Just to make sure it's clear, Atari is NOT buying the Amico Console or Amico Home. They are only buying the brand and the Intellvision game library that Not Intellivision Entertainment still owned.
@linuxrobotgeek4 ай бұрын
This is even worse for them because Atari sees the writing on the wall.
@Reddprogram554 ай бұрын
Wow. "I'll have your entire stock good sir. Wait what's that smell? Errr actually you can keep that Amico stuff we just want EVERYTHING ELSE". Yikes...
@TheLadsBandLive4 ай бұрын
So, does that mean no Intellivision-branded games will appear on anything Amico related?
@ExtremeWreck4 ай бұрын
@@TheLadsBandLive That definitely sounds like the case.
@AmazinglyBadGamer4 ай бұрын
I just mean that atari can further the brand without messing people over.
@SomeOrangeCat4 ай бұрын
So to recap: IE couldn't deliver a console, had to sell off their "killer apps" to a company who eliminated their exclusive status, and now they've had to sell off the whole brand to the very company IE's former CEO spent years mocking and disparaging. In my mind, a great wrong has been righted. Tommy, Phil and John brought nothing but shame to the Intellivision brand.
@UMAMIMAMU4 ай бұрын
Yes. This. No longer can we just wantonly continue believing Tommy Talarico is something akin to Jesus Christ, John F. Kennedy, the 300 Spartans, and Solid Snake combined. His facade as the most greatest person ever to live or have lived has been downgraded. Downgraded to something much lesser...... He's now merely the second most greatest person ever to live or have lived. What a fall from glory.
@AdamConus4 ай бұрын
It's like Coke buying Pepsi! Chevy buying Ford! Cats and dogs, living together...mass hysteria! I agree this is good news, actually. :)
@mcorleonep4 ай бұрын
Or Sega making games for Nintendo...
@Cyber_Akuma4 ай бұрын
@@mcorleonep I feel like this be more comparable to if Nintendo bought SEGA
@ThomwoththeWeather4 ай бұрын
pepsi owned or owns coca cola...
@BScott72204 ай бұрын
Or Beta and VHS!
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
@@ThomwoththeWeather Pepsi DID/DOES NOT own Coca-Cola. You’re either misinformed or misinforming... It might be like Pepsi or Coke buying RC, if this were the early ‘80s. Atari 2600 - 30 million units sold. Intellivision - 3 million units sold. Atari also didn’t stop, there. Their 8-bit computer line was monumental-with the daisy-chainable, hot-swappable precursor to USB (Serial I/O) AND the first ever separate graphics and sound chips on a computer, to take load off the GPU. Their 16-bit ST line is _still_ coveted by bands, for it’s MIDI control - having been the first computer on which DAW software was developed and used. Had Intellivision made one leap anywhere close to any of those things, that 3 million would be significant, but they didn’t. It was Barbie’s console. Most pro’lly play emulated Intellivision, but you don’t know how _truly awful_ Intellivision was, until you’ve played with that horrible disc-controller and those nasty rubber buttons, on the side. Even the 5200 and 7800 had better controllers than Intellivision... Seriously. Name one technological leap/advance (besides _Frog Bog,_ of course) that Intellivision brought to gaming/computing in a way that was mimicked by _anyone._ Intellivision was never anything but wrong.
@RockyBergen4 ай бұрын
Those refunds are NEVER coming...
@ilikepiproductions59164 ай бұрын
Along with the Amico console.... This deal killed all of it
@ilikepiproductions59164 ай бұрын
@@edwardmclaughlin719 If you say so
@ilikepiproductions59164 ай бұрын
@@edwardmclaughlin719 It's dead now. The console (Amico) will never see the light of day. They no longer hold any rights to any Intellivison game. So what would be the purpose of buying a Amico if it ever were to be released? Answer? None
@ExtremeWreck4 ай бұрын
@@ilikepiproductions5916 It's like those "consoles" Commodore released. There is no purpose to buy it, no reason for it to exist & about 92% impossible to get one.
