Sesame Street wants to teach kids computing,

The PC Master Race is pissy that the NES is watering down gaming

and

Sega teams up with iomega to bring zip drives to the Dreamcast

 

These stories and many more on this month's episode of the Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

This month we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in June of 1979, 1989, 1999.

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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Show Notes:

1979:

Two sided floppies

Kilobaud June 1979 https://archive.org/details/kilobaudmagazine-1979-06/page/n40

 

Sesame Place Game Center

Creative Computing June 1979 https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197906/page/n23

https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Sesame_Place_Game_Center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Place#Former_attractions

https://books.google.ca/books?id=JT4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA4&dq=%22sesame+place%22+the+game+centre&ei=O2kRS5jvMYnaygS3zNmDDQ&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

Mattel earnings are down

New York Times, June 21, 1979 https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/21/archives/mattels-diversified-comeback-mattel-acts-to-end-dependence-on-toys.html?searchResultPosition=1

 

1989:

Atari 7800 headed to UK

ACE 21 https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue21Jun89/page/n8

 

Apple looks poised to kill the Apple ][ line

Compute June 1989 https://archive.org/details/1989-07-compute-magazine/page/n56

 

Intel introduces the 486

Happy Computer 68 https://archive.org/details/Happy.Computer.N68.1989.06-Cartman/page/n9

 

VESA Standard is coming to enhanced VGA cards

Happy Computer 68 https://archive.org/details/Happy.Computer.N68.1989.06-Cartman/page/n11

 

Konix specs revised.

The Games Machine 19 https://archive.org/details/TheGamesMachineIssue19Jun89/page/n6

 

SAM Coupe delayed to September

The Games Machine 19 https://archive.org/details/TheGamesMachineIssue19Jun89/page/n7

 

Compute editorial dismisses NES and bemoans dumbing down of computer games

Compute 110 https://archive.org/details/1989-07-compute-magazine/page/n5

 

1999:

Arkansas law banning public exhibition of violent arcade games gets shelved

Next Generation 54 https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration54Jun1999/page/n14

 

Titus buys a 30% stake in Interplay

Next Generation 54 https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration54Jun1999/page/n15

 

Free Radical Design signs up with Eidos

Micromania Tercera Epoca 53 https://archive.org/details/MicromaniaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue53/page/n4

https://www.mobygames.com/company/deep-silver-dambuster-studios

 

Sucker Punch Productions is looking for a publisher for its first game

Next Generation 54 https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration54Jun1999/page/n15

 

Dreamworks announces their WWII FPS

Next Generation 54 https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration54Jun1999/page/n15

 

3D Realms denies Prey has been cancelled

Micromania Tercera Epoca 53 https://archive.org/details/MicromaniaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue53/page/n5

 

Zip drive add on for Dreamcast in development

Micromania Tercera Epoca 53 https://archive.org/details/MicromaniaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue53/page/n9

https://segaretro.org/Dreamcast_Zip_Drive

 

Tokyo game show Spring 99

Next Generation 54 https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration54Jun1999/page/n11

 

Namco calls on arcade game makers to up their game

Next Generation 54 https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration54Jun1999/page/n14

 

Turrican 3D teased

PC Player June, 1999 https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-1999-06/page/n36

 

Sennheiser introduces the Surrounder

PC Player June, 1999 https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-1999-06/page/n106

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ll-o4JttQk

 

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