In 1982, the video game market was a booming seemingly-unstoppable multi-billion dollar juggernaut. Then third party game companies saturated the market with similar and clone hardware and low-quality games based on dog food and soda, culminating in Atari’s Shakespearean mistake of releasing a lackluster Pac-Man port and so many copies of a game based on the movie E.T The Extra-Terrestrial they had to bury them in a landfill. Next thing anyone knew there was —
AN ENTIRE VIDEO GAME MARKET CRASH.
BUT ONLY IN CARTRIDGE GAMES.
BUT ONLY IN CARTRIDGES FOR CONSOLES.
BUT ONLY REALLY ONE CONSOLE.
LOCALIZED ENTIRELY IN NORTH AMERICA.