Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A

1 hour ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

To kick off Intellivisions 40th birthday celebration, we have dug deep into the archives to share with everyone a never-before-seen promo video from 1978! This was filmed a year before the official launch of Intellivision & there are some images and information in the video that are different from what ended up coming out.  Can you pick them all out?  EPIC 1950's sounding voice-over.

 

Someone needs to do a remix song with this!  

 

More exciting news to come throughout the day!

 

 

You know, Nurmix is a wiz at remixes.  You should check out the stuff he's done for the Intellivisionaries.  He might be a valuable asset to your team! 😉 😄

Wearing my Amico shirt at work today. Anyone else? Tommy?

1 hour ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

It's actually in the works!!

And lots of different colors also.  AND even a bean bag chair coming!!!

 

Sweeeeet!!!

Thank you Tommy for adding all the great merchandise to your store.

I have 10 or so Intellivision shirts but have never found a hat or hoodie through the years. Outstanding! 👍

I am wearing my running man beanie and a nice intellivision revolution shirt to commemorate the 40th!

1 hour ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

It's actually in the works!!

And lots of different colors also.  AND even a bean bag chair coming!!!

 

Any chance to talk to Numskull and have them so some keychains?  They did an outstanding job on their Atari 2600 line.  They look fantastic!  Would be great to have some cool Inty keychains at this level of quality.

44 minutes ago, woobman said:

Wearing my Amico shirt at work today. Anyone else? Tommy?

Me.
And my son at school !

I'm wearing mine at the moment...may have to change in a bit though, my son is getting married this afternoon! Maybe I'll wear it underneath my dress shirt....

2 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

To kick off Intellivisions 40th birthday celebration, we have dug deep into the archives to share with everyone a never-before-seen promo video from 1978! This was filmed a year before the official launch of Intellivision & there are some images and information in the video that are different from what ended up coming out.  Can you pick them all out?  EPIC 1950's sounding voice-over.

 

 

Could have been almost like a personnal computer !

Translation English and French ! Will Amico have it ? lol

A couple of details:

1) The first Playstation was released 25 years in Japan today. It's an interesting coincidence.

2) That Intellivision commercial was hypnotic. I am ready to pay $500 for the machine.

Just watched the vid. Man I had no idea the Intellivision was so impressive for the time. Makes Atari look like *remembers he’s at Atari Age* wow, great weather we’re having!

Intellivision has released the Amico controller demo video PLUS several interviews with staff. Tons of info in there.

Here are some timestamps in case people want to revisit some of parts of the video:

Tour of the controller: front, side and back - starts at 00:39
Interviews with designers, engineers and programmers starts at 8:26
Motion control, touchscreen and disc demo starts at 9:42
Mobile app demo starts at 14:23
Designing the API and working with developers starts at 16:04
Why John Alvarado joined Intellivision starts at 17:13

I just watched the new controller overview video, and this looks unique in a good way. I like gaming socially and casually, so the Amico and its controllers look great for me. I want to buy the Amico on day one, but I'm going to be living abroad for almost a year, so I might have to wait until the summer.

Only partially related: Tommy, I know you said that we can't play CoD on the Amiico, but can I play Doom? Obviously it won't be on the Amiico Storefront, but I'm assuming that the OS is based on Linux or Android. How hard would it be to sideload a sourceport and play my all-time favorite FPS?

3 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

To kick off Intellivisions 40th birthday celebration, we have dug deep into the archives to share with everyone a never-before-seen promo video from 1978! This was filmed a year before the official launch of Intellivision & there are some images and information in the video that are different from what ended up coming out.  Can you pick them all out?  EPIC 1950's sounding voice-over.

 

Someone needs to do a remix song with this!  

 

More exciting news to come throughout the day!

 

 

The video has been up on youtube for a while just not in this quality.  You can see that at the time this was made the intellivision hardware wasn't finalised; specifically the buggy STIC.

