Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A

Com'on Laddy... Sport yer Mutton Chops...and pour us a pint of yer finest Guinness ya Gobshite!!

Today is my 1st year birthday on AtariAge !

I want to thank the creators of this site, which allowed me to learn a lot more about Amico.

So it must have been about a year and a few days that I have been impatiently waiting for the console from Intellivision Entertainment,
which I discovered when I wanted to remember memories on youtube while researching Intellivision.

That's when I found this video ! I was so excited. The games of my childhood would be revived in a better light !

(Less than 500 views at the time, but I am very happy to have stopped there ...)

That's how I discovered Amico and heard for the first time of my life the name of Tommy Tallarico !

Since then, my life has started to change ! Not a day goes by without me inquiring about new features and news about the console.
I brought out my Intellivision Lives games on the PS2.
I made my son discover it, and I talk about Amico very often (maybe a little too much ! Lol) to my friends and family.

So thank you to Tommy Tallarico and his team, and to AtariAge to let me know everything that is going on with this product.

Also thank you to most of the people in this community. It's like making new friends,
and I look forward to continuing to talk about Amico with you, and talk about our impressions of the games when we can finally play them.

1 hour ago, m-crew said:

 

 

 

 

How is this not receptive ?   That is completely a false statement.. as you can see.

Like I said, not here, but in the other thread. Read those two pages.

1 hour ago, m-crew said:

 

 

 

 

How is this not receptive ?   That is completely a false statement.. as you can see.

Based on the quotes you provided, he said he asked about it "in the other thread."  The responses you quoted came from this thread.   

Tommy remember the baseball card-flipping games we all played in the school yard at OLSH? How about if that gets made into an Amico Game?

It can have different game types. Like closest to the wall,farsies,matchie..etc. And you can learn to crease/fold the cards so they flip and spin in odd directions. 

Perfect for the Amico controllers! Maybe having just baseball cards will limit its appeal. How about cards based on Amico games? Game can be played on a 3/4 isometric view maybe. 

I think this is something special! 

What do ya think?

5 minutes ago, Steven Pendleton said:

Like I said, not here, but in the other thread. Read those two pages.

Sorry , missed that part. But this was asked in this thread and it was responded too. That was what I was referring to.. 

8 minutes ago, Steven Pendleton said:

Like I said, not here, but in the other thread. Read those two pages.

Sorry I can't read those pages as well...  But I get what your saying.. 

5 minutes ago, m-crew said:

Sorry , missed that part. But this was asked in this thread and it was responded too. That was what I was referring to.. 

Yes, I know what was said here. I think people might have forgotten that I brought it up a while ago, partially since that thread got locked and I doubt anyone reads it anymore.

10 minutes ago, Steven Pendleton said:

Yes, I know what was said here. I think people might have forgotten that I brought it up a while ago, partially since that thread got locked and I doubt anyone reads it anymore.

It’s a good thing no one reads that thread anymore. Lol

 😂😎

38 minutes ago, Zeptari1 said:

Tommy remember the baseball card-flipping games we all played in the school yard at OLSH? How about if that gets made into an Amico Game?

It can have different game types. Like closest to the wall,farsies,matchie..etc. And you can learn to crease/fold the cards so they flip and spin in odd directions. 

Perfect for the Amico controllers! Maybe having just baseball cards will limit its appeal. How about cards based on Amico games? Game can be played on a 3/4 isometric view maybe. 

I think this is something special! 

 

What do ya think?

 

 

 

 

 

Whoa... Serious flashback memories there.  Flier cards, who's got what... Colors of flags.  That's was good times being a kid.  The bubble gum sucked though 

14 hours ago, OEB_Pete said:

Well it is not happening for me so I guess I will quit talking about Amico

ok ok... how about this instead for you... since the whiskers of the face elude you... DREADLOCKS!

You can offer love just like Mr Marley did.  Lotsa love!

"One love, One heart Let's get together and feel all right"

I hear Rainbow can help you just feel "all right" if needed.

haha

TJ

On 5/1/2020 at 7:23 PM, Tommy Tallarico said:

It's like a cross between cornhole, marbles, shuffle board & bocci!

