Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A

12 minutes ago, vongruetz said:

Thanks for the Farkle pic. The only ones shown so far haven't actually been of Farkle and were more the tech demo for the dice rolling reature. Now I'm curious as to how the controller plays into this.  Will you use the touchscreen to select which dice you want to roll again? 

 

On a related note, Farkle is one of my mom's favorite games. So the other day I told her that a new Intellivision was coming out this year and that Farkle and Cornhole would be included for free.  I've never heard the woman get so excited. Then she paused for a moment and said, "Intellivision. That's the one with BurgerTime, right? Can I play BurgerTime again on it?" When I said yes, she got even more excited.  So to prove a point, my mother (who is over 70) is looking forward to and excited about Amico. She also owns a Wii (yes, for bowling) and no, she has no interest in a Switch, PS5, or any other type of game console.  She and my dad play solitaire on their iPads nightly, and she thought it would be a lot of fun to have something they could play together.

Farkle (we just call it dice though) is one of my mom's favorites as well.  One of my pre-orders is her Christmas gift.  Shhhh.  (I think the playing with grandkids is its secret home-run appeal).  But my parents played dice with me, taught my wife how to play, my mom's parents played with my parents, my great grandparents would play it many weeknights with my grandparents.. I didn't want to get too excited over a dice game, but *this* one is a sentimental favorite.  My mom *loved* playing a couple dozen favorites on the Atari 2600.  Kaboom!, Frogger, Missile Command, Asteroids, Pac-Man, Skiing are among favorites.  When we got a ColecoVision and not long after, a Nintendo, she'd play a little here and there, but wasn't connecting like with the 2600.  The games were more "go have an adventure" which was my speed, and the controller.. even the simple NES controller.. was more going on than what she liked.. though I think the direction of games was the most alienating.  She's not old, but, gaming's direction left plenty of people behind.  A brief engagement with the Wii and Wii balance board for some yoga, some attempts to play board games on systems over the years, but, largely misses. Mobile fills a void, kind of.  But of course it's solitary.
 

So when I see the presentations and Tommy's there talking about playing with his dad again (my dad never put a controller down, last year we both tackled Breath of the Wild.. he put in a solid 300 hours, I made it to about 160.. but don't have those retirement hours to put in!).. it reminds me a lot of playing with my mom, my parents' cousins.. simple little games that needn't be epic quests - though I may adore these, it's this whole other side of games that has moved to mobile with its inherent solitude.  And there's a chasm in between with few games occupying that space.  So the project's hitting a sentimental button definitely, but I think it could hit for others, or just be this fun little family connecting device and party machine.  Even if it's not for *everybody*, how I suspect it could largely be, it'll be for *somebody*.  That's not nothing. 

Now, if you ever decide on a suite of card games beyond Texas Hold'em, Hearts, 21, Bridge and such, "Euchre" is my in-laws absolute every week game, as it was my wife's grandparents' game, and seems to be the game of choice for much of Rochester, NY where her family's from.. when that makes it to the system and Amico adds online play, I'm sure they'll be teaching their grandkids how to play good hands too and will have to dip back into the Intellivision well for another gift.  Even absent that, I think it'll be a fun little thing to do when in the house and board gamed out..

Just one hyper case where 3, 4 machines (woodgrain as my own little fourth toy for a quick break in the office) make as much sense to a family/extended family as a PS5/SeriesX dual purchase may make the most sense for a committed gamer.  And still coming in at less overall cost.  I think this has just as much second machine appeal as a Switch for its market.

16 minutes ago, LordRayken said:

im gonna admit im having a hard time. the whole amico promise was no kickstarter, no crowdfunding. fig has given these people unlimited ammo and its troublesome. gonna keep doing my best but we've got our pal djconvoy fighting me now and its an uphill battle. shouldnt have done the crowdfunding tbh. preorders gave them a lot of ammo but now i cant fight them very well. at this point amico is a crowdfunded device to the haters. theres not gonna be much way i can get it into their head fig and kickstarter are different entities. im gonna keep fighting and i did preorder again but fig was prolly a bad move after saying no kickstarter. theyve got two blades that slice me open now 199.99 to 249.99 price hike and promise of no kickstarter but now its on fig. just keeping it real the heavy handed statements over and over this wasnt gonna be crowdfunded are hurting the people who try to defend. 

