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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Jan 19, 2023
The video game market crashes,
Coinop is on the skids &
Home computer competition heats up
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 December 1982.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and...
Jan 8, 2023
Super FX brings 3D to the SNES
NeoGeo breaks the 100 meg barrier
The 1200 brings the Amiga into the modern age
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 1992.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine...
Dec 15, 2022
Coinop income plummets
Wall Street short sellers smell blood
Vic20 sales hit a million
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 inNovember 1982.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and...
Nov 27, 2022
Arcades take on theme parks
Amstrad and Sega team up
EA buys Origin
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 October 1992.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those
are of course always...
Nov 6, 2022
Distributors give conversion boards the cold shoulder
Atari looks down on the competition
The computer price war heats up
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 October 1982.
As always, we'll mostly be using...