The Future Of The Intellivision Brand & The Amico After The Atari Sale
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I've been informed that the "Not Intellivision" Entertainment should be able to program the Amico console to still read the RFID cards and download the games, despite the RFID cards containing a link to the Intellivision website. Of course, this would require the system to actually come out...
Why didnt Atari buy the Amico?
@@darthkai8242 Many of the promised games such as Nightstalker and Eartworm Jim were not delivered. Had the promised games been delivered and at its original price of less than $200 yes
@@darthkai8242 I was trolling lol
@@darthkai8242 Who? DJC? Mike Mullis? These are just a bunch of sycophants.
Atari to help rehabilitate the brand needs to cut ties with anything Amico related.
Can we use the logo?
Nope, we’re done.
They can still used the misspelled Intellivision name that was on the box during the unboxing... they knew all along!
Puzzler and Lelanders remind me of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf aka "Baghdad Bob". For those of you too young to remember the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he was the Iraqi "Minister of Information" who was regularly putting out broadcasts to the tune of "We're beating those American infidels!", even as the regime he was serving was crumbling down around him.
Atari can revive the System Changer and sell and adaptor to play Intellivison carts on the 2600+. Sell the system changer with two controllers and there's a few more bucks, and then you can rerelease old Inty carts with new art.
Finnegan Fox was supposed to be out this month. June will be here Saturday, and the last we heard from Mustache McGee was something to the tune of "We haven't been given the source code yet and it's gonna take us three weeks to convert it after we get it!" I'm certain that he's gonna use "We're in a period of rebranding everything!" as an excuse they can get several months of delays out of, at least!
I am still shocked we havent seen law suits yet. The system is never coming out. I think either were gonna get the controllers or a plug and play with the few games that are already on the amico app. Then they can say thats the system. I don't know why at this point investors arnt suing the crap out of them yet as this sale is really the last influx of money Amico is gonna get. Gonna be interesting to see what happens in the next month or so.
Exactly ! I think Amico should really file a slander lawsuit on those that profited from bashing the company and its employees.
Since a lot of money was crowdfunded, it would either take Republic to sue them, which I don't see happening, or a single rich investor ,or a group of investors to come together to pay the legal fees to get the ball rolling, which again is unlikely due to the effort and money involved. It would probably cost more than most people invested in the first place, and by the time it went to court, most of the assets might be gone, so even if they won, it may not get them much money.
@@LelandReview you got the lawsuit direction wrong... people "and companies" were defrauded 17 million plus... but if Intellivision could sue anybody, i would think it would be ARK Electronics for taking 1 million and not delivering 'anything' for it. Of course INTV is in the same exact boat, not delivering anything except hats and shirts.
@@Have.An.AmicoDay I don't think much of what Amico did was a fraud. They legit tried to release a console. They legit put down million dollar deposits to manufacturers for it to be made. And they legit have evidence that part shortages resulted in the deals failing and the millions lost. Heck even Tommy lost his Dad and house trying his best. On the other hand we have people that were making youtube vids smearing , slandering and cyberbullying a company and its employees / investors to earn ad revenue. Slandering a company is a criminal offence in Utah ( Intellivision Home Base ) with potential for jail time if prosecuted.
@@LelandReviewThe company and it’s employees are scam artists who lied every step of the way. The last thing they want is to be anywhere near a court.
Poor DJC and Mullis. They must feel pretty stupid right about now.
I don't think they have the capacity for that. DJC is too stupid and Mullis is too smug.
@@SpeccyHorace but they honestly have the only Intellivision Amico's in existence.. perhaps shilling did pay off afterall? That lag though...
Yet they don't even own it lol@@Have.An.AmicoDay
Cow Cat is like Sylvester Junior…needing to wear a paper bag over his head…
🥴”Oh, for shame”🥴
@@ilikepiproductions5916 they have pre-orders, they will eventually be given the green light to just hold on to em...
Does anyone remember that ZX Spectrum mini console? Top ten failed retro consoles list... competition is fierce.
The Amico is a sad disaster. Best they could do would be to port the Amico games to the VCS and sell an enhanced controller.
One of the more delusional commenters was claiming for the longest time that an Amico-exclusive revamp of Utopia was going to be the next Minecraft(despite being an entirely different genre of game) and sell millions and millions of copies and be the big breakout hit for the Amico, making it a household name. Yeah...Atari owns Utopia now, so good luck with that pipe dream ever coming true. Amico: By losers, for losers.
I saw that also.... I can't remember the loser who said that, but I remember him saying that.
Lelanders is the loser lol It's that guy who said it 😂
@@ilikepiproductions5916 Yup! That's the one. I wonder if he'll stick to his guns on that delusion or pretend he never said it, the way Puzzler does when something he proclaims doesn't come true.
This dead horse is bone meal in a Great Value brand gelatin mix at this point...
you're forcing the analogy a little there my man
Tommy single handedly ended the original console war. And crowned Atari as the winner! OOF!
Is anyone saving the office tours and hater response videos from Teets on the UA-cam channel? We may lose the treasure trove of cringe, hubris, smug arrogance and technical incompetence of the Teets Amico UA-cam Database.
Amico Day archive (which is 90+ gigs of 'medium resolution' episodes, raw footage and livestreams) is burned onto M-Disc... with plenty of those 1 off interviews of Tallarico with 'views under 100', OEBPete livestreams talking about Amico and AmicoAfterDark episodes. We should re-upload the Amico-Day episodes (especially ones with OEB/Darius battling it out, and have plenty of material to make new ones.)
I'm surprised lawsuits from the investors haven't started yet. I've been sitting here with my pop, popcorn, and my recliner ready to sit back and watch the fun when the lawsuits start. What are the investors waiting for?
I don't usually prop up companies but Atari actually seems pretty into game preservation, even if the product likely wouldn't sell well. I didn't know about the 2600+ and the effort they put into re-releases
The Intellivision brand is in far better hands with Atari at this point. For all their faults, Atari does know that what makes the brand valuable is the nostalgia behind it, and I don’t think they would’ve acquired Intellivision to trash its nostalgia. I think they’re in a far better position to capitalize on that and do some pretty neat things with it. As for the Amico, I hate to say it but what value the Amico had was directly linked to the Intellivision brand. The Amico has always been the promise of the Intellivision come back to life. Without the brand, the Amico isn’t really all that different from, say, Evercade, which when it comes to cartridge-based retro systems was first in and best-dressed. It’s not a far stretch to assume the Amico brand is on life support at best, and dead altogether is a safer bet.
The problem with any kind of Intellivision collection is that many games require the keypad controller to play.
I fail to see a problem.
They've gotten around that problem in the past by remapping buttons or bringing up a virtual controller on screen, and of course many games only use a few buttons or less, but yes, some games aren't as easy to put in a compilation because of the controller.
Yep.intellivision lives games are impossible to play on modern controllers
That's why, if you put Astroblast and Astrosmash in front of me, I'm going to pick Astroblast every time.
The Nintendo DS version made clever use of the second screen to solve the problem: each version has a different approach -and some versions of some games are indeed unplayable (e.g. Utopia on Intellivision Lives).
I’ve preached this on other channels but here’s my dream. Atari buys colecovision then DE puts out a “console wars 50” game covering all three mainstream pre NES consoles. Lemme relive the glory days of comparing games on them with those “back of box” sheets in Toys R Us!
What will they do with the proceeds of the Intellivision sale? Do refunds? Pay creditors? Pay salaries?
Good video! And insight into this new Atari getting Intellvison brand! It would be nice if Atari did offer some sort of refund of the Founders Day Editon Amico. I forgot all that stuff was being offered with it! I was one of those who put down $100 for the Founders Day Edition of the Amico. You are probably right about never getting anything from Intellivision Amico!
Digital Eclipse could make a playable console war
That is a very interesting idea.
The Amico is dead and Atari helped accelerate its death.
