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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Jun 25, 2021
Centipede begins its decent into arcades
Analysts predict a big future for video games
The BBC chooses Acorn over Sinclair
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 June of 1981.
As...
Jun 18, 2021
Gordon Walton, a veteran designer who has developed games since the 70s, worked in computer retail and was there at the dawn of online gaming, dives deep into his history to give up some great insight into the industry of yesterday and today.
This first part covers his career up to the moment that online gaming enters...
Jun 9, 2021
Gameboy Advance takes Japan by storm
Xbox could cost Microsoft billions
"All your base are belong to us" goes viral
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 May of 2001.
As always,...