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The Video Game Crash of 1983 — How One Game Nearly Destroyed an Industry

Summary by ComicBook.com
English: E.T. and Centipede games packaging from the excavation of the landfill site of the 1983 Atari video game burial. Video games have been around since the 1950s, with the first, Tennis For Two, arriving in 1958. Over the years, more people experimented with what they could create, and in the 1970s, the video game industry was created with the success of Atari’s Pong. While not the first video game, as many people incorrectly believe, Pong …
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ComicBook.com broke the news on Wednesday, May 20, 2026.
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