• bort@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Game devs were so bad at one point in the past they almost killed the entire market

    which event are you refering to?

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      9 months ago

      There was a period of time when a massive influx of shovelware was released. Think stuff like the ET game. No one wanted to buy it, and the industry almost became a bust. Nintendo came in and almost single handedly revived the entire industry by releasing novel, high quality games like donkey kong. This is why Nintendo is a modern household name and why you mostly see atari in museums.

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        9 months ago

        Also the Atari name/trademark/copyright got sold, and mergered about a dozen times. The current owners bear basically no relation to the original game company.

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      9 months ago

      I think he’s talking about that time when Atari buried a bunch of their games in a desert in Mexico because no one was buying them