Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A

On 4/21/2020 at 5:19 PM, Tommy Tallarico said:

Always meant to ask you how you got your handle in here!

How about others here??  Tell us the significance of your name you use in AA.

I had a cat I named Borneo, after the island. I just liked the name & looked like a treasure paradise for photography. It also stuck because he'd meow back when I said "Borneo", so he picked his own name.

I'm Irish in heritage, so the Blarney Stone is a tourist attraction, so I just mashed the 2 words together as an online persona. 

BTW: Do NOT KISS the Blarney Stone if you visit the castle. The local kids pee on it and watch people kiss it and laugh. 

39 minutes ago, Intellivision Master said:

 

Ian still looks like one of those screaming protesters at an abortion clinic. 

"Amico Kills Babies!"

20 hours ago, Saldo said:

Don’t laugh, but I actually have one of those in my basement! I didn’t buy it directly, it was in the current house I’m in when we bought it.  Being the pack rat that I am I couldn’t bring myself to throw it out.  I just thought it was funny that someone actually bought it.  Now I’ve never used it (that would be pretty gross) but my wife keeps threatening to use it on me if I don’t stop complaining about how long my hair is getting!

The previous owners of my house left me a training potty. I took pictures of the house to send to friends & family, but whenever I tried to take the back yard, it would photobomb me.

5 minutes ago, Blarneo said:

20 hours ago, Saldo said:

Don’t laugh, but I actually have one of those in my basement! I didn’t buy it directly, it was in the current house I’m in when we bought it.  Being the pack rat that I am I couldn’t bring myself to throw it out.  I just thought it was funny that someone actually bought it.  Now I’ve never used it (that would be pretty gross) but my wife keeps threatening to use it on me if I don’t stop complaining about how long my hair is getting!

The previous owners of my house left me a training potty. I took pictures of the house to send to friends & family, but whenever I tried to take the back yard, it would photobomb me.

Sadly, no pictures here on this one, but I was left with a peculiar house-warming gift when we bought our home.

In one of the bedrooms hung a 2' wooden plaque of Elton John at his Elton Johniest.

Denim pants and jacket, no shirt

Giant, bedazzled glasses

Man, that thing just stared through you if you made eye contact unprepared. To make matters even funnier, we knew exactly who it belonged to. See, we bought the wife's grandparents' old house!

Returning the plaque to her aunt a couple years later when she was in for Christmas was such a feel-good story... for everyone except her uncle.

1 hour ago, Intellivision Master said:

 

I’d like to check it out but can’t find it on Facebook 

10 minutes ago, Alpha82 said:

I’d like to check it out but can’t find it on Facebook 

the link is in the video.

Are you saying you go to www.facebook.com/groups/amicosociety and you are not able to find it?

you should be logged into Facebook or log in when you get there.

TJ

1 hour ago, Intellivision Master said:

 

He will yank you, his words not mine.  TJ is the bestest!

21 minutes ago, OEB_Pete said:

He will yank you, his words not mine.  TJ is the bestest!

LOL.  Canadians are funny too!  hahaha.

TJ

1 hour ago, Blarneo said:

The previous owners of my house left me a training potty. I took pictures of the house to send to friends & family, but whenever I tried to take the back yard, it would photobomb me.

 

 

Ha! Love it!  
 

So, the house I’m in currently was originally built in the late 1800 and was rebuilt in 1928 (I think the original burned down).  It was abandoned for about ten years before I got it and was a gut job, we gutted it down to the studs and rebuilt it.  We took out 3 40yd dumpsters of junk, not including the demo material.  It was used as a boarding house and had 13 bedrooms and every mattress was left behind! There was just rooms full of junk.
 

Not only did I find that Flobee, but in keeping this retro there was a working a Game Cube with 2 wireless controllers and Animal Crossing.  Also an original PS controller.  

1 hour ago, GrumpyOl'Guy said:

Sadly, no pictures here on this one, but I was left with a peculiar house-warming gift when we bought our home.

In one of the bedrooms hung a 2' wooden plaque of Elton John at his Elton Johniest.

Denim pants and jacket, no shirt

Giant, bedazzled glasses

Man, that thing just stared through you if you made eye contact unprepared. To make matters even funnier, we knew exactly who it belonged to. See, we bought the wife's grandparents' old house!

Returning the plaque to her aunt a couple years later when she was in for Christmas was such a feel-good story... for everyone except her uncle.

Oh' you needed a picture of that! I would pay money to see that atrocity! 🤣

My username is because Burgertime was the first Intellivision game I owned and is one of my favorite games of all time. I'm really surprised the name wasn't already taken on here. 

Just when you thought it couldn't get worse than the PU Podcast... these guys roll along.



Is this what happens to youth when pot gets legalized?

3 hours ago, PeterPepper said:

My username is because Burgertime was the first Intellivision game I owned and is one of my favorite games of all time. I'm really surprised the name wasn't already taken on here. 

Yeah!  I would have thought that one would have been taken early!

5 hours ago, AtariSociety said:

the link is in the video.

Are you saying you go to www.facebook.com/groups/amicosociety and you are not able to find it?

you should be logged into Facebook or log in when you get there.

