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[-] bort@feddit.de 6 points 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?

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 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.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 10 points 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.

[-] _Sprite@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 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

[-] Leafhouse@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

New Mexico, the American state. Not Mexico the country.

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