Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A

Many, many thanks to those who did me a great solid to help me out. Y'all are great!

Hope the link can get fixed! Gotta get all my chilrens to download it too!

5 minutes ago, intvsteve said:

Many, many thanks to those who did me a great solid to help me out. Y'all are great!

 

Hope the link can get fixed! Gotta get all my chilrens to download it too!

Not sure if by design, but from the message looks like it expired a week after posting (10/16/2020) at 5:45pm Zulu.

On 10/15/2020 at 11:30 AM, Tommy Tallarico said:

A quick list of lies and continued misinformation...

 

1.  Todd & Slade don't work for Intellivision.

2.  It's a Banana Pi architecture with a Qualcomm chip.

3.  We're direct porting mobile & flash games.

4.  Nitro Derby was already released.

 

And the final ignorant comment...

5.  No one likes Amico.

Oh... and one overly really dumb and ignorant statement.

 

License's don't matter.

 

 

I laughed when Pat said you could just "slot in" a different CPU to the Banana Pi. Um, no. No you can't.

1 hour ago, Swami said:

So who is this Lukasgr88 looking sad with the reaction emoticon? Is this for reals?

it was an accident i was trying to do the happy/laughing smiley reaction, anyways. This guy (magma) saw my intv vids and contacted me about the console, i reccomended he check it out and make a vid on it. He told me via discord he posted on here and I saw. I am excited to see his "amico sub boost" when his first amico vid comes out!

3 hours ago, MantaNZ said:

I laughed when Pat said you could just "slot in" a different CPU to the Banana Pi. Um, no. No you can't.

It really does show the intelligence level and lack of research. 

For people who are self-proclaimed supposed "experts" in retro gaming... they sure get a lot of stuff wrong.

They really should just stick to talking about old NES carts at this point.

3 hours ago, Swami said:

Not sure if by design, but from the message looks like it expired a week after posting (10/16/2020) at 5:45pm Zulu.

Yes.  It was only available for a week.

We'll be making it available again in the future.

10 hours ago, martianman2012 said:

Awesome. How about used media? Will users be able to sell them to gamestop or are they locked to individual account?

I got ya covered. 

8 hours ago, speedy-a said:

I think Intellivision should have registered the internet page ______________

for presenting the games. But now its registered to Amico haters and that is awful.

I don`t think its easy to get the adress of the page now.... But lots of gamers can find it when they search for the Amico Games over the next years.

Thats what they wanted I think. This can already be buisness damaging and goes a step too far or?

I don`t know why a some people are so negative and what they get out of it...

 

 

Funny though that the idiot has to spend money to keep his hate parade going.  Very easy to legally take back the URL when the time is right. 

Maybe I'll trade him for my SpaceChannel5sux.com URL.

6 hours ago, Jeffrey Bouchard said:

Will physical media also be available through the website?

Yep!

5 hours ago, intvsteve said:

Been buried in some "real life" for awhile... Has anyone here been able to download the Breakout demo? I got three emails, but all of them give me a weird AWS error when I try to follow the download link.

It was only available for a week... but if someone from this forum would like to host it and PM you the link so you can download it once... please feel free to do so.

5 hours ago, Magma said:

Hi Tommy! I'm a big fan of your work, especially the Amico! I heard about the system from a friend of mine named Lukas. I believe he did a interview with you on his YouTube channel. Anyways, he recommended that I make a video on the Amico to help it gain exposure. So I came here, to ask you if you would be interested in making a brief appearance in my video on the Amico's hardward design, as well as what we know about the console so far. I look forward to hearing back from you!

 

Sincerely, Magma

🙂

Hi Magma,

Sure.  Send me a PM here or DM on Twitter.

4 hours ago, GrudgeQ said:

 

That was really AMAZING!!!!

Even hardcore gamers are very interested and excited about Amico.  Very cool!!

4 hours ago, bigdaddygamestudio said:

EXCLUSIVE, some one was able to open one of the first amico units ,  heres a look inside

 

Did your "hardware guy who knows a lot about this stuff" take this pic?

🤣🤣🤣

18 hours ago, [email protected] said:

I wonder what would happen if there were 2 winners with the same high score for moon patrol???

First one who submitted would win.

14 hours ago, GrudgeQ said:

Just thought this was interesting - a hot-off-the-press poll from over in the humble little /r/Amico subreddit

 

Out of the 109 respondants; 65% have either pre-ordered or actively interested to buy; 14% are waiting to see; 14% are just observers and 7% are punch bowl pissers

 

If you look at the comments you will often times mostly see punch bowl pissers with negative comments and down votes for anything positive said,

Oh but how reality is different.

 

BTW we are at 559 subscribers now since this was posted last Friday. The subreddit has grown in subscribers every month, mostly with each major Intellivision video release.

Strange the narrative of some posters is that "people" are losing interest after the delay or the last trailer. Really weird people would rush out and subscribe/not un-sub to a subreddit they aren't interested in then.

 

Anyway I just really enjoy bull-shittery being exposed, so I thought I would share.

 

Fun isn't it.

3 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

First one who submitted would win.

 

 

13 hours ago, vongruetz said:

I'm confused as to why people are so concerned about the inner components of Amico. They want to say it has a Banana Pi in it, and that somehow makes it bad. Even if it did, what's so horrible about that? What really makes this console are the controllers and software. What would make using the Pi so bad?

Because they need to now lie and make up things at this point.  Every one of their assumptions have been destroyed... so the only thing left to do is flat out lie and try to misinform people in hopes of destroying us.  Which of course will never happen as any normal human being can see how bitter, immature and wrong they are.  They end up complaining into their echo chamber of 10 sad, negative and lonely folks looking for attention by obsessing over something they hate. 

But, it does go to show how interesting and important Amico has become to them.  Kinda cool if ya think about it.

On 10/18/2020 at 1:21 PM, Starpaddler said:

@Tommy Tallarico

Has any thought been put into naming Burning Rubber, Bump ‘n Jump instead, given the INTV history with the latter name?

 

Have been looking forward to this one being remade and would love it to see it keep the original (to me anyway) name. 

Don't worry.

On 10/18/2020 at 2:03 PM, Intellivision Master said:

Tommy,

 

Will there be a Data East game play trailer anytime soon?  I'm still hoping for an update on Imagic games.  Also, is there an update with Archon?

No.  Not soon.  Haven't really started any of them except Burgertime... but that won't be on launch, so saving it til next year.

On 10/18/2020 at 4:19 PM, GrudgeQ said:

Here is one from a couple of days ago (the 15th), 37,100

 

 

This is still currently the high score.

On 10/18/2020 at 2:03 PM, Intellivision Master said:

Also, is there an update with Archon?

I loved Archon on my //e. 

That is another one that would be an instant buy on the Amico. 

Epic pownage begins at 2:22:20 and then at 2:26:30 Tommy drops a friggin nuke to end the discussion.
 

Watch that if you don’t watch anything else

7 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

 

It really does show the intelligence level and lack of research. 

 

For people who are self-proclaimed supposed "experts" in retro gaming... they sure get a lot of stuff wrong.

 

They really should just stick to talking about old NES carts at this point.

 

Better yet, they should just use their hot air blowing into NES cartridges! 😂

This is a segment from the NLG show that aired last Thursday night.