Hope you and Ian try this thing and see Tommy's reaction's when you walk in the door lmao 🤣

@@BullCraftMaxx That I'd love to see

I mean...a console that is trying to live off the name of a console made 42 years ago at a place called "Boomers". That can't be a coincidence.

Will this sell to anybody that doesn't get the joke?

They were shooting for "Can't be the worst september 11th event". Playing it safe.

Amici! Never forget!

But what about couch co-op and millennial moms??

Couch co-op and millennial moms sounds like an adult film.

My PS5 also powers on, I like that. If it ain’t broke dont fix it Sony!

@@575forza Its an exclusive game coming soon to the Amico: After Dark Special Edition Console

@INXISIV I think I found your mom, she got lost after the amico event. She the lady having troubles finding all those switch games?

3 o 5 of them.

great point. Why are batteries dying in 4 hours? Why are controllers needing to be shaken and rebooted?

Yeah that's weird... because my joycons/pro controller can last 8 hours of breath of the wild and be almost dead.

Smash JT?

@@juicyfruit6311 LOL. He said Tommy’s best friend not Tommy’s Lap Dog

It needs its own Disney plus show

Amico, a playable console!

The R-Zone, too!

Mind you they all these consoles have something in common. They were way better than the Amico 😂. At least with the N Gauge you can play games like Tomb Raider, but also use it as a phone 📱. The only thing you can use the Amico for it toilet paper

Remember these consoles cost more than $300 or more back then. In today's money it'll cost you more than $800 if you count inflation today.

A "Z" grade movie event

"It does what it's supposed to" should be the goal of everything I buy, I fail to see how this is a bad thing or insult.

"The Amico Intellivision: It Plays Games."

@@JFizDaWiz A product about to be released that doesn't do what it was made to do wouldn't be released. "It does what it's supposed to" is a REQUIREMENT for a product to be released (unless it's a scam). When that's the BEST you can say about a product, it is the literal definition of "damning with faint praise".

A while ago, one airline actually had a spoof airline whose slogan was “we’ll get you there”.

Insane, right? What a train wreck.

My main issue with the concept, other than it’s destined to become vaporeare, is that it positions itself as solving gaming problems that don’t exist. No entertainment platform that family members can enjoy equally? This pitch can only make sense if there was no Nintendo which exists to cater to everyone, or casual games like Jackbox that exist on multiple platforms. Their console is a “family” console but it’s not a compelling pitch with what already exists out there, especially not at $300 for 7 year-old smartphone tech.

I love your sentiment. It was the first wave of games and we normally played them for short runs and switched it off to watch TV or go ride bikes, eat pizza, whatever. I don't remember making a lot of high scores, just having fun.

@LaserActiveGuy So let's think about this. I make a console that can play LaserActive games. Where exactly in this day and age is someone supposed to get LaserActive games in this day and age without fearing for the age of the media? Especially with the market being the absolute racket it is. Now hypothetically I could ask everyone from Cyan to Sega if I could press their games onto a single compilation but then you'd have to relicence so many things...it'd quickly become a logistical nightmare.

@LaserActiveGuy No because the games are rare, expensive and no longer being made. There have been retro game compilations done for PS1 to modern systems featuring Atari and Intellivision games. No need for a new console!

Pure astroturf comments posted by Tommy.

The victory laps that Tommy and the remaining acolytes are taking over this "public showing" are really so sad. "Look! Each console was able to play a game or two with minimal rebooting and resyncing of controllers! We showed them! Break out the vegan champagne!' You'd think Tommy just won the Decathlon in Tokyo. Then there's the strawmen AtariAge threads with things like "Another Article about Chip Shortage (It's Real)". Uh, no one is saying there isn't a chip shortage. Heck, there were chip shortages before the pandemic (just ask Polymega), but it's not like there are NO chips available. And other consoles (large and small, established and first timers) have launched during the pandemic- chip shortages and all. And then there's the false narrative of "how sad that people are being harassed for liking (and investing) in the Amico". No one is being harassed for LIKING the Amico. But people who are liking and investing in it are being called on their antics (like Turbo "I'm going to smack you like a woman" Joe) or for pretending to be unbiased "man on the street" interviews when they have thousands of dollars at stake. And whenever Tommy is called on one of his lies, he will pout with "I guess I'm the only person in America not allowed to have an opinion. I see how it is" like he was an angsty tenth grader told by a teacher that he couldn't use himself as the topic of his "The Historical Leader I Admire Most" term paper.

$40-$50 I think I would be interested for that price. I'd have to play it and try it out for $60-$80.

Yard sales use those same type of tables. So what does that say about the amico's presentation. The VCS had display kiosk at there events. GenX gamer was right, this is 100% unprofessional.

they don't want to have a kiosk or demo units at all because they know it will expose the smoke and mirrors of the Amico. There's been enough info leaked and revealed by enough people now that we know exactly why they've been so secretive and done these very controlled experiences with the system at staged live events.

This console has mo room to exists because of Soulja Boi, let alone the Switch

I hope Cornhole is ready.

@@poboxchristmas380 Don't bet on it.

@@liverush24 well, it they can't have cornhole ready for the toilet launch, they're going to catch shit for it.

