Atari Bought Intellivion!?! Hope For The Not Intellivision Amico???
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Just to make sure it's clear, Atari is NOT buying the Amico Console or Amico Home. They are only buying the brand and the Intellvision game library that Not Intellivision Entertainment still owned.
This is even worse for them because Atari sees the writing on the wall.
Wow. "I'll have your entire stock good sir. Wait what's that smell? Errr actually you can keep that Amico stuff we just want EVERYTHING ELSE".
Yikes...
So, does that mean no Intellivision-branded games will appear on anything Amico related?
@@TheLadsBandLive That definitely sounds like the case.
I just mean that atari can further the brand without messing people over.
So to recap: IE couldn't deliver a console, had to sell off their "killer apps" to a company who eliminated their exclusive status, and now they've had to sell off the whole brand to the very company IE's former CEO spent years mocking and disparaging. In my mind, a great wrong has been righted. Tommy, Phil and John brought nothing but shame to the Intellivision brand.
Yes. This. No longer can we just wantonly continue believing Tommy Talarico is something akin to Jesus Christ, John F. Kennedy, the 300 Spartans, and Solid Snake combined. His facade as the most greatest person ever to live or have lived has been downgraded. Downgraded to something much lesser...... He's now merely the second most greatest person ever to live or have lived. What a fall from glory.
It's like Coke buying Pepsi! Chevy buying Ford! Cats and dogs, living together...mass hysteria! I agree this is good news, actually. :)
Or Sega making games for Nintendo...
@@mcorleonep I feel like this be more comparable to if Nintendo bought SEGA
pepsi owned or owns coca cola...
Or Beta and VHS!
@@ThomwoththeWeather Pepsi DID/DOES NOT own Coca-Cola. You’re either misinformed or misinforming...
It might be like Pepsi or Coke buying RC, if this were the early ‘80s. Atari 2600 - 30 million units sold. Intellivision - 3 million units sold. Atari also didn’t stop, there. Their 8-bit computer line was monumental-with the daisy-chainable, hot-swappable precursor to USB (Serial I/O) AND the first ever separate graphics and sound chips on a computer, to take load off the GPU. Their 16-bit ST line is _still_ coveted by bands, for it’s MIDI control - having been the first computer on which DAW software was developed and used. Had Intellivision made one leap anywhere close to any of those things, that 3 million would be significant, but they didn’t. It was Barbie’s console. Most pro’lly play emulated Intellivision, but you don’t know how _truly awful_ Intellivision was, until you’ve played with that horrible disc-controller and those nasty rubber buttons, on the side. Even the 5200 and 7800 had better controllers than Intellivision...
Seriously. Name one technological leap/advance (besides _Frog Bog,_ of course) that Intellivision brought to gaming/computing in a way that was mimicked by _anyone._ Intellivision was never anything but wrong.
This deal doesn't include the Amico side of Intellivsion, so it appears that console will forever remain vaporware.
I’d thought they made some units, but I could be wrong. If so, it’s not even right to call it a “console.” It’s schematics and renderings. I could do that and say “I made a console,”otherwise...
Those refunds are NEVER coming...
Along with the Amico console.... This deal killed all of it
@@ilikepiproductions5916 Noo, it did not. Instead of Intellivsion Amico, it's just Amico.
@@edwardmclaughlin719 If you say so
@@edwardmclaughlin719 It's dead now. The console (Amico) will never see the light of day.
They no longer hold any rights to any Intellivison game.
So what would be the purpose of buying a Amico if it ever were to be released? Answer? None
@@ilikepiproductions5916 You will see. Mandella effect. They will be selling them at Best Buy. My preorder is in. Honestly you are wrong as another gamer pointed out. Separate issues and not relevant.
Intellivision has a lot of debts to pay , probably where the money is going
That's the real problem with any cash infusion they get from this.
Tommy didn't pay that much relatively speaking for Intellvision and the name has been dragged through the pig potty sense.
This would be like putting 100 dollars in an account overdrawn by 1000. It gets dumped into the vortex of raging Sudesh Aggarwal, furniture loans and Ticked off Republic investors.
Long term it's PROBABLY not gonna help. Especially when they could not even get going when they had Millions of dollars🫠
More like Tommy’s pocket...
@@mechamania Tommy got kicked out long ago, stop believing 5lothams nonsense
Even if Atari doesn't do anything with the brand, I'll sleep better at night knowing Tommy Tallarico no longer owns it
DJC, Mullis and the rest of the Amico lovers are crying.... The Amico is dead
All 100 of them? We should rent out a small funeral home... 😢
How can something be dead that was never alive?
