Fun fact about the crash, which was caused by a market flooded with crappy games on equally crappy systems — it's also known as the Atari Debacle, because one of
the main factors in the crash was the the epic fail known as ET the Extra-Terrestrial on the Atari 2600.
The investigating state police accident reconstructionist wrote
in his report, and testified at trial, that the
main factor that caused the
crash was the missing pavement, and that the tractor - trailer driver acted reasonably.