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  1. Posted

    Hey Tommy,

      Have you thought about producing any coloring books for the kids based on the upcoming Amico games? For example, you could take one of those Finnigan Fox screenshots, remove the color but keep the black outlines, and there you go, you have a drawing waiting to be colored in!

     

      I remember back when I was an elementary school kid and those Nintendo Game & Watches came out. A bunch of kids in my school had them, and I remember we had a small assignment in class where we had to draw something and explain it. Some boys who usually weren't that interested in studying suddenly got excited and asked if they could draw their Game & Watch. The teacher agreed, and they eagerly started drawing them, trying to get perfect realism. I just think kids might be that eager to try coloring in scenes from their favorite Amico games. I know I would've loved to have colored in the box art for Astrosmash had it existed.

     

    Thanks as always!

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  2. Posted

    12 hours ago, IntelliMission said:

    The Amico skeptics in the UK say they see a 0%-20% of the console actually coming out in 10/10... I hope they are wrong!

    There may be a way to answer this pretty quickly:

     

    Tommy, we've seen videos of your staff hand-assembling Amico consoles for the founders edition. Are those consoles complete in terms of hardware, or are they still waiting on some components from overseas before they can be fully assembled?

     

    If they're fully-assembled now, then of course they will be going out in October. Even if the distribution is limited, it will still be a distribution.

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  3. Posted

    Happy New Year one and all!

     

    I wanna thank Tommy for the New Year's Day update video. Astrosmash looks great, and I really like how the background music changes with each level.

    One thing that bugs me is on the title screen for Astrosmash we see the astronaut on the ladder ready to climb aboard the ship, with the radar screen in the ship animating and the space rocks coming down, but the astronaut is frozen. It reminds me of the faked freeze frame at the end of the Police Squad episodes:

    https://youtu.be/A_3rJqHWYjs?t=99

    Anyway, could the astronaut be waving at the player or something like that to break the frozen effect? Just a minor tweak hopefully. Otherwise, it's perfect.

     

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  4. Posted

    I hope the controllers have easter eggs that get activated if you enter certain numbers. For example, you enter the phone number of Intellivision Entertainment and something interesting appears on screen. The same if you enter the digits of pi (3.14159...) or e (2.71828...), which would be educational for kids. Perhaps US zipcodes? Historical dates? Just a thought I had out of the blue, but I'm guessing someone at IE already thought of it.

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  6. Posted

    2 hours ago, CurlyQ said:

    Are you excited for Retro Reimagined Major League Baseball?

     

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    Sorry, can't resist commenting... this Amico looks so good, and is such a great symbol of America, that I hope a similar version is made as a special premium offering somewhere down the line. Sure, let's wait until sales of the existing colors take off and bring in some $$ for further development, but then I hope something like this comes out.

     

    If I could make a suggestion for a real version, I'd love to see the bases, foul lines, batters boxes, etc. printed on the controller bay (under the controllers). The way the controllers look now is perfect. Great job CurlyQ!

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  7. Posted

    16 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:
    Happy to announce that the winner of our Moon Patrol high score contest is Susan Segers! And incredible score of 37,250! It was so cool to receive high scores from so many female players. Congrats to Susan!
     
    We also had a runner up who submitted the same exact score right at the end of the competition. Randy Voss had the same score so we gave him runner up status and we'll be sending him something as well.
     
    Thank you to everyone who played and submitted!
     
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    Congrats to Susan! Any chance Tommy of a histogram of the high scores? I'd love to see the range of scores and what most people achieved.

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  8. Posted

    6 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

     

    Well that's strange.  I wonder what folks on Reddit are saying??

     

    🤣🤣🤣

     

     

     

     

    Intellivision always had the Children's Learning network, so learning games were always meant to be a part of the Intellivision experience (and Tutorvision was intended for learning as well). It also helped sell the machine to parents who didn't just want their kids to "play games" on it. I wonder if, in the future (after launch) the Amico will have any language-learning games. Dora the Explorer-type games come to mind. Too bad the keyboard component never made it to market. We'd all be speaking conversational French pretty well by now! Wouldn't it be great if we could learn another language like Italian or Spanish with our Amico?

     

    Also I was wondering if there would be any opportunity for us hobbyists to do any homebrew on the system. You've already seen what people are doing with IntyBasic for the original Intellivision, and I'm thinking something similar for the Amico. People could code up a game and share gameplay videos on youtube, or if it's possible, other users could try games out on their Amico. It might also be a good way to discover talented game programmers around the world.

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  9. Posted

    Anyone else excited about the use of those LEDs on the main unit? I wish the original Intellivision had them! Imagine the original Astrosmash where the background was different for each level. They could have set the lights to the same color so your room would be bathed in it. Or the lights could have flashed the police car light colors of red, white, and blue when you got caught in Lock n Chase. If there's a game like Outrun the lights could simulate brake lights or indicators/blinkers/winkers. The more I think about it the more possibilities I come up with.

     

    I think ingenuity like this will be noticed by other console manufacturers, especially Nintendo. It'll be interesting to see if they copy/adopt similar features in the future.

     

    Also quick question to Tommy: are the games going to have accessibility options? I'm thinking like The Last of Us Part 2 has, e.g. by changing the color scheme to help players with visual impairment. And will games have customization options, like the option to turn off the dust trails of the falling rocks in Astrosmash to reduce on-screen clutter?

     

    One last point about Ian and Pat: take notice about what they don't say. The last one they did about the Amico, they never repeated their claim that the machine doesn't exist. Looks like they're grudgingly accepting the machine is real. Tommy's a man with a good reputation and I'm sure he wouldn't want it tarnished so this is no sleazy fly-by-night scam.

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  12. Posted

    8 minutes ago, Battlefish said:

    Those appear to be the same as a couple of ZipRecruiter listings from a few months back. I believe Tommy has addressed them in an earlier post:

     

    Thanks for the reference. It's hard navigating all these pages (almost 900 now). I am curious now about what these "accessories" are. We know it's not an Intellivoice component! As I understand it, there's the amico itself (master component?) and the controllers. I'm sure Tommy is focused primarily on getting the amico released so any accessories must be a later release.

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  13. Posted

    44 minutes ago, Battlefish said:

    Fun fact: apparently, a new job listing has been posted:

    https://jobzhq.com/jobs/senior-firmware-quality-engineer_e2e05e3c0d018378_0_0

     

    From what I can read, it looks like Intellivision is looking for someone who is good at testing and debugging electronics....kinda like the testing reasons they've given for the Amico's delay? Maybe it's good to believe them sometimes :P

    There are three jobs listed there for the Amico. I notice the wording is a bit different from the jobs listed on LinkedIn's website. The one for an embedded Android software engineer (URL here) requires someone who "will take on a senior software development position ... to develop system-level Android software to make the system run." That job listing was posted 6 days ago. I'm a little concerned about the "to make the system run" statement which sounds like the system doesn't run. It didn't say "to make the system run better". Hopefully Tommy can explain this better. The good thing is they have 48 applications for that position already.

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  14. Posted

    Hey, quick question for everyone. I'm in my mid-forties, loved my Intellivision as a kid, and Astrosmash was certainly a favorite. I see the new versions of those classic games online, and I'm wondering if I'm the only one who's finding it hard to follow the action. With the new Astrosmash, for example, when you blast and smash a rock, fragments fall down, but they're not dangerous to the ship if they're small. I've found myself thinking "oh no, you're dead!" while watching, only to find the ship survives. I guess I'm having trouble distinguishing between background special effects and foreground action.  Perhaps after a little time playing the games you quickly become accustomed, but there's a lot more action going on than in the original versions!

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