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A complete walkthrough of the legitimate ways to experience the games at the center of the 1983 crash and the era around it — official re-releases, subscription libraries, and properly licensed compilations.
Popular legend treats the Alamogordo landfill as an E.T.-specific burial ground. The 2014 excavation found 59 different game titles among the recovered cartridges — a much broader inventory clearance than the popular story suggests.
Through 1983, US video game console and cartridge sales began an unprecedented decline that would erase roughly 97% of the market's value within two years, taking Atari's fortunes down with it.
US video game revenue collapsed by roughly 97% in under two years. It wasn't one bad game that caused it — it was market oversaturation, and the rebuilding afterward reshaped the industry's structure permanently.