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)
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Mar 25, 2021
The Integrated Circuit is born,
Home computers storm CES
and
Atari orders massive chip inventory
These stories and many more on this episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine
This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and
around the video game industry in March of 1981.
As always, we'll mostly be...
Mar 18, 2021
One of the legendary names behind the Doom and Quake, American McGee has been making games for almost 30 years. From doing technical assistance at the scrappy start-up that was id, he moved to being a capo at EA and, then, innovated as a studio head in China. American has had a wild ride in the industry with many ups...
Mar 12, 2021
Nintendo shows off the Gamecube controller
Gaming is going to the movies
and
Is Bethesda in trouble?
These stories and many more on this episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine
This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and
around the video game industry in February of 2001.
As always, we'll mostly...
Mar 4, 2021
Street Fighter 2 bows in London
Nintendo admits bootlegs are legit
and
Microsoft's Minesweeper invades Windows
These stories and many more on this episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine
Special Guest Co-Host Jon from the Retro Game Squad
http://www.retrogamesquad.com/
This episode we will look back at the...