March 1991

Mario is heading to the movies Star Wars returns to gaming And Bobbi Kotick saves Activision 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 March of 1991. 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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Replay, March 1991, pg. 14 Replay, March 1991, pg. 16 https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8927 https://9gag.com/gag/aAbBxEL https://www.mobygames.com/game/operation-wolf Winter CES reports flooding in https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue42Mar91/ACE_Issue_42_Mar_91/page/n17/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/Aktueller_Software_Markt_-_Ausgabe_1991.03/page/n75/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20020%20%28March%201991%29/page/n25/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/cdtv/ https://archive.org/details/Power.Play.N36.1991.03-kultpower/page/n13/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Lynx https://www.patreon.com/posts/46578120 https://www.patreon.com/posts/47720122 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboExpress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Gear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_motion_video https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_CDTV https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/september-2019 Mario is going to the movies https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue42Mar91/ACE_Issue_42_Mar_91/page/n7/mode/1up https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/companycredits?ref_=tt_dt_co https://entertainment.ie/gaming/danny-devito-was-originally-supposed-to-play-super-mario-in-the-1993-film-277633/ Lucasfilm Games gets into the Star Wars business https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue42Mar91/ACE_Issue_42_Mar_91/page/n6/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue42Mar91/ACE_Issue_42_Mar_91/page/n31/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/star-wars_ https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/star-wars-licensees/offset,250/so,1d/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TG3BEHdRHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riIOiNq0RHk&list=PLx1UA5PiBi5rVuSDFr3JLYdUE80O_aCH3 https://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/star-wars-droids https://www.patreon.com/posts/39095819 https://www.patreon.com/posts/37807684 https://www.patreon.com/posts/29977733 Computer RPGs are coming to consoles https://archive.org/details/Game_Players_Issue_21_March_1991 pg. 88 https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_020_March_1991 pg. 92 https://www.mobygames.com/game/nes/heroes-of-the-lance https://www.mobygames.com/game/nes/pool-of-radiance https://www.mobygames.com/game/ultima-runes-of-virtue https://www.mobygames.com/game/genesis/kings-bounty https://www.mobygames.com/game/genesis/dark-castle https://www.mobygames.com/game/genesis/might-and-magic-ii-gates-to-another-world Software rentals are no more https://archive.org/details/1991-03-compute-magazine/page/n67/mode/1up https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Computer_Software_Rental_Amendments_Act_of_1990 https://www.patreon.com/posts/44720677 386 clones get the green light https://books.google.de/books?id=slAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&pg=PT39#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.de/books?id=rlAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA95&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium Richard Garriott turns his mansion into a fantasy haunted house https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue42Mar91/ACE_Issue_42_Mar_91/page/n35/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Manor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott Peter Molyneux promises cross game data sharing https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue42Mar91/ACE_Issue_42_Mar_91/page/n6/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Molyneux https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/2019/03 Activision management gets reshuffled https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20020%20%28March%201991%29/page/n25/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick#Activision_Blizzard https://www.patreon.com/posts/42014024 https://www.patreon.com/posts/44632017 Cinemaware sale falls through https://archive.org/details/questbusters-v8n03 https://www.mobygames.com/game/centurion-defender-of-rome 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.