October 1992

Video Game Newsroom Time Machine

Arcades take on theme parks Amstrad and Sega team up EA buys Origin

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 October 1992. 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: September 1992 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/september-1992-72907608 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_data_leak https://kotaku.com/star-fox-hack-boosts-its-notoriously-choppy-framerate-1848062643 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood_Studios http://www.bambi-amiga.co.uk/amigahistory/sales.html

September 2002 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/september-2002-73539855 https://snk.fandom.com/wiki/Eikichi_Kawasaki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRoc-3D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Oldfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivendi_Games#Havas/Vivendi https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/cryo-interactive-entertainment/offset,100/so,1d/list-games/ https://www.mobygames.com/company/exxos

1992 Japanese arcade makers go big RePlay Oct. 1992 pg. 22 RePlay Oct. 1992 pg. 137, 157 https://www.giantbomb.com/simdrive/3030-48073/ Jim Trucano - AMOA - https://www.patreon.com/posts/48912975 https://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/dino-rex

Namco's Wonder Eggs takes on Disney Replay October 1992, pg. 185 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Eggs https://ultimatehistoryvideogames.jimdofree.com/galaxian-3/

Lethal Weapon pinball goes for the bucks https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamesLC2/Electronic%20Games%20LC2%20Issue%201%20%28October%201992%29/page/n7/mode/1up?view=theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_Weapon_3_(pinball)

Street Fighter 2 championship edition gets modded RePlay Oct. 1992 pg. 21 RePlay Oct. 1992 pg. 30 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter_II#Updates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter_II:_Rainbow_Edition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Pac-Man Kickman - https://www.patreon.com/posts/7-minutes-in-man-63176861

Gameboy gets a job https://retrocdn.net/index.php?title=File%3AHobbyConsolas_ES_013.pdf&page=7 https://youtu.be/SZcrPM-jDqY

Piracy comes to consoles https://archive.org/details/video-games-de-1992-10/page/n59/mode/2up https://segaretro.org/Super_Magic_Drive https://videogamedevelopmentdevices.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Magicom

Action Enterprises announces Action Gamemaster https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_039_October_1992/page/n141/mode/1up https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Action_Gamemaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_52

Super Grafx is dead https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20039%20%28October%201992%29/page/n75/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Engine_SuperGrafx

TurboDuo hits the US https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_039_October_1992/page/n81/mode/2up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboDuo

16 bit lightguns have arrived https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902/Electronic%20Gaming%20Monthly%20Issue%20039%20%28October%201992%29/page/n55/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menacer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Scope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Squad_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Scope#Compatible_games

Nintendo premiere Mario Paint! https://archive.org/details/video-games-de-1992-10/page/n19/mode/2up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Paint https://commodore.software/downloads/download/670-desktop-publishing/15244-the-newsroom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64DD#Released

Sega licenses laser disks https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_039_October_1992/page/n92/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_CD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:LaserDisc_video_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snatcher_(video_game) Amstrad and Sega team up https://www.retromags.com/magazines/uk/pc-review/pc-review-issue-6/ pg. 19 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_Mega_PC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad

PC price war hits the UK https://www.retromags.com/magazines/uk/pc-review/pc-review-issue-6/ pg. 18 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambra_Computer_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International

Intel running contest to name next gen chip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium#Overview https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1992-10_OCR/page/n31/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium Amiga Joker reviews Atari Falcon https://archive.org/details/asm_magazine-1992-10/page/n105/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/AmigaJoker199210/page/n57/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Falcon

Winzip reviewed https://archive.org/details/1992-10-compute-magazine/page/n41/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinZip

PC Games debuts http://www.kultmags.com/mags.php?folder=UEMtR2FtZXMvMTk5Mg== https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Games

Electronic Games is back! https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamesLC2/Electronic%20Games%20LC2%20Issue%201%20%28October%201992%29/page/n5/mode/1up?view=theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Games

Broderbund expands affiliate label program https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamesLC2/Electronic%20Games%20LC2%20Issue%201%20%28October%201992%29/page/n11/mode/1up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_99/page/n15/mode/1up Don Daglow Part 2 - Broderbund - Beyond Software - Stormfront - SSI - https://www.patreon.com/posts/39095819 Ronald Spitzer - New World Computing - https://www.patreon.com/posts/59922334 Michael Katz Part 2 - Atari - Sega - https://www.patreon.com/posts/63732329 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderbund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Software_Toolworks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humongous_Entertainment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts

EA buys Origin https://archive.org/details/questbusters-v9n10/page/n1/mode/1up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Arts https://www.filfre.net/2019/09/origin-sells-out/

Sierra acquires Bright Star https://www.retromags.com/magazines/uk/pc-review/pc-review-issue-6/ pg. 18 https://www.mobygames.com/company/bright-star-technology

Hi-Tec hits the skids https://archive.org/details/ZZap64Issue0891992Oct/page/n9/mode/1up https://www.mobygames.com/company/hi-tec-software-ltd https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/daffy-duck/

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/ Playthrough Podcast: https://playthroughpod.com/ Retromags.com: https://www.retromags.com/ Games That Weren't - https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/

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