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	The Video Game Crash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The video game crash of 1983 was like the stock market crash but only for video game business and many went into bankruptcy.
		Some of the problem was due to poor games being released like E.T. considered the worst game* ever.* some people thought it was a fad and others saw new ways of entertainment.
		Anyhow this was the killer in the game industry and didn’t recover until Nintendo made its presents.
	www.du.edu /~syounger/Project/gamecrash.htm (131 words)

	Video game crash of 1977
		The video game crash of 1977 was different from the video game crash of 1983 in that the crash was not so much caused by games as it was caused by a single game/unit.
		This crash is not as well known as the 1983 one, since the video game market in 1977 was extremely small in modern terms, and mostly oriented towards adults.
		Video games were still seen as just another pastime which would probably soon diminish as some new leisure activity caught the mainstream's interest.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/video_game_crash_of_1977 (227 words)

	Game Consoles - Introducing the new Wii and PS3
		While there had been previous game consoles that used cartridges, either the cartridges had no information and served the same function as flipping switches (the Odyssey) or the console itself was empty and the cartridge contained all of the game components.
		The VCS continued to be sold at a profit after the 1977 crash, and both Bally (with their Home Library Computer in 1977) and Magnavox (with the Odyssey2 in 1978) brought their own programmable cartridge based consoles to the market.
		A flood of consoles, glut of low quality video games by smaller companies especially for the 2600, industry leader Atari hyping games such as E.T. that were poorly received, and a growing number of home computer users caused consumers and retailers to lose faith and interest in video game consoles.
	www.officialconsoles.com (1275 words)

	NINTENDO and SEGA: - Video Game Legends
		Game Counselors were organized and players from all over the world could call Nintendo for advice on games and strategies.
		Super Mario 64 is proclaimed by many as "the greatest video game of all time!" For the Super NES we saw the release of the third game in the continuing Donkey Kong series, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble.
		The most anticipated video game ever, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Nintendo 64 was released, setting new standards and breaking records for pre-sell for any video game to date.
	www.freewebs.com /nintendo_sega_main/nintendo.htm (4213 words)

	GameSpot:Video Games PC Xbox 360 PS3 Wii PSP DS PS2 PlayStation 2 GameCube GBA PlayStation 3
		Today, with interest in classic games gaining steam once again, players of video games are reminded of the rich history of the industry.
		The history of video games is not just about people.
		In today's world, where video games are often cited as a source for teenage violence, it's interesting to see that the first home console also had a light rifle as an optional peripheral.
	www.gamespot.com /gamespot/features/video/hov (461 words)

	AtariAge - Atari 2600 History
		Because of oversupply, the Christmas season of 1977 was very rough on the video game industry, and the Atari 2600 was the only system that managed to emerge unscathed.
		The games were very well received by the public, and revealed that the Atari 2600 was capable of better games than Atari themselves had been producing.
		By 1981, the video game industry was basically a horse race between the 2600 and the Intellivision.
	www.atariage.com /2600/?SystemID=2600 (1443 words)

	The Atari 2600 Video Computer System
		The original game boxes used to be marked 01, 02, 03 for the original intention of selling only 10 different games.
		The game console also came packaged with not only a set of joystick controllers, but also a set of paddle controllers giving the customer the ability to purchase nearly any game they wanted and not have to worry about whether it would work with the console or not.
		Most games came with dozens of different variations of the game so that customers could try out all different combinations and never grow bored as quickly as simply having one game, one variation to play.
	www.atarimuseum.com /videogames/consoles/2600/atari2600.html (696 words)

	Atari 2600 Video Computer System Console Information
		Released October 1977 in the USA at a price of US$199.99, the Atari Video Computer System (VCS) was the first successful video game console to use interchangeable cartridges rather than having one or more games built into internal ROM chips.
		1977, when the VCS was released, was not a good time for video game systems as the market experienced a crash after it had been previously oversaturated with Pong clones.
		There were many factors that may have contributed to the crash including the belief of many people that home computers would take the place of video game consoles.
	www.consoledatabase.com /consoleinfo/atari2600/index.html (1208 words)

	The world's top atari 2600 websites
		The Atari 2600, released in 1977, was the first successful video game console to use plug-in cartridgess instead of having one or more games built in.
		When Fairchild learned of Atari's naming they quicky changed their unit to become the Channel F. However both units were now in the midst of the video game crash of 1977; PONG clones faced with the extinction of their market due to these newer and more powerful machines simply dumped their boxes for ever-lower prices.
		One example is the Atari Classics 10-in-1 TV Game, manufactured by Jakks Pacific, which simulates, more or less accurately, the basic electronics of the 2600 console, and includes ROMs from 10 cartridges, into a single Atari-brand-look-a-like joystick with composite video outputs for connecting directly to modern televisions or VCRs.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/atari_2600 (2063 words)

