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.
It's fun and educational! (in case you need to justify listening to it to a significant other)
Consider supporting us on Patreon
Listen on your mobile device:
Feb 5, 2024
40 years ago, American television saw the dawn of a nationwide show updating viewers on the latest developments in the exciting world of computers, The Computer Chronicles.
We dive into the history of this show with blogger S.M.Oliva, author of The Computer Chronicles Revisited, to find out what it was, what it achieved, and how it left us an invaluable record of the early consumer computer industry.
Recorded: October 2023
Get us on your mobile device:
Android: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz
iOS: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine
And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM
Send comments on twitter @videogamenewsr2
Or
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm
Or
videogamenewsroomtimemachine@gmail.com
Links:
https://www.smoliva.blog/
https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles?tab=about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halcyon_(console)
Halcyon Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeI5zKeGELA
Halcyon NFL game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9EbCv48z84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4HyBLgmRlw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Morrow_(computers)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/1775/amnesia/
Julie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewu_NBUHePU
Mr. Gameshow Game - https://youtu.be/OKR5nxQcj3M?si=tUAW5Jw9msonwEvF
https://www.mobygames.com/game/54306/apache-strike/
https://www.mobygames.com/company/1338/pbi-software-inc/
https://www.smoliva.blog/post/computer-chronicles-revisited-100-strategic-conquest-beyond-dark-castle-apache-strike-chuck-yeager-advanced-flight-trainer-mean-18/
https://www.mobygames.com/person/12686/richard-l-seaborne/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall
Gary Kildall Special - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdj8gh9GPc4
Copyright Karl Kuras