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For those who don't wish to watch the Gamester81 coleco chameleon thoughts video, the following is a rough transcription of John Lester's dialog from it. I will not go as far as to say it is a perfect exact word-for-word transcription of it but it is the best and fastest I could do. It is quite long: Guys whats going on? before I start with the cc because i have a lot to say uh about this, just a quick disclaimer. I know it sounds cheesey but uh I have a lot of people come up to saying that they watch my show with their kids and they enjoy. Being a parent myself I respect that, I think its awesome. So, This may not be the best video for your kids to watch honestly, uh I'm pretty pissed. (laughs) and uh I did and uh honestly I'm not one for confrontation. Last thing I want to pride myself on having a lot of friends and no enemies and uh know where I'm at right now (laughs). And I'm not here to change anyone's opinions. k? Opionons are like assholes we all have an opion i respect others opinions, I don't expect everyone to agree with my opinion. I don't expect people to watch this video and people to say wow john you were absolutely correct and wow I changed my opinion. I don't expect people to be that easily swayed. I'm not here to defend the Chameleon either, cause, lets be honest, just be honest. it's beyond defending at this point ok? uhm, but I simply here to defend my reputation, defend my, my uh integrity cause its been taken a jab at uh recently and that kind of fucking pisses me off to be honest, to be completely honest with you. So I've been part of the gaming community since 2008 uh I've made a lot of friends. The gaming community I'll be honest with you guys, means the world to me. You guys not to sound tacky are like family to me. You guys are awesome, everything about how you feel about the show, how you feel about me as a person, means a lot. You can call me ugly, you can call me stupid, whatever I've got thick skin but when people start attacking my integrity I take that very very seriously. Uh and recently a video came and I'll talk about it later in the video that uh may not, may indirectly call me out and put me kind of in the corner so I feel like I have to do this video. Because I was going to initially going to stay quiet and distance myself because I don't want to add fuel to the fire so to speak. I'm not that kind of guy. So, for those who don't know I am co-owner of a company called collectorvision games. We produce new games for old consoles. ok? So, for example, uhm we you know, we have games coming out for modern consoles, like you know we have games coming out for like ya know, xbox, wii u, ps4, steam, all that good stuff, right? And we also have games coming out for the classic consoles, so anywhere from Atari 2600 believe it or not or Commodore 64 to, to dreamcast it just kind of depends so everything in between, ok. um so the only reason I mention this cause I'm not trying to promote my business to you guys but its relevant to my story I'm going to tell you to my involvement with the Chameleon. About a year a go Mike reached out to me and said John, I'm working on a project its called RETRO VGS Video game system. um I'd like you to be part of it I understand your company works on games. I've known Mike for years, I trust the guy. That's how when you have friends you tend to trust your friends, obviously. So I had no reason to not trust him. You know, agreed, and basically the agreement was, I was told the Retro VGS would run off a FPGA board and basically you take the ROMs and would be able to read the ROMs. So, we wouldn't spend any extra time or money on it. We were already working on two super nintendo, tiny knight and sydney hunter and the caverns of death. So, the agreement was just give him the ROM and he'd handle the manufacturing side of things, we would get a percentage of each game cart and we'd have the pack in game as well. So, for every game system sold we'd get x percent. I'm not going to dive into what percentage that was because, A. it's none of your business and B its not really relevant to the story. But just know that was the kind of agreement. Retro VGS failed, obviously, it was way over expensive. It was just Frankenstein and a whole bunch of things and you know, played Unity and it was really cool but it was just too much. $400 was way too much for a system out of the get-go and no one wants to pay that. There was no prototype ever issued, And during this whole time people were just going on Mike and which caught me off guard because he's been involved in other projects like RETRO Magazine, keep in mind, I still enjoy. Gamegavel.com which is like an ebay auction site for gamers, been around for years. He's done podcasts, retrogaming roundup, for years and people enjoy that. So, theres nothing to me that