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July 1984

Release Date: 11/02/2024

Graeme Bayless - Part 3 - EA, Tiburon, Madden

Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

Few developers have had as long and prolific a career as our guest, Graeme Bayless. From working on mainframes, to selling Kaypros, to playtesting Accolade's launch titles, to producing games for SSI, Sega Technical Institute, Hyperbole Studios, Dynamix, EA, Eidos, and NetherRealm Studios. In Part 3, we talk about job hunting in the games industry at the end of the 90s and his time at EA's Tiburon subsidiary working on Madden 2001 and 2002 as well as developing the NFL Street franchise. What is life like for a dev living in the crunch of annualized sports games? How are new franchises...

July 1994 - Part 2

Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

Sega's Saturn premiere flops Nintendo goes for cheap VR Commodore bankruptcy gets messy 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 July 1994. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Alex Smith of They Create Worlds is our cohost. Check out his podcast here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/ and order his book here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/book Get us on your mobile device: Android:...

July 1994 - Part 1

Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

Sega's Saturn premiere flops, The Game Industry ditches CES for E3 & Nintendo goes for cheap VR 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 July 1994. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Alex Smith of They Create Worlds is our cohost. Check out his podcast here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/ and order his book here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/book Get us on your mobile device:...

Graeme Bayless - Part 2 - Dynamix, Sierra

Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

Few developers have had as long and prolific career as our guest, Graeme Bayless. From working on mainframes, to selling Kaypros, to playtesting Accolade's launch titles, to producing games for SSI, Sega Technical Institute, Hyperbole Studios, Dynamix, EA, Eidos, and NetherRealm Studios. In Part 2, we talk about his time at Dynamix, a Sierra subsidiary. We find out how he met his wife in the early days of online geekdom, finally put down roots in Eugene, OR, ventured into online game development, experienced the gradual fall of Sierra as it changed hands again and again, worked on games such...

July 1984

Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

Jack buys Atari Imagine goes belly up Nintendo's Famicom gets Zapped 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 July 1984. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Alex Smith of They Create Worlds is our cohost. Check out his podcast here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/ and order his book here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/book Get us on your mobile device: Android:...

Graeme Bayless Part 1 - Accolade, SSI, Sega, Hyperbole Studios

Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

Few developers have had as long and prolific career as our guest, Graeme Bayless. From working on mainframes, to selling Kaypros, to playtesting Accolade's launch titles, to producing games for SSI, Sega Technical Institute, Hyperbole Studios, Dynamix, EA, Eidos, and NetherRealm Studios. In Part 1, we talk about his early years, the evolution of the industry, moving from computers at SSI to consoles with Sega and getting up to the boom of FMV games. Recorded: December 2023 Get us on your mobile device: Android: iOS: And if you like what we are doing here at...

June 1994

Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

Hollywood welcomes Siliwood, Saturn and Playstation begin fight for Japanese consumers & 3DO declared DOA 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 1994. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Alex Smith of They Create Worlds is our cohost. Check out his podcast here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/ and order his book here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/book Get us on your mobile...

Raymond Yap - Wong's International, Mondex

Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

The boom of home computers and electronics in the 1970s and 1980s was as much a success of entrepreneurial endeavor and technological innovation, as it was of the blossoming worldwide supply chain. One of the company's that made it all possible was WONG's International and our guest today, Raymond Yap was their representative in the UK. He helped make sure that the BBC Micro got into UK schools and traveled the world securing suppliers for all manner of electronics. How did that business work? Where did his career lead after this? Raymond tells us of an amazing journey that includes not only...

June 1984

Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

The home computer market implodes, Atari announces 7800 & Console software dries up. 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 1984. As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events. Alex Smith of They Create Worlds is our cohost. Check out his podcast here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/ and order his book here: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/book Get us on your mobile device:...

Larry J. Dunlap - The Games Network, Imperial Wars

Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

The dawn of the home computer seemed to usher in the death of computing's networked past dominated by dumb terminals connected to mainframes, but a few visionaries foresaw a world in which the microcomputer technology invading millions of homes could be connected and the data networks already in consumer hands, such as cable TV and telephones, could usher in a new way of connecting people and distributing software. Our guest, Larry J. Dunlap, was one such pioneer. The company he cofounded, The Games Network almost brought that dream to the world but tragically came up short. Larry tells us of...

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Jack buys Atari
Imagine goes belly up
Nintendo's Famicom gets Zapped

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 July 1984.
As always, we'll mostly be using magazine cover dates, and those are of course always a bit behind the actual events.

