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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. 

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Nov 8, 2021

SNES launches in the USA,
Photoshop dethrones Deluxe Paint &
Japan is training the next gen of game devs

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 October of 1991.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events.

Peter is on vacation so we have the pleasure of Mads from the Retro Asylum to join us.
http://retroasylum.com
and
https://playthroughpod.com/

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Time Codes:
7 Minutes in Heaven: 12:44
Corrections: 17:04
Time Jump: 31:07

Links:
7 Minutes in Heaven:
Video version - https://www.patreon.com/posts/7-minutes-in-c64-58469436
https://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/turbo-charge
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,77264/
http://www.system3.com/games/turbo-charge/
7 Minutes in Heaven - Champion of the Raj - https://www.patreon.com/posts/54250971

Corrections:
September 1991 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/56919717
https://www.mobygames.com/game/super-mario-all-stars
https://www.mobygames.com/game/ys-the-vanished-omens
Chris Garske Interview - https://www.patreon.com/posts/39835860

1991:
AMOA show shines despite absences
RePlay October 1991, pg. 59
https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/captain-commando
https://www.mobygames.com/game/botss-battle-of-the-solar-system
https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/starblade_
https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/steel-talons
https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/rail-chase
https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/neo-geo/1991/

SNES hits US shelves
Playthings October 1991, pg. 15
September 1991 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/56919717
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System

Sega buys Virgin Mastertronic
Playthings October 1991
https://retrocdn.net/index.php?title=File%3AHobbyConsolas_ES_001.pdf&page=8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastertronic#Sega_takeover
July 1991 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/54273463

Raymond E Feist to come to the TG16
https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_027_October_1991 pg. 76
http://www.crydee.com/raymond-feist/games
https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/turbografx-cd/cinemaware-corporation/

Lucasarts transitions to Photoshop
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_87/page/n31/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluxe_Paint
https://www.mobygames.com/game/monkey-island-2-lechucks-revenge
https://www.mobygames.com/game/indiana-jones-and-the-fate-of-atlantis

First ad for Strike Commander
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_87/page/n72/mode/1up
https://www.mobygames.com/game/strike-commander
https://www.mobygames.com/game/pacific-strike

Bullfrog to self-publish... someday
https://archive.org/details/TheOneIssue37Oct91/page/n11/mode/1up
https://www.mobygames.com/company/bullfrog-productions-ltd
https://www.mobygames.com/game/populous-ii-trials-of-the-olympian-gods
https://www.mobygames.com/game/syndicate

The One asks if piracy is killing the software industry.
https://archive.org/details/theone-magazine-37/page/n45/mode/2up

Play Time profiles Norwegian cracker party
https://archive.org/details/playtime199110/Play%20Time%201991-10/page/n7/mode/2up

Spanish magazine Hobby Consolas premieres
https://retrocdn.net/File:HobbyConsolas_ES_001.pdf
https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/

PC Format launches in the UK
https://archive.org/details/pc-format-001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Format

Japan is training the next generation of game developers
https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue49Oct91/ACE_Issue_49_Oct_91/page/n11/mode/1up
https://twitter.com/johnandersen21/status/1138344667924312064?lang=en
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/a-school-for-joysticks-1.114177

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/

Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play and Enzo Maida.