=== Flooded console market ===At the time of the U.S. crash, there were numerous consoles on the market, including the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Bally Astrocade, the ColecoVision, the Coleco Gemini (a 2600 clone), the Emerson Arcadia 2001, the Fairchild Channel F System II, the Magnavox Odyssey 2, the Mattel Intellivision (and its just-released update with several peripherals, the Intellivision II), the Sears Tele-Games systems (private-labeled versions made by Atari (2600) and Mattel (Intellivision)), the Tandyvision (an Intellivision clone for Radio Shack) and the Vectrex.
К моменту начала краха на рынке США был представлен целый ряд игровых систем: Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Bally Astrocade, ColecoVision, Coleco Gemini (аналог Atari 2600), Arcadia 2001, Fairchild Channel F, Magnavox Odyssey², Intellivision (вместе со снабженным периферией редизайном — Intellivision II), приставки Sears Tele-Games (среди них были аналоги Atari 2600 и Intellivision), Tandyvision (аналог Intellivision для RadioShack) и Vectrex.