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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Jun 30, 2026
The history of video game magazines have given us some amazing
publications that have helped historians understand the past in
ways we otherwise would never be able to.
One publication, a newsletter produced by mail-order retailer Video
Take-Out, has emerged as probably the most significant source for
information about the industry in the 80s, Video Game Update and
Computer Entertainer.
Marylou Badeaux and her sister Celeste Dolan, miticulously
catalogued the turbulent early years of consoles and home computers
for their readers. The fact that this amazing publication was
Marylou's side gig while she was an executive at Warner Records,
working with the likes of Quincy Jones and Prince, makes the
magazine's excellence even more astounding.
Marylou takes us back to those heady days and we find out what it
was like to be a retailer at that time, how news was gathered and
what it was like to be dealing with some of the greatest musicians
of the age.
Recorded: April 2026
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Links:
Video Version:
https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM/posts/marylou-badeaux-162489729
https://www.memories4you.com.au/
https://www.amazon.com/Moments-Remembering-Prince-Marylou-Badeaux/dp/0648189112
Computer Entertainer/Video Game Update Archive -
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Computer+Entertainer%22&sort=-date
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyville_(nightclub)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Records
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones
Listen Up - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102315/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
Larry Graham - One in a Million You -
https://youtu.be/SxCBu45HgjE?si=z8YKetaMDOTmlntt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarnerMedia#AOL_Time_Warner_(2001%E2%80%932003)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Benson
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