Video game crash of 1977

The video game crash of 1977 (also known as 1977 video game crash or the forgotten video game crash) is one of the first times the video game industry "crashed". This event is mostly attributed to Pong-clone home video game consoles, and such. Many video game companies went broke in this crash because they had to make their game consoles cheaper due to the high number of concurrent products. It is followed by the video game crash of 1983.

Video Game Crash Of 1977 Media

• Ralph Baer's Brown Box prototype.jpg

  The "Brown Box" prototype is the forerunner of the Magnavox Odyssey, the first commercial home video game console.

• First cartridge of magnavox odyssey.jpg

  First cartridge of Magnavox Odyssey

• Pong.svg

  Many consoles in the first generation were clones of or styled similarly to the arcade version of Pong (above).

• The Odyssey 300, a dedicated game console released in 1976.

• TV Tennis Electrotennis.jpg

  This is the TV Tennis Electrotennis by Epoch.

• TeleGames-Atari-Pong.jpg

  The Sears Tele-Games Atari Pong console, released in 1975.

• Coleco-Telstar-Colortron.jpg

  The Coleco Telstar Colortron, a part of the one-game consoles released by Coleco under the Telstar line.

• Nintendo-Color-TV-Game-Blockbreaker-FL.jpg

  The Nintendo Color TV Games Blockbreaker (Karā Terebi-Gēmu Burokku Kuzushi), a dedicated game system that plays a Breakout copycat. Released in Japan in 1979, the model number is CTG-BK6.

• Microcomputer Controlled Game patent US4207087A.pdf

  Ralph Baer and Howard Morrison invented and patented an electronic toy that was later licensed to Milton Bradley and sold as Simon in 1978.