That’s really only the perspective from North America. The “crash” was mostly limited to North America, with a much smaller impact on Europe, and hardly any impact on Japan. It was mostly a crash of Atari, specifically.
Europe was busy playing games on systems like the ZX Spectrum. The Atari systems were imported and more expensive.
Japan experienced a boom in game console sales during that same time period. Both the Famicom and SG-1000 were released in 1983. It was not a crash, and in Japan it’s simply called the “Atari shock”.
> The video game crash of 1983 [...] was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985, primarily in the United States.
> But outside of North America the video game industry was doing very well. Home consoles were growing in popularity in Japan while home computers were surging across Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
The Japanese language Wikipedia has a very different tone to the article, because it was written from perspectives outside North America:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AA%E3...
Note that the article’s title in Japanese is “Atari shock”.
Honestly, I think it should be called the “US video game crash of 1983”, and the article should be more up-front that this was something that happened specifically in the US. I think the English-language Wikipedia relies too heavily on North American sources.