Intellivision Amico Home News Update & The One Question No One Is Asking

[@thenosweargamer1449]

As pointed out by Gaterooze in the comments, after talking about how easy and seamless it is to connect a second device to Amico Home as a controller, Rich attempted to show a second phone connect to his phone running Shark Shark live. After trying for several minutes, he is unable to, first wondering if the second phone is on the correct network, then wondering if the controller app needs updating. He eventually & quietly gives up, and the failed attempt is ignored for the rest of the stream. You can watch it around the 34:00 mark of Amico Forever 88 kzbin.infoSPuI-JWS-4A?feature=shared&t=2033

[@SomeOrangeCat]

It's so very telling that they can't even make the thing look good, from the safety of their own PR videos. The entire thing is just a dumpster fire, and every "update" just splashes some more gasoline on it.

[@YouSuperJ]

Not having controllers work properly is the Amico calling card

[@FunSongsUSA]

No Swear Gamer YOU should pay the people their deposit because YOU are the one who brought down the company with your negative videos..it if wasn't for your videos the Amico would have come out and these people would have their system...you really have the gaul for not taking responsiblilty and not pay these people their money

[@toyvania]

Are you high?@@FunSongsUSA

[@dc9662]

​@@FunSongsUSASure, Tommy.

[@NinjaKittyRetro]

I'm guessing no press release and no big sit down video with John Alvarado on their official Intellivision channel showcasing games on the Amico Home? /sarcasm

[@atm94404]

"Why don't they do this on their official channel? Why isn't John A./Nick R./etc doing this?" It's real simple. If anybody official says things, it can be used against them in court. TT used to do the same thing on AtariAge. Many of the "they've passed certification" or "they've got Earthworm Jim almost ready" or "they're going to have the Founder's editions shipped by Christmas as a suprise" statements weren't made by anybody official, but by people (TT fanboys/shills) told to say that by an insider. It was a win-win for them. The shills got to feel special by getting "inside info" and the company maintained plausible deniability when those statements turned out to be false. Tommy could say "Where did *I* say the Founder's editions would be out for Christmas?" and still reap the rewards of the false hope that circulated in his AtariAge Safe Space. Some of the useful idiots wised up after a few rounds of this and spoke up- and then were ostracized and maligned by Tommy's new favorite sock-puppets.

[@atm94404]

I've been saying for two years that everything IE claims a $300 Amico will do one day was already possible on a $20 Chromecast and some $25 bluetooth controllers (or a $30 Walmart Android phone).

[@dc9662]

I just went on Amazon to confirm - $300 is a lot to pay for a footbath!

[@adm712]

Someone has to do something on October 10 to commemorate that day when Amico was supposed to launch in 2020. October 10 could be "Amico day" lol.

[@F1JV]

“Have An Amico Day…Day” October 10 = “HAADA” Used in a sentence…The Cult 🤡’Shills would have a “HAADA” if Tommy’s failed system project ever got released.

[@gateroozeink5061]

It wasn't a good look when they tried to demonstrate Amico Home live and they couldn't get it to work.

[@thenosweargamer1449]

Yeah, forgot to mention that one!

[@akaimizu1]

Amico -> simple. All other consoles -> complex. Gotta love that advertisement as to why people would want one. It keeps getting funnier as time passes.

[@joezanolle9822]

54:00 AF RAB goes on why $300 for an Amico is understandable since prices of everything has gone up and how Amico home is IE working to make their games affordable & accessible to you 😂

[@ludoergo]

They should charge $300 for Amico Home just to see how RAB explains it.

[@SpeccyHorace]

I do a love a RAB "I think this is a good thing".

[@outsideredge]

$17 million gets you what is, even in theory, the worst, most cumbersome Android casting experience possible. And the kicker? Even the most hardcore shills couldn’t get it to work. Amico was always an Android phone in a shell, but after squandering all their money they don’t bother with the chips and shells anymore. And as one poster said, why is this on a small KZbin channel and not their website or social media pages? Because the real goal here is to be able to say they tried, if anyone asks what happened. But if anything goes wrong, the fallback position is that nothing was official and DJC is just a fan channel. It’s all “wouldn’t that be something” to maintain plausible deniability.

[@phat-kid]

the endgame is by the time the amico comes out it will be 30 years after they announced it, so it will be a true retro console. this thing is so state of the art you have to purchase a brand new tv to run it! it's going to be like google cardboard. just a pdf file of an amico template you print out and fold and wrap around an android phone, but it has to be a brand new android phone or it won't work properly.