If you do manage to sort out how to translate the experience to a video game, that also opens up the whole universe of 'dexterity' games like Catacombs, Pitch Car, and others.  Would love to see all of those! 

Catacombs

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/195137/catacombs-third-edition

Pitch Car

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/150/pitchcar

3 hours ago, m-crew said:

 

 

 

 

How is this not receptive ?   That is completely a false statement.. as you can see.

Headphone jack on the controller for tv directed sounds (for single player) would be cool; for co-op, kinda defeats the purpose of Amico

6 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Happy Sunday Everyone!

Check out this article...  it basically talks about the failure of Google Stadia and how they should stop trying to go for hardcore gamers.  My favorite line is...

"If Stadia stopped trying to compete with modern consoles and went into competition with systems like the upcoming Intellivision Amico..."

 

I got a kick out of that one.  Not only because we are mentioned in the same breath as a billion dollar project like Stadia... but because we were also referenced as the smarter looking company to the 800 billion dollar Google. 

 

https://www.cbr.com/google-stadia-should-focus-on-casual-gamers/

That was a good article.  It would be interesting if Google Stadia tried competing with Amico. Thanks for sharing.

GameStop pre-order pages weren't completed til Saturday... so we are announcing the partnership on Monday instead.

Here's the updated page for the Galaxy Purple which includes description of the console, $25 Amico game card, console details and bullet points, etc.

https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/arcade/products/intellivision-amico-galaxy-purple-limited-edition-only-at-gamestop/11102038.html

You can see us as the #1 banner on the Retro Gaming section, but they are building a separate Intellivision Amico section!  This banner will also appear front and center on their homepage when everything is ready.

Pretty cool... and the first of many!

On 5/2/2020 at 1:32 AM, Steven Pendleton said:

https://www.gematsu.com/2020/05/geoff-keighley-announces-summer-game-fest-2020-a-season-of-video-game-news-and-events-from-may-to-august

 

Amico for this thing?

Probably not.  No reason spending resources/budget on hardcore gamers at this point.  Can think of a LOT better ways to spend our money (Keighley charges companies to be a part of it).  If he was willing to give us something for free, I'd probably do it... but as we all know... not really our initial target audience for marketing/advertising spend at this point.

Cool idea though.  I hope it does well.

On 5/2/2020 at 2:25 AM, ColdCoffee said:

 

 

In this interview the last pack-in was revealed to be the game that's using the microphone.

WOULDN'T THAT BE SOMETHING™ ?

On 5/2/2020 at 4:29 AM, Kiwi said:

No!! The fan has been turned off. 😭 JK. I've just bookmarked the video to watch/listen later while working on my game.  Thanks.

Yeah... too many friends were telling me it looked like I was wearing one of those propeller hats!  

On 5/2/2020 at 7:34 AM, The Atari Creep said:

Jeremy is a good dude and just starting out. Show him mad love!!!!! 

Love the cartoon Running Man hat in the thumbnail!!  Nice touch!  Great video!

On 5/2/2020 at 8:17 AM, SuperJeremyWorld said:

Hey thanks for sharing this to the forum! I'm definitely planning on more Amico and Intellivision coverage as I continue to get this channel off the ground. 

Awesome!  Thanks!  Welcome to the AA forums and the Q&A thread!  Hope you'll stick around.

Thanks for the fantastic video!  Really appreciate it.  Please let me know if you have any questions!

18 minutes ago, Intellivision Master said:

That was a good article.  It would be interesting if Google Stadia tried competing with Amico. Thanks for sharing.

Just don't let them buy or acquire you... please no.

TJ

22 hours ago, Intellivision Master said:

http://www.blockfort.com/game-lists/intellivision/

Yikes!  I feel that Top Ten list was way off!  No Utopia? MLB Baseball?  Pac-Man the #1 game on Intellivision???  Really?

Oof!

10 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Yeah... too many friends were telling me it looked like I was wearing one of those propeller hats!  

 

 

all the better to keep doing it!

TJ

Just now, Tommy Tallarico said:

Yikes!  I feel that Top Ten list was way off!  No Utopia? MLB Baseball?  Pac-Man the #1 game on Intellivision???  Really?

Oof!

 

 

Maybe one day there can be a top 10 list of games for Amico.