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  2. Posted

    6 hours ago, supahwally said:

    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.

     

    6 hours ago, mr_me said:

    Probably holding a rifle like the box cover.

     

    grazie.

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  4. Posted

     

    yo tommy. how bout making a "beat em up" for the amico and calling it, "Super Cholos!"  it could be very similar to streets of rage. you would just have to fight and progress through various stages of the hood with several different venues like a pool hall or a nightclub trying to rescue some hookers from a rival gang or something. you could even make the final boss "Clubber Lang." i think it would be neat. think about it.

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  6. Posted

    7 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

     

    It's a valid concern and one we're aware of.  But don't worry, once you play a game like Night Stalker you won't be thinking that at all.   :)

     

     

     

    O i believe you. But the problem is that night stalker is only one game on the system. hopefully they'll be more like it. And again... i realize that someone like me isn't apart of your target audience. And that's cool... i totally get it... that's not where the money trail lies. i'm just saying that in your desire to ingratiate yourself to the herd with simple and approachable content, please don't forget about that select group of us that prefer to be challenged without being pampered.  🙂

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  7. Posted

    2 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

    When you mentioned that the Karma Engine wouldn’t apply as single player, I was wondering if such allowances for more forgiving play could be adjusted.  

     

    2 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

    I spend hours a day figuring out and testing the best ways to come at games from a completely different angle so that EVERYONE can play yet still keep it challenging for more experienced players.

     

    i just really hope that in your desire to make the console "accessible" to everyone, you don't end up gelding it to the point where it becomes a total pansy machine. 😡

  8. Posted

    2 hours ago, jaybird3rd said:

    and communities like ours as "cults of Kool-Aid drinkers."

     

    2 hours ago, jaybird3rd said:

    It's easy for communities like ours to forget that, as passionate and as connected to the history of Intellivision as many of us are, our numbers are too small to make a venture like the Amico successful all by ourselves.  We can help to promote it, but in the end, we're a vanishingly small sliver of the target audience.

     

    so are you saying that you're not just the president, but also a member? 

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  9. Posted

    2 hours ago, 1980gamer said:

    I think a game like CLUE would be a perfect game for the controllers capabilities.

    Plus, they have several versions of this game and you could do a few of those

     

    as long as they have a "classic version" like the 1972 edition of the board game. something similar to the 1986 film. ambience is key with clue. absolutely vital! which will inherently also render the soundtrack imperatively important.

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  10. Posted

    25 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

    We see it every day on the news and especially in political commentary.  It's just the way the world works in the 21st century.

     

    yes. it's called the "hegelian dialectic." divide and conquer strategy. while the sheep are distracted through endless quarreling amidst themselves, those on top use such opportunities to amass more and more power and control.

     

     

     

     

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  11. Posted

    37 minutes ago, Relicgamer said:

    I could could try but hes still hung up on nes. That kid is a purist.  Hes beaten super Mario 3 bionic commando faxanado mega man and many more . Wont even use a game genie lol just want to experience it the original way and absolutely hate emulation.  We bought a couple of the nes minis and he wont touch them lol. So maybe in the future I can push the old pc stuff. Well he does play star craft so nltheres hope lol

     

    Amen! that's how you do it! playing retro games in their original form will prove his mettle and add some hair to his chest. good to hear you're raising a strong alpha male in this millennial snowflake generation.

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  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, GrudgeQ said:

    BTW, I have been adding up the pre-ordered consoles and multiple merch orders (this is #3) - damn this shilling is expensive business

     

    well technically that wouldn't be shilling anyway since you're the one that's paying intellivision in order to advertise for them. a parallel example would be a whore offering to pay you for her services. 🧐

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  14. Posted

    1 hour ago, Tommy Tallarico said:


    I would if I could... but unfortunately we only make about 25% - 30% margin on all the stuff we sell (because of the quality and nature of "print on demand") so I don't think my CFO would like me too much.  :)

     

     

     

    perhaps in a few years then after you've sold tens of millions of units. although by that time i'll probably have already been killed off by the new world order purges.  :-D

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  17. Posted · Edited by sanguinesonata

    2 hours ago, jaybird3rd said:

    Wow.  It's been a while since I've looked at a CUPodcast video, but in this one, Ian almost made me flinch.  (And yes, I went back to the original video in case it was selectively edited, and his "rant" doesn't look any better when viewed in full and in context.)  Back when I regularly followed the CUPodcast, Ian could get pretty animated when railing about the likes of Mike Kennedy and the Coleco Chameleon, but he usually made sense and still managed to be entertaining while doing it.  This was something very different: it had a sullen, raw, angry quality that wasn't there before, and it was truly uncomfortable to look at.  What has happened to these guys?

     

    because back then his anger was justified because the chameleon was a scam. But now he's applying a previous formula for success in order to solve what appears to be a similar equation. But the problem is that the variables have changed, and the formula no longer works; which means the problem cannot be solved, and it's driving him mad in a fog of frustration, confusion, and anger. like... why won't this thing just die already!

