February 2019

AMD wants in on the hot new microcomputer action The GDC is born PCs are coming to rescue the arcade These stories and many more on this month's episode of the Video Game Newsroom time Machine We look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in February of 1979, 1989, 1999. As always, I'll mostly be using magazine cover dates for the 20 and 30 year jumps, while relying on newspaper articles and historical documents for the 40 year jump, as there weren't many dedicated gaming publications on the market yet. Send comments on twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or [email protected] And consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=7594060 1979: AMD profiled in NYT Arcades start accepting credit cards Atari wants to know if local laws are limiting arcades 1989: Dragon's Lair gets released on 16 bit computers The Sam Coupe is announced SNES/Super Famicom is revealed and is to be backward compatible Top Rider has an amazing peripheral The first Game Developes Conference is held 1999: Dreamcast launch numbers come in from Japan Arcade sales are down The Arcade-PC is the great white hope Daikatana gets delayed... again Microsoft buys up FASA and kills Shadowrun: Assassin Diamond launches the Rio MP3 player Corrections: Super Hang-On was released in 1987 Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/25/archives/the-metamorphosis-of-a-salesman-sanders-is-taking-amd-beyond.html http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/a-fairchild-story/ https://archive.org/details/Atari_Coin_Connection_Volume_3_Number_2_February_1979 https://archive.org/details/Computer_Video_Games_Issue_088_1989-02_EMAP_Publishing_GB https://gamingreinvented.com/uncategorized/the-snes-was-supposed-to-be-backwards-compatible/ https://archive.org/details/crash-magazine-61 https://www.retrogamer.net/profiles/hardware/sam-coupe/ https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_56 https://archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_50 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085243/000133248907000015/asoriginallyfiledmodified.htm https://www.virtra.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20000619155817/http://www.gamespot.com/features/btg-daikatana/index.html https://archive.org/details/PCJoker0299 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300