really told me that spoke out like wow, I should question this guy's motive because he clearly has had a good track record up until this point ok. so ok cool, so the thing obviously fails and during this time I reached out to Mike. Mike let's interview you, get you on my show, talk about your shop. I got a lot of slack for that cause I guess at one point I said, What do you want to address to the haters at Atari AtariAge? Right, So, that was wrong and ignorant of me and I apologize. I know that now. So, I took the video down, A cause the system was no longer, you know, going to be, so why even have a video on it? It's my channel, I can take a videos down and and and also I felt bad about what I said. I apologized to the community, I really do feel bad about what I said. So, people were upset with me that I took that video down. It's like oh my god, I'm guilty of taking my own video down. Shame on me. Shame on me. Guys, its a horrible, terrible thing to take a video down, fuck. So, Uhm, so so ok so fast forward uh campaign retro vgs is done, mike reached out to me again. Same kind of deal. We weren't going to Tiny Knight cause Tiny Knight wouldn't be ready for Christmas this year to be honest with you. So you know, Sydney hunter, we talk about as a pack in game. He told me other things, other projects going on. Really good things about retailers possibly carrying the system, among other things. Right, again, none of my business to talk about, I don't want to dive into details, these were all discussed behind closed doors, but just know that, you know, there is reasons and intensives for us to do that. Again, I had nothing to do with the hardware side of things or the decisions behind it. We fast forward to the toy fair, they show the back of the console. Has the cables out like the super nintendo, ac adapter like the super nintendo, uh controllers like super nintendo controllers, it doesn't look good for uh you know when I saw this video, when I saw this picture rather, it's the first time I saw it as well. So, It caught me off guard as well, so people assume that like I was somehow involved in this shit. From the beginning and have some stake in the company, ya know, I guess I do from the point of game sales and the percentage I'd make from games sales but I'm not a part of any decisions. I'm thinking to myself what the fuck, what is all this shit? Now I'm like you guys this is suspect, it looks like a super nintendo inside a jaguar shell. You know but the thing is, I've talked to several hardware guys and here's the thing about prototypes and I don't know if you guys know this or not, by all means I am not a hardware guy, ok. So, I might be completely off base here, but from my understanding is, there are several different type's of prototypes in the stage of prototypes. So, its like you just have a prototype and the next one is the finished product, it's just not how it works. There can be five, ten sometimes more prototypes before you get the final and usually the final prototype looks a lot different than the first prototype or even the tenth prototype. That's the reason why you don't see prototypes for nintendo, sony, microsoft, excreta, you just don't see them publicly, they keep them hidden for a reason. And during the early prototyping stage, they actually, it's not uncommon to take parts from the other boards and stuff and other products to kind of hodgepodge them together and see how it works. That could have very much been the case here, again, I'm not defending the Chameleon, I'm just saying this could have been the case, it could have been the explanation as far as why there was parts of a super nintendo. Mike could have opened it up and done a video, he didn't. So again, Suspect. Right? And I totally agree with you guys again on that. Now, we're gonna fast forward a couple more week or so ago, a couple weeks and this is the day before the Kickstarter was supposed to launch. Friday it was supposed to launch and this was Thursday. At this point I still don't know, I still have no contract, I have not signed, I still have not signed a nondisclosure agreement. I have not signed an agreement for Sydney Hunter, which is the only game we've agreed to port over to Chameleon and uh, I still haven't had the agreement in hand. And so, I guess, you know, on paper we are not linked to the Chameleon at all. I contact Mike, I'm like what's the deal with you know, cut to money before, I'm like dude what's the deal with this? He's like, I'll give it to ya. I never got it. He's busy. I'm like, whatever. So, finally, I get, I never get the agreement but the day, I find out that there's something that's changed, we had a new agreement that he told me about. Again, I don't want to tell, this was talked about behind closed doors, I'm sorry guys. But just out of respect of our conversation and my word. But, I will say