The crash caused the major transition from the modern and old era of gaming with its effect still here today. Many today don’t know what the crash was and how it changed gaming forever, so I am going to explain it and its effect on the gaming industry. What was the video game crash of 1983 and how did it start and end.
One of the major factors of the crash was the over inflation of the market. This over inflation happened as video games were still new and everybody wanted to come out on top.
This caused there to be so many consoles and games on the market that were mostly the same but with a few differences preventing cross cartridging “A game being played on two different
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All these factors together were the most important factors contributing to the crash in 1983.
The Crash itself was dreadful for many people and companies After the crash many stores stopped buying video games due to the lack of sales causing the sales to go even lower.
Thought money wasn’t the only effect the crash had, as the crash also gave video games a bad rap. Copious amount of people saw video games as a fad along the lines of breakdancing and mullets. This made gaming forgot about and undesired to the public. All these factors together caused many companies to go out of business. No company was safe from the crash companies filed for bankruptcy left and right bigger companies closed their video game branches, then
Atari broke up. Atari was the king of gaming in the 1980s and it breaking up is comparable to
Disney breaking up today. This was the low for video games and even though pieces of Atari are still here today the company had already died. The video game industry seemed to be destroyed, until a curious Japanese man named Fusajiro Yamauchi came and tried the industry out for