Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A

So on the founders page it says: " Rock out with Earthworm Jim and Tommy Tallarico albums and digital downloads." Whats does that mean? I read it as albums AND digital.....but that can't be right can it?

Sorry if this has been addressed.

Congratulations Intellivision Team! Waiting my FE-edition here in Europe. I was wondering about power plugs because my FE is shipping from US, right? Do I just need to use adapter or is there a different kind of plugs coming with console?

This morning I told my work colleagues about the preorder event of the Founders Edition of Amico of yesterday and someone (especially mothers, strange thing, right Tommy? ) wanted to know more about the console and the games.

 

Continuing preading the word...

 

22 minutes ago, Machine said:

So on the founders page it says: " Rock out with Earthworm Jim and Tommy Tallarico albums and digital downloads." Whats does that mean? I read it as albums AND digital.....but that can't be right can it?

Sorry if this has been addressed.

I think Tommy has specifically mentioned you get *both* the physical CD and the digital versions.

EDIT: Tommy Tallarico: "It will include BOTH digital & physical!  Going to do one of my other soundtracks as well.  So 2 albums!  Digital & physical versions!"

Edited January 28, 2020 by GrudgeQ
Found the quote

27 minutes ago, Machine said:

So on the founders page it says: " Rock out with Earthworm Jim and Tommy Tallarico albums and digital downloads." Whats does that mean? I read it as albums AND digital.....but that can't be right can it?

Sorry if this has been addressed.

Yes you get the CDs and a digital download for each album 

Anyone else get a Copyright Claim against their YouTube review videos for the Astrosmash Demo Video that Intellivision just put out?

 

I did and although my channel is not monetized, I guess if it was they want the $$ from it.  haha.

 

Anyway, curious if the rest of you did also.

 

TJ

 

Edited January 28, 2020 by AtariSociety

3 minutes ago, AtariSociety said:

Anyone else get a Copyright Claim against their YouTube review videos for the Astrosmash Demo Video that Intellivision just put out?

 

I did and although my channel is not monetized, I guess if it was they want the $$ from it.  haha.

 

Anyway, curious if the rest of you did also.

 

TJ

 

Suddenly

Video uses this song's melody

Copyright owners

LatinAutor - Warner Chappell, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, LatinAutor - UMPG, Shapiro Bernstein, LatinAutor, UMPG Publishing, EMI Music Publishing, UMPI

I saw another person who mentioned getting copyright claim I can only assume it’s because of the song that’s on the video because of the copyright claims YouTube gets they have a folder of copyright free music 

15 minutes ago, AtariSociety said:

Anyone else get a Copyright Claim against their YouTube review videos for the Astrosmash Demo Video that Intellivision just put out?

 

I did and although my channel is not monetized, I guess if it was they want the $$ from it.  haha.

 

Anyway, curious if the rest of you did also.

 

TJ

 

Suddenly

Video uses this song's melody

Copyright owners

LatinAutor - Warner Chappell, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, LatinAutor - UMPG, Shapiro Bernstein, LatinAutor, UMPG Publishing, EMI Music Publishing, UMPI

TJ's videos always causing trouble on the internet! lol

1 minute ago, ASalvaro said:

TJ's videos always causing trouble on the internet! lol

Indeed... I am a Rabble Rowser!

😋

I find it funny the song says it shares the same "melody" as this "Suddenly" song.  Not that it is their song.

TJ

You probably cannot use that song. 

Now let's talk about Astrosmash. I'm going to talk about it in the most constructive way possible, I know Tommy likes to have all points of view.

(And I hope my choice of words is good enough in english, so please consider. 😊  )

 

I did not feel as excited as with Night Stalker.

I know this is only a very early version and it's nice to have shown it to us.
But I have been wondering since yesterday, and I will try to understand why I am not so excited, even if I do not find it bad.

 

Why I am not thrilled by the Astrosmash video like I was with Night Stalker ?

1) Obviously, missing sounds and special effects are crucial. In the original, we heard the famous sound before we even saw the homing missiles, and the kinds of grenade that made us explode!
2) I find that we are too close to the screen. I noticed that when the two players are far from each other, the camera backs up a bit, but we still should see a little further in my opinion.

3) From the start of the game (first 10 seconds), we have already seen the majority of the various asteroids and vessels, which took away the anticipation during the video.

