It's not the worst game ever made, or even the worst one made at the time. (It's definitely not worse than most of what the Angry Video Game Nerd has played.) The bigger problem was that they produced a buttload of copies and hyped it like crazy. Imagine being promised something like Skyrim and getting something more on par with Kinect Star Wars. The same thing happened with the 2600's port of Pac-Man. I think I read that for both games, they produced more cartridges than there were actually 2600s in people's homes (keep in mind that the 2600 had been out for quite some time by this point), counting on people being so interested in playing the games that they would be willing to actually buy one to play them on.Evil Smurf said:Was the game that bad?
TV Tropes has a useful article on the situation. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983]