Alex Smith of They Create Worlds is our cohost. Check out his podcast here:
https://www.theycreateworlds.com/
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7 Minutes in Heaven: Pit Fall 2
Video Version: https://www.patreon.com/posts/7-minutes-in-ii-115206120
https://www.mobygames.com/game/6946/pitfall-ii-lost-caverns/

Corrections:
June 1984 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/june-1984-112063864
Ethan's fine site The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/
https://www.arcade-museum.com/Arcade/space-flight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings#Motion_pictures
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076929/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

1974:
Atari makes Pong cute
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1974/CB-1974-07-06-I.pdf
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1974/CB-1974-07-20.pdf
https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/tv-basketball
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1974/CB-1974-07-27.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Pong

Bluesky hucksters descend on video games
The Franchise Hustlers, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 1974, page 8

Barcode scanning comes to supermarkets
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1974/Poptronics-1974-07.pdf pg. 22
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/04/archives/electronic-checkout-speeds-food-buying-checkout-speeded.html

Xerox Parc gets out the painbrush
https://archive.org/details/197407PccV2N6/page/n5/mode/2up

1984:
CES takeaways
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-4/page/50/mode/2up

Atari gets tight with announcements
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-4/page/60/mode/1up?view=theater

Atari announces Super Chip games
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-4/page/60/mode/1up?view=theater

Atari announces new console and computer games
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-4/page/60/mode/1up?view=theater

5200 RIP
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-4/page/61/mode/1up?view=theater

Coleco sweetens Adam deal
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-4/page/56/mode/2up

Jack Attack
July 2
Jack buys Atari
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-4/page/61/mode/1up?view=theater
Warner sells Atari operations, Warner sells Atari operations, United Press International, July 2, 1984, Monday, AM cycle
Warner sells Atari operations, United Press International, July 2, 1984, Monday, BC cycle, Section: Financial

July 3
Tramiel Buys Atari, Sets Sights On Former Company, The Associated Press,July 3, 1984, Tuesday, PM cycle
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/03/business/warner-sells-atari-to-tramiel.html?searchResultPosition=1

July 4
"Home computer veteran to challenge high end of market, Financial Times (London,England) July 4, 1984, Wednesday, Section: SECTION II; International Companies; Pg. 17"

July 6
Widespread Layoffs Begin Under New Leader, The Associated Press, July 6, 1984, Friday, BC cycle

July 10
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/14/business/commodore-trade-secrets.html?searchResultPosition=11
https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-07-19

July 13
No Headline In Original, PR Newswire, July 13, 1984, Friday

July 16
A Tough Man for a Tough Job, Newsweek, July 16, 1984, UNITED STATES EDITION, Section: BUSINESS; Pg. 50

July 19
Warner omits payout in reshape, Financial Times (London,England), July 19, 1984, Thursday, Section: SECTION I; Pg. 20, Byline: BY TERRY DODSWORTH IN NEW YORK

July 23
Atari Tells Agencies to Freeze and Puts Networks at Ease, ADWEEK, July 23, 1984, Eastern Edition, Length: 514 words, Byline: By Gail Belsky

July 27
https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-weekly-1984-07-26
CHINAGLIA PURCHASES CONTROL OF COSMOS, The New York Times, July 27, 1984, Friday, Late City Final Edition, Section: Section A; Page 15, Column 1; Sports Desk

July 30
"ADVERTISING; Consolidating Domestically at Wells, The New York Times, July 30, 1984, Monday, Late City Final Edition, Section: Section D; Page 7, Column 4; Financial Desk, Byline: By Philip H. Dougherty
Tramiel's Atari Picks Wells, Rich; DDB Is Out
ADWEEK, July 30, 1984, Eastern Edition, Byline: By Gail Belsky"

Imagine management splits
Home Computing Weekly No. 71, July 17-23
https://rk.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/industry/publishers/imagine_crash0185.htm
Popular Computing Weekly, 19 July 1984, pg. 5
Popular Computing Weekly, 5-11 July 1984
https://youtu.be/ZoDh61sgCOg?si=h4ML1gsN2kVbDXWM

Sierra On-Line no more!
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-4/page/52/mode/2up

Coleco numbers continue down
Control Data, Coleco Post Sharply Lower Profits, The Associated Press, July 19, 1984, Thursday, AM cycle
No Headline In Original, United Press International, July 19, 1984, Thursday, BC cycle, Section: Financial
COLECO AND CONTROL DATA FALL - Correction Appended, The New York Times, Correction Appended,Section: Section D; Page 3, Column 2; Financial Desk, Length: 472 words, Byline: By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Playthings July 1984

Milton Bradley sees turnaround
Profits Up 45 Percent At Toymaker, The Associated Press, July 20, 1984, Friday, BC cycle
No Headline In Original, United Press International, July 20, 1984, Friday, BC cycle, Copyright 1984 U.P.I., Section: Financial, Length: 302 words, Dateline: LOS ANGELES
Toys Hobbies & Crafts, July 1984, pg. 10