@@billcook4768 I would say a better term would be un-personned or persona non grata.
As a kid, I wanted to see George Plimpton with an egg on his face (was an Atari kid). Now some 40 years later....
Still waiting on my refund, emailed them countless times, got one response it was "forwarded" to the "refund department", by a system admin, not a word since.
Well, at least Atari is likely to do something with the IP.
That’s the only reason to buy it. It wasn’t for the hardware or controllers...
I'm not surprised because this is a scenario I had been thinking about so I'm good with this. Ironically this means Intellivision lost again lol
Love that, but ironically, it’s the opposite of irony. It woulda been irony if the brand that sold 3 million units bought the brand that’s sold over 50 million, and counting... Irony is the opposite of what is said, expected, or likely. Just an FYI... 🍻
Keith robinson would be so proud
I think he'd be happier now than with the previous turds ownership and the damage it caused.
Well, I guess my $100 from 2019 is a goner. Not that I was ever holding my breath after I asked for a refund in Feb 2023... with no response.... ever
me too, except we could really get this thing one day. Atari has capital.. and cash flow.. they could really see the value and pull it off... Amico would have been really good if it was cheaper, and it existed...
@@ThomwoththeWeather Atari has no ownership of the Amico console & they would've probably cancelled & then persona non grata'd the Amico if they did.
Atari bought everything for a song and im sure they licensed back the name to the Amico people as part of the deal for only the Amico project which is now going to quietly fade away now that the company is a LLC... Do some research on LLC's and bankruptcy laws... Jon and Phil just made their escape with everyones money... This time next year there will be no amico, and no one will notice...
Nobody except those who paid for one and Pat the NES Punk notices, now...
Having seen lots of those old school "Intellivision vs Atari" commercials, hearing about this is crazy!
Sweet! Lets hope some Intellivision games come to the VCS and an Intellivision 50 game release! I want to replay beauty and the beast! Wait that's owned by Activision.
Microsoft gaming
Curious to see what Digital Eclipse does.
Tommy was working for Atari. Mission accomplished.
He wasn’t, but he couldn’t have been more successful, if he were. The irony is palpable...
OMG I hope for the best with this acquisition!👍
This was a prelude to amico going into bankruptcy. It needs the cash to fund its bankruptcy and 6 to 9 months. Right now they are liquidating their assets. That's what they're basically doing and they're finding a home with somebody who can actually take over those assets. Imagine in a bankruptcy having all these assets sold to hundreds of companies and splitting the library even more. What we call fracturing the library but in this case here Atari gets the entire suite now. As far as the two games at BBG own, they actually co-own them with Atari bbg's handling the new releases of them. Those two games anything modernized while Atari has the old licenses of those games. If you read the acquisition that happened several months ago that Atari bought VM network. It states it in it
you need a part II - good stuff!
That's really cool! No more scams!
Great video, NSG, always on top of it.
I have zero regrets getting my preorder money back when I was growing impatient before the whole thing imploded. I have faith Atari will do the brand right.
Good video! Interesting news! And the plot thickens!
This is excellent news. A real company with an actual track record in creating realised products finally have control over Intellivision. Amico has never made the slightest bit of sense.
To that effect, there's nothing on Amico Home that you can't find a better, less expensive, version of on other platforms.
They should just refund The buyers of The Amico. Developing The Amico Is just wasting money.
"Get in the hole amico chameleon. No one will look for you at a landfill!"- Rei Ryghts.
I hate to think that Tommy Scamaroni is making one cent from this
This is awesome. When I was a kid I wanted a 2600 port of Cloudy Mountain so bad. Maybe it'll happen now!
I like this. Atari has been (in my opinion, and it sounds like yours, too) putting out some good stuff these last few years, and I don't see any reason to be pessimistic about this acquisition.
I hope you've been doing well, I'm still in your discord but don't check in nearly as often as I should.
Take care
I think this is great news! I share your thoughts about Atari; I think that they’re doing a great job overall.
Everyone say it with me...
Intellivision RECHARGED titles!
I know they don't have Astrosmash yet, but which ones would we want to see? I like what Atari has done with most of the Recharged titles and would love to see the same with Intellivison ones.
I know they did Berzerk Recharged already but I also hope it gets a follow up with Night Stalker Recharged. Maybe a Thunder Castle Recharged too?
Would love to see a Utopia recharged. Add randomized island layouts, naval combat, different random.scenarios, 4 player mode with 4 different islands, the game is teeming with opportunities for expansion!
