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Seems to me that Mike Kennedy really is 'patient zero' for an unknown Idiot Virus. Looks to be super contagious too, damn. I hope Al invests in a hazmat suit and gears up before touching that Jaguar tooling. Get your sani-wipes ready ~

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I'm interested in one too

I still don't understand the pci card under the jag shell. Why not have used a 32X? I mean we were already expecting 32X cables to be used from the RVGS campaign...

So, Parrothead, now that your plate is pretty cleared off. Will you please answer my email on where my Translucent Red Jaguar shell is?

Or maybe he's on vacation - on an island sipping margaritas? Maybe he had a Disney Land vacation booked for the launch of his kickstarter and he's living it up with Mickey Mouse. Maybe he doesn't care about any of this and has moved on to planning his next business endeavor. Retro Television maybe? Family Matters reboot produced by Retro Television Company Inc? Maybe he'll become a Retro music label, like Rhino? I doubt we'll hear anything from him again at this point. The Coleco Chameleon page will be slowly deleted and Mike will ride his magical cartridge back to Retro Land.

Well, I'd say its time for me to turn this saga into an RPG Maker game. Maybe I'll finish before the next name of the Chameleon is announced.

I never understood Gamester81's rally for a new cartridge based system or the claims that it was the first one in 20 years. He himself covered a small handful of chinese knock offs that came out over the years on his own channel. Did he not consider the Xavix Port a cartridge console? The Chintendo Vii not worthy of the title? Both took propriety cartridges. To say that he was was a victim in all of this like Eli is absurd. The hour long Lester / Kennedy love fest was sickening at best and misleading information to his fans at worst. This all being said, I feel like the Coleco Chameleon would already be in our hands had it been a Chinese produced knock off that we managed to import out of curiosity. Seems like the market that Mike wanted fits more for the "BIRC" or whatever market that Carlsen's small Playstation was for. He just needed his pricing to be a little bit lower...but it was all about money. Maybe the legendary Mr. Lee will fly off to China with the prototype he most definitely made and totally exists and mass produce the 'Ultra Lee 16' console without the need for Mr. Kennedy.

I'm well aware that Coleco is a brand. I'd like to see the brand branch out and do more with other companies like AtGames. There are mini-cabs out right now, as we speak, with LCD screens and RPis in them. Apple made an Ipad / phone arcade case for their products. I'd like to see the coleco name BRANDED on new products that aren't garbage. I'd like to see them actually use the name on good products and not crap like Commodore and Kodak have experienced.

Seems RVGS Inc is super popular in Turkey!

This, right here, is fantastic. I don't think any of us here ever wanted to see the Coleco name go the way of other revived brands. It is a huge step in the right direction that these 'higher ups' of the company are listening to the community. I think majority, myself included, would love to see the Coleco table top arcades come back in some form. I'd like to see Coleco think about doing their own controllers that work with both the at-games clone and the original console. I would love to see them bring the hulking beast of the Colecovision back to the media by maybe making a certain add-on an official licensed product. All these revived brands seem to focus on making cheap knock offs of their legacy counter parts, why not give the legacy some love for once?

Well man, I can add you to the list of awesome stuff that I've found from this RVGS/CC Saga. Awesome little podcast, I really enjoyed the Chris Cardillo interview. Thanks for staying Switzerland through all of this.

