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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Mar 29, 2022
Piracy runs rampant in UK arcades
PacMan fever is everywhere
Commodore debuts the C64
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 March 1982.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those
are...
Mar 22, 2022
Nintendo of America loses its President
EA drops its online plans
IBM gets out of the PC biz
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 2002.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and...
Mar 13, 2022
Addams Family conquers pinball
Sega claims lead over Nintendo
Street Fighter II gets a sequel
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 1992.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and...
Mar 10, 2022
Jerry Jewell was the cofounder of Sirius Software, one of the
great early developers of games for the Apple II. Together with
luminaries like Nasir Gebelli, Sirius made Steve Wozniak's brain
child the go-to computer for entertainment in the early 80s.
Find out how the business worked back then, the comradery...