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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.
The Atari video game burial was a mass burial of unsold video game cartridges, ... The event became a cultural icon and a reminder of the video game crash of 1983; ...
Major events include the video game crash of 1983 in North America, ... Atari 2600 Atari, Inc. — 1983: Shoot 'em up: 1,475,240 [26] 4 Pitfall! Atari 2600 Activision —
In 1984, as a result of the video game crash of 1983, the assets of the home console and computer divisions of the original Atari Inc. were sold off to Jack Tramiel's Tramel Technology Ltd., which then renamed itself to Atari Corporation, [6] [7] while the remaining part of Atari, Inc. was renamed Atari Games Inc. [8] In early 1985, Warner ...
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.
Released as an add-on for Atari’s ill-fated Jaguar ... The SG-1000 hit the market in 1983, ... Nancy Kerrigan breaks down in tears over loss of local skaters in DC plane crash. Weather. Weather.
In July 1984, as a result of falling sales due to the video game crash of 1983, Atari, Inc. was split apart by Warner Communications; the arcade division continued as a subsidiary of Warner under the name Atari Games, while the console and computer games divisions were sold off as Atari Corporation. [5]
Now, this is just getting out of hand. Bossa Studios co-founder Henrique Olifiers seems to think that, if the copycatting practices in social games persist, then the industry is doomed. In so many ...