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ELI5:What caused the The Video Game Crash of 1983?

I have tried searching it but there was only one related submissions here. So I want to ask you guys.

Edit: 1 day has passed. I will mark it as explained. Thanks for all of your answer guys!
gpt
Well if you're following current video game trends, imagine thousands of early access games being sold as finished products without even the possibility that it will be updated. This quality of game was vastly more common than a finished game, as companies were just trying to jump onto the bandwagon of the video game fad even though they didn't understand it. And because it was before the internet, you couldn't easily tell which game was actual of quality or not until either you or someone you know had already paid for it - you couldn't pirate it, and most places didn't have return policies for video games. So the majority of the gamers (which were mostly doing it because it was a fad) stopped playing video games as they didn't find the gamble worth it. Video games were seen as a waste of time, demand for them fell, and companies stopped developing games.