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.
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Oct 21, 2023
7-11 drops coinop
Nintendo disses Sega's rating system
Commodore premieres Amiga CD32
These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM
This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and
around the video game industry in August 1993.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and
those...
Oct 3, 2023
Starting out as a signals decoder for the air force, through to working for Nolan Bushnell's Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theatre on its ill-fated Kadabrascope animation initiative, Autodesk, VRML and so many others, Owen Rowley is a man of a thousand lives in tech.
Heck, he may have even helped invent the...
Sep 25, 2023
Dragon's Lair takes arcades by storm,
Commodore rules the computer roost &
Video game makers pivot to micros
These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM
This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and
around the video game industry in August 1983.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine...
Sep 11, 2023
Sega introduces ratings
Nintendo beats Tengen
Sony buys Psygnosis
These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM
This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and
around the video game industry in July 1993.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and
those are of course always a...
Sep 6, 2023
In the history of pen and paper role playing games, no company name looms larger than TSR, creators of Dungeons and Dragons, and in the realm of computer role playing games one of the greatest publishers has been Bethesda.
Our guest today, Bruce Nesmith, worked for both of these company's in their hay day, first as a...