 

btw djconvoy you are being watched on here bud. its pretty obvious you check this thread daily and constantly and have nothin bbetter to do with your time than shit on tommy and amico at every corner. for calling it tommys safe space you sure love hanging in here too. especially when its a device you are not interested in it at all. 

Yeah, the fig campaign is a tough one, I admit. But you have it right when you called out Djconvoy to explain how the $1 dollar goal is crowdfunding. He's stumped. He ignored the question I see. I just wanted to say that the fig campaign is pretty clearly to drum up more investment, not to crowdfund the console. They don't want to accept that. 

The whole thing smells like when convoy and others were here trying to paint the pre-orders as crowdfunding. They really want something to call crowdfunding. 

15 minutes ago, LordRayken said:

 

 

btw djconvoy you are being watched on here bud. its pretty obvious you check this thread daily and constantly and have nothin bbetter to do with your time than shit on tommy and amico at every corner. for calling it tommys safe space you sure love hanging in here too. especially when its a device you are not interested in it at all. 

Wouldn't waste your time. When the console is released then I would go back to this video and say well well look at this. 

7 minutes ago, Relicgamer said:

Wouldn't waste your time. When the console is released then I would go back to this video and say well well look at this. 

These people like Convoy are melting down. They cannot seem to handle the fact it's getting more professionally created videos that talk about the achievements/investment and they can't handle the fact it's got over 10,000 units pre-ordered already. 

They're at their breaking point and are latching onto anything and everything. We already saw MrBeefy stammering at the price point yet again after his campaign to get Pat and Ian memes banned totally failed, and now Djconvoy shows up again on Youtube to try to shake his finger at the $1 dollar crowdfunding goal on Fig. 

They have nothing to argue with and are just trying to grasp at whatever they possibly can online to try to make up some narrative. 

We've seen the console being played in an office, we've seen Tommy show us the consoles hookups/rear ports, we've seen the console working, the controllers working, their touch screens, etc. This is very clearly a real device. Unfinished, yeah, but no one had to crowdfund to get the molds made and the device operational. 

This is not a crowdfunded project. It's never going to be. Even if they took money now, it's past prototyping. 

This group has set up a world view in their mind a long time ago about what the Amico is. Which, I guess, they've decided it's the Ouya or Chameleon. And the fact it isn't either one of those devices is making them froth. The fact Convoy showed up and is commenting to LordRayken of all people shows just how far down he's fallen. That's not a fight he's ever going to win and it serves no purpose to even debate Rayken. 

No offense, Rayken.

1 hour ago, LordRayken said:

im gonna admit im having a hard time. the whole amico promise was no kickstarter, no crowdfunding. fig has given these people unlimited ammo and its troublesome. gonna keep doing my best but we've got our pal djconvoy fighting me now and its an uphill battle. shouldnt have done the crowdfunding tbh. preorders gave them a lot of ammo but now i cant fight them very well. at this point amico is a crowdfunded device to the haters. theres not gonna be much way i can get it into their head fig and kickstarter are different entities. im gonna keep fighting and i did preorder again but fig was prolly a bad move after saying no kickstarter. theyve got two blades that slice me open now 199.99 to 249.99 price hike and promise of no kickstarter but now its on fig. just keeping it real the heavy handed statements over and over this wasnt gonna be crowdfunded are hurting the people who try to defend. 

 

btw djconvoy you are being watched on here bud. its pretty obvious you check this thread daily and constantly and have nothin bbetter to do with your time than shit on tommy and amico at every corner. for calling it tommys safe space you sure love hanging in here too. especially when its a device you are not interested in it at all. 

They can try to continue to lie and twist facts all they want.  They do this because these supposed grown men feel the need to seek revenge because the mods kicked them out of multiple Amico threads here due to the fact that they couldn't follow simple forum rules. 

The HUGE point that they are purposely not mentioning (as it doesn't fit their narrative)... is the pre-order on FIG is nothing more than the SAME EXACT pre-order as we had on our website.  It's a $100 deposit which is completely refundable at any time.  It's a pre-order.  Nothing more... nothing less.  https://www.fig.co/campaigns/amico.  So... when Walmart or GameStop puts up a Pre-Order on their websites... will they be considered Crowdfunding campaigns as well?  We had the opportunity to get in front of hundreds of thousands of small investors AND offer a direct pre-sale for the product.  Tell me again how it's crowdfunding?

