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<div><div><div><span><span>Hi Everyone!  </span></span><br><br><span><span>As promised, here is our Launch Update video. Thank you all so much for your continued support, understanding & patience. The team is working tirelessly to bring the best possible experience & product we can.  We really appreciate everyone for taking an interest.</span></span><span><span> </span></span></div></div><div><div><br><span class="fr-video fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uLOnSxiWGxU?&wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublic.co" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></span></div></div><div><div><span><span><a href="https://youtu.be/uLOnSxiWGxU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/uLOnSxiWGxU</a></span></span><br><br><br><span><span>We also came out with a brand new BREAKOUT gameplay trailer that has been getting a TON of attention!  Check it out!</span></span></div><div><span><span><span class="fr-video fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4jSfBUDRclE?&wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublic.co" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></span></span></span><a href="https://youtu.be/4jSfBUDRclE" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/4jSfBUDRclE</a><br><br><br><span><span>We're also happy to announce that we secured the <a href="//Intellivision.com" rel="nofollow">Intellivision.com</a> URL!  We've been filling the store with more merchandise and we made our official public announcement about our partnership with Topps!</span></span><br><br><span class="fr-video fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EiIgmB33rCk?&wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublic.co" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></span><span><span><a href="https://youtu.be/EiIgmB33rCk" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/EiIgmB33rCk</a></span></span><br><br>We also announced our licensing deal with Evercade which will bring some of our original IP's from the 70's & 80's back into the hands of fans around the world.<br><br><span class="fr-video fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/44r_QaY3TO8?&wmode=opaque&enablejsapi=1&origin=https%3A%2F%2Frepublic.co" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></span><a href="https://youtu.be/44r_QaY3TO8" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/44r_QaY3TO8</a><br><br><span><span>As always, please feel free to leave questions right here in the update.</span></span><br><br><span><span>Thank you for your support!!</span></span><br><br><br></div></div></div>

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Feb 17

2021

Launch Update, new BREAKOUT video, Evercade licensing deal and more!

Hi Everyone!

As promised, here is our Launch Update video. Thank you all so much for your continued support, understanding & patience. The team is working tirelessly to bring the best possible experience & product we can. We really appreciate everyone for taking an interest.

https://youtu.be/uLOnSxiWGxU

We also came out with a brand new BREAKOUT gameplay trailer that has been getting a TON of attention! Check it out!

https://youtu.be/4jSfBUDRclE

We're also happy to announce that we secured the Intellivision.com URL! We've been filling the store with more merchandise and we made our official public announcement about our partnership with Topps!

https://youtu.be/EiIgmB33rCk

We also announced our licensing deal with Evercade which will bring some of our original IP's from the 70's & 80's back into the hands of fans around the world.

https://youtu.be/44r_QaY3TO8

As always, please feel free to leave questions right here in the update.

Thank you for your support!!

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5 years ago

Hi Tommy. Thanks for all your efforts bringing this together. Not being that knowledgeable about video games, I think it makes a lot more sense to launch before Christmas than in April. Especially this April, when people have been cooped up for over a year and may finally feel comfortable going outside and not spending all their time at home. I have been seeing a lot of ads for the Nintendo Switch featuring families playing together. How much of a setback is it to give them at least a year's head start in that target market?

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@mark-lenz Hi Mark! Great question! The Nintendo Switch has been on the market for 4 years and although they may be the closest to what we're doing in this space, they are still very different and we really don't view them as competition. Think of us more like the distance between mobile gaming (3.1 billion players!) and the Nintendo Switch (80 million units sold). We bridge the gap between the typical home consoles (Sony, Microsoft & Nintendo) and mobile gaming (the most popular in the world). When comparing to Nintendo (which I love!) our games are less expensive, we come with 2 controllers (with the ability to hook up to 8 mobile devices as controllers), our content is all curated (Nintendo allows pretty much anything on the Switch) and ALL of our games are rated E for Everyone and have single player AND multiplayer/couch co-op modes for EVERYONE to play... no matter what your skill level! We are more like the Nintendo Wii (from 15 years ago, which sold 102 million units) than the Nintendo Switch. A lot of the people who bough a Wii (my mom for example!) never purchased a Switch. And although it's a HIGHLY successful platform, they do however have toxic online gaming, loot boxes/microtransactions and have very adult rated games that even Sony & Microsoft censor. There is a reason the 3.1 billion people who play mobile don't typically purchase a home video game console. And we've looked at all of those reasons and fixed them and put them into Amico! :) Thank you for the great question and please let me know if you have any follow ups or want to hear more. Thanks!

@tommy-tallarico-1 Thanks for taking the time for such a detailed answer. I'm sure I've just started noticing the ads because of this opportunity. Best of luck!!

@mark-lenz Thanks Mark!

I think it is really cool that you are partnering with Topps. I loved the Eye of Judgment video game for PS3 and ended up spending close to $3000+ in cards for that $60 game, only for Sony to nix the server a year later so no one could do any more online play (I was very unhappy!!). Upper Deck took over for Wizards of the coast on that game, and then it was discontinued. Would be great if a similar trading card game was made for this console. And if you do, don't discontinue the online play server. The Evercade looks like a great system, looking forward to seeing more about this. As always I enjoy your updates!

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@tommy-tallarico-1 Another thing I spent piles of money on was Skylanders, the only issue with that is I was running out of room to store all the NFC figures. Luckily I have storage totes, but feel like they should have come up with a better wall mounted storage system for all of them. When displayed they took over my smaller apartment, and became an unwitting toy for the cats who separated the swap force ones and hid parts of them under the couch. I couldn't complete a level till I cleaned the apartment and found the action figure the cat had stashed. I had to rent a bigger apartment.