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Amico Fun Conversations |OT| What the heck’s an Intellivision Amico? Console’s leaky dev portal offers hints
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Imagine Nintendo starting a Direct with "Are your parents still alive?"
"Fun fact: we're working on an official Ouija game for the Amico, so you can contact your deceased parent!"
Buy an Amico as a way to remember the good old days when you used to play simple games everyone enjoyed? Do that now witha new generation of your family. Some shit like that.
Yep, he was preparing it days ago...
Im in tears (actual lol tears, not the one the guy said it was having)
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To those who prefer morbid black humor, but without piling on needlessly, you could say the timing of the death of father could be a result of the "Karma (engine)"
It's still a weird thing. I could get my Mom playing Untitled Goose Game on Switch, she's 70, she can figure out that game. There are plenty of games on Switch that can be picked up by anyone and played. It's why the Amico failed and why he threw a shit fit anytime he had to defend it. You can play both Untitled Goose Game and Divinity Original Sin 2 on the Switch. You can't play anything more complicated than Fox n Forests on the Amico, well technically you can't play anything because no factory has cranked out an Amico.
There is no evidence of finished games even. I wonder how much Hans has lined his own pockets with?
Blaze announced a new Evercade model with an IPS screen. Damn this chip shortage!
It's hilarious that Blaze has managed to put out two consoles and has a third on the way. It's almost like the Amico's failing was mostly leadership and not entirely external factors.
It's hilarious that Blaze has managed to put out two consoles and has a third on the way. It's almost like the Amico's failing was mostly leadership and not entirely external factors.
Panic is also shipping the Playdate and the first season of games has been fantastic so far. I don't see how Amico finds any kind of success at this point if they ever ship it.
It really does. Like the added buttons so it can be played in tate mode for shooters. Nice improvements. I wonder what the people behind Evercade would've done if tasked with creating an Intellivision console instead of the incompetent and scummy twerp who ultimately tried? I can only imagine it'd have been WAY more thought through than the turd Tommy tried to make.
Yeah, I can't stress enough that for someone who wanted what the Amico seemed to be offering, the Evercade is right up your alley.
The only thing you really miss out on are "new" games, but there are plenty of obscure games on the available carts that will essentially be "new" to you, and it's not like the bespoke Amico games screamed "quality" anyway. Plus the Evercade has two Intellivision carts if you really have Intellivision nostalgia for whatever reason.
Plus, you know, it exists. And, two years on, it still exists and they're cranking out new carts at a fairly regular clip. And it's reasonably-priced.
I don't want to sound like a shill (it's definitely not a transcendent product or anything, I still have issues with their weird button mapping, and the library could stand to include more "heavy hitters"), but I can assure you that the CEO of Blaze hasn't offered me a ride in his car, and we don't text each other like schoolgirls all night.
The only thing you really miss out on are "new" games, but there are plenty of obscure games on the available carts that will essentially be "new" to you, and it's not like the bespoke Amico games screamed "quality" anyway. Plus the Evercade has two Intellivision carts if you really have Intellivision nostalgia for whatever reason.
Plus, you know, it exists. And, two years on, it still exists and they're cranking out new carts at a fairly regular clip. And it's reasonably-priced.
I don't want to sound like a shill (it's definitely not a transcendent product or anything, I still have issues with their weird button mapping, and the library could stand to include more "heavy hitters"), but I can assure you that the CEO of Blaze hasn't offered me a ride in his car, and we don't text each other like schoolgirls all night.
My only complaint about the Evercade is that it doesn't have a Resetera thread as entertaining as this one.
Edit: I have actually been keeping up with it. Have the red/white and the purple version of the handheld, the Vs., and all of the carts for it. Really been enjoying it.
Edit: I have actually been keeping up with it. Have the red/white and the purple version of the handheld, the Vs., and all of the carts for it. Really been enjoying it.
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I also think they have nothing ready to manufacture.
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The howdy amico one? Lol.
I am sure someone on the intellivision amico subreddit did a backup
Three of his videos are still on his Odysee channel
Actually I don't expect an announcement.
