December 1990

Virtuality is bringing VR to the arcades Nintendo goes easy on NES developers and Sierra bets on CD-Rom 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 December of 1990. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Send comments on twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or [email protected] And if you like what we are doing here at the podcast, don't forget to like us on your podcasting app of choice, YouTube, and/or support us on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/VGNRTM Links: Corrections: https://www.patreon.com/posts/44335732 https://www.patreon.com/posts/44632017 1990: AMOA 90 video product dissapoints Play Meter pg. 56 Parallel boards legalized Play Meter Dec. 1990 pg. 12 RePlay pg. 23 Cyberspace is coming to an arcade near you, thanks to Virtuality https://archive.org/details/CommodoreUserIssue871990Dec/page/n156/mode/1up https://virtuality.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X_E_Kg9roE Nintendo relaxes cartridge production rules Toy and Hobby World Dec. 1990 pg. 18 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Nintendo) US game releases delayed due to translations https://archive.org/details/questbusters-v7n12 https://www.mobygames.com/game/dragon-wars https://www.mobygames.com/game/jrr-tolkiens-the-lord-of-the-rings-vol-i https://www.oldgames.sk/codewheel/secret-of-monkey-island-dial-a-pirate Wing Commander gets tested https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue39Dec90/ACE_Issue_39_Dec_90/page/n71/mode/2up Sierra bets big on CD-Rom https://archive.org/details/questbusters-v7n12 CDTV delayed https://archive.org/details/RAZE_Issue_02_1990-12_Newsfield_Publishing_GB/page/n17/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_CDTV League of Programming Freedom protests against Software patents https://archive.org/details/1990-12-compute-magazine/page/n11/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_for_Programming_Freedom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_feel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent Recommended Links: 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/ The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/ Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/ Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/ Sound Effects by Ethan of History of How We Play.