Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A

18 hours ago, Starpaddler said:

Although a great and favorite game of mine, I don’t think Sea Battle ever hit Intellivision iconic status like Astrosmash or Frog Bog (I could be wrong), but I do think it has one of the best box arts of the library; at least thats my opinion.

 

For myself, if I could only pick one, this would be it based solely on the art alone (of course art is subjective and there is also that I really loved this game)

 

Maybe the remake can include jet fighters (and maybe a vintage prop fighter option?) that you can launch off the carriers to buzz bomb enemy fleets that are in range.
 

Yeah!  That would look EPIC on a red shirt!!

10 hours ago, nysavant said:

I must have been one of the firs to order it on Amazon UK, way back on 30th September 2020, and have also had the cancellation email

Don't worry... the product is definitely not canceled. 

There was some confusion among European Amazon countries, UK Amazon etc. in regards to quantities and who was getting what.

It is being worked out as we speak. 

19 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Don't worry... the product is definitely not canceled. 

 

There was some confusion among European Amazon countries, UK Amazon etc. in regards to quantities and who was getting what.

It is being worked out as we speak. 

That's great to hear! Hopefully we'll soon be able to place our orders again :-).

39 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

We're definitely going to be bringing some of these back!!

LOVE THESE!!   We have them in our office.

 

 

 

That's awesome Tommy.  Glad to hear it.  The Night Stalker photo looks like a poster for an 80's Sci-Fi movie.  I'd like to have that poster in my room.

11 hours ago, nysavant said:

I must have been one of the firs to order it on Amazon UK, way back on 30th September 2020, and have also had the cancellation email

Wow, maybe they cancelled all of them then or had a very low amount allocated to them 😳

56 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

We're definitely going to be bringing some of these back!!

LOVE THESE!!   We have them in our office.

 

 

 

That utopia poster is a beautiful piece of art. Would love to have that one on the wall.

25 minutes ago, Silverbot said:

Wow, maybe they cancelled all of them then or had a very low amount allocated to them 😳

They definitely didn't have a very low amount.  But they did sell out.

13 minutes ago, Utopia said:

That utopia poster is a beautiful piece of art. Would love to have that one on the wall.

Yeah!  These were done for stores in Canada back in the day.  @cmart604 may have more info?

Here's another full pager in a big German magazine:
 

4 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Yeah!  I like that.

We could go with the alternate boxes and names from when the NHL license had lapsed.  But I much prefer that classic image box.

 

Intellivision Inc / INTV Corp printed the same Mattel box art without the NHL logo.  The Mattel art is what more people would recognise.

3 hours ago, Silverbot said:

Wow, maybe they cancelled all of them then or had a very low amount allocated to them 😳

Maybe they had their list backwards and cancelled the wrong people.  Curious what happened exactly.

3 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Yeah!  These were done for stores in Canada back in the day.  @cmart604 may have more info?

I was given the AD&D poster when I bought the SNAFU cartridge in Toronto.  Intellivision Productions must have reprinted these a few years ago when they were being sold.  They didn't have AD&D but did have the other three.

3 hours ago, Silverbot said:

Wow, maybe they cancelled all of them then or had a very low amount allocated to them 😳

I have been personally burned once and I know others have all had bad experiences with Amazon pre-order cancellations on a variety of items. Amazon is still one of my favorite way to order stuff when in stock - their warehousing & inventory systems are amazing - but there pre-order system is seriously broken for some reason. Have seen repeated oversells and confusion on pre-order stock levels - just doesn't make sense with the efficient way the rest of the ordering system is run.

4 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

We're definitely going to be bringing some of these back!!

LOVE THESE!!   We have them in our office.

 

 

 

Wow these are just amazing and I never knew they even existed (Canada or otherwise). Also would love to have a reprint on that Utopia one.

3 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Yeah!  These were done for stores in Canada back in the day.  @cmart604 may have more info?

Believe it or not I actually don't have these. 😱

21 minutes ago, GrudgeQ said:

I have been personally burned once and I know others have all had bad experiences with Amazon pre-order cancellations on a variety of items. Amazon is still one of my favorite way to order stuff when in stock - their warehousing & inventory systems are amazing - but there pre-order system is seriously broken for some reason. Have seen repeated oversells and confusion on pre-order stock levels - just doesn't make sense with the efficient way the rest of the ordering system is run.

That seems to have been the issue.  The item is definitely sold out on Amazon EU & UK right now.  I have no idea how they decided to contact people and/or why they would say their order was canceled.  I'm guessing that they picked a few countries and just blew out all the pre-orders.  We don't seem to have any issues except Germany & UK (which are the two biggest markets over there).  But from what a ton of people have told me (including yourself just now) this seems to be a somewhat common occurance unfortunately.  Here's what I know... the issue is being taken care of and we're assuming that anyone who had pre-ordered on Amazon will probably be contacted again.  But again... I have no idea as I don't work for Amazon.  I only know what they told our sales team. 

Here's another quick and fun time lapse video of the final stages of putting together (by hand) an Intellivision Amico controller for our development kits.

35 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Here's another quick and fun time lapse video of the final stages of putting together (by hand) an Intellivision Amico controller for our development kits.

 

 

I know it is a small thing - and I am sure it is NOT officially sanctioned - but I am glad the controller is screwed together. So if in a decade or two from now if you need to pop in a new battery or clean a contact the thing isn't welded shut like the Stadia controller (https://youtu.be/GBcSKgqbrBg ). Warms my repair-ability and system conservation heart

8 minutes ago, Intellivision Master said:

 

I am convinced @Intellivision Master is psychic because I am literally on YouTube re-watching the Amico Controller video and I don't first get an alert from YouTube but instead Atari Age about the upcoming AAA cast - just amazing.

2 minutes ago, GrudgeQ said:

I am convinced @Intellivision Master is psychic because I am literally on YouTube re-watching the Amico Controller video and I don't first get an alert from YouTube but instead Atari Age about the upcoming AAA cast - just amazing.

I have special powers.  I am Master Control.  End of line.

5 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

They definitely didn't have a very low amount.  But they did sell out.

 

 

The good thing is is that you’ve sold out the first allocation of Amico’s with Amazon, that must be very encouraging 😀👍 I have two ordered with Argos now so hopefully we will be ok. So looking forward to this, plus I happen to have two weeks off right when it’s due for release 👍😀

This game would be good for Amico.  It's 1 to 4 players.  I've never heard of this game before but looks cool.

10 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

NICE!!!!!!!!!

Should have been two 10's for the cards! 

Add the 10 of hearts!  

 

I need to put you in touch with Daniel who runs our merch store stuff so we can start paying you and using these designs!

Going to send an e-mail hooking you guys up now!!

 

 

"Should have been two 10's for the cards! 

Add the 10 of hearts!   "

And make the queen an ace and you have the 21.

On 3/19/2021 at 2:59 PM, cmart604 said:

As a huge Inty fan this might be a surprising opinion but I never liked the tan boxes and I honestly don't know if there's a single human who looks good in a tan shirt. Lol. Any colour but tan. 

Just saying...

LOL

6 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Here's another quick and fun time lapse video of the final stages of putting together (by hand) an Intellivision Amico controller for our development kits.

 

 

Loved this video! Now we need both bot Ultra Slow motion...