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Never knew about that, do you have a good aeticle/book about that?
by nohr 5y ago
Never knew about that, do you have a good aeticle/book about that?
- klodolph 5y agoThe Wikipedia article hints at it: > The video game crash of 1983 [...] was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985, primarily in the United States. > But outside of North America the video game industry was doing very well. Home consoles were growing in popularity in Japan while home computers were surging across Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 The Japanese language Wikipedia has a very different tone to the article, because it was written from perspectives outside North America: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AA%E3... Note that the article’s title in Japanese is “Atari shock”. Honestly, I think it should be called the “US video game crash of 1983”, and the article should be more up-front that this was something that happened specifically in the US. I think the English-language Wikipedia relies too heavily on North American sources.
- astrange 5y agoThe other language Wikipedias have this issue even worse; they tend to be translations from English, so they’ll discuss the video game crash like it was important even if it didn’t happen in their country.
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- klodolph 5y agoSure, but there are tons of Japanese-language sources of commentary specifically about the video game industry, and the English-language articles about video games are almost pathologically narrow in their viewpoints.
- ndiddy 5y agoJapan had a smaller “crash” around 1986. Before then, lots of Famicom games were selling millions or high 6 figures regardless of quality, but afterwards (with VERY FEW exceptions) the million sellers were mainly first party and Dragon Quest games.