supahwally

Nice! I'd love a run down through the corkscrew in a formula car, that must have been an awesome sensation, your rear end is only inches from the pavement! Sounds like you have natural skills, there is a big difference between cruising around in your Ferrari and hitting braking points and apexes. Mucho respect! Closest thing for me was Nascar cars at Las Vegas motor speedway (amazing!) a few years ago. I spent most of my youth driving way too fast down dirt and snow covered logging roads in northern Maine. If you learned to drive on snow and ice...it's a part of the reason car control comes naturally. Awesome photos, thanks for posting. Also: Sick helmet design! You should do a special edition Amico wrapped like that....

Tommy, have you been to many different racetracks with your car(s), or taken any driving lessons? Ever do track days or things like that?

No, it makes you feel good. You didn't just fight a battle, you typed words back at a sociopath manchild who is incapable of understanding logic. You are making the incorrect assumption that your words will have effect, likely because words have an effect on you. I respect that, but picking your battles is what wins the war. Stomping on faces, seriously? Ever been in a fistfight? You can't wrestle a pig without getting dirty, and the pig liking it. Stay out of the pigpen.

I must be the exception that proves the rule? I don't read, watch, or click. Every single discussion or further comment about these clowns is detrimental, I really wish you guys would take Tommy's lead and let these people fall by the wayside. The Amico is moving on to bigger and better things. Let it.

In the Intellivision game Utopia, you could purchase 'rebels'. Instead of improving your island, they landed on your competitor's island and could potentially mess things up. I always saw it as a person holding a gun, or bow and arrow, and causing unrest. As a side note, we had a house rule for Utopia: No rebels allowed.

Supahwally is my handle at GTPlanet.net, so I continued using it here. My name is Willis, after my grandfather. My coworker calls me Wally, for reasons neither of us can remember. 'Supah' is how it sounds when Maine people say 'super'! Ayuh!

Considering the world is stuck at home, mindlessly searching for entertainment...this is not good. No wonder they are in panic mode.

Makes sense about the boards-minor stuff. I was impressed you had already put wind effects in and thought the animations were great also. Yep, been to Old Orchard Beach-OOB for short! Mainers didn't really go there as much though, we tended to go places the Quebecois (and their Speedos😲) didn't find as popular. It's really busy and a lot of fun though. Did you ever go in June? You'd remember it, the water is SO COLD. So cold. Shrinkage to the max, Costanza!

This thread is entertaining and bringing back a lot of memories, especially about 80's New England. I'm from Maine, and we had a drugstore chain called LaVerdiere's, and by the mid 80s they all had arcades attached to them. You go $20 worth tokens if you brought in a report card with all A's and B's. Loved that place. Growing up in northern Maine required some serious travel for legit 'entertainment'. The closest amusement park was actually the one in Mass you have been talking about! We never went, the rides make me puke. I love going fast, but I have to be the one steering the ship. Anyway, on topic: Playing cornhole again today, and found myself wondering if the user will be able to create their own board graphic design? We built and painted our own for the backyard, it would be cool to bring them 'inside', so to speak. Minor stuff, I know. Just curious.

It's a shame but you are correct. Not much straight up reporting left. I partly blame 'us'-the people who consume information. When I was a kid, to get tabloid news, you had to buy it in a physical store. Everybody saw you standing in line at the grocery store with it, and, at least where I was from, people would try to hide it or maybe make an embarrassed comment. It's not like you were buying Penthouse, but it was different than picking up the regular newspaper. The newspaper had a basic journalistic standard, and anybody with half a brain knew the difference between the NY Post and the National Enquirer. I still remember the day, several years ago, when my Yahoo! News feed changed...and all the tabloid crap was mixed in, even when I went to the 'news' section-not 'Stories'. Now all media is tabloid based. The garbage is mixed in. Add facebook and youtube, where the content is totally unvetted, and here we are. The fake journalists have devalued real journalism so much that it has to become tabloid just to compete for clicks and eyeballs. Today there is no shame or embarrassment when you peddle or consume disinformation. Everyone seems to be having fun rushing to the bottom of the barrel, but the prize is only chaos. On a lighter (or maybe just sweeter!) note, I left Maine in 1990 and headed to Long Island NY to go to Hofstra. My first experience with Carvel was on campus, we had one that you could use your MEAL PLAN and buy ice cream and stuff. It was good. Very good. My diet was bad. Very bad.

Here's the final lines from the article: 'But the Amico isn’t for me. I have a PC and three consoles connected to my TV. So maybe the company is onto something I don’t quite comprehend. And maybe some investors on Fig will jive with that vision.' Another delusional person who is convinced everyone else is just like them, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Nice to learn how I can invest though. Thanks for showing me another way to support the Amico team.

I'm sure you have it well sorted already. I have to constantly remind myself how old I am, and things that appeal to me may not have a large market. But when it comes back around, and people you never thought would be interested come into the fold, it confuses the crap out of me. Tube radios and amplifiers were totally gone for a long, long time. Now? BOOM! So bizarre.

I....I don't even know what to say. RATT? Cool! I had no idea-no kids for me. I do know that 13 year olds LOVE our green 1980 Corvette in a way that people over 30-35 do not. They have no negative association with it (divorce dad syndrome, anyone?) that car that looks like nothing else they have ever seen.