	1982 high scores
		The original company Atari was a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles, and personal computers, and its dominance in those areas made it the major force in the computer entertainment industry in the early to mid 1980s.
		This crash is not as well known as the 1983 one, since the video game market in 1977 was extremely small in modern terms, and mostly oriented towards adults.
		Video games were still seen as just another pastime which would probably soon diminish as some new leisure activity caught the mainstream's interest.
	www.spyhunter007.com /1982_high_scores.htm (8403 words)

	Pong Video Game History - Invention of the Pong Video Game
		When the video game market crashed in 1983-84, Atari was left with vast quantities of unsellable software and no new technology to fall back on.
		In this rollicking, mammoth history of video games from pinball to Pong to Playstation II Kent, a technology journalist and self-professed video game addict, covers almost every conceivable aspect of the industry, from the technological leaps that made the games possible to the corporate power struggles that won (and lost) billions of dollars.
		Bushnell was granted patents on some of the basic technologies for many of the early video games developed and is also the inventor or co-inventor of numerous worldwide patents in various other fields and industries.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/pong.htm (1338 words)

	History of Computing: Video games - Golden Age
		It is during this era that Video games begin to make their mark on society and culture.
		Star Wars is one of the most impressive vector graphic games ever released and the multi-color monitors and the sense of fluid first-person flying make it a delight to play and to watch.
		The video game crash has begun, but from its ashes the 8-bit machines will usher in the Modern Age of video games.
	www.thocp.net /software/games/golden_age.htm (4700 words)

	VGX1 - The Games
		Video Game Xtreme consists of two types of events: Head-to-head and single-player.
		Single-player games are selected and set up around the room beforehand, available for all to play as many times as they wanted.
		One of the greatest fighting games of all time, Street Fighter 2 was an ideal game for the playoffs.
	www.videogamecritic.net /vgx_games.htm (887 words)

	The History of Football Games - Features at GameSpot
		High expectations for the game on the part of both its publishers and eager consumers were dashed in short order, however, as Atari delivered a rather atrocious effort that didn't resemble any sport ever played by human beings.
		Also interesting were two game options that let you call plays as a coach and then watch the computer carry them out on the field.
		Games continued to be designed for all three systems throughout the 1980s, though sales were poor due to the rise of more advanced alternatives such as the NES, Sega Master System, and the Commodore 64 computer.
	www.gamespot.com /features/6130897/p-2.html (919 words)

	The Video Game & Emulation Emporium (Atari 2600 / Main Page)
		This dwindling interest in video games was not helped by the fact that everyone and their brother was trying to capitalize on the video game phenomenon, with companies like Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, Kool-Aid brand, and many more; all producing crap games for the console, simply to promote their product.
		Despite this, the Atari VCS remains and will always be the pioneer video game console, as well as the most popular, having reached as many as 25 million homes before its death.
		The precursor to such devices as the X-Band Game Modem (Genesis and SNES), the Super Famicom BSX Satelliview, the Mega Drive Modem, and the Sega Channel, the revolutionary Gameline was a 1200 baud modem that allowed you to download games (for a fee) and play them for a limited amount of time.
	www.emucamp.com /vgee/2600 (1802 words)

	The Dot Eaters - Player3 Stage1 - Classic Video Game History
		Between 1979-1980, 12 new games are released for the VCS, but the company is about to make a move that will blow the lid off the home videogame industry.
		The game goes on to become the best-selling third-party videogame cartridge of all time, selling well over a million copies and holding the #1 spot on Billboard's videogame sales chart for an astounding 64 weeks.
		The game is a close approximation of 1980 Centuri coin-op Pheonix, and licensee Atari sues Imagic over Demon Attack's similarity to their 1982 Pheonix port, with the two companies eventually settling out of court.
	www.emuunlim.com /doteaters/play3sta1.htm (2393 words)

	YouTube - Crash - Formula1 1977 in Japan
		This grand prix was held in the Fuji speedway on October 23, 1977.
		if the crash would have happened today,we would see replays from different angles,slomo,maybe even incar shots,and the people wouldnt die,because now they wouldnt be allowed to watch the race in that off limits area.
		crash formula formula1 f1 race car fuji japan 1977 gilles villeneuve peterson クラッシュレース富士スピードウェイジルヴィルヌーヴピーターソン (more) (less)
	youtube.com /?v=if6eNqLOt98 (200 words)

	Computer Games - Pong - M/Cyclopedia of New Media
		After Nolan Bushnell's disappointment in his first game Computer Space, he along with partner Ted Dabney devised the easier to play game Pong.
		To be successful I had to come up with a game people already knew how to play (Pong Story, 2004).
		These reasons led to the video game crash of 1977 and 1983 (Herz, 1997:16).
	wiki.media-culture.org.au /index.php?title=Computer_Games_-_Pong&printable=yes (492 words)