@ZForceFFC4 ай бұрын
Even if Atari doesn't do anything with the brand, I'll sleep better at night knowing Tommy Tallarico no longer owns it
@ilikepiproductions59164 ай бұрын
DJC, Mullis and the rest of the Amico lovers are crying.... The Amico is dead
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
All 100 of them? We should rent out a small funeral home... 😢
@billcook47684 ай бұрын
How can something be dead that was never alive?
@ExtremeWreck4 ай бұрын
@@billcook4768 I would say a better term would be un-personned or persona non grata.
@saurondp4 ай бұрын
This deal doesn't include the Amico side of Intellivsion, so it appears that console will forever remain vaporware.
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
I’d thought they made some units, but I could be wrong. If so, it’s not even right to call it a “console.” It’s schematics and renderings. I could do that and say “I made a console,”otherwise...
@Cueya4 ай бұрын
Intellivision has a lot of debts to pay , probably where the money is going
@Reddprogram554 ай бұрын
That's the real problem with any cash infusion they get from this. Tommy didn't pay that much relatively speaking for Intellvision and the name has been dragged through the pig potty sense. This would be like putting 100 dollars in an account overdrawn by 1000. It gets dumped into the vortex of raging Sudesh Aggarwal, furniture loans and Ticked off Republic investors. Long term it's PROBABLY not gonna help. Especially when they could not even get going when they had Millions of dollars🫠
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
More like Tommy’s pocket...
@Cueya4 ай бұрын
@@mechamania Tommy got kicked out long ago, stop believing 5lothams nonsense
@stevedee41324 ай бұрын
Still waiting on my refund, emailed them countless times, got one response it was "forwarded" to the "refund department", by a system admin, not a word since.
@mcorleonep4 ай бұрын
As a kid, I wanted to see George Plimpton with an egg on his face (was an Atari kid). Now some 40 years later....
@JustMe999994 ай бұрын
Well, at least Atari is likely to do something with the IP.
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
That’s the only reason to buy it. It wasn’t for the hardware or controllers...
@linuxrobotgeek4 ай бұрын
I'm not surprised because this is a scenario I had been thinking about so I'm good with this. Ironically this means Intellivision lost again lol
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
Love that, but ironically, it’s the opposite of irony. It woulda been irony if the brand that sold 3 million units bought the brand that’s sold over 50 million, and counting... Irony is the opposite of what is said, expected, or likely. Just an FYI... 🍻
@DisasterSquad4 ай бұрын
Keith robinson would be so proud
@GuppyCzar4 ай бұрын
I think he'd be happier now than with the previous turds ownership and the damage it caused.
@MikeDijital4 ай бұрын
Atari bought everything for a song and im sure they licensed back the name to the Amico people as part of the deal for only the Amico project which is now going to quietly fade away now that the company is a LLC... Do some research on LLC's and bankruptcy laws... Jon and Phil just made their escape with everyones money... This time next year there will be no amico, and no one will notice...
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
Nobody except those who paid for one and Pat the NES Punk notices, now...
@tracedowning18404 ай бұрын
Well, I guess my $100 from 2019 is a goner. Not that I was ever holding my breath after I asked for a refund in Feb 2023... with no response.... ever
@ThomwoththeWeather4 ай бұрын
me too, except we could really get this thing one day. Atari has capital.. and cash flow.. they could really see the value and pull it off... Amico would have been really good if it was cheaper, and it existed...
@ExtremeWreck4 ай бұрын
@@ThomwoththeWeather Atari has no ownership of the Amico console & they would've probably cancelled & then persona non grata'd the Amico if they did.
@EpicTyphlosionTV4 ай бұрын
Having seen lots of those old school "Intellivision vs Atari" commercials, hearing about this is crazy!