     

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  18. Posted

    2 hours ago, 1001lives said:

    Where does this kind of anger come from? How is this absolute anger over something like a game console be justified? From ANY developer or any console manufacturer? It's a game console. Where in the world does this deep anger come from?

     

    he's a man playing a role to pay the bills. But play the role long enough... eventually the role consumes the man, and only the role remains.

     

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  19. Posted

    5 hours ago, Steven Pendleton said:

    Since you guys are talking with Sega, I'd love to see Thunder Force and Herzog Zwei with Tommy Tallarico audio on the Amico! I think they own the rights to all of the Technosoft games now. A bit of a stretch, but I'd still love to hear it.

     

    And you know what? If there was such a thing as a Kolibri/Thunder Force/Herzog Zwei remake on the Amico, it would be a great place to stick in some authentic YM2612 music samples for that awesome FM sound. I think Yuzo is still using the damn thing even now for some projects on occasion.

     

    i second all of that. And if they can get yuzo on board for a new (grassroots, true to form) streets of rage (or shinobi) game that everyone's been clamoring for since the dreamcast, then the amico will take all the spoils in the 9th gen. console wars.

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  20. Posted

    7 hours ago, 1001lives said:

    When someone blatantly and outright begins to attack you, your product, what you do, and who you are in multiple outlets and social media feeds, that's when you need to step in. 

     

    Likewise, if these people that are blatantly and openly calling on their followers to hate on the same things they do, it's almost a social media "war." Then when you start insulting other Youtubers (Rich from Reviewtech) you just start firing in all directions and someone either needs to step in and shut that down or at least openly call them out to address the issues. Tommy has done this several times. 

     

    It's like seeing a really bad weed in your yard. That weed will multiply. Eventually, it may snuff out all the other plants in the yard or your grass, or you can poison the weed or pull the weed where it grows. It may grow back, there may still be roots, and all the damage it did to the yard will remain unless you try to repair it and heal it. But there's also some clovers - those ARE weeds, but they're more acceptable. They don't harm anything. The grass goes on. 

     

    So there's always two sides to the coin. Sit there and let it stew, or step up and defend yourself. And never let them try to use your "title" against you which has been done over and over. The whole argument that someone who has no title is allowed to act however they want, whenever they want, but someone with a title is beholden to that title and must never act certain ways - it's just a good way to artificially handicap someone because you deny them the entry to properly defend themselves from you.

     

    Those are the kind of people who have to be dealt with, sooner, rather than later, because they have a small following and have a mission to sabotage everything you're doing with their small following. And when your company is also small and growing, that's never a good thing. 

     

    not saying you shouldn't step in and defend yourself. there comes a time when we must all stand up and fight for what we believe in. what i'm saying is that you shouldn't degrade yourself into becoming like the very enemy that you're seeking to destroy. it's never a good thing to look in the mirror only to see your adversary staring right back at you. fighting fire with fire only causes greater harm and destruction, and will ultimately be unprofitable and counterproductive to your cause in the end.

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  21. Posted

    On 4/12/2020 at 11:28 AM, 1001lives said:

    It's kind of like inception if you've seen that movie.

     

    So many impressionable or uneducated people may be looking up things about the Amico or just typing it in on Youtube or Google randomly and they will be bombarded with negative videos and negative impressions. The majority of them will be haters who are spouting literal nonsense - not nonsense like I disagree and am angry with their opinion - nonsense as in actually making things up and stating it as fact. Pat and Ian are heavily guilty of this and because they do have a small following have spawned a dozen imitators who go around that are part of their fanbase and use the anger that Pat and Ian channeled as their impetus for also hating on the Amico. 

     

    A lot of people who may have no opinion or a totally netural opinion on something will look it up, see someone they like saying negative things, and then they have cemented their opinion based on that. Suddenly a few dozen 400-500 viewed negative videos has swayed 400-500 people's opinions that they are going to hate this thing that the Youtuber also hates. And that can totally begin to shift the perspective of a new device. I've said it before but in a market that was dominated by negative press due to Ouya and Coleco Chameleon, anyone with any influence should tread very lightly when talking about Amico. Pat and Ian who pretty expertly researched the Chameleon are using that same kind of hatred and vitriol against the Amico when the two devices - if you even call Chameleon a device - are not even in the same wheelhouse.

     

    The vloggers end up making videos that come off like they need help more than anything. I hate to talk about Pat and Ian again but in the latest video talking about Wii Sports increasing in price during the lockdowns, Ian just looks unhinged and full of negative energy to the left. He's doing that thing where the person constantly shakes their leg up and down and it's vibrating his whole body while he sits there. Too much caffeine potentially or he's in pain. I don't know, but these negative unhinged people sit online spewing this stuff 24/7 as their careers and it spreads like an opinion virus.

     

    It's not about censoring anyone's views or correcting "wrongthink," it's about battling against literal nonsense and uneducated hatred for no reason or just hating on something for personal petty reasons. You may have issues with Rich from Reviewtech or issues with Tommy Tallarico, okay! That's fine. But openly state your problems up front. Those people won't do that because that would be a disclaimer that their video is opinionated bias from the get go. And they're all trying to appear like professionals who aren't just needlessly hating on things.

