Sep 23, 2024

The boom of home computers and electronics in the 1970s and 1980s was as much a success of entrepreneurial endeavor and technological innovation, as it was of the blossoming worldwide supply chain.

One of the company's that made it all possible was WONG's International and our guest today, Raymond Yap was...

Sep 6, 2024

The dawn of the home computer seemed to usher in the death of computing's networked past dominated by dumb terminals connected to mainframes, but a few visionaries foresaw a world in which the microcomputer technology invading millions of homes could be connected and the data networks already in consumer hands, such...

Jul 14, 2024

In the earliest days of the gaming biz, Human Engineered Software was a trailblazer, bringing big names like Jeff Minter to the US.  The company's founder, Jay Balakrishnan, is a serial entrepreneur who not only would help create the mass market for software at retail but would also have a long and storied career...

Jul 5, 2024

Nintendo bows to Blockbuster,

Commodore enters liquidation &

Acclaim-Midway divorce gets messy!

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 1994.

As always, we'll mostly be using magazine...

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...