It will simply die, I guess.
I can see some commotion when the games will be moved to other platforms, that's it.
Oh I absolutely expect it to disappear all but forgotten like most console scams out there.
The fireworks will be when people dig into the corpse for the autopsy
Me too. But I'm guessing that Matt McMuscles is waiting for the actual time of death to be called on this thing before releasing a video. We've thought this thing was dead before, only for one last surprise to randomly pop up.
Although after all the recent departures, I'm guessing even that's unlikely to happen again...
I doubt there'll ever be an official death announcement. The people who were only in it to siphon off money have already moved on to their next grift, and Tommy's in self-imposed exile because his fragile ego won't allow him to admit failure.
The most "official" announcement I can see coming is in a few months when Tommy decides he needs adulation again and starts posting to a forum. We'll probably get a "the haters killed Amico 😀" tirade, and that's it.
It's more likely one of the people still keeping an eye on Amico stuff will stumble across documentation of bankruptcy or a trademark going unrenewed or something.
The most "official" announcement I can see coming is in a few months when Tommy decides he needs adulation again and starts posting to a forum. We'll probably get a "the haters killed Amico 😀" tirade, and that's it.
It's more likely one of the people still keeping an eye on Amico stuff will stumble across documentation of bankruptcy or a trademark going unrenewed or something.
I'd honestly rather he wait a year or so to really bother. Because "muh algorithm" he threw the Balan Wonderworld video out ASAP, only for actual info about it's whack development to come out months later. Making his video on it instantly outdated.
No joke, I was slightly interested in getting one of these so I could show my hypothetical offspring the kind of stupid shit we used to be able to buy before the aliens came and subjugated us.
Please, feel free to point any hole in my logic. Yours, TT.
Please, feel free to point any hole in my logic. Yours, TT.
Same with Cyberpunnk 2077, it's less interesting because it feels more like a review (as in re-view) of the news and marketing rather than a dissection of what actually happened.
What I fear is that people developing games for it signed some kind of contract that prevents them to publish the software on other platforms even if the Amico does not arrive.
That would be bad for them.
Even if they did sign that kind of contract, I don't think it'd be too difficult to bypass. Aside from the legal practicalities of enforcing it (would even the Amico team be stupid enough to spend money suing developers to force them to keep games exclusive to a machine that isn't coming out?) none of the games are all that complex and a lot of them would become legally distinct with just a bit of a graphical makeover.
On the other hand, I guess who would buy several of the games shown for the platform outside of that environment.
I mean, in at least 2/3 cases we were talking about something at the level of a 2$ smartphone game.
Specifically asking for religious titles to be created from a developer who has literally made titles of the opposite says a lot about how they view the market.
I guarantee if those ever got announced, they'd pretend the studio wanted to do it of their own volition.
Yeah, that would indeed be a problem for the majority of them. Very few of them ever looked in any way interesting, and that only got worse when they started doing deep dives (down to puddle depth) on some of them.
That is something Tallarico seemed to try to pursue, here and there.
For instance, one of the youtubers that "pushed" the project said several times that the console would offer "Christian entertainment" and that it was one of the reason the industry wanted it to fail.
I have not appreciated at all that this kind of "lever" was even remotely considered as an even small part of the "marketing" of the console.
(example:
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I'd be down for "Christian" games if they were technically-competent, gameplay-focused, and didn't get preachy. Give me a game about Jacob wrestling with God, a bald guy siccing some bears on children who mocked him, or Jesus sending Legion into a herd of pigs or whatever and I'm down.
The issues are that "Christian" games are usually quick cash-grabs that do the barest minimum effort because they have an unsavvy built-in audience who will buy them just because they're "Christian", or they try and shoehorn in more "Christian" content with dumb quizzes and stuff.
The issues are that "Christian" games are usually quick cash-grabs that do the barest minimum effort because they have an unsavvy built-in audience who will buy them just because they're "Christian", or they try and shoehorn in more "Christian" content with dumb quizzes and stuff.