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Energy Surge posted...

GinsuVictim posted...

Energy Surge posted...

but then the industry crashed in '83 and video games weren't popular again until the resurgence a few years later.

We never slowed down on gaming during that period. They were putting out more than we could consume. From the late 70's forward, gaming never lost steam with its audience.

I'm not saying you didn't play lots of games back then. I'm just saying that gaming wasn't popular at that time. And an industry crash is pretty good evidence of the lack of popularity. But all of this arguing over when games became popular is a moot point.

To reiterate my post, I have to interpret what 'popular' means to correctly answer the poll. I don't regularly play games that are older than me but I do play older games. If I equate classic games to games older than me and popular games as games younger than me, exactly as the poll equates them, I can use the last response to accurately answer it.

The industry crash wasn't so much of a lack of popularity if games as it was the market being flooded with shitty games and Atari doing things like making more Pac-Man cartridges than they were consoles in homes at the time: The idea being every person. With an Atari would buy it, and people who didn't have one would buy a console to have it. Except the port sucked. Arcades were still doing fine between the home console crash and the NES launch. The NES success proved that it wasn't a fad: people just wanted good games. The home console market crashed in '83, and the NES launched in '85, so 2 years isn't that much time for it to recover.