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What caused the video game crash of 1983?

Retry Correct Incorrect According to Paste Magazine, the video game landscape of the early 1980s was such that 24,000 arcades existed across the United States and video games were proving just as popular on home consoles. This not only led various companies to flood the market with inferior products to get a piece of the action, but industry leaders like Atari to try similar tactics, leading to a disastrous home port of Pac-Man and an infamously terrible E.T. Atari game. Demand dried up practically overnight until Nintendo released the NES.

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What caused the video game crash of 1983?

• A trade dispute between Japan and the United States prompted an embargo
• Moral panics based on accusations that video games were making kids violent
• Saturation of the market with low-quality games intended to grab quick cash
• A shortage of microprocessors that left publishers unable to meet demand