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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 .
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.
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.
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.
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]
An 8-player variant of Atari's Sprint line of racing games. Star Wars: 1983: 1 A big hit for Atari. The player pilots an X-wing fighter attacking the Death Star, a scene inspired by the hit movie Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Use of digitized voice samples from the film and slick vector graphics helped this game attract a lot of attention ...
Atari 2600: April 1983: Activision Dolphin: Atari 2600: May 1983: Activision [7] Enduro: Atari 2600: May 1983: Activision [8] Happy Trails: Intellivision: May 1983: Activision Keystone Kapers: Atari 2600: May 1983: Activision [9] Plaque Attack: Atari 2600: May 1983: Activision Robot Tank: Atari 2600: June 1983: Activision [10] Crackpots: Atari ...
Opening Title Director Cast Genre; 3: Ajeeb Dastan Hain Yeh: J. Om Prakash: Roshini Jaffery, Suraj Chaddha Romance J A N: 10: Yaad Rakhegi Duniya: Deepak Anand: Aditya Pancholi, Rukhsar Rehman