September 2019

Oct 3, 2019

The KGB wants our KBs!
EA's Madden hits the shelves!
and
The Dreamcast lands in America!

These stories and many more on this month's episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

This month we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in September of 1979, 1989, 1999.
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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Show Notes:
1979:
East German spies are after our tech
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/19/archives/bonn-fights-industrial-spying-bonn-is-combating-industrial.html?searchResultPosition=20
http://rechenwerk.halle.it/usr/digital-ag/projekte/andere/museum/index.html

Par-t-Golf is harnessing 16 bit power for the ultimate golf sim https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputing197909/page/n11
http://www.partgolf.net

Compute magazine debuts
https://archive.org/details/1979-Fall-compute-magazine

Temple of Apshai advertised in Compute and Creative Computing
https://archive.org/details/1979-Fall-compute-magazine/page/n81

And a few pages later... a review!
https://archive.org/details/1979-Fall-compute-magazine/page/n87
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiMtY5BxdM0

Football game ad cc p 127
https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197909/page/n128

Graphic golf ad cc p 162
https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197909/page/n164

Apple wastes no time pumping their link to Minnesota education system
https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197909/page/n1

Apple founds Apple Education Foundation
https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197909/page/n17

Apple helps fund science shuttle in San Fran
https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197909/page/n53

Visicalc ads in pc and cc
https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197909/page/n194

Toy trends are laying the foundation for a different tomorrow
U.S. News & World Report, 03/09/1979 p. 83
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zqb0Sd7bLmnURzyZ1-cif9FRz6Upzo1g

1989:
CD-I specs and marketing plan revealed!
https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue24Sep89/page/n25

Hypergames are the newest buzzword
https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue24Sep89/page/n37 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard
https://archive.org/details/1989-09-compute-magazine/page/n89
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,11551/
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,988515/

Atari introduces the TT
https://archive.org/details/Happy.Computer.N71.1989.09-Cartman/page/n11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TT030

Atari announces that their handheld will be called the Lynx.
https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue24Sep89/page/n105

Michael Katz leaves Atari
https://www.wired.com/2001/05/history-5/
https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Computer_Entertainment_Issue_08_September1989 page 16

The head of Commodore gets sacked
https://archive.org/details/1989-09-compute-magazine/page/n79
https://archive.org/details/Happy.Computer.N71.1989.09-Cartman/page/n9
https://www.henwin.de/winfried-hoffmann-portrait

Mediagenic shuts down Infocom operations
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_63/page/n9
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,1745/

Leisure Suit Larry is spreading viruses
https://archive.org/details/Sierra_Newsletter_The_Volume_2_Number_1_Spring_1989_1989_Sierra_On-Line_US/page/n12
https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_63/page/n9

John Madden Football finally gets released for the Apple II
https://archive.org/details/1989-09-compute-magazine/page/n89
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EbPghLpK6c
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,7082/

NEC warns against grey imports
https://archive.org/details/thegamesmachine-22/page/n22

View-Master Interactive Vision is launched
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7ZciCfgjmg
https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Computer_Entertainment_Issue_08_September1989 page 16

Captain Lou Albano to play Mario
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_programs_based_on_video_games
https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Computer_Entertainment_Issue_08_September1989 page 16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q20ovbTOroE&list=PLPbVSXTDxS-cpcgVr2SQKcpkl_UJhe9Pv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Albano

1999:
The N64 will go online thanks to the 64DD... if it ever ships
https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_122_September_1999/page/n31
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64DD

Nintendo announces downloadable games for the Gameboy
https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_122_September_1999/page/n31
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mobile_Game_Boy_Adapter
http://videogamekraken.com/wonder-swan-mobile-wonder-gate

Sega to develop for the Gameboy
https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_122_September_1999/page/n31
https://www.mobygames.com/game/gameboy-color/sakura-taisen-gb
https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Sega

Sega's Dreamcast price cut boosts sales!
https://archive.org/details/NextGen57Sep1999/page/n17

Sega is collapsing
https://archive.org/details/NextGen57Sep1999/page/n17
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/29/business/world-business-briefing-asia-sega-stock-plunges.html?searchResultPosition=3

Dreamcast launches!
https://archive.org/details/NextGen57Sep1999/page/n61
https://gamicus.gamepedia.com/List_of_video_game_console_launch_games#Sega_Dreamcastl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dreamcast_games

GT interactive is up for sale
https://archive.org/details/NextGen57Sep1999/page/n17
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari,_Inc._(Atari,_SA_subsidiary)

Billy Mitchell gets a perfect score on Pac-Man
https://archive.org/details/NextGen57Sep1999/page/n13
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell_(video_game_player)

Midway reigns in Atari
https://archive.org/details/NextGen57Sep1999/page/n20

Web.it launches the Commodore 64
https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-1999-09/page/n106
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koCj8W16Wu0

Corruption hits Brittania
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/08/technology/news-watch-video-game-worker-dismissed-for-selling-fantasy-real-estate.html
https://archive.org/details/PC_Zone_Issue_080_1999-09_Dennis_Publishing_GB/page/n33
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article79373497.html
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6251362/united-states-v-roseler/

Adventure game engines are popping up online
https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue56/page/n109
https://www.adventurecorner.de/special/25/adventure-engines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScummVM

Microsoft signs deal to port Konami games to Windows
https://archive.org/details/PC_Zone_Issue_080_1999-09_Dennis_Publishing_GB/page/n34