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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Oct 15, 2025
Few events in video game history are more legendary than the
Console War between Sega and Nintendo. Our guest today was
one of the generals of that war, the head of Sega of America, Tom
Kalinske.
Tom's story is not just a story of Sega though, he started out in
advertising, helping create the still iconic...