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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May 31, 2023
Street Fighter 2 merch goes into overdrive,
Nintendo neuters Mortal Kombat &
The World Wide Web goes open source
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 1993.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine...
May 18, 2023
40 years ago:
The line between computers and consoles blur,
Dragon's Lair wows coinop &
Reagan thinks video games are swell
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 1983.
As always, we'll mostly be...
Apr 1, 2023
Commodore goes portable
IBM introduces the XT
Nintendo shows off Game and Watch
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, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and
those are of...
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 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,...