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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Jul 29, 2022
Atari gets trounced in court
Nintendo and Sega slash prices
CD gaming goes OEM
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 June 1992.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those
are of course...
Jul 23, 2022
Activision and Atari bury the hatchet
CES is flooded with 3rd party VCS carts
Video games give Wall Street the jitters
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 June 1982.
As always, we'll mostly be using...
Jul 17, 2022
Before we got all our information from the internet, magazines were the primary way of learning about specialty topics like computing. Randal Kottwitz was part of two major early pillars in this field, SoftSide magazine, as it transitioned from being a pamphlet with Basic programs to a full blown magazine with...
Jul 9, 2022
Microsoft and Nintendo slash prices,
Steam enters the game retail business &
Germany thinks about banning Counter Strike
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 May 2002.
As always, we'll mostly be using...
Jul 2, 2022
RPGs go VR
PC gaming embraces the 386
Hudson Soft wants you to play responsibly
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 May 1992.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those
are of course...