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Rebuilding an empire: The video game crash of 1983

In 1982, the North American video game market looked invincible. Home console revenues had climbed to $3.2 billion that year, and the Atari 2600 was installed in millions of homes. The 1980 port of ...
PC Gamer

Space Invaders creator recalls building arcade games with mirrors, making a prototype console that never saw release, and how short-sighted Taito's sales team was about ...

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Space Invaders

A new port of Space Invaders released in Atari Flashback consoles. It is based on the Atari 2600 architecture. Games metadata is powered by IGDB.com We may earn a ...
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Do you remember the first wave of home video games, from Pong to Atari 2600?

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