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 9, 2019
Taito is going Made in USA
Capcom launches the CP System 1
With the PS2 launch looming, the Dreamcast is thinking "I might be
in trouble"
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 November 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:
FCC Regulates computer market
https://tinyurl.com/y6pnt3uy
Last month we got Visicalc, this month we get WordStar
https://tinyurl.com/yymblfrk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar
http://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2018/04/25/fire-blood-on-the-way/
Taito opens American plant
RePlay November 1979, pg. 7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taito
AMOA show preview
RePlay November 1979, pg. 28, 55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcmdlzm1Tyw
Joe Keenan becomes president of Pizza Time Theatre
Play Meter November 1979, pg 67
https://showbizpizza.fandom.com/wiki/Pizza_Time_Theatre
Atari Chess is coming
https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputing197911/page/n74
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Chess
Atari tries to touch Simon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkjjzNYDR9Q
https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197911/page/n19
Electronic games are big business for Xmas
http://www.wishbookweb.com/FB/1979_Sears_Wishbook/files/assets/basic-html/page-652.html
Christmas outlook not so jolly
Christmas Outlook for Stores: Not So Jolly, U.S. News & World
Report, November 19, 1979
Consumer Scorecard, The Associated Press, November 23, 1979
1989:
Logotron splits up
https://archive.org/details/ACE_Issue_26_1989-11_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n9
https://sonycorporation.fandom.com/wiki/Guerrilla_Cambridge
https://www.mobygames.com/company/creature-labs-ltd
Maxwell sells Microdeal
https://archive.org/details/ACE_Issue_26_1989-11_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n149
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirrorsoft
https://www.mobygames.com/company/microdeal-ltd
Epyx exits computer gaming biz
https://www.filfre.net/2016/12/a-time-of-endings-part-2-epyx/
https://archive.org/details/ACE_Issue_26_1989-11_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n149
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_65/page/n9
Polarware gets bought by Merit Software
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_65/page/n9
http://graphicsmagician.com/polarware/index.htm
The Sam Coupe gets presented to the press
https://archive.org/details/ACE_Issue_26_1989-11_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAM_Coupé
Oswald is taking Danish TV by storm
https://archive.org/details/ACE_Issue_26_1989-11_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n8
http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=2764
Lucasfilm games is going console
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_65/page/n9
https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/lucasarts/offset,175/so,1d/list-games/
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,1744/
Mega Drive peripherals are on the horizon
https://archive.org/details/computer-video-games-magazine-096/page/n11
https://segaretro.org/Sega_Graphic_Board
https://segaretro.org/Mega_Drive_Floppy_Disk_Drive
Entrepreneurs are picking up NEC's slack
https://archive.org/details/ACE_Issue_26_1989-11_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n27
The PC Engine II is coming!
https://archive.org/details/computer-video-games-magazine-096/page/n11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Engine_SuperGrafx
PC Engine based arcade hardware shown off at Vegas AMOA show
https://archive.org/details/computer-video-games-magazine-096/page/n102
https://www.tg-16.com/pce_tg16_JAMMA_conversion_kit.htm
Capcom gets on the reusable arcade board bandwagon
https://archive.org/details/ACE_Issue_26_1989-11_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n21
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP_System
1999:
Atari Games gets renamed to Midway Games West
https://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/at_games.html
Interplay is going to the movies
https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-1999-11/page/n10
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Interplay_Films
Hasbro buys Wizards of the Coast
https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-1999-11/page/n14
3dfx in trouble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3dfx_Interactive#Voodoo3_and_strategy_shift
https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-1999-11/page/n11
https://archive.org/details/PC_Zone_Issue_082_1999-11_Dennis_Publishing_GB/page/n34
Dreamcast US launch numbers revealed!
https://archive.org/details/NextGen59Nov1999/page/n12
https://segaretro.org/History_of_the_Sega_Dreamcast/Release
Dreamcast launches in Europe
https://archive.org/details/MicromaniaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue58/page/n4
Sega talks big about online gaming
https://archive.org/details/NextGen59Nov1999/page/n22
PS2 details revealed!
https://archive.org/details/NextGen59Nov1999/page/n34
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2_online_functionality
Game Boy Advanced announced
https://archive.org/details/NextGen59Nov1999/page/n11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance
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