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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Aug 27, 2021
SNES debuts at CES
Atari kills Panther
EA starts buying up developers
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 August of 1991.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates,...
Aug 24, 2021
IBM launches the PC
The morality police have video games in their sights
Venture Capital wants a piece of the software market
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 August of...
Aug 13, 2021
Many of us remember the days of walking into a pool hall, a
bowling alley, or even a supermarket and being able to drop a
quarter into an arcade game, be it Pac-Man, Defender, Street
Fighter II, or San Fransisco Rush. How did those games get there?
Well, that's where the route operators came in.
Our guest is Jim...
Aug 7, 2021
Nintendo undercuts with Gamecube
Playstation is coming to Dreamcast
Namco, Enix and Square team up
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 July of 2001.
As always, we'll mostly be...