There is also a tab for folks interested in INVESTING into Amico.  As you pointed out in your responses... investing is completely different than crowdfunding.  But they're not there to listen to logic or facts.  Their only goal is to tear us down and destroy us because their "fee fees" got hurt because big bad Tommy had to smack them around a little bit and call out their crap (like we're doing here now).  That drives them CRAZY INSANE.  Literally to the point of stalking us every day in here (yeah boys... we know... you can't look away) and YouTube.  The logic is so flawed and ridiculous yet they hope that no one tries to challenge them.  That's when they dig in deeper and start moving the goalposts.  Keep in mind the maturity level with these folks... they literally POST EVERY SINGLE DAY in the AA Forum Taco Thread.  They wallow in negativity every waking moment online.  Such a pathetic existence eh?

With that logic... THE ENTIRE STOCK MARKET FOR THE PAST 100 YEARS IS CROWDFUNDING!

Right? 

Throw away 100 years of the way businesses and the biggest corporations in the world have operated.  NOPE!!!!  Intellivision is different!  We're LIARS and CHEATERS because HOW DARE WE get people to invest in a big idea and how dare we use a website of investors to get them!  HOW DARE WE!!!!!!!!!    AREN'T YOU LISTENING!!  Reality isn't what you think!!  THEY HAVE INVESTORS!!  THIS IS CROWDFUNDING!!   We finally got him!  He's the liar and bad guy we've always been hoping for in our dreams so that his silly logic and facts don't make us look as immature and petty as we really are.

6 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

 

They can try to continue to lie and twist facts all they want.  They do this because these supposed grown men feel the need to seek revenge because the mods kicked them out of multiple Amico threads here due to the fact that they couldn't follow simple forum rules. 

 

The HUGE point that they are purposely not mentioning (as it doesn't fit their narrative)... is the pre-order on FIG is nothing more than the SAME EXACT pre-order as we had on our website.  It's $100 deposit which is completely refundable at any time.  It's a pre-order.  Nothing more... nothing less.  https://www.fig.co/campaigns/amico.  So... when Walmart or GameStop puts up a Pre-Order on their websites... will they be considered Crowdfunding campaigns as well?  We had the opportunity to get in front of hundreds of thousands of small investors AND offer a direct pre-sale for the product.  Tell me again how it's crowdfunding?

There is also a tab for folks interested in INVESTING into Amico.  As you pointed out in your responses... investing is completely different than crowdfunding.  But they're not there to listen to logic or facts.  Their only goal is to tear us down and destroy us because their "fee fees" got hurt because big bad Tommy had to smack them around a little bit and call out their crap (like we're doing here now).  That drives them CRAZY INSANE.  Literally to the point of stalking us every day in here (yeah boys... we know... you can't look away) and YouTube.  The logic is so flawed and ridiculous yet they hope that no one tries to challenge them.  That's when they dig in deeper and start moving the goalposts.  Keep in mind the maturity level with these folks... they literally POST EVERY SINGLE DAY in the AA Forum Taco Thread.  They wallow in negativity every waking moment online.  Such a pathetic existence eh?

 

With that logic... THE ENTIRE STOCK MARKET FOR THE PAST 100 YEARS IS CROWDFUNDING!

 

Right? 

Throw away 100 years of the way businesses and the biggest corporations in the world have operated.  NOPE!!!!  Intellivision is different!  We're LIARS and CHEATERS because HOW DARE WE get people to invest in a big idea and how dare we use a website of investors to get them!  HOW DARE WE!!!!!!!!!    AREN'T YOU LISTENING!!  Reality isn't what you think!!  THEY HAVE INVESTORS!!  THIS IS CROWDFUNDING!!   We finally got him!  He's the liar and bad guy we've always been hoping for in our dreams so that his silly logic and facts don't make us look as immature and petty as we really are.

 

 

 

I think this shows the sheer ignorance of the people who are calling it "crowdfunding." But Rayken is right in that for the uneducated, it just gives them more ammo to sling. 

