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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Oct 20, 2022
Xbox sales figures soar
3D gaming is coming to your cellphone
Cryo is no more
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 September 2002.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those
are of...
Oct 13, 2022
No company did more to make computers household items than Commodore. Many great names are associated with that success, Chuck Peddle, Jack Tramiel, Irving Gould, and many more, but maybe more important than any of them was the man that made sure the funds for such lofty goals were available, that man was Don Greenbaum,...
Oct 5, 2022
Fears of violence in games make coinop jittery
Multimedia takes on 3D for the future of gaming
Capcom partners up with Sega
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 September 1992.
As always, we'll mostly be...