Intellivision did it to themselves, silly.
They did a bang up job without Ataris help.
You seem to be missing the fact that the Amico is a scam, not a failed console.
The Intellivision doesn't translate to other consoles. The Intellivision Lives! compilation was a disaster on the 6th gen consoles - mainly due to the controller.
Love intellivision, but I’ve never met anyone in normal life that even remembers it. It’s a niche brand for sure.
The only reason I would even have considered buying an Amico would have been if it had an exclusive updated version of Cloudy Mountain.Delighted if that gets a general release, but no idea who’d then buy an Amico.
I think they are legally required to produce some kind of hardware or all the crowdfunding is going to qualify as a scam and put them in even hotter legal waters. I think they’re going to make the controllers, at least a small number of them possibly with highly reduced functionality, before closing shop forever. But yeah I don’t see how this ends any other way than going out of business.
Best case hardware scenario: Some hastily assembled units that don't work very well, like what happened with the ZX Spectrum Vega Plus.
On the Amico side, I am still a fan, but I also don't expect to see anything... I do play Amico home, but not too often. I have the boxed copies and a pre-order.. I haven't bothered asking for a refund.. I will keep playing what comes out, and take it as a loss.. if they DO release controllers, if they actually exist, I would buy them. I doubt I would sign up for another kickstarter or pre-order... On the classic side, I think Atari buying them is perfect! I agree with you on the Intellivision +.. I don't see it happening.. It would be cool though... but a new Intellivision Mini, that would take ROMS off a USB stick, I would be all for! Especially if they can get new controllers out! We will see! Great video, thanks!
I think I’ve lost my deposit
Actually I’d go further (if I’m Atari). Scoop up Vectrex, O2, Microvision, etc- whatever retro rights exist- and build up the brand as the Retro Stewards. You’d gain lots of goodwill and it’d really help to stand out in today’s market. And I’d imagine none of those rights are too pricey.
Not that it will actually ever be released but when you talked about the Founders Edition patch, pin and poster not being able to be included, they haven't produced those items yet. They would just simply drop the Intellivision name off of it and release the same items as Amico, period.
Puzzler entering this chat and spinning this story saying it's the best thing to happen to the Amico and Tommy in 3....2....1........
He'd probably claim the sudden and untimely deaths of everyone involved in bringing the Amico out was somehow the best thing for the Amico, because now a new generation of super fans can make it a reality.
So I'm not trying to be mean to the guy I don't do that sort of stuff online but, he seems to have gone into a frantic spiral😬
He went on a posting spree saying one thing and then contradicting himself and straight up making stuff up, basically admitting he made it up and jumping to something else.
I'm not going to respond to anything he post, he's almost at the Hobo yelling at a back of a 7 eleven brick wall stage.
@@Reddprogram55 You described him perfectly
Hope they got enough to pay Sudesh so the concrete boots don't come out.
I absolutely love the intelevision. I play the one and two collection on Evercade all the time.
Lol. A new roadmap update was released!.The Amico controllers are no longer on it, and games that were set to release two months ago are now on the nebulous "future" slot.
Let’s get an Intellivision plus out and some new controllers and oh man … soooo much potential
Will TommIE’s Intellivision Amico be rebranded as the much more indicative/appropriate/realistic “HyperScan Amico” like I have been suggesting for years & years & years…now???
Spot on, they will do very little, if anything, except keep paying themselves
*Multi-million dollar line of credit is NOT Multiple millions of dollars of Liquid assets.*
What you spend , you MUST pay back that debt to your creditors back, and turn enough of a profit to pay your employees, pay your bills pay your taxes as well have enough operating liquidity to continue business...
I have a multimillion dollar line of credit as a business owner... A LOT of business owners do This does NOT mean I have millions or even A singular million in liquid assets...
This is a great point, and I'm glad someone made it!
Atari is on an absolute tear again. The irony! 😂
Meanwhile Not-Intellivision Entertainment can't even release a single game from their slate of five that were supposed come out like two months ago.
6:09 yeah that is going to be problematic since those games do possess the intellivision name on them they would have no choice but to reprint those under the amico name if they can afford to. 8:57 speaking of Finnegan Fox you can actually go to limited run games and pre-order of actual physical copy but it's called speaking of Finnegan Fox you can actually go to limited run games and pre-order of actual physical copy the original title Fox and Forest sorry no amico exclusive available😂
DJC did not have much to say when he reported this. Is he ashamed they lost or is he too dumb to understand what happened?
He doesn't jump without Phil or John saying so. He was probably just repeating what they told him to say.
@@SomeOrangeCat Andrew I am honestly offended with some people saying DJC made a good video. The guy just read the article. Okay DJC is literate.
@@janong9873 And even that's debatable.
@@SomeOrangeCat DJC thinks Atari and Intellivision will be collaborating. Intellivision only has a handful of technical people to support its games and thats it.
@@janong9873 Where as I see the situation as John and Phil are going to use the need to rebrand as a fresh source of delay excuses.
awesome break down of what's happening.
I would like to get an atari but I would settle for a reproduction at this point.
I just got the turbo grafx16 and wonder what are your thoughts on that.
also, have you considered doing eviews on the atari jaguar? it would probably be a short series but I think it would be cool.
anyway, after all this time of hearing about the shady tallarico business, all of this was bound to happen.
at the moment, it seems that the future lays in ataris hands.
I have a decent amount of Jaguar games and do hope to cover them in the future when my plate isn't as full.
@@thenosweargamer1449 ❤️
There is NO future for the Amico, hasn’t been for years
The only people who think there is a future for the Amico are the perfect argument for the case that Downs Syndrome *can* be an onset condition in some adults.
i think atari helped them get the money that they might get the amico actually released but that''ll be the end of them after that. Atari owns it all now. Will they take that money and just keep it and trash the amico or will they release it? that's the question.
Well besides finally burying the corpse of Amico for Atari being the new owners most likely it'll just be another "IP troll" as a worst case scenario to a IP Pimp as the best case scenario. That way they don't have to lift a finger. They'll just sit back licensing out to anyone that'll produce a plug & play systems while they collect those royalties while DCMA emulation sites like Nintendo does.
A wishful thinker side would be for them to release their own special Plug & Play, but have a Jaguar style controller (just replace the D Pad with a Analog stick) that not only has the Intellivision games, but Atari 2600 & 5200 Games that also require the keypad like Star Raiders.
Atari has been doing a great job the last couple years. I have more faith in them owning intellivision now.
@@lothar71 You realize Atari has been running up debt ? They owe more then Amico did... lol
@@LelandReview Got any metrics to back that up? Or did you pull that out of the same rotted part of your brain that dreamt up Utopia being a system seller?
@@SomeOrangeCat You bet ! "Atari SA reported earnings results for the full year ended March 31, 2023. For the full year, the company reported sales was EUR 10.1 million compared to EUR 14.9 million a year ago. Net loss was EUR 9.5 million compared to EUR 23.8 million a year ago."
Adios, Amico
Oh you want to buy IPs and the Amico console....if you say amico again I'm taking my briefcase full of money and leaving I just want the games. Best part is the Amico gets a new name now....Tommy's gonna pretend it's a new console lol......
Douchearrico. Stay away from people like him. Learn a Lesson.
This story is actually over. Why does your video exist?
You forgot, they introduced the possibility of releasing the Amico under the misspelled Intellivision name, as it was on the box of the prototype... so Amico still could come out, and Atari cant do anything about it... win John Alvo and Tallarico!
They are not gonna get a new name?
They will be Intellivision Amico just that they will license it from Atari!
BSR owns the Amico, no? We have no clue what they've been given in terms of $, branding, etc. Maybe they can use "Intellivision" stuff, but branded only under "Blue Sky Rangers".
We know BSR has been around the Intellivision Community longer than any other entity, and are very much the heart and soul of Intellivision. Likely still may be. I want to know what they got.
Tommy you liar