@@poboxchristmas380 …something tells me “Cornhole” of one sort or another will be ready at the YMCA…basing this on The Village People’s song…nothing more than that.

Family Friendly? You've got the Switch with a price cut. Go on, the parental controls ain't hard to set up. They even advertised it in their videos. Portable gaming? Well, the Amico doesn't even have that.

lol YEARS of marketing flushed down the toilet. If true, that's a brutal blow. Pretty much anyone on the periphery of this thing, and not neck deep in the cult, is going to completely lose track. Any sort of brand recognition they've achieved is just gone. Gotta reinform any casuals from scratch.

@@devilmikey00 What marketing? Tommy brags how he hasn't spent a single penny on marketing because I guess he values the dozens of hours a week he spends writing novella-sized replies on AtariAge and guesting on sub-200 subscriber KZfaq channels as "zero cost".

And no kid or grandparent are hyped for Earthworm Jim, Toejam and Earl, or Cloudy Mountains. Only retro gamers.

@@ezg2000 meanwhile hoarder KZfaqr's jaws are dropping at Finnigan Fox and their minds are turned to swiss cheese by Shark Shark and Care Bears.

I know mate. They are some weirdos following this thing with way too much eagerness. It’s like they worship this thing like a deity! Tried reasoning with them last night but they all called me a hater! It’s like they are some weird brainwashed cult!

I think they meant finding games which are installed on the console. Which is no less bullshit than struggling to find them in stores.

@@SquinkyThreepwood lol at that point I have no words bc anyone who expects pre installed games should just buy a 20 dollar plug and play system 😂😂

@@SquinkyThreepwood I was thinking more she meant that she could find "safe" games for her kids or something. Which pretty much sealed the deal that it was a fake comment. Tommy's been pushing this weirdo alternate reality where Nintendo is some sort of haven for violence and debauchery lol Dude even insinuated the switch had pedophilia on it once.

@@devilmikey00 Aren't the parental controls on the Nintendo Switch some of the most advance there have been for a console?

I canceled my founders pre-order after the delay until April '21 was announced last year. It was starting to look fishy to me. I admit I was caught up in the nostalgia in the thing as I grew up playin the original one but being burned a few times by throwing money and not getting a product made me decide to not tempt fate. More and more me cancelling the order looks like the right decision.

@@benseac the games that were being shown a year ago looked like nice reimagining's. Now, it looks like they are struggling to even get the hardware working right. The games we saw a year ago aren't even being shown. These are very simple games. We should be seeing the machine out for review with a couple dozen games being reviewed by now. I wish them the best, but there doesn't seem to be anything worth the huge price tag they are asking. I'll wait and see how it goes. They were very prompt and honest with the refund, so bravo to them for that. I wish them all the best.

IGN ME themselves said the controllers lagged and there's been multiple videos clearly showing it, especially the infamous "upside-down controller" video. Could they have fixed it in the past several months? Sure, but that's such a small thing at this point that it's not worth focusing on.

@@PatTheNESpunk Inconsistent responses from hardware/firmware or poor feedback in games would be one thing. That's not what you claimed though, clownshoes. You said things that got people to take freeze frames out of videos of normal functioning to claim there was any more input lag than every console normally has. You've also said plenty of other dubious stuff in Amico videos but that's not what we're talking about. So here's the conclusion. You didn't know what you were talking about. You don't know what you're talking about. And you will never know what you're talking about because you're already so sure you do. Go ahead and call me a shill. The truth is I haven't even pre-ordered. The Amico will launch, and people will continue to make fun of it. If it sells less than 200,000 or so it will fail, but I doubt that will make people regret their purchase. If it sells more than 200,000 but doesn't sweep the nation, everyone will do victory laps about how they were right. And if it sweeps the nation (it won't) it will still be labeled cringe. The simple fact is that the Amico represents an existential threat to entitled (retro) gamers who don't care about or respect who these retro-style games are being marketed to and disguise this distaste as pretending they don't exist, until the mask drops enough that you have to openly call them idiots. They're not idiots Pat. They're people for whom Mario Odyssey is a bit too much of an investment. Up until the NES, games that were simple to get into and easy to play were the norm, with arcade ports occupying the harder end of that spectrum, and that casual scene continued on PCs until mobile entered the picture. It irritates you that people like you (capital g Gamers) don't get to be the experts of gaming to the public, who will continue to play Candy Crush because they are "stupid". They're also parents who don't want their 6 year olds to beg them for online play and voice chat and $60 M rated games they play alone while hogging the TV, or have a device they can use to spend all day online watching or doing God knows what while having even worse advertised to them. They want to be able to watch from the kitchen what their kids are playing in the living room, and be able to understand and engage with it. It's not the same to compare this to a Switch or Switch Lite. A Switch Lite is a personal portable that costs $200. A Switch is a "serious" gaming console that costs $300. Neither of these come with six games that they also can play and would want to. The Switch Lite isn't even multiplayer capable in any realistic capacity. Whether or not these people's interest translates to spending $250 remains to be seen, but it's not the point. The point is the Amico will go away one day sink or swim, and so will the hatedom that has gathered around it and you. But you won't go away. You'll still be the laughing stock of retro game KZfaq just like you were 10 years ago.