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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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Just a heated Twitter moment. its all cool guys I threw a heart in my post.
what a tool.
Tommy Tallarico, CEO of the "family friendly" Intellivision
Yeah, he said it in a video too (17:56 if the timestamp doesn't work)
Plus bonus shouts of communism
Um, yikes.
Massive respect for what Tommy Tallarico's contributed to the industry -- not the least in Video Games Live -- so I was willing to overlook this obvious bomb as a well-intentioned love letter to ye olde gaming, but I'm just speechless here. This ain't it, Tom!
Not since Cooking Mama has there been such a Trojan horse in the gaming world.
What did Tommy think would happen when this thing started getting out there?
It's hilarious. Both the Evercade (handheld and soon-to-be-console device that sells physical cartridges with old games, including a bunch of Atari classics) and the Playdate (weird little handheld with a 1-bit screen, crank, and curated little games) have good word of mouth and have been really well-received.
The device could maybe work if it wasn't based entirely on the whims of one guy. The issue with the Amico seems to be that every time Tommy pops up his pants fall down, he trips over them, and then he gets really angry about it and lashes out.
He has his weirdo sycophants, of course, but most people not desperate for a parasocial relationship recognize that the whole thing is kinda dumb and sad.
Tommy could be the nicest guy in the world and this project would still be exactly what it is. The reason those aforementioned products you listed have good word of mouth and this thing barely has any word of mouth, positive or negative, is because its a solution in search of a problem, a poorly thought out mish/mash of ideas and prospective audiences that tries to serve many niche masters while not really fully appealing to anyone of any sort of them. Families and kids don't care about the Intelivision brand or any of the dead IPs this thing is touting, and the hardcore gaming historians that do, probably don't care about touch screen controllers and mobile game aesthetics. Its the brainchild of a completely out of touch company with more money than sense.
Pretty much.
I found the bit in the E3 video with the faces of developers with how many decades they'd been in the industry flashing up as the selling point amusing. As if that actually means anything, or as if people new to the industry couldn't make good games.
The whole project is completely out of touch.
Yeah, it's just out of touch. That's really my takeaway. Conversely I am psyched for the Playdate and love the Evercade.
I'm just hoping some of the nicer looking remakes (Night Stalker, Cloudy Mountain) get ported to regular consoles people actually own. The original Intellivision was forward thinking and contributed a lot to gaming. It annoys me they're attaching that brand name to this new system.
Short story is, Tommy thinks the Wii market is out there still to be tapped.
He's legit an industry guy but I feel like he's riding on his past successes and the Amico is a Wii clone that is being released for a market that doesn't exist, regardless of what studies and market research he has.
His evasiveness over basic questions , inability to answer basis questions seems to also suggest he doesn't have as much data as he claims to have.
Feel sorry for him, I think he thought he found his angle to have big niche console but the Amico is going to end up as en epitaph to his otherwise successful career.
He's legit an industry guy but I feel like he's riding on his past successes and the Amico is a Wii clone that is being released for a market that doesn't exist, regardless of what studies and market research he has.
His evasiveness over basic questions , inability to answer basis questions seems to also suggest he doesn't have as much data as he claims to have.
Feel sorry for him, I think he thought he found his angle to have big niche console but the Amico is going to end up as en epitaph to his otherwise successful career.
They haven't sourced all the necessary components yet. It's definitely not launching this year.
I really adore what Tommy did with VG music as medium. VGL show really broke ground and made game soundtracks way more popular and acceptable for general audience. I still treasure my VGL mouse mat with his autograph.
That being said. This ain't it Chef. Chill.
That being said. This ain't it Chef. Chill.
Dude was literally on a TV show for years where he ripped into games, and personified the type of attitude he's now victimizing himself against.
Is the lack of humor in games the final barrier to entry in gaming for many non-gamers?
Is Angry Birds really THAT FUNNY?
Really insightful stuff here.
Is Angry Birds really THAT FUNNY?
Really insightful stuff here.
TBF, the commandment is exclusive or a port that is unique. Sounds like whoever made the trailers only read the first part of that. And whether these ports are actually unique is TBD.
I guess it's no different than reporting on rumors and leaks, but my first instinct was that it's kind of a crappy move for a respectable site to report on something that's clearly not meant to be public info, just because it's not been password protected for a while. If you left your house unlocked by mistake, it doesn't mean you'd happily accept someone walking in and looking around. However, threatening to sue them over this is asinine and tone deaf.
