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| The Intellivision Amico in Metallic Pearl, courtesy of Intellivision Entertainment |
Who remembers the Intellivision today? Some readers with a sense of history will remember the console as the first console to seriously compete with Atari 2600 before the video game crash of 1983-84. A few may even have had one when they were younger, have one in their collection or played one at some point in their lives. To the general public, also-ran pre-crash consoles like the Intellivision barely register in its memory. Intellivision is posed to make a comeback with the Amico console, a console built with the laudable goal of getting families to play video games together. But it is a very different market that Intellivision is trying to make a splash compared to ten years ago, never mind forty. Can the Amico become a success when it is scheduled to launch next year? Let's explore its prospects in this article.
