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Show Notes
Gene Lipkin leaves Atari Electronic toys are heading for a cliff and Digital information services go corporate
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 December of 1980. 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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Links: Corrections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Computer_Corporation https://www.mobygames.com/company/general-computer-corporation https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,343/
1980: Gene Lipkin leaves Atari Replay, Dec. 1980, pg. 10 http://www.atarimuseum.com/articles/10yranniversary/cut2pin.html https://books.google.de/books?id=sy8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=gene+lipkin&source=bl&ots=R4C2CM7gzm&sig=ACfU3U2ETkAXNpGOsq2ypyp8gFO8lM6nGA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVqceun7btAhWGCuwKHQ53AwMQ6AEwD3oECBIQAg#v=onepage&q=gene%20lipkin&f=false https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarnerMedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kassar
Gottlieb signs deal with Sigma Replay, Dec. 1980 pg. 10 https://www.mobygames.com/game/new-york-new-york https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/joe-morici-interview
Toy business Chaos https://www.nytimes.com/1980/12/23/archives/a-troubled-season-in-toyland-heated-rivalry-buyer-caution-depress.html?searchResultPosition=2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(console) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_%26_Watch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_%26_Watch:_Super_Mario_Bros. D&D co-developer gets into computer game design https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198012/page/n173/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/apple2/raf-the-battle-of-britain/screenshots/gameShotId,984390/ http://www.4dintsys.com/projects.htm https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/joel-billings-interview
Reader's Digest buys The Source https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine-1980-12/page/n53/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_(online_service) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL#1983%E2%80%931991:_Early_years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader%27s_Digest
Nexis is born https://archive.org/details/Kilobaud198012/page/n13/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis
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