Alpha82

I’m not that far off from you I never really followed any video game news until Intellivision announced Tommy as CEO and they announced a new console was coming. I had given up on modern gaming after PS3 because I didn’t enjoy the type of games you could get for the most part I missed Easy to understand hard to master games I could play with others. I got so excited about Intellivision retuning that I watched every video released about the Intellivision Amico at first so I saw a couple Pat & Ian vises then but since their fake apology video haven’t clicked on a single video because I don’t like the way they act so I refuse to support them with clicks. I got burned out on all the hate after a while and stepped back from the whole Amico thing to recharge for a little while but I am glad to be back because being part of this experience with Amico has been amazing. I’ve always been a huge Intellivision fan it’s the first gaming system my family had and it’s the one we played together the most in my mind. What has been so great for little though is that thanks to Tommy’s passion and his openness it really makes me feel like I’m part of Intellivision and I wouldn’t trade the experience and people I have met through this experience for anything

I think in the interview last night Tommy said they were going to live stream next week to do the UI and Q&A

Thanks either I forgot or that was during the short break I took from the board for a while

So did we also drop the network port from Amico I didn’t see it on the back of the render?

I believe Tommy said the video about Moon Patrol contest would be our Tuesday

Haven’t played Breakout yet but very much looking forward to it but I’ve got a bad back most days I’m good for one lengthy activity a day today was rearranging my room to replace a shade tomorrow the plan is Breakout

Today’s videos were fantastic. I really enjoyed the hardware video more than I thought I would and lots of the games have me excited Snafoo looks amazing, Biplanes looks so fun all the games looked like a lot of fun

I’m thinking Breakout too but just to go with an off the wall guess I hope it’s Horse Racing it’d be fun to see how that is going to be it’s a game I am very much looking forward to as it’s one my dad and I played a ton

Always enjoy reading your posts because it looks at this fantastic journey we have all been on in a different way. I don’t have a background in financing or business so I can look at things like fig, or the business presentation award and other business related milestones and achievements Intellivision has had and I can say they seem like signs of good things to come but getting to see this information really dug into by someone with a background in it helps to improve on the understanding and I for one very much appreciate that insight.

This was very well said. Every one I have talked to about Amico is either planning to buy one or excited to try the Amico with me.

I am absolutely loving seeing these articles from non gaming sites about Amico it’s this focus on family gaming with an old school easy to understand difficult to master type of approach that has had me excited for the return of Intellivision since October 2018. I know when I get my system and hook it up there is a very real chance I’ll cry the first time I play it remembering the hours I spent playing Intellivision with my dad. I’ll also probably think back to the year I got everyone in the family Intellivision flashbacks and we sat there and played games together for the first time in years I’m very much looking forward to making more memories like that. Thank you Intellivision for making memories like that possible again for someone like me who got left behind by over complicated games that for me at least required a walkthrough to beat games

So this was too incredible not to add to this thread. The first time I heard of Cornhole was when Tommy was talking about it. So my home town is doing a Cornhole tournament as part of our fall festival this year which is happening on....10/10/2020 my brain exploded when I saw that

The 50 certifications they have to get from other companies in order to sell in the different companies those companies are closed or backed up and I also feel sure the driving up of components didn’t help and probably the factory operating at 60% or so slowed things as well

How much room does the Xbox interface eat up of that hard drive space? Most of the videos I have seen say that the next gen games will be bigger in size and most people think around 3-5 games will be all you could have on your system at one time and to add space is $216 for the propriety hard drive for 1TB of added space unless you want to copy games back and forth off an external hard drive but not be able to play games off the hard drive. As far as the Amico memory with available space after UI will hold 30-50 games with max games at a size of 1 gig per game and when extra space is needed a micro sad card is all you need which you can get a lot cheaper than$216 because you won’t need as much extra space

But the Microsoft proprietary expansion drives are $214 per drive so standard drives while cheaper can’t play the games only store them

That was a fun video I’ve been reading a lot of Keith’s Making It comic strips online and I really hope that eventually Amico can either do an updated version of Normy’s Sega Genesis game or a new game themed around characters from the comic strip

So I have to share this just because it was so funny to me I do get a kick out of Tommy’s sense of humor. I don’t really do much talking with the haters who travel from video to video unless I am in a mood that day.

