Intellivision Amico - An upcoming console you know less about than the Atari VCS

will this do well

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Speaking of VGL, want to listen to Tommy fuck up One Winged Angel while jpeg play in the background.


Also here someone review from the show.
The founder dude (Tommy?) on electric guitar made an otherwise solid show suuuuch a drag. He pretty much showed up for the last four songs, had his guitar mixed SO MUCH LOUDER THAN THE REST OF THE ORCHESTRA, ran around by himself in front of the orchestra an incredibly distracting amount, and was an all around pretty bad emcee. I honestly can't believe how bad of a taste that dude single handedly left in our mouths. His presence made the event feel like a knock-off occasion. Also made so much of everything feel incredibly dated. I didn't know it was possible to ruin just playing One Winged Angel, but Tommy found a way. I'll just elaborate further since I'm on the rant: he tries to hype the crowd up—but it's mostly not that type of crowd—he tries to get the audience to say what's coming next before announcing it, with a tone of "yeah what's the one good Square game! Yeah, and THE GOOD Final Fantasy, which one is it?? Oh yeah, that's right, Seveeennn!!! And the song is...ONE! WINGED! ANGEL!!!!" It was honestly insane. And then he's running around with his guitar and it's twice as loud as it should be—can't even properly hear so much of the orchestra. It's an incredibly jarring experience to see this dude pretend to be a rock star all by himself in front of an incredibly competent orchestra. Almost forgot, he tried to get the audience to clap along to One Winged Angel. Absolutely bonkers. He kinda gives off the vibe of someone who did a line of coke right before going on stage despite there being ZERO reason to. You remove this guy from the show (at least the second half), and it goes from being a C to a B+. Almost forgot—the screen plays gameplay footage from every franchise they feature, with a couple very notable exceptions: Kingdom Hearts only had Disney film footage (maybe due to a legal thing?) which was SUCH a downer for Kingdom Hearts fans, and Final Fantasy managed to make us thankful we got at least that for Kingdom Hearts because they instead showcased a random mishmash of Final Fantasy cosplayer photos on the screen. SO. DISTRACTING. You had up top a barrage of various Tifa cosplay photos, and on bottom Tommy running around by himself looking like an imbecile drowning out the orchestra. BONKERS. All they had to do to make it salvageable if they didn't have the rights to show any game footage was have a loop of flames play on the screen, remove Tommy entirely, and boom! Show ends and it's great! TL;DR Tommy brings the show down a full letter grade.
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Additionally, the setlist is what the setlist is...but no Mario or Zelda at something called Video Games Live was mad weird. It looks like they used to play those franchises pre-pandemic, so not sure what happened.
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Vyse Inglebard said:
Intellivision Admits It Doesn't Have The Funds To Make The Amico
They've resorted to using iOS/Android apps to effectively "TURN YOUR SMARTPHONE INTO AN AMICO, WHOOOOOAHHHH". It's ogre, folks.
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Sounds to me like it hasn't even finished starting to begin.

"If you are one of our valued Amico Console pre-order customers, you can confirm your deposit on the site to enable access to Amico Home download codes for the console pack-in games as they become available on Amico Home for Android,"
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Losers who missed the preorder window on suicide watch.

In other exciting news for Tallarico-maniacs, a new Astrosmash is here, and according to the description text, it's a masterpiece. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2430580/Astrosmash/

This is a masterpiece compiled by famous composer Tommy Tallarico. He has won over 35 industry awards and has worked on more than 300 game titles.
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ReentryPhantom said:
At 0:30 in that video, you can tell he isn't actually playing.
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I dunno you can hear him fuck up the solo around 2:22ish when he goes over to the corner. Those arpeggios are pretty sloppy. He also fucks up a little bit around 1:21-1:22 when he's walking away after head banging with the bass player. He fucks up the rhythm a little bit, he even makes a little face when he does it. It's hard to hear because of the distortion but if you listen closely you can hear it.

It's hard to tell but for the most part it seems like his hands at least in the correct place and doing the correct things to make the notes and sounds the guitar is making. It doesn't seem like an exceptionally difficult song to play and his guitar is so distorted and overdriven it hides how sloppy he plays the song overall. I think it was real. I also think he's not a very good guitar player.
 
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Grub said:
I dunno you can hear him fuck up the solo around 2:22ish when he goes over to the corner. Those arpeggios are pretty sloppy. He also fucks up a little bit around 1:21-1:22 when he's walking away after head banging with the bass player. He fucks up the rhythm a little bit, he even makes a little face when he does it. It's hard to hear because of the distortion but if you listen closely you can hear it.

It's hard to tell but for the most part it seems like his hands at least in the correct place and doing the correct things to make the notes and sounds the guitar is making. It doesn't seem like an exceptionally difficult song to play and his guitar is so distorted and overdriven it hides how sloppy he plays the song overall. I think it was real. I also think he's not a very good guitar player.
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Listen to other performances of that same solo. It's all the same
 
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At this point Intellivision is pretty much dead most people will not download this app/half-baked console hell 95% of people never even heard of Intellivision, The games are so forgettable that no one will buy them even as a curiosity, and its been dunked on by the audience that would be the most likely to buy the Amico other than the losers that still sniff Tommy's jockstrap.

So much for being on the launchpad this crap didn't even make it out of the hanger
 
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tangentially related, it seems that the "youtubers" that covered the amico saga has become sorts of mini-lolcows themselves. for example, geek getaway started to party up with the juju the cow and the crew against Eric July, 5lotham keeps trying to troll someone to death. like it seems that anyone tangentially involved in the drama becomes a bit of a lolcow
 
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tangentially related, it seems that the "youtubers" that covered the amico saga has become sorts of mini-lolcows themselves. for example, geek getaway started to party up with the juju the cow and the crew against Eric July, 5lotham keeps trying to troll someone to death. like it seems that anyone tangentially involved in the drama becomes a bit of a lolcow
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You should see the discussions going on at the Intellivision Amico subreddit, the lolcows there are just as pathetic as Tommy is, they're constant bootlicking of hbomberguy in particular is downright disgusting.
 
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huckbeine said:
tangentially related, it seems that the "youtubers" that covered the amico saga has become sorts of mini-lolcows themselves. for example, geek getaway started to party up with the juju the cow and the crew against Eric July, 5lotham keeps trying to troll someone to death. like it seems that anyone tangentially involved in the drama becomes a bit of a lolcow
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Slope's game room did a great video on the Amico, and he seems to be drama free.



I actually appreciated the fact he had enough common sense to start off with any potential conflict of interest, and *then* go into the coverage.
 
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StMaryPiper said:
With the housing market the way it is, Tommy may actually make some cash off of this. This is of course if he actually owns the house in full and didn’t just rent stupid shit like his car
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He's being sued by the company he loaned all the office furniture for the 4 office buildings Intellivision had. He personally took on the loan, not Intellivision. What an absolute fool.
 
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Intellivision Names Amico Mascot, Still No Sign Of The Console​

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