• qantravon@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Hell, even before the NES, the entire video game industry crashed and nearly died out because there were so many crappy shovelware games that people started to think all games sucked.

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      17 hours ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

      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.