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 26, 2022
Magnavox debuts the Odyssey
Sinclair goes color with the Spectrum
Gamers grow 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 May 1982.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those
are of...
Jun 2, 2022
Nintendo, Sega, and Namco unite to save the arcade,
Sony and Microsoft get sued over controllers &
EverQuest goes premium
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 April 2002.
As always, we'll mostly be using...
May 21, 2022
Nintendo cuts prices to keep up with Sega
Windows 3.1 brings GUIs to the masses
Lucasarts wants to bring simulations to the arcade
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 April 1992.
As always, we'll mostly...
May 16, 2022
Space War heralds the dawn of the video game
Sanders and Associates patents the game console
Pacman finally kills KCMunchkin
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 April 1982.
As always, we'll mostly be...
Apr 30, 2022
Gamecube gets an EU launch date
EA sues over Einstein
Aussies censor GTA
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 2002.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those
are of course...