Contains confirmation directly from Al of AtariAge that Tommy lied about the Amico thread being closed by mutual decision and that they both planned it out. Tommy lies an incredible amount, it's quite insane.
Amico Fun Conversations |OT| What the heck’s an Intellivision Amico? Console’s leaky dev portal offers hints
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Contains confirmation directly from Al of AtariAge that Tommy lied about the Amico thread being closed by mutual decision and that they both planned it out. Tommy lies an incredible amount, it's quite insane.
You need undeniably appealing games to sell a console. The amico has none. Not a one. It's just DOA if it ever A's.
I would've actually been interested in the Amico if it wasn't being pulled in three directions. Tommy's inner child wants it to be a throwback to his childhood, Tommy's ego wants it to be a "real console", and Tommy's wallet wants to hoover in as much money as it can while spending as little as possible on the games themselves.
Thanks. I missed that. I just kind of assume at this point a finished console will never see the light of day.
I will say this; The first trailer for Night Stalker seemed pretty neat.
Otherwise, I've been loving all the tea and drama so damn much I think, as much as I love my PC and Series X, the Amico may be the most entertaining gaming experience of 2021.
Otherwise, I've been loving all the tea and drama so damn much I think, as much as I love my PC and Series X, the Amico may be the most entertaining gaming experience of 2021.
I agree, the Fallout-style retro-tech look of the Night Stalker trailer looks pretty neat, and fits the "retro reborn" vibe much as the 1970s-striped title screen of Astrosmash does.
I'm not sold on what seems like repetitive, simple gameplay with busy graphics, also like Astrosmash.
What we don't know about Night Stalker (same for Cloudy Mountain) is how far along they are, since it has never been demonstrated live. Mike Mika would know if a finished game is ready to go or if the brief glimpses we have seen are just art and tech demos.
"Wouldn't it be something" if this game launched for $5 on the Nintendo eShop, with its huge potential audience, so everyone could determine the actual demand for this stuff? Because I'm seeing $12 million sunk into Amico so far but only 6,000 solid orders, making the effective cost to produce Amico $2,000 per unit.
Tommy wins again! What, what?
I'm not sold on what seems like repetitive, simple gameplay with busy graphics, also like Astrosmash.
What we don't know about Night Stalker (same for Cloudy Mountain) is how far along they are, since it has never been demonstrated live. Mike Mika would know if a finished game is ready to go or if the brief glimpses we have seen are just art and tech demos.
"Wouldn't it be something" if this game launched for $5 on the Nintendo eShop, with its huge potential audience, so everyone could determine the actual demand for this stuff? Because I'm seeing $12 million sunk into Amico so far but only 6,000 solid orders, making the effective cost to produce Amico $2,000 per unit.
Tommy wins again! What, what?
Well he "wins" if he can pocket the money and disappear right?
I'm not sure Tommy can "disappear".
He needs people calling him "Video Game Legend Tommy Tallarico". At the very least, he'll retreat to the adulation he gets at Videogames Live as soon as touring is possible.
His Guinness records? I think they're parked. You can look them up. Registration required, so I'm not willing to put in the effort.
It's the kind of thing you need to pay for, it's not like doing the 1970s style stunts from the old pulp Guinness books such as "Most Jumps On Pogo Stick," it's more like pay-to-play now.
I'm sure there are lots of long-serving company employees who would easily beat his "records" if anyone cared enough to spike the ball.
The fact that Tallarico touts these silly records underscores his 1970s roots, along with Intellivision, Evel Knievel and the Harlem Globetrotters.
It's the kind of thing you need to pay for, it's not like doing the 1970s style stunts from the old pulp Guinness books such as "Most Jumps On Pogo Stick," it's more like pay-to-play now.
I'm sure there are lots of long-serving company employees who would easily beat his "records" if anyone cared enough to spike the ball.
The fact that Tallarico touts these silly records underscores his 1970s roots, along with Intellivision, Evel Knievel and the Harlem Globetrotters.
Amicogamer.com is the quick URL to the Facebook group if anyone wants to still follow the pathetic comments but that url seems flaky and hit or miss to me. If Tommy cheaped out on something I wouldn't be surprised
That amicogamer.com (not to be confused with the brilliant amicogames.com gossip/shitpost site) seems to be a blog feed of the private Facebook group. You can get a flavor of what's being discussed but you can't see names or replies. I think it is run by the Canadian shill François.
Luckily Archive.org has saved most of the AtariAge threads and posts, keeping alive classics like this;
So many things in there just incredibly ironic considering who's saying it and what he and people associated with him have done and said.
So many things in there just incredibly ironic considering who's saying it and what he and people associated with him have done and said.
Wow that is sure somethingLuckily Archive.org has saved most of the AtariAge threads and posts, keeping alive classics like this;
So many things in there just incredibly ironic considering who's saying it and what he and people associated with him have done and said.
Luckily Archive.org has saved most of the AtariAge threads and posts, keeping alive classics like this;
So many things in there just incredibly ironic considering who's saying it and what he and people associated with him have done and said.
Damn, all those communists want to hunt him down...
