{"id":498542,"date":"2025-11-16T03:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/tommy-tallarico-steps-down-as-intellivision-ceo\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T03:49:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T03:49:43","slug":"tommy-tallarico-steps-down-as-intellivision-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/tommy-tallarico-steps-down-as-intellivision-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Tallarico Steps Down As Intellivision CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/tommy-tallarico-steps-down-as-intellivision-ceo.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Intellivision Entertainment\u2019s founder and CEO Tommy Tallarico is stepping down from his position, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/intellivision-ceo-tommy-tallarico-steps-down?utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IGN<\/a> <\/em>reports. Tallarico, best known as a prolific video game composer, purchased and relaunched Intellivision in 2018 to manufacture the Amico, a new console aimed at attracting more casual players that has had a troubled production cycle since it was announced nearly four years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tallarico will remain with Intellivision, transitioning to the role of company president. He is also the company&#8217;s largest shareholder.\u00a0Chief revenue officer Phil Adam will replace him as CEO. A statement from Intellivision provided to <em>IGN<\/em> says the change was done \u201cto better align its resources with those new challenges&#8221; regarding the Amico&#8217;s development.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a 30+ year industry executive, I am excited to transition into the CEO role at Intellivision,&#8221; Phil Adams says in the statement. &#8220;As a business closing in on the last phase before launch, Tommy felt it important to provide focused roles so he can continue to do the things he loves the most. As always, we will be working hand in hand to bring Amico to the market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<article class=\"embedded-entity\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/tommy-tallarico-steps-down-as-intellivision-ceo-1.jpg\" typeof=\"Image\" alt=\"\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/article>\n<p>Intellivision has spent the last few years working\u00a0on getting its Amico console off the ground. The device was announced in October 2018 as a lower spec family-focused console sporting twin touchscreen controllers designed to play smaller, affordably-priced games. When we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/e3-2019\/2019\/06\/11\/intellivision-plans-to-hold-e3-press-conference-next-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interviewed Tallarico<\/a> during E3 2019, he explained that\u00a0the Amico primarily targets casual players saying\u00a0\u201cFor us, there&#8217;s three billion gamers. They just don&#8217;t call themselves gamers, they play their phone every day. The reality is, they\u2019re 55 percent of the entire $140 billion dollar industry.\u201d The Amico library, which includes original titles and both classic and remastered Intellivision games, would be sold digitally, with 20 available at launch and six included with the console. The Amico itself runs for $249.99.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Amico has suffered three delays, with Intellivision citing supply issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Pre-orders opened in 2019 (with 6,000 initial orders) for an October 2020 launch before that was pushed to April 2021 and then again to October 2021. The <a href=\"https:\/\/intellivision.com\/faq\/#about-the-console\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">company\u2019s website FAQ<\/a> currently states Q1 2022 as its projected release window. That would mean the Amico has until March 31 to launch on time which seems unlikely, but time will tell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/intellivision-ceo-tommy-tallarico-steps-down?utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IGN<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2022\/02\/07\/tommy-tallarico-steps-down-as-intellivision-ceo\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intellivision Entertainment\u2019s founder and CEO Tommy Tallarico is stepping down from his position, IGN reports. Tallarico, best known as a prolific video game composer, purchased and relaunched Intellivision in 2018 to manufacture the Amico, a new console aimed at attracting more casual players that has had a troubled production cycle since it was announced nearly four years ago.\u00a0 Tallarico will remain with Intellivision, transitioning to the role of company president. He is also the company&#8217;s largest shareholder.\u00a0Chief revenue officer Phil Adam will replace him as CEO. A statement from Intellivision provided to IGN says the change was done \u201cto better align its resources with those new challenges&#8221; regarding the Amico&#8217;s development.\u00a0 &#8220;As a 30+ year industry executive, I am excited to transition into the CEO&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/tommy-tallarico-steps-down-as-intellivision-ceo\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":498543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tommy Tallarico Steps Down As Intellivision CEO | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Intellivision Entertainment\u2019s founder and CEO Tommy Tallarico is stepping down from his position, IGN reports. 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