Bally positive despite games downturn
BALLY-MANUFACTURING; Financial results, Business Wire, July 26, 1984, Thursday

Activision losses high
ACTIVISION; Financial results, Business Wire, July 26, 1984, Thursday

Interest rates put more pressure on coinop
Replay July 1984, pg. 3

Conversion kits take center stage!
Play Meter July 15, 1985
Replay July 1984, pg. 4
Play Meter July 15, 1985 pg. 43

Mylstar continues suit against Bally
Play Meter July 15, 1985 pg. 16

Mylstar brings people to FMV
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1984/CB-1984-07-21.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lfIpajVaAI

Universal moves into restaurant/arcade biz
Restaurant-game center to open, The Japan Economic Journal,,July 17, 1984, Section: SPECIAL U.S. SECTION; Pg. 11

Photon zaps onto the scene
Close Encounters on Photon, Newsweek, July 23, 1984, UNITED STATES EDITION, Copyright 1984 Newsweek, Section: ENTERTAINMENT; Pg. 62, Length: 580 words, Byline: LYNN LANGWAY with BARBARA BURGOWER in Dallas

Stern Electronics files for Chapter 11
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1984/CB-1984-07-28.pdf

Twin Galaxies shuts down
Play Meter July 15, 1984 pg. 18

Industry giants pass
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1984/CB-1984-07-21.pdf

Family computer goes lightgun
AM Life July 1, 1984, 58

CPC goes on sale
Home Computing Weekly No. 69 July 3-9
https://www.devuego.es/blog/2023/01/10/press-start-cinco-duros/

Sinclair looks overseas
Home Computing Weekly No. 69 July 3-9 pg. 5

QL confusion
Popular Computing Weekly July 26, pg. 5

Acorn and BBC extend deal
Popular Computing Weekly July 19, pg. 5

Sanyo and Canon to launch MSX in Europe
Sanyo to ship MSX PCs to Europe, The Japan Economic Journal, July 17, 1984, Section: ELECTRICALS & ELECTRONICS; Pg. 15 CANON TO EXPORT MSX PERSONAL COMPUTERS TO EUROPE, JULY 17, 1984, TUESDAY

Commodore unveils C16
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-4/page/56/mode/2up

Korea joins the chip wars
Massive investment would cause oversupply; Trilateral friction in microchip business seen among Japan, U.S. and Korea, The Japan Economic Journal, July 24, 1984, Section: Pg. 20, Byline: By TETSURO WADA

Mastertronic joins with Galactic
Home Computing Weekly No. 71 July 17-23, 1984 pg. 5

Mastertronic saves Carnell Software
Popular Computing Weekly July 19, pg. 5

Okimate brings color to the Commodore
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-4/page/57/mode/1up?view=theater

Pitfall Harry is yours to command!
https://archive.org/details/program-pitfall/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-4/page/57/mode/1up?view=theater

WarGames gets real
No Headline In Original, The Associated Press, July 17, 1984, Tuesday, AM cycle
https://www.zerothreesecurity.com/index.php/about-us/founder

The history of games revealed
https://archive.org/details/book_video_games/page/n77/mode/2up

The book of adventure games
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-4/page/50/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/the-book-of-adventure-games/page/n185/mode/2up

Activision sues Microdeal
Popular Computing Weekly 26 July, 1984, pg. 1, 2

Tax cuts for computer purchases slashed
PERSONAL FINANCE;LIMITING TAX BREAKS FOR COMPUTERS The New York Times, July 1, 1984, Sunday, Late City Final Edition, Section: Section 3; Page 11, Column 1; Financial Desk

1984 - the Year of the VCR
Sales of Color TVs and VCRs Booming, The Associated Press, July 15, 1984, Sunday, AM cycle, Section: Washington Dateline, byline: By NORMAN BLACK, Associated Press Writer

Video game palsy is the new scare

LA Games get high tech boost
A reporter's Olympics notebook;How Do I Thank Thee? Let Me Count the Ways, United Press International, July 26, 1984, Thursday, BC cycle, Section: Sports News, Byline: By RONALD E. COHEN

The Last Starfighter released
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-4/page/60/mode/1up?view=theater
'Ghostbusters,'' ''Gremlins'' still top box office after six weeks, United Press International, July 16, 1984, Monday, AM cycle, Section: Domestic News, Byline: By FRANK SANELLO, UPI Entertainment Reporter

Sirius files for Chapter 11
https://archive.org/details/computer-entertainer-3-4/page/56/mode/2up

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