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, 2023
Street Fighter movie is a go
Traditional computer game makers falter
Sega's Battle with Nintendo 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 June 1993.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover...
Jul 17, 2023
After the crash, a new type of venue emerged as the dominant force in coin operated video games, the family entertainment center. No longer just video games, but a mix of mini golf, redemption games, food counters and more, this new destination would prove an ever evolving type of business very much at the whims of a...
Jul 12, 2023
40 years ago:
TI reports huge losses,
Sega gets out of the arcade business in the US &
Nintendo prepares to launch the Family Computer
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 1983.
As always, we'll...