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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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May 30, 2021

Nintendo settles with the feds
Sierra and Broderbund plan to tie the knot
Cinemaware is dead

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 May of 1991.
As always, we'll mostly be using...


May 22, 2021

Missile Command comes to Atari's VCS
Handheld games lose their mojo
and
Scramble revolutionizes the shoot 'em up

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 May of 1981.
As always, we'll...


May 13, 2021

PS2 supplies drop to a trickle
Naughty Dog has a new master &
The Gameboy Advance gets competition from Korea

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 April of 2001.
As always, we'll...


May 6, 2021

Arcades get new tech
Nintendo stabs Sony in the back
and
Everyone is getting into the CD-ROM game

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 April of 1991.
As always, we'll mostly be...