@andrewosborne75444 ай бұрын
Sweet! Lets hope some Intellivision games come to the VCS and an Intellivision 50 game release! I want to replay beauty and the beast! Wait that's owned by Activision.
@metronome84714 ай бұрын
Microsoft gaming
@joefell53114 ай бұрын
I have zero regrets getting my preorder money back when I was growing impatient before the whole thing imploded. I have faith Atari will do the brand right.
@deadcentre-retro-meaningma62094 ай бұрын
This is excellent news. A real company with an actual track record in creating realised products finally have control over Intellivision. Amico has never made the slightest bit of sense.
@SomeOrangeCat4 ай бұрын
To that effect, there's nothing on Amico Home that you can't find a better, less expensive, version of on other platforms.
@janong98734 ай бұрын
Tommy was working for Atari. Mission accomplished.
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
He wasn’t, but he couldn’t have been more successful, if he were. The irony is palpable...
@duzkiss4 ай бұрын
This was a prelude to amico going into bankruptcy. It needs the cash to fund its bankruptcy and 6 to 9 months. Right now they are liquidating their assets. That's what they're basically doing and they're finding a home with somebody who can actually take over those assets. Imagine in a bankruptcy having all these assets sold to hundreds of companies and splitting the library even more. What we call fracturing the library but in this case here Atari gets the entire suite now. As far as the two games at BBG own, they actually co-own them with Atari bbg's handling the new releases of them. Those two games anything modernized while Atari has the old licenses of those games. If you read the acquisition that happened several months ago that Atari bought VM network. It states it in it
@mgabrysSF4 ай бұрын
you need a part II - good stuff!
@ThaMizphit744 ай бұрын
Curious to see what Digital Eclipse does.
@evad9994 ай бұрын
I like this. Atari has been (in my opinion, and it sounds like yours, too) putting out some good stuff these last few years, and I don't see any reason to be pessimistic about this acquisition. I hope you've been doing well, I'm still in your discord but don't check in nearly as often as I should. Take care
@jeromesppd13834 ай бұрын
OMG I hope for the best with this acquisition!👍
@metronome84714 ай бұрын
"Get in the hole amico chameleon. No one will look for you at a landfill!"- Rei Ryghts.
@GeneSimmonsBoots4 ай бұрын
This is awesome. When I was a kid I wanted a 2600 port of Cloudy Mountain so bad. Maybe it'll happen now!
@brandong.18574 ай бұрын
When ypour IPO mentions "vaporware", nah , Atari ain't doing that
@akaimizu14 ай бұрын
Hmm. It looks like Atari might have just saved the Digital Eclipse games of Night Stalker and Cloudy Mountain. Though, it would pretty much be on other consoles.
@metronome84714 ай бұрын
I want Atari to convince Choice Provisions to finish their breakout.
@wtechdude4 ай бұрын
They should just refund The buyers of The Amico. Developing The Amico Is just wasting money.
@phaedrus444 ай бұрын
I hate to think that Tommy Scamaroni is making one cent from this
@dave4shmups4 ай бұрын
I think this is great news! I share your thoughts about Atari; I think that they’re doing a great job overall.
@c.g.vonhagenstein75764 ай бұрын
Everyone say it with me... Intellivision RECHARGED titles! I know they don't have Astrosmash yet, but which ones would we want to see? I like what Atari has done with most of the Recharged titles and would love to see the same with Intellivison ones.
@SNARC154 ай бұрын
I know they did Berzerk Recharged already but I also hope it gets a follow up with Night Stalker Recharged. Maybe a Thunder Castle Recharged too?
@HerculesMays4 ай бұрын
Would love to see a Utopia recharged. Add randomized island layouts, naval combat, different random.scenarios, 4 player mode with 4 different islands, the game is teeming with opportunities for expansion!
@AmazinglyBadGamer4 ай бұрын
That's really cool! No more scams! Great video, NSG, always on top of it.