Hmm. It looks like Atari might have just saved the Digital Eclipse games of Night Stalker and Cloudy Mountain. Though, it would pretty much be on other consoles.
I want Atari to convince Choice Provisions to finish their breakout.
When ypour IPO mentions "vaporware", nah , Atari ain't doing that
Like Vince buying WCW. Tommys failure is complete.
now they need to buy colecovision& adam
... and the Odyssey and TI-99/4a. Don’t see Phillips Magnavox or Texas Instruments getting back into making machines with keyboards and cartridge slots... 3DO wouldn’t be a bad buy, nor TurboGrafx/PC Engine. Atari should rightly reign supreme in retro gaming!
People finally getting their refunds. Wouldn't that be something? Blah, blah, mother proud, etc.
Just bought the new VCS. Hoping to see some Intellivision games in the platform
Can they get Coleco too?
It would be cool to release compilations that had all the earlier gen consoles under one title.
Only problem with this is that there's very few original content titles with Coleco. Almost everything is a licensed title.
Is Coleco holdings still overprotective of their IP? I recall after the Chameleon fiasco they were aggressive against people even making Coleco fan groups without their permission.
I'm gonna be real, I never even heard of Intellevision before now. As for Atari, I didn't even know they were still in the gaming scene until now.
I hope games like Thunder Castle will get more exposure after all this.
Utopia Recharged!
Don’t forget George Plimpton’s role, in all this...
"...and a hot plate!"
I was surprised when i seen this.. how many popular IPS does intellivision have??
Not many, especially with Shark Shark and Astrosmash sold. They still have Night Stalker and AD&D Cloudy Mountain games (without the AD&D license), so I could see Atari publish the remakes that were in the works for the Amico, or new games based on them. They also have the Astroblast name, which could be used for Astrosmash style games. And of course a compilation is very possible.
Yeah, this is really bigger news, in a PR sense - telling GenX Atari is f’real.
Atari buying Astrosmash and Shark Shark back from BBG would be hilarious. After the near zero performance, Atari would get a fantastic deal on it. Overall, a huge Win for them.
Shark! Shark! is no great loss, but they already have Astroblast, which was M Network's version of Astrosmash.
Still waiting for the console, 5 years now since deposit and never replies to emails
NOTHING will change for the Amico backer. Be sure, Phil and John will reply you this: “it’s a seperate business unit”.
Also, the two games that BBG released were already finished products. They were never made by BBG. They were finished under the in television brand and then they were sold out because they couldn't get a distribution system working out correctly. But it goes to show you that Atari is on point. I just can't wait till they buy Coleco that's going to happen and they will buy either commodore or Amiga that's going to happen in the next year. Just watch I said it.
I hope the paid 2600 dollars to buy them.
I think this is a good thing for the Intellivision brand and portfolio of games. An Intellivision game library without Shark Shark doesn't quite feel complete. Alas, maybe they can get that from BBG--who knows. Atari is very wise to steer clear of the Amico sham/scam. I expect some of the original Intellivision games to be made available for the Atari VCS. A mini-Intellivision, like the recent 400, could be on the horizon. How cool would an Intellivision+ be, that plays physical carts? Considering ~10X more original Atari 2600 consoles were sold compared to the Plimpton-era Intellivisions, that may be too niche.
What's so great about Shark Shark? Better games of it's kind exist.
I wish ATARI waited until May 29th because that day in 2018 was when TommIE announced a possible system project might be occurring OR May 30th because that day in 2018 was when ATARI’s IGG campaign started for their
🎮🕹ATARI VCS-800🕹🎮
Regardless…
Winner: 😎ATARI😎
Loser: 🥺TommIE🥺
Maybe an Intellivision plus console?
Tommy, look at what you did!
Does atari own colecovision too?
If the deal doesnt include Cornhole Im not interested 😂
Just because they bought it doesn't mean that they're going to combine the companies
Tommy TallAmico
or Tommy FailAmico
Atari WINS!
i think it means that anyone who supported the amico is officially out of luck, but i hope i'm wrong!
Hope this means there will be a proper Intellivsion reproduction.
Too bad Intellivision’s D&D game will never see a remake - unless Hasbro licenses the rights from Atari, for the game itself. Of course, it could show up as the same game with a different name. Pick one...
I imagine the original game will show up with a name change.
Microsoft going 3rd Party and Intellivision bought out by Atari. The irony.
I think this is a 'Karma's a bitch' moment.
I wish the Amico is coming!!!!!
This deal officially killed it. It won't come now for sure
I’m an Intellivision fan, not an Amico fan. Atari needs to burn and bury anything Amico-related. No ill-conceived console, ridiculous controllers or shovelware games. Scrub that scam of a stain from history. Just add classic Intellivision titles to the Atari library. An HD classic plug-and-play console would be pretty great, too.
