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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Jun 29, 2024
Nolan Bushnell, the PT Barnum of games, left indellible marks on
the industry, some greater than others, and among the big hits like
Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, were also many misses and
could-have-beens.
Our guest, Joneva Barry, was witness to one of them, Kadabrascope,
an attempt to use computers to bring down the cost...
Jun 18, 2024
Acorn and Commodore soar, as Coleco and Atari falter
Software takes center stage in PC clone world
UK game prices hit rock bottom
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 April 1984.
As...