Many factors caused the Video Game Crash starting in 1983, but one of the most significant was Atari’s overconfidence. Atari was the leader in home video game consoles throughout the early ‘80s, and took their nearly indomitable lead and squandered it with a string of disappointing games coupled with over-optimistic sales projections. Pac-Man, Namco’s 1980 arcade hit, was incredibly popular, and Atari acquired the license to make the game for their home console. Once they decided to make it,