Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A

4 hours ago, LePionnier said:

Good idea, but I see one big problem ! 🙄

If you want to buy physical game as well, you will have some games in double... 🤔 lol

No Problem for me since I plan on buying physical media as well !! After the initial purchase, games will come out every 10-14 days so my bank account will get a break ! 😀

3 hours ago, atarifan88 said:

I think everyone in here would bet you would be "tossing off" to all four!  Next time pick your words more carefully... 🤣

What would Gary's mom think of all this kind of language?!?!?

That's allright.. Iron Man is OK with it.

Those catalogs bring back tons of memories..  Looking around at not only the video games, but one of my favorite toy lines: Micronauts.

1 hour ago, Blarneo said:

For me personally, I hardly ever play online. I just don't like dealing with kids & tweeners who have no social filter on trash talk, get really obnoxious & need to be slapped. I guess I'm just a mean old man. I know I can mute them, but what's really the point of online otherwise? 

 

Also considering that supporting online would add significantly to the cost & time of game development, I personally would prefer not to have Amico dive into that market.

100% agree, if Intellivision does online it needs to be year 3 or something after it is already established (to avoid watering down the brand & message), probably invite only with friends & using some simple voice chat probably using a cell phone app (like the Switch) or maybe just the ability to push emoji for communication to avoid language filters & multiple language support IF there is some sort of public tournament modes. Plus it would have to be a premium service like a $5 to $10 a month extension of the Amico Club or something so you would have to have a pretty big install base to support it. Just seems like definitely in the "future consideration" category.

While we're all voicing our wish lists for the re-creations of older arcade & 2600 games, I'd like to add a category that is kind of not getting as much attention. 

While under Mattel, the BSR & APC were kind of cutting their teeth on creating original style arcade games with Astrosmash, Space Hawk & Night Stalker, later on they seemed to be just hitting their stride with original designs like Buzz Bombers, Shark Shark!, Vectron & Thin Ice. I can't help but think that there was literally dozens more ideas the Rangers had before Mattel pulled the plug in 1984, that never got a chance. When INTV took Mattel's place, I'm sure a only a handful of them were finally realized with the limited budgets that they had at the time.

Same with Imagic. Wing War was finished on other platforms, but not ported to Intellivision before they went bankrupt & liquidated. I'm willing to bet there's a dozen game ideas they also had if there wasn't a great VG crash in N America. Then in this forum, I was shown that honeycomb game I never knew existed.

Now that the brand is back in force with a new company, philosophy, some good budgets, scads more processing power, a unique and versatile controller with many of the Mattel veterans working for Intellivision now, I'd love to see at least some of those games finally realized and finished as new games. In fact I'd much rather see them being reimagined & finished than the older games we had back in the early 80s. Think of the idea of "bringing back what might have been if Mattel hadn't pulled the plug". 

I can see a glimpse of that with Sideswipers, a new design that's probably been floating around somebody's head for decades. And while it seems to be a pretty shallow play mechanic, I'm sure there's a lot more depth to the play than what I'm seeing now. So I'm keeping an open mind, but would love to see more... much more.

3 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

 

Did you mean Miss D?

 

Awwww good one it took me a minute to get that!

12 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Whenever there is an official post... they are written more professionally.  But for a social media post, I prefer to keep my own personal down to earth style vernacular.   

Hope my explanation doesn't come across as confrontational or dismissive of your thought and opinion.  Not my intention.

No I totally understand and I appreciate you being real, my only caveat is that you might want to be careful as you extend beyond us old gamers and to the general public as they do not know you ( and like you like we do) and that personal touch might not be as well received.  Again just my 2 cents.  Tweets and so forth are of course less formal, emails/advertising however are usually more formal, at least in my world and I guess thats why it jumped out at me.   Anyway, just trying to help.

While on the subject of cool things we'd like to see make it to the Amico. I'd love to see a version of Dark Tower.  For those of you who do not remember. Among the treasure trove of goodies on wishbookweb check out below:

Also note the electronic DnD game. That was cool too.

I know that there is a whole hubub about Dark Tower being pulled from the market sometime after due to MB doing some shady things. But Retro re-imagined.. And having the original people being on it would be amazing. In a perfect world have both the original person and the MB team do it together. This is what the Amico is about.

