January 1991

Game Gear launches in Japan Capcom goes public and VGA steals Christmas

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 January of 1991. 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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1991: Parallel Board battle continues Play Meter January 1991, pg. 14 https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/simpsons https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles__

Video games lose their domination of the coin-op market Replay January 1991, pg. 44

Capcom goes public Replay January 1991, pg. 20 https://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/company/history.html

First rumors of the Nintendo Super System emerge https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20018%20%28January%201991%29/page/n31/mode/1up https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_Super_System

Sega's TeraDrive announced https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue40Jan91/ACE_Issue_40_Jan_91/page/n7/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20018%20%28January%201991%29/page/n33/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_TeraDrive

Game Gear launches in Japan https://www.retromags.com/files/file/3029-game-players-issue-019-january-1991/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Gear

Cheetah launches the Gamate in the UK https://archive.org/details/Crash_No._84_1991-01_Newsfield_GB/page/n29/mode/2up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamate

Gilbert Hyatt's patent for microchips granted https://archive.org/details/1991-01-compute-magazine/page/n111/mode/1up https://patents.google.com/patent/US4942516 https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2019/07/16/episode-12-gilbert-hyatt/id=116807/ https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=95 https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/31/why-80-year-old-inventor-gil-hyatt-says-patent-office-is-waiting-for-him-to-die/ https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/20/business/for-texas-instruments-some-bragging-rights.html

Atari debuts the Mega STe https://archive.org/details/atari_interface_jan91/page/n10/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_MEGA_STE

Atari USA in management shakeup https://archive.org/details/startissue03winter1986/STart%20Issue%2040%20%28January%201991%29/page/n17/mode/1up https://translate.google.com/translate? hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://obligement.free.fr/articles/itwkenan2.php&prev=search&pto=aue https://www.computerwoche.de/a/commodore-im-clinch-mit-frankreich-distributor,1164482 https://www.stcarchiv.de/ace/50/1990-atari https://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/tramel_technology.html

Games are missing their release dates https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_78/page/n95/mode/1up

Sierra renames Hero's Quest to Quest for Glory https://archive.org/details/Power.Play.N34.1991.01-kultpower/page/n13/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/heros-quest-so-you-want-to-be-a-hero https://www.mobygames.com/game/hero-u-rogue-to-redemption https://www.mobygames.com/game/heroquest https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/699/heroquest

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