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Show Notes
Financial scandals rock the computer world! Sega is set to take on NEC in North America! And the Dreamcast is thinking... 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 July 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: Lloyd's of London miscalculates risk of computer leasing business https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/30/archives/lloyds-insurers-stumble-over-computer-leasing-suit-asks-550-million.html?searchResultPosition=1 http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/itel-corporation-history/ https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/29/archives/itel-corporation-is-at-the-brink-again.html?searchResultPosition=4 Norman Henry Hunt's second bogus computer company blows up https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197907/page/n99 https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputing197907/page/n8
Scout Computer Badge article in Creative Computing https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan197907/page/n47 https://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Computers
Santa Paravia and Fiumaccio ad https://archive.org/details/Kilobaud197907/page/n14 https://www.mobygames.com/game/santa-paravia-and-fiumaccio
Minnesota signs deal with Apple https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputing197907/page/n12
FCC to develop RF shielding regulations for home computers https://archive.org/details/BYTE_Vol_04-07_1979-07_Automating_Eclipses/page/n100
The 16 bit processor war is on! https://archive.org/details/BYTE_Vol_04-07_1979-07_Automating_Eclipses/page/n100
Yahtzee by Al Lowe Softside https://archive.org/details/softside-magazine-10/page/n24
MB is hiring engineers and programmers https://archive.org/details/BYTE_Vol_04-07_1979-07_Automating_Eclipses/page/n52
Intellivision stats and release date set... oh and there will be a keyboard (apparently) https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FT4EAAAAMBAJ/page/n14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision#Keyboard_Component
Micro-TV offers teletext service over cable in the USA https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FT4EAAAAMBAJ
1989: Acorn launches "budget" Archimedes https://archive.org/details/ACE_Issue_22_1989-07_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n9
Origin becomes its own publisher https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_61/page/n19
Interplay abandons Bard's Tale Franchise https://archive.org/details/ACE_Issue_22_1989-07_Future_Publishing_GB/page/n96 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bard's_Tale
Gremlin breaks ties with U.S. Gold and returns to Sheffield https://archive.org/details/thegamesmachine-20/page/n6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6taoEQ-UCU
The TurboGrafx16 is coming to America https://archive.org/details/Video_Games_Computer_Entertainment_Issue_06_July_1989 http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/11/interview_the_trouble_with_the_turbografx-16
Mega Drive renamed Genesis https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_002_July-August_1989/page/n11
Genesis TeleGenesisModem announced, big promises https://archive.org/details/1989-09-compute-magazine/page/n11 http://www.sega-16.com/2006/11/disconnected-the-telegenesis-modem/
Virgin gets Sega distribution deal https://archive.org/details/thegamesmachine-20/page/n7
1999: Families file lawsuit against media in Paducah shooting https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_120_July_1999/page/n31 https://www.csmonitor.com/2000/0410/p2s2.html
E3 in the shadow of violence https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration55Jul1999/page/n11
Dreamcast launch date and price announced https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_120_July_1999/page/n29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXDRSEdqpzg
"It's thinking" ads start showing up https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_120_July_1999/page/n12
Castlevania resurrection shown for Dreaamcast https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration55Jul1999/page/n16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcRkZ66RN2w
Dolphin business model https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration55Jul1999/page/n17 https://steemit.com/gaming/@ultrawing/the-gamecube-that-can-play-dvds-panasonic-q
Howard Lincoln announces his retirement https://archive.org/details/NextGeneration55Jul1999/page/n17
3dfx merges with STB https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue54/page/n5
GT Interactive layoffs https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-1999-07/page/n53
Codemasters buys Sensible Software https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue54/page/n4 https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/sex-n-drugs-n-rock-n-roll-article
Lara Croft appears nude in Playboy https://archive.org/details/MicromanaTerceraEpocaSpanishIssue54/page/n5 https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/lara-croft-nell-mcandrew-tomb-raider-model