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  1. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    If the Amico sells "only" 500K and not too many hardcore gaming websites talk about it at all, that's fine: it will be just like most of the music albums I like. I happen to listen to alternative metal and rock, especially positive music instead of melancholic among those, and those never sell too well. I feel those 500K will have a similar experience: they will have a great time with something that not too many people know about.

     

    Those people, including us, will be lucky to know something unique, positive, with its own personality.

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  3. Posted

    I liked everything about the event except for the following details:

     

    - The delay (but it's not really their fault and it's probably a good decision)

     

    - The high-profile Distribution Department guy and his daughter looked too serious (not trying to be nitpicking)

     

    - The fox game (there's gotta be something for everyone, but this game screams solitary experience for me)

     

    It was great to confirm that the console is a reality and many of the people working with Tommy are plain geniuses (the EWJ guys, the Bomb Squad guy, the guys who make Breakout...).

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  6. Posted

    1 hour ago, Steel76 said:

    Wait...it's been delayed until April 2021?

    Was hoping to get this around christmas :(

     

    Oh well, looking forward to the event.

    And btw, I love the Moon Patrol demo, even though the touch controls fails to fire and jump at times :D

    Hope we get more demos soon :)

     

    The 2021 delay has not been confirmed officially, it's just a webpage that was later taken down.

  7. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    2 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:


    Hope they are able to check out the event tomorrow.

     

    Strange that they have so many subscribers but only about 50 views on every video.

     

     

    I just checked their channel and found an explanation: apparently, 4 or 5 years ago they were hitting it big time with Just Dance Kids! gameplay videos. About 30 of those reached 1-2M views and other 30 200-500K.

     

    For some reason, they stopped doing those videos and for the last 2 years none of their videos reaches 500 views.

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  9. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    Here's a couple of "countdown songs" I wanna share with you guys:

     

    1) The first one is not very well known but it's amazing: Toto - Big Battle (Dune OST). No wonder Faith No More played a recording of the song before appearing on stage on several concerts in 1992.

     

    2) The second one is much more famous, but it always works: Jerry Goldsmith - End Credits (Total Recall OST). This song got very popular in Spain when one channel decided to use it before soccer matches as the intro song, while they showed panoramic shots of the stadium.

     

    If Tommy uses one of these songs with a pitch black screen before starting the event, it won't matter if he only shows a fishing game and a train simulator: the hype will be in our minds for years.

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  11. Posted

    SpaceVenture, the graphic adventure that the creators of Space Quest have been developing for 8 years, has just released its beta version.

    Unlike the Space Quests, starring a handsome cleaner, the protagonist is a mechanic with a beer gut carrying a robotic dog. It's 3D and third person and all dialogues are voiced.

     

    Judging by the 7-minute video of the first scene of the Beta, the game seems to have good dialogues, interface and puzzles.

     

    Among the reasons for the delay, the programmers mention that both designers lost their mothers during these 8 years and Scott Murphy had to overcome prostate cancer and the corresponding bill of $30,000 for the operation.

     

    During all these years, some of the backers were not too happy with the decision of some of the people worknig on the project: Chris Pope deleted all his social networks and Scott Murphy, after leaving the project, was very active on Twitter talking about politics .

     

    Also, the backers have been complaining for years about the multiple delays in the general comments on the project on Kickstarter to the point that they have created a small online community with their own off-topic discussions: according to one comment, the release date was announced for 2013, for 2015, for 2016, for 2018 and for 2019.

     

    In fact, the game's latest release date, announced a few months ago, was June 2020.

  13. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    Wow! I wasn't expecting that. I actually liked the first one much more, but I have the feeling the second one brings much more nostalgia for some American TV shows... I really can't think of another explanation.

     

    The second video is 50 seconds shorter, and, interestingly, has a like/dislike ratio closer to 10 Vs. 1 when the first one is almost 20 Vs. 1.

     

    The official channel has only 25 videos, but the second video has quickly jumped to the top 5 most viewed  in only 3 days. The second one has also done quite well: it just reached 14K views in less than 2 weeks and it looks like it will soon be among the top 10.

     

    I hope the first video gets more views through Youtube suggestions with the help of the second one, because it deserves it. It shows more of the controller and it's just more crazy. I'm cheering for video #1.

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  14. Posted

    @GrudgeQ I think it was Relicgamer the one who criticized that he bought other apparently useless things. I didn't mention that because it's clear form the start that the Amico is not for him: not looking for family games, not looking for Intellivision classics and he even hates the woodgrain "color". My point was that I don't think he liked the console that much, which, of course, is fine. I respect his tastes, but the reasons he gave for cancelling the console were there when he preordered, nothing changed. It's like I order an HD TV and then cancel it and then make a Youtube video about it saying how much I hate modern games... What's the point? ; )

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  15. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    I watched the first minutes of the video you mention and it feels like he was never interested on it to begin with. The reasons he gives is that he doesn't like the woodgrain design (!), he didn't grow up with Intellivision (!) and Tommy showing 2 games that are available for mobile on the trailer.

