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The year's highest-grossing video game was Namco's arcade game Pac-Man, for the third year in a row, while the year's best-selling home system was the Atari 2600 (Atari VCS). Additional video game consoles added to a crowded market, notably the ColecoVision and Atari 5200. Troubles at Atari late in the year triggered the video game crash of 1983.
The game used hardware licensed from Hara Industries of Japan, with raster graphics instead of the vector displays Cinematronics was known for. [2] Nicknamed "Jack the Company Killer", the game was a commercial failure and financial disaster. [3] Cinematronics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1982.
In particular, some 1982 dimes struck at the Philadelphia Mint dated 1982 were struck by an obverse die that didn’t receive a “P” mint mark. Expect to buy or sell these for around $65, per ...
According to PCGS (Professional Coin Grading Service) price guide editor Jaime Hernandez, only about 150,000 Roosevelt dimes were released in Philadelphia in 1982 without a mint mark.
As with just about any asset, a coin's value is determined by its market demand. This means that coins in short supply often see higher demand -- and higher values. With coins, supplies are limited...
However, video game sales in 1982 had slowed, and distributors who had ordered en masse in expectation of high turnover were left to simply return large quantities of unsold stock to Atari. As a result, the company soon found itself in possession of several million essentially useless video game cartridges, which it would be entirely unable to ...
Estimated value: Between $250,000 and $2 million The 1974 Aluminum Lincoln Cent is an elusive and highly valuable coin, notable for its unique composition. In 1974, the U.S. Mint experimented with ...
Fast Food (1982 video game) Felix in the Factory; The Final Conflict (video game) Fire Fighter (video game) Firebug (video game) Flight Simulation (Psion software) Flockland Island Crisis; Floyd of the Jungle; Football Manager (1982 video game) Fore! (video game) Fort Apocalypse; Frantic (video game) Frenzy (1982 video game) Frog Bog; Front ...