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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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Aug 7, 2021

Nintendo undercuts with Gamecube
Playstation is coming to Dreamcast
Namco, Enix and Square team up

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 July of 2001.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events.

Peter is on vacation so we have the pleasure of being joined by our guest co-host Jon from the Retro Games Squad

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Time Codes:
7 Minutes in Heaven: 7:30
Corrections: 16:57
Time Jump: 33:48


Links:
7 Minutes in Heaven:
Video version - https://www.patreon.com/posts/54638964
https://www.mobygames.com/game/ps2/star-wars-super-bombad-racing

Corrections:
June 2001 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/june-2001-53567695
https://www.mobygames.com/game/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets____/mobyrank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usme3xqyBBg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Glass_Studios
https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/tomb-raider-series/offset,150/so,1d/

2001:
E3 News: Gamecube to launch at $199
https://archive.org/details/NextGen79Jul2001/page/n7/mode/2up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube
https://www.giantbomb.com/e3-2001/3015-3433/

Richard Garriott is going to wipe the slate clean
https://archive.org/details/PC.Games.N106.2001.07/page/13/mode/1up
https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/richard-garriotts-tabula-rasa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft

Bleem finally makes it to Dreamcast
https://www.retromags.com/files/file/4461-electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-144-july-2001/ pg. 28
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)

Windows XP to introduce Microsoft Product Activation
https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue78/page/n25/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Product_Activation

Codemasters wants piracy to fade away
https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue78/page/n7/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FADE

Edge magazine recommends The Dot Eaters
Edge July 2001
https://thedoteaters.com

Microsoft buys Ensemble
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_204/page/n32/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_Studios

Namco, Enix and Square announce mutual stock purchases
https://www.retromags.com/files/file/4461-electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-144-july-2001/ pg. 36
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Enix#Merger_(2003)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)
https://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/rgs-055-role-playing-games-part-2

Digiscents has been 'scent' to the grave
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_204/page/n104/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISmell#Digiscent

Indrema dreams no more...
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_204/page/n105/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indrema


Recommended Links:
The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/
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/
Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/
Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/
Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/

Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play and Enzo Maida.