This is a survey I did before making the production to find out how much interest there was in our subject and what sort of documentary would people prefer to watch. From the survey I found that in the age range of 16-20 the majority had never heard of the video game crash of 1983, but most would watch a 3MW documentary on it, and that the majority would prefer the narrator to be absent from screen and as a disembodied voice over.
As the Video Game Crash came about in 1983, there are not many records/articles on it as it happened a decade before the Internet existed.
The image above shows the market income between 1983-85 this was the main period affected by the crash.
The articles on the left and right tell what happened to Atari, and that they utilised landfills to get rid of the games that no one was buying (....all of them).
The picture on the right shows a shop with lots of Atari games in it, this would have been from before the crash.
The two pictures directly below show the landfill being excavated a few years ago and the games being discovered.
This is the cartridge box for ET the video game,
the final straw and main cause of the crash.
This is an article from 2014 when the games were discovered, which also tells how the crash happened. (on left)
Below is a YouTube video from 2009 on the 1983 crash:
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