[I have a suggestion for a new Atari product!]

13 minutes ago, evanlewan said:

I mean Panic did a great job with the Playdate and it secure exclusives and all the of the games on the Playdate are all exclusives and are made by indie developers and Panic is a small company like Atari. So, I think Atari can learn from Panic's Playdate.

The main difference between Panic and Atari is that the Playsdate is a hobby for that company, and it’s probably not making much money. The company gets the bulk of its income from its serious software business. Atari doesn’t have that luxury, it needs to release products that earn profit, and it’s risky to make a whole new platform, especially when exclusive games can be expensive. 

 

You can play Lynx games on several versions of Evercade systems too. Act fast, because their contract with Atari is up at the end of the year so the Lynx collections might get harder to find. 

 

Maybe this means Atari has plans of its own for handhelds, something beyond the one they just licensed out. https://www.myarcadegaming.com/collections/pocket-player/products/atari-pocket-player-pro

[I have a suggestion for a new Atari product!]

30 minutes ago, MrBeefy said:

Or one  ould get something like this.

 

Just slap an Atari sticker on it or make the symbol with a sharpie.

I have the non-Plus version of that and can say it’s very nice, an economical way to play lots of games while infringing copyrights. 

[Atari VCS (retail deals/discount thread)]

$180 isn’t a terrible price for the console and 2 controllers, but I’d want some kind of guarantee, like promises of a SteamOS installer and Steam keys for any software purchase for when the VCS store shuts down. 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

20 hours ago, mr_me said:

No, that was several of their engineers that talked about fcc radiated emissions compliance.

Several of their employees said a great many things that turned out not to be true, even at the time they were saying it. Many of the other statements were predictions that never came true. 

 

A company doesn’t get to be a little bit FCC certified any more than a person can be just a little bit pregnant. 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

8 hours ago, kevtris said:

neat.  you can get rid of spurs on the RF output by tweaking some software? first I heard about that.  generally you need filters or an antenna redo to fix that. 

Not at the scale Amico is working at, Kev! You just don’t understand what a big deal Tommy and Amico are. /s

 

Of all the stupid things uttered by @Tommy Tallarico on here, that really took the Olympic gold medal and I wish it weren’t buried. 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

What wasn’t finished about the hardware? I don’t know, and neither do you, because test units were never furnished to trustworthy media outlets for analysis. 
 

You are employing Flying Spaghetti Monster logic every time you repeat unproven statements from the Amico management team, who are demonstrated liars. 
 

Is the Intellivision Entertainment company paying you to carry a torch for them, after all these years, in the face of all available evidence? 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

3 hours ago, MrBeefy said:

HOW DARE YOU suggest they use stock photos. They clearly use stick photos!

 

LEGAL INCOMING!

I love how someone was worried about misinformation, and not letting people know the project had effectively been dead since the end of 2019.

 

IF the OS had actually been done we could have had Amico Home for 4 years and entering their 5th.

 

So the marketing is going to start now right?

Wow he was already 8 months after his original launch date and a few months behind the second missed date when he wrote that… and about 4 months before booting himself from here, a place he dominated for a while. 
 

The stock photography was just the cherry on top since the system was supposed to be like a rocket ship on the launch pad, already built, that just needed a little more fuel. Just how much of a lie was that?

3 hours ago, 82-T/A said:

Oh shit!!! Hahah....

 

 

NOW I remember... it was Moon Patrol that get me into the system in the first place. Moon Patrol was like my favorite arcade game growing up, and I about killed for it just to get it on the 2600. Damn... it seemed like they made a good rendition of Moon Patrol, but geeze. It all seemed like a good idea that was mired by bad personality...

I’m not even sure it was much of an idea. Smarter companies than Tommyvision with better ideas about new platforms failed without the hilarious pratfalls. 

25 minutes ago, Bill Loguidice said:

And this is and always was exactly the issue with the VCS, that there are and always were far better gaming options out there, even for the types of games featured on the VCS. At least the Amico had the controllers as a differentiator, but there was never any such differentiator on the VCS. There absolutely always was the "Atari logo/looks like a bit like an original VCS/sort of a compact PC for my TV" audience (and I guess faux tough guys who don't keep up with gaming news, don't like new systems or games, and is definitely not a dork (AtariAge username aside)), but that was, always has been, and will continue to be, vanishingly small. Both the GameStation Pro and Atari 2600+ will outsell the VCS by many multiples, which again shows that the current management of Atari has a far better grasp on what has broad appeal versus the previous management, highlighted by the overpriced and tone-deaf Speakerhat and VCS. (And I again give Atari all the credit for continuing to provide support for the VCS. Other companies would have stopped the bleeding by now, but they're doing the right thing by their most rabid supporters.)

Now, as for the Amico, we know it's all but impossible for it to ever physically release at this point, but what they've done (out of obvious necessity) with all the software-based stuff on other platforms is completely undermine even the small differentiator they had on their platform. On top of that, they've somehow made themselves look even more comically inept with the inability to control the games on the device actually displaying the games. The whole thing is a beautiful travesty, one worthy of a good book.

