| Jumpin said: Apparently, the video game crash didn't really happen in North America either. It was more or less just the downfall at the end of the Intellivision and Atari 2600 generation, but that gaming didn't go away in North America - apparently, PC and Arcade gaming were exploding at that time. This doesn't really sound like a gaming industry that needed saving to me. This guy, who was a gamer through the 80s, clarifies what it's all about. He says the whole idea of the video game industry in North America is false and describes what actually happened. |
This person does not know what he is talking about and is using his own weak personal experiences rather than facts, and I debunked this argument long ago in this thread and it is a point that needs to stop being used because it is a flat out lie.
Console gaming was not the only thing dead in North America, gaming in general was dead from PCs to Arcades. Literally no one in America was interested in video games after the crash, period. The arcades and PC gaming was far from flourishing as arcade revenues dropped after the crash considerably. Proof alone is looking at this revenue chart right here where it shows the global gaming revenue over the years where after the crash, console gaming and arcade gaming revenue WORLDWIDE dropped considerably with majority of consumers losing interest in the video games as a whole, believing it was a fad. I feel like the only reason why people bring this extremely false point up that somehow "PCs and Arcades were doing fine after the crash" is because after the crash PC gaming revenue did go up, However, PC gaming clearly was not enough to replace the console and arcade business because even though PC gaming revenue went slightly up after the 1983 crash,the industry as a whole was crashing down considerably. Which shows that most people completely stopped gaming after the video game crash with the EXTREMELY SMALL MINORITY LEFT moving to PC. Here's the chart right here:
Take a look at years between 1983-1985, both Console and Arcade revenue dropped exponentially and while PC gaming slightly rose, it was far from ever replacing the console industry that this guy is trying to make it out to be, showing that a large majority of people globally left gaming and it wasn't until the NES where gaming blew up again.
Also, for every person that attempts to claim that the video game industry was somehow fine in NA after the crash, I could name 10 other experience that prove the claim that it was far from alive. As shown here:
