In a partnership with Retro Video Game Systems, Coleco has announced a new cartridge-based console system called the COLECO Chameleon.

Released in 1982, Colecovision was known for bringing popular arcade games into the home.


Coleco claims the Chameleon will be "a versatile new video game system that serves as a modern day take on the classic game console," and is promised to "accurately play classic games." The system will also play new 8-, 16-, and 32-bit games, all in the spirit of the "golden age of gaming."

Retro Video Game Systems president Mike Kennedy calls it "a love-letter to all the classic cartridge based gaming systems that came before it." Kennedy thinks it will take gamers "back to a simpler time," a time he says when games "were all about great gameplay and fun factor."

We can expect the Coleco Chameleon to launch in early 2016, and for a sneak peek at Toy Fair New York 2016, from February 13-16. No price has been announced yet, but Coleco tweeted that the console will be "significantly more affordable than the first go-around."