Atari acquired the Intellivision model by buying its logos and mixing competing manufacturers from the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties.
Atari is already one of many world’s most iconic shopper manufacturers and makers of interactive leisure, and now it has acquired the Intellivision model and a few video games from Intellivision Leisure LLC, which was within the midst of attempting to revive Tommy Talarico.
Intellivision Leisure LLC will rebrand and proceed to develop and distribute the Amico-branded recreation console below license from Atari to proceed distributing new variations of Intellivision video games for the Amico console.
Atari will search to broaden digital and bodily distribution of legacy Intellivision video games, probably create new video games, and discover branding and licensing alternatives as a part of a long-term plan to construct worth from the Intellivision property.
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“The merger of Atari and Intellivision after 45 years ends the longest console struggle in historical past,” Mike Mica, studio head of Digital Eclipse, the Atari-owned recreation studio, mentioned in a press release.
The primary dwelling online game console, the Intellivision, was launched by Mattel Electronics in 1979, and by 1990, the console platform had offered round 5 million models. Atari and Intellivision most likely fought the primary console struggle within the late Seventies and early Nineteen Eighties. Mattel went as far as to enlist actor George Plimpton to star in a collection of adverts evaluating the 2 techniques, in addition to an eight-minute video proven at Gamescom.
“This was a really uncommon alternative to reunite former rivals and produce collectively followers of Atari, Intellivision and the golden age of gaming,” mentioned Wade Rosen, Atari’s chairman and CEO, in a press release.
The acquisition contains the rights to greater than 200 titles from the Intellivision portfolio and the Intellivision logos. Phil Adam took over as CEO of Intellivision Leisure from Tallarico in 2022, and Tallarico grew to become president.
Talarico, a long-time recreation musician, made his fortune from Reside Video games Video Video games Reside, which he created. He purchased Intellivision again in 2018 and commenced engaged on the Amico, a brand new recreation console that may run each new and previous Intellivision video games.
The Amico was initially speculated to be launched in October 2020, however was later delayed till 2021 as a consequence of a scarcity of components associated to the pandemic. Then the corporate aimed to launch the automotive by the tip of 2021, however that point got here and went and not using a launch.
“Atari has been a beneficial associate and we now have each confidence that they are going to be a accountable steward of the enduring Intellivision model,” Adam mentioned in a press release. “We stay up for increasing our collaboration and bringing a variety of latest Atari and Intellivision video games to the Amico and Amico House household gaming platforms.”
To have fun, new Intellivision t-shirts can be found beginning in the present day at Atari.com, with extra Intellivision attire and collectibles to come back.
The Amico recreation console is at present below growth. In the meantime, Amico House is Amico’s console video games on different {hardware} platforms that many individuals already personal. Amico House is at present accessible for Android and coming quickly to Apple iOS. Further platforms and gadgets are deliberate for the longer term. Extra data may be discovered at amico.membership.