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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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He spent today doing this, GoGameGo is a 290 subscriber YT channel, instead of if updating investors:
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Instead of updating his investors, TT spent Friday playing pretend CEO with a 290 sub YT channel
791 views on Imgur: The magic of the Internet
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I don't like enjoying the utter failure of something but it's confirmed DOA now, if it ever arrives at all, so what harm can a bit of schadenfreude do?
Well, in a way he was right.
Tommy Talarico and posting ignorant bullshit. Name a more iconic duo, I'll wait.
Switch won't sell anywhere close to Wii, it will sell much more.
Sony is so scared of Amico they released a patent for a touchscreen right after Intellevision unveiled the Amico controllers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Intellivis...gq63/throwback_pt2_tommy_claims_sony_filed_a/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Intellivis...gq63/throwback_pt2_tommy_claims_sony_filed_a/
Well, there it finally is. Lol at announcing it at 10pm on a Friday night.
"This will also allow us more time to optimize our operating system for future game development"?
I thought it was just Android with some custom menus. I guess it doesn't matter, this thing is launching in 2022 with hardware that was middling to low end in 2016 for $250-300
Who would've tought it would be delayed again, after the CFO saying that there was only 4-5 games in the final development phases.
is this unfair to customers? Sure. But the real issue is that it's unfair to Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft for not having a firm idea of which fiscal quarter to avoid having any big releases in to stay out of the way!
Found this inspirational quote from Tommy in a recent interview:
www.nintendolife.com
Intellivision's Tommy Tallarico Wants To Follow In Nintendo's Footsteps, But Will He Get His Chance?
Will the Amico ever see release?
www.nintendolife.com
Found this inspirational quote from Tommy in a recent interview:
Intellivision's Tommy Tallarico Wants To Follow In Nintendo's Footsteps, But Will He Get His Chance?
Will the Amico ever see release?
What an utter lie. TT isn't in the credits of Metroid Prime. Someone/The Internet at Large needs to scrutinize his so-called list of achievements and work history.
At bit off topic, but from 2:40 to 2:55 isn't that Craig from the old Screw Attack crew?
It's true, he was only involved very early in Prime 1's development and wasn't credited.
Tommy Tallarico
Tommy Tallarico (born February 18, 1968) is the owner of Tommy Tallarico Studios, the executive producer and CEO of Video Games Live and a two time Guinness World Record holder. Tallarico has composed music for games such as Earthworm Jim. His company was hired as an outside contractor to create...
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Lol yeah that's him, I had to double-take after seeing him the first time, like what the hell is the dude doing there.
Huh, I'm kinda surprised he's doing this, I thought he was done with doing games media, especially with stuff like this. Hopefully when the inevitable happens here he doesn't get hit too hard.
Ha, yeah, this is like how Pixar's John Lasseter would always crow about Hayao Miyazaki being a "close, personal friend" at every goddamned opportunity just because Disney had signed on to distribute Ghibli's films for a while and despite there being no proof at all that Miyazaki could even pick Lasseter out of a crowd.Found this inspirational quote from Tommy in a recent interview:
Intellivision's Tommy Tallarico Wants To Follow In Nintendo's Footsteps, But Will He Get His Chance?
Will the Amico ever see release?
It's weird to see very minor industry celebs get all publicly parasocial with much larger figures in that industry.
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No, not necessarily. I honestly don't know a thing about him other than he was at ScrewAttack, then Rooster Teeth before leaving. He could be a card-carrying MAGA chud for all I know. I'm just surprised because I wasn't expecting to see a recognizable face among those testimonials.
Goddamn, people been calling it for weeks if not months. But still crazy.
That kid in the video
"It definitely beats the Xbox a lot."
How much you want to bet they promised to buy him an Xbox to say that.
"It definitely beats the Xbox a lot."
How much you want to bet they promised to buy him an Xbox to say that.
There's a reasonable bet every one of those testimonials was paid for.
"Here, come to our Amico demo and we'll give you money if you say nice things about it!"
Just a reminder of their fan song by one of their alt-right Pure Boys YT fans:
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I Want My Amico - Song By DJC GAME STUDIOS
DJC dives into a family friendly song??? Yes he sure does! With a Love for the Intellivision system...Old and New!! Avialable on Spotify,Amazon,Apple and Mo...
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If they could get Mattel to slap their name on it, it would at least be a Hyperscan, as in consumers won't be that interested but won't see it as a red flag, which many people I'm seeing currently are.
Well, there it finally is. Lol at announcing it at 10pm on a Friday night.
"This will also allow us more time to optimize our operating system for future game development"?
