Intellivision Amico - Tommy Tallarico introduction + Q&A

[NinjaWarrior]

When will 25% sale on the 23th end?

 

Will it be a week or just for the day?

[+BiffMan]

44 minutes ago, ASalvaro said:

i don't know the running man doesn't have much of a personality and do we know why he's running all the time? what is he running from?

Or running toward...   Perhaps he's late for work?  Or perhaps the Running Man is here for your soul...

[1001lives]

32 minutes ago, NinjaWarrior said:

When will 25% sale on the 23th end?

 

Will it be a week or just for the day?

It's probably a one use coupon or one day sale. 

[+Razzie.P]

4 hours ago, GrudgeQ said:

 can't wait to see how each troll will try to weasel out of it. Start you office pools now...

Best case scenario is we'll all so busy enjoying the new system/games that we won't wanna take time away from it to waste on petty stuff like that.

[YerOut]

1 hour ago, BiffMan said:

Or running toward...   Perhaps he's late for work?  Or perhaps the Running Man is here for your soul...

He's obviously running from a......B17 Bomber! or maybe a giant arachnid or Robby the Robots younger cousin or Tron's deadly discs. 🙂

 

[MrBeefy]

Just now, YerOut said:

He's obviously running from a......B17 Bomber! or maybe a giant arachnid or Robby the Robots younger cousin or Tron's deadly discs. 🙂

 

Maybe he's getting a running start to make it up Cloudy Mountain?

[YerOut]

Other than Baseball, Cloudy Mountain is my most anticipated re-imagined release.  The Running Man is going 1st to 3rd on a ball hit hard off the right field wall.

[Intellivision Master]

What do you all think about having Skee-ball on the Amico with motion controls?  

[ASalvaro]

45 minutes ago, Atari_Master said:

What do you all think about having Skee-ball on the Amico with motion controls?  

sounds like fun..or one of those pop a shot basketball games 

[Steven Pendleton]

Some more questions for you, Tommy. First, R-Type. I know it has not been started yet, but what is the vision for it, if you are allowed to share that much? Enhanced arcade port? Something with polygons like R-Type Dimensions? What about R-Type Final 2? I got to play a demo of it at Tokyo Game Show. There isn't much of a game so far, but it looks nice.

 

Second, B-17 Bomber remake, basically same questions. It's the first Intellivision game I ever bought (which means I bought it 2 weeks ago after I found a really interesting and possibly unique original Intellivision on Ebay! It should arrive today or tomorrow. Yes, I did get the Intellivoice as well! BEE SEVENTEEN BAWLMER!!!), and I have always been fascinated with WW2 and the B-17. If you've ever seen one in person, especially flying, holy crap they are beautiful. Anyway, same questions for B-17 Bomber remake as for R-Type. Obviously it isn't originally an arcade game, but yeah.

Edited February 18, 2020 by Steven Pendleton

[Intellivision Master]

It would be cool if the Amico controller acted as a light gun like the Wiimote.  But that wouldn't work on modern TV's unless there was a sensor bar like the Nintendo Wii had.

[Steven Pendleton]

8 hours ago, vongruetz said:

Now I'm pumped for being able to do my taxes on Amico

This reminds me of the online banking thing for Japanese Mega Drive. You could do all of your banking on the internet through the Mega Drive and the "game" cart. Forget the name of it, though. Strange that they would publish something like that on a system that failed so badly in Japan instead of the SFC with its Satellaview, but they did.

 

Edit: Mega Anser, and it was published in 89, so the SFC wasn't out yet.

Edited February 18, 2020 by Steven Pendleton

[+Swami]

9 hours ago, Tommy Tallarico said:

Wait til more mainstream articles like THIS start hitting the internet. 

 

https://gritdaily.com/intellivision-four-decades-later/

 

 

Comment says "I hear it's over $250 now." Ugh. Where does this come from. Just like some guy in the other thread saying it only has E rated games.

[1001lives]

Just now, Swami said:

Comment says "I hear it's over $250 now." Ugh. Where does this come from. Just like some guy in the other thread saying it only has E rated games.

I don't understand who these people are. How did someone "hear it was over 250" and why would they post that to begin with? Why is THAT the comment they decided to make on that article? 

[+Swami]

1 hour ago, Atari_Master said:

What do you all think about having Skee-ball on the Amico with motion controls?  

 

1 hour ago, ASalvaro said:

sounds like fun..or one of those pop a shot basketball games 

I see a Chuck E. Cheese mini-game collection tie-in or maybe Dave and Buster's.

[Intellivision Master]

I wonder if there will be a Tetris style game on the Amico?

[Intellivision Master]

6 minutes ago, Swami said:

 

I see a Chuck E. Cheese mini-game collection tie-in.

There used to be a place called Jeepers and they had Skee-ball too.

[+Swami]

1 minute ago, Atari_Master said:

There used to be a place called Jeepers and they had Skee-ball too.

I see Wii already did one for CEC, "Chuck E. Cheese Party Games", so, it would have to out-do it somehow.

[Intellivision Master]

4 minutes ago, Swami said:

I see Wii already did one for CEC, "Chuck E. Cheese Party Games", so, it would have to out-do it somehow.

Maybe Tommy has something already planned.

[MrBeefy]

3 hours ago, Atari_Master said:

What do you all think about having Skee-ball on the Amico with motion controls?  

I think that would be a fun game for the controls. Should function very similar to bowling minus the curve.

[+Swami]

1 hour ago, Atari_Master said:

Maybe Tommy has something already planned.

https://www.daveandbusters.com/play-games/games-in-store

 

[MrBeefy]

What about Curling? I think that would be a fun game on Amico.

[ColdCoffee]

3 minutes ago, Atari_Master said:

It would be cool if the Amico controller acted as a light gun like the Wiimote.  But that wouldn't work on modern TV's unless there was a sensor bar like the Nintendo Wii had.

A new solution is to have a camera at the tip and using a white border in-game. There is no need for accessories.

[+Swami]

22 minutes ago, ColdCoffee said:

A new solution is to have a camera at the tip and using a white border in-game. There is no need for accessories.

A la Sinden

[Steven Pendleton]

28 minutes ago, ColdCoffee said:

A new solution is to have a camera at the tip and using a white border in-game. There is no need for accessories.

Switch Joy-Cons work as light guns. They are not exceptionally accurate, though.