Intellivision Amico: A Console For Gaming Racists

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gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Here's all of the Amico coverage by CU Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4T1sDYpnBr4R7or5khb4MTJGZaZdT4FU

# ¿ Aug 21, 2021 22:12

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 21:39

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

I wonder if there's any truth to him calling it Amico because of the fAMICOm.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2021 11:16

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

https://kotaku.com/the-new-gaming-console-thats-become-a-giant-car-crash-1847699027

# ¿ Sep 19, 2021 15:28

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Zeether posted:

AtariAge had to lock the thread on that article and open one with a "no politics" rule, just in case you want to know how well they're handling it

quote:

Sorry, but this thread should be closed. You can't link an article that is motivated by politics and then demand that there is no political discussions. By doing so, you are doing politics yourself.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2021 16:19

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Detective No. 27 posted:

Politics is when they talk about things I don't like.

"There's white and political, male and political, cisgender and political, and straight and political", yeah.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2021 17:14

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

They're right here

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/325088-kotaku-article-not-too-favorable/
https://atariage.com/forums/topic/325101-kotaku-article-without-politics/

# ¿ Sep 19, 2021 21:40

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

theultimo posted:

https://youtu.be/1c6y_-SQsqk

NFT based games

Triple bingo!!

# ¿ Oct 10, 2021 19:43

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Detective No. 27 posted:

The stock photo thing is whatever. Sony did the same thing with some PS4 ad a while ago, but I think the big difference is that Sony is a gigantic company and that ad was probably farmed to some lazy marketing company while this version of Intellivison is quite smaller and should probably try to show as much of their console as possible to at least try to convince people that it's real and not some weird scam.

One of Sony's PS5 ads had the PS5 upside down.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 19:23

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

https://twitter.com/SNicktendo/status/1453477893393244160

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDQkSuCSVTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkjrObXMWb8

# ¿ Oct 28, 2021 08:11

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

limaCAT posted:

Being associated with Chris Pratt = Good.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2021 20:18

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Oh lol I thought that was Tallarico posting.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2022 18:28

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

I had somehow missed that the Amico was not just crowdfunded but has private investors, some of whom have no idea what the product is and were referred by "investment advice" youtubers, and are also being strung along by Tallarico. Absolutely amazing.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2022 22:34

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ColdPie posted:

You just don't understand the man's struggle.

https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/1483183305235206145

Posted at 9:11, fittingly.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2022 23:26

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

The “make <Something> <Adjective> again” slogan should tell you all you need to know.

This does make me automatically disregard whatever person or product is involved, yeah. Worse if it's "satirical".

# ¿ Feb 8, 2022 07:53

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Eagerly waiting for the next CU podcast.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2022 22:18

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Kashuno posted:

Amico closed up its latest crowdfunding effort and missed their end of February update on a release window. Seems like it's finally done, CUPodcast this week gonna be something

# ¿ Mar 1, 2022 13:17

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

^^ lol "enter zip code and state" for the allegedly European version of the console. On top of the trainwreck this unboxing is. Also the console magically appears and magically connects to a secure wifi without entering a password.

Oh wow.

"A developer for two Intellivision Amico games went out of business in 2021, but "physical" games by them were still released."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy-7ffoMy3g

gschmidl fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Mar 23, 2022

# ¿ Mar 23, 2022 23:10

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# ¿ Mar 23, 2022 23:59

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kirbysuperstar posted:

What the gently caress is the context of THAT

It's included in the docket as a statement of character(? I think - legalese is where my knowledge of ESL kind of ends).

# ¿ Mar 24, 2022 00:03

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

kirbysuperstar posted:

What Intellivision IP? What

You know, all their great exclusive games such as

# ¿ Jun 8, 2022 11:58

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Looks like the Intellivision Amico trademark has been abandoned.

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IP lawyer here to give some insight into what this means, since another commenter requested a professional explanation.

The trademark was abandoned for failure to file either a statement of use or an extension within the required time period. After you get a trademark allowed, basically meaning you have the right to use it in commerce, you have a certain amount of time to either use it and file a statement of use, or file an extension so you can have some additional time. The mark still shows that it has an attorney of record who works at the same firm that was handling the omnibus patent. It�s a very well respected firm, so it�s highly unlikely that the attorney just forgot to pay the extension fee. The fee is also fairly low (a few hundred dollars including legal fees), so it�s probably not an issue of not having the money. The only rational conclusion is that Intellivision explicitly requested that the attorney not file the extension, meaning that they have no intent to use it in commerce.

TL;DR - The mark was likely abandoned due to an express request by Intellivision. This system is dead

# ¿ Jul 3, 2022 07:18

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Turbinosamente posted:

Ooooo, so we're moving into the transparent scam phase? Or just having a physical "location" that's a PO box while loose ends are tied up as the company winds down?

Excuse you, a UPS store as the address means that all consoles have shipped.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2022 12:20

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Another failconsole bites the dust

https://www.techpowerup.com/302348/atari-calls-it-quits-on-the-atari-vcs

# ¿ Dec 19, 2022 22:01

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

FishMcCool posted:

This thread is in direct competition with the Google Stadia one in the "Wait, wasn't this over already?" category whenever it reappears on the first page.

Wait, has the Stadia one been reopened? I thought it died along with the platform.

# ¿ May 23, 2023 20:28

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

ErrEff posted:

Yeah, it's dead and buried.

But we still have this thread!

I like that the Luna doesn't even warrant a thread.

# ¿ May 23, 2023 20:34

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

The what?

# ¿ May 23, 2023 22:28

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Look, those collectible coins will be worth thousands of 1944 Reichsmark.

# ¿ May 24, 2023 06:24

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Randalor posted:

Hey now, the spoiled thing is probably old enough now that it has some value to collectors. And has at least some use as a bookmark or toilet paper.

Now, yes. Then? Not so much.

# ¿ May 24, 2023 12:58

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Manky posted:

The dream lives on
https://twitter.com/rtsoft/status/1668954352361549825

And it works better than the original ever would've if it existed.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2023 14:58

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

Just saw this thread, checked what happened in the past month, and... https://www.smashjt.com/post/the-intellivision-amico-debacle-continues

I don't know how credible a source that is but if it is then... fake FCC stickers, more package typos, fake games, and so on. Amazing.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2023 10:21

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 21:39

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

DEEP STATE PLOT posted:

smashjt was one of the many massive amico shills who tossed extremely hosed-up insults at pat the nes punk when pat correctly called the amico a scam right after it was revealed, so i don't really care what he has to say about amico or really anything else. he has shown himself to be at best a total sucker and a very unpleasant person.

Ah gently caress. Well, maybe the CU Podcast will have an update on it, the last one was so Schadenfreude-packed that Ian almost choked from laughing.

# ¿ Jul 17, 2023 12:38

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