Intellivision Amico Games Licensed to Other Consoles
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"Exclusive" Intellivision Amico games are being licensed to other consoles and platforms. We discuss what this means for the troubled console project.
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Not even slightly, no, and I'm surprised they even took this route. But kicking the can calls for desperate measures.
I'm surprised Gamestop Canada still has them up to preorder or recently put them back up...
Based on how everything has manifested and unfolded regarding the Amico, call it crazy but this whole ordeal seems to be it was a get rich scam. They created a concept, created a ghost company, convinced and deceived people out of their real money to make it seem legit. Over hype the thing in hopes of being purchased by other legit real production tech company. Why did they have an exit strategy since its inception? Real suspicious. Their slogan may have been: 'Invest now while shares are available in hopes of gaining profit once bought out', dude .. the Amico is not coming out ever I believe.
If it means that they can grab money for not doing work, it seems like a perfect scam to me.
I'm shocked it took this long. I assumed this move would have happened about a year ago.
This never ending, slow motion train wreck is so damned entertaining I hope the Amico never stops twisting in the wind.
I had a dream last night where in the year 2077, The Intellivision Amico was delayed again due to an ambiguous reason. When I woke up, I thought, "Pat and Ian will have to come out of retirement to address this." Good times :)
Intellivision stands to make 10's of dollars from their licensed games
And may lose $100's !! 🙃
These games are so unique, that they could *never* be played on any other console. /s
They are so unique that most probably you won't be able to play them on the Amico too.
In the corporate world, bad news is typically given on a Friday afternoon after the markets close so stocks aren't impacted, people are distracted by personal plans, and the news gets lost in whatever happens over the weekend. The fact the Amico people keep publishing bad news after your podcast on Tuesdays, going against the industry norm, shows how much importance they attribute to your messaging.
“Is your mom still alive?”
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See, I would have thrown a wrench in his line of questions and been like "No, she isn't..." and "My didn't play or like video games..."
Any content regarding the Amico is comedy gold at this point. Great video.
Tommy Tallarico is the Tommy Wiseau of console developers.
If Nintendo can figure out how to properly port Skyward Sword from the Wii to the Switch, then any of these AMICO shovelware games can even more easily be ported to anything else!
this is more like changing the build target in unity. the devs that made them would've built them on android target anyway, it's not like most of them had dev units anyway.
I just tried it after 10 years and I had a really hard time playing. I don't remember it being so difficult to control. Maybe it isn't me then and it's the switch vs wii
Turbo Slow and DJCuck Studios must be secretly fuming about this news🤣
This whole “bug” issue reminded me of when the ZX Spectrum Vega plus scammers were postponing it because an issue with “a controller button”. They mentioned it for two years, and when some of them were shipped, turns out they never fixed up anything.
At least they shipped it.
the world's most expensive cheese knife
Amico news NEVER GETS OLD!!!!!! Thanks Pat and Ian!!!!!!!
while I really like this podcast, Amico news is one thing I always look forward to :)
Nice for them to confirm that all the talk about the system being ready to go one year ago was bollocks. This thing will end like the Vega + ended: we’ll see a handful of buggy, barely working units with a couple games on it (since I doubt the 6 pack-in games are done) built by hand and shipped out and that’ll be all she wrote.
Ian: "Dude's got a sewer for a soul" DAMN
This is ending exactly how I figured it would. With a quiet death nell and all the people involved just kinda slithering off into the world avoiding accountability. Especially their fearless leader, for as much of a loudmouth as he was, he has been probably the most quiet of all them.
Even if the Amico functioned flawlessly, it would still fail because of the controller. My first video game console was an Intellivision. You would be hard pressed to find a controller worse than the Intellivision controller. The layout made no sense, it was incredibly uncomfortable, and the overlays we're gimmicky trash that always wound up getting lost. Why would anyone think an updated version of that would be a success? They should have just used knock off PS2 controllers. It would have drastically reduced the price and they might have even been able to actually release the damn thing.
