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This is a special opportunity to discuss what transpired during an integral part of the development of the RETRO Video Game System (now known as the Coleco Chameleon) by RETRO Video Game Systems Inc. It is clear that Mike Kennedy is the primary owner, as far as we know, of RETRO Video Game Systems Inc, […]
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RGM Interview with RETRO VGS Team (unofficial copy from audio interview)
September 27th, 2015 
Carl Williams We have covered the RETRO Video Game System for some time here on Retro Gaming Magazine. What began life as a $99 classic styled console has morphed in a $300+ gaming monster that has the potential be your final “retro” console purchase, if its IndieGoGo campaign is successful. The last few months have seen many […]
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RETRO VGS Sees Immense Social Media Backlash as Crowdfunding Project Begins
September 19th, 2015 Carl Williams The RETRO VGS is to be a new gaming console that hearkens back to the early days of gaming, before on-line capabilities, before patches and in app purchases seeped in. Many of us remember this as the days of the 32-Bit era (Sega Saturn, PSOne, Nintendo 64) and earlier- more fondly at about the Super […]
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Tentative Price Points for RETRO VGS Released and First Gameplay of the First Game Shown
April 11th, 2015 Carl Williams It is looking like a June or July announcement for the RETRO Video Game System going to Kickstarter to look for crowd funding support. With that in mind, and the fact I like “analyzing” things versus re-writing news items from other sites, I am back with another article on the RETRO VGS (it is not […]
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Coleco Chameleon Prototype #3 Proven Fake by Community of Retro Gaming Sleuths
March 1st, 2016 Carl Williams Okay, this is getting a little long in the tooth. The Coleco Chameleon as we know it now started life, publicly, about a year ago. During the last six months we have seen the team behind this console go from no prototype to now their third “prototype”. I put prototype in quotation marks because each […]
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Coleco Chameleon Kickstarter No Starts, RETRO Video Games Systems Inc Produces More Smoke and Mirrors
February 26th, 2016 Carl Williams Friday February 26th 2016 was promoted for more than two weeks as being the day that the Coleco Chameleon console would be making its Kickstarter debut. That day has come and is now gone and we only have the announcement that there is NOT going to be a Kickstarter for the Coleco Chameleon to show. […]
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IndieGo Console Looks to be All in One Retro Gaming Fans Always Wanted, Currently on Kickstarter- Goal Already Met
December 21st, 2015 Carl Williams We have been covering new consoles a lot this year. From the Retro Freak to the RETRO Video Game System, now the Coleco Chameleon. There is no shortage of new hardware that is looking to give retrogaming fans what they want. Now we can add the IndieGo console (not to be confused with popular crowdfunding […]
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We Open the Door to the Coleco Chameleon as We Shut the Door on the RETRO Video Game System
December 21st, 2015 Carl Williams It is no secret by now that the RETRO Video Game System is now called the Coleco Chameleon. As far as if the internal hardware is the same or not, I don’t know. No one, outside of the main RVGS team was made privy to hard internal hardware evidence (depending on their comments in my […]
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RETRO Video Game System Becomes Coleco Chameleon Console
December 18th, 2015 Carl Williams In my other article I detail the current Coleco naming cluster and this new Coleco Chameleon console. Basically, the Coleco that is licensing out the name is Coleco Holdings, not the same company that launched the ColecoVision in the 1980’s. No, this is a new company that is a subsidiary of River West Brands. Anyhow, […]
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Retro Freak, 11 Plus Platform Supporting Console, Released
November 2nd, 2015 Carl Williams We have been covering the Retro Freak console for a bit now and can finally say, it is available at Play Asia (and probably other stores). The price is a little steeper than first expected but it is not like what we saw with the RETRO VGS console. The Retro Freak’s price is very much […]
