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Atari paid heavily for the rights to a summer blockbuster and left its programmer about five weeks to finish the cartridge. Enormous production runs met heavy returns, and the episode became shorthand for industry overreach.
The lesson absorbed afterward concerned process, not one game. Rights fees, print runs and deadlines had been set by people with no way to judge whether the software would be any good, and nobody had authority to say the schedule was impossible. Quality control became a competitive weapon for the companies that followed.
