Blarneo

It's got potential to be more than that in the right hands. Check out Geometry Wars 3 in Scorpion mode. Just replace the geometric shapes with emoji Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. 😜

There's another one that came to mind just now. An old Atari vector game called Quantum. Sort of like Snafoo, but plays more like a scorpion game where the tail is limited and can destroy enemies through looping maneuvers. Its a trackball game so the touchscreen could come in handy. I only saw one of these in the wild in 1983 or 84. I think it was pretty obscure.

It was an earlier NES platformer that pretty much played like a cute Shinobi, or ninja run & gun type game. The boss characters were funny and well drawn even for 8 bit. It's an Irem game, so you already have a deal with them, so I figured whadahell.

An update of Kid Nikki:Radical Ninja... maybe without the dated 80s/90s "attitude" that was a thing back then. Haha. It look like you're already tackling the Intellivision catalog as it stands now, so I'm happy with that.

Please stop putting right wing framing words in my mouth. I'm not crapping on anybody for being successful. I'm crapping they don't share the spoils of their success with the workers who made it successful in the first place.

1, 2 & 3. And as a union man, I will have to respectfully disagree that union busting, red scare propaganda of the 40-50s used as an excuse for union busting and predatory capitalism disguised with feel good marketing words like "free markets" is a good way to run society.

So... I paint a picture of cultivated corporate image contrasted with corporate reality, and my last little throwaway line about Lucas is all you cared about?

He wanted to remain a creative consultant, according to reports. Iger upped his offer to let it go. It's only clearly implied if your assertion is a stipulation in the contract and agreed upon. A sale is not always a sale. Matter of opinion. The prequels look a lot better now by comparison to the sequels to me. At least the prequels had a story to tell and characters we care about.

Not exactly, but they threw enough money at him to kick him out. And... Aren't we just blessed that Episodes 7, 8 & 9 turned out to be the greatest Star Wars films in the entire series because of that.🙄

No need to quote you re: Disney, Tommy. It's interesting information, but besides the point I was trying to make. GE makes reliable light bulbs. They're great! Until you look deeper. GE is also responsible for missile guidance systems that shoot down our own planes, and drone parts that have killed almost a million innocent people through the Bush, Obama, Trump years. Now as a perfectly amoral, narcissistic corporation would say, they protest "We're not responsible. We just build them, not use them" so they can sleep at night. They are at best war profiteering, and more likely an accessory to UN human rights violations. Bringing good things to life indeed. Enjoy that food processor, Suzie! Disney is a rapacious, global corporate empire, bent on total domination of every aspect of the entertainment industry. They rake in Billions in profits but pay some employees starvation wages in their parks and has a history of strong-arming talent and sidelining visionaries to cater to marketing dept. demands for "cross promotion". They overlook sexual harassment and sweep it under the rug until it becomes a PR nightmare (Weinstein, John Lassiter, James Gunn). They have a public image they tightly maintain, that you cited, but that image a mere smokescreen to what they're really up to. They don't care that Kill Bill got made. They care that they profited from it's box office and DVD sales. Don't be surprised, that if Amico is wildly successful, Disney comes at you with a big fat check to buy Intellivision, and decides to sideline you & your team just like they did to George Lucas.

Partially correct. It was financed by Disney and yes, produced by Weinstein (but before anyone knew he was a pervert, so he was a Hollywood God!) and distributed by Buena Vista distribution, a wholly owned Disney subsidiary. Wiki says Lions Gate and Studio Canal now own the film library. But now, because of the musical chairs of corporate mergers, Disney now owns a movie we don't talk about.

This is a Disney Movie...

I want backtracking and invisible power ups out of spite. 😈 *yes. Joking*

Capcom

Do those include the big company in my pic you quoted?🤪

First off "Turd in the punchbowl" is an age old meme before memes. I didn't make it up, and since you are trying to turn this personal, then I'll just retract that remark and not engage with you any longer.

In another thread (Which Amico Games would you like to see) he said they won't, barring any ultra-boring, no personality robots. Boxing notwithstanding.

I know. We were assured that it will. And of course I'm all in, because it's an intriguing system I find very attractive. Also with regard to Metroidvanias, there's Tommy saying "You can count on it!" That is a confirmation (which I appreciate) that's being second guessed. I'm also not going to get some things on the Amico that I do want, and I'm ok with that. I suggested another game like Pocket Fighter (pictured Below), a Chibi character street fighter game with simpler moves and cartoony Loonie Toons or Tex Avery style action, Tommy did shoot that one down, because fighting games (even the cutesy ones like Pocket Fighter) are usually an automatic 14+ rating. Since PF was a Sega Saturn game released in Japan only, I don't know what it's ESRB rating would've been. My frustration is just the constant usage of the e-10 ratings, "family fun" concept or other Amico guidelines that some posters here are cynically using as an excuse to second guess anybody else's wish list, because of their own personal taste or bias. Also, as I'm new to Atari Age, and not really understanding what makes it's long term members tick, but I have sensed a real disdain for Japanese games by a few since I arrived here. I don't know why that is, but I am thankful to Intellivision for singing a deal to get Irem games, including the only Amico game ready to play now (at least 15 seconds of it).

See? This is what I'm talking about with the other convo I had upthread. The incessant desire to deny anybody a game genre they may like, simply because you don't, and build up a rationale to support it. If Tommy follows your advice, then I'm out. I wish the console luck, but it will have less to offer me and may not be worth the investment.

Speaking of notes and convertibles...

... And the curly haired one clutches the pearls.😂

I can't think of any RPG/quest game that is as easy to get onto for a beginner than a Metroidvania. They all start off very simple, and the fun of discovery builds from there on to the end. The difficulty & challenges of this type of game only build upon the skills learned from earlier exploration. It is a brilliant and classic genre. To say few people would "get it" is absurd. If the 1986 Metroid wasn't simple to get into, then it and the genre it spawned would've died with it. Intellivision Football is more complicated than Metroid. Hell, even the game on my avatar, Vetron is more complicated than Metroid.

No. You're taking a shit in the punchbowl. Even I, a non-game designer can imagine how this type of game can be translated to multi-player, just by imagining the template of the old Lost Vikings 16 bit game mechanics to a larger Metroid type adventure. And I'm sure that real game designers can imagine much more than that with a ton more creativity than I could imagine.

Buzzkill

I love, love, love Metroidvania games! Ori and the Blind Forest is my favorite Xbox One game and it's 2.5 D. Just stunningly beautiful and brutally hard. I'd love a system that gave them the premium showcase instead of relegating it to stocking stuffer status.