Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A

1 hour ago, GrudgeQ said:

Nitro Derby: Lots of cars (14) & tracks (10), just a classic top down multiplayer racer

I was hoping they fixed the camera from zooming in and out during gameplay.  IMO, this makes it annoying to play a game.  I thought I read a while ago they were going to fix that?

8 minutes ago, xucaen said:

🤔 so the answer to my question is yes.

If you watch the Amico video from yesterday, the announcement is near the beginning.

https://youtu.be/DcctypmgKME

This is from Snestastic.  It's his reaction of the Amico event.

cnet , im not to crazy about the title and by line..

https://www.cnet.com/news/intellivision-amico-vs-atari-vcs-comparing-two-baffling-retro-consoles/

2 hours ago, Juice said:

This event was not kid friendly that's all I'm gonna say, it was like a documentary your parents would force you to sit through, I only found one kid reaction and he was not pleased. Will kids be calling their friends saying hey did you see that live Amico event on YouTube? Can we admit this was geared towards an older generation?

My 15 year old son watched it with me and he thought it was great. 

Space Strike: Rocket League in outer space with a bit of BreakOut (hard to tell from still photos, game play is more obvious in video form):

12 hours ago, haplo13 said:

I'm thinking Flying Circus is this game from the Gamescom 2019 Trailer last year.

Rigid Force Redux Enhanced (multiplayer): An R-Type type of game, lots of scrolling & shooting with big boss battles

Missile Command: The vs multiplayer modes look crazy with players shooting up, down and side to side at the same time. Lots of power ups & bonuses too

Evel Knievel: Lots of accomplishments, helmets, suits, posters (actually one of my favorites), bikes and courses

Finnigan Fox: side scrolling run & jump. Notice the special weather change move to freeze the bees. Sword and range weapons, also bosses and different levels.

10 minutes ago, GrudgeQ said:

Missile Command: The vs multiplayer modes look crazy with players shooting up, down and side to side at the same time. Lots of power ups & bonuses too

Missile command to me looks like they are trying to do too much. Play area is really confined. Cities are too big as are the launchers.  There shouldnt be large missiles flying in a rectangle that already has too little area. The whole game is just way way too busy.

  I am a HUGE missile command fan, one of my favs back in the day.  The beauty of the game was the cool expanding explosions set off by your rockets.  The missiles coming in were at least somewhat proportional in that you really couldnt see the missile itself.  The greatest  part of that game was in the presentation and in the almost zen quality of the explosions ( and the neat part if even if your targeting was off, the explosion still might make up for your miss )  Again, this is just my opinion, but I think they are missing what made this game great to begin with. 

29 minutes ago, cmart604 said:

My 15 year old son watched it with me and he thought it was great. 

I'm actually more surprised a 15 year old watched YouTube with their parent then I am he liked the video.

8 minutes ago, GrudgeQ said:

Finnigan Fox: side scrolling run & jump. Notice the special weather change move to freeze the bees. Sword and range weapons, also bosses and different levels.

 

this one is interesting, I want to take a look at it again, with another pass in smoothing out the animation, and adding Shadowing ( this is a must) this game may look a whole lot better with just a few tweaks

EarthWorm Jim: Very animated cartoon looking so far. Notice the Evil the Cat sculpture on the rock pedestal & Saturn in the background of Planet Evil (I am assuming). Jim being a lovably dork as usual. Welcome to Heck everyone.

3 minutes ago, Juice said:

I'm actually more surprised a 15 year old watched YouTube with their parent then I am he liked the video.

Lol. We watch tons of nerd stuff together. He’s a good kid. 

To me this is the Gold Standard. This is what all amico games should be striving for.  This game will not only be a system seller it will be able to standup to any ps5 game because with the right art direction 2d games can now become timeless. Speaking of art direction, Tommy if you are reading this one of your devs should hire Bill Tiller, one of the best of all time and Im pretty sure he is available. 

2 hours ago, Juice said:

Well they will have to appeal to kids at one point, you answered my question this was not for them so we can agree on that. Kids ask parents to buy them something, parents don't just spend that much money and say here you go. This is gonna be an uphill battle. I see mostly positive comments from people who have been following the Amico but mostly negative ones from people who are new to it. I posted a video of a father and son yesterday and they did do another reaction I'm not going to post it because it's negative, but this is good feedback from people out of the amico bubble. 

I think they would have better success marketing this as a board game machine and not a video game console, still add the retro games on there but just market it as a board game machine. I think that would be more effective in bringing in non-gamers than saying hey this is a video game console for non-gamers should be a board game console. That's just my opinion though.

I saw part of the 1st video the father and son did. Lol I wouldn't exactly use them as an example.  I thought it was a funny video though. They seemed more interested in stuffing their faces than discussing anything video game related. Remember this is not for hardcore gamers even bringing up those 2 takes them out of the demograph this system is focused on. And remember intellivisions main target is 50 and older

56 minutes ago, bigdaddygamestudio said:

cnet , im not to crazy about the title and by line..

 

https://www.cnet.com/news/intellivision-amico-vs-atari-vcs-comparing-two-baffling-retro-consoles/

I don't understand how somebody covering video games for a technology site doesn't understand what these are. "What is this Nintendo Switch thing? Is it a portable? Is it a console? What's with the tiny controllers? I don't quite understand what it is."

What I'm most disappointed with in almost every article I've seen about the event is that the main focus is always the delay to April. Yes, that's part of it, but there was so much more that went on in that event. 

21 minutes ago, Juice said:

I'm actually more surprised a 15 year old watched YouTube with their parent then I am he liked the video.

My son is 21 he watch it and enjoyed it 

Moon Patrol: Tons of moons (courses) and rolling rock obstacles. Workshop to upgrade your buggy (I am assuming). Included the OG version screen shot for comparison

4 minutes ago, vongruetz said:

I don't understand how somebody covering video games for a technology site doesn't understand what these are. "What is this Nintendo Switch thing? Is it a portable? Is it a console? What's with the tiny controllers? I don't quite understand what it is."

 

What I'm most disappointed with in almost every article I've seen about the event is that the main focus is always the delay to April. Yes, that's part of it, but there was so much more that went on in that event.

especially since the article itself gets most things right.  I agree, the delay thing shouldnt even be an issue, in normal times, ok sure thats a red flag, but these days we are in arent even close to normal.  It seems people do go out of their way not to understand this, I would say Im surprised by this, but lil surprises me anymore, but it still not fair to Tommy and his team who have made it perfectly clear what niche this system fits into.

If the Amico sells "only" 500K and not too many hardcore gaming websites talk about it at all, that's fine: it will be just like most of the music albums I like. I happen to listen to alternative metal and rock, especially positive music instead of melancholic among those, and those never sell too well. I feel those 500K will have a similar experience: they will have a great time with something that not too many people know about.

Those people, including us, will be lucky to know something unique, positive, with its own personality.

There better be at least three David Bowies in the Amico or I'm going to be sorely disappointed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tzx2hBHI-U&feature=youtu.be&t=2795