Tommy is ahead of everyone. A console can't fail if it never releases.
the predication i best agree with is the backers will get something and there might be a few units in the wild. But that is all best case
I love the Playdate and Amico rivalry. Playdate is there staying in it's lane not bothering anybody and seeming to be doing well. And Amico is full notice me sempai mode
I wonder if there will come a time that those wishing to cancel pre-orders will face issues getting their $100 deposit back.
It's gotta be less than Playdate. Playdate has had a factory/parts/production lined up for forever now. The recent delay this year (that they advised has been resolved and shouldn't affect production right now) was due to covid precautions with staffing at the factory they're using in Malaysia.
It's still unclear where the Amicos are being made, or who's actually doing it.
Me too. There's really something to be said for staying professional, not fostering a weird cult of personality around the one figure you've chained the product to, and having a product that actually appeals to people.
They also have finished their software. You would think Android running simple games would be...simple. But Intellivision bungles even the basics.
Well, it's a good thing they're getting more "time to optimize their operating system for future game development", whatever the heck that means!
Maybe they put effort into making a custom build of android with lower overhead 🤔
It helps that Panic is a real company with a proven track record, and has no ego driven has-been at the helm. You would think that last part would be obvious, but apparently not. Lol.
They've actively been trying to hide any showing of the system OS: interface and everything about the hardware PCBs etc. all enforced by NDA. Would love for this info to leak and see the light of day. Like the xbox architect not being paid by the Atari VCS people, when TT's money runs out…
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Wiki suggests Ark Electronics?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision_Amico
And the specs do not sound complicated. Are the delays due to software or basic resources / mfg.
I'm guessing basic resources. A lot of the media push forth feels like it was aimed at investors rather than actual buyers
Hrm. I wonder if that's still the case with the lower run they're planning.
Internet scuttlebutt seems to indicate that Tommy thought it would be easier to source the parts himself rather than have the manufacturer do so, and that covid put a crimp in that plan as all the parts are now more expensive and it destroyed the profitability.
There's definitely something strange going on with the parts, but there's also weirdness going on with the software. It's almost a year past the original launch date and the bulk of the games still seem to be not ready to go, and they've been going out of their way to avoid showing the OS.
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They've probably blown most of the cash enriching themselves paying themselves rent for the office building they own to play pretend vidyagame company during a pandemic instead of working remotely. Leaving hardly anything to pay devs to make games (claim of 85 games went to 50 to 20 and now 'in the teens') and build their online infrastructure, payment infrastructure and eShop.
Or secure their dev portal.
Or "accidentally" forget to update their website to remove executives no longer/never associated with Intellivision.
Or secure their dev portal.
Or "accidentally" forget to update their website to remove executives no longer/never associated with Intellivision.
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Tommy has been reading this thread and now they are going to allow up to 10 players for Killer Queen!Well, there it finally is. Lol at announcing it at 10pm on a Friday night.
"This will also allow us more time to optimize our operating system for future game development"?
I think this will end up being a situation like the Sinclair ZX Vega+...
en.wikipedia.org
...a massive failure to deliver on a successful Kickstarter campaign that was badly managed by greedy scumbags coming in and syphoning off the money. The similarities are uncanny... constant missed deadlines, brash and bullish statements by those in charge that were filled with exaggerations and downright lies, constant whining about rightful criticism and dismissing it all as "haters", a large list of games that gradually dwindled away to nothing as IP owners/devs backed out and retracted permissions etc. The biggest difference though was that the ZX Spectrum had a WAY larger appeal to a lot of gamers than the Intellivision did, a much larger potential reach. It was also set to cost only £130 upon release (about $180), so was WAY less of a rip off.
The Amico may not have greedy scumbags outright stealing money but they do have an absurd level of incompetence that's going to have the same overall effect. I think some backers will get some version of a console with shitty build quality and riddled with bugs, then TT will announce that Covid drained all their funds and they've had to close because of haters/Covid/lack of investors who were scared away by said haters etc. Whatever excuses he can trot out to deflect the blame from his unappealing product and shitty public image. They may make enough for all backers but I doubt it sees any kind of retail presence at all and dies within 6 months.
ZX Spectrum Vega+ - Wikipedia
The Amico may not have greedy scumbags outright stealing money but they do have an absurd level of incompetence that's going to have the same overall effect. I think some backers will get some version of a console with shitty build quality and riddled with bugs, then TT will announce that Covid drained all their funds and they've had to close because of haters/Covid/lack of investors who were scared away by said haters etc. Whatever excuses he can trot out to deflect the blame from his unappealing product and shitty public image. They may make enough for all backers but I doubt it sees any kind of retail presence at all and dies within 6 months.