Pizza Time goes bust,
Amiga announces a computer &
Nintendo launches the VS
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 March 1984.
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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Links:
If you don't see all the links, find them here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/march-1984-104469980
7 Minutes in Heaven: Dolphin's Rune/Dolphin's Pearl
Video Version: https://www.patreon.com/posts/104389483
https://www.mobygames.com/game/21190/the-dolphins-pearl/
Game Manual: https://archive.org/details/c64man_dolphins-rune
Ecco the Dolphin 7 Minutes in Heaven: https://www.patreon.com/posts/7-minutes-in-80192007
Corrections:
February 1984 Ep - https://www.patreon.com/posts/february-1984-102404099
Ethan's fine site The History of How We Play: https://thehistoryofhowweplay.wordpress.com/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-la-pinball-or/145438040/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-san-francisco/145438150/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc
https://www.mobygames.com/game/38079/cosmic-chasm/
https://www.mobygames.com/game/82890/cube-quest/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomy_Tutor
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/15340
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80186#In_personal_computers
1974:
Atari introduces Gran Track 10
https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_37/page/58/mode/1up?view=theater
https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_38/page/54/mode/1up?view=theater
https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_36/page/52/mode/2up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYcNvAAeu6k
https://www.facebook.com/100057102354061/videos/1111919918819701/
Wurlitzer ends manufacturing
https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_37/page/59/mode/1up?view=theater
https://archive.org/details/cashbox35unse_35/page/44/mode/1up?view=theater
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurlitzer
1984:
Laserdisc games galore!
https://archive.org/details/198403VideoGamesExpress/mode/1up
Play Meter 15th, 1984, pg. 56
Replay March 1984, pg. 10
https://www.dragons-lair-project.com/games/
Centuri turns it around
No Headline In Original, PR Newswire, March 14, 1984, Wednesday, Dateline: HIALEAH, Fla., March 14
The battle begins with Sente vs. VS!
Replay March 1984, pg. 10
https://sergiostuff.com/category/nintendo-vs-dualsystem/
https://www.arcade-museum.com/Videogame/punch-out
Exidy goes interchangeable
Replay March 1984, pg. 10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exidy#First_Star_Software_games
https://www.classicarcademuseum.org/exidy-max-a-flex-system
https://www.a