Colecovision controller was garbage.
Had they replaced the controller it would no longer have any reason to be called an Intellivision...
That "Hey, Pat and Ian, fuck you!" always gets me 🤣
This has to be the best dumpster fire ever!
But think of the friends that we have met along the way :)
@@NinjaKittyRetro and the money they scammed out of others ;)
Almost as good as all the c.rap music you make
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Oh, you actually listened to it? Thanks for taking the time!
The Intellevision Amico is creating the future of video games, one licensing agreement at a time!
"Nobody wants Great Value bomberman" hahaha I fucking love Ian!
I loved how Tommy and the marketing team thought Tommy was the selling point. I had no idea who he was or that he was the guy who did Video Games Live until I heard on the podcast.
I think this podcast was the first time I ever heard Tommy's name, but it was them talking about him b/c of the video game years. And you know what, based on his behavior, it made me NOT want to buy this shitty console.
In case you didn't know... Tommy thinks very highly of himself.
@@NinjaKittyRetro It was subtle that Tommy felt that way too. I mean would have never thought that Tommy's one and only true love is himself.
I knew who he was, but only because he was on Electric Playground/Reviews on the Run which ran on TV here in Canada. He was one of many co-hosts who showed up over the years and always came off a bit annoying. Funny enough, the main host, Victor Lucas, is a SUPER nice guy and he actually still does Electric Playground on his CZcams channel like 20+ years later... don't think he's ever covered the Amico since it's hardly even newsworthy but boy that would be a funny one.
Funny in how Tommy never interviewed any "soccer moms" despite going online for a year talking with many 50+ year old men who were starstruck by him. The guy knew that anyone with any sort of unbias opinion and who would have any sort of common sense would ask him all the obvious questions that he clearly could not answer honestly.
See those people who would ask real questions were just haters and didn't know what fun was. They were being total ding-a-lings.
@@heisensaul5538 exactly, they are just gaming racists.
@@Jeffmetal42 exactly...
Let’s be real. None of these licensing deals will ultimately go through, as none of the games are playable without the Amico controller.
I can't stop looking at the image in the middle showing the Amico and its "controllers." It looks like an answering machine from the year 1998 with a couple of air conditioner remotes attached to it. It doesn't exactly scream "game console." It screams "design nightmare."
Pat and Ian, I have to say, I appreciate you guys still covering this, despite the chore it must be for you. It seems the "haters" don't understand that nobody actually wants modern retro gaming projects to fail, especially like this. Just that people ask some basic questions when someone announces something new. Each scam scares off future investors and hurts the next promising project's chances. If your Amico coverage helps others shut down the next scam before it gets legs, then it's a service to the retro community.
Production update be like: "This isn't even my FINAL formal production yet!"
Ian's "Shut the fuck up" was so satisfying to hear.
The only thing I wish was that he said it to the real Tommy
@@heisensaul5538 Tommy's too narcissistic not to have watched this.
Well now it literally has no reason to exist.
It did before?
the only reason for it to exist is the commitment to the bit
Well, we could say people who collect unusual/failed consoles want it to exist, even if in small quantities.
I was not aware of any of this happening...the creation etc....but it's hilariously entertaining listening to you guys shred these clowns! Lofl, great stuff!
The Amico goon squad is the literal worst. Make sure you listen to the “Tommy tallarico voicemails” on this channel, they’re very funny.
If you watch their early coverage, they were quite fair and actually cut it a lot of slack. It was when Tommy decided he didnt like negativity (they weren't) and he got personal for no reason. All because b/c they wouldn't knee before Tommy and kiss his ring. Tommy thinks people should respect him, but he doesn't have to respect anyone.
This is just hillarious at this point lmao
Hilarious and sad tbh
Pat and Ian living rent free in Tommy's head.
Since the day this system got announced.
Yep, pretty much.
"Nobody wants Great Value Bomberman..." lolololololol! :D
Shout out to Ian for the Escape from New York reference
It was funny, I said to myself "we haven't heard from Intellivision in a while" and the next morning, there's an email in my inbox.
