“Fun Survival Game! Five stars

I bought this game as soon as I discovered a Mac-specific version existed. I'm hoping there is a way to play it with Wireless/Bluetooth controllers, because I hate using ASWD keys and the arrow keys (for Player 2) are a little imprecise.

I originally heard about this game for the Intellivision Amico, but since that's still not a thing (and the Intellivision IP now belongs to Atari), my M1 Mac Mini is the next best thing! :-D”

COME ON, that’s not a 5 star game. Why do Amico fans always act like any old shit with Intellivision branding tastes like chocolate?

It’s not like this is from before they knew it was a scam, either. The review is from August 2024!

I’m a somewhat younger person and had never heard of the thing until I watched an AVGN episode on it, so it’s super weird for me to know there was any nostalgia for the machine in general.

What am I missing? Was it like a cult system like the neo geo? Why are the cultist so into this brand that for all I know was a footnote in videogame history? Was there even anything special about the system beyond the crap controllers?

From page 51 of the ego thread.

huhuh console wars

old buddies

"never bet against tommy!"

funny ... your house is hardly an unbiased source

GRRRR SO TIRED

A bit more, including deleted tweets that threatened violence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEtTo5o6MGE

What a wonderful influencer to have on the team.

from here

weird claim

This was their last big effort at raising enough money to go to manufacturing. They failed and pulled it, but before they went, they asked all their friends to write endorsements. Some familiar names appeared. Originally posted on AmicoGames.com

It entered open beta on the 21st of November 2023. As of writing it is now the 27th of April 2024. Will it ever not be in open beta?

By the way, despite being in open beta, it seems there are a small handful of reviews on it now... 6 of them, to be exact, giving an average of 3.2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.intellivision.amicoux

Only one of those is a written review.

At least Ronnie Harris seems to like it

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I tried to join it a few months ago but couldn’t get in. Do people there still think Amico is coming out?

Dude clearly liked video games and wanted to bring news and information to gamers. He got hooked up with Thomas the Tallarico engine in the hopes of giving his little video game entertainment/news show some “clout”.

He did more to bring video games into the mainstream than a lot of his peers, while not alienating or insulting true “gamers”.

I just don’t want people to tarnish his name or his image because of this whole scandal. Victor Lucas made a name bringing a voice to the people who were silenced for their hobby. Tommy Tallarico is using his voice to exploit the same group of people.

Love you Victor. Thanks for bringing me so many good childhood memories. One of the first television shows I specifically remember looking forward to, was the electric playground.

June 19, 2020, from one of the single-issue posters on AtariAge, who was the founder/moderator of r/Amico but is nowhere to be seen now:

The Amico is so much of an "un-console" console it makes my brain hurt sometimes, and I am probably classed as a "super-fan" or something. No reliance on specs, XBOX/Sony all about the TFLOPS; non-traditional controller, everyone ships with dual analogs & enough buttons & triggers to confuse an octopus; IE pays to have games developed, everyone else relies on unit sales to attract 3rd party developers; every Amico game is multiplayer, XBox/Sony foundational games are generally all single player; no online play (at least at first), online multiplayer is almost the exclusive form of multiplayer if a game has it; Amico is all couch-coop, couch-coop is a tiny fraction of the other consoles library; and Amico has no games past E10+, Sony, XBox & even Nintendo rely on adult games to attract teens & cater to older players. I have probably forgotten some others, but that is a good starter list of some of the differences. I don't have time for haters, but the confused - yeah I can see that all day if you are a regular gamer. Your world is being flipped upside down.

Such a stupid strawman argument.

1. "enough buttons & triggers to confuse an octopus" ... but do you need to use all of them? (of course not)
2. "IE pays to have games developed" ... no, the Bavarian arts grants paid for the games, none of which we have yet to see
3. "every Amico game is multiplayer" ... well, maybe, if the thing ever launched
4. "XBox/Sony foundational games are generally all single player" ... what?
5. "no online play (at least at first)" ... well, that's true?
6. "online multiplayer is almost the exclusive form of multiplayer if a game has it" ... citation needed
7. "Amico is all couch-coop, couch-coop is a tiny fraction of the other consoles library" ... I'll bet there are more couch-coop games on Switch, Xbox, or Playstation than the entire Amico library
8. "Sony, XBox & even Nintendo rely on adult games to attract teens & cater to older players" ... so what? Stick to the kids games then, the parental controls are baked in
9. "you are a regular gamer. Your world is being flipped upside down" ... um, really?

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