[@midimusicforever]

I have an idea of why it wasn't put on the Intellivision channel. Tommy probably is the only one who has the password to it! 🤣

[@maztr_0n81]

his mother is very proud

[@erich7001]

When they said their console will bring families together, I didn't think they meant hurdled over a person playing on a sofa. Personally, I wish they would give over all games to BGG. I would love to play the new Nightstalker or DnD games on Steam than a touch screen device.

[@BakerMiles-c7b]

MY Amico man! Back on top! Thanks for the news.

[@saturnman9129]

I do not understand how anybody can still think there will ever be a console , let alone any games to play on it , other than a few shovelware titles.

[@atarigames]

At this point NSG is the only reliable source for consistently fair coverage of the Amico 🙏

[@linky9593]

When I only learned one thing about the "new" Intellivision company.. that will be the fact, that they are everything but NOT professional. I feel sorry for everyone who put any money in this..

[@vidarlystadjohansen9829]

great channel , get most of my Amico updates here

[@SomeOrangeCat]

The whole thing sure seems a lot more complicated than say...turning on your Switch and handing everyone in the room a Joycon. There's gonna be so much lag with Amico Home! Even when you've got one device physically connected to your TV, there is noticeable lag. Amico Home is gonna make playing OnLive(remember that?) over a 56k connection look like a smooth experience.

[@Jersey28]

I’d guess they did it this way to avoid legal/civil issues. They can hand wave all this away since it’s just some random dudes, not an official announcement from IE.

[@ELSTERLING]

"iOS is planned for later." Yes, I'm sure the dedicated porting team is hard at work.

[@YouSuperJ]

Insert laughing JJJ gif here

[@ezg2000]

Amico home is 6 years behind what Sony did with the Sony Playlink. So the hardware is 6 years old. And the software is 6 years old

[@SpeccyHorace]

If that TV was the problem, would the little fish be able to swim into that little gap at the side? That's a software fault.

[@dustheg]

I won't call this intellivision amico cause intellivision doesn't deserve to be used as a bad name it was a good system back in the day. Amico is the name that deserves to be the bad name all it's own. It's criminal what they are doing and just need to shut down at this point

[@toyvania]

They tarnished Keith's legacy. It's embarrassing.

[@HELLHAMMERHANDHIX]

I have android ,I'm up for it. I wonder if I can use "air console" to get it on my tv ???

[@XanthinZarda]

But I imagine you're a better air guitarist than Tommy.

[@chrisnizer5702]

This is a group that spent over $100 GRAND on office furniture, they managed to squander $17 MILLION dollars of other people's money, and have virtually nothing to show for it. Why not throw another log on the ol' dumpster fire.🔥🔥 Joking aside, they should be processing refunds or at least contacting those people who have been waiting for refunds. Thanks for another great update my friend, Semper Fidelis!

[@richchinnici6182]

It turns your mobile device into an Amico console? THERE IS NO AMICO CONSOLE AND NEVER WILL BE!!!

[@robbieadams9837]

Dumpster Fire 🔥 Extrodanaire

[@linuxrobotgeek]

Time to close up shop intellivision.

[@RockyBergen]

THERE IS NO CONSOLE. THERE NEVER WILL BE A CONSOLE!!

[@SomeOrangeCat]

This hammers that home. DJC and Bacon Ice Cream sure said the quiet part out loud.

[@JohnnyProctor9]

Fire TV is Android based, couldn't they just run it on Fire TV?

[@XanthinZarda]

Ah, punting the ball. (The ball is a lead weight.) So let me get this as bisexual as possible: You need one phone for Amico Home, and the hypothetical Amico controller app is a separate app, which likely hasn't been updated for the newest Android SDK.

[@ccricers]

Which means it's very likely that Amico Home is just the same launcher menu that is on the Amico itself. They just did the minimal effort to get it running on other Android devices. Using the Amico controller app to play the games, which they already support, so Amico Home is just repackaging the Amico menu software as a "new" product.

[@jaydarkseed757]

imagine these bozos are the face of your gaming company

[@kNeczpal]

My question is what is the point of this? And btw this morning Dynablaster dropped for the very fun Atari VCS 😂🎉

[@XanthinZarda]

And I imagine Dynablaster is doing mad numbers against Super Bomberman R2.

