Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A

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4 hours ago, IntelliMission said:

How many consoles have you tried from each row? Here's my chart: 0-1-2-3-2-0

2

2

3

4

1

1

 

for me :)

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4 minutes ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

 

Cool!  What color did you get?

 

 

Khaki 🤣

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My khaki "Running Man" cap arrived today, don't think I'll be taking it off any time soon!

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1 minute ago, bigdaddygamestudio said:

come on, keep it real blowing smoke helps no one. the audio was 10 to 15 seconds behind the video, thats umm not good.. So lets be real at that point it was just disaster management. EWJ saved the day.  

Was this a widespread issue? I was in the chat about an hour before the event started and I stayed there until after the EWJ section and my audio/video was in sync the whole time, unless I just discovered that i'm having a very slow stroke.

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I wasn't able to say this in the Youtube chat but I vote for the Matte faceplate 😘

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4 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

NOTHING comes up in Google when I put in Crokinole video game.  So I'm not even sure a video game has ever been made?!?!  (I could be wrong, but couldn't find anything).

I think this is likely because of a difficulty in translating video game controls to a real-life physical game about flicking things in a way that mechanically still makes sense. I believe that the Amico controller has an enormous advantage in this regard. Sure, you could quickly move a thumbstick and pretend that's the flick but it just isn't the same. Doing it with a good swipe on the Amico pad would be much more like the real motion.

 

As to everyone in here saying they've never heard of the game, yeah it is kinda niche but I think we all know niche doesn't mean bad! And how about we look at some of the view counts on youtube? Because it seems to me that there is a large interest and potential market here as just searching the word "crokinole" shows you videos with half a million views, 370k views, and even a championship match with almost seven million views somehow! 

Anyway, that's the last i'll say on it, I don't want to appear a broken record haha.

 

Thank you so much for the wonderful warm welcomes I've had, it really is great.

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13 minutes ago, IntelliMission said:

That crokinole game looks fun, thanks @Scrundle! I don't think it's very popular here in Spain.

 

By the way, I accidentally found out some user in another message board with your nickname and also from Wales who's a female. If it's you, I'm sure you can give Tommy lots of cool ideas from a slightly different perspective as we've seen on this thread until now. 🖖

Oh I'm sorry but that isn't me, quite the coincidence though! 

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3 minutes ago, NTV said:

Never heard of Crokinole so I googled it and watched a video explaining the game. Looks like fun and you are right it would translate to the Amico very well.

 

1 minute ago, GrudgeQ said:

Wow every day I come here an learn about some retro game, indie video game or table top game (and occasionally car wax treatments) I have never heard of. So many cool ideas out there for Amico games (well except for maybe the car waxing stuff).

 

The game has been around for a couple of hundred years I believe but the reason it isn't a household name is the high cost of the setup. A good crokinole board and other equipment to play it costs more than the Amico does these days! 

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First post here so I hope i'm doing this right and not breaking some rule. I've browsed this forum every day for a long while now but never had anything important to say, today I made an account; 

 

I am so excited for the Amico, I lost interest in video games especially console video games some time around the Xbox but this news of the Intellivision Amico is real exciting to me again so much so that I actually got a Founder's Edition pre-order in.

As for my question though - Has anyone thought of a Crokinole game on Amico? It seems to me like it would be absolutely ideal! You control placement of your disc with the controller's disc, then you "flick" across the touchscreen to launch it, it'd be almost exactly the same skill set as used in playing the real game and I believe it would translate into an Amico title very well for their board game selection. I'm really looking forward to that slick Farkle game that has been teased but wow if it had Crokinole too that'd be something else.

 

Many thanks!