I know the day is not over yet (for most of us), but when is that playable demo of Moon Patrol being released that we will be able to play on our phones?  Is that still to come later today?

4 minutes ago, atarifan88 said:

I know the day is not over yet (for most of us), but when is that playable demo of Moon Patrol being released that we will be able to play on our phones?  Is that still to come later today?

Yes still coming today just waiting for the ok from apple/google play and the app will be available 

7 minutes ago, mr_me said:

The video has been up on youtube for a while just not in this quality.  You can see that at the time this was made the intellivision hardware wasn't finalised; specifically the buggy STIC.

I thought it was.  I watched it a few years back.  I thought it was very interesting but hard to keep focused...that voice killed me 

37 minutes ago, Alpha82 said:

Yes still coming today just waiting for the ok from apple/google play and the app will be available 

I hope it will be before my 7 years old son will go to bed ...   😕

Perfect pack in game choice for the Amico,woo hoo!!!😲

You probably should have gotten the email by now but if you want to see the official press release (contains some nice renders of the logo, controller and console) you can find it here.

They also released a 'now and then' of the first official free, pack-in game - skiing. I got to see an early development video but was pretty much sworn to secrecy except to say that I saw it. Now that a few photos has been released, you can see what I was impressed about: clean graphics, saturated color pallet and a surprising challenging game play with several different 'lines' you can take down the course.

1 minute ago, GrudgeQ said:

You probably should have gotten the email by now but if you want to see the official press release (contains some nice renders of the logo, controller and console) you can find it here.

 

They also released a 'now and then' of the first official free, pack-in game - skiing. I got to see an early development video but was pretty much sworn to secrecy except to say that I saw it. Now that a few photos has been released, you can see what I was impressed about: clean graphics, saturated color pallet and a surprising challenging game play with several different 'lines' you can take down the course.

I was about to do the same thing ...  You win !

And my Excitement keeps building to 10/10/20...  Cant wait to try that controller and the release of the Amico..  Intellivision Together Again.... Luv it .....  

Also Im sure there will be a lot of High Scores in the HSC shattered when we start playing the classic games using the new controller... 

Intellivision is pleased to announce the first group of 25 world class developers working with Intellivision on Amico products:

Other Ocean

Digital Eclipse

Concrete Games

Choice Provisions

Playchemy

React Games

Stainless Games

WastedStudios

Bonus Level Entertainment

NeoBird

Aesir Interactive

Thera Bytes

Way Digital Studios

BBG Entertainment

PHL Collective

Rogue Rocket Games

Pixel Pug

Quicksilver Software

Tozai Games

Human Soft Inc,

Flashman Studios

Spaceflower UG

Exozet Berlin GmbH

Independent Arts Software

Pool Legends

Choice Provisions was the only one I suspected to be aboard !

It's probably for this game :

I figured Tozai was probably along for the ride. Thought I read somewhere that they and Intellivision were working together.

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On another note, is there a way that devs who've already applied can check on their status?

Please, if someone can let us know when the application will be available with google.

I am looking for it 10 times an hour, but now I have things to do ...   lol 😆

Just to show what an international effort the Amico really is - here are the locations of the announced game developers (feel free to correct, just some quick Googling):

Other Ocean - California, USA
Digital Eclipse - California, USA
Concrete Games - France
Choice Provisions - California, USA
Playchemy - California, USA
React Games - France
Stainless Games - UK
WastedStudios - Germany
Bonus Level Entertainment - Germany
NeoBird - Germany
Aesir Interactive - Germany
Thera Bytes - Germany
Way Digital Studios - ?
BBG Entertainment - Germany
PHL Collective - Philadelphia Pennsylvania, USA
Rogue Rocket Games - California, USA
Pixel Pug - Colorado, USA?
Quicksilver Software - California, USA
Tozai Games - Japan
Human Soft Inc - California, USA
Flashman Studios - California, USA
Spaceflower UG - Germany
Exozet Berlin GmbH - Germany
Independent Arts Software - Germany
Pool Legends - ?