November 1980

Midway's lawyers are on a tear, Atari's profits are breaking records, and Apple bets on the luck of the Irish These stories and many more on this episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine We celebrate our second anniversary with a change to our format. Now, instead of a giant ep a month, you'll get three weekly ones, each covering one of our jumps through the history of video game news. This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in November of 1980. 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari#Atari_Corporation_(1984%E2%80%931996) https://www.mobygames.com/company/hayden-software-co-inc https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/amoa-1980-with-gameresearch_e https://www.mobygames.com/company/romstar-inc 1980: Universal settles suit with Midway Replay Nov, 1980, pg. 120 https://www.mobygames.com/game/galaxian https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7398 https://www.mobygames.com/game/space-invaders________ Midway files suit against Artic for Galaxian speed up kits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Manufacturing_Co._v._Artic_International,_Inc. PlayMeter Nov. 15, 1980 https://www.mobygames.com/game/ms-pac-man https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/virtua-fighter-3 Columbia Pictures' Gottlieb amusement machine division shows a loss https://www.nytimes.com/1980/11/07/archives/columbia-pictures-shows-profit-rise.html?searchResultPosition=2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conglomerate_(company) Atari more than doubles revenue, quadruples profits Toy and Hobby World, Nov 1980 Atari is seeking the Space Invader champion https://www.nytimes.com/1980/11/09/archives/4000-line-up-to-join-battle-against-electronic-invader-4000.html https://www.nytimes.com/1980/11/16/archives/westchester-opinion-the-fastest-ray-gun-in-the-east.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Heineman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Score_(TV_series) https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19920328&slug=1483450 Sublogic Flight Simulator reviewed by Kilobaud Magazine https://archive.org/details/Kilobaud198011/page/n17/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/flight-simulator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvfJ60gIf0&t=90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkYVSbodw4 Broderbund's Galactic Empire trilogy gets reviewed in Softalk magazine https://archive.org/details/softalkv1n03nov1980/page/26/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/galactic-saga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waxrpG-19jM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderbund https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/dan-daglow-interview-part-1 https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/don-daglow-interview-part-2 Acorn Atom introduced at the PCW show https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1980-11/page/n20/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Atom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture Apple goes Irish https://archive.org/details/softalkv1n03nov1980/page/12/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_illegal_state_aid_case_against_Apple_in_Ireland#History_of_Apple_in_Ireland The sad fate of MITS https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine-1980-11/page/n7/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Instrumentation_and_Telemetry_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800 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.