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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Apr 17, 2023
Nintendo leaks SNES CD specs
Sega touts Genesis VR
Mortal Kombat coming to consoles
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 March 1993.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and
those are...
Apr 6, 2023
The modern world of gaming revolves around designers and
programmers being able to harness the raw power of today's high end
GPUs. APIs make this task manageable and no API set has been
more important in the tradition from software rendered graphics to
the age of the GPU than Direct3D.
We speak with one of its original...
Apr 1, 2023
Commodore goes portable
IBM introduces the XT
Nintendo shows off Game and Watch
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 February 1983.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and
those are of...