There were plenty of bad and buggy games in the 80's, it even crashed the market [1]. We just don't remember them. Also modern non-indie games are orders of ma

There were plenty of bad and buggy games in the 80's, it even crashed the market [1]. We just don't remember them. Also modern non-indie games are orders of magnitude larger and intricate than 80's games, and have about the same distrubution of quality/bugs. They're now made by teams of size 10-1000 rather than 1-10 though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983