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The video game crash of 1983 (known in Japan as the Atari shock) [1] was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985 in the United States. The crash was attributed to several factors, including market saturation in the number of video game consoles and available games, many of which were of poor quality .
In September 1983, the Alamogordo Daily News of Alamogordo, New Mexico reported in a series of articles that between 10 and 20 [16] semi-trailer truckloads of Atari boxes, cartridges, and systems from an Atari storehouse in El Paso, Texas, were crushed and buried at the landfill to the south of city. It was Atari's first dealings with the ...
The video game crash of 1983 was partially caused by the overabundance of games, seen in this 2014 excavation of a landfill used in the Atari video game burial. [2] Until 1980, the Atari VCS was the only major console on the market, with all games produced in-house, by Atari, Inc. [3]
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The bodies of Honeychurch and Vaughn were found in a metal drum near a burned down store in the Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire in 1985, while McWaters' body was found nearby in 2000 together with a still-unidentified body of a little girl, whose DNA analysis showed that she was the daughter of Rasmussen. The identity of the ...
Bodies found at Georgia funeral home were there for months, reports say. Douglas Now reported that Johnson, who ran for county coroner earlier this year and lost, was relocating his business to a ...
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari was a key player in the formation of the video arcade and video game industry. The company was founded in Sunnyvale, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, to develop arcade games, starting with Pong in 1972.
A New York family has confirmed that remains recently found in a pond outside a Georgia hotel are those of their grandparents, who disappeared more than 40 years ago.. Charles and Catherine Romer ...