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When ET and Atari were about to load videogames in their greatest crisis in history

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At this point, the video game industry is considered the most important entertainment, and the income it generates. But, if we look back, it is something that has never happened, since the sector was about to disappear . The most curious thing is that a single game was the cause of shaking the foundations of an entire guild: we talked about the unforgettable (for worse) E.T of Atari . When video games almost cease to exist The worst video game in history? The story has a crime. We went back to 1983, almost 30 years ago of what is considered in history books as "the video game crisis." The funny thing is that the sector had had a certain pull in the seventies, thanks to games like pong or arcade machines in bars , thus generating interest among society. Even at that time there were some domestic consoles. When video games almost cease to exist But, at that time, the market was monopolized by Atari, who had all the money, the best developers and engineers and nobody ap...