Jul 23, 2021
Sega introduces conversion kits
Coin-Op breaks financial records
Microsoft buys 86-DOS
These stories and many more on this episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine
This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and
around the video game industry in July of 1981.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those
are of course always a bit behind the actual events.
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Time Codes:
7 Minutes in Heaven: 10:29
Corrections: 19:42
Time Jump: 42:40
Links:
7 Minutes in Heaven:
Video Version - https://www.patreon.com/posts/54022503
http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/?s=The+Nutting+Associates
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/they-create-worlds-53243/episodes/dave-nutting-nutting-industrie-90360408
https://www.mobygames.com/game/wizard-of-wor
Corrections:
June 1981 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/52937539
https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/07/22/487069271/episode-576-when-women-stopped-coding
https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2021/06/video-game-sales-1972-1999/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/353380/Steam_Link/
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/jul/20/steam-deck-valve-nintendo-switch-for-nerds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey_2
1981:
Sega/Gremlin introduce their first conversion kits
Replay July 1981, pg. 24, pg. 53
Vending Times, July 1981, pg. 46
December 1979 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/32503287
Jim Trucano Interview - https://www.patreon.com/posts/48912975
Donkey Kong released in Japan
https://twitter.com/Lord_Arse/status/1413435520449847305
https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/donkey-kong
General Computer Corp. is looking for new software ideas
Play Meter, July 15, 1981 pg. 72
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Computer_Corporation
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023366/Classic-Game-Postmortem-Ms-Pac
https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/ms-pac-man
Midway sues Artic over speed-up kits
Replay July 1981, pg. 7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Manufacturing_Co._v._Artic_International,_Inc.
Stern beats Omni in Scramble bootleg case
Replay July 1981, pg. 8
Vending Times, July 1981, pg. 41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vc-RIkpk40&t=98s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmFCc3vUAw0
Coin Op video games reached $2.8 billion in revenue in 1980
Vending Times Census of the Industry - 1981, pg. 56
Arcades may be putting the pinch on movie theatres
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/06/arts/is-electronic-games-boom-hurting-the-movies.html?searchResultPosition=2
Warner profits soar
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/16/business/warner-profits-jump-66.4.html?searchResultPosition=1
Broderbund begins publishing Star Craft
https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198107/page/n119/mode/1up
IBM introduces small business computer
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/29/business/an-ibm-computer-for-small-business.html?searchResultPosition=1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/23_Datamaster
Microsoft buys 86-DOS
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=99
Pirates of Silicon Valley Trailer -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEyrivrjAuU
Pirates of Silicon Valley QDOS scene -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14vHaqEMvXA
Patent issued for Age Morphing tech
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/04/business/patents-a-method-that-pictures-a-person-at-any-age.html?searchResultPosition=45
https://www.freepatentsonline.com/4276570.html
https://www.nancyburson.com/index
Dutch to broadcast software over shortwave
https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine-1981-07/page/n69/mode/1up
Summer camps go geek
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/17/nyregion/a-camp-where-the-program-is-programming-swim-withdavid-evans-and-jonathan-bing.html?searchResultPosition=4
Recommended Links:
The History of How We Play:
https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/
Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/
They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/
Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/
The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/
Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/
Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/
Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play and Enzo
Maida.