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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Jun 30, 2026
The history of video game magazines have given us some amazing
publications that have helped historians understand the past in
ways we otherwise would never be able to.
One publication, a newsletter produced by mail-order retailer Video
Take-Out, has emerged as probably the most significant source for
information about...
Jun 18, 2026
Video Game profits collapse,
PC sales boom &
The Next Gen battle begins in Japan
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 November 1994.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those
are...
May 6, 2026
Comdex belongs to IBM
Xmas sales outlook dismal
Games get protected in Japan
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 November 1984.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those
are of...
Apr 28, 2026
For computer gamers in the 1980s and 90s, few companies were more ever-present than Ocean, a powerhouse in publishing, through their massive ad campaigns and amazing film licenses and coin-op conversions.
Our guest today, Gary Bracey, was the VP of Development at Ocean and oversaw the production of many a classic, such...
Apr 15, 2026
For computer gamers in the 1980s and 90s, few companies were more ever-present than Ocean, a powerhouse in publishing, through their massive ad campaigns and amazing film licenses and coin-op conversions.
Our guest today, Gary Bracey, was the VP of Development at Ocean and oversaw the production of many a classic, such...