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Message: [QUOTE="PhaseJump, post: 391572, member: 72924"] [IMG size="220x123"]https://media.tenor.com/9l9nhu_NJh0AAAAM/huh-unsure.gif[/IMG] Firstly, Jack Tramiel bought the company and name after the crash. It was literally [I][B]not[/B][/I] the same Atari that oversupplied games for 2600 consoles. Secondly, 2600 was outright cloned and the games ran other consoles they didn't even make so the original projections that drove them under were a bad gamble that they lost, but only in hindsight. They also worked on the first backwards compatible next-gen machine. You are shitting on Atari for mistakes, oblivious to the point that they went under and somebody else took their name, the former exec who created Commodore. He inherited a complete game console ready to go with the 7800, but his own problems brought a lack of support to get the thing launched with a decent sound chip. People didn't typically go into debt to buy toy products they couldn't afford in the 80s. Credit cards weren't exactly common. The toy mania around NES launch invited some scalping, but people back then weren't insanely over leveraged like they are today, and certainly didn't give a shit about video games enough to go into debt for them specifically. Computers could have been a different story, but they weren't. They cost a fortune by comparison, people didn't adopt them widely in the home until the 90s. You sound like somebody who wasn't around back then, making assumptions based on bullshit stories from the internet. [/QUOTE]

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