Atari lastly received the oldest console battle of all recently–even although most of us thought it ended many years in the past. The firm introduced that it purchased the Intellivision model, best-known for being one in every of its major opponents within the earliest period of residence consoles within the late ’70s and early ’80s.
In line with a press launch, Atari purchased the model and “sure video games” from the prevailing firm referred to as Intellivision Leisure. That incarnation of Intellivision has promised the discharge of a brand new console known as the Amico since late 2018, with a deliberate launch date of October 2020. Nonetheless, the Amico has been delayed a number of occasions since then for quite a lot of causes, most notably the COVID-19 pandemic.
Regardless of these setbacks, Atari says that the Amico console will certainly come out in some unspecified time in the future within the future–through the corporate that previously owned the Intellivision name–and that it’ll proceed to help the cellular app Amico Residence. Initially developed by toy firm Mattel, the Intellivision reportedly bought an estimated 5 million models. The best-known Intellivision video games are largely arcade ports (as was widespread on the time), resembling Burger Time, Q*bert, and the Pac-Man clone Lock ‘N’ Chase. Atari launched the Atari 2600+ final yr, a reimagining of the basic console that performs unique VCS and 7800 carts, in addition to all-new video games.
The Amico is carefully related to former Intellivision CEO Tommy Tallarico, a controversial determine within the video games trade who purchased a stake in Intellivision in 2017. In 2022, well-known YouTuber Hbomberguy launched a prolonged video essay that coated a lot of apparently false (and infrequently weird) claims Tallarico has made over time, together with exaggerating the variety of video games he labored on, in addition to being the primary American to work on Sonic the Hedgehog.