January 2019

Jan 27, 2019

 Commodore tries to get into the retail business,
Atari announces plans to release a 16 bit console, 
Interplay hits hard times 
And much, much more!  

We look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in January of 1979, 1989, 1999. 

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Sources:  
1979:      

    https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/05/archives/business-people-mrsjaffee-joins-53-men-in-citibank-senior-post.html
    

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/09/archives/worry-mars-electronics-show-recession-fear-at-exhibition-a-slowdown.html

    https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/03/archives/head-resigns-at-lafayette.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/04/archives/talks-begin-on-rescuing-lafayette-radio-story-of-widening-losses.html 

https://arcadeblogger.com/2017/08/25/atari-ireland/ 

https://archive.org/details/Atari_Coin_Connection_Volume_3_Number_1_January_1979/page/n3  

https://arcadeblogger.com/2017/08/25/atari-ireland/  

1989: 

https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue16Jan89 

http://perso.wanadoo.es/amstradcpc/interviews/ritman.html  

http://www.zee-3.com/pickfordbros/softography/index.php?game=42  

https://web.archive.org/web/20131127123320/http://www.simonhallam.com/projects/detail/Fokker  

https://www.redbull.com/int-en/rare-celebrating-30-years-of-gaming-glory  

https://ia800207.us.archive.org/2/items/thegamesmachine-14/TheGamesMachine_14_Jan_1989.pdf  

https://archive.org/details/cvg-magazine-087  

1999: 

https://archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_49  

https://www.mcvuk.com/development/interplay-a-troubled-history  

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173840/?ref_=nv_sr_1  

https://www.retromags.com/magazines/arg/next-level/next-level-issue-2/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuon_(DVD_technology)