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.
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Jun 22, 2019
Sesame Street wants to teach kids computing,
The PC Master Race is pissy that the NES is watering down gaming
and
Sega teams up with iomega to bring zip drives to the Dreamcast
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 June of 1979, 1989, 1999.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events..
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Show Notes:
1979:
Two sided floppies
Kilobaud June 1979 https://archive.org/details/kilobaudmagazine-1979-06/page/n40
Sesame Place Game Center
Creative Computing June 1979 https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197906/page/n23
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Sesame_Place_Game_Center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Place#Former_attractions
Mattel earnings are down
New York Times, June 21, 1979 https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/21/archives/mattels-diversified-comeback-mattel-acts-to-end-dependence-on-toys.html?searchResultPosition=1
1989:
Atari 7800 headed to UK
ACE 21 https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue21Jun89/page/n8
Apple looks poised to kill the Apple ][ line
Compute June 1989 https://archive.org/details/1989-07-compute-magazine/page/n56
Intel introduces the 486
Happy Computer 68 https://archive.org/details/Happy.Computer.N68.1989.06-Cartman/page/n9
VESA Standard is coming to enhanced VGA cards
Happy Computer 68 https://archive.org/details/Happy.Computer.N68.1989.06-Cartman/page/n11
Konix specs revised.
The Games Machine 19 https://archive.org/details/TheGamesMachineIssue19Jun89/page/n6
SAM Coupe delayed to September
The Games Machine 19 https://archive.org/details/TheGamesMachineIssue19Jun89/page/n7
Compute editorial dismisses NES and bemoans dumbing down of computer games
Compute 110 https://archive.org/details/1989-07-compute-magazine/page/n5
1999:
Arkansas law banning public exhibition of violent arcade games gets shelved
Next Generation 54 https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration54Jun1999/page/n14
Titus buys a 30% stake in Interplay
Next Generation 54 https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration54Jun1999/page/n15
Free Radical Design signs up with Eidos
Micromania Tercera Epoca 53 https://archive.org/details/MicromaniaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue53/page/n4
https://www.mobygames.com/company/deep-silver-dambuster-studios
Sucker Punch Productions is looking for a publisher for its first game
Next Generation 54 https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration54Jun1999/page/n15
Dreamworks announces their WWII FPS
Next Generation 54 https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration54Jun1999/page/n15
3D Realms denies Prey has been cancelled
Micromania Tercera Epoca 53 https://archive.org/details/MicromaniaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue53/page/n5
Zip drive add on for Dreamcast in development
Micromania Tercera Epoca 53 https://archive.org/details/MicromaniaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue53/page/n9
https://segaretro.org/Dreamcast_Zip_Drive
Tokyo game show Spring 99
Next Generation 54 https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration54Jun1999/page/n11
Namco calls on arcade game makers to up their game
Next Generation 54 https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration54Jun1999/page/n14
Turrican 3D teased
PC Player June, 1999 https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-1999-06/page/n36
Sennheiser introduces the Surrounder
PC Player June, 1999 https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-1999-06/page/n106
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ll-o4JttQk
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