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PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 17:36 
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they discovered that the new colecovision kickstarter thingy is actually a snes in a jaguar shell bizarre

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/247145 ... ns/page-24

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 Post subject: Re: colecofraud
PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 19:24 
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Found this with a bit of googling:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments ... ectronics/
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ColecoVision Chameleon shows internal electronics; is just an old PCI capture card


PileMaster on reddit wrote:
Following this has been so fascinating. First there was the failed kickstarter because they didn't have a prototype, then there was the failed indiegogo, then the coleco rebranding without any actual coleco support, then there was the SNES mini board crammed into a jaguar shell they tried to pass off, and now this. This has been straight up bonkers. I have no idea how they thought they were going to get away with any of this.

Edit: for anyone who hasn't been following this it started out as the RetroVGS, but it crashed and burned because the guy running it lied about how much developer support they had lined up and lied about how far along the hardware was / what the hardware would cost. He tried a complete rebranding by paying for the Coleco name and promised to be more transparent this time, but he's been just as shady as ever this time around. They lied about the hardware they had on display at ToyFair when they showed their "prototype" off, but it was just a SNES mini board taped up in a jaguar shell. He then delayed his kickstarter and showed off this capture card with a light taped to it as the working prototype they had. I don't know what his plan was from here if he hadn't gotten called out.


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 Post subject: Re: colecofraud
PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 21:33 
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I don't know what a Coleco is, but it looks unfortunately like Cloaca

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 21:49 
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I think I went into hospital with this a few years ago.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 20:38 
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Mimi wrote:
I don't know what a Coleco is, but it looks unfortunately like Cloaca

All amphibians, birds, reptiles, and a few mammals (monotremes, tenrecs, golden moles, and marsupial moles) have this orifice, from which they excrete both urine and feces; this is in contrast to most placental mammals, which have two or three separate orifices for evacuation.

Two OR THREE separate orifices???!!! What the feck?

Hence the saying, 'You're talking shit.'?


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 Post subject: Re: colecofraud
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 22:21 
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This has been obviously a dodgy proposition for months.

http://savygamer.co.uk/2015/09/21/pleas ... our-money/


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 13:54 
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new chapter

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016- ... e-for-good

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