The fig website is clearly just the pre-orders that have a display page so people can continue to pre-order the console before retailer websites have it available. And like you said, you can also invest. 

I've noticed they're all obsessed with your personality, too. They really can't handle you defending yourself or being allowed to defend yourself. It really seems to get to them. I saw someone say you should delete social media. Why? Because you talk about them talking about Amico? 

3 hours ago, LePionnier said:

Press release today, from Intellivision Entertainment Europe.  "First Edition"

 

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/361652/Intellivision_Entertainment_Europe_starts_presale_Amico_First_Edition_from_April_30_th_April_exclusively_at_MediaMarkt_and_Saturn.php

 

Founders Edition 2 digital soundtrack albums.

VIP Editions 3 Digital soundtrack albums,

and now First Edition 4 digital soundtrack albums ! lol

 

Hans Ippisch will also sign the lenticular trading card ( With Tommy )

And if someone can help me understand...  Readers from some online magazine can have their name credits on games like Moon Patrol and Pong ?

 

Yeah... different stores and different media outlets always want something a little exclusive.  Which is a great way for us to get attention with their audiences.  It's part of a cool program that we put together with the German government, retailers and magazines/media.  If you pre-order an Amico and then do something through one of the media outlets (I don't remember exactly what as this is something Hans worked out with them)... that they could get a special thanks in the credits in one of the German made games.  Pretty cool promotion.  All Hans' work.  Such a great asset for us!!!

Maybe I'm naive on the subject, but what is so bad about crowdsourcing?  Things on Kickstarter sometimes work out, sometimes they don't.  Hell, that's life. I've paid $60 for a game that got great reviews, was supposed to be wonderful, and I ended up not liking it at all.

Broken Age is one of my favorite games of all time, and without Kickstarter, it never would have happened.  

2 hours ago, speedy-a said:

Ok. Media Markt and Saturn are mostly everywhere in germany .

Yes!!  This is important to note and take notice of.

Our 2 retail partners in Germany are the best of the best!  Especially when it comes to video games.

And the media partners are also the absolute highest in the country.

Once again a HUGE win and show of how excited "real" people in retail are.

3 minutes ago, vongruetz said:

Maybe I'm naive on the subject, but what is so bad about crowdsourcing?  Things on Kickstarter sometimes work out, sometimes they don't.  Hell, that's life. I've paid $60 for a game that got great reviews, was supposed to be wonderful, and I ended up not liking it at all.

 

Broken Age is one of my favorite games of all time, and without Kickstarter, it never would have happened.  

Crowdfunding has heavily negative connotations due to the vast number of failed and failed to live up to expectations devices that were hawked on the services. The Atari VCS is currently the latest one, but the worst offenders are Ouya and Coleco Chameleon. The Atari VCS really is a very sad, sad, excuse of a project that abused Indiegogo backers through and through. They have no real product and I doubt all the backers will get a working console. 

People are very apt to throw around the crowdfunding insult because the campaigns usually mark a group of half-competent creators bandying about a new idea without any real ability to produce something high quality or lasting in the market. Or who have little to no interest in the market and are just trying to make a quick profit. 

1 hour ago, Steven Pendleton said:

Random question, Tommy. I saw a while ago you said Super Mario World is your favourite game. Do you have the arcade cabinet for it? I played it in an arcade in Anchorage when I was a kid one time. I have never owned a Super Nintendo (but I have had a Super Famicom since 2014!), but all of my friends had one and of course Super Mario World, so it was really cool to go in there and see Super Mario World in an arcade cabinet. I have never seen it since, though.

No.  I never heard of that before.  Didn't realize it had one.  Was it a real dedicated cabinet?  I can't seem to find much info online about it.  Or something that someone made?

1 hour ago, ColdCoffee said:

 

Caught some new  images in the European press release. Looks like a early Farkle build with inverted dice. There is a view of the land mine in Moon Patrol.

As just so folk are aware... the Moon Patrol art still has a way to go.  The focus right now is plotting out maps/levels at this point. 

8 hours 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 legalized?

 

I believe they literally got everything wrong.

 

Cringe indeed.

