Intellivision has a big funky controller that looks like it's from the 1980s.
Intellivision has a big funky controller that looks like it's from the 1980s.
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Intellivision falls on hard times

Phil Adam, CEO of Intellivision, posted a message to customers who are expecting to get shipments of the company’s Amico game console.

He thanked people for their patience and noted that when he took over the CEO job from founder Tommy Tallarico (who took time off to take care of an ailing father), he said he had to make some tough decisions to ensure the company could launch a quality product.

He said he pulled down an investment campaign on StartEngine a few weeks after it launched in February of this year. The original schedule was to launch in October 2020, but the pandemic put an end to that plan and Intellivision has been trying to adapt ever since.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.