[Your favorite video game magazines, memories of them, and have they aged well?]

17 hours ago, newtmonkey said:

@Spriggy

What did you like about that mag?  Any fond memories of reading it back in the day?

The C64 (128d to be exact) was my next gaming machine after the 2600 ... and I smashed it.  It was just nice to read Zapp64 for all the reviews, up and coming games, peek and poke cheat codes etc.  Plus the layout was full of colorfull pictures and screen grabs. Just drew you in.  Plus you would get cassette tapes and later floppy discs with demo games attached to the front of the magazine.

[Your favorite video game magazines, memories of them, and have they aged well?]

C64 Zapp magazine!  The end!

http://www.zzap64.co.uk/

[Avoid Best Electronics]

 

On 7/20/2023 at 12:53 PM, doug0909 said:

Soon he'll get bought out by Atari and it will be smooth sailing from there. 

[Most underrated arcade games]

Pandora's Palace (1983)

Bull Fight (1984)

Flicky (1984)

The Legend of Kage (1985)

The NewZealand Story (1988)

Wardner (1987)

 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

On 7/14/2023 at 2:34 AM, MrBeefy said:

Smart man to back into my yard. Ready for the great Amur Amico News Watch 2023? Want to play some cornhole? 

We can hit the bars later and play cards on our phones.

 

What!  No tacos!!!  Blasphemy!! @MrBeefy 

 

On 7/14/2023 at 3:21 AM, MattPilz said:

This price dispute, like a lot of drama in the Amico world, wouldn't had been a big deal at all if Tommy had just acknowledged it truthfully. It's understandable that production costs fluctuate. It's also sensible that his original ranges before the system had actually been developed would be subject to change. But when he goes on to accuse others of lying and spreading misinformation just to avoid admitting he made even one innocuous error, that's what people take offense to.

 

PRGE 2018: $149-179 is the price point that we're going for... So it will be somewhere in between there. We're hoping for $149 but this gives me a little bit of room. Because if we come up with something so cool, or some new technology hits in six months from now. And we've gotta get it in the system. And it's going to cost us $10 more to make. I don't want to not do that and say "oh gee I told those people a year ago it was going to be $149 or whatever." So we're giving ourselves a little room but I just wanted to tell people the price range that we're looking at. Under $200, way under $200.

 

[Karateka Getting the Atari 50 Treatment]

Great game.  Played it on the c64 and finished it after much button mashing ... but @roots.genoa is right.  Will be a fail unfortunately.  BUT I hope I'm wrong!

[Wrong to be happy owning Atari,nintendo and sega stuff on pc???]

The Frogger Wiki makes some interesting reading for anyone who gives a f#&k. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogger

 

"Sega/Gremlin agreed to pay Konami $3,500 per day for a 60-day licensing window. A prototype was playtested in a San Diego bar and was so successful that distributors agreed to resell the game based on the test alone."

[Help I have a game that has a different box to any I see online]

8 hours ago, roadrunner said:

Looks like Taiwan Cooper Black Label 

no pics at Atarimania though


http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-laser-blast_17692.html

 

Yup.  The Taiwan - Cooper Black version of "Football" uses same box color and layout'.

 

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-football_17641.html

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

13 hours ago, Cebus Capucinis said:

TT probably trying to get the Guinness world record in "most unfittest of all time to stand trial" (yes, I am aware that isn't a word, that's the joke) and "world's worst testimony"

 

[Replacing Labels on Rare Carts - Opinions from Collectors?]

22 hours ago, Andrew Davie said:

If you are planning to sell eventually, let the new owner decide. If you destroy an artefact by making it look pretty to your eyes, you have literally done what I just wrote -- "destroyed it".  The history and originality is gone. Originality is critical in collectables. Remember that old church painting where the grandma decided to "fix it" -- she totally destroyed any value it had (mind you, she gained huge notoriety for her town).  Don't, under any circumstances, replace labels on rare items. Otherwise you might as well do stuff like this and think you're doing the right thing...

I dont see the problem ... 

 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

6 hours ago, SteveTheColecoDude said:

Tommy probably wants a trial because he thinks there'll be legions of fans lined up outside the court cheering his name and it be televised.

Yet the truth will actually be .....

 

[Again, I call the video game crash "bullsh*t".]