For those of you with Android devices there is a version that is a pretty good representation of how the game played and sounded.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mow.droidtower&hl=en_US

Plus a decent Java version as well:

https://www.old-games.com/download/5186/dark-tower

My Dark Tower is in a plastic container out in the garage.

2 hours ago, Blarneo said:

While we're all voicing our wish lists for the re-creations of older arcade & 2600 games, I'd like to add a category that is kind of not getting as much attention. 

 

 

 

 

I agree I was thinking about this as well. But wanted to add it would be cool if there was an original version so we could see what it would have looked like had they been released 

5 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

 

Thanks!!

 

5 of those are already being talked about with their respective owners. 

praying Mr Do or Mouse Trap is one of the 5!  

1 hour ago, woobman said:

While on the subject of cool things we'd like to see make it to the Amico. I'd love to see a version of Dark Tower.  For those of you who do not remember. Among the treasure trove of goodies on wishbookweb check out below:

 

Also note the electronic DnD game. That was cool too.

 

I know that there is a whole hubub about Dark Tower being pulled from the market sometime after due to MB doing some shady things. But Retro re-imagined.. And having the original people being on it would be amazing. In a perfect world have both the original person and the MB team do it together. This is what the Amico is about.

 

For those of you with Android devices there is a version that is a pretty good representation of how the game played and sounded.

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mow.droidtower&hl=en_US

 

Plus a decent Java version as well:

 

https://www.old-games.com/download/5186/dark-tower

 

My Dark Tower is in a plastic container out in the garage.

 

They recently did a Kickstarter for Return to Dark Tower :

7 hours ago, skylinesandsunsets said:

Hi Tommy,

Here are some classic arcade games that would make for excellent "ports" to the Amico.

Because most (if not all) of them are obscure, it probably would be easy to score licenses for these games.

 

 

B Ray Boys by Kaneko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey9qUTwawsQ

 

 

Sega's Carnival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGyyiFTidRs

 

Crazy Climber by Nichibutsu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZxndttbLIY

 

Crystal Castles by Atari
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl0kc1EQ1js

 

Front Line by Taito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7PK_tUrLLw

 

Marvin's Maze by SNK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23WE4cAVQlA

Mouse Trap by Exidy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ5y3JvOMDo

Mr. Do by Universal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv2B-p1p8OQ&t=11s

 

Mystic Marathon by Williams (Trust me you'll love this one)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igUb0PijcTwt

 

 

Ninja Kids by Taito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9_EQgI2CNw

 

Outfoxies by Namco (superb!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cll1mT-kneUerb

 

 

Phoenix by Amstar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qzdtUcVzkY

 

Pig Out by Leland (Lots of fun!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oFp9TBCWko

 

Quartet by Sega (It's like 2D, sci-fi version of Gauntlet)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAdETOfoD0Q

 

 

Rampart by Atari
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6q68SM1_ak

 

Reactor by Gottlieb (famous for pinball games)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QKuINAQyQI

 

Snacks n Jaxson by Bally/Sente
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMcaM28fz44

 

Space Dungeon by Taito (hard but fun! It's like Robotron, and it was ported to the Atari 5200)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe4xaBSKiLI

 

 

Swimmer by Tehkan (this could easily be made into a six player game)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwItXFztEcY

 

 

Timber by Bally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xOGj5DJ9Hw

 

Turtles by Stern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMfw_ZMPHfQ

 

Tutankham by Konami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z242gkTzmM

 

Wacko by Midway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko6g2NtZ0go

 

Zoo Keeper by Taito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hut_TAlrF5Y


Looking forward to 10-10-2020! Keep up the great work!

 

oh man i've never seen B Ray Boys before..looks so cool..i'm going to have to try it later 

23 minutes ago, ASalvaro said:

praying Mr Do or Mouse Trap is one of the 5!  

Don’t forget Ladybug !!!!! A super underrated game. Also Joust and Phoenix !!!  

6 minutes ago, Cranker said:

Don’t forget Ladybug !!!!! A super underrated game. Also Joust and Phoenix !!!  

love Lady Bug too! i'm a sucker for any game where u have to collect letters for a bonus 

14 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

I was the ONLY boy in my Catholic high school typing class in 1983!  Guys weren't into taking typing back then.  All my friends made fun of me because I had a class with all girls.  Until I reminded them... I'M IN A CLASS WITH ALL GIRLS!!!!!!

