, and it hurts see what has happened.

     

    If you truly think I wrote that for clicks and ad money, than copy and post it here. It won't bother me, or anyone else who runs that site. At all.

     

    Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G530A using Tapatalk

    Leathco, as are all of our members, is able to publish an article on the site. He is not paid to do so, and you yourself could publish an article with an opposite point of view, we are not in a habit of censoring or deleting content.

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    1. What made you think it was a good idea to ask for money, twice, before having anything to show? Did you figure that everything would take care of itself once you were funded? The plan WAS TO HAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW for the Kickstarter. A unit that we could take the top off of or run straight from a cartridge on a bare board showing it all up and playing in front of a neutral audience. And showing at least two game platforms running - SNES and Intelli for example. That was what we were trying to accomplish at the Jag Bar set. I was told by Sean all along we would have a prototype unit that could be shown in that fashion prior to the Kickstarter going live and being an integral part of the campaign sizzle video.

     

     

     

    Busted

     

     

    10. What happened to your partners in GameGavel and Retro magazine? Have they been cut out of their share of any profits, as has been suggested elsewhere? Will they be compensated in any way? Partners in GameGavel aren't really partners, they are friends and family passive investors. And then they bought in Oct 2010 there was no magazine only the auction site. I have continued to try and add value to that company by adding similar revenue centers, the magazine, media and auction site fit together well. The console was a separate venture because manufacturing a console is completely different than running a web/media/magazine site. This is still a growing venture so none of them have lost their investments which were minimal dollar amounts at best. I have offered to buy Scott out, but he never returns my calls or email. My two "partners" in RETRO Magazine were let go for various reasons, one of them not being able to produce a magazine within a deadline which led to our constant delays. As for GameGavel/RETRO it's still growing. And one of my minority owners has been doing his best to crater the company.

     

    MK has emailed me with a have a coke and a smile what I am doing is OK message, but never an offer to buy back the stock. What would be the point in responding to that email, I already gave him my conditions which were acknowledge all contributors and return all assets to the original company and he rejected those, that discussion took place and that was the outcome. When the mag came about I asked Mike was this a separate venture or a part of GG, he replied it was part of GG and I said cool. I asked the same question when the console came up and got the same response, yeah yeah the Retro logo is right on the front of it, it was never a separate venture as the company didn't even exist until a month before the kickstarter/indiegogo.

     

    As for the mag, one the two guys he just threw under the bus is about to tell the tale of the mag, and it is damn near as interesting as the console.

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    I confess that I haven't followed this whole tale-- today's really the first day I'm paying much attention to it because Mike emailed me this thread (I assume to try to get my support on it?) I see that I'm now 'unfriended' by Mike today on Facebook, so I assume my commentary earlier today was not appreciated... *shrugs*

    -Clay

    I want to extend a public welcome to the CC/RVGS dev team alumni here under the bus, we have a great setup, there is a bar over there, a pool, hell the whole place looks like a tailgate party at a Jimmy Buffett show.

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    There were only (4) engineers (or people) EVER working on this project with Steve Woita and myself ( and in the beginning there were two working together) despite what Scott Schreiber has been spewing. And none were EVER working simultaneously on the project. And Scott had nothing to do with much of anything and was never considered to be “working” on this project. Has he ever produced and shown anything he was working on? Nope!

    All of this is clearly disproved in the RVGS interview when Steve Woita describes all the conference calls I participated in and we discuss my work, MK was in that interview and didn't present one opposition to those statements. Have a listen to that interview here: http://www.retrogamingroundup.com/shownotes/2015/roundup091_2015.09.php

     

     

    To understand how this ended, I want to direct your attention back to the early times of this venture, early to middle 2014. At this time, my first choice to design the system, Curt Vendel (who Scott Schreiber helped introduce me to thus ending his minimal involvement in the venture) decided he wouldn’t have the time to devote to this venture and opted out soon and never got started.