[@themadmoderator8465]

are they scammers or just incompitent clowns or both lol

[@toyvania]

Both.

[@F1JV]

Well…”Amico Home”* makes the whole “bring a controller with your games on it over to your friend(s)/relative(s)/bar-tavern(s)” obsolete. 🤔I think🤔 *stupid name since it seems to be very…if not infinitely…mobile

[@YETTheShow]

Why? Why was time and money devoted to this crap?!?!? Why aren’t they using ALL of their resources on the Amico??? It’s just BS. I feel sorry for anyone who gave them money.

[@kins749]

In Tommy we trust 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SmashJT]

Great take as usual!

[@maztr_0n81]

tommy's mother is very proud

[@themegaman91965]

The only one that made it out of the bunch is the Atari VCS, and is ironically still kicking, though still not exactly the greatest thing. At least it made it out of the door...

[@SomeOrangeCat]

It came out. Games for it came out. That's more than will every be said for the Scamico.

[@themegaman91965]

@@SomeOrangeCat That's what I was saying. There's a good handful of them out there, though I'm not sure I want to own one. Same folks are putting out the 2600+ soon, which is more than believable, since Atari at least gets things done, unlike the Coleco Chameleon, and the Amico.

[@carolyncruz9529]

Can the investors sue? I mean they were lied to on who worked there, and they were investing in a physical console not a mobile app.

[@F1JV]

All that wasted $$$ only to have a gaming ecosystem entirely not needing the hardware(console + controllers) that the wasted $$$ was “supposedly” spent on… 🙄good grief🙄 Edit…plus time. 🥳TT’s-💩”HyperScan Amico”💩 FTW🥳

[@bradbubolz9512]

probably only got Android phones for now because they're going to use chromecast from the app to deliver it wirelessly to TVs every single step has been another wrong decision made. Frankly, now, they ought to just give up on the console and just concentrate on getting the controllers working for mobile apps and computers. I don't care about any of the games to be honest, but, at least, they would have a product that they could sell and MAYBE recoup some loss. Hell, just sell the controllers without the games at this point and let the community hack them to work as retro Intellivision controllers for the console and PC collections since I have no faith in anyone that's handled Amico

[@Wingsisaspedheadedped]

This is the biggest waste of time and money ever wtf are you peeps doing... buy a emulator box and just have fun instead of throwing money down a well

[@darkridearts]

The grift keeps rolling

[@PuzZLeR_00]

To address your "One Question": Without a signature, voice recording, imprint, whatever, with the EXACT amount agreed to be billed, or how often, etc, you can dispute any charge on your credit card if you find something fishy. Question answered.

[@LelandReview]

It's actually trolls teasing Tommy saying they didn't get refunds. Every real person that asked got it back. How do we know this ? People are literally waiting in a line to purchase the founders edition pre orders from anyone that doesn't want it anymore. And they will to pay more then the original backers did. Maybe Brandon should check his junk mail folder if he is legit having issues.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

I'd certainly consider anything from Intellivision Entertainment as "junk", so that part at least tracks.

[@F1JV]

How’s the dusting of your 🪨Pet Rock Boxes📦 going? The dusting is the “real” enjoyment of those games…let’s be honest. ✨10/15/2025✨ 💥Keep The Fate🔥

[@LelandReview]

@@SomeOrangeCat So your watching Intellivision content because you love hating it ? Face facts Intellivision is the most popular console on social media. You can't stop watching it :D

[@LelandReview]

@@F1JV Most older gamers are shelf collectors :D What adult has time to play video games all day ? I own a 1000 games and played about 1% of them. I can wait decades for Amico if that how long the chip shortage takes. I'm not a child with ADD like most Amico haters.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

​​@@LelandReview I enjoy watching scam artists fail. I enjoy watching their apologists struggle and flail to do damage control. You can't even address the problems they're having getting Amico Home to work. All you can do is whinge at people for pointing out how busted it is.

[@FunSongsUSA]

No Swear Gamer YOU should pay the people their deposit because YOU are the one who brought down the company with your negative videos..it if wasn't for your videos the Amico would have come out and these people would have their system...you really have the gaul for not taking responsiblilty and not pay these people their money

[@toyvania]

????

[@XanthinZarda]

I...don't think you're following anything that resembles a track of logic.

[@EnjoyingChaotics]

that guy looks like the WISH version of Steven Seagal also the Amico is garbage from Daddy Tallarico... I dont know how these guys shill for that piece of crap