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The Video Game Crash of 1983 (Entry 1394.GE4130)

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Video Games as an Industry

By 19 82, it was a three point two billion dollar business selling home video games. The entire video game industry, including every sort of tie in to it, llt all f the games themselves being sold separately from consols and all of the arcade games,. was a forty two billion dollar media business that had not existed ten years prioror not hardly existed at all. So it's just clones of existing game, clone. So many clones. Owiv se mad for this. You remember this? I saw the magazine add for journey having a video game. Ye. There was also a television ad for a for journey's video game that was very popular on m t v at the time

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