Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

Mario is heading to the movies
Star Wars returns to gaming
And
Bobbi Kotick saves Activision

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 March 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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Timecodes:
7 Minutes in Heaven 3:05
Corrections 9:02
Time Jump 9:20

Links:
Peter's 7 Minutes in Heaven
https://www.mobygames.com/game/creatures_

Corrections:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/48323760
https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/f-15-strike-eagle_
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,10168/

1991:
Did the "Video Game War" hurt video games?
Replay, March 1991, pg. 14
Replay, March 1991, pg. 16
https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8927
https://9gag.com/gag/aAbBxEL
https://www.mobygames.com/game/operation-wolf

Winter CES reports flooding in
https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue42Mar91/ACE_Issue_42_Mar_91/page/n17/mode/1up
https://archive.org/details/Aktueller_Software_Markt_-_Ausgabe_1991.03/page/n75/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20020%20%28March%201991%29/page/n25/mode/1up
https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/cdtv/
https://archive.org/details/Power.Play.N36.1991.03-kultpower/page/n13/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Lynx
https://www.patreon.com/posts/46578120
https://www.patreon.com/posts/47720122
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboExpress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Gear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_motion_video
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_CDTV
https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/september-2019

Mario is going to the movies
https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue42Mar91/ACE_Issue_42_Mar_91/page/n7/mode/1up
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/companycredits?ref_=tt_dt_co
https://entertainment.ie/gaming/danny-devito-was-originally-supposed-to-play-super-mario-in-the-1993-film-277633/

Lucasfilm Games gets into the Star Wars business
https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue42Mar91/ACE_Issue_42_Mar_91/page/n6/mode/1up
https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue42Mar91/ACE_Issue_42_Mar_91/page/n31/mode/1up
https://www.mobygames.com/game/star-wars_
https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/star-wars-licensees/offset,250/so,1d/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TG3BEHdRHI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riIOiNq0RHk&list=PLx1UA5PiBi5rVuSDFr3JLYdUE80O_aCH3
https://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/star-wars-droids
https://www.patreon.com/posts/39095819
https://www.patreon.com/posts/37807684
https://www.patreon.com/posts/29977733

Computer RPGs are coming to consoles
https://archive.org/details/Game_Players_Issue_21_March_1991 pg. 88
https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_020_March_1991 pg. 92
https://www.mobygames.com/game/nes/heroes-of-the-lance
https://www.mobygames.com/game/nes/pool-of-radiance
https://www.mobygames.com/game/ultima-runes-of-virtue
https://www.mobygames.com/game/genesis/kings-bounty
https://www.mobygames.com/game/genesis/dark-castle
https://www.mobygames.com/game/genesis/might-and-magic-ii-gates-to-another-world

Software rentals are no more
https://archive.org/details/1991-03-compute-magazine/page/n67/mode/1up
https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Computer_Software_Rental_Amendments_Act_of_1990
https://www.patreon.com/posts/44720677

386 clones get the green light
https://books.google.de/books?id=slAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA3&pg=PT39#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.de/books?id=rlAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA95&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium

Richard Garriott turns his mansion into a fantasy haunted house
https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue42Mar91/ACE_Issue_42_Mar_91/page/n35/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Manor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott

Peter Molyneux promises cross game data sharing
https://archive.org/details/ACEIssue42Mar91/ACE_Issue_42_Mar_91/page/n6/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Molyneux
https://videogamenewsroomtimemachine.libsyn.com/2019/03

Activision management gets reshuffled
https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20020%20%28March%201991%29/page/n25/mode/1up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick#Activision_Blizzard
https://www.patreon.com/posts/42014024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/44632017

Cinemaware sale falls through
https://archive.org/details/questbusters-v8n03
https://www.mobygames.com/game/centurion-defender-of-rome

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.