Atari Grabs Intellivision

It might be in a very bad state, but the Intellivision Amico could finally be a step closer to releasing after Atari decided to spend a little more money. Atari has been buying companies and brands like it was a Steam sale; and now they’ve done it again—this time it’s the Intellivision that has taken Wade Rosen’s (Atari CEO) fancy. The deal will see Atari acquire the rights to the brand ‘Intellivsion’, as well as a number of games in the Intellivision catalogue from Intellivision Entertainment LLC; the company headed by Tommy Tallarico and Phil Adam. The deal will not see Atari take control over the still unreleased Intellivision Amico; the console that has been in development for the better part of a decade at this point, having missed year after year rumoured release targets, not to mention promises. As it stands this deal will see Intellivision Entertainment continue to work on the Amico and, hopefully, this case injection form the sale of the Intellivision brand will give the company he funds it needs to finally bring the console to market. Although, after the exclusive games that were promised to be on the system are no longer really exclusive, and the propriety controller the system had – one of it’s unique selling points – is now not necessary having been replace with mobile phones use, it is hard to see how Intellivison Entertainment could find much success with the Amico—only time will tell.

Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Returning to the black hole that is Football Manager.