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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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...
Nov 19, 2022
No family name is more associated with the early popularization
of computers than Tramiel. We speak with Leonard Tramiel, son of
Commodore co-founder Jack Tramiel about his life growing up around
tech, his role in Commodore's earliest machines and becoming VP of
Software at Atari.
In this second part of our interview,...
Nov 10, 2022
No family name is more associated with the early popularization
of computers than Tramiel. We speak with Leonard Tramiel, son of
Commodore co-founder Jack Tramiel about his life growing up around
tech, his role in Commodore's earliest machines and becoming VP of
Software at Atari.
In this first part of our interview...
Nov 6, 2022
Distributors give conversion boards the cold shoulder
Atari looks down on the competition
The computer price war heats up
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 1982.
As always, we'll mostly be using...