You’re a writer, Bill! I’ll bet there are many contributors out there who would happily contribute to such a book. 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

5 minutes ago, MrBeefy said:

 

 

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/happy-family-sitting-on-a-sofa-and-playing-video-games-and-eating-pizza-gm1149204997-310618817
 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

@82-T/A those are renders. 
 

I’ve never seen one in person but the prototype plastics looked pretty rough. 
 

Not that it matters, since they never finished the innards anyway. Not to the point where they could actually produce more than a handful of them. 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

I should have added a screenshot too! 
 

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On 11/23/2023 at 7:41 PM, Razzie.P said:

 

 

https://kotaku.com/intellivision-amico-android-console-1851045271

 

 

 

Isn't this the site that Tommy implied they were gonna sue over something?

No that was Ars Technica. Sam Machkovech wrote 3 good articles about it. 

 

Kotaku wrote this, leading @Tommy Tallarico to confide in one of his groupies something to the effect of: “My career is over, I’m getting cancelled because Kotaku told everyone I followed Ben Shapiro on Twitter.”

 

https://kotaku.com/the-new-gaming-console-thats-become-a-giant-car-crash-1847699027

 

The Ars articles were serious, the Kotaku articles were more snarky, but all of them were based in fact and truth. 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

Do you really think Intellivision is going to bring out any of that software they once promised? 

[Iron Soldier II and Breakout 2000 going out of print?]

On 11/17/2023 at 4:40 PM, jgkspsx said:

I wonder if Telegames will keep making them.

Is Telegames still in business? 
(for that matter, is there an ongoing demand for old Jag games? I don’t mean to sound snarky about it, but much newer/more popular games than those have gone out of print)

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

1 hour ago, Wayler said:

If you regularly find Amicos in your home, the dog probably needs a little more training.

Tell it to mister bonafide industry legend here. 

context: from one of @Tommy Tallarico’s several filmed house tours available online. 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

Y’all are gross 

 

Is that what the Amico scammasters meant by “Formal Production?”

[What's the best port of an arcade game (that's not emulation) on a home console?]

14 minutes ago, zzip said:

Was it ports on all platforms, or just SNES?    This was the first arcade compilation I ever bought, (on MS-DOS) and I always assumed it was emulated.

It’s on Sega Genesis too. And there are variants on Dreamcast and Playstation as well. 
 

I don’t think the 16 bit console versions were emulation but they probably had a much closer look at the arcade code than ports like those made for Atari 2600 and 5200. 
 

@JeffVav used to hang out here and would know best. He’s a pioneer in this stuff and deserves credit for bringing us nice things. 

[Billy Mitchell TG Banned, Scores Removed]

Is Billy actually wealthy enough to waste all this money on loser lawsuits?

[Younger 2600 fan on AtariAge?]

Hey all you teenagers from 2009! How does it feel now that you’re 30?

[What's the best port of an arcade game (that's not emulation) on a home console?]

Hee hee, another necro-topic! I had an answer in my head but when I realized this is from 2019, I had to go back and see if my thoughts had changed. 

 

Nope! I still feel this way. Apparently Taito doesn’t like the Atari port of Space Invaders, which is a shame. 

 

I would also add Frenzy for Colecovision because of the little musical ditties it adds. 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

16 hours ago, mr_me said:

No, the agent himself talked on video about what he can do.  Besides, what would it take to get a million plus influencer, $50k?  

I have no idea what it would cost to pay off a big YouTuber to say nice things about a vaporware scam. But you said it was budgeted. Since it was (obviously) never spent, what happened to that money? 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

10 hours ago, mr_me said:

The larger the influencer the larger the fee. They even had an agreement with an agent with such connections. They budgeted for it but never had the inventory to sell.  Now they neither have the money or product.

Some agreement! Or maybe, just maybe, Tallarico was talking out of his ass hat the whole time?

 

 

[Atari has 2 court cases in the last week or so...]

On 11/12/2023 at 11:00 AM, PowerDubs said:

 

Another dumb comment- and I feel you already know the answer and are just being inflammatory on purpose.

 

For those that don't know- These types of lawsuits aren't about making money....they are about the fact that in order to keep your IP you legally HAVE to protect it when it is infringed upon.

 

If you don't- you loose the IP.

 

And... for every company selling 'fake' Atari clothing...that is money that could have went into Atari's pocket if legit licensed product.

Why didn’t you share the documents? The pacer links aren’t useful on their own. 

[Atari has 2 court cases in the last week or so...]

On 11/8/2023 at 11:27 PM, PowerDubs said:

Both are for IP infringement...like clothing...I bought the file.

Why don’t you share it then. Can’t tell anything about these cases from what you posted there. 

 

Is Atari still planning on making more money from lawsuits than making or licensing games? 

[Your favorite video game magazines, memories of them, and have they aged well?]

I love flipping through scans of these old magazines but can’t believe I ever paid money for any of them. 

[Atari Future Acquisition Poll]

Antstream had to pull the Warner games (which include Atari Games, Williams, and Midway) off their service. It would be nice if this were a sign that Atari was buying them out from under them. I’m probably dreaming though.