New Earthworm Jim game made by the original team exclusive to Intellivision® Amico™ - Console that will never release gets a 5 second jogging animation

BrunoMattei said:
"WTF is this? Is this for games? Is it a weird phone?"
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each game came with a plastic card with tabs that would overlay the number keypad, and that would tell you what buttons did what for each different game. There's a market for these by themselves, separate from the games, along with boxes and manuals.

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Haramburger said:
each game came with a plastic card with tabs that would overlay the number keypad, and that would tell you what buttons did what for each different game. There's a market for these by themselves, separate from the games, along with boxes and manuals.

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I know about that now. I saw the AVGN episode about the Intellivision and Colecovision. But 10-year-old me was mindfucked by those controllers.
 
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BrunoMattei said:
I know about that now. I saw the AVGN episode about the Intellivision and Colecovision. But 10-year-old me was mindfucked by those controllers.
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Atari 2600 had a keypad controller that was very similar in that it had 12 buttons in 3 columns, and it was only used by like, 3 games ever. Star Raiders was the main one; it basically gave the game some depth with menu-style functionality so that you could toggle between X-Wing dogfighter mode and star sector maps to navigate to other areas to hunt down more bad guys, which was otherwise not accessible thanks to Atari's one-button joysticks. I can't remember what the other games were, but if/when you lost the Star Raiders overlay, the game became a lot harder because what the fuck do these buttons do???

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Billy_Sama said:
If you have an emulator or even a Sega CD system to burn the game file on the CD-R, check out the Earthworm Jim Special Edition. There is a extra level, CD quality and amusing endings especially if you play in practice difficulty.

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I really don't like the Sega CD version. The high quality music is good but it does that weird Sega CD thing where the music plays to a point, stops for like 20-30 seconds, and then resumes. I always thought it was an emulator issue until I watched an LP on Youtube. The extended bit in the early game with Jim outside of his suit was good. I hate the Big Bruty level. It just goes on too long even though I like the idea behind it. There's other little changes I don't like such as when you fight Evil The Cat and each time you shoot him the Sega CD version announces all of his 9 lives as opposed to just showing you.
 
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each game came with a plastic card with tabs that would overlay the number keypad, and that would tell you what buttons did what for each different game. There's a market for these by themselves, separate from the games, along with boxes and manuals.

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So you had to look away from the TV and down at your controller every time you wanted to use it?
They were lightyears ahead of the Wii U
 
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This sounds so awesome...but it’s on a doomed to fail console with controllers that barely resemble the SNES and Genny pads people usually play EWJ with

If Amico is cheap and lets me use an external controller, I’ll possibly bite
 
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I’ll get this game when Amico inevitably bombs and the game goes multiplat on Steam, Eshop, PSN, etc
 
I can't believe it has taken me until now to hear about the possibility of a new Earthworm Jim game. I also think this is a pretty neat little console, I never played the original intellivision or really many of their first party games. Though I would have to say that this is a pretty unique way to reintroduce themselves into the market after all of these years. $250 is not really that bad for a console like this, especially if it ends up picking up some momentum. Probably won't be like a main flag ship runner or anything, but it'll be interesting to see how this evolves. Cool too that there is another company willing to go more towards the family approach of gaming, as well I am happy it isn't just a repackaged bundle of ROMS burned on a Raspiberri Pi in a fancy case. It's actually something new and has a really intriguing design, I'll probably buy one for the fun of it (also to play Earthworm Jim 4).
 
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Munchingonfish said:
A year later and they've got 30 seconds to show.
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I was wondering why the fuck I got an alert on a post in this thread. I couldn't find footage in the stream while skimming but I did find it in another YT video. It's like 15 seconds of Jim walking around, we see Evil The Cat, and that's it. Showing no real gameplay or anything.

Tommy is fucking insane thinking this thing will be successful even if he panders to the Christian market.
 
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As someone who owns an Intellivision and appreciates 80s video games, game like Earthworm on a phonepad disc seems too painful to play on. I would love to see the Amico with games 80s graphics, not games that you can get on modern systems.
 
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