The allegation that the prototype of "Coleco Chameleon" that can play retro games transplanted Super Fami rises from gamer

Atari 2600Retro game machine that can use cartridges such as "Coleco Chameleon"Gathered the expectations of former gamers who love the cartridge style and were scheduled to appear as a cloud funding project. However, prototype of Coleco Chameleon was unveiled before the cloud funding, and it is an extremely sailing battle that gamers will receive Tsukkom "This is strange?"

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Cloud funding site in 2015IndiegogoThe game machine adopting the retro cartridge style "Retro VGSAlthough it appeared, the money gathered for the target amount of 1.95 million dollars (about 220 million yen) was 80,115 dollars (about 9.2 million yen) and the project ended in a great failure .


An image in the process of developing retro VGS full of handmade feel like cardboard.


However, when this Retro VGS was inherited to Coleco and it was announced that it would appear under the name of "Coleco Chameleon", it became a gathering attention from the gamers of the past year. For, Coleco said "ColecoVision"Because there is a track record of selling compatible machines called" Coleco! ", The expectation has increased.


This is Coleco Chameleon's preview movie that Retro VGS and Coleco have jointly developed.

COLECO Chameleon - Early Launch Titles - YouTube


Coleco Chameleon of the design which took over the concept of Retro VGS is going to have this appearance.


The controller is a wireless pattern.


Coleco Chameleon was planning to collect funds at the cloud funding site Kickstarter and prototype demonstration aircraft was announced at the Toy Fair in New York before the start of the Kickstarter project.


It was Coleco Chameleon who was planning to start the rocket of the Kickstarter project by the prototype's announcement, but it is backfired.

It was the controller pointed out first by gamers. The original controller should be made to correspond to various game platforms, but the controller of prototype machine belongs to SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System). Moreover, all the game software which can be played was that it was only SNES title.


A gamer who has suspicions against such a Coleco Chameleon prototype has released a verification movie.

Coleco Chameleon Prototype Fake? SNES Jr In an Jaguar Shell? - YouTube


This is a picture taken from behind the Coleco Chameleon prototype.


On the other hand, the left side of the photo below is SNES Jr.'s back panel.


Again check Coleco Chameleon prototype. "Is not this similar?"


"Is this cable this?"


I will check the cartridge part.


Perfect matching! Is it?


In addition, gamers pointed out strange aspects of Coleco Chameleon. The left picture is taken of Coleco Chameleon under development. A board-like object on which a chip that looks truly visible under a transparent enclosure was pointed out was a TV capture board of the PCI interface "HICAP 50 B CCTV DVR Capture Card" (image on the right) by a gamer. Although it is not certain whether this was pointed out, it is said that the image on the left has already been deleted from Coleco Chameleon's official Facebook page.


Retro VGS co-developed about Coleco Chameleon, which co-develops Tsukkomi "Retro VGS jointly develops" We released the demonstration machine of Coleco Chameleon for the first time at the Toy Fair in New York, but the response was far beyond our imagination.2016 holiday For the release of the season we think that we need a lot of time to strengthen our partnership and develop it. "