this, something had changed, somewhere in that agreement and my understanding between talking to Mike and it pissed me off. It frankly did and I said you know what, I'm done, I wash my hands of it, I'm out. So, literally the night before the kickstarter was supposed to launch, collectorvision games pulled out. Like, we are done and Mike called me back cause he's obviously flustered because Kickstarter was supposed to launch, you know, tomorrow or the next day, and he has no like publisher of one of his launch games is out, and all the videos he has of Sydney Hunter and all that good stuff so he's basically screwed. And you know he's like, Oh John, I'm a stooge, lets push it back Kickstarter, we'll figure it all out. That's probably one of the reasons the Kickstater got pushed back. So, the whole thing has been miss managed from the beginning. Guys, has Mike fucked up? Yes. Did he make mistakes along the way? Yes. But, here's the thing, Who hasn't fucked up? Who hasn't made mistakes? If you are perfect, if you have never fucked up in your life, if you have never made mistakes, if you've done everything perfect, I would really like to shake your hand because you're probably mother fucking jesus. You probably are. So, So really we need to get off our high horse, we need to quit pointing fingers, we need to stop assuming that everything is a conspiracy. When really, there could be answers to stuff and when you're looking for facts, guys, go to the source. And that's what I tried to do with the retro vgs. Or I tried to do, right. The reason I'm doing this video is and it's really because I've been called out, indirectly called out is by Pat. Let me say one thing very very clear, Pat the NES Punk is a friend of mine. We've known each other for years. 5-6 years ago we were at PAX, I had a great time hanging out with him. I hung out with the AVGN james and Game Chasers. It was a great time. We had a fantastic time. It was actually like one of my highlights in my youtube career for lack of a better words. If that's what you want to call it. I still have a day job, its not much of a career for me. Regardless, it was definitely a highlight for me, just say that. So, it was a highlight for me, Pat is a super nice guy. As of recently, as of last year. I flew Pat, paid for his flight to come out to Phoenix, to come out to my gaming expo that I do, called the Game On Expo. Paid for his flight, paid for his hotel, gave him a free booth to sell his merchandise, free table and uh gave him a panel. It was a great time, hung out, had a few beers, whatever, we had a great time. As of last week I reached out to Pat to come back with Ian this time for this year, later on. I'd love to have him come back. The invitations always open for Pat to come in and be part of Game On Expo. So, no quarrel with pat whatsoever. But, I do have issues with his recent video about the Chameleon. And in this video the most recent video, its like a seven minute video. He's talking about the board, oh I forgot the mention, of course, one of the most important things right. Kickstarter got posponed and they posted a picture, picture of the prototype or the board, the capture card board. Again, caught me off guard. Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, right. So that, completely caught me off guard, I was like what the fuck is this. Just like everyone else, okay? So, back to Pat. He talks about this board, he brings it up and he's like, and I'm of course para-phrasing, but he's like, you know, fool me once shame on me, fool me twice shame on you, full me three times fuck off. So he's like, right, in the middle of this video he's like, fuck this is bullshit fuck, you know and he's all getting worked up, and I'm thinking to myself through this whole video, dude, I wanna give this guy a hug, because it's like, I realize that bigger shit is going on than. I'm sorry, I don't mean to down play the whole Coleco Chameleon but lets face it guys, no money was taken. Even with the Retro VGS No one lost any money, I mean, it's like, people are like vilifying uh the situation, like its the worst fucking thing. Dude, ISIS is blowing people up everywhere in the world, kids are starving in the streets, there's you know, he's talking in this video like it's world war three. I'm like what the fuck? and he's like, fuck this is fucking bullshit and I'm ya know he's rallying the troops and in between the video and in the middle of it he's calling out websites that are posting the press releases for the community. Come on dude, you have a website, you know how this works. When you get a press release, it's not your job, you are no accountable for the action of the company. I mean come on, that's bullshit right? Then he calls out RETRO Magazine which again I guess he forgot to mention is that Pat at one time at the start of RETRO Magazine, he was a key contributor