That's exactly why, really. Why use your own resources to even bother to re-work 90s technology? You have a guy who reversed engineered consoles for a living for the companies he worked for. Sony most likely had records of which devs had their dev kits, as to recall them. So, I doubt Sony called John Carlsen directly and said, 'Sup' dude? Yo, so, we want you to make a playstation in a controller for us, ok? Your skills are highly desired to us because we know who you are'? No, I imagine they reached out to companies who had done work for them with no dev kits. Find someone who was already familiar with simplifying their work and try to recruit those people to bring on board for a project. It seems easier to me than having to spread out their internal team and snare their current projects down, only to have to break down and simplify the very stuff that was already done in the 90s. I don't think JC was the only guy on the project, I think he was a little guy who was brought into it, hence 'senior staff' and not 'Lead'. His past experience of having to work on Iguana's dev kit because they couldn't afford one paid off. In his case, he hit the lottery job wise. I'm not arguing his Linkedin is padded. Honestly in the field he's in, it has to be. I just don't think he's bullshitting about being on a team that made a small playstation in 2010 for BRIC ~

Yep. PS3 just started churning out ps1 titles to the PSN at this time. It would have cost sony so much more to put out a kiosk system for an all-in one ps1 which would have been loaded up with games they were already selling again on PSN. They would have killed the project off fast at the thought of people importing these cheap playstation one units and loading them up with roms. Not that pirates for PS1 don't exist, mind you. You can run ps1 emulators pretty spot on on all the Chinese handheld devices and emulators already. Just, why add to the problem by amplifying it to a plug and play that is just an ebay / amazon click away to the rest of the world that isn't a developing market.

Eh, on further thought. Carlsen prolly is telling the truth. PSN sales would get screwed up from a playstation one in a controller that could be hacked or have usb / sd card shoved into it with more games. They would have had to do something like the Nintendo IQ for it to work and that would have cost sony more money than it was worth, thus killing the project off. So, if Carlsen is telling us the truth and his CV checks out...

I take it back. It makes sense. Sony likes selling shit on PSN. Yeah, it would effect the current markets.

I have not refute for that at all. I guess he fit right in with Mike Kennedy after all. So, that makes two out of three of the retro vgs team known liars. Sure hope that is just coincidence and unrelated to the current team of the Coleco Chameleon. Edit: 2010 was the boom of PS1 re-sells for ps3 on PSN.

No, I really don't think it was 2010. It would be ridiculous that Sony would even care about the PS1 market in the united states and uk since it was long since discontinued by then. I think he miss-spoke on the date of things. I really don't think he had any valid reason to bullshit anyone at this point. Carlsen has stuck to the same story this whole time, the only difference is he called it a 'small playstation' in the retro vgs days. I feel like if he wanted to embellish what he's done, he would come up with something a lot more creative than a small playstation. Edit: further thinking, debunks my own refute. 2010 makes sense.

Thank you Scott. I'll go give it a listen now.

Ahh, my bad. Yeah, I don't think he had much of anything ready. Maybe he had a lot going on about it in his head. I doubt he had anything really tangible and that's how I took the recent Triverse interview. I took it as he didn't have a lot worked out but he had off the shelf stuff powering his idea which was super solid in his mind?

Steve is one of the few who hasn't been ejected or replaced from this project. Piperclub and UKMike would have to elaborate on exactly how long Steve has been part of it. Maybe they have and I just don't recall it. I strongly feel that there is a reason for this. If Carlsen is truth telling, it was Steve and Mike who gave him orders. Steve being an electrical engineer and this being his baby would make sense. No one has really heard from him during this entire saga aside from the Triverse interview with Mike and John. Mike Kennedy is a parrot. He loves to repeat tech stuff that he's told. I feel that Steve is feeding him a lot of this. My theory is that Steve is the mastermind to all of this. No, I think he truly reverse engineered or helped to reverse engineer a playstation and made a small playstation. Maybe his time lines are a bit off. Why would anyone make up something like that? He doesn't really have any gain from saying he made a playstation clone in 2010. It isn't like he's telling us he designed the playstation 3. He says crazy stuff, like his odd obsession with lawyers and patents. I feel like he would fit right into Lee's Google-like company campus complete with showers and Goldeneye Room. Hell, maybe he *IS* Lee / Li. Right now, Carlsen is the only one speaking about anything. As we all know, DC power goes in and high quality digital and analogue video comes out. Also, the processor runs nice and cool without a fan.