The Video Game Newsroom Time Machine is a weekly retro gaming podcast in which we travel back in time to see what was making headlines 40, 30, and 20 years ago in the arcade, video game, and computer gaming business and interview industry veterans.
We try to put those events into historical context to understand how the industry of today came to be.
It's fun and educational! (in case you need to justify listening to it to a significant other)
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Oct 28, 2019
I had the good fortune to interview Ed Zaron, founder of Muse Software. Not only did he found one of the first computer gaming companies back in 1978, but he helped bring titles such as Robotwar, Firebug, Castle Wolfenstein, and Space Taxi to the masses, to say nothing of his friendship and work with the legendary Silas...
Oct 16, 2019
Fairchild gets out of gaming
PC sound is going to get blasted
and
Sega cans Bernie Stolar
This month we will look back at the biggest stories in and around
the video game industry in October of 1979, 1989, 1999.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those
are of course always a bit behind the...
Oct 15, 2019
In a break from our normal programming, we interview Al Lowe, the father of Leisure Suit Larry, the padre of Freddy Pharkas and the god of Torin.
In this interview we touch on his first steps into the gaming industry pre-Sierra, his adventures dealing with Disney, the rise of Leisure Suit Larry and the changes in the...
Oct 3, 2019
The KGB wants our KBs!
EA's Madden hits the shelves!
and
The Dreamcast lands in America!
These stories and many more on this month's episode of the Video
Game Newsroom Time Machine
This month we will look back at the biggest stories in and
around the video game industry in September of 1979, 1989,
1999.
As always,...