Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

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