“People think the crash happened in both places. It didn’t”.
If you consider yourself to be a budding gaming historian, then the Video Game Crash of 1983 will be an event you’re at least partially aware of. To cut a long story short, Atari created an enormous market in the US for video game consoles, only to tank it all via an oversupply of low-quality games, effectively sinking an industry that wouldn’t recover until the introduction of the NES a few years later.
However, the story in the US isn’t universal; in Japan, Atari wasn’t a big name, and the crash actually happened in the same year Nintendo launched its hugely successful Famicom console.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“People think the crash happened in both places. It didn’t”.
If you consider yourself to be a budding gaming historian, then the Video Game Crash of 1983 will be an event you’re at least partially aware of. To cut a long story short, Atari created an enormous market in the US for video game consoles, only to tank it all via an oversupply of low-quality games, effectively sinking an industry that wouldn’t recover until the introduction of the NES a few years later.
However, the story in the US isn’t universal; in Japan, Atari wasn’t a big name, and the crash actually happened in the same year Nintendo launched its hugely successful Famicom console.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