 

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

 

I don't know what to say about this video, stopped after 3 minutes.  Not worth your time Tommy! another reason why I and so many other awesome YouTubers exist to champion retro and new products like the Amico

Just now, Tommy Tallarico said:

No.  I never heard of that before.  Didn't realize it had one.  Was it a real dedicated cabinet?  I can't seem to find much info online about it.  Or something that someone made?

 

 

Yeah, it's a real cabinet! Doesn't seem to be a dedicated one, though.

https://www.gamesdatabase.org/game/arcade/super-mario-world

I only ever saw it at that one place and that was like 20 years ago so I can't remember what it looked like, but I clearly remember playing it.

2 minutes ago, OEB_Pete said:

I don't know what to say about this video, stopped after 3 minutes.  Not worth your time Tommy! another reason why I and so many other awesome YouTubers exist to champion retro and new products like the Amico

Agreed. It's another channel trying to make something of itself by capturing popular gaming news. I see they spammed their channel with low quality Animal Crossing: New Horizons videos to try to get into Youtube's algorithm and hype machine and it didn't do them anything for their other videos. And lo' and behold, it's got a few of the negative people centered around it less than a day after it comes out. And of course Djconvoy, since he's focused on this thread as much as possible. 

11 minutes ago, LordRayken said:

im gonna admit im having a hard time. the whole amico promise was no kickstarter, no crowdfunding. fig has given these people unlimited ammo and its troublesome. gonna keep doing my best but we've got our pal djconvoy fighting me now and its an uphill battle. shouldnt have done the crowdfunding tbh. preorders gave them a lot of ammo but now i cant fight them very well. at this point amico is a crowdfunded device to the haters. theres not gonna be much way i can get it into their head fig and kickstarter are different entities. im gonna keep fighting and i did preorder again but fig was prolly a bad move after saying no kickstarter. theyve got two blades that slice me open now 199.99 to 249.99 price hike and promise of no kickstarter but now its on fig. just keeping it real the heavy handed statements over and over this wasnt gonna be crowdfunded are hurting the people who try to defend. 

 

btw djconvoy you are being watched on here bud. its pretty obvious you check this thread daily and constantly and have nothin bbetter to do with your time than shit on tommy and amico at every corner. for calling it tommys safe space you sure love hanging in here too. especially when its a device you are not interested in it at all. 

First, don't look at it as blades they're slicing you with.  Don't personalize it.

They're looking at anything and everything to pick apart.  The price hike.. with a *target* price range announced two years prior, Tommy's always caveated in interviews - that may go up, they're doing their best to keep it in their planned range.  I presumed it would go up because for all the best plans, things change and costs trend north far more than component costs go south.

Crowdfunding is when a company or entity goes to its own audience to fund the project in order to bring said project to market.  If a project isn't funded, it doesn't make it to market.  Pre-orders are not crowd-funding, they're a long-standard in most industries.  Every Levittown home in the first wave of homes for returning GIs and a bristling market of home-owners was a pre-order - deposits were made on the promise of a home to be built.  When Intellivision took orders for its keyboard module and sold the Intellivision base component on the promise of an affordable all-in-one home system, it was accepting money and selling a product based on a future component coming out to complete its message.  When luxury car dealers (and now most car dealers) announce a new model of a car, they take a deposit on a car that has been designed and presented but may not make it over for several months - a pre-order.  Video game publishers, GameStop, Amazon takes pre-orders all the time on new games.  How many people pre-ordered the Sega Genesis mini or the TurboGrafx-16 mini six-twelve months before it came out???  

They're slinging filth because it's just what lesser apes do. 

