Pokemon gets banned in Saudia Arabia Electronic Arts shuts down Ultima Online 2 Harry Potter mania comes to video games

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 June of 2001. 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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Time Codes: 7 Minutes in Heaven: 4m 28s Corrections: 9m 56s Time Jump: 23m 14s

Links: 7 Minutes in Heaven: Video Version - https://youtu.be/GqhCrT-mjJ8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_Sam Corrections: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52306821 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Quest_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Dowd_(game_designer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G4_(American_TV_network) https://www.mobygames.com/game/duke-nukem-forever

2001: Saudis ban Pokemon https://archive.org/details/NextGen78Jun2001/page/n7/mode/1up https://www.cbr.com/pokemon-controversial-banned-saudi-arabia-gulf-states/

Nintendo tries to discourage Xbox pre-sales https://archive.org/details/NextGen78Jun2001/page/n7/mode/1up https://web.archive.org/web/20010610083954/http://cube.ign.com/news/32525.html May 2001 Episode - https://www.patreon.com/posts/52306821 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(console)

EA shutters Ultima Online 2 https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_203/page/n34/mode/1up https://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Ultima_Online_2 https://retrocdn.net/File:Edge_UK_098.pdf pg. 18 https://archive.org/details/NextGen78Jun2001/page/n8/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/pcgames200106/page/n13/mode/1up https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ea-closing-janes-combatnet/1100-2706633/ https://crowfall.com/en-US/

GarageGames wants to rev up the engines of creativity https://retrocdn.net/index.php?title=File%3AEdge_UK_098.pdf&page=113 http://www.garagegames.com/company

Paul Neurath forms Floodgate Entertainment https://archive.org/details/PC_Zone_Issue_103_2001-06_Dennis_Publishing_GB/page/n86/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/company/floodgate-entertainment-llc August 2000 Episode - https://www.patreon.com/posts/42013999

Sid Meier teams up with Maxis https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-2001-06/PC-Player-2001-06/page/n11/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/sid-meiers-simgolf

Harry Potter mania is on the horizon https://archive.org/details/gamepro-magazine-issue-153-2001-06-harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-game/page/n3/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/harry-potter-licensees May 2000 Jump - https://www.patreon.com/posts/37289753

Vivendi gets Tolkien license https://archive.org/details/MicromaniaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue77/page/n5/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/inspiration-author-j-r-r-tolkien/offset,25/so,1d/ Don Daglow Interview - https://www.patreon.com/posts/39095819

Windows XP is coming... https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-2001-06/PC-Player-2001-06/page/n191/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Me

Infogrames posts losses https://archive.org/details/GDM_June_2001/page/n2/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_SA

Freeloader.com falls prey to the .com bust https://archive.org/details/PC_Zone_Issue_103_2001-06_Dennis_Publishing_GB/page/n83/mode/1up https://web.archive.org/web/20011121134052/http://www.freeloader.com/en/

FASA ceases operations https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-2001-06/PC-Player-2001-06/page/n201/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASA

 

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