     I remember during the original game, we were eager to see the color change, and to see the new difficulties that we would have to face.

4) Maybe I expected too much, because Astrosmash had been preferred to skiing to be revealed to the public. I expected it to be almost complete !

 

What I liked :

1) Especially towards the end of the video, I found the asteroids that split in two as in the original. Very well executed. (Starting at 2:45)

2) The landscape is very well done. I imagine that sometimes it will change.

3) Really like the flying saucer as well as certain asteroids.

4) Several kinds of shots possible from the tank.

 

Suggestions (Brain storming):

1) Change the colors of the vehicle wheels to differentiate between the different players. (The red part would change color depending on the player's color)

2) Like in Breakout, it could be cool to have music, and that the explosions could create a rhythm with this music !?

3) See a flying saucer or a huge Asteroid arriving from the landscape. (It would take him like 1 minute before arriving at us. Anticipation and stress because it will be difficult to destroy. Could be a boss !)

4a) Power-Up in Co-op Mode: Use a grapple that pulls to the side to quickly bring back our teammate and make him avoid an asteroids.

4b) Power-Up in Versus Mode (if you have one). Use a paralyzing beam on our opponent (half a second) so that an asteroid falls on it.

5) In co-op mode, have the opportunity to hang on with our teammate and use the most powerful weapon.
   One shooting and the other moves but we are more vulnerable to get hit. Both have a button to separate at any time!

 

Questions

1) Does the shield disappear after an impact, or after a certain time ?

2) Will there be levels, (like going to another planet!?) or as the original will have no end ?

 

Conclusion

The majority of the points mentioned regarding the reasons that I had a moderate reaction while watching the video will no longer exist in a few months !

I have confidence in the whole team, and I am sure that Astrosmash will be well done. Especially with Tommy working on sound and Astrosmash being one of the 5 games provided with the system !

Tommy could even decrease his hours of sleep from 4 to 3 hours ! lol  😉

 

THANK YOU !

 

 

Edited January 28, 2020 by LePionnier

14 minutes ago, 1001lives said:

You probably cannot use that song. 

I figured it is Tommy's own music on that track.

TJ

Hey Tommy, I have  a couple of interesting questions:

 

- Do you think any of your investors will ever read the AtariAge forums? 🤓

 

- What percentage of your target market know the meaning of the word "amico"? Do you think this could be a problem or do you believe that this potentially mysterious word sounds good enough and can help boost sales?

LePionieer is on the right track. Astrosmash feels unfinished so I am not judging. The asteroids and tanks do not have the same cohesive style and the tanks seem like placeholders. 

Are the official emails going to be sent out today for the pre-order? I got my paypal info. Just want to be sure. LOL

I just got my confirmation e-mail for the FE console!

Hopefully everyone else should be getting theirs soon as well then.

2 minutes ago, Tavi said:

I just got my confirmation e-mail for the FE console!

Hopefully everyone else should be getting theirs soon as well then.

Got mine as well a few minutes ago!!! 

Yup, I got the confirmation. Systems reserved: 2. Wahoo!

Yup, my confirm arrived... for qty 1... WoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooHooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

 

Lock N Load them Amicos.

 

😋

 

TJ

Have not received my email yet 😳

Got my confirmation email, too!

 

Yeah I got mine says welcome to the intellivision family

2 hours ago, IntelliMission said:

Hey Tommy, I have  a couple of interesting questions:

 

- Do you think any of your investors will ever read the AtariAge forums? 🤓

 

- What percentage of your target market know the meaning of the word "amico"? Do you think this could be a problem or do you believe that this potentially mysterious word sounds good enough and can help boost sales?

Personally I don't think the name will have any issues. For most people who won't know what the word means, it just sounds like the name of a product, like every car has a name. Nothing wrong with that. It's easy to pronounce and short.

 

Just now, fiudr said:

Personally I don't think the name will have any issues. For most people who won't know what the word means, it just sounds like the name of a product, like every car has a name. Nothing wrong with that. It's easy to pronounce and short.

 

And they can always just google it, like “what does Tiburon mean”

22 minutes ago, fiudr said:

Personally I don't think the name will have any issues. For most people who won't know what the word means, it just sounds like the name of a product, like every car has a name. Nothing wrong with that. It's easy to pronounce and short.

 

Yeah, but Camaro and Celica are made up names.