@swk384 ай бұрын
now they need to buy colecovision& adam
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
... and the Odyssey and TI-99/4a. Don’t see Phillips Magnavox or Texas Instruments getting back into making machines with keyboards and cartridge slots... 3DO wouldn’t be a bad buy, nor TurboGrafx/PC Engine. Atari should rightly reign supreme in retro gaming!
@pweddy14 ай бұрын
Can they get Coleco too? It would be cool to release compilations that had all the earlier gen consoles under one title.
@jimgoebel53484 ай бұрын
Only problem with this is that there's very few original content titles with Coleco. Almost everything is a licensed title.
@ccricers4 ай бұрын
Is Coleco holdings still overprotective of their IP? I recall after the Chameleon fiasco they were aggressive against people even making Coleco fan groups without their permission.
@monochaos94424 ай бұрын
I'm gonna be real, I never even heard of Intellevision before now. As for Atari, I didn't even know they were still in the gaming scene until now.
@YouSuperJ4 ай бұрын
Like Vince buying WCW. Tommys failure is complete.
@Sebastian-jk9kk4 ай бұрын
I hope games like Thunder Castle will get more exposure after all this.
@danestegman1554 ай бұрын
Good video! Interesting news! And the plot thickens!
@jengelenm4 ай бұрын
NOTHING will change for the Amico backer. Be sure, Phil and John will reply you this: “it’s a seperate business unit”.
@dc96624 ай бұрын
People finally getting their refunds. Wouldn't that be something? Blah, blah, mother proud, etc.
@bald_engineer4 ай бұрын
Atari buying Astrosmash and Shark Shark back from BBG would be hilarious. After the near zero performance, Atari would get a fantastic deal on it. Overall, a huge Win for them.
@SomeOrangeCat4 ай бұрын
Shark! Shark! is no great loss, but they already have Astroblast, which was M Network's version of Astrosmash.
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
Don’t forget George Plimpton’s role, in all this...
@SomeOrangeCat4 ай бұрын
"...and a hot plate!"
@Madgitty24 ай бұрын
Still waiting for the console, 5 years now since deposit and never replies to emails
@thegamesninja31194 ай бұрын
Utopia Recharged!
@joeg47074 ай бұрын
I think this is a good thing for the Intellivision brand and portfolio of games. An Intellivision game library without Shark Shark doesn't quite feel complete. Alas, maybe they can get that from BBG--who knows. Atari is very wise to steer clear of the Amico sham/scam. I expect some of the original Intellivision games to be made available for the Atari VCS. A mini-Intellivision, like the recent 400, could be on the horizon. How cool would an Intellivision+ be, that plays physical carts? Considering ~10X more original Atari 2600 consoles were sold compared to the Plimpton-era Intellivisions, that may be too niche.
@SomeOrangeCat4 ай бұрын
What's so great about Shark Shark? Better games of it's kind exist.
@dracovania4 ай бұрын
I hope the paid 2600 dollars to buy them.
@salvadormendoza50454 ай бұрын
I was surprised when i seen this.. how many popular IPS does intellivision have??
@thenosweargamer14494 ай бұрын
Not many, especially with Shark Shark and Astrosmash sold. They still have Night Stalker and AD&D Cloudy Mountain games (without the AD&D license), so I could see Atari publish the remakes that were in the works for the Amico, or new games based on them. They also have the Astroblast name, which could be used for Astrosmash style games. And of course a compilation is very possible.
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
Yeah, this is really bigger news, in a PR sense - telling GenX Atari is f’real.
@F1JV4 ай бұрын
I wish ATARI waited until May 29th because that day in 2018 was when TommIE announced a possible system project might be occurring OR May 30th because that day in 2018 was when ATARI’s IGG campaign started for their 🎮🕹ATARI VCS-800🕹🎮 Regardless… Winner: 😎ATARI😎 Loser: 🥺TommIE🥺
@duzkiss4 ай бұрын
Also, the two games that BBG released were already finished products. They were never made by BBG. They were finished under the in television brand and then they were sold out because they couldn't get a distribution system working out correctly. But it goes to show you that Atari is on point. I just can't wait till they buy Coleco that's going to happen and they will buy either commodore or Amiga that's going to happen in the next year. Just watch I said it.
