| The Wikipedia article hints at it: > The video game crash of 1983 [...] was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985, primarily in the United States. > But outside of North America the video game industry was doing very well. Home consoles were growing in popularity in Japan while home computers were surging across Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 The Japanese language Wikipedia has a very different tone to the article, because it was written from perspectives outside North America: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AA%E3... Note that the article’s title in Japanese is “Atari shock”. Honestly, I think it should be called the “US video game crash of 1983”, and the article should be more up-front that this was something that happened specifically in the US. I think the English-language Wikipedia relies too heavily on North American sources. |