greenmedic88 on 07 March 2011
Paying one programmer to spend 6 weeks on a title that was literally the Golden Egg that every home video gamer wanted really can't be interpreted as anything but a poor business decision. It was literally betting the company. That's the kind of decision that can and often does errode consumer interest.
Now that I think about it, Pac-man and E.T. were probably the last Atari 2600 cartridges that I bought, which may have made me similar to the typical gamer of the time.
I didn't buy another video game console until the NES. And there were unlicensed games on the NES as well.
