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 20, 2023
Video game violence begins to make operators uneasy
3DO plans to shake up console biz
Federal investigation into Nintendo dropped
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 1993.
As always, we'll...
Mar 6, 2023
Few eras of gaming history are more legend filled than the British bedroom coder boom of the early 1980s. Martin Wheeler wasn't just one of them but continues to be a pioneer or one-man coding in the VR space of today.
Recorded March 2022.
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Mar 2, 2023
Atari announces mass layoffs,
Time names the personal computer the man of the year &
Nintendo launches the Game and Watch in North America
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 1983.
As always,...
Feb 20, 2023
Feb 9, 2023
Compaq gives birth to the PC clone,
Commodore and TI declare war on Sinclair &
A day of reckoning awaits the software business
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 1983.
As always, we'll mostly...