    True/False. At my direction Curt was contacted to be part of the project. I felt the two of us could work more efficiently because he had a wealth of experience in console design (my background is in missile guidance, avionics, and satellites so it would take me longer going solo on the design) and I loved the idea of working with him and it was unfortunate we didn't get the chance. With Curt unable to participate I was not off the project by any means, and again at the time the stated plan was to stand up the studio side first so I was ok with the extra time. Again, most of that was touched on during the interview.

     

     

    At this time I researched others that could step in and bring this product to fruition and that lead me to Clay Cowgill.

    Sean and Clay are the two guys I have mentioned came after me, I never used their names because they asked to be left out of it so I left it anonymous but I knew it was them shortly after they started, no hard feelings toward them.

     

    I noticed MK glossed over the first fake prototype that was shown for the Indiegogo, I suppose Carlson was a minion of Mr Lee setting MK up as well? As to the Indiegogo courting him, he was desperate to get back on Kickstarter, here is the Whatsapp chat:

     

    15/09/2015, 14:22 - Mike Kennedy: Interview is good with no changes :)

    15/09/2015, 14:52 - Mike James: Cool

    15/09/2015, 16:29 - Mike Kennedy: Mike- slim chance we might go back to Kickstarter.

    Can you do some

    Edits and remove the Indiegogo talk if needed?

    15/09/2015, 17:56 - Mike James: I'm working on my new house day and night this week

    but if you can send me time stamps for the edits, yes.

     

     

    (Thanks Eli! For stepping in with his SNES multicart in place of Sean’s glitching out SD card driven demo cartridge).

    As identified in this thread we reviewed the SD2SNES on RGRUP and MK knew what one was, it was only glitching because the power supply used is a cheap aftermarket one that can't supply enough current to the FPGA used on the multicart, the same issue we discussed on the show in regards to the portable SNES not being able to support it on battery alone. And remember MK claimed that the SD2SNES was a special unit developed by Mr Lee.

     

     

    I made a comment that it looked great (in the photos) and he responded by saying something like “this is what we can do when given the proper time.” Keep in mind, these pictures were to combat the criticism of the “fake” Toy Fair prototype and were given to me by him to post on Facebook to show people the real “prototype”.

    No mention of the Pic being deleted from FB the night it was identified! And he emailed me and UKMike the next morning claiming he just saw them.

     

    Scott,

    I saw the photo you posted last night and about fell out of bed. I need to talk with you please. Can I call you in an hour?

    Mike

    ---------- Forwarded message ----------

    From: Mike James <[email protected]>

    Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2016

    Subject: Console

    To: Kennedy Mike <[email protected]>

    Hey Mike,

    Is it over now?

    Three fakes is a lot dude. Sell the molds and move on.

     

    --

    d-_-b

    Regards

    Mike James

    Retro Gaming Roundup

    --

     

    --

    Mike Kennedy, Founder & President

    RETRO Media Network

     

     

    After it was learned that we essentially had a SNES duck taped in my console shell I decided to delay the Kickstarter because it was always my intention to show off the prototype completely in the campaign video, open it up and show it running and playing games from at least two different systems.

    Jag Bar already shot that down, unless he is also a minion of Mr Lee?

     

     

     

    I have way more integrity and respect for this hobby to pull that shit.

     

    I was left in a terrible spot at this point and I had a decision to make that evening at the hotel. Do I take this thing apart and see what was in it and quit the show or continue on with the show,

     

     

    In the end, I am the only one that has lost anything, money, potential opportunity and my reputation in this hobby.

    Coleco's reputation was unfairly damaged

    John Carleson was publicly trashed by MK http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/12/coleco-chameleon-continues-quixotic-quest-for-contemporary-cartridge-console/

    My shares of GameGavel are worthless

    The console conceived, created, and developed under GameGavel/Retro with the name stamped right on the front before the 2nd or 3rd companies even existed was removed from GG/Retro and destroyed

    Piko interactive was put on the spot

    Collectorvision was made to look foolish

    etc.

    etc.

     

     

     

     

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