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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Feb 28, 2024
Few developers can boast careers spanning more than 4 decades,
but today's guest, William Volk has developed games for virtually
every platform released, covering every genre, including strategy,
RPG, adventures, educational titles, puzzle games, and more.
Sit back and enjoy the insights, memories, and experience of
a...
Feb 23, 2024
Night Trap gets Lieberman's panties in a bunch,
Id unleashes Doom &
Apple II is no more
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 December 1993.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and...
Feb 12, 2024
Toys push games off of shelves,
GUIs vie for supremacy &
Coinops' laserdisc dreams dashed
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 December 1983.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and...
Feb 5, 2024
40 years ago, American television saw the dawn of a nationwide show updating viewers on the latest developments in the exciting world of computers, The Computer Chronicles.
We dive into the history of this show with blogger S.M.Oliva, author of The Computer Chronicles Revisited, to find out what it was, what it...