This podcast goes into a lot more detail than most of the replies here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-video-game-crash-40th-anniversary-part-1-atari

This podcast goes into a lot more detail than most of the replies here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-video-game-crash-40th-anniversary-part-1-atari/id1442690446?i=1000589745098 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-video-game-crash-4... It's not just a glut of "bad games." There are a number of specific things big companies such as Atari did that made them more vulnerable to this crash than they otherwise would have been.