IntelliMission

It's very tough in here because of Pat and Ian. So I think we may be a little over sensitive. We have people who are full blown haters who attack the idea and say it will fail, or hope it fails. We have people who sit in the middle but are also sometimes a little sarcastic like ColecoJoe and MrBeefy. They seem to be on both sides of the coin, and that's okay. Then we have people who are full blown lovers who praise the idea no matter what and only want it to succeed. Like me And then the fourth group, the lover-haters, who love the idea and praise the idea and go out of their way to make fun of people who may sit in the middle like Rayken. We have too many different types of trolls, lovers, haters, etc. It's exhausting and I don't know how Tommy has the energy for all of us. I think you forgot one kind of people:

when people say that atariage is full of people who worship amico/tommy youre now top of the list. yes i speak in absolutes but you have done nothing but condescendingly mock the statements i make because you disagree with them. note how i do not target anyone in particular in here and am speaking in blanket terms that apply to the idea not anyones beliefs and then you turn around and make a post targeting me and think you are being sly by mocking my argument or tone. you think that because i dislike the idea and the new video was not my cup of tea and i state it its then okay to go around and mock my statements and think this is hilarious or clever at all. you're not smarter than a hater because you can use better words or act smug in your response. ive personally noted how civil everyone has been in here regardless of how harsh i come off, except for you. you are a shining example of someone who cant be talked to about anything beyond pure positive notions or else this is what someone can hope to get. a torn apart version of their argument thrown back at them for ridiculing purposes. Well, when people say that the Internet is full of weirdos having debates with their own clones, you're now on top of mine. 🤓

@Papy This is not about liking Albert or not. They clearly have proof. I disagree with some of the rules, but there's no debate in this case. A few days ago I warned that finding a fanboy creating one or several fake users posing as haters was not uncommon on video game message boards, especially fanboys of one particular company. So it looks like the same pattern repeats here, as this is the second time this happens after @Guy was banned for being somebody's second account. Here's a funny story about @1001lives / @LordRayken: Some months ago, when many weirdos were joining AtariAge attracted by drama, I warned Tommy via PM about the haters. I saw he was spending hours debating them and was worried that he lost too much energy with that, which could harm the design process of the console and its games. So I recommended to ignore them based on my experience in forums (which include trying to make flatearthers see the light on Youtube until I gave up). So one of the things I said was, literally: "Careful with 1001lives". Why did I say that? Well, the guy was a Reddit user that used to be a troll before the Amico (scroll all the way down to see how he gets into fights all the time, here are 3 examples: 1, 2, 3). I saw him insulting other users "LordRayken style" with his 1001lives Reddit account. But an interesting question remains: Which of the two personalities was the true one? 🕷️👉👈🕷️ The debate is open. My take: LordRayken was the true one. 1001lives seems a different person in Reddit. P. S.: It looks like the guy is married with a woman, which makes the theory of the shared dorm even less plausible.

It looks like Sony and Microsoft will finally show everything they have to offer over the next weeks. I'm glad, the suspense was killing me even if I'm not interested in those machines.

In Spanish they mean "female magician", so I was kind of confused when I saw some users using that word on their nicknames or signatures in Spain. Back to the Amico, I think I spent like 10 tense minutes looking at the screen, paralyzed, trying to decide between black and white for the VIP edition. I liked the black one better but I only will play with my family, so I ended up choosing the white one. But it was a weird situation, I wasn't sure if the consoles were going to sell out and I was choosing a color for 10 minutes as if I was a 10 year old kid.

Good idea! I humbly suggest the color of bleach for that version. EDIT: By the way, I just finished Larry V for MS-DOS and the Donald is there. He doesn't appear, but there's the Tramp Casino, Tramp Hotel, Tramp this, Tramp that... And Patti, one of the playable characters, dreams about kissing a mysterious Donald in a yacht. Then there's Ivana Tramp, who rents skates because she's having trouble "after her divorce". I didn't know about this until I found it in the game, it was cool.

This guy speaks like a robot for some reason, but his videos are short and his ideas are interesting. He also makes music, apparenty. I'm glad Tommy is promoting him, he's more entertaining than most youtubers. 🍸

Just like @jaybird3rd, I initially was a technology professional (IT) with a strong linguistic background, which in my case allowed me to become a freelance translator thanks to my writing skills in (European) Spanish after a massive redundancy plan in my former (American) company. These skills were taught to me by my Spanish teacher as a kid in a public school. My parents are good persons, but they didn't have too much of an influence in my personality, which often was hard for me as I was forced to "make myself". Sometimes homeschooling can work fine, provided the kids have a way to make friends playing outside, and sometimes it can go wrong. It all depends on the human and technical level of the people teaching the kids, both parents and teachers. Homeschooling can be a terrible idea with certain parents, but the education system is terribly flawed and sometimes a class feels like a jail. As I said, memorization should only be 5-10% of the education and not 90% and this is probably why sometimes homeschooling works so well with the right parents, because they don't treat kids as some kind of cassettes or parrots that repeat the same message they doesn't really understand. I think it's worth noting that we are animals and we have instincts, and socialization is one of them. This is why message boards and WhatsApp groups are popular, as well as sports teams, both for the better (fellowship) and for the worse (tribalism). Having children trapped in a classroom or house is not natural, which is why experts are worried about the effects of the quarantine on children after spending a couple of months in their houses. There have been reports of several kids that didn't want to go out after the quarantine is lifted because they were scared.

Back to the education and slightly offtopic, am I the only one under the impression that modern cartoons suck? I mean, they look terrible, but I could be completely misguided. Any fathers that watch cartoons with their kids over here can confirm?

Haha, I actually don't like the game itself, but I love the graphics, the little tune, the text in the game and the whole idea. I would have said Larry style games, but that's not S. A. F. E. The first Space Quest, the first Larry... Those are masterpieces. For some reason I only like Sierra games when they are humorous. One thing I love about those early games is how they managed to look genuinely better than the 1991 remakes, especially Larry. But yeah, I hope some programmer creates something like that. Screens don't scroll and there's not too many sprites on the screen, so it would be a matter of using the low res graphics with intelligence. Graphic adventures are easy technically but difficult from a design point of view, as creating puzzles with the right difficulty must be hard.

By the way, I think somebody should make King Quest style games for the original Intellivision. The 1984 blocky one, of course. Since there is no keyboard, each action could be mapped to a number on the controller. I don't think the processor speed would be a problem to create such games.

Education should be much less memorization and much more interaction. I remember the silly games I played much more vividly than 95% of the classes I took as a kid. That's a lot of time and money wasted in memorizing stuff than you quickly forget, it's time someone changes this and I hope the Amico can help creating such games.

Try this. You won't regret it. Notice the bar that gets bigger and smaller: it's the power meter. It's a clever way to implement shots of 4 different strengths with only one button. You can do 8 types of shots with only one button, combining the: - 3 positions of the power meter and a "negative" power shot, with the negative one being a heel kick. - 2 diferent kinds of shots and 1 special shot: Standing still, the players make a very low/flat shot; in movement they make a lob shot and leaving the fire button pressed before receiving the ball makes a very powerful special shot. You can even choose 6 tactics, manual or automatic control of the keeper and play versus or co-op. It looks terrible, but it's a winner. Play the ZX Spectrum one or use a C64/Amstrad emulator able to increase the speed, though. The Spectrum one is the original and the versions are slow as a snail.

But seriously, Tommy, perhaps the virtue is in the middle road this time. Perhaps you could start doing interviews with youtubers with 1,000+ views per video only. I think you (as any regular person, not that is bad) were not aware of how mental some of these Internet haters are and how much they can drain your energy, to the point that it's actually better to ignore them even when you could easily win a debate with them using real data.

Just like coronavirus is a lie created by the Illuminatis, the Amico doesn't actually exist. It's all a scheme created by Tommy to win the secret Guiness reward of $1,000,000,000 after doing more than 1,000 interviews in 6 months.

I have noticed this too! How can this be? Console manufacturer's fanboys are even worse than political or sports fanatics! In Spain, a Nintendo fanboy even created several fake "Nintendo haters" nicknames and used them for years. He did the same trick in 2012 and 2017. The method was to create a blog where he posed as a person trying to "unmask" Nintendo with things like "Nintendo didn't really invent X" or "the Genesis was actually more powerful than the SNES in X". After hundreds of blog entries and forum messages, he then revealed his plot with his real user and showed captures of the "friend list" of his fake user. In the end, he only managed to achieve a Streisand effect: even most Nintendo fanboys said that he was nuts, and some other users pointed out that most of the historic data he provided was real. So the real lesson was how crazy can a Nintendo fanboy get over a video game discussion, to the point of creating fake IDs to stalk others, and this actually damaged Nintendo and its fanbase more than defending it. I've seen weird and permanently negative fanboys from other companies such as Sega, and I'm sure there must be some extreme Sony and Xbox fanboys capable of this too, but, based on my experience, the two main motivations to go crazy and start stalking people on the Internet over a video game console are 1) Defending Nintendo and 2) Getting obsessed with one particular user/youtuber/personality.

This is what happens when people have an open mind and do some actual research. And when they propose intelligent topics of debate and concerns instead of just repeating "it's going to fail", "kids just want Mario" and "we're in Ouya territory" for 15 minutes. Sometimes, having 10x the number of viewers doesn't make you a better journalist.

(Interesting) offtopic: One of my favorite bands from California, Mr. Bungle, just reunited live after 20 years! After a short intro where they covered a Mr. Rogers song, they proceeded to play their full death metal demo they created as teenagers (after the 1985 demo, titled The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny, they turned to funk jazz metal and folk, among others).

Why do you still call Tommy's fan a fan? It has been bought by Tommy, so it's obviously a shill!

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About the FigureItOutCast: - The host just gave a thumps up to a very informative comment about the Amico from an user called Tom and Karen Dinardis: - LordRayken is trying to convince the guy to do an interview with Tommy. 🙃

That's a good one. 🤓 So there was some truth when I theorized about the political triggering that the Amico produces in haters from both sides of the political spectrum.

Is there any console that has better box art than the original Intellivision? I never had one, but what I'm seeing is epic.

Good story, @Alpha82! And since you mentioned the PS1 and @Starpaddler mentioned games about gliding, I wanted to take the chance and recommend the first Spyro to everyone. Yes, it's 3D, but it's beautiful for the PS1, it has an amazing soundtrack by Steward Copeland and it has some memorable gliding moments to reach some hidden gems.

According to these guys: - Intellivision is not the name of the company - The console is trying to sell based solely on nostalgia - Nintendo already does this with the Switch - The Amico is trying to be a console that you buy to children instead of the Switch The host also said that "somebody" from Intellivision approached him to do some kind of interview and he refused "because he doesn't believe in the product and accepting the offer would like free advertising". The way they talked about the original Intellivision was interesting: "Nobody cares about that". "Nobody collects for it". They were surprised about the 10,000 units presold and they didn't know that the console only needs 100,000 to break even: "The Wii U sold 12 millions and it still failed". At the end, the host recognized that he can't really be sure because he hasn't played it and that Tommy is admirable for having a vision and following it. My personal perception is that the host was somehow angry when talking about the console, as if its mere existence disturbed him. It reminded me of some other podcast, but I forgot the name.