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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Jun 26, 2023
Super Mario Brothers hits theatres,
Blast Processing brings sega to the next level &
Id shows off Doom
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 May 1993.
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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Links:
7 Minutes in Heaven: Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred
Kind
Video Version:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/85137884
https://www.mobygames.com/game/7145/bubsy-in-claws-encounters-of-the-furred-kind/
Corrections:
April 1993 Ep -
https://www.patreon.com/posts/april-1993-83830415
Ethan's fine site The History of How We Play:
https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/
https://www.mobygames.com/game/12795/king-arthurs-world/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_YKqu0uOfs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer
1993:
Morici to unify Capcom
Play Meter May 1993 pg. 3
Joe Morici - Capcom
https://www.patreon.com/posts/37289815
Capcom brings Street Fighter to Genesis
https://retrocdn.net/index.php?title=File%3AGamePro_US_046.pdf&page=166
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamesLC2/Electronic%20Games%20LC2%20Issue%208%20%28May%201993%29/page/n9/mode/1up?view=theater
Joe Morici - Capcom
https://www.patreon.com/posts/37289815
https://www.mobygames.com/game/6239/street-fighter-ii-the-world-warrior/
https://www.mobygames.com/game/8053/street-fighter-ii-champion-edition/
Sega explains Blast Processing at CES
https://archive.org/details/video-games-computer-entertainment-may-1993/page/n12/mode/1up
Sega to offer games over cable
Play Meter May 1993 pg. 3
Replay May 1993 pg. 33
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview
Marty announced
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20046%20%28May%201993%29/page/n51/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_Towns_Marty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)
Return to Zork to come to 3DO
https://archive.org/details/video-games-computer-entertainment-may-1993/page/n18/mode/1up
https://www.mobygames.com/game/1219/return-to-zork/
https://www.mobygames.com/game/company:2/platform:3do/sort:title/page:1/
Nintendo launches barebones Gameboy
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamesLC2/Electronic%20Games%20LC2%20Issue%208%20%28May%201993%29/page/n9/mode/1up?view=theater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy
Sonic brings Game Gears to HoJos
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamesLC2/Electronic%20Games%20LC2%20Issue%208%20%28May%201993%29/page/n13/mode/1up?view=theater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Gear
PDAs take CES by storm
https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/90s/93/PE-1993-05.pdf
pg. 5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC/GEOS
Doom previewed
https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-1993-05/page/n5/mode/1up
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamesLC2/Electronic%20Games%20LC2%20Issue%208%20%28May%201993%29/page/n5/mode/1up?view=theater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/1068/doom/
https://www.mobygames.com/game/1068/doom/cover/group-72091/cover-194558/
First Pentium systems ship
https://archive.org/details/computerworld2719unse/page/16/mode/1up?view=theater
Intel sues AMD
https://archive.org/details/computerworld2718unse/page/6/mode/1up?view=theater
Intel sees stock soar
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_106/page/n9/mode/1up
Plug-and-play coming to PC
https://archive.org/details/BYTE-1993-05/page/n35/mode/1up?view=theater
Mac compatibles arrive too late
https://archive.org/details/BYTE-1993-05/page/n35/mode/1up?view=theater
Layoffs hit computer game makers
https://archive.org/details/questbusters-v10n05/page/n1/mode/1up
Wild Bill Stealey - Microprose
https://www.patreon.com/posts/36710924
Joel Billings - SSI
https://www.patreon.com/posts/36827469
Commodore clocks in big in the UK
https://archive.org/details/theone-magazine-56/page/n14/mode/1up?view=theater
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=547
The Future of C64 game software looks bleak
https://commodore.software/downloads?task=download.send&id=14993&catid=721&m=0
pg. 13
Binary Asylum formed
https://archive.org/details/theone-magazine-56/page/n18/mode/1up?view=theater
https://www.mobygames.com/company/5576/binary-asylum/
Cable providers move into information services
https://archive.org/details/computerworld2712unse20/page/n6/mode/1up?view=theater
TSN teams up with AT&T
https://archive.org/details/questbusters-v10n05/page/n1/mode/1up
https://www.filfre.net/2018/02/the-sierra-network/
Interplay locks down Star Trek license
https://retrocdn.net/index.php?title=File%3AGamePro_US_046.pdf&page=166
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamesLC2/Electronic%20Games%20LC2%20Issue%208%20%28May%201993%29/page/n10/mode/1up?view=theater
https://www.mobygames.com/group/11345/star-trek-licensees/sort:date/
Shaq signs with EA
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamesLC2/Electronic%20Games%20LC2%20Issue%208%20%28May%201993%29/page/n9/mode/1up?view=theater
https://www.mobygames.com/game/14585/shaq-fu/
Street Fighter action figures debut
https://retrocdn.net/index.php?title=File%3AGamePro_US_046.pdf&page=166
https://www.3djoes.com/the-gi-joe-yearbook-a-visual-index-of-carded-figures.html
Computerland cuts back
https://archive.org/details/computerworld2719unse/page/6/mode/1up?view=theater
Software industry enlists USTR to fight piracy
https://ustr.gov/about-us
https://retrocdn.net/index.php?title=File:GamePro_US_046.pdf&page=167
UK court expands software copyright protection
https://archive.org/details/BYTE-1993-05/page/n31/mode/1up
Super Mario Brothers hits theaters
https://archive.org/details/video-games-computer-entertainment-may-1993/page/n17/mode/1up
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Superman is dead
https://retrocdn.net/index.php?title=File%3AGamePro_US_046.pdf&page=51
https://www.fortressofbaileytude.com/wizard-superman-tribute-edition/
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/
Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/
Retromags.com: https://www.retromags.com/
Modo Historia: http://guillermocrespi.com/modohistoriapod/
Games That Weren't - https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/
Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play.
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