They didn't buy anything related to the Amico. That's being left on their own, most likely to finally die its slow death.
@@SNARC15Hate to disagree, but I think it’ll be dying as fast a jet can make it to the Caymans...
So is this the pathetic end of the Intellivision Amico? What about Sudesh's money? lmao
Tommy wins again!
soulja boy bought intellivision?
You don’t know much about the history of computing, do you? Atari made the first computers with separate audio and video chips, as well as the precursor to USB (Serial I/O) on their 8-bit line (1979), alone. Now, X-Box is in worse shape.
Soulja boi supermanned tallamico.
will atari and sega ever be significant again?
Not really.
Very ironic ... ATARI ... doesn't ... lose...
Except they were the first big winner. 30 million 2600s to 3 million Intellivisions and 2 million ColecoVisions. Add the C^4 in there, and Atari still wins, even without counting their own, further ahead of its time 8-bit line.
they said they will be making the console, distributing it and the games too.. lots of potentially positive clues here
The console won't come out now. There's no purpose to it.
The Amico no longer owns the Intellivison games so what games would go on the system that OTHER systems don't already have?
This deal killed the Amico.
Any game from Intellivison woukd be from Atari now.... Amico has no games or original games.
The Amico is, dead
I think this is very positive for all parties. Gamers, Atari, Intellivision and maybe even those who are hoping for an Amico to manufactured, that's extra cash they could use.
You really think they're gonna release a system? Lol.
The cash is going to pay all of their debts first.
@@ccricers And that's assuming Atari paid them very much. IE is in no position to bargain.
LOL! OF course they did. They already bought the dorks at AtariAge who couldn't stop simping for Amico until it got too embarrassing. Oh GOD that's hilarious.
Hahahaha! Wow, that aged poorly more quickly than avocados...
@@mechamania Pretty much! (typing from a Ubuntu / Atari VCS (I've got every OS in the house, but they're all great for OS centric stuff,)
I see this was the reason the word "Intellivision" wasn't in the last email from Phil.
I'd love to know:
-Will the Blue Sky Rangers, the new Amico owners, be a separate legal entity from IE?
-Will they have full rights to Intellivision IPs and branding as long as they use "Blue Sky Rangers" instead of "Intellivision"?
-Did the Blue Sky Rangers earn some investment money for Amico in this deal?
The Blue Sky Rangers arguably were the true heart and soul of Intellivision. Maybe Keith decided to take on the Amico torch from Tommy.
Keith's spirit is probably resting easy knowing his baby has been wrestled away from people who had no business owning it in the first place.
@@SomeOrangeCatWrestled away? Ha ha. You funny...
Keith intervened. He wanted Amico. He got Amico.
BSR too no longer has "Intellivision", but never needed "papers" to always have had the brand's very spirit.
As a Intellivision fan I am happy Atari has control. Many of the Amico core values were too limiting.
Terrific news for Intellivision fans. They will get to see some exciting new hardcore Intellivision stuff.
Terrific news for Amico fans. They are now one step closer to releasing the controllers, and having a clearer identity with its marketing initiatives.
In other words, Amico is now finally free from the "Gamer" or even "retro gamer" comparisons which all along only stifled its message.
Just stop. You've been wrong about everything. It's been amusing to see you constantly be wrong about everything. You can stop now.
@@linuxrobotgeek First he claimed the Amico didn't NEED hardware. Then he claimed the Amico didn't NEED exclusives. Then he claimed the Amico didn't NEED good sales numbers. Now he's claiming Amico doesn't NEED the brand they built the entire concept from. Phil and John could meet a tragic end tomorrow and Puzzler would just claim Amico didn't NEED them either.
😂😂😂 We knew you would show. This deal officially kills the Amico hardware as many have stated. They no longer own intellivision games. What would be the controller for?
No purpose.
You have been wrong on EVEYTHING Amico related.
This news is GREAT news, for Intellivison fans wanting to see the 200 plus Intellivison games remade on and for various systems.
The Amico?
Whats the purpose of buying it now if it were released....
And they would still have to pay back the $100 per console sold loan if the system were released
@@ilikepiproductions5916 Guzzler will just claim that this was the plan all along!
The “human experience” of selling off your brand eh? The project announced in 2018 and promised for 2020 fired its final foot bullet without a single unit hitting retail.
Amico will be made for sure. It will just be called Amico not Intellevision Amico
LOL! You still think it's coming out, huh?