Pac-Man is a 1982 maze video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 as a port of Namco's 1980 arcade game of the same name. The player controls the title character, who attempt
Box art by Hiro Kimura
The Atari 2600 features switches on the console that could be used to toggle the difficulty levels for players in Pac-Man.
Video game crash of 1983
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The video game crash of 1983 was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985 in the United States. The crash was attributed to several factors, including market
Atari VCS, also known as the Atari 2600, the most popular console prior to the crash
The Commodore 64 survived the crash and became one of the best-selling computers of all time.
Partially surviving cases and cartridges retrieved during the 2014 excavation of the Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill Atari had used in 1983. E.T., Centipede, and other Atari materials can be seen.
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