No once the games are downloaded they are yours to own

I find this I don’t think it will sell to it’s intended audience thought very strange because from what I have seen I think we have a system coming from Intellivision that could I believe outsell the Nintendo Wii even though Intellivision does not have the brand power of Nintendo here are the reasons I think that way 1. A team that features just in the core group over 600 years of experience in the games industry from all different aspects of the business including high quality marketing people and while this does not guarantee success I would think it would be a positive aspect towards success. 2. Part of the marketing team launched every Nintendo Console from NES - Wii/DS which includes two of Nintendo’s best selling consoles of all time, another marketing member helped get one of the best selling franchises of all time Pokémon off the ground, and yet another marketing member worked for Mattel a very successful toy company on products for their Disney property toy lines. Why mention these folks and their past so high up on the list because of the success they have had in marking their items to their intended groups this will be a key to Intellivision’s success with Amico and they thought enough about that aspect to put together a top notch team long ago which shows how important they think that aspect will be for success. 3. Unlike the Wii which fell into a hypercasual and non gaming crowd thanks to a fun to play tech demo packaged with the system but did little to follow up with the audience themselves leaving those experiences mostly to third party developers Intellivision is focusing on hypercasual players with 20% of their library being for hypercasual players who play mainly on cell phones or tablets currently. 4. Intellivision’s focus on gaming together with friends and family will be a huge part of their success because that’s an experience that is not really offered much on the mobile gaming scene. That experience should get people excited to play games with family and friends in the same room on a shared screen much like Wii did with a tech demo. Families will also be excited for the educational games that will make up another 20% of the library allowing them to play games with the younger children they have as well, this will be enhanced by the inclusion of partners like Sesame Street Workshop. 5. A controller that is more approachable by a mobile game player the controller looks similar to a cellphone it’s a little thicker has action buttons on the top or bottom or sides depending how it’s held and a big movement disk or button the familiar design of this makes it much more approachable by people who normally don’t play games outside of mobile or tablet and that will make it much easier to have others pick up and join in the fun. As a bonus for anyone who thinks that the Wii market is covered by mobile games and no room remember that the most recent release of Just Dance sold better on Wii after all these years than any other system currently available. Intellivision has a plan for simple to understand and play (not necessarily easy to beat games) that are affordable digital games with a max price of $9.99 that are family friendly and entertaining for the whole family that on some games up to 8 people can play together. As someone who misses very much being able to play video games with family outside of sports or fighting games where there are very few options on modern systems these along with some I’m sure I failed to mention are a few of the reasons I think that Amico will outsell the Wii

Yes in the photo they are using white but you can change the color of the led used in the menu to whatever available color you want

I can understand that line of thinking I guess it depends on what your main focus was. I was always amazed by the graphics of the next machine we got from Intellivision to Nintendo to Super Nintendo I remember saying each time how amazing the graphics were and it could never get better than that by PlayStation I learned my lesson it can always get better given enough time. And while I did enjoy the graphics for me it was always more about having fun with my dad and after PlayStation the local multiplayer pickings were basically sports titles or fighting games with a few other games thrown in. On PS2 the majority of our play together was Tiger Woods Golf because on a fighting game dads fingers would wear out fast. So it’s the philosophy of Intellivision that draws me to the system more than any certain art style I kind of like the range of styles because to me it’ll be fun maybe discovering a style of design I enjoy I had never thought about. My brother sent me a photo recently of my nephews sitting down together playing on the Intellivision Flashback I got him for Christmas a few years ago along with the full pack of overlays seeing them playing together was a lot of fun and brought back memories of playing with my dad and brother and my step brother on Intellivision it’s those opportunities to create memories like that again that I am most excited for because of that although graphics are important to a point it’s not my driving force or concern

I don’t think We would see more than 5 or 10 additional games than that, if that because every game gets time in the spotlight of the store the more we have to start with the more they have to back track later

I think they are looking to have around 30 in store and 20 or so ready for scheduled release

It’s really nice to see someone cover Intellivision with balanced coverage he may have concerns and questions but it’s not driven by any kind of bias

I can understand not liking the mobile controllers for Moon Patrol but that should not alone stop you from trying the system Tommy mentioned I believe that on the system you can use the disk as speed up and slow down and buttons for fire and jump. Maybe you won’t preorder the system maybe you wait and try it first at a store or mall mostly what matters is what the experience you want out of your gaming is and if you think enough of the games provided by Intellivision will meet that goal. For me I want a machine I can play games with friends and family and since my grandma who hasn’t played a game since NES Tetris is wanting to play some of the games on the system for me it’s worth it