Now, Fig?  Another option for pre-orders, another option for people to support without the structures and high-dollar buy-ins of venture capital funding.  Investing is inherently different from crowdfunding.  You aren't putting forward your money in return for reaching that goal to see the product.  You're putting your money into a company you think has a good opportunity to earn a profit, betting on growth and returns.  That's how all of financed industry and commerce works.. the people arguing against it again aren't making a coherent argument.  We know Intellivision has other funding - Tommy's open about needing to meet with potential investors - like a politician looking to fund the next campaign, Intellivision has to be creatively looking for every avenue to fund its project moving forward, to reach market and start earning returns on sold product, sold games, sold merchandise.  You can be conspiratorial like we see parading on a channel or two.  You can take Tommy as an honest dealer or at face value until you see otherwise.. I haven't seen a body of lies and deceiptful statements in the last couple years following this, so I give a fair amount of trust in things stated.   I've seen the pre-seed and seed funding data from 2018 in Crunchbase for Intellivision.  The unrevealed amounts from series of fundraising efforts in 2019.  No data out for 2020, but I imagine with Covid some investors are a little less adventurous with where they are taking risks right now.  I've seen the press releases regarding German funding and Bavarian state funding.  Tommy's been forthcoming about meeting with numerous venture capitalists and potential investors in the US and abroad.  The guy has been an honest player.  The Tonys and DJConvoys and Pats.. have been willing to deceive and contort, to say one thing and flip it in regards to Amico. 

I do get the frustration.  Hang in there..   

1 hour ago, vongruetz said:

Thanks for the Farkle pic. The only ones shown so far haven't actually been of Farkle and were more the tech demo for the dice rolling reature. Now I'm curious as to how the controller plays into this.  Will you use the touchscreen to select which dice you want to roll again? 

 

On a related note, Farkle is one of my mom's favorite games. So the other day I told her that a new Intellivision was coming out this year and that Farkle and Cornhole would be included for free.  I've never heard the woman get so excited. Then she paused for a moment and said, "Intellivision. That's the one with BurgerTime, right? Can I play BurgerTime again on it?" When I said yes, she got even more excited.  So to prove a point, my mother (who is over 70) is looking forward to and excited about Amico. She also owns a Wii (yes, for bowling) and no, she has no interest in a Switch, PS5, or any other type of game console.  She and my dad play solitaire on their iPads nightly, and she thought it would be a lot of fun to have something they could play together.

Yep!  You use the touchscreen on the controller to select the dice!

Thank-you for the story about your mom.  Anyone starting to see a pattern here?
 

It's kinda funny and interesting to me that the hardcore elites will just flat out REFUSE to acknowledge that other people want Amico and are very excited about it. 

Ignore things like major retailers and developers on board, ignore major investors, ignore our extremely talented and experienced team who have worked on the biggest games and hardware in the world, ignore the Like to Dislike ratio on our videos (they also think all the positive messages are just phony accounts)... in fact ignore ALL logic and facts at all.  Throw it ALL out the window.  Because facts and logic doesn't matter.  IF I DON'T LIKE IT... THEN THE REST OF THE WORLD SHOULD'T AND WON'T AS WELL!!

Complete narcissism in the highest order.  It's literally a mental issue and condition.  No joke.

1 hour ago, Relicgamer said:

Couldn't even watch past the 1st 20sec pathetic. Hope you dont even give these guys the time of day

Hell no. 

For ignorant lost souls like that... there is no sense leaving a comment or trying to have a real conversation. 

Their only goal is to survive within their own pack.  The more they rip on it the more they feel secure within their tribe.

It's not a system for them.  That's okay. 

The fun part will be when they eventually go over someone's house who has one and realize that everything they thought they knew about the machine was false and that they just didn't understand it.

1 hour ago, vongruetz said:

Also happened to notice that the screenshot of Cornhole in the press release material still has the error calling it "Conhole."  Just to give you a heads up.

Yeah... at this point I'm leaving it in the screenshots for now... as kinda an Easter Egg for the haters.

16 minutes ago, vongruetz said:

Maybe I'm naive on the subject, but what is so bad about crowdsourcing?  Things on Kickstarter sometimes work out, sometimes they don't.  Hell, that's life. I've paid $60 for a game that got great reviews, was supposed to be wonderful, and I ended up not liking it at all.

 

Broken Age is one of my favorite games of all time, and without Kickstarter, it never would have happened.  

Same with Bloodstained: Ritual of the Moon

So too was Shovel Knight.  Hyper Light Drifter.  Divinity Original Sin, Kentucky Route Zero, The Banner Saga, Darkest Dungeon.. a hundred other really good video game projects all were kickstarted.

Little tag-along ignoramuses spout how it's a fatal move.  Intellivision took pain to paint how they weren't Kickstarted to showcase how they HAD a path of investment and a plan to finance, including a healthy dose of their own money upfront.  But I think even Tommy's been quick to point out how Kickstarter isn't a bad tool or way to go at most of the opportunities mentioning Kickstarter/crowdfunding.

