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Tax Avoiders Atari 2600 Difficulty: Default High Score: $920,000 April 5th, 2022

Researching the history of release dates/ship dates seems to expose some potential deceit on Intellivision's part.

Two years ago I made my first and only April Fool's Day joke video, which I later pulled down. Here's the story:

If it's episode 747, it's time to review Aerobiz!

Revised video on Patents

Here's my two cents on it.

Checking out an $11 Walmart Exclusive Predator Action Figure!

I'm going live with my attempt using the PS2 SNK Arcade Classics 1 disc. FINAL SCORE: +6!

Finally I give you part 3 of collecting all the Sega Genesis Black Box Games.

Reviewing a 50+ year old electromechanical Draw Poker machine!

Originally it was supposed to come with 7 re-imagined games and the majority of the original library for 149-179. That would've been amazing! Unfortunately, this appears to have been promised before figuring out how much it would cost to build, even pre-pandemic. Interestingly rumors of a Intellivision Flashback 2 came out shortly before the death of Keith Robinson. This included some licensed titles missing on the first edition, like Tron Deadly Discs. It was never confirmed, but my guess is this was the plan before the Amico came into the picture. Something like that, with HDMI out, maybe with some homebrews would be very cool. From everything I've heard, I think the Amico in it's current form, with the wireless touchscreen controllers, is simply too expensive to make for most consumers. If it was on a small scale, like the VCS or Analogue systems, at a premium price, it could've worked. Due to the debt and loans, I can't see any scenario this works without a major angel investor. But any investor would probably have to spend an insane amount of money just overcome the loans and debt. My current hope is someone who cares about the brand, and is good at the business, ends up buying the brand, keeping it alive like Keith Robinson did.

I really liked the Amico at first, and even gave a ton of constructive feedback to help right the ship, but it really seems that they tried too much too soon, and made promises they couldn't keep and costs got out of control. They shady stuff I noticed didn't help either. FYI - I just shared this on my Twitter: Four (possibly former) Intellivision employees have recently changed their Linkedin profiles to say Open To Work or Offering Services. The biggest is their Senior Logistics Manager. Just the kind of person you want if you were going to launch a system...

Midnight Mutants and Alien Brigade as late releases. I've said it before, but I consider AB the best 8-bit light gun game on a home console. Commando and Ikari Warriors are overshadowed by their NES counterparts, but I find play better on the 7800. Tomcat F-14 is often overlooked but has a lot of depth for an early combat flight sim game. And Ballblazer deserves more credit in general.