@chrisrutkowski12254 ай бұрын
Just bought the new VCS. Hoping to see some Intellivision games in the platform
@paulbarton53314 ай бұрын
Maybe an Intellivision plus console?
@chinabluewho3 ай бұрын
I only care about the D&D games on the Intellivison actually coming out as they are still enjoyable to play.
@midimusicforever4 ай бұрын
Tommy, look at what you did!
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
Too bad Intellivision’s D&D game will never see a remake - unless Hasbro licenses the rights from Atari, for the game itself. Of course, it could show up as the same game with a different name. Pick one...
@SomeOrangeCat4 ай бұрын
I imagine the original game will show up with a name change.
@joezanolle98224 ай бұрын
If the deal doesnt include Cornhole Im not interested 😂
@rustymixer28864 ай бұрын
Does atari own colecovision too?
@jonathangatto4 ай бұрын
Just because they bought it doesn't mean that they're going to combine the companies
@TheLadsBandLive4 ай бұрын
I’m an Intellivision fan, not an Amico fan. Atari needs to burn and bury anything Amico-related. No ill-conceived console, ridiculous controllers or shovelware games. Scrub that scam of a stain from history. Just add classic Intellivision titles to the Atari library. An HD classic plug-and-play console would be pretty great, too.
@SNARC154 ай бұрын
They didn't buy anything related to the Amico. That's being left on their own, most likely to finally die its slow death.
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
@@SNARC15Hate to disagree, but I think it’ll be dying as fast a jet can make it to the Caymans...
@phat-kid4 ай бұрын
i think it means that anyone who supported the amico is officially out of luck, but i hope i'm wrong!
@jordanwhite3524 ай бұрын
Microsoft going 3rd Party and Intellivision bought out by Atari. The irony.
@Zoyx4 ай бұрын
Hope this means there will be a proper Intellivsion reproduction.
@getondese4 ай бұрын
Atari WINS!
@PT-vv3ep4 ай бұрын
will atari and sega ever be significant again?
@SomeOrangeCat4 ай бұрын
Not really.
@jbponzi14 ай бұрын
I think this is a 'Karma's a bitch' moment.
@MisterDozer4 ай бұрын
Tommy TallAmico
@MisterDozer4 ай бұрын
or Tommy FailAmico
@calebprenger39284 ай бұрын
soulja boy bought intellivision?
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
You don’t know much about the history of computing, do you? Atari made the first computers with separate audio and video chips, as well as the precursor to USB (Serial I/O) on their 8-bit line (1979), alone. Now, X-Box is in worse shape.
@metronome84714 ай бұрын
Soulja boi supermanned tallamico.
@joezanolle98224 ай бұрын
Very ironic ... ATARI ... doesn't ... lose...
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
Except they were the first big winner. 30 million 2600s to 3 million Intellivisions and 2 million ColecoVisions. Add the C^4 in there, and Atari still wins, even without counting their own, further ahead of its time 8-bit line.
@SynthfulDuck4 ай бұрын
So is this the pathetic end of the Intellivision Amico? What about Sudesh's money? lmao
@michh98064 ай бұрын
I wish the Amico is coming!!!!!
@ilikepiproductions59164 ай бұрын
This deal officially killed it. It won't come now for sure
@ThomwoththeWeather4 ай бұрын
they said they will be making the console, distributing it and the games too.. lots of potentially positive clues here
@ilikepiproductions59164 ай бұрын
The console won't come out now. There's no purpose to it. The Amico no longer owns the Intellivison games so what games would go on the system that OTHER systems don't already have? This deal killed the Amico. Any game from Intellivison woukd be from Atari now.... Amico has no games or original games. The Amico is, dead
@FrogTony4 ай бұрын
Tommy wins again!