6 hours ago, schuwalker said:

ET gets picked on I'm sure because of the cost to acquire that license and equate that with the kids disappointed with the end result once they got the game. I still think ET is a great game...

 

I know we're flogging a dead ET horse .. but Yup.  Remember picking up my 2600 vader in '82 with the parents.  Came with the standard title games & ET.  I smashed the hell out of ET.  Yeh sure frustrated with the pits ... but loved the game at 10 years old.  Nuff said I suppose.  Perspective.

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

17 hours ago, GoldLeader said:

I have the attention span of a goldfish,  Wait!  That's being Generous!

 

And have a head like one ..... 

 

 

16 hours ago, digdugnate said:

 

I wish there was a 'love' reaction on AA, haha.

 

From Paraclaw on Reddit, details about the furniture lawsuit being levied against Tommy/Intellivision: https://imgur.com/a/qRHEiS9 (The link is of the filed paperwork)

 

 

TL;DR:

 

 

[Again, I call the video game crash "bullsh*t".]

6 hours ago, roots.genoa said:

When I want to convince a brick wall, I try to look very intimidating first, until it shits bricks.

5 hours ago, hizzy said:

I never knew about a crash growing up. Atari looked crappy in comparison to the NES, so I jumped to the NES. It wasn't a crash for me, just a shift.

[Finally found a use for my old 40gb iPod... Now it's friends with my recently acquired Starpath! :)]

I use a 20 year old 'Creative Zen 4GB' mp3 player with my PAL Supercharger. Still going strong.

 

[Again, I call the video game crash "bullsh*t".]

7 hours ago, Creamhoven said:

Unfortunatly this thread is already closed, but feel free to share your perspective with me via PM.

 

 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

12 hours ago, Wizewonathome said:

What will happen, will happen, when the time cones to pass. What is is the past is passed, and what the future holds is in the hands, of those, that have held the past. 

Sounds like confucius NotsoWizewonathome has had a few too many tequilas at the bar .. and maybe a few "cones".

 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

This all reminds me of this old chestnut .....

 

Although it's more like .....

 

 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

15 hours ago, kevtris said:

Also, to beat the certification horse some more, their engineers claimed they "would pass" the testing on their second go, but this means nothing because they would've had to actually get it tested a second time to pass.  We know they didn't.  Their word means nothing, simply because you cannot self-certify, and it doesn't pass until it's tested.  Full stop.  I don't care what they said. 

 

 

2 hours ago, jhd said:

Sadly, not unlike the Amigo, the project failed with no development having actually occurred. 

Smoke and mirrors baby.  Smoke and mirrors!

 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

#dickhead #cucumber #family #lookatme

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

[Why is Gaming declining?]

1 hour ago, Wayler said:

And now even the memes are declining. Is there a reason to get out of bed anymore? oh the dispear

Let me fix that .... 

 

 

10-to-1 on @roots.genoa 

 

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

2 hours ago, MrBeefy said:

There were some there, some in my old threads, and I repurposed some of them in this thread.

I think a chunk of them made it to www.amicogames.com too. Usually when looking for an old meme that's the first and easiest place to check.

 

 

Trawling through at least 1000 pages on the the back-up link and the Amico Tumblr may be a detterant.  He's not worth it.

 

 

(old reference for those in the know )

[Intellivision Amico’s trademark changed to ‘abandoned’]

50 minutes ago, rayik said:

@82-T/A  It's long, but read the archive of Tommy Tallarico's original Amico thread here at Atari Age.  It's been made non-public here at AA and you have to go to offsite to find a backup of most of it.  You be surprised at the behavoirs of TT and supporters of the Amico thread.  As you read TT's post, remember this is being marketed as a "family friendly" console targeted at mothers and young families to play with their kids.    Link:  https://amicoage.neocities.org  There are more sites that provide a better synopsis of what occurred

 

I used to spend a lot of time on the Jaguar forum and remember you as a regular there was did not troll.

 

 

@MrBeefy @Flojomojo @ColecoJoe @PlaysWithWolves @kevtris @digdugnate @JBerel @dj_convoy @godslabrat @roots.genoa

Was this the thread we were throwing out some ideas and some amusing retort for Amico Footbath Family Games?  Some of them were hilarious!  If so, love to see them again.