• zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    To be fair, there wasn’t really much “gaming news” in existence back then. One only heard about game flops when it became so notable that regular news picked it up as was the case when E.T. and well the whole existing console industry when Atari imploded.

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      7 hours ago

      True. If you weren’t knees deep into the scene it all went by unnoticed unless it went nuclear.