to the magazine. He worked closely with Mike, he was like on the team, I duno if he was paid or what that's none of my business but he was part of the RETRO Magazine. So, yeah, he worked with Mike before. So he knows mike pretty well, so he knows mike. And then in the middle of the video he has the audacity to say that, anyone involved in this project should come out to the public and apologize. It's bullshit cause you are, you are, you are part of the project and you are part of the problem. Cause we were fucking supposed to know that shit was going to happen, right? And to say that, it's like this guys, like Sony, lets say the PS4 gets hacked and all of a sudden everyone's PS4 dies and crashes, alright. It's like me going to Naughty Dog and saying Naughty Dog, shame on you for publishing games for this PS4, explain yourself, come out and apologize. I mean that's fucking, it makes no sense to me whatsoever and the logic and he didn't call me out by name. He didn't say Gamester81 or say Collectorvision games but he didn't exclude us either. And then you know people have been on twitter and stuff and facebook, they've been asking me would you clarify your stance? And silence speaks louder than words sometimes. Now I know where he stands on this. So, according to Pat, we are all guilty by association. Because when he worked with RETRO Magazine, it was cool and everything worked out well. It didn't. And when I worked with Retro VGS and the Chameleon and shit hits the storm. And I don't wanna bring up the past cause, I'm not about that. But, if I recall Pat was a part of a Kickstarter that was kind of controversial and no one ever asked him to apologize and no one gave him shit for it. Uhm so, I don't know why all of a sudden I get the fucking Imp. And Pat when you make these kind of things, you are in a position of great power, because you have a lot larger audience even than I do and a lot of other people. And you say these shit and you know people listen to you like its the fucking gospel sometimes man. And I'm like Dude, okay so, I don't know whatever happened to people phoning home but please do your homework and realize that's what you're doing is basing your opinions on these guys showing pictures and all of a sudden these pictures are facts. I has ever dawned on me that there might be a minute chance, a very minute chance that maybe there's explanations for somethings that you see pictures wise, maybe there's an explanation for things has anyone ever dawn, did he ever dawn that he ever actually reach out to mike and ask mike. If he was so concerned about the Retro VGS and the Coleco Chameleon and how the shit was supposed to be wouldn't you think that he would actually go to the source and the find out facts, opposed to like basing his argument based on pictures. And guys, don't get me wrong, I agree that the pictures they look bad and that I'm on board, I agree with what you guys are saying. I'm not saying Mike, I'm not saying that he was right in any of this, he fucked up. But, we need to get off the fucking iris and I'm sorry to say, I'm sorry but who made Pat the fucking Judge of the internet? Who made followers the fucking Jury during this whole shit? Like why should I have to go out and apologize for trying to get my name out there to the masses? What's fucking wrong with that? I'm sorry but this kind of pisses me off a little bit. Ya know? So uhm, you know, you can question, when you start questioning my integrity which you are and my respect and my motivations to get involved with projects, you're assuming that I'm in it for the ill-will and that's just bullshit, so. Yes, I'm sorry if you feel that I have cause ill-will, I'm sorry if you feel I've done shit wrong, I'm sorry that you feel that way. But, I'm not going to apologize for fucking trying to do the best for my company. Ya know, and there's never a time and I do apologize to my company, my collages at Collectorvision games, a number of times they said, hey let's get out and I was Calm, I'm guilty of being ignorant, I'm guilty of being gullible, I'm guilty of being naive, I'm guilty of being many things. So, I am certainly no fault. I'm sorry, I didn't mean that, I'm certainly at fault in some of this as far as us being involved until the very last day, anyway. But I had no idea, this is news to me. So, where do I stand on the Chameleon? I am disappointed, I uh thought the thought of it was cool. I thought, I think Mike is a guy who intentions I think were sincere. You know, I'm not calling him a liar or assuming he is a liar and deceitful. Look, here's the deal guys, he owns RETRO Magazine, he owns the Gamegavel.com, other business entities, why would he logically? Just think about this, why would he logically want to fuck people over, intentionally? And try to lie and deceive people if he has all these. Would it not effect, it is effecting these other areas, I'm sure. Also, look at his website, he's got six other guys, seven other guys on his team. Look at the history the resume and all the gaming community and they have a really good strong record up to this point. They're legit guys, so, what are the odds of all seven of these guys getting together and saying, how can we fuck people over? how can we do this shit? I don't know. Let's do it. I don't know what are the odds of that? Now, is it possible that Mike is doing this shit behind their back? I duno maybe, that's quite possible. But the odds of all seven of them rolling together and saying, hmm, lets try to scam people. I just don't think that makes sense. If, my point is, several take aways from this video guys. A. Don't. Form your own opinion, please. Form your opinion, don't take shit you hear on one video that's gospel. Uh, Two, there are always two sides of the story. Every story has two sides. I feel like, in this situation a lot of people are siding with the side that they are, you know, that people want to, they want drama, right? And then, all in the video Pat, in the very end he mention's his book but if you look at the video, his video use. It's the Chameleon shit that's getting a lot of views and I don't blame the guy. We look at, we wanna get views and subscribers to get money but you do that shit to get back at people, you gotta realize when you're talking, when you're bringing something up, you are mauling on people, you effecting people, like myself, and when you start doing that shit and you start effecting other people, that's kind of fucked up, in my book. Because you, you're taking a topic, you're not really thinking through it, looking at both sides, you're looking at basing your argument on pictures, basing your argument on that, you haven't gone to the source, you haven't even reached out. No one reached out to me, to ask me what my opinion, my involvement with Collectorvision Games are. Uhm, you know, I would have been happy to talk to people about it. No ones ever fucking reached out to me, so you know I'm kind of thinking, you might have done this shit just for the views, I don't know. And then he's like, I'm gonna take the gloves off, I'm gonna talk next week. And I'm thinking to myself, gloves off what? You're going to beat a dead horse. Let's face it, the horse is dead ok. Why are we gonna beat someone already down? You're gonna kick someone while they're down, ok good. Good for you. You wanna be that, that's your prerogative, ok go for it. I really think that maybe, uh, society in general maybe, for some fucked up way, we like to beat people while they're down. Maybe it helps us In some fucked up way we feel better about ourselves? Because we're kicking someone while they're down, I don't know. So, my take is yes, mike fucked up. Uh, it's an ugly situation. I'm really fucking pissed because it has effected my company, the way people are associating us with the Chameleon its far from the truth. And I feel bad. I feel bad for Mike, I feel bad for the people involved, I think uh, but I'm not gonna sit here on a high horse and say, you fucking shoulda done this, you fucking shoulda done that and you are fucking wrong. That's that's not who I am. So, take it for what it is, that's my opinion. You know, again, I don't wanna fight with Pat, that's the last thing I want. But, the last thing I want is for you to go to his channel and unsubscribe or start a war, Team Gamester vs Team Pat. I'll tell ya right now he'll prolly win because I'm not going to respond much. I'm washing my hands of this. I'm working on other shit. I've got a Pier Solar Dreamcast review. I'm doing a RetroFreak system review I'm working on. So I'm already moving on from this shit, I've learned from it. Uh, I'm moving on. I'm growing from it. Let's all move on together, there's no sense in just keeping in doing a video for video on it, getting those views, getting those subscribers. If that's what you wanna do that's your prerogative, go for it. But I am done with this. Uh, you know, I respect Pat, I respect Ian. Again, I hope they come down to Arizona for Game On Expo. Uh, you know, I have nothing against them personally, This is really bullshit when they start calling people out and people start listening like the fucking gospel, they're the fucking see all do all judge of the internet and I just don't get that. That's just kinda pisses me off. Thank you for hearing me rant, it's good to rant a little bit. Cool off, I appreciate you guys, the community means the world to me. Let's just move forward. As far as Collectorvision games goes, we are working on other games, hasn't really effected us as far as production. We are working on our games, we are moving on from this and I hope you guys do too. We'll see you guys soon, take care and game on.

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