I've been asking myself the same thing ever since the successful Kickstarter for a smartphone "scanner bed" which was some simple cardboard cutout onto which you place the phone, and use it as a scanner. I think people just want to support someone they like who has a neat idea, even if it's pretty much pointless.
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Kinda funny since you'd actually be exactly the kind of person they'd love to create a game for their system. Did they ever approach you?
Probably Android. Would be very surprising if it was something else.
So the specs of the Amico are absolute garbage
-_- This is my shocked face
What will be the bigger flop, the Intellivision Amico or Atari VCS?
-_- This is my shocked face
What will be the bigger flop, the Intellivision Amico or Atari VCS?
Reading the article, it really does seem like they're trying to disguise the fact it's a gigantic POS. The controller screens run at 15 to 30hz? WTF does that mean? They have super limited memory. There's a gigantic suspicion there's significant lag between what's happening on screen and the controller screens (which isn't being alleviated by any promo material ever showing both in the same footage at the same time). Just seems like an absolute awful machine. But hey, he seems to be leaning into his inner Trump. So maybe he can appeal to the gamer Trumpers and become an icon for them to worship if he's belligerent enough.
Nintendo rode that market until the wheels came off. Theres absolutely nothing wrong with making this hardware, but he absolutely needs to to come to grips with the fact that this hardware's audience is basically a enthusiast market. Basically people who love collecting and cataloguing gaming related hardware. It's actually a step up since it doesn't expect to be an emulator unlike those other devices.
But where's the lie? We now have info from the official development docs, and one of the rules for games to be accepted into the Amico store is they must be exclusive or at least be exclusive versions with features only available on the Amico, so that statement pans out. I'm betting it will get a number of ports of games with new level packs added to make it exclusive
What the heck’s an Intellivision Amico? Console’s leaky dev portal offers hints
Creators compare the $250 crowdfunded console's power to a chip from a $100 2016 smartphone.arstechnica.com
Ars Technica is reporting on the information that Intellivision leaked when their development portal was apparently public earlier this month and was then captured by the archive.org webcrawling service. The spec and details are in the link above.
The CEO of Intellevision is tossing around legal actions as the response for Ars reporting on this publicly available information:
Amico hardware demystified.
Those "commandments"...wow. Reminds me of those hilarious Smash Bros. "tournament" rulesets.
There are a lot of gems in there, but my favourite has to be nobody being allowed to play Pokémon Trainer because the opponent might get confused and not know which Pokémon is controlled by the player and which is from a Pokéball item.
Lmao the commandments were something else. A big list of "old school" mentality that really shows this is just some dude with rose-tinted glasses investing too much money on a project that is niche at best. There's nothing wrong with being niche, but every marketing material about this console leans on the alleged massive casual fan base it allures to without ever stopping to consider that massive fan base is fine playing on their phones and most likely won't shell out $250 to play a remake of Ecco The Dolphin. And to force devs to charge no more than $10 for their games while the platform keeps 50% of that money. That's just shitty. This thing will see the support of no one, devs or public.
Equating people not believing in his project to racism. Yeah, dude's a dickhead.Tommy Tallarico, CEO of the "family friendly" Intellivision
The Atari VCS actually made it to market, so it already is way ahead of the Amico.
Tommy's so high on his own supply that he actually thinks a console targeted at 45~50 year old dads is gonna be a smash hit.
I wish I had that much confidence.
I wish I had that much confidence.
This bit at the end is pretty good
J. Allard saw what Tommy was actually doing with this Amico garbage and noped the fuck out of there after 2 months. Tommy is still pretending he's involved lmao
J. Allard saw what Tommy was actually doing with this Amico garbage and noped the fuck out of there after 2 months. Tommy is still pretending he's involved lmao
He referenced a Quartering video in one of his posts defending Doug TenNapel
He referenced a Quartering video in one of his posts defending Doug TenNapel
Lol holy shit, TenNapel's bigotry has been clear as day in everything from misgendering transgender critics to anti-gay marriage. (Real actual quote: "I don't consider my beliefs about homosexuality to be mean. I consider it mean to endorse them.")
A Twitter unfollow for Tallarico -- don't think I'll be showing up to Video Games Live again.
Oh yeah it's obvious that Doug's views are awful, unfortunately it's just as obvious that Tommy doesn't give a shit.
He's always given me bad vibes. He has this way of talking about games in the most shallow way possible. And why the hell does he still say he worked on Metroid Prime?
Oh, wow, and those people he follows on twitter. No wonder he gets along fine with Tennapel
Oh, wow, and those people he follows on twitter. No wonder he gets along fine with Tennapel
