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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Nov 14, 2020
In the earliest days of computer games, someone had to get games from fledgling publishers to the mom-and-pop computer stores dotted across the country. Our guest, Jerry Wolosenko, was one such man and from picking product at events like the West Coast Computer Faire, to representing Psygnosis in the USA, to getting involved with a little start-up called Harmonix, Jerry has met every big name in the business, seen every ebb and flow the industry has to offer and regales us with some truly amazing stories.
Sit back and relax as we go deep into the history of gaming with Jerry Wolosenko.
Links
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,6968/
https://angel.co/p/jerry-wolosenko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videodisc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family
https://www.mobygames.com/game/defender
https://www.mobygames.com/company/synapse-software-corporation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Computer_Faire
https://www.mobygames.com/company/infocom-inc
https://www.mobygames.com/company/psygnosis-limited
https://www.mobygames.com/game/lemmings
https://www.mobygames.com/company/ravensburger-interactive-media-gmbh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_(software)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psygnosis
https://www.mobygames.com/game/holiday-lemmings_
https://www.mobygames.com/game/shadow-of-the-beast
http://www.indieretronews.com/2020/06/legacy-of-beast-atari-2600-shadow-of.html
https://www.mobygames.com/company/looking-glass-studios-inc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA_Vancouver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubisoft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Storm_Entertainment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonix
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldornbrook/
https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/guitar-hero-series
https://www.mobygames.com/game/rock-band
https://www.mobygames.com/company/redoctane-inc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari,_Inc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Computer_Faire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Entertainment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderbund