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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Jul 31, 2019
Financial scandals rock the computer world!
Sega is set to take on NEC in North America!
And the Dreamcast is thinking...
These stories and many more on this month's episode of the Video
Game Newsroom Time Machine
This month we will look back at the biggest stories in and
around the video game industry in July of 1979, 1989, 1999.
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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Show Notes:
1979:
Lloyd's of London miscalculates risk of computer leasing
business
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/30/archives/lloyds-insurers-stumble-over-computer-leasing-suit-asks-550-million.html?searchResultPosition=1
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/itel-corporation-history/
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/29/archives/itel-corporation-is-at-the-brink-again.html?searchResultPosition=4
Norman Henry Hunt's second bogus computer company blows up
https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197907/page/n99
https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputing197907/page/n8
Scout Computer Badge article in Creative Computing
https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197907/page/n47
https://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Computers
Santa Paravia and Fiumaccio ad
https://archive.org/details/Kilobaud197907/page/n14
https://www.mobygames.com/game/santa-paravia-and-fiumaccio
Minnesota signs deal with Apple
https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputing197907/page/n12
FCC to develop RF shielding regulations for home computers
https://archive.org/details/BYTE_Vol_04-07_1979-07_Automating_Eclipses/page/n100
The 16 bit processor war is on!
https://archive.org/details/BYTE_Vol_04-07_1979-07_Automating_Eclipses/page/n100
Yahtzee by Al Lowe Softside
https://archive.org/details/softside-magazine-10/page/n24
MB is hiring engineers and programmers
https://archive.org/details/BYTE_Vol_04-07_1979-07_Automating_Eclipses/page/n52
Intellivision stats and release date set... oh and there will be
a keyboard (apparently)
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FT4EAAAAMBAJ/page/n14
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision#Keyboard_Component
Micro-TV offers teletext service over cable in the USA
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FT4EAAAAMBAJ
1989:
Acorn launches "budget" Archimedes
https://archive.org/details/ACE_Issue_22_1989-07_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n9
Origin becomes its own publisher
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_61/page/n19
Interplay abandons Bard's Tale Franchise
https://archive.org/details/ACE_Issue_22_1989-07_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n96
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bard's_Tale
Gremlin breaks ties with U.S. Gold and returns to Sheffield
https://archive.org/details/thegamesmachine-20/page/n6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6taoEQ-UCU
The TurboGrafx16 is coming to America
https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Computer_Entertainment_Issue_06_July_1989
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/11/interview_the_trouble_with_the_turbografx-16
Mega Drive renamed Genesis
https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_002_July-August_1989/page/n11
Genesis TeleGenesisModem announced, big promises
https://archive.org/details/1989-09-compute-magazine/page/n11
http://www.sega-16.com/2006/11/disconnected-the-telegenesis-modem/
Virgin gets Sega distribution deal
https://archive.org/details/thegamesmachine-20/page/n7
1999:
Families file lawsuit against media in Paducah shooting
https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_120_July_1999/page/n31
https://www.csmonitor.com/2000/0410/p2s2.html
E3 in the shadow of violence
https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration55Jul1999/page/n11
Dreamcast launch date and price announced
https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_120_July_1999/page/n29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXDRSEdqpzg
"It’s thinking" ads start showing up
https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_120_July_1999/page/n12
Castlevania resurrection shown for Dreaamcast
https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration55Jul1999/page/n16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcRkZ66RN2w
Dolphin business model
https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration55Jul1999/page/n17
https://steemit.com/gaming/@ultrawing/the-gamecube-that-can-play-dvds-panasonic-q
Howard Lincoln announces his retirement
https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration55Jul1999/page/n17
3dfx merges with STB
https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue54/page/n5
GT Interactive layoffs
https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-1999-07/page/n53
Codemasters buys Sensible Software
https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue54/page/n4
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/sex-n-drugs-n-rock-n-roll-article
Lara Croft appears nude in Playboy
https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue54/page/n5
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/lara-croft-nell-mcandrew-tomb-raider-model