MagnaRyuu Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 (edited) On another note I am sad I can't snag some of the empty shells. I am a prop maker and those would make for some awesome sci-fi props. I guess I could try to find some broken Jaguars and buy them, but they go for so much even broken. Edited March 1, 2016 by MagnaRyuu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoRacer Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 (edited) hey you know what, if Mike does try to resurface with the same "console" but with a different name I have a few ideas for him. Cause as you all know we he is reading this thread. Going by his love of trying to fool people here is what I have come up with. The Illusion The Deception The Grifter and finally The Screw Job You forgot dead company/system names. The Intellivision Illusion The Spectrum Deception The Neo Geo Grifter The Sega Screw Job Edited March 1, 2016 by MotoRacer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekRumpler Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 At this point I think Mike would be better off selling the Coleco Chameleon like one of those DIY kits (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc.). One kit would include a translucent or black Jaguar case, mechanical tape, your choice of an SNES Mini or DVR card, an SNES controller or off-brand Wii U controller, and an optional LED. I think people would buy it for the sheer novelty. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagnaRyuu Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 (edited) You forgot dead company/system names. The Intellivision Illusion The Spectrum Deception The Neo Geo Grifter The Sega Screw Job AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA That makes the name ideas so much better. Actually Spectrum isn't actually dead. I saw on one of Pat's Podcast videos that Sir Sinclair and 3 other partners have a solid handheld version of the system on Kickstarter. which amazingly enough they are only asking for 100,000 British Pounds for the campaign. And the thing is going to come with 1000 licensed Sinclair ZX Spectrum games. And they aren't hiding that it's a hand held emulation system. Also they had their own tooling done for the casing. And it will have a micro sd slot so you can load more Spectrum Games on to it. Edited March 1, 2016 by MagnaRyuu 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galax Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 On another note I am sad I can't snag some of the empty shells. I am a prop maker and those would make for some awesome sci-fi props. I guess I could try to find some broken Jaguars and buy them, but they go for so much even broken. You can get white or metallic ones for $25: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Atari-Jaguar-new-White-Plastic-Console-Replacement-Covers-/110804896487 I have a couple of Mike-made transparent shells but now that they are such a piece of history I'm holding on to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinju Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 At this point I think Mike would be better off selling the Coleco Chameleon like one of those DIY kits (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc.). One kit would include a translucent or black Jaguar case, mechanical tape, your choice of an SNES Mini or DVR card, an SNES controller or off-brand Wii U controller, and an optional LED. I think people would buy it for the sheer novelty. His best bet would be to take his network cable and or wifi and unplug it / turn it off and walk away with what shred of dignity he has left. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybermario Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 soon a very ugly woman named Mikaela Kennedy (aka Mike wearing a wig) will appear in the retro vgs page telling us how Mike Kennedy, her twin brother died recently and she wants to make his dream of a retro console a reality "keep the faith guys, for my baby brother Mike! 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagnaRyuu Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 You can get white ones for $25: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Atari-Jaguar-new-White-Plastic-Console-Replacement-Covers-/110804896487 I have a couple of Mike-made transparent shells but now that they are such a piece of history I'm holding on to them. I saw that, but wasn't sure if that was maybe an account of Mike's or somethings. Cause if not where is this person getting these brand new shells? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekRumpler Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 His best bet would be to take his network cable and or wifi and unplug it / turn it off and walk away with what shred of dignity he has left. Seriously, he should change his name and disappear. I don't see him escaping this. I wouldn't even trust him to make my food at a fast food joint. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybird3rd Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 I saw that, but wasn't sure if that was maybe an account of Mike's or somethings. Cause if not where is this person getting these brand new shells? Those white shells were made before Mike acquired the molds, so the seller is probably just liquidating his existing stock. I bought one about two years ago. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj_convoy Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 That's one of the things that's so bizarre about this; I would imagine it'll be hard for him to show his face at conventions and the like after all of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galax Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 I saw that, but wasn't sure if that was maybe an account of Mike's or somethings. Cause if not where is this person getting these brand new shells? It's the guy who sold the molds to Mike, he has a bunch of stock left that he is selling off. These were made for his dental camera company, probably cheaper to make a whole load at once. He seemed like a nice guy in the video of Mike picking up the molds, and has a 100% eBay feedback rating. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagnaRyuu Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 (edited) Those white shells were made before Mike acquired the molds, so the seller is probably just liquidating his existing stock. I bought one about two years ago. Damn, wish I wasn't broke. Oh well, I'll just go with my idea of using cheap Gameboy Advanced. and Gameboy Advanced SP shells for prop ideas when i get the money. Gotta love cheap Chinese wholesale Edited March 1, 2016 by MagnaRyuu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punisher5.0 Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Would an admin kindly compare the IP address of PikoInteractive with the account of Mike Kennedy. I wouldn't be surprised if you find that the IP addresses are identical. They are definitely different (not that I thought they wouldn't be). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PikoInteractive Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 They are definitely different (not that I thought they wouldn't be). Lol Yeah, I posted mine a few pages back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoRacer Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triverse Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Hopefully this train wreck will get John Carlsen to talk Ya'll missed my post awhile back I see. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harryhenry Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 I'm just amazed that Mike thought he could get away with this, and that the picture wouldn't get immediately exposed as a fake by these forums. Personally, I can't wait for StopDrop&Retro's next video (and the possible feature-length documentuary). Next to Pat and Ian, he's probably been the best at covering this farce of an idea. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenixdownita Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 At this point I am curious about what Piko and CollectorVision were promised the system would do, what were they shown etc... I mean they stood in the middle of the shitstorm and are still taking crap for no real reason. What was Mike taunting them with? Meaning what kind of system was he blabbing about? What kind of sales figure was he pulling out of his very capacious ass? Honestly just curiosity. Not pointing fingers but whatever it was must have seemed extremely interesting from either technical or economical point of view. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiverCityRansom2 Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 (edited) Something interesting I pieced together...and who knows could possibly be still within their "plans" for this system. If they were so hellbent on using SNES hardware, maybe if everything had gone smoothly and nobody was onto them they were planning to use "bootleg" SNES jr/minis/model 2's and just strip them out and put them in the jaguar shell at some point. Since they are bootlegs they could snag the systems dirt cheap and at $130 or $150 each for the kickstarter be potentially making $100+ on each system stripping them down like that. Website below, and fake system is on the right in each picture. If someone had board pics of the snes innards in that one "prototype" system quite easily could see if this was their idea. Couple posts online surfaced over the years of people obtaining these counterfeit JR machines. Who knows if a warehouse somewhere is sitting on a cache of these..buy em out for next to nothing then repackage them and profit on them. http://www.gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=counterfeit_snes Or quite simply it was a one time deal and they just used a SNES for that one time to prove they had something working.....who knows just an idea. Edited March 1, 2016 by RiverCityRansom2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutsy Doodleheimer Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 How does it feel now Mikey... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickyT Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Ya'll missed my post awhile back I see. What happened to your website? Coleco put a hit out on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triverse Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 What happened to your website? Coleco put a hit out on it? Not sure what is going on. Hostgator pulled it for exceeding server load (about 65,000 people in a very short period of time and a few gigs of transfer). That was fixed after they pulled us for about an hour. The in a 30 minute period the site was up four different times and pulled again due to massive traffic hammering it, again exceeding server load. I am waiting for them to upgrade it to a better server ($78 a month is the next step). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybermario Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 What happened to your website? Coleco put a hit out on it? getting a 403 error on my end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickcris Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Not sure what is going on. Hostgator pulled it for exceeding server load (about 65,000 people in a very short period of time and a few gigs of transfer). That was fixed after they pulled us for about an hour. The in a 30 minute period the site was up four different times and pulled again due to massive traffic hammering it, again exceeding server load. I am waiting for them to upgrade it to a better server ($78 a month is the next step). You should hire Li to install a capture card in the server to capture some of the traffic. He is very good with hardware. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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