Comments on: History : The 1983 Video Games Crash https://retrosection.com/2011/everything-else/history-the-1983-video-games-crash/ Bringing Past To Present Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:28:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: IrishManx https://retrosection.com/2011/everything-else/history-the-1983-video-games-crash/#comment-16 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:28:51 +0000 http://retrosection.com/?p=189#comment-16 I am much too young to remember the likes of the great videogame crash (even younger than you RB), but it’s a reminder that you CAN have too much of something. I hope you’re listening Bobby, and also you Steve Jobs!

]]> By: Idle-Hands https://retrosection.com/2011/everything-else/history-the-1983-video-games-crash/#comment-12 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:29:23 +0000 http://retrosection.com/?p=189#comment-12 Having never owned a console during my childhood, always opting for a machine that could play games AND perform as a computing platform, I was fortunate enough to have never been affected by the console crash of the early 80s.

Not sure I missed anything though. Those NES games look kinda arse tbh 😉

The Landfill rumour has been doing the rounds for a while now, but Snopes believe it to be true
http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp

If only those guys who left Atari to found Activision had written that at no point should Bobby Kotick ever be allowed to take charge *shakes head in disgust*

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