Commodore tries to get into the retail business,Atari announces plans to release a 16 bit console, Interplay hits hard times And much, much more! We look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in January of 1979, 1989, 1999. Send comments on twitter @videogamenewsr2Or[email protected]

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Sources: 1979: https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/05/archives/business-people-mrsjaffee-joins-53-men-in-citibank-senior-post.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/09/archives/worry-mars-electronics-show-recession-fear-at-exhibition-a-slowdown.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/03/archives/head-resigns-at-lafayette.html https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/04/archives/talks-begin-on-rescuing-lafayette-radio-story-of-widening-losses.html https://arcadeblogger.com/2017/08/25/atari-ireland/ https://archive.org/details/Atari_Coin_Connection_Volume_3_Number_1_January_1979/page/n3 https://arcadeblogger.com/2017/08/25/atari-ireland/ 1989: https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue16Jan89 http://perso.wanadoo.es/amstradcpc/interviews/ritman.html http://www.zee-3.com/pickfordbros/softography/index.php?game=42 https://web.archive.org/web/20131127123320/http://www.simonhallam.com/projects/detail/Fokker https://www.redbull.com/int-en/rare-celebrating-30-years-of-gaming-glory https://ia800207.us.archive.org/2/items/thegamesmachine-14/TheGamesMachine_14_Jan_1989.pdf https://archive.org/details/cvg-magazine-087 1999: https://archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_49 https://www.mcvuk.com/development/interplay-a-troubled-history https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173840/?ref_=nv_sr_1 https://www.retromags.com/magazines/arg/next-level/next-level-issue-2/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuon_(DVD_technology)