I too have noticed it coming out right after this podcast. That was the second thought I had after seeing the email (the first being "how are they going to tell us nothing _this_ time?") - wow, Pat and Ian probably just finished recording their latest podcast before this news came out. Weird how that's become normal.
I don't really have anything to say about the "update" though. They have no office any more, they have no console, the "errors" sound like BS, Phil Adam contradicts himself in his own "update", and they're selling their crap games for other systems despite saying it was literally impossible. That's all there is to it. The Amico isn't coming out. I just wish they'd drop the act already. It's tiresome.
That’s crazy that Pat’s skepticism and criticism of the Amica might have been more influential to the company’s drive than the fans themselves; whatever they were really driving for.
So, their plan is to sell a _"legally distinct"_ version of Bomberman under a title that was abandoned long ago, Shark Shark!: A game which is so unique that I can name at least 5 games which either clone it or feature the gameplay as a minigame (Spore, that one multiplayer ball game that was popular a while ago, Osmose, that one Amoeba game, and...fLoW.), and _Moon Patrol,_ a game _you, yes YOU, could program right now in BASIC._
As for the matter of the "production run" there's suggestions of the idea that Phil tried to recall the test/proto units, nobody picked up, and that's the _actual_ delay. Course' that's just an unfounded rumor~
Because why would a bug like this go undetected, or even unresolved for over 3 years? What were they parading around at the events in Utah, if not prototypes, huh? ;) (Really, this is something that you'd catch in the flowchart stage.)
See, the problem with this licensing deal is that it assumes games exist in a vacuum, which maybe the former CEO's brain was sealed in one. See, Super Bomberman R _was before the Amico was announced._ Going on about how great your dollar store knockoff might have worked if the series was still in hiatus. On the other hand, the former CEO _did_ seem to conflate Dynablaster as some unique standalone entity instead of a retitling because of a _tragic terrorist bombing_ that had recently occurred at the time of the release; and early installment weirdness. Anyone remember Eric & the Floaters?
I think bbg just acquired or re-registered from zero the dynablaster trademark or something. their angle was always to pretend that it wasn't a (likely time limited) licensed bomberman port and tommy went with that pretend angle.
I really doubt that hudson had the contract for it include an okay to sell a different bm clone 30 years later. if they just made a bomberman clone that would've been better and called it bomblast or something.
dynablaster for dos was a pretty good port though, well liked.
for shark shark, the pop cap freeding frenzy games are more known than shark shark in that genre (from popcap).
Pat... you should bring up the Utah based address on the bottom of that update in streetview on any map software. Certainly a different place than California office.
You can't leave us hanging on that 55 minute video response when it's victory lap time.
I think when the time is right we will see a response to that video, and I cant wait for it.
If Ian can't even sit through a 3 minute video of Terence Talamanca ranting (can't blame him), I don't know how hes gonna do commentary on that 55 minute rant.
@@gmti486 My bad, I worded that awful. I mean't responding to the video that's 55 minutes long. I'd love a full on video commentary to it, though lol
i loved my first intellivision. the cards on the controllers sucked. Got it when I was 5 with over 30 gams at a yard sale for 40 bucks. My first atari had a cart with zif socket and 40 eeproms with a switch for 4k 8k and 16k. I had the game where your chassing the indian around naked, and didnt even know they where naked the graphics sucked so much. This console is not going to give me the same feeling.
The Saga Continues.
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I hope they make another trilogy afterwards lol :D
Tommy single handedly ruined a childhood dream of us having a new Intellivision.... Now I'm completely pissed off that I sold my OG Intellivision due to the Amico coming.... #FTT
The TMI in that email is just too much.
You mean to tell me his plan to manipulate retro channels to advertise, and dupe into buying while simultaneously saying it wasn’t for us gaming racists didn’t work? But he read interviews about how Nintendo made the Kirby franchise and the Wii successful? You mean it takes more than just watching a couple Gaming Historian videos to launch a game console. Whoa, it’s like super tough to do this apparently.