1 hour ago, 1001lives said:

Tommy, I would just ignore all the negative videos out there from here on out. Just focus on releasing positive videos, new information, and updated interviews.

 

What's happening is what you said would happen... As the Amico is getting closer to launch more Youtube channels are picking up on it and these channels thrive off negativity. In that latest video I just saw Rayken's Youtube battle with someone who is completely determined to say that you're using crowdfunding on Indiegogo 2.0 or something. 

 

These people have no cares or concerns for Amico or you. They just want to destroy something and be as negative as humanly possible at all times online and in every comment section. It's the internet anonymity that breeds this ridiculous attitude and I don't think it matters in the end, these people are always going to exist. Thankfully they are very small channels and the amount of positive channels drowns them out. When someone like Metaljesus gets ahold of the Amico and makes a video his stuff will get 100x the amount of views and drown everything else out. 

 

So just keep doing what you're doing. There's always going to be these totally uneducated hateful people who want to make up stuff for views.

Yeah... at this point I can only typically get through about the first few minutes, then I might skip around for a minute or so more.  The level of immaturity and misinformation is staggering.  Zero reason for me to even comment back to them.  If they are at all interested in having a deeper conversation, our stalker tattletales made sure to let them know in the comments section that I'm here.  

There are some people that are on the fence or have concerns that I don't mind speaking with.  Then there are just vapid negative narcissistic humans whose only goal is to bully and destroy with hateful rhetoric.  No time for those types of folks.  I think I tuned out when they said that Mattel was doing Amico.  I also heard them giggle like schoolgirls over the fact that we have $150 million line of credit.  As if it was a bad thing.  Oh... and the part where they were telling Cara (head of Disney products at Mattel and mother of 3 young kids) what young kids really want.  That was a doozy.  

OK... back to tweaking my Cornhole.

(I'm seriously tweaking Cornhole levels right now).

1 hour ago, 1001lives said:

Also - I noticed a lot of people keep glumming onto this "Earthworm Jim 4 is minigames" idea. I think you may have at one time mentioned something like that, but I keep seeing it brought up a lot and these hardcore people are really latching onto a totally non-official/unsure statement. 

All I said in an interview once is that the original Earthworm Jim 1 & 2 weren't just 2D side scrolling platformers and that they had mini-games between every level that people loved and that we loved and will continue to do in the new game... and maybe even to a higher extent.  I also said that there won't be as much "platforming" as the originals because we always wanted to do so much more than that... but we're completely limited by the hardware at the time.

Pat & Ian (as usual) completely misinformed people that EWJ 4 is going to a bunch of mini-games... so the haters latched on to that and speak it as gospel now.

The way I look at it... the more people talking about EWJ 4 being an exclusive on Amico... the better!!!

Because when the first trailers and screenshots come out... all that uneducated and misinformed crap goes away.  Although knowing the level of ego some of these folks have... they'll probably take credit for it somehow.  

1 hour ago, Intellivision Master said:

 

The beautiful thing about Pete is that no matter how many negative uninformed videos come out... there will ALWAYS be a Pete video to knock it down the chain.  

1 hour ago, 1001lives said:

Yeah, the fig campaign is a tough one, I admit. But you have it right when you called out Djconvoy to explain how the $1 dollar goal is crowdfunding. He's stumped. He ignored the question I see. I just wanted to say that the fig campaign is pretty clearly to drum up more investment, not to crowdfund the console. They don't want to accept that. 

 

The whole thing smells like when convoy and others were here trying to paint the pre-orders as crowdfunding. They really want something to call crowdfunding. 

The only reason the $1 Goal is there is because that is how their system is built so they had to put something and $0 wasn't an option. 

8 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

The only reason the $1 Goal is there is because that is how their system is built so they had to put something and $0 wasn't an option. 

 

 

Exactly.

I wish I could @djconvoy to this. But I'm sure he'll read it anyway and then go back and make up more stuff on Youtube.

Here it is, DJ. Tommy wanted a 0 dollar option. Literally just for pre-orders and potential investors. How will you spin this in your mind to say it's crowdfunding again?