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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Dec 9, 2019
Bushnell borrows big to build!
Tengen trounced in Tetris tussle!
Pokemon perceived to push to pupils!
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 December of 1979, 1989, 1999.
As...
Dec 5, 2019
Alexander Smith is a dedicated researcher and historian; the visionary creator of the video game history podcast, They Create Worlds; and, now, the author of the first of a three volume history of the game industry that shares the same name.
Alex is a reference librarian with degrees in history, law, and library...
Nov 18, 2019
In this special episode, we delve deep into the Federal Communication Commission's major rule change in 1979.
The change altered how radio frequency emissions from computers would be regulated for years to come and affected every major player on the market, be it computer, console, and even arcade.
To help us...
Nov 9, 2019
Taito is going Made in USA
Capcom launches the CP System 1
With the PS2 launch looming, the Dreamcast is thinking "I might be
in trouble"
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...
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...