The Backstory In The late seventies, toy giant Mattel was eyeing up Atari’s VCS and decided they wanted a piece of the video game pie. After dabbling in some hand-held electronic LED games, the company decided the time was right to launch a console. In January 1979, Mattel’s Intellivison (“Intelligent Television”) was announced at the … How not to launch a console: A brief history of the Intellivision Amico
Intellivision’s upcoming Amico will launch with six games pre-installed on the system and two controllers as standard. In addition, up to six smartphones can be used as controllers with a free downloadable app. As previously announced, the included games are “Intellivision Skiing”, “Cornhole”, the dice game “Farkle”, “Astrosmash”, “Shark! Shark!” and yet to be announced … Intellivision reveal more info about upcoming Amico console
Intellivision have announced the pack-in games for their upcoming Amico console, and today will give people another chance to pre-order the console, after the fast sell-out of their ‘founder edition’ back in January.Subscribers to the Amico mailing-list will receive pre-order information later today. There will be six games built in to the console. The five … Intellivision announce pack-in games for upcoming Amico, plus another chance for early purchase