Atari gets trounced in court Nintendo and Sega slash prices CD gaming goes OEM

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 June 1992. 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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Corrections: May 1992 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/may-1992-68552769 Dread (Amiga) - https://www.patreon.com/posts/dread-binary-big-68405040 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent:_FreeSpace_%E2%80%93_The_Great_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_52 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Garriott

1992: LA Riots hit coin op Play Meter June 1992, pg. 3 RePlay June 1992, pg. 15, pg. 48 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots Stuttgart hits Asterix with added tax https://archive.org/details/AmigaJoker199206_and_07/page/n121/mode/1up?view=theater https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/astrix__ https://gauselmann.de/index-2.html https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauselmann Wild Bill Stealey - Microprose - https://www.patreon.com/posts/36710924

Coinop supports recycling Play Meter June 1992, pg. 16 https://en.everybodywiki.com/Recycle_It,_Don%27t_Trash_It!

RePlay magazine highlights family fun centers RePlay June 1992 Jim Trucano - AMOA - https://www.patreon.com/posts/48912975

Parallel market for Street Fighter Championship Edition boards is huge RePlay June 1992, pg. 39 https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/street-fighter-ii-champion-edition Correction: Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting Edition was Street Fighter II Turbo in the USA

Capcom to launch SNES arcade stick https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_035_June_1992/page/n107/mode/1up https://segaretro.org/Capcom_Power_Stick_Fighter_MD Joe Morici - Capcom - https://www.patreon.com/posts/37289815 https://www.gpvideogames.com/Products/22037/the-ultimate-arcade-fighting-stick https://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/street-fighter-ii-the-world-warrior

Atari Corporation loses to Nintendo Play Meter June 1992, pg. 20 https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/16/business/company-news-nintendo-suit-by-atari-is-dismissed.html April 1999 Jump - https://www.patreon.com/posts/69717644

Nintendo revenue soars! RePlay June 1992, pg. 16

Console Price War heats up https://archive.org/details/Game_Informer_Issue_005_Summer_1992 pg. 43

German SNES price to undercut Megadrive https://archive.org/details/powerplaymagazine-1992-06/page/n24/mode/1up MegaCD becomes SegaCD https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20035%20%28June%201992%29/page/n19/mode/1up?view=theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_CD

Matsushita buys into San Mateo Software Group https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20035%20%28June%201992%29/page/n51/mode/1up?view=theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3DO_Interactive_Multiplayer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_3DO_Company

Phillips boosts CDi software library https://archive.org/details/vgce_92-06/page/n21/mode/1up?view=theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i https://www.mobygames.com/game/dark-castle https://www.mobygames.com/game/cd-i/mad-dog-mccree

Lucasfilm licenses to Software Toolworks https://archive.org/details/vgce_92-06/page/n21/mode/1up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_95/page/n19/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/secret-weapons-of-the-luftwaffe_ https://www.mobygames.com/game/secret-of-monkey-island-enhanced-version https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/loom

Commodore gives up on selling CDTV as a set top box https://archive.org/details/1992-06-compute-magazine/page/n30/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_CDTV

Commodore kills the A500 Plus http://amr.abime.net/issue_14_pages pg. 10 https://archive.org/details/amiga-world-1992-06/page/n9/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/amiga-world-1992-06/page/n13/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500#Amiga_500_Plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_600 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

MicroLeague introduces real time game stats updates https://archive.org/details/vgce_92-06/page/n22/mode/1up?view=theater https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/microleague-baseball-iv/promo/promoImageId,549053/

Gamepro introduces its face based scoring system https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_035_June_1992/page/n9/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GamePro https://www.kultboy.com/Amiga-Joker-Zeitschrift/4/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Play_(Zeitschrift) https://www.spieleveteranen.de/

Computer Gaming World struggles with VR https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_95/page/n127/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Williams_(game_developer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawnmower_Man_(film) https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/neverwinter-nights_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimjack

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/ Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/ Retromags.com: https://www.retromags.com/

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