Atari Acquires Intellivision and Plans to Continue Developing Amico Console

TapTechNews, May 24th. According to Atari's official press release, Atari announced today that it has acquired the retro console brand Intellivision and its more than 200 games. Intellivision Entertainment will be renamed, and will continue to develop their Amico game console at the same time.

TapTechNews learned through inquiry that Intellivision is a home console brand released by Mattel in 1979, and then the brand was acquired by video game music producer and investor Tommy Tallarico and became an independent company Intellivision Entertainment.

Intellivision originally planned to launch a game console named Amico in 2020, which mainly runs the remastered version of retro Intellivision games and a batch of games specifically made for the platform, but the console was criticized by players due to its high price of 250 US dollars (TapTechNews note: currently about 1813 RMB) and the poor quality of the first batch of games. Since then, this game console was delayed due to lack of funds and finally ended up nowhere. But now under Atari, the company is expected to continue to develop this console.

It is understood that Atari and Intellivision were fierce competitors in the game console market in the 1970s and 1980s, but now the related console war has finally come to an end. Mike Mika, the head of Atari's game studio Digital Eclipse, said, After 45 years, the union of Atari and Intellivision ended the longest-running console war in history.

Atari's CEO Wade Rosen said, This is a very rare opportunity to unite former competitors and bring together the fans of Atari, Intellivision and the golden age of games.