     

    Reasons 1 and 2 were already there when he preordered and reason 3 one is not very solid, as the mobile games are only 2 games among dozens and even then, they will have lots of unique features and offline multiplayer options. It's like selling all your retro consoles because they have a special port of Doom with unique levels because it's the "same game" as in other plaforms. Also, the way he talks about mobile assuming everything is bad in that platform is pretty biased.

     

    This has given me an idea for a question, by the way. Hey @Tommy Tallarico, what's the percentage of people who have cancelled the Founder Edition or VIP Edition of the console and asked for the $100 refund?

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  16. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    A couple of not-so-offtopics while Tommy finishes preparing the event (4 days to go!):

     

    - Update from the TLoU2 thread in one of the biggest forums in Spain: over the last 4 pages, 99% of the messages talk about the story and only 1% talk about the gameplay (some guy was complaining that there were too many options to improve weapons and stuff and that's not even necessary in the game). It's the same situation 1 month later, nothing has changed. (As usual, no Sony fans will come here and complain because we're "bashing Sony"... that will never change either).

     

    - Thanks to whoever mentioned The Toys that Made Us. I watched the whole Masters of the Universe episode and I think I will now watch the 3 seasons.

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  17. Posted

    He could also ask "hey Tommy, I suspect all your employees, including J Allard, are volunteers... Why? Because I was a volunteer on Video Games Live, and that raised my suspicions. If I was a volunteer, it means Video Games Live didn't have any employees and everyone was a volunteer too. I always thought I had a Sherlock Holmes in me, you know?".

     

    But I'm not sure if he will.

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  18. Posted

    When Tommy shows the console booting up, it's gonna be Game Over for lots of folks... and some of them are in this forum.

     

    Quote from the Taco thread, yesterday:

     

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    Hey hey can't we all get along?
    No one has said it yet, but I think at this point Amico and Atari should just pool thier efforts together and make the AtaMico, or AmiVCS... flip a coin I don't care.
    The market is so small for a niche device both of these clowns should just admit it and do a merger. It seems Atari has the box but no Controllers and games, Amico has the controllers and games but no box finished... 💞 + 🤝🏼+🎮+💩=💰 ?

     

    It's going to be really hard for those people when the system comes out and the only thing they can say to keep their insults going is that it "only" has sold 500K units instead of 10M.

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  22. Posted

    Games from the USA are a huge deal, but from the UK and other non-Japan countries we have...

     

    - UK:

         > Lots of 8 bit classics: Saboteur 1 and 2, Matchday 2, Skool Daze, Manic Miner, Head over Heels, Elite...

         > A few 16 bit classics: Donkey Kong Country, Speedball 2, Xenon 2, Cannon Fodder, Lemmings...

         > Lots of 32/64 bit classics: Tomb Raider, Goldeneye, Wipeout 2097, Destruction Derby 2, GTA 2, Colin McRae, Medievil...

     

    - France:

         > Lots of 16 bit graphic adventures: Goblins and Inca series, Lost in Time, Ween, Fascination, Future Wars, Eternam...

         > Other 16 bit classics: Another World, the Alone in the Dark series...

     

    - Canada:

         > Everything by Electronic Arts, including 8 bit classics such as Archon or Kings of the Beach, the Need for Speed series and all sports games.

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  23. Posted · Edited by IntelliMission

    After playing through "There Is No Game", by the French developers Draw Me a Pixel, and seeing the trailer for the graphic adventure "There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension" that they just released...

     

    ...I think, at this point, Atari would be more successful taking that path and renaming the system There Is No Console: a device where you can discover secret minigames by interacting with glitches while Atari CEO's voice yells at you "what are you doing, Atari fan? Don't touch that! This is not a console!".

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  25. Posted

    I will vote against Japan here because of all the classic graphic adventures, all the 90s FPS, some great English and American games for the 8 bit computers, the GTA games and platform games such as Abe's Oddysee, Another World, Spyro or Tomb Raider. Also, the second generation of consoles was 100% American it was hugely influential.

     

    I played a lot of Japanese games with my Game Boy, PS1 and PS2 and I think Japanese programmers create the best soccer, fighting, survival horror, espionage and party games, as well as some of the best platformers and unique games such as Ico or Katamari Damacy, so it was a close call.

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