April 1993

Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

Street Fighter 2 merch goes into overdrive, Nintendo neuters Mortal Kombat & The World Wide Web goes open source

These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM

This episode we will look back at the biggest stories in and around the video game industry in April 1993. 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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Corrections: March 1993 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/march-1993-81661515 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(Archie_Comics)#Legal_issues https://youtu.be/542sM2Gylx8

1993.04 ACME Show goes for diversity Replay April 1993 pg. 43 https://www.virtual-reality-shop.co.uk/awt-reality-rocket/ https://ultimatepopculture.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_Super_System

Visions of Reality joins VR race Play Meter April 1993 pg. 3 Replay April 1993, pg. 3 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-09-10-fi-33739-story.html

Zool arcade game debuts at Earls Court https://archive.org/details/pc-review-018/page/18/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/game/5776/zool/ https://www.mobygames.com/company/1321/arcadia-systems-inc/

Capcom does "moichendising"! Play Meter April 1993 pg. 20 RePlay April 1993 pg. 22 American Laser goes after Picmatic https://archive.org/details/cashbox56unse_30/page/26/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/company/5258/picmatic-sa/ https://www.mobygames.com/company/442/american-laser-games-inc/

Jaguar impresses at CES https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20045%20%28April%201993%29/page/n26/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar eonard Tramiel - Part 2 - Atari https://www.patreon.com/posts/71643153

Konix Multi System is back! https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20045%20%28April%201993%29/page/n55/mode/1up https://www.konixmultisystem.co.uk/index.php?id=msu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konix_Multisystem

SNES MK to be neutered https://archive.org/details/video-games-computer-entertainment-april-1993/page/n13/mode/1up?view=theater https://www.mobygames.com/game/599/mortal-kombat/trivia/ Gregory Fischbach Part 2 - Acclaim https://www.patreon.com/posts/47720122

John Madden goes rental only https://archive.org/details/video-games-computer-entertainment-april-1993/page/n17/mode/1up?view=theater https://www.mobygames.com/game/43734/john-madden-football-93-championship-edition/

Sammy shuts down Treco https://archive.org/details/video-games-computer-entertainment-april-1993/page/n19/mode/1up?view=theater https://www.mobygames.com/company/10527/american-treco-corporation/ DOS 6.0 learns to compress https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199304_Byte_Magazine_Vol_18-04_Fighting_Fatware.pdf pg. 44 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS#MS-DOS_6.x

Microsoft gets sued for violating patents https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199304_Byte_Magazine_Vol_18-04_Fighting_Fatware.pdf pg. 28 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS#MS-DOS_6.x https://gunkies.org/wiki/Stacker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent

IBM losses mount https://archive.org/details/video-games-computer-entertainment-april-1993/page/n19/mode/1up?view=theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM

Canon buys Next hardware division https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199304_Byte_Magazine_Vol_18-04_Fighting_Fatware.pdf pg. 36, 40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#1993%E2%80%931996:_NeXT_Software,_Inc.

MECC pulls Freedom! https://archive.org/details/video-games-computer-entertainment-april-1993/page/n17/mode/1up?view=theater https://www.mobygames.com/company/936/mecc/ https://www.mobygames.com/game/42271/freedom/trivia/ https://www.mobygames.com/game/27756/freedom-rebels-in-the-darkness/

Daryl Gates to design Police Quest 4 https://archive.org/details/video-games-computer-entertainment-april-1993/page/n19/mode/1up?view=theater https://www.mobygames.com/person/83001/james-walls/ https://www.mobygames.com/person/26457/daryl-f-gates/

Photoshop arrives on Windows https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199304_Byte_Magazine_Vol_18-04_Fighting_Fatware.pdf pg. 48 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop

First GSM call made https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199304_Byte_Magazine_Vol_18-04_Fighting_Fatware.pdf pg. 36 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM NBC plans to bring news to the PC https://archive.org/details/1993-04-compute-magazine/page/n37/mode/1up?view=theater https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/12/business/ibm-and-nbc-will-market-a-news-service-to-pc-users.html

internet opened up https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-wide-web-launches-in-public-domain https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web

Sinclair User is no more.. https://archive.org/details/sinclair-user-magazine-134 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_User

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