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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Jan 28, 2021
Nintendo opens its first offices in New York
Commodore introduces the VIC 20
and
Adventure gets reviewed
These stories and many more on this episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine
This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and
around the video game industry in January of 1981.
As always, we'll...
Jan 21, 2021
He was there at the birth of Infocom, founded the Zork Users
Group, the first hint books, and stayed on through thick and thin.
Michael Dornbrook is an industry legend and he sat down for a
mammoth interview with me. The first half covers his
background, the founding of...
Jan 13, 2021
Japanese games get weird
3Dfx is no more
and
Steven Kent ushers in a new age of game history
These stories and many more on this episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine
This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and
around the video game industry in December of 2000.
As always, we'll mostly be...
Jan 7, 2021
Virtuality is bringing VR to the arcades
Nintendo goes easy on NES developers
and
Sierra bets on CD-Rom
These stories and many more on this episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine
This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and
around the video game industry in December of 1990.
As always, we'll...