@mgabrysSF4 ай бұрын
LOL! OF course they did. They already bought the dorks at AtariAge who couldn't stop simping for Amico until it got too embarrassing. Oh GOD that's hilarious.
@mechamania4 ай бұрын
Hahahaha! Wow, that aged poorly more quickly than avocados...
@mgabrysSF4 ай бұрын
@@mechamania Pretty much! (typing from a Ubuntu / Atari VCS (I've got every OS in the house, but they're all great for OS centric stuff,)
@PuzZLeR_004 ай бұрын
I see this was the reason the word "Intellivision" wasn't in the last email from Phil. I'd love to know: -Will the Blue Sky Rangers, the new Amico owners, be a separate legal entity from IE? -Will they have full rights to Intellivision IPs and branding as long as they use "Blue Sky Rangers" instead of "Intellivision"? -Did the Blue Sky Rangers earn some investment money for Amico in this deal? The Blue Sky Rangers arguably were the true heart and soul of Intellivision. Maybe Keith decided to take on the Amico torch from Tommy.
@SomeOrangeCat4 ай бұрын
Keith's spirit is probably resting easy knowing his baby has been wrestled away from people who had no business owning it in the first place.
@PuzZLeR_004 ай бұрын
@@SomeOrangeCatWrestled away? Ha ha. You funny... Keith intervened. He wanted Amico. He got Amico. BSR too no longer has "Intellivision", but never needed "papers" to always have had the brand's very spirit.
@MasterSystemMarceau4 ай бұрын
I think this is very positive for all parties. Gamers, Atari, Intellivision and maybe even those who are hoping for an Amico to manufactured, that's extra cash they could use.
@SomeOrangeCat4 ай бұрын
You really think they're gonna release a system? Lol.
@ccricers4 ай бұрын
The cash is going to pay all of their debts first.
@SomeOrangeCat4 ай бұрын
@@ccricers And that's assuming Atari paid them very much. IE is in no position to bargain.
@LelandReview4 ай бұрын
As a Intellivision fan I am happy Atari has control. Many of the Amico core values were too limiting.
@PuzZLeR_004 ай бұрын
Terrific news for Intellivision fans. They will get to see some exciting new hardcore Intellivision stuff. Terrific news for Amico fans. They are now one step closer to releasing the controllers, and having a clearer identity with its marketing initiatives. In other words, Amico is now finally free from the "Gamer" or even "retro gamer" comparisons which all along only stifled its message.
@linuxrobotgeek4 ай бұрын
Just stop. You've been wrong about everything. It's been amusing to see you constantly be wrong about everything. You can stop now.
@SomeOrangeCat4 ай бұрын
@@linuxrobotgeek First he claimed the Amico didn't NEED hardware. Then he claimed the Amico didn't NEED exclusives. Then he claimed the Amico didn't NEED good sales numbers. Now he's claiming Amico doesn't NEED the brand they built the entire concept from. Phil and John could meet a tragic end tomorrow and Puzzler would just claim Amico didn't NEED them either.
@ilikepiproductions59164 ай бұрын
😂😂😂 We knew you would show. This deal officially kills the Amico hardware as many have stated. They no longer own intellivision games. What would be the controller for? No purpose. You have been wrong on EVEYTHING Amico related. This news is GREAT news, for Intellivison fans wanting to see the 200 plus Intellivison games remade on and for various systems. The Amico? Whats the purpose of buying it now if it were released.... And they would still have to pay back the $100 per console sold loan if the system were released
@SomeOrangeCat4 ай бұрын
@@ilikepiproductions5916 Guzzler will just claim that this was the plan all along!
@outsideredge4 ай бұрын
The “human experience” of selling off your brand eh? The project announced in 2018 and promised for 2020 fired its final foot bullet without a single unit hitting retail.