     

    Obviously, this doesn't end with the Amico. It's in every single products realm and all new releases are subject to this kind of crap. Even Animal Crossing: New Horizons was hit by people complaining and hating without even playing it. Ironically, now that some of those haters have played it - they've gone silent, no more of their previous criticisms are present. I wonder...

    i'm glad you added that part about censorship and correcting "wrongthink."

     


    And that's the beautiful thing about free speech. you can say whatever it is you want to say, even if it is an uninformed, ignorant opinion that influences people the wrong way, and that acts as an impetus to cause them to behave in a manner that would be unprofitable to you. And i wouldn't have it any other way. Because the purpose of the first amendment is to protect speech you don't agree with and/or find offensive, and that may even misinform people; because if everyone agreed with each other and all points of view were compatible and uniform, then there would be no reason to have your speech protected, right?


    haters are always gonna hate; but you can't go around obsessing about it, always trying to put out fires just to protect your own interests. leave them be. the harder you push something down, the greater its potential force when propelled to the top. if the amico is everything tommy says it will be, then nothing can stop it. people will buy it no matter what. For if you build it, they will come. in fact, i guarantee you that the ones who hate it the most will likely be the first in line simply because they won't be able to help themselves. why do you think they hate on it so much? Because they recognize that it possesses a different and conspicuous quality that makes it protrude and stand out in the middle of this muddled ecosystem of gaming in which everything is the same. And if it is indeed a viable and genuine product that will perfectly fill a void as it purports itself to be, then it will clearly speak for itself. look... you can tell pat and ian don't even believe anything they say. truthfully, they believe in this project more than anyone else. why do you think they're trying so hard to destroy it? you don't give your attention to something that holds no value, or that doesn't have any auspicious beginnings that promise success.


    bottom line: the blind leader has the right to lead his blind followers into a ditch; and the blind follower has the right to allow himself to be deceived and led off the cliff. you can't go around with a God-complex trying to police people's thoughts (even if they're wrong) and try to set them straight, forcing them to see the "light" or see things your way. it just comes off looking bad and will associate the console with negative connotations. tommy has done plenty of interviews and released a ton of information out there for people to avail themselves of in order to be properly informed if they wish; but if they choose to dismiss it and stay ignorant, then that's on them. you can't compel them to drink from the well of truth.


    conversely, i'm not saying you shouldn't speak your mind or even debate people if necessary. i've defended the amico myself. But purposefully going out of your way and going around and patrolling youtube like the amico gestapo isn't going to make things any better. Quite frankly, it'll just make matters worse because you can't impose yourself on people's conscience like that. let everyone be persuaded (or deceived) in their own mind. they have the right to be deceived; and they also have the right to do their own research and make their own decision without having a group of interlopers always getting in their face to set the record straight, even if their final decision is derived from misinformation, and affects intellivision's profit margins.

     

    So i guess what i'm saying is... if you want to counter bad information, then put your own information out there, and let people sift through the knowledge presented of their own accord, ON THEIR OWN, and through their own free will without trying to funnel their minds in the direction you think best. And again, given time... i believe the product will speak for itself. And i'm pretty sure that those who have been the most outspoken - raising their belligerent and derisive voices the loudest in protest - will also end up being the ones opening their wallets the widest.

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  22. Posted

    6 hours ago, Nolagamer said:

    @Tommy Tallarico here's a really cool 2d game . Mark.of the ninja. It was originally.on xbox live arcade then a remaster on switch ps4 xbox  windows linux. 

     

    It's a 2d ninja stealth game.  This or something like this would be cool on amico.  No obviously blood may need to be removed and some if the animated scenes.   But the concept is great.

     

    If you guys get the teenage mutant ninja turtles licence  ( if so please dont use animation styles from the current cartoon yuck..... go with the 2003 fox kids anime  style series or comic book versions...even 80s cartoon )

     

    But imagine a tmnt game where they have to use stealth and actually be ninjas in game form once  :)

     

    but even this game modified for amico guidelines and make it 2 or 4 players 

     

    the game in video is a single player only game. 

     

     

     

    Amen! Dat's what i'm talkin bout! ninja platforming games have always been my favorite, and if they can manage to produce a tmnt stealth platformer in the style of the original 1980's mirage comics (especially if they all wore red headbands) then i believe it would be an instant success that would cause the amico to fly off the shelves. practically *EVERYONE* would rush to get an amico at that point. my only worry is that the t-man was talking about watering down such games to make them more palatable with the amico's marketing message, which i don't necessarily have a problem with. i totally get it. blood and gratuitous violence SHOULD be omitted; but a game like the original shinobi arcade, for example, is as benign as it gets. no blood or gratuitous violence whatsoever. yet he said there were things they could do to make such games better conform to their standards. But what changes could they implement on an already innocuous game like that without totally eviscerating it, and turning it into a mockery of its former self?

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