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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Dec 30, 2020
Gene Lipkin leaves Atari
Electronic toys are heading for a cliff
and
Digital information services go corporate
These stories and many more on this episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine
This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and
around the video game industry in December of 1980.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those
are of course always a bit behind the actual events.
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Corrections:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Computer_Corporation
https://www.mobygames.com/company/general-computer-corporation
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,343/
1980:
Gene Lipkin leaves Atari
Replay, Dec. 1980, pg. 10
http://www.atarimuseum.com/articles/10yranniversary/cut2pin.html
https://books.google.de/books?id=sy8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=gene+lipkin&source=bl&ots=R4C2CM7gzm&sig=ACfU3U2ETkAXNpGOsq2ypyp8gFO8lM6nGA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVqceun7btAhWGCuwKHQ53AwMQ6AEwD3oECBIQAg#v=onepage&q=gene%20lipkin&f=false
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarnerMedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kassar
Gottlieb signs deal with Sigma
Replay, Dec. 1980 pg. 10
https://www.mobygames.com/game/new-york-new-york
https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/joe-morici-interview
Toy business Chaos
https://www.nytimes.com/1980/12/23/archives/a-troubled-season-in-toyland-heated-rivalry-buyer-caution-depress.html?searchResultPosition=2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(console)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_%26_Watch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_%26_Watch:_Super_Mario_Bros.
D&D co-developer gets into computer game design
https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198012/page/n173/mode/1up
https://www.mobygames.com/game/apple2/raf-the-battle-of-britain/screenshots/gameShotId,984390/
http://www.4dintsys.com/projects.htm
https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/joel-billings-interview
Reader's Digest buys The Source
https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine-1980-12/page/n53/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_(online_service)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL#1983%E2%80%931991:_Early_years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader%27s_Digest
Nexis is born
https://archive.org/details/Kilobaud198012/page/n13/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis
Recommended Links:
Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/
They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/
Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/
The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/
The History of How We Play:
https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/
Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/
Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/
Sound Effects by Ethan of History of How We Play.