The Future Of The Intellivision Brand & The Amico After The Atari Sale 

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...

Atari to help rehabilitate the brand needs to cut ties with anything Amico related. Can we use the logo? Nope, we’re done.

Poor DJC and Mullis. They must feel pretty stupid right about now.

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.

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.

Is anyone saving the office tours and hater response videos from Teets on the RU-vid channel? We may lose the treasure trove of cringe, hubris, smug arrogance and technical incompetence of the Teets Amico RU-vid Database.

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.

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.

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.

This dead horse is bone meal in a Great Value brand gelatin mix at this point...

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?

The problem with any kind of Intellivision collection is that many games require the keypad controller to play.

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.

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

Tommy single handedly ended the original console war. And crowned Atari as the winner! OOF!

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!

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!

Digital Eclipse could make a playable console war

You seem to be missing the fact that the Amico is a scam, not a failed console.

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!

What will they do with the proceeds of the Intellivision sale? Do refunds? Pay creditors? Pay salaries?

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 I’ve lost my deposit

I absolutely love the intelevision. I play the one and two collection on Evercade all the time.

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........

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.

Spot on, they will do very little, if anything, except keep paying themselves

Let’s get an Intellivision plus out and some new controllers and oh man … soooo much potential

Hope they got enough to pay Sudesh so the concrete boots don't come out.

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.

The Amico is dead and Atari helped accelerate its death.

Atari is on an absolute tear again. The irony! 😂

*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...

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.

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???

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😂

Adios, Amico

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.

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 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.

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.

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?

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......

There is NO future for the Amico, hasn’t been for years

Douchearrico. Stay away from people like him. Learn a Lesson.

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!

This story is actually over. Why does your video exist?

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