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.
It's fun and educational! (in case you need to justify listening to it to a significant other)
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Jun 26, 2023
Super Mario Brothers hits theatres,
Blast Processing brings sega to the next level &
Id shows off Doom
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 1993.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover...
Jun 15, 2023
The Supreme Court comes to the aid of video games
Commodore's Vic20 drops below $100
Electronic Arts ships its first games
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 1983.
As always, we'll mostly be using...
Jun 7, 2023
At the dawn of 3D acceleration a battle was fought over who would control the APIs that would allow programmers to unlock the power of this new type of PC hardware. Would it be an open source community effort born of Silicon Graphics tech or would the industry juggernaut Microsoft win the day?
Our guests today, Servan...