Atari's Disastrous ET Game
How did Atari crash the video game industry with one rushed game?
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43 mins
Explore how Atari’s overconfidence and rushed decisions, especially around games like ET and Pacman, led to massive financial losses. Discover how poor management, market misjudgments, and excessive production triggered the 1983 video game crash.
Ep 1:
From Garage to Empire: Atari's Rise
From a $250 idea to a billion-dollar giant, Atari's meteoric rise gave way to corporate greed—culminating in a rushed, impossible E.T. deal that doomed the company.
Ep 2:
Everyone Wants a Piece of the Pie
As Atari stumbled, rivals and copycats flooded the market with cheap cartridges and bizarre licensing gambits, setting the stage for an industry-wide reckoning.
Ep 3:
The Day Wall Street Panicked
A shocking sales downgrade and a suspiciously timed stock sale send Wall Street into chaos, exposing insider trading fears and the unraveling of Atari's empire.
Ep 4:
Atari's Fumbled Nintendo Deal
Amid mounting chaos, Atari investigates fallout from scandal while a $3 billion industry implodes into near-total collapse within a single devastating year.
Ep 5:
Buried Games, Buried Dreams
Nintendo offered Atari a lifeline—until pride got in the way. Trace Atari's decades-long decline through failed consoles, buyouts, and bankruptcy.
Discussions (11)
Chase
Level 5 · 7 mo agoThe landfill legend is true. They dug that shit up
Paul
Level 9 · 7 mo agoKassar selling shares right before the crash is classic scumbag behavior. Saved his own skin while 3000 people lost their jobs. What a pathetic loser.
Arron
Level 10 · 6 mo ago24 year old MBAs running the show? Good luck. 😂
