> I have no idea what you mean by "the great videogame crash"

Probably when the market was flooded with garbage quality games and the bottom fell out of it[0].

Fun fact - the reason the NES looked like a nondescript square box in the US with the weird spring loading cartridge (meant to resemble the mechanism of a VCR) as opposed to looking like the Famicom, was fear that after the crash, Americans wouldn't spend money on a 'videogame console' but they might buy something presented as an 'entertainment system' that just happened to play video games.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_cras...