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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Feb 28, 2022
Bally bathes in Pacman Gold
Mattel to develop VCS titles
The FCC gives cellphones the greenlight
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 February 1982.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates,...
Feb 17, 2022
Microsoft and Nintendo battle over launch numbers
Cell phones make gaming pervasive
SNK is dead
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 2002.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and...
Feb 7, 2022
100 episodes, a milestone most podcasts never reach.
To celebrate the 100th episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine, we have assembled the entire team, Karl, Peter, Mads, Jon, and Ethan for a 7 Minutes in Heaven spectacular! Each of us has had to pick a game for another member of the team to play for 7 minutes....