The thing that should be crystal clear in the future (though it won’t be) is that being skeptical and critical of a product is not personal, nor is it somehow bullying. If anything, it is to help to educate consumers into making a more informed purchase, or have them avoid it altogether, whatever the consumer decides, he’s more informed by having more questions answered than not.
You guys took a lot of flack for being skeptical, and it worked out. These other guys, they were warned plenty of times, and they made their bed, some of them continue to do so lol. Well, they can’t complain when their audience cannot trust a word they say now, it’s their own fault.
This comment sounds like a potential amico video from you. You have a lot of points. You should just make a video. 👍
Agreed!
"The thing that should be crystal clear in the future.... is that being skeptical and critical of a product is not personal, nor is it somehow bullying." This is the best quote from this comment.
I'd like someone in the know to decode that techno babble they put in this article to see if it's real or bs.
I predict their next delay will be because the electronic delta-wave generator in the controller had a software bug in the mainframe which caused them to need to synchronize the cerium pulse booster wiper to correct the issue. Also, torsional ram converter had a defect on the production line which corrupted the isotopic polar defragmentor on the mainboard. The issue has been corrected by adjusting the nanowave frequency shifter which balanced out the isotopic polar defragmentor back to normal.
That sounds about right except for the Flux Capacitor that needs tweaking too. Good comment. 🏆
It’s pretty simple and Intellivision explained it perfectly well. “Order of Operations” error means that if the user pushed ‘left’ on the 3,096 directional pad of the Amico, it was programmed to first do nothing, then go right, then finally move left.
That is my officially unofficial explanation.
It’s a shame they stopped the video when they did. They missed that last guy’s wonderful O_o look when Tommy starts going on a rant about haters calling him a liar.
Did he use the phrase "gaming racist in that"?
@@heisensaul5538 Sadly not. He just whines about how people yell like babies because they thought exclusive games should be exclusive, and he does so with the typical deranged childishness we’ve all come to expect, and the interviewer just looks so damn bewildered
Hi intellivision! In case you're looking at the comments, here's some free advice as a random person with 0, not 600, years in the industry...
Whatever your hunch or Tommy tells you to do, write it down, read it aloud, then don't do that. Maybe the opposite? But anything but that.
If I had a dollar for every piece of good business advice Tommy gave, I'd have Intellivision's amount of debt.
Loving that DDR sticker Ian
Senile Uncle Phil forgot his email password.
Every advertiser who got their plug in on an amiico episode got huge value for money. Love it.
On literally *any* other console the games Intellivision Entertainment is pimping out would be called shovelware.
Lower than that they are cel games!🙉
Shovelware? That's an insult to dirt! It's probably sewerware.
honestly calling those games shovelware is an insult to shovelware.
@@heisensaul5538 True "Don't Buy This: Five of the Worst Games Ever" for the ZX Spectrum probably has more replay value.
@@XanthinZarda Sewerware. Oh, I am stealing that!
The 1990 port of Bomberman on the Amiga was actually also called Dyna Blaster!
Why they decided to bring back that title (with presumably no official Bomberman attachment) is beyond me though.
That's like them saying "Hey, we bought the rights to Probotector so we're bringing that back!", except Konami's not involved and it's a ripoff of Contra.
Honestly it could be a cute thing if they turned Dyna Blaster (or Probotector for that matter) into its own IP, it's unusual but not unheard of. The same thing pretty much happened with G.I. Joe and Action Man.
Of course they'd have to give it its own gameplay and identity, letting it diverge from Bomberman instead of just being a knockoff.
The game's tagline should be: "At least it's not Eric & The Floaters!"
The PS4 controller has 15 buttons (not including options & share) as well as touch controls, gyro controls and visual tracking allowing for it to be visually represented in VR. What games does the amico have exactly where that wouldn’t be enough?
