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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Dec 29, 2022
Atari, Bally, Sega, Namco and so many more... our guest today,
Roger Hector, has seen the industry from every perspective during a
career that has spanned more than three decades.
He shares with us insights into his passions and philosophies on
game design, art, and surviving corporate cultures
Recorded March 2022.
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Dec 22, 2022
While Warner was crashing due to lower than expected holiday sales from their Atari unit, the rest of the market, competing consoles like Colecovision and Intellivision, as well as game makers like Activision, Imagic, and Parker Brothers, all felt the seismic repercussions of the goliath's fall.
In this second part of...
Dec 15, 2022
Coinop income plummets
Wall Street short sellers smell blood
Vic20 sales hit a million
These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM
This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and
around the video game industry inNovember 1982.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and...
Dec 11, 2022
ATTENTION: This is a re-upped version of the episode with corrected audio. We apologize for the previous entry.
On December 8th, 1982, Warner Communications, parent company of Atari, announced that their guidance to investors concerning their profit outlook would be dramatically lower than it had expected.
While many...
Nov 27, 2022
Arcades take on theme parks
Amstrad and Sega team up
EA buys Origin
These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM
This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and
around the video game industry in October 1992.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those
are of course always...