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 31, 2022
PCEngine goes Duo
SNES snags Street Fighter II exclusive
PowerPC to take on Intel
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 January 1992.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those
are of...
Jan 24, 2022
Video games and computers are Christmas biz standouts
Atari and Activision settle out of court
Anti-games hysteria begins to rise
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 January 1982.
As always, we'll mostly...
Jan 13, 2022
20 years ago, a book was released that promised to reveal the secrets behind the history of the video game industry, in fact, it promised to be the ultimate history of the video game industry. Of course we are talking about Steven Kent's Ultimate History of Video Games undoubtedly the most popular book on the topic in...
Jan 6, 2022
Xbox launches in North America
Sony invests in Square
Sega takes trade shows by storm
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 December 2001.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and...
Jan 1, 2022
Trip Hawkins lays the groundwork for 3DO
Broderbund goes public
Sony shows off the Playstation
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 December 1991.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and...