Cornhole is 4D, bro!!
@@junghunt8645 they’ve got the hole bit perfect. Big empty void
The first and only time I heard of Tommy was on a VERY old Sega Vision magazine about music he did for a game...hardly a "celebrity" lol
The sales of these games on other consoles won't make a dent.
“Lol these games can only be played on the amico and can’t be done anywhere else…” -Tommy
Oh dear 😅
Pat and Ian. The first video I saw of yours was the anti-Amico 'Intellivision Amico E3 Presentation FAIL' and I must admit that at the time, I was still a believer having grown up with Intellivision and found your take a bit harsh and wondered if you guys were just a couple of negative a$$holes.
Since then you have become my number one goto for video game chatter, calling bullsh*t where warranted, and just for the great entertainment in the content you provide so now a total convert.
Keep up the most excellent work you cats are doing!
New Tommy cosplay idea. Walk around with the old iPods with the wheel on them and say you have the amico controllers
18:30 - 20:30: watch Ian's right hand. In real time, one can witness Ian's blood pressure coming to boil by merely watching and listening to Tommy T. Wow. Things have truly become personal at this point. And I can't say I blame them either.
It's not mean to call DynaBlaster a reskin of Bomberman because that was actually the title of the original Bomberman releases in Europe. I had the game for DOS as a kid, but I didn't know that was Bomberman until like 10 years later. I guess Hudson/Konami must've sold or licensed the name alone at some point? At least I hope so, otherwise lawsuits.
It's about the friends we made along the way!
Wait a minute Pat, at 18:58 you’re saying a Dr. Doom LARP’er wanted to debate you, and you DIDN’T take him up on the offer? Sure, writing books makes you more (legit) money; but it’s not everyday that a kid who models himself after Dr. Doom can get his mom out of the house long enough to do a video call!
He's the usual type of YT'er that will bash someone but then kiss their ass to get your attention and try to "be friends" to make themselves feel better. It's exhausting, but that's how 95% of YT'ers are. Reviewtech is a prime example.
Ok wait, hold on a second. I thought he was talking about Tommy when he said something about debating. I didnt realize he was talking about the guy who probably has his mom drive him everywhere and probably would say to a girl he's attracted to that he would like to "mate with her." I cant stop laughing at the idea of Pat debating this basement dwelling loser and this guy trying to be completely serious with that stupid Dr. Doom mask on!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
@@PatTheNESpunk Ah, thanks for the heads up. I’m way too lazy (and out of the retro-sphere) to ever look up wanna-be Doom myself.
Cancel the Amico. Looking back there was no reason to ever have this console. There's so many other options for families like the Switch.
Bro..... FAMILY! HOW ELSE..sorry, how else do you expect to have fun with FAMILY AND FRIENDS!
switch is scary and has games that aren't for FAMILY
Pat whatever happen to those consoles that tommy said that were being manufactured in late 2021. You remember that letter he wrote before Christmas.
Ah yes the one and only really relevant Amico coverage 👌 Tommy's bogeymen, the only podcast that Tommy actually cared about, and the only actually relevant CZcamsrs that had the facts from day one, indeed you guys deserve your victory lap. You should totally do a reaction to the insane 50 minutes video Tommy did for you, that shows you just how much Tommy actually feared your relevance.
To what God/Devil do I have to sacrifice to to make Tommy finally DIE?
Pat and Ian have lived rent free in Tommy's head since 2018
Why do you want to punish them with doing a reaction vid... I did a reaction video on Tommy's rant and I'm still feeling the after effects of the non stop lies and him being extremely corny this many months later. It's almost a form of torture going through it! You know!! :D
@@NinjaKittyRetro So you can legally kill them when they come after you, silly!
@@NinjaKittyRetro I mean Pat and Ian have said they wanted to respond to it, so they want to punish themselves? 🤷♂🤷♀
Victory lap? This is a victory tour
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The Amico is almost $400cnd.... More than the Nintendo Switch 😂
I haven't been following this closely, but thought that these games were only possible with the amico? will I get the full shark shark experience on another system?