Nice of him to say they supply all art right after loads of stolen graphics were found in their first deep dive video basically admitting it was their fault, lol.
I suppose that does explain why most of the games seem to be incongruent messes. Tommy wants to take credit for every single game on the system, so his "multi-award-winning team" supplies a few assets (or messes with it just for the sake of messing with it, like Finnegan Fox) and blammo! It's "their" game.
I can't fathom why a (non German student) dev would sign on with them. Obviously they get paid, but I don't understand how anybody who was proud of what they'd made would want Tommy and Co. to Ecce Homo their game. If it's just for the money, those aren't games that I want to play.
I can't fathom why a (non German student) dev would sign on with them. Obviously they get paid, but I don't understand how anybody who was proud of what they'd made would want Tommy and Co. to Ecce Homo their game. If it's just for the money, those aren't games that I want to play.
Yes!
Can't wait to take another deep dive into a shallow as a puddle game. Watching now!
There is like 3 minutes of gameplay stretched to infinity. That would be a ad filled mobile game
An absolutely appalling looking, animating and controlling version of Feeding Frenzy, that's their level?
Christ.
I've played a few games like Shark Shark and there's generally nothing all that special about them but whatever little fun there has been has come from growing fish to huge sizes and being able to eat everything.
Which doesn't seem possible here. It seems that you're normally pretty small and size resets as you move between levels, so you're not even getting much of a sense of progress.
Also after AstroSmash playing at a smooth framerate we're back to another super-basic game that somehow doesn't. So that's two out of three games detailed so far with direct feed footage on real hardware performing poorly, and because of AstroSmash we know it's not their capture setup. Even with the rumoured target hardware it doesn't make sense for these games to be running so badly.
Which doesn't seem possible here. It seems that you're normally pretty small and size resets as you move between levels, so you're not even getting much of a sense of progress.
Also after AstroSmash playing at a smooth framerate we're back to another super-basic game that somehow doesn't. So that's two out of three games detailed so far with direct feed footage on real hardware performing poorly, and because of AstroSmash we know it's not their capture setup. Even with the rumoured target hardware it doesn't make sense for these games to be running so badly.
This video made me sad. REALLY trying to hype those features like pick your color! New dances! Unlockable fishes!
Shark!Shark! More like Fart!Fart! I'll be here all night.
Loving the super delayed touch controls 👍
Loving the super delayed touch controls 👍
Cripes, one of their talking points is "we gave the other fish dead eyes. That's something we worked with the developers to get into the game."
Just struggling to find stuff to talk about. Imagine being a for-hire dev and John or whoever emails you their feedback and one of the points is "only the player fish are allowed non-dead eyes." Never mind that the puffer fish that was just on-screen also has big cartoony eyes (and later, the seahorse).
I also like the way the video includes them just dying in stupid ways. Did they lose attention? Did the controller not read an input properly? How on earth did you just swim directly at the pufferfish?
I also LOL'd at Tommy bragging about the menu resize option (which is actually a UI resize option), both because 1) That should be a standard option, and 2) I don't remember it being in either of the previous games.
My biggest takeaway once again is "who are these videos even for?" Just twenty minutes of Tommy laboriously explaining beginner gameplay mechanics that most kids would inherently get.
Just struggling to find stuff to talk about. Imagine being a for-hire dev and John or whoever emails you their feedback and one of the points is "only the player fish are allowed non-dead eyes." Never mind that the puffer fish that was just on-screen also has big cartoony eyes (and later, the seahorse).
I also like the way the video includes them just dying in stupid ways. Did they lose attention? Did the controller not read an input properly? How on earth did you just swim directly at the pufferfish?
I also LOL'd at Tommy bragging about the menu resize option (which is actually a UI resize option), both because 1) That should be a standard option, and 2) I don't remember it being in either of the previous games.
My biggest takeaway once again is "who are these videos even for?" Just twenty minutes of Tommy laboriously explaining beginner gameplay mechanics that most kids would inherently get.
Gram gram, nursing homes so they have something else to play besides bingo, and hospitals.
Edit: I meant to say no one. 😀 But for reals, I love the cringey intro and the mustache comment. 10/10
Lmao, I didn't make it much further tbf.
Just holidaying in Brazil, showing Amico videos to random women you meet.
Feeding Frenzy 1 and 2 are on Game Pass and $5 a piece if you don't have Game Pass or EA Play.
I wonder if this gets him laid? Or if Amico is the deal breaker?
I have no idea who that guy is but ….uh…he invited some girl he met in Brazil to come up to his hotel room and then decided to surprise her with an impromptu video that he was planning to post online? And the video is about a game called Shark Shark for some system she's never heard of?
Not sure why I'm getting some Dahmer-esque vibes off that situation.
the part where he starts talking about how shy she is and putting the camera in her face is the point where i started audibly saying oh no oh no and closed the window
Maybe some average guy that travels the world and shows girls the newest Amico vids on youtube.
... honestly, i have no clue.
Yea…kinda weird or potentially creepy undertone going on.
Also, there are a million other things he should be doing in Brazil that don't include watching Amico videos and then recording low budget follow up commentaries.