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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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A major shakeout of the North American video game industry ("the crash of 1983") begins. By 1986, total video games sales will decrease from US$3.2 billion to US$0.1 billion. By 1986, total video games sales will decrease from US$3.2 billion to US$0.1 billion.
Chris Johnson, 39, was taken into custody Monday, a couple of days after Coffee County deputies found 18 bodies in various stages of decomposition while serving an eviction notice at the Johnson ...
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64.