Come on! It's super fun! You guys were right!
That inflatable clown house is STILL afloat? WOW
I do hope they keep on floating, forever! As a living lessson
A compilation of all the Amico games for maybe 10$ I would like to buy, just for fun, maybe for PC or just for Android phones.
Lets say in a parallel universe the Amico does come out. I couldnt wait for the moment til someone figures out how to play the actual games tapping the NFC card on the Amiibo reader and playing these games on a Switch
if amico wasnt an investor scam from the get go they could have done this profitable by making amico games bundles for the switch. games like outbreak and astrosmash could have sold fairy well for 5-10 dollar on the eshop.
I was shocked to see an Amico update in my inbox. I assumed it was 100% gone, but apparently it's still in the midst of their death throes.
The Tommy talking take to the CZcamsrs and not one will interject him about the controller or the games and this is like a loop that is running 24/7 and never stops and give any specific details on how will the consoles will work with the cr*ppy controller that he is talking too.
17:27 I'm always down for more shit talking on SmashJT
This is following the same exact pattern of the Intellivison Computer Keyboard component back in the 80's.
They were being fined every day for it not releasing.... So finally they just put together a, stripped down version and sold a limited supply of them on mail order to avoid lawsuit...
Welcome to the Amico 2022
My family had one the keyboard for the intellivision 2 unit box and all. Also had the voice synthesis unit n tons of games.
Out fucking standing response time Phil you have made the Uvalde police response look fast on comparison.
pretty sure I was playing dyna blaster on a PC in 1998
"None of these Games we're developing can be played on the Amico"
The reason why they’re licensing these games back to the devs is because they’ve run out of money, they can’t pay the devs so this licence deal is in lieu of their money
1:54 for fun
Lol, that's what they should have done to begin with
I am one of the crazy original 2600 pre-order people who still have the 100.00 deposit with them. I wonder if I get lost in the shuffle and they never contact me about it. I really am curious how this plays out and if I get it.
I hope you get something from them other than heartache . With every month that goes by there's less and less chance that anything will come out .
r alcohol mudpacks available?
When you win but it was so easy that you don't feel accomplishment
a shame that no one questioned this
I be smokin on that munk pack
You mean there’s a slight chance we’ll see the earthworm Jim for consoles
17 million dollar games, baby!
One can say they listened and took your advice 🤣
Tommy’s moobs are outrageous.
Thanks!
Guys these games can’t be played without the Amico. The devs had to completely rework these games to release them on another platform. The Amico versions will be way better once the Amico releases. You’ll see.
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Just kidding lol
its coming out! for nobody ever.
Tommy looks like hes aged 20 years as the intellivision ceo😂
So is the Intellivision Amico now officially dead? I can't wait for Pat and Ian's well deserved victory lap and the eventual documentary about this entire scam.
I don't have any hopes for major documentary. Mostly cause the general public may not believe a company was this self harming to be real or continue to exist for as long as it has.
I’d settle for a dramatic reading of some of Tallarico’s more outrageous posts on AtariAge. There are thousands of them to choose from, which means the most difficult part would be choosing the best (worst) of them.
I think that people could believe that a badly run company headed up by a thinly skinned narcissist who wanted to be a CEO without doing any of the actual hard work to earn it could exist. It just sounds like a story that couldn't be made up if someone tried.
SHORTER COMMERCIALS OR PUT THEM AT THE END. its money for you i get it, but its a 20 min video with a solid 2 minute commercial and the you-tube ad before it. Go for a 30 second commercial, time stamp, or put it at end -- so many ways to not make it as intrusive.
Bigger 🐢 🚂 wreck - Amico or CM Punk? It’s a toss up.
🤣🤣🤣😂 *'nuff said.*
I wonder if Tommy Tallarico would like Munk Pack? Sea Salt Chocolate is definitely his style. Mike Kennedy would without question choose Peanut Butter.