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 15, 2018
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Atari Coin Connection Volume 2 No. 10, November-December 1978
The Best Games Electronics Can Produce, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/27/archives/the-best-games-electronics-can-produce.html
Rusel DeMaria and Johnny Wilson, "High Score! The Illustrated History of Video Games", McGraw-Hill, 2003
Atari: The Golden Years - A History, 1978-1981 http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3766/atari_the_golden_years__a_.php?print=14-55
The Video Game Historian https://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com/
The Digital Antiquarian https://www.filfre.net/
Ace, November 1988
The Games Machine, November 1988
Computer and Video Games, November 1988
Computer Gaming World, November 1988
Micromania, November 1988
Next Generation, November 1998
Computer and Video Games, November 1998
Mobygames http://www.mobygames.com
Special Thanks to Alexander Smith for helping me with the Bushnell story.