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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 months agoYou should read up on the Amico and in particular watch Pat The NES Punk’s various videos on it. The entire debacle is hilarious.
The Amico is/was basically an investor scam. Yes, it did eventually turn into an actual product (which is crap) but it was never intended to be a serious contender to anything. The intent was for Tommy Tallarico to get his face published everywhere and pocket/embezzle a significant amount of investor and Indiegogo money.
The system itself is basically an out-of-date smartphone chipset running a cut down version of Android. Most of its games, as you would expect, are basically mobile trash. Just, mobile trash you have to pay up front for a console with bullshit controls to even play it on.
And they totally wasted a new Earthworm Jim game on that thing.
But yeah, Tommy Tallarico had a personal vendetta with Pat the NES Punk for a while, taking swipes at them as he was covering the whole issue on his podcast the CUPodcast. It's a really wild ride from beginning to end, if it ever did end.
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Speaking of Tommy Tallarico, the Hbomberguy video on him was hilarious, sad and eye opening.
SineSwiper@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Is that the video that uses a deceptive title on a different subject, only to rant about Tommy for the rest of the video for 3 hours?
urata@kbin.social 5 months ago
Heh... yeah I was watching the video and was mildly interested for a while. I realized he hadn't said much about the sound for a while and looked at the length of the video...
I'd never heard of this Tommy as far as I can remember, and I'm definitely old enough to have heard of him.
Maybe I'll listen to the rest when I want to go to sleep.