TJ

I tried signing up... but TJ denied me.

Maybe someday.

5 hours ago, Blarneo said:

The previous owners of my house left me a training potty. I took pictures of the house to send to friends & family, but whenever I tried to take the back yard, it would photobomb me.

 

 

Looks like a great mascot for the upcoming Blarneo's Math Fun!

6 hours ago, Intellivision Master said:

 

Well... that was gold.

2 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

I tried signing up... but TJ denied me.

Maybe someday.

 

 

 

 

 

Yeh, your Mom called me and said you been bad lately so don't let you in...

I don't chance saying no to mom!

TJ

13 hours ago, speedy-a said:

Is Intellivision Mercandising also avaible in europe? somewhere? soon? or will it be avaible in USA/Canada only?

 

Is there a possibility in the Future to get Taito Classics like Phönix, Elevator Action, Arkanoid or Space Invaders as Retro Remakes for the amico or is Taito a company thats not easy to get licenses.

 

When I look at the latest gameplay trailer there are already a lot of games I plan to buy.

I believe our merchandise already ships worldwide.

Elevator Action, Rastan & Jungle King/Hunt would be at the top of my Taito list.

We've been speaking with them.

14 hours ago, RetroAdvisoryBoard said:

Or, I could just be concise and state a point in a sentence like a normal person.     Maybe a few don't mind the pulp consumption, but it's sound advice I'll take up.  Thanks!

No!  Don't ever do that!

Whenever I see a long post and your name next to it... I get excited!  The longer the better!!!!!!!

15 hours ago, Intellivision Master said:

 

This is exactly the kind of video that we need after that last train wreck I posted. 

8 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Just when you thought it couldn't get worse than the PU Podcast... these guys roll along.



Is this what happens to youth when pot gets legalize?

 

I believe they literally got everything wrong.

 

Cringe indeed.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOLX1SQI7_w

 

I left a lengthy reply when it said it had 0 views.. but it was deleted.  Likely because I quoted the hosts with some poorly censored language, and YouTube did the work of filtering the content.

"Mattel sold Intellivision back in 1984. Gen Xer parent here, evidently not hip enough as told here, definitely no idea what my "stupid, F*@&ing worthless children" want.. just buying them this sh*t as some presents just to shut those sad little f*@&ers up. You know, as a tricked parent or grandparent does. Sad sack little f*@&ers are about to have a childhood ruined, amiright?

Great show. A million giggles. However not sure what research went into this one, bit of a slog to get through. Oh just a heads up, you sync any smart phone to play Texas Hold em with the free app - plays any of the games by the way... it's an 8 player party machine without the extra controller cost, which are aimed at about $50 for a two pack with charging base for the arcade type games where the tactile buttons are preferable to an on-screen facsimile of a button.. such a reacharound, tell me about it. Don't know how many parties you're having with a Switch Lite, since the controllers don't detach, but I'm sure that's nothing worth not giggling about. Oh hey the one guy said Zune.. Ha.  Which was essentially a copycat iPod - you could've just stuck with iPod, but that doesn't quite twist the knife like the market-failure Zune reference, so.. bonus points there I guess. Heh, nailed em." 

Is fine to say such things during a giggle-filled recording.  But to cite such things in a retort.. is poor taste I guess.  Lesson learned.  Ahh well, you can't win them all, and this gaggle of gigglers I seriously doubt spend much time around children to understand any such market incentive.  Could be wrong, but they struck me as stunted, as not understanding any other perception outside of their own interests projected as everyone's interests. 

44 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

I believe our merchandise already ships worldwide.

 

Elevator Action, Rastan & Jungle King/Hunt would be at the top of my Taito list.

We've been speaking with them.

 

 

Don’t forget Phoenix !!! And space invaders but that one is midway in the US but Taito in Japan right ? 

23 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Elevator Action, Rastan & Jungle King/Hunt would be at the top of my Taito list.

are you freaking kidding me!?!?  OK... you now officially have the opportunity to make the best system ever created. DON'T BLOW IT! 🙂

30 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

I believe our merchandise already ships worldwide.

 

Elevator Action, Rastan & Jungle King/Hunt would be at the top of my Taito list.

We've been speaking with them.

 

 

I have been thinking about this for awhile and I know that the retro market is a small part of what you are going after with the Amico. I would absolutely love to see more arcade game collections. One that really needs to happen is an Exidy collection. They have made a lot of classics in the early 80s. You have games like Mouse Trap, Venture, Pepper II, Targ, Spectar, Cheyenne, Crossbow, and several quirkier titles like Hard Hat, Fax, Victory, etc. I think that a Exidy classics collection would be a great addition to the Amico library. It could be cool if there were updated versions as well as the original. It would be awesome to get them all in one package, but at the price point that Amico titles would be selling at I would not have any reservations if they were broken up into different volumes. 

47 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

I believe our merchandise already ships worldwide.

 

Elevator Action, Rastan & Jungle King/Hunt would be at the top of my Taito list.

We've been speaking with them.

 

 

Please don't forget Qix!

And here's another vote for Phoenix please!

Thanks Sir!