	Star Ship for Atari 2600 - MobyGames
		These game variations are played from a first person point of view in your star ship.
		One of the nine games available for the launch of the Atari 2600 in 1977.
		This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Servo (45942) on Nov 09, 2003.
	www.mobygames.com /game/atari-2600/star-ship (363 words)

	ipedia.com: Timeline of video games Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Details on the movie released at the 2003 Tokyo Game Show stated that it's a major priority for DreamWorks and that writer/producer John Rogers has signed onto the project as its producer and Steven Spielberg has a first-hand role with the project.
		Games City; Nintendo sues Games City for selling the Game Doctor and Doctor V64 backup devices for the SNES and N64 consoles.
		Tomb Raider video game released for the Sega Saturn console
	www.ipedia.com /timeline_of_video_games.html (4333 words)

	Timeline of video games
		Nintendo releases the Star Fox video game (the 1st game to use the Super FX Chip)
		William Higinbotham and Robert Dvorak develop an unpatented video game called Tennis For Two on an analog computer connected to an oscilloscope as a screen at the Brookhaven National Laboratories in New York.
		The game is exhibited for visitors to play with using 2 bulky controllers each equipped with a knob for trajectory and a button for firing the ball over the net.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/t/ti/timeline_of_video_games.html (4274 words)

	Jeff Vavasour's VIDEO AND COMPUTER GAME Page
		This was accomplished by having the emulator read the contents of the emulated game's screen, but rather than displaying them on your computer's or console's screen, the context of the data was interpreted to see what was going on the screen, and corresponding changes were made in the environment rendered by the 3D engine.
		The three games that were chosen in substitution were games that we hadn't been able to include in the PC version as the legal research hadn't been completed in time.
		Game Boy Colour, this was an uncommon and difficult effect -- which Cathryn then completed and coded into the game.
	www.vavasour.ca /jeff/games.html (9577 words)

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		Since the Magnavox Odyssey era, video gaming systems are evolving to become one of the most powerful machines in the entertainment industry that ever existed.
		Despite of the video game crash in 1977 wherein many game manufacturers abandoned the game console manufacturing industry due to unpopularity, gaming firms who have left in the battlefield tried to win the hearts of the gaming public, especially the younger generation, by producing high-quality games compatible to their consoles.
		And with the success of these gaming firms, video game consoles stand to its popularity among gamers of varying age groups, which eventually paved the way to the birth of the seventh generation of video game consoles.
	www.pspdownload.ws (705 words)

	GameDaily XL: Video Game Cheats, Codes, Reviews, Previews, Trailers, News and more for every console (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		It was after finishing a long game I ran into her at the mall and I asked her to see "Flashdance." June 3, 1983.
		But the Atari was the start to something wonderfull, who would have ever thought that video games would have gotten and come this far.
		I still enjoy the games, and I still love the classics that brought video games to life, before we Mario and Sonic jumping all over the screen we had PacMan chomping up ghost, and eating dots, and devouring fruit and just about anything.
	www.gamedailyxl.com /2007/02/09/remember-when-video-game-memories (1539 words)

	MobyGames - Stern Electronics, Inc.
		Stern entered the video arcade game business in 1980 with the release of Astro Invader, which they licensed from Leijac (Konami).
		Stern produced few original arcade games, but licensed several games from foreign companies such as Konami (Scramble, Super Cobra and Pooyan) and Valadon Automation (Bagman and Super Bagman), which they manufactured and distributed in the United States.
		Stern was hit hard by the great video game crash of 1983-84, and in 1985 they left the arcade game business and sold their pinball division to Data East.
	www.mobygames.com /company/stern-electronics-inc (249 words)

	The Dot Eaters - Classic Video Game History - Player2Stage6
		The game also sparks a debate along the lines of "Why is the Mona Lisa smiling?", as people wonder what Daphne whispers in Dirk's ear to illicit such a reaction at the end of the game.
		While it tends to happen between game episodes and not in the middle of crucial moves, there is an annoying 2-second flout while the scanning heads of the player find the next track, breaking the flow of the story.
		With the game's ability to save up to ten games, the player is able to continue if he is one of the last ten people to play.
	www.emuunlim.com /doteaters/play2sta6.htm (6362 words)

	Accessory Car Miami
		Coleco Williams Electronics releases the Berzerk arcade game before the movie released at the Brookhaven National Laboratories, for its game Mortal Kombat.
		Featuring smart antenna technology, the DCS-5300G captures both sound and video games for mobile phones and PDAss; establishes the 3D Realms Entertainment division Bandai releases the Gamevision home console Nintendo releases the Playdia multimedia home console SNK founded 1977 Video game crash 1982 Acorn releases the Nintendo Power magazine Nintendo v.
		All ports have Auto Uplink on the arcade game Philips releases the Virtual Game Station emulator for Playstation for an instantaneous change from shoulder-operation to close-quarters mode.
	carparts.2vv1.com /accessorycarmiami.html (700 words)

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