May 1991

Nintendo settles with the feds Sierra and Broderbund plan to tie the knot Cinemaware is dead 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 May of 1991. 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: 7 Minutes in Heaven: https://www.patreon.com/posts/51880561 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Lair_II:_Time_Warp https://www.mobygames.com/game/dragons-lair-ii-time-warp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bluth https://newwavetoys.com/products/dragons-lair-x-replicade Corrections: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50928581 http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2014/12/unlicensed-nes-part-2-unworthy.html 1991: Nintendo settles suit with Government Toy & hobby World May 1991 pg. 14 https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/11/business/nintendo-to-pay-25-million-in-rebates-on-price-fixing.html https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/feb/02/people-versus-mario-ftcs-investigation-nintendo/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290988/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Game Genie wins in Court.. in Canada https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_022_May_1991 pg. 58 https://www.retromags.com/magazines/usa/video-games-and-computer-entertainment/videogames-computer-entertainment-issue-28/ pg. 30 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Genie Accolade goes Ballistic on the Genesis https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20022%20%28May%201991%29/page/n35/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/company/ballistic https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/michael-katz-interview-part-2 Thomas Rattigan wins suit against Commodore https://archive.org/details/info-magazine-39/Info_Issue_39_1991_May/page/n17/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rattigan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Gould Sierra buys Broderbund... or do they? https://archive.org/details/Aktueller_Software_Markt_-_Ausgabe_1991.05/page/n137/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/questbusters-v8n05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Entertainment#Going_public_(1989%E2%80%931995) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderbund https://archive.org/details/1991-05-compute-magazine/page/n15/mode/1up https://www.patreon.com/posts/42700706 https://www.patreon.com/posts/50036733 Amiga Power is born https://archive.org/details/AmigaPowerHi000 https://theweekly.co.uk/ap2/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Power Play Time magazine launches in Germany https://archive.org/details/playtime199105 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computec https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computec_Media Naughty bits postpone Stormlord https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_022_May_1991 pg. 58 https://www.mobygames.com/game/stormlord/screenshots https://www.mobygames.com/game/puzznic Double Dragon is coming to the movies https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue44May91/ACE_Issue_44_May_91/page/n7/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/double-dragon https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106761/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh9ioolJrd0 Lucasfilm banned from the Ranch https://archive.org/details/questbusters-v8n05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Gilbert https://archive.org/details/questbusters-v8n05/page/n7/mode/1up https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregorydhammond/ https://www.patreon.com/posts/37807684 New developement studios popping up at Computer Game Design Conference https://archive.org/details/questbusters-v8n05/page/n7/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/company/trilobyte-inc https://www.mobygames.com/company/dreamers-guild Hewson goes into receivership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewson_Consultants https://archive.org/details/Amiga_Power_Issue_01_1991-05_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n15/mode/1up But where Hewson failed, 21st Century Entertainment would succeed https://archive.org/details/pc-leisure-07/page/n4/mode/1up?q=pc+leisure https://www.mobygames.com/company/21st-century-entertainment-ltd Cinemaware is dead... long live ... uh... Acme Interactive? https://archive.org/details/pc-leisure-07/page/n4/mode/1up?q=pc+leisure https://www.mobygames.com/company/cinemaware-corporation https://www.mobygames.com/company/acme-interactive-inc CRL is dead... long live On-Line Entertainment https://archive.org/details/pc-leisure-07/page/n7/mode/1up?q=pc+leisure https://www.mobygames.com/company/crl-group-plc https://www.mobygames.com/company/on-line-entertainment-ltd https://www.mobygames.com/company/on-line-plc Palace Software bought by Titus https://archive.org/details/pc-leisure-07/page/n7/mode/1up?q=pc+leisure https://www.mobygames.com/company/palace-software-ltd https://www.mobygames.com/company/titus-interactive-sa https://archive.org/details/zero-magazine-19/page/n8/mode/1up 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.