 

 

 

Same thing happened to me in grade nine when I took typing but I had the last laugh when they would see me with all the girls.  LMAO Lots of hotties in that class. 

40 minutes ago, ASalvaro said:

love Lady Bug too! i'm a sucker for any game where u have to collect letters for a bonus 

And that one is one of the best. Spelling “extra” and “special” and then collecting all of the veggies !!! I played it on Colecovision for many hours and would love a remake !!

14 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

I was the ONLY boy in my Catholic high school typing class in 1983! 

Catholic High School is another thing we have in common!  This is why we're all so screwed up! 🤣 😂

1 hour ago, Relicgamer said:

I agree I was thinking about this as well. But wanted to add it would be cool if there was an original version so we could see what it would have looked like had they been released 

I'm not sure they would go to the trouble for games that weren't 60+% complete, but maybe a bonus section with drawings & mock ups of what the original would look like I guess.

But I'm pretty sure you & I are the only ones, cause soon after I said this, my wish list got ignored in favor of the same old "We need Mr Do!" "Don't forget Ladybug!" and all the other shit we've already seen, played and got bored with before Iran/Contra. Okay! I guess imaginations sometimes do get jaundiced with age.🙄

1 hour ago, Barley Farquahr said:

They recently did a Kickstarter for Return to Dark Tower :

 

 

I had zero clue that this was a thing..  Wow... There goes more money...  I guess I must sell a kidney between all my wants from this forum and now this board game.

7 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

 

Did you mean Miss D?

 

This joke is making me laugh a lot more than it should.  Good one Mr. T.  Your wit is now well documented.

18 minutes ago, Blarneo said:

I'm not sure they would go to the trouble for games that weren't 60+% complete, but maybe a bonus section with drawings & mock ups of what the original would look like I guess.

 

But I'm pretty sure you & I are the only ones, cause soon after I said this, my wish list got ignored in favor of the same old "We need Mr Do!" "Don't forget Ladybug!" and all the other shit we've already seen, played and got bored with before Iran/Contra. Okay! I guess imaginations sometimes do get jaundiced with age.🙄

Well I see what you are saying.  But I have to say that these reimagined games will have added parts them. Especially in the multiplayer aspect. Take for instance safe cracker.  When I 1st saw it I thought ehh not sure I'm going to like that game. Then I heard how it works with this new controller.  And changed my perspective.  So there is alot more going on with each game we dont see till they are released. One of the things to remember is that out of the list of categories Tommy did say that they will have a section committed to new titles which could be games that never were released and as he has said all would have a multiplayer part. So theres alot to look forward to 

5 minutes ago, Relicgamer said:

One of the things to remember is that out of the list of categories Tommy did say that they will have a section committed to new titles which could be games that never were released and as he has said all would have a multiplayer part. So theres alot to look forward to 

I agree and it's exiting. I just see a few folks that want this to be a total retro colecovision/2600 repository, and I don't think that's going to happen, based on what we've been told.

I'm glad that they're redoing some of the older games, and most of the big name recognizable ones at that. 

When Tommy announced this system 2 years ago & he mentioned classic Intellivision games reimagined, I was intrigued by it. Then the inclusion of Imagic games is what sold me on it. I thought those games would be lost to time forever. What a coup! The further addition of Irem games to the console was just gravy to me.

But... Just something to remember... Sometimes our memories of good times past are more fulfilling than those times actually were. What we're about to see I'm hoping will exceed those memories.

6 hours ago, Blarneo said:

I guess I'm just a mean old man.

Thought that was my gimmick...

Way back in the day, I was excited to learn about "Tunnels & Trolls" for the ColecoVision.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnels_%26_Trolls

However, most likely as a result of the video game crash of 1984, T&T turned into vaporware

Any chance of a T&T game for the Amico?

 

3 minutes ago, skylinesandsunsets said:

Way back in the day, I was excited to learn about "Tunnels & Trolls" for the ColecoVision.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnels_%26_Trolls

 

However, most likely as a result of the video game crash of 1984, T&T turned into vaporware

 

Any chance of a T&T game for the Amico?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i liked the Dracula screenshot