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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. 

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Aug 13, 2022

Europe disses Xbox
GTA3 makes Take Two a mint
Activision goes after battle.net clones

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 June 2002.
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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Links:
7 Minutes in Heaven: Blender Bros.
Video Version: https://www.patreon.com/posts/7-minutes-in-70423237
https://www.mobygames.com/game/blender-bros
https://www.mobygames.com/game/tak-and-the-power-of-juju_

Corrections:
May 2002 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/may-2002-68880588
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mg6wrYCT9Q

2002:
Game market rebounds after downturn
Edge 111, pg. 13
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(console)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2

Xbox falters
http://www.kultmags.com/mags.php?folder=TUFOIUFDLzIwMDI= Man!ac 2002-06 pg. 27, 29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(console)

PS2 chips integrated
http://www.kultmags.com/mags.php?folder=TUFOIUFDLzIwMDI= Man!ac 2002-06 pg. 30

TDK gets MOTU rights
https://archive.org/details/MicromaniaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue89/page/n11/mode/1up
https://www.mobygames.com/game/ps2/masters-of-the-universe-he-man-defender-of-grayskull
https://www.mobygames.com/game/masters-of-the-universe-the-arcade-game
https://www.mobygames.com/game/masters-of-the-universe-he-man-power-of-grayskull
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe
https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/masters-of-the-universe-he-man-licensees
https://gamejolt.com/games/he-man/19434
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/7012/
https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/superman-licensees
https://www.mobygames.com/game/multipath-adventures-of-superman-menace-of-metallo

Sims is crowned top selling game... again
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_215/page/n47/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims_(video_game)

Maya price plunges
Edge 111, pg. 11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk_Maya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk_3ds_Max

IBM gets into online games
https://archive.org/details/MicromaniaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue89/page/n10/mode/1up
https://web.archive.org/web/20020914044708/http://www.butterfly.net/
https://lwn.net/Articles/23968/
American McGee - id - spicy horse - ea - https://www.patreon.com/posts/45549970

Codemasters' E-shop adds an affiliates program
Edge 111
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codemasters

Activision goes after Battle.net clone
https://archive.org/details/GDM_June_2002/page/n3/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle.net

Take Two posts big gains
https://archive.org/details/GDM_June_2002/page/n3/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take-Two_Interactive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_III

Interplay losses mount
https://archive.org/details/GDM_June_2002/page/n3/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplay_Entertainment
Don Daglow Part 2 - Broderbund - Beyond Software - Stormfront - SSI - https://www.patreon.com/posts/39095819

Interplay looking to sell Shiny
https://archive.org/details/pcgames200206/page/n8/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiny_Entertainment
https://www.mobygames.com/game/enter-the-matrix
https://www.mobygames.com/game/matrix-path-of-neo
https://www.mobygames.com/game/messiah

Infogrames buys Shiny
https://archive.org/details/MicromaniaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue89/page/n8/mode/1up

THQ buys up Outrage
https://archive.org/details/GDM_June_2002/page/n3/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outrage_Games
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THQ

Rare is up for sale
http://www.kultmags.com/mags.php?folder=TUFOIUFDLzIwMDI= Man!ac 2002-06 pg. 29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_(company)

Capital Entertainment Group founded
https://archive.org/details/MicromaniaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue89/page/n8/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamus_Blackley

Scott McCloud gets hooked on Bejweled
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_215/page/n40/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McCloud

Max Payne to hit the big screen
https://www.devuego.es/pres/revista/hobby-consolas/129 pg. 12
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467197/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Dragon's Lair 3D gets action figures
https://www.retromags.com/magazines/usa/electronic-gaming-monthly/electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-155/ pg. 36
http://www.toymania.com/columns/spotlight/dl3d.shtml
https://youtu.be/8-Cjsnq8kVU
https://www.fangamer.com/products/bugsnax-bunger-plush

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/
Retromags.com: https://www.retromags.com/

Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play.

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