January 1981

Nintendo opens its first offices in New York Commodore introduces the VIC 20 and Adventure gets reviewed 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 January of 1981. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Get us on your mobile device: Android: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlb2dhbWVuZXdzcm9vbXRpbWVtYWNoaW5lLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vcnNz iOS: https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/video-game-newsroom-time-machine 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 Send comments on twitter @videogamenewsr2 Or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vgnrtm Or [email protected] Links: Corrections: https://books.google.de/books?id=sy8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=gene+lipkin&source=bl&ots=R4C2CM7gzm&sig=ACfU3U2ETkAXNpGOsq2ypyp8gFO8lM6nGA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVqceun7btAhWGCuwKHQ53AwMQ6AEwD3oECBIQAg#v=onepage&q=gene%20lipkin&f=false 1981: Nintendo of America opens its first offices Vending Times, January 1981, pg. 40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Bowser Atari debuts Warlords and Red Baron https://www.mobygames.com/game/warlords_ https://www.mobygames.com/game/red-baron____ https://archive.org/details/Atari_Coin_Connection_Volume_5_Number_1_January_1981 https://www.patreon.com/posts/36710924 Commodore introduces the Vic20 https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198101/page/n25/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A Chris Crawford explains sprites on the Atari 8 bits https://archive.org/details/1981-01-compute-magazine/page/n67/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/star-raiders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Crawford_(game_designer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Miner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_VDM8nC9sM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN49G3RwSQs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Developers_Conference Akalabeth reviewed https://archive.org/details/softalkv1n05jan1981/page/17/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akalabeth:_World_of_Doom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTG3KRGJAjk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yINb5Huh0C4 Adventure reviewed Video January 1981, pg. 28 https://www.mobygames.com/game/adventure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(1980_video_game) http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-100-most-influential-games-part-1/ Record sales slipping Forbes, January 5, 1981, pg. 227 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/ Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play and Enzo Maida.