Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

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

Recommended Links:
The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/
Gaming Alexandria: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/
They Create Worlds: https://tcwpodcast.podbean.com/
Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/
The Arcade Blogger: https://arcadeblogger.com/
Retro Asylum: http://retroasylum.com/category/all-posts/
Retro Game Squad: http://retrogamesquad.libsyn.com/

Sound Effects by Ethan Johnson of History of How We Play and Enzo Maida.