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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Nov 26, 2023
Mortal Monday,
F-15 Strike Eagle saved by Falcon,
Sega announces Saturn
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 September 1993.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of...
Nov 7, 2023
Atari dumps product in the desert
Commodore and Sinclair revenues sore
The Vic20 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 September 1983.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates,...
Oct 21, 2023
7-11 drops coinop
Nintendo disses Sega's rating system
Commodore premieres Amiga CD32
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 August 1993.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and
those...
Sep 25, 2023
Dragon's Lair takes arcades by storm,
Commodore rules the computer roost &
Video game makers pivot to micros
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 August 1983.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine...
Aug 20, 2023
Atari axes Ray Kassar,
Nintendo launches the Famicom &
Commodore's Jack Tramiel delivers the killing blow to Texas
Instruments
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 July 1983.
As always, we'll mostly be...