Nintendo of America loses its President EA drops its online plans IBM gets out of the PC biz

These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM

This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in February 2002. 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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Links: 7 Minutes in Heaven: The Fish Files (GBC) Video version - https://www.patreon.com/posts/64113628 https://www.mobygames.com/game/gameboy-color/fish-files https://www.mobygames.com/game/gameboy-color/scooby-doo-classic-creep-capers https://www.mobygames.com/game/new-addams-family-series Corrections: January 2002 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/62708089 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2 https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/11/04/gamecube-versus-playstation-2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EsPup-RxIA https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/GameCube https://kotaku.com/the-famicom-s-built-in-microphone-was-wonderfully-weird-1840887609 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserScope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Geo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_3DO_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip_Hawkins Jerry Jewell Interview - https://www.patreon.com/posts/57602735 2002: Sony sues over Mod chips https://retrocdn.net/index.php?title=File%3AMAN!AC_DE_2002-02.pdf&page=45 https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/sony-wins-case-against-seller-of-mod-chips/ https://quade.co/ps2-modchip-guide/ Sony launches budget line in Japan https://www.kultboy.com/index.php?site=kult/kultmags&km=show&id=4469 pg. 12 https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/11/14/sce-declares-playstation-2-mega-hits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentials_(PlayStation) EA drops ea.com https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_211/page/n35/mode/2up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameSpy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo.com Gordon Walton Interview Part 1 https://www.patreon.com/posts/52644122 Gordon Walton interview Part 2 https://www.patreon.com/posts/53726080 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Online https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims_Online

TV is getting interactive Edge 107, pg. 10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_television https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXlALQW6bgQ

Street Fighter II is coming to mobile Edge 107 pg. 13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QiU1IQKuaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69v1CDn_Fds Edge magazine profiles game consultancies Edge 107 pg. 15 https://blog.ihobo.com/

King of Fighters goes Online Edge 107 pg. 17 https://www.gamezone.de/SNK-Firma-15741/News/Viele-neue-Infos-zu-SNK-Playmore-906269/ https://web.archive.org/web/20031204111223/http://www.kofworld.com/KOFOnline.asp

SNK is back! Hobby Consolas 125 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNK

Minoru Arakawa steps down Edge 107 pg. 12 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Arakawa

Nvidia takes Enron's place on S&P https://archive.org/details/GDM_February_2002/page/n3/mode/1up https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500

IBM exits Desktop business https://www.thefreelibrary.com/IBM+and+Sanmina-SCI+sign+agreement.-a0108597731 https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue85/page/n22/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue85/page/n23/mode/1up

Rumors suggest Microsoft to buy Take 2 https://archive.org/details/pcgames200202/page/n9/mode/1up Wizardry 9 cancelled https://archive.org/details/pcgames200202/page/n11/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir-Tech Paul Neurath Interview - https://www.patreon.com/posts/54857109 They Create Worlds - https://www.theycreateworlds.com/transcripts/tcw114 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry Joel Billings Interview - https://www.patreon.com/posts/36827469

Germany cracks down on Wolfenstein https://archive.org/details/pcgames200202/page/n9/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/pcgames200202/page/n11/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_Harmful_to_Young_Persons https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45142651

Las Malvinas son Argentinas... Edge 107 pg. 18 https://web.archive.org/web/20070315004353/http://www.malvinas2032.com.ar/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcpMduHPKh0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands

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