brighat on 08 May 2014
The biggest meltdown ever actually was a benefit to the industry. Atari going ballistic on Nintendo for allowing Coleco to have Donkey Kong on the Adam Computer at the Summer CES in 1983. Atari thought they got full rights to the computer versions of the game only to find out they didn't get the tape rights. There was serious talk of Atari publishing the NES in the U.S. but after this, Atari delayed this. The next month, Ray Kassar was fired and Nintendo decided to eventually market the console themselves.
I'm not going to bother with Internet period stuff. All of it pales in comparison and most of it is overblown hooey.
