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Official statement from me on my community page reads as follows: I feel like I'm the type of person who can admit when he makes a mistake. Monday's video with William about BBG Entertainment's plans for the future was clearly a mistake. When someone I knew had some inside information that he was told he could share, I jumped at the opportunity to have him on my channel. The fact is, permission to talk or not, we clearly didn't "read the room" and we should have. Over the past 5 years, the Intellivision brand has been through a fiasco. A part of that fiasco was information being released via interviews much like mine on small YouTube channels. Me being ignorant led to the same situation here, I'm sure resurrecting PTSD in many an Intellivision fan. To add to that fire was some incorrect information in the interview, which was posted in a pinned comment on my second video. If nothing else, my contribution to the fiasco outed the agreement between IE and BBG, so there's that. However it also seems to have killed the project that I and others would have loved to see come to fruition. It was my intention to leave both videos up, I own my mistakes and I accept that because of them there's definitely some deserved mockery out there about me. I don't have a problem with that. If I had a dollar for every time I was called an idiot I'd be a very rich man. That said, I have been asked by several parties to remove my videos regarding the FPGA and clone systems from BBG (note that IE was not one of them, although I'm sure they're pissed). I know they have both been recorded and will be re-uploaded a bunch of times so it doesn't do anything to redact what was posted, but in the interest of complying with requests from some of the parties involved I will do so. They will both be marked as private immediately. In time they may come back, who knows. The important thing that I want to keep out there is the information posted about the license agreement between these two companies, as posted by John Alverado: "1) BBG has a limited, non-exclusive license to the Intellivision OS to publish software-emulated Intellivision classic games on modern platforms; they do not have a license to produce a hardware version of the OS (i.e., they cannot produce an Intellivision console with their current license). 2) BBG has a non-exclusive license for a subset of up to 60 games chosen from the Intellivision library of classic games (i.e., they did not license the entire library). The specific games are to be determined with Intellivision. I am grateful for Stephan Berendsen, the founder and president of BBG. Stephan has been a constant supporter of our work to publish Amico--this license deal is but one example. BBG’s classic Intellivision game packs will also appear on Amico." and further: "Correction to my correction: The number 60 was an estimate, not a cap. It could be more (or fewer) games. It depends on what games make commercial sense to port (in terms of popularity and feasibility of porting--considering controller/UI requirements). The list excludes games with a third-party IP license which Intellivision is unable to transfer. Coming up with the final list is a collaborative process with BBG that is ongoing." So ya, sucks, but I never should have made the video and I should have known not to. I'll learn from it and move on. Review today is about a fun little homebrew for the Odyssey 2 if you want to check it out.

Well, looks like this may already be being retracted. Plug & play, yes. FPGA, not so much. Damn shame. I don't need another thing sitting on the shelf that just plays games I already have, I want an FPGA damnit! Adding support for other cartridges broadens the appeal and means it's not limited to the comparatively small INTV community. Damn shame.

The art on these boxes is fantastic!

I'm cautiously optimistic, but I'll tell you right now, if it ends up being a crowdfunded thing it'll fail. Only hope to break free from the stigma would be to actually produce, sell, and deliver.

Depending on what's entailed I'd be in. 👍

As soon as I get my hands on it!!!!!!! I've already pre-ordered. Should send me the first copy.

I think it's a fine idea, CG has great packaging, so why not? I also don't understand people's aversion to publishers wanting to make money, if there's demand for a product then make it. Lol Ya, maybe annoying for those of us that feel they need EVERYTHING, but that's an OCD issue, not a CG issue (and trust me, I battle my own personal OCD every day). Make something fun in a limited capacity and see if it works. No harm in that. Me personally I turned off my OCD for variants, or rather my wallet turned it off for me. As long as I have the games and they're the same I'm good. But a limited run special edition is cool for sure. I wish you luck with the endeavor. 👍

Just in case anyone is on the fence... GREAT GAME!

If anyone's on the fence on this one, I made it the first Odyssey 2 review on my channel! 😁👍 I review both the game and the coupler. Thanks to all the folks who make these homebrews happen!

I can't wait to get my hands on this! Looks fantastic.

Day 1 order for me! Loved Norseman and can't wait to review this one. Also ordered a few games for other systems. 😁👍

Ordered!!!

I've enjoyed the podcasts for quite a while now, but totally understand the burnout that can come from the whole production. Take a break, get refreshed, and whatever the future holds for you we wish you the best of luck. 🙂👍

They should. I know that a bunch are going to Intellivision Collector soon as well. To the best of my knowledge these aren't a limited run, so if there's demand, they'll keep making them.

That's because you don't have the proper Intellivision adapter! Looks remarkably like an LTO cart shell. 🤣

I love games like Plague, Inc. Anything that approached it would be really cool.

I *JUST* saw that Elektronite is selling 20 more copies of Pandora this weekend! Eventually there will be more, but if you want one at retail price now, this is your chance. Send them a message on FB or an email at elektronite@hotmail.com 99% sure they're still only shipping to North America for now though.

Well, 24. I'm listed as 17 and 25.

Reserved! 😁

Confirmed with the wife that I WILL be going. 😁 Time to book!

And as a person who has struggled sometimes with getting games to work on JZINTV I can assure anyone who wants to purchase these that they work perfectly in emulation AND on the LTO flash. 😁👍

If I'm not mistaken, a couple of the pre-orders have gone out already and a whole bunch of them are shipping this week. My guess is that they'll all be at least in the post by mid-next week at the latest.

A huge congrats to all the winners! Lots of fantastic games listed here, 2022 was a heck of a strong year!

In my personal case, yes. Lol These are promotional copies right from the printer. Doing 4 videos this week, one on each release. I can assure you that people that buy them will get assembled shrink wrapped copies. 😁

There's a big difference between a cheap reproduction of a cart and what goes into a lot of these homebrew games that utilize much more memory and specialized boards to maximize what can be done on the Intellivision. Some of my absolute favourite Inty games are homebrews. Are they all winners? No, but look up reviews and gameplay footage for titles you're interested in and I have zero doubt you'll find more than a couple that you'll want to play. Plenty of ROMs out there too if you want to test things out on an emulator or something like an LTO flash cart.