If you search by completed/sold listings, and order them by sold price plus shipping (high to low or low to high) the item's actual sold price won't show, but you will be able to figure out roughly what it sold for by looking at the listings above and below it. The wider your search range, the more data points you will have to determine the sold price.

Regarding getting someone famous for promotional purposes, lots of mentions of 80's movie stars or movie references, but isn't the target market people in their 30's? I'm 48, I was only 7 or 8 when the Intellivision was introduced. I'd go for 80s references, but do people in their 30's with single-digit aged kids? Maybe a Seth Rogen age (38) person who appeals to a wide range of demographics would be more in line with the overall marketing strategy.

Too funny. Ms. K works in management at a Credit Union, it's not a big place but she hears most of it in meetings weekly. She's working from home, I overhear some meetings on speakerphone and it's really funny, honestly. She just rolls her eyes. It makes me think of an old Monty Python, where they are WWII pilots who talk so much jargon they can't understand each other. 'It is what it is' however...can't tell you how many times I've said or thought that, as I was wiping grease off my hands, and staring at some unsatisfactorily completed mechanical project.

That explains A LOT! People with cash to burn really fall for smiles and jargon. I just got a huge laugh-the radio is on in the background, KOOL 105.1 plays 70s to 80s hits. They have a station promo spot where the deep voiced announcer, tongue-in-cheek, says 'KOOL 105, disrupting the radio industry since 1982'... It just came on while I was typing this. It's everywhere!

Great video, bullseye both for the target market and the casually skeptical. I think it was worth talking about the background of the Amico team and explaining the links back to the original Intellivision, why it was important, and how it relates today. Plus you said 'disrupter' enough times to get a Millennial's attention! Good work!

I'm sorry, but getting defensive over a gaming system (or a sports team) makes you a child. Modern society has just (d)evolved to the point where it's acceptable to be a 40 year old manchild ranting about a gaming console or a sports team. Acceptable and good are not the same. Not even close, in this case. Every single view people give these videos is a slap in the face to the people trying very hard to make real, good things. The critic is inferior to the maker, and this inferiority is the basis of bias when the forum has no professional standard. The internet 'forum' has no standards. The average youtube viewer is rarely perceptive enough to pick the professionals from the blowhards, to them Tommy and this loser are 'on the level' professionally because they are both right there, on the internet. It's an unsustainable model. It's too hard to be the maker and too easy to be the critic. When you click on these videos, you validate that model and make it acceptable, and the 'adults'-the people making things-are forced to deal with the consequences. Sure, you made an awesome comment, a real zinger! So what? Your snarky words buried in the comment section under the video don't matter, but the fact that you visited the page does. It keeps the ad money coming in and the video up on youtube. You just helped someone who is making Tommy's life difficult. This makes sense how, exactly? Stop being part of the problem. Stop watching.

Like I said, it takes a tremendous amount of marketing to convince Americans the concept of value beyond the initial price point.

I missed that MrBeefy, great news. Regarding $199 VS $249...as Tommy said, these are advertised retail prices. You may need to wait, but even if they release it at $249 I would think that eventual promos and sales would pull the price back down again closer to the magic $199. Generally speaking, American consumers really need to be coached to help understand how that extra few dollars will quickly get sucked up with the extra controller and games with any non-Amico system on the market. We are price point shoppers and will buy 4 $100 pairs of shoes in 18 months instead of 1 $200 pair that last 4 years. It's why we say 'buy American' and then head to WalMart. It takes a lot of selling to get that point across.

Out playing cornhole for the first time this year, 58 F and a little bit windy...which I blamed for my poor performance, of course. Made me wonder if the Amico version will have weather to account for, like Wii Archery. Unnecessary, but a fun way to add difficulty.

It's one thing to be on a forum discussion speculating, it's another to be deriving income from uniformed speculation that absolutely can and does influence the behavior of the buying public. For me the whole format is loaded with personality-based biases and influences, (as you said) and a dearth of professionalism. Some (many?) of these people have serious personality issues that are deeply wrapped up in their gaming behavior, and what the Amico represents appears to confuse and frequently irritate them. It's not even the system itself, it's the whole idea. As I've said before, clowns on youtube get to do 'on the level' interviews with an industry veteran like Tommy, and that's just wrong. Stunted adults shouldn't have an audience, but that's pretty much what the modern online world has created.

Didn't watch that-don't need to, the title splash is enough. This same person will find a reason to complain about limited supply this fall, when the only Amico consoles available will be in the hands of those who pre-ordered and he can't get one.

It's the little things! Great news about the VIP numbers, the ball is rolling. I watched that whole video from RetroAdvisory, impressive analysis of the game industry and why the Amico is going to fill an obvious void missed by the 'big guys'. Well presented also. RE: Warlords, I forgot about that! Cool game. I first thought 'Wizard of Wor', probably because I pumped waaaayy too many quarters into that one at the arcade on Main Street. My poor plastic Spider Man piggy bank was violated with a butter knife repeatedly, trying to get the last few quarters out. I'd peer down through the slot, looking to see if there were any left, then I'd flip it upside down, stick the knife in, and work it around until coins dropped out. As you can imagine, this was a process of diminishing returns all summer, and I believe I resorted to collecting cans and bottles (Maine had returnables even then, and a liter glass bottle was a 'twenty center' when a candy bar cost .30!) to get enough quarters together to play some more once Spider Man had given up the goods.