A few days ago a video featuring Internet celebrities Angry Video Game Nerd and Pat the NES Punk emerged promoting a kickstarter for a fixed release of an unlicensed glitched NES game called Cheetahmen II. When the project would meet its $65,000 goal the game would release on reproduction cartridges under the name Cheetahmen II: The Lost Levels, fixing a famous bug that made the original game impossible to beat. However, Greg Pabich the man behind the project have done similar Cheetahmen related projects before and many are now questioning how much such a project would realistically cost funding seeing as there already exists ROM patches for the game online, the sum would probably not even reach half of the money he's asking for. It's likely that Greg is exploiting the AVGN fanbase for his own personal gain.
Now Mike Matei have commented on the situation saying that they are now aware that the kickstarter is a ripoff and that they are currently unable to remove the video and ads due to contractual circumstances.
They're getting into some deep shit if they don't make a video apology addressing the problem and maybe somehow compensate people who blindly donated.
I personally would lose major respect if they didn't acknowledge their mistake, I mean some old dude asking for 65k to release an absolutely terrible game and some merch?
And they're all quiet about it as if nothing happened?
Anyway surprisingly I could not find any articles about this fraud so I thought I'd share here. Please move if this isn't USN worthy news.
